Living Waters of Grace May 19th, 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.

If I say, well, I can't do this, I'm not as good as him or I'm

not as good as her, that's sinful.

When God says he's choosing you because you're weak and foolish,

just admit it, Lord, I'm not going to compare myself with

anybody else. I'm what you tell me in your

word, I am. I'm weak, I'm foolish, but I

want to surrender this body to you for you to use for your

glory. And as God begins to use you and

work in your life and bless people through your life, you

will know it has nothing to do with you.

Comparing ourselves to others is a sinful habit that we must not

allow ourselves to fall victim to.

God didn't make us in the likeness of those around us.

He made us in the likeness of Himself, and He knows what we're

capable of. He created us all as individuals

with a purpose. When He calls us to walk in the

way He leads, we must lean into that and allow ourselves to be

moved. Today, Pastor Clark teaches us

not to be ashamed of being weak and foolish, because it's there

we find God's strength now. Here's Pastor Clark in the Book

of Revelation chapter 19 with today's edition of Living Waters

Revelation 19 · chapter mention

of Grace. Before crisis in our life, all

we do is just keep doing the stuff that we know we shouldn't

do. It's it comes naturally because

we're all sinful people. But when Christ comes into our

life and changes us, all the sudden we have the ability and

the power to make choices now and say, I'm not going to live

this way anymore. I'm not going to do this

anymore. We're going to have to maybe

talk to some people and say, guess what?

My relationship with you is ended as of now.

And they'll say, well, why? Because I can't live this way

anymore. I can't sleep around anymore.

I can't do this anymore because God lives in me now.

They'll probably look at you like you're nuts.

That's OK. They might ask you what do you

mean God's in you? And then you can tell them

what's happening to you. And then perhaps God will save

them as well. And it says if we live in the

Spirit, let us also walk in the Spirit.

So that's the major difference between this teaching and

revelation regarding why is he going to destroy all this flesh

on the earth at this time? Because these people are enemies

of God. They're walking this way,

they're living this way, and they don't care.

They've heard the truth. They know the truth from the

standpoint of it being communicated to them.

But they're the kind of people that refuse to submit and

repent. And perhaps you're here today in

that camp, you're refusing to repent.

Well, God wants you to know today that if you refuse to

repent, this is what you're going to face.

And even worse, if you don't end up in this situation, you die

before this event occurs. You're going to be in hell

forever. That's a cold hard fact, but

it's the truth. You're going to be in hell

forever and ever. Philippians chapter 3 verse 3

Philippians 3:3

says we're not to have any confidence in the flesh, not any

confidence in our own self ability.

And this, this is important for Christians today in our jobs and

our marriages and our raising of our children and our ministries,

whatever. If we depend upon our own

abilities and we're trusting in our own wisdom, we're having

confidence in our fallen nature, which will do nothing but mess

things up. We're not to have any confidence

in human ability. The world today teaches us about

self esteem. To be confident, feel good about

yourself, you have to love yourself.

Well, the Bible says we already do love ourselves.

I mean, that's a that's a given because all our focus is most of

the time on ourselves. It proves that we have this

insatiable love for self that we have to constantly deny.

And Jesus says if any man will follow me, let him deny himself.

That's the hardest thing to do as a human being, to deny

yourself will. But it says not to have any

confidence in your human ability.

It says Second Corinthians chapter 3, verse 5.

2 Corinthians 3:5

Not that we're sufficient of ourselves to think of anything

as being from ourselves, but our sufficiencies from God.

In other words, I receive my esteem from God.

Where God says you're beloved, you're accepted in the beloved,

holy and without blame. That should make all of us feel

fantastic. It's not what you think of me or

what I think of you or what we think of one another.

I mean, it's nice to think good things, but you don't want

anybody to hate you or not like you or disrespect you.

But it really shouldn't bother us because God says He loves you

with an everlasting love. He cares about you, He's for you

and He's not against you. He has plans for you in the days

ahead, Plans of hope and plans of a future.

John 663 says it is a spirit who gives life.

The flesh profits nothing. If I'm up here trying to

motivate you today and my own ability and my own passion and

my own desire as a human being and trying to persuade or cause

your mind to think differently through my own strength, my own

ability, it'll profit nothing. The words that I speak to you

are spirit and they are life. And that's my prayer for us as a

ministry, that it's a spirit that's speaking.

It's not the flesh, it's not human ability, it's not the

wisdom of man, but it's the wisdom of God.

First Corinthians chapter one, verse 2631.

If you flip over there for a minute and if you pick anything

up as we're studying together, pick up the difference between a

life that's directed by the Spirit and a life that's

directed by pride of fallen natures.

Verse 26 For you see your calling, brethren, that not many

wise according to the flesh human ability, right fallen

nature, not many mighty not many know Bo are called but God has

chosen the foolish things of the world to put the shame the wise

and God has chosen the weak things of the world to put the

shame. The things which are mighty and

base things of the world and things which are despise God

hath chosen, and the things which are not to bring to

nothing. The things that are that no

flesh should glue glory in his presence, that no flesh should

glory in his presence. But of him are you in Christ

Jesus who became for us wisdom from God and righteousness and

sanctification and redemption that it is written.

He who glories, let him glory in the Lord.

And so we're here today as brothers and sisters for the

most point. Most of us are Christians here

today, and God is calling all of you for some purpose.

And he's not looking for people who are highly educated.

Of course, he can use highly educated people, but he doesn't

have any kind of agenda. When he chooses people to serve

him, He chooses people who the world might say many times are

losers. He chooses the outcasts, the

downcast. He chooses the insecure.

He chooses people who know down deep inside I can't do this,

Lord. He chooses people who have

failed. And so he looks out in an

audience and he says not many wise out there today, not to put

anybody down. Not many noble, not many mighty

are called, but God has chosen the weak and the foolish things

of this world. How many of us are weak and

foolish here today? That's all of us.

So he's calling all of us to serve him and you might say,

well, I can't do this. I'm not as good as him or I'm

not as good as her. That's sinful.

When God says he's choosing you because you're weak and foolish,

just admit it, Lord, I'm not going to compare myself with

anybody else. I'm what you tell me in your

word, I am. I'm weak, I'm foolish, but I

want to surrender this body to you for you to use for your

glory. And as God begins to use you and

work in your life and bless people through your life, you

will know it has nothing to do with you.

And that's why it says there in 31.

He who glories, let him glory in the Lord.

I remember when we were training to be missionaries and my sister

in law's here today, she was with the new tribes mission in

Africa with in Senegal and boot camp was tough.

It was the second phase of the training.

We went to Bible college. We got all that great head

knowledge right. We had to memorize the book of

Ephesians. We thought we were really it,

right? I mean, we really thought we had

it together. We had a handle on the word and

all that. We go to the boot camp and we're

around these deep Christians that are training us and and

they're telling us why we got to get from what's in here down to

here because we're all in there is a bunch of immature, proud,

self willed people that are claiming that they're being

called by God to be missionaries.

And and the truth was that, yeah, God's calling us to serve

him, but there's work that needs to be done in our life before we

can serve him. They had a Tuesday night

meeting. It was an open night meeting

where you'd all sit here like this and they'd do worship and

then you'd wait on the Holy Spirit to speak.

And sometimes 10 minutes, nothing's happening.

And they'd play some more music. And then someone would come up

and they'd share the words, you know, and they'd break it.

And they'd maybe 5 minutes, 10 minutes, 15, and whatever the