Living Waters of Grace May 20th, 2026

This is Living Waters of Grace, the teaching ministry of Clark

Wofford, senior pastor of Calvary Chapel of Westmoreland,

County of Greensburg, PA. Now here's Pastor Clark as he

continues teaching through God's Word.

The Holy Spirit lives in each of us today as believers, and He is

jealous for that relationship with you.

If there's anything in your life that's causing you to love

something else more than you love God, it breaks the heart of

the Father, Son, and Holy Spirit.

But it says he gives more grace. Therefore, he says God resists

the proud and He gives grace to the humble.

I pray today that all of us are in a place of humility, because

if we're in a place of humility, we're going to receive what God

is telling us today. Can you imagine our mighty God

being jealous of anything? The same God who created the

heavens and the earth, who split the sea and makes mountains

move. That same God is jealous of your

love for anything that exceeds your love for Him.

God longs to be in a relationship with you.

Today, Pastor Clark teaches you that even through God's jealousy

and heartbreak, he remains merciful, waiting with

compassion and longing for you. Humble yourself and receive the

guidance that God has now. Here's Pastor Clark in

Revelation chapter 20 with today's edition of Living Waters

Revelation 20 · chapter mention

of Grace. Revelation chapter 20 verse one.

Revelation 20 · chapter mention

Then I saw an Angel coming down from heaven, having the key to

the bottomless pit, and a great chain in his hand.

He laid hold of the dragon, that serpent of old, who is a devil.

And Satan bound him for 1000 years, and he cast him into the

bottomless pit, and shut him up and set a seal on him, so that

he should deceive the nation's no more till the 1000 years

we're finished. But after these things, he must

be released for a little while. What a glorious day that's going

to be when the devil is cast into the bottomless pit and

locked up not to be able to influence or hassle anybody or

the nation's any longer. I wish that was true for right

now, don't you? But it isn't.

The Devil is alive and well. As the old writer Hal Lindsay

said on Planet Earth, he's working every day to destroy our

lives. Now we can sit here today as

people of God and just be proud and tune this out.

And God help us if we do that because I believe this is

probably the most important message that the Lord has ever

put on my heart in 14 years of ministry.

I really do. Because I'm tired of seeing the

devil destroy homes. I'm tired of seeing the devil

destroy marriages and destroy kids and destroy nations.

A friend of mine lost some loved ones recently says I'm tired of

seeing people go to hell without hearing the gospel.

I'm tired of it. And the devil doesn't want any

of us to be tuned in to what his agenda is.

He wants us to be complacent and deceived so that we're this

blind. That I think you're my enemy and

you think I'm your enemy. That we think our wives are the

problems, or our husbands are the problems, or our kids are

the problems, or our job or our employer.

The Bible says we are not wrestling against flesh and

blood, but against principalities and powers, the

rulers of darkness of this present age.

There will be 1000 year reign. We studied last week and 19 of

the Lord through his power reigning at the end of the

tribulation at the second coming that he cast the Antichrist and

the false prophet into the Lake of fire.

The devil hasn't been cast there yet in this study, but he will

be at the end of time. But there will be this great

White Throne judgment that will occur at the end of time for all

those who do not know Jesus Christ, whoever's name is not

written in the Lamb's book of life will be cast into the lake

of fire forever and ever and ever.

Now think about this, guys. That's your relatives.

That's the people you work with. How about the how about the

person you sit next to in the desk at work?

Do you realize without Christ they're going to die and go to

hell? Your neighbor that you're

friends with, that maybe you hang out with, you watch the

Steelers game with you have dinner with, whatever.

If they don't know Jesus Christ, they're going to go to hell,

they're going to die and they're going to be forever and ever in

the lake of fire and torment, forever and ever and ever.

How can we be so remiss not to tell people, hey, you need to

know something about me and I need to tell you something about

you? I know Jesus Christ, He's my

Lord and my Savior. He saved me.

He died for me. He cleansed me of my sin.

And I want you to experience that same wonderful privilege.

But if you don't come to Christ, you're going to die and you're

going to go to hell. That's the bottom line.

But the devil doesn't want us to think like that, does he?

He wants us to hang out with people, and he wants us not to

bring this up, right? Because if we bring it up,

what's it cause? Conflict, right?

It causes judgement. It causes what?

Man, You're whacked, or you're a holy roller, or you're like,

weird, you know, I used to like you, but now that you're telling

me like what you're really about, I don't really want to

hang with you anymore. And that's the consequences of

the truth. It's like a sword.

It divides and it brings truth against error.

Satan's going to be in prison for 1000 years.

All the nations one day will be gathered under the authority of

Jesus Christ as He rules on the Mount of Olives from Jerusalem

for that thousand years. And there won't be any

wickedness taking control during that millennial reign.

People who were believers in the tribulation that came out of the

tribulation weren't destroyed will enter into this millennial

period, but they'll also have children and the children will

be born like we are as sinners. They'll have our original sin.

Some of those young people will grow up and want to follow the

King of Kings and Lord of Lords, and some of them will not want

to follow him. And during that thousand year

reign, there will be plenty of enemies that will be planning at

the end of that period to get together with the devil at that

final battle of Gog and Magog, to come against the authority of

the King of Kings and Lord of Lords.

But right now, during the millennial period, he's going to

be confined and unable to deceive anymore.

I love the idea of this great chain.

I have no idea the significance of this particular device, but

it's so powerful that the devil will not be able to do anything

as long as this chain is wrapped around him and he won't be able

to deceive the nations. He won't be able to ruin

people's lives like he's ruining them today.

It says about Jesus when he comes back and Zechariah 14

four, His feet shall stand in that day upon the Mount of

Olives, which is before Jerusalem on the east.

Christ will descend in the second coming and land on the

Mount of Olives. The mountain will actually split

in two. Every eye, the Bible says, will

see him when he comes, and he'll roll and he'll reign, and I

can't wait for that day to occur.

What'll happen is that he'll be cast into this bottomless pit.

He'll be shut up, they'll set a seal upon him, and that he shall

deceive the nation's no more. There's two characteristics

during this time. Christ is going to rule the

nation's with a rod of iron. That means absolutely and

authoritatively. There will be no negotiation.

It'll be his way completely, and Satan no longer will have his

way. Now, as I said at the beginning

of the message, that is not true today, is it?

The devil is currently very much alive.

First, Peter 58 says be sober. That means don't be drunk, guys.

And if you're drinking and you're getting drunk, you're a

fool. The Bible says do not be drunk

with wine. Where is an excess?

And I know in any church across America today, we have people

that are still getting loaded on alcohol.

I did it for years in my life as a Christian and God have mercy

on my soul. It almost ruined my marriage.

It almost destroyed my children. The devil was deceiving me,

thinking it's OK to have a glass of wine occasionally.

What I did, it dulled my senses. I had a glass of wine.

I didn't want to read the word. I didn't want to pray.

I wanted to have an attitude. I wanted to have a judgment.

I wanted to have anger. I wanted to have bitterness.

I wanted to have all the things that go along with being drunk.

It says be sober. Why does he say be sober?

Because if you're not sober, you're not going to understand

what you're dealing with because your adversary, the devil, as a

roaring lion, walketh about seeking whom he may devour.

Every one of us are facing the same thing, me included.

Job, chapter one, verse 7. The Lord says to Satan, where

have you been? Of course, God knows where we

all are at any given time. Satan answers the Lord and says

from going here and there in the earth and from walking up and

down in it. And today he's going through

this church. He's walking up and down the

aisles. He's trying to get your mind not

to think about what we're talking about today.

He's trying to avoid you from understanding the situation that

you're facing. Ephesians chapter 4 verse 27 and

Ephesians 4:27

28 says be angry and sin not. Let not the sun go down upon

your wrath, neither give place to the devil.

How many of us in here as men of God have gone to sleep at night

angry at our wives? Raise your hand, we all have.

How many of our wives have gone to bed at night angry at their

husbands? More women have probably done

that to men. You know why?

Because the Bible says they harbor bitterness.

It's prone to be bitter. I have to have these

conversations with Cindy once in a while because she'll remember

something 20 years ago. She's still holding against me.

I've long gone, forgot about it and forgiven or whatever.

And, and she's saying, what do you remember?

You know, And I'm like, no, I don't.

And then she reminds me. And then I do.

And I say, well, we just got to let this stuff go because this

bitterness is is poison. Now, you know, I know when the

Holy Spirit is moving in our church.

And I hear this many times from the teachers because they'll

say, I can't believe it. What you started teaching on the

day is what we talked about in Sunday school.

And you know, here's Steve this morning and he's up here and

he's LED. And I didn't call him or tell

him, you know, where I was going to go with this today, but he

takes you to James Chapter 4, verse one.

James 4 · chapter mention

Where do wars and fights come from among you?

Do they not come from your desires for pleasure, That war

in your members? The Evil 1 works with the lust

of the eye, the lust of the flesh and the pride of life.

You lust and you do not have. You murder and you covet.

You can't obtain, you fight and war, yet you do not have because

you do not ask. You ask and you do not receive

because you ask amiss. You ask for the wrong reasons

that you may spend it on your pleasures.

And then God, you know he uses these graphic terms.

Probably one of the worst sins that a husband can experience

her wife is someone committing adultery against them.

But God says this is what we've done against him.

Adulterers and adulteresses. Do you not know that friendship

with this world is enmity with God?

Whoever therefore wants to be a friend of the world makes

himself an enemy of God. Or do you think that the

Scripture says in vain? The Spirit who dwells in US

yearns jealously. So the Holy Spirit lives in each

of us today as believers, and he is jealous for that relationship

with you. If there's anything in your life

that's causing you to love something else more than you

love God, it breaks the heart of the Father, Son, and Holy

Spirit. But it says he gives more grace.

Therefore, he says God resists the proud and he gives grace to

the humble. And I pray today that all of us

are in a place of humility. Because if we're in a place of

humility, we're going to receive what God is telling us today.

And God will give us much grace to understand.

He'll enlighten, He'll illumine our hearts.

And all of a sudden we'll say, now I know what's happening in

my life. Now I know why all this stuff's

going on. I've been deceived, I've been

tricked, I've been beguiled like Eve in the garden by the evil

one. It says, therefore submit to

God, resist the devil and he'll flee from you.

So the first thing I pray we do is we're in the study today.

Say God, I want to give you my heart.

I want to submit to you. And the good news is if you

submit to God today, the Bible says the devil is going to flee.

Draw near to God and he'll draw near to you.

You have to ask yourself today, are you really drawing near to

God? Are you really in every detail

of your life drawing near to God?

Are you only like when it's convenient?

Are you trying to draw near to God?

It says cleanse your hands, you sinners, and purify your heart.

You're double minded. And double mindedness is yeah.

I want God's will. I want to follow him.

I want to serve him. I want to be sold out for him.

I want to live my life for him. But yeah, I want to do all this

stuff too. I want to, I want to have a

little bit of fun in the world. I want to indulge my flesh.

I want to do what makes me feel good and what makes me feel

happy. I just want to, you know, and

we're spiritual schizophrenic. So Lord's wanting us to do this

and the devil's want us to do that.

And we're like, yeah, no, yeah, no.

We don't even know where we're at.

He calls us double minded. Humble yourselves.

Lament and mourn and weep. Let your laughter be turned to

mourning and let your joy to gloom.

Sometimes it's important to be broken.

Sometimes it's important to be contrite and devastated over the

consequences of where our lives have gotten to.

Have you ever looked at your Christian life?

And I know I did at times. Like I started here.

How did I get way down here? How did I get so far away from

God? God in my life?

Lament, mourn and weep. Let your laughter be turned to

mourning, your joy to gloom. Humble yourselves in the sight

of the Lord and He will lift you up.

Some of us are so broken because of the devil beating us up.

The devil has taken authority in some of our lives to the point

that it's absurd. And we've allowed it because

we've given the devil a foothold in our life.

We've given him some space through our behavior and our

attitude and our actions and our decisions and our compromises in

our lives. And as a result, we have all

this stuff happening in our lives.

Our, our marriages really aren't what they need to be.

There's a lack of intimacy, there's a lack of mutual

respect. There's a lack of honor and love

and cherishing and, and our kids, I mean, we put up with our

kids. We tolerate our kids instead of

discipling our children. Why?

Because we've become proud. But if we're so broken, and I

know some of you are very, very broken, at this point in your

life, you don't know how you're going to make it another second,

let alone another day, a week, a month, a year.

You're tired. You can come here with a smile

on your face and act like everything's OK.

But down deep inside, maybe some of us here today are thinking of

even taking our lives. Have you ever gotten to the

point in your life of being so distraught and so devastated and

so depressed that you just want out of here?

We all have it for honest and the devil wants to kill your

life. He wants to destroy it.

But it says if we humble ourselves in the sight of the

Lord, He'll lift us up. Oh, Lord, how we want you to

lift us up today. Father, do not speak evil of one

another, brethren. He who speaks evil of a brother

and judges his brother speaks evil of the law and judges the

law. But if you judge the law, you

are not a doer of the law, but a judge.

There's only one lawgiver God, who is able to save and to

destroy. Who are you to judge another

person? So my job today isn't to judge

you and your job isn't to judge me.

We let the word judge us, right? The word of God, and we deal

with what the consequences of that word is.

First, John chapter 3 verse 8 says he that committeth sin is

John 3:8

of the devil. Now, whenever you make a

decision to commit willful sin, you never think you're making

this pact with the devil. But the Bible is real clear.

If you're committing sin, you're of the devil.

For the devil sent us from the beginning for this purpose.

The Son of God was manifested that He might destroy the works

of the devil. That's why Christ came, to

destroy the authority and the power of the devil.

That's why the gospel has power. The gospel is the power of God

to save. We preach Christ and Him

crucified. I don't care who it is who's

sharing the Word. When you share the Word, it has

authority to accomplish the purpose for which God sends it.

It's what breaks the lies, it's what manifests the truth.

It's what puts the darkness out. We overcome by the authority of

Jesus Christ and Him alone. Colossians chapter 2 verse 15

Colossians 2:15

says having spoiled principalities and powers, He

made a show them openly triumphing over them in it.

Please pray for me as I teach this.

This is very, very difficult. I, I sense the energy, you know,

I'm saying the energy trying to shut me up, trying to just get

me mixed up and confused. When Christ died on the cross,

he displayed openly that the forces of hell in darkness have

no more authority over our lives as God's children.

When it says we wrestle against flesh and blood, yeah, we do.

But the principalities and powers don't have that same

power they had after Christ died and rose again.

Amen. So why do we walk under the

burden in the strongholds of the evil 1?

I believe it's because we don't understand fully what Christ has

come to do for us. It talks about the Wiles of the

devil. We don't wrestle against flesh

and blood as the Scriptures say, but against the principalities

and powers. Our defense is only the armor of

God, and the only way we can stand against the Wiles of the

devil is with the armor of God. In verse 11 of Ephesians 6 says,

put on the whole armor of God that you may be able to stand

against the Wiles of the devil. This is a definition of Wiles.

It's a trick. This is a noun, the trick, a

strategy meant to fold, to trap, to entice.

Art. 4 begaling behavior. The verb is to deceive, to

entice, to lure away from, into distracting you from the person

of Christ. How many of us are facing

distractions every day to move you away from being focused on

Jesus Christ? Every one of us.

It's a maneuver, a military strategy to trap us, to destroy

us, to ruin our lives. What the devil does?

He exaggerates the pleasures of sin while minimizing the true

nature and outcome of sin, right?

He makes sin look so alluring, so great, so attractive, but he

never tells us about the horror and the outcome of the

consequences of our sin. The devil sees an opening in our

lives through our emotions and moods.

The husband's upset, he's bummed out, he's complaining, he's, you

know this at his wit's end with everything and all of us guys,

we've been there and maybe are today.

And the devil sees the mood. He sees the emotions.

This is an opportunity for me to really 'cause some havoc here.

See, the devil can't read our hearts.

Only God knows our hearts. But the devil can see the

outcome of our attitudes, our actions.

He's able to distinguish our intentions as we move in our

attitudes. He uses other people to lead us

astray. That's why the Bible says have

no fellowship with the unfruitful works of darkness,

but rather reprove them. Light and darkness can't walk

together. The Bible says don't.

Don't be unequally yoked. So if you're with an unbeliever

and you're a believer, that unbeliever is going to lead you

astray. The master marketing agent in

the world today is the devil. He packages sin and need

attractive bundles. He makes things look so good and

so exciting. It tells us in Second

2 Corinthians 2:11

Corinthians chapter 2, verse 11, lest Satan should get an

advantage of us. For we are not ignorant of his

devices, his devices, his plots, his schemes, or his clever ways.

Are you ignorant of Satan's devices?

Raise your hand. We all are.

We all are ignorant of his devices.

That's why we need the word to show us what the deal is.

If you're not in the word, you're going to be trapped,

you're going to be deceived, you're going to be taken out.

And you got to ask yourself today much time am I in the

Word? How much am I hungering for the

word? How much am I thirsting for

righteousness? How much of my time in my daily

life, Monday through Sunday am I before the Word saying God give

me wisdom, give me light so I don't get deceived by the

darkness of the enemy. Help me to understand so that I

can protect my wife and my children.

Help me to understand so I can help my brothers and sisters not

fall victim to the consequences of the lives of the devil we're

told to have on this armor of God in Ephesians 6.

And many of you are familiar with it.

We had to memorize that in Bible college years ago, that whole

book of Ephesians, and I memorize it, but I didn't have

the foggiest idea what it was talking about.

That's why, you know, understanding the Bible is just

part of it. The Bible says we're to do the

Word or we deceive ourselves. But when He tells us to have

this armor on it, just to break it out in terms that might make

more sense, we're supposed to have this belt that's girded

about the belt of truth, and that means that our life is to

be surrounded by the truth. That's why it's important to be

in church on Sundays, to be in the Word whether you want to or

not, whether you feel like it or not, you come because God's

going to speak to your heart. He's going to show you what you

need to know and He's going to get you back on track.

That's why we have Wednesday studies.

That's why we have intercession. You know, God bless Dave and

Janine. They're usually the only two

down there praying. And Steve, you wonder where he

goes. He's up there in the balcony

praying for me as I'm preaching. And Gary and Kathy out in

California at the time that I'm preaching.

They're interceding for this service that the word of God

would go forth because the flesh profits nothing only the spirit

gives life. But the more we pray and the

more we seek God, the more we're aware of the lies of the devil.

Charles Spurgeon people would come up a wonderful man preacher

of God and the Lord moves in that church in Metropolitan

Tabernacle and many, many people were saved and and their lives

were transformed and and they would come to Charles after the

service and ask, you know, what is the deal here in this place?

Where is the power coming from? How's all this stuff happening?

And Charles, come on, I'm going to take you down to the furnace

room. And they think a furnace room.

What's he talking about? The place where the heat and the

fire of God is took him down into the lower parts of the

church. And there was many, many people

on their knees praying for the Word of God as it went forth.

Thanks for being with us today here on Living Waters of Grace.

We're in the Book of Revelation, and we find it fascinating how

influential and involved the angels are in this book.

They bring about whatever it is that God has instructed them to

do, but it's through their actions that much of the

judgements come on the earth. The angels are in submission to

God as their authority, but He utilizes them in unique ways

throughout this book. Like angels have a specific

purpose from God, you have a unique purpose and plan too.

God wants to use you in your life as a testimony to others

and to bring others who are currently lost into the fold of

God. God would love more than

anything for all who are willing to come to Him for salvation,

but he wants it to be their choice, not a forced situation.

This is the way God works, not forcing himself on anyone, but

giving each person free will. If you're interested in learning

about this choice that's free and that it's a gift, go to

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then find the link for what we believe.

We'd love to be a help and a resource for you as you walk

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We'd love to hear from you. That's all for today's edition

and Revelation, but there's much more that Pastor Clark plans to

share with us from this culminating book of the Bible.

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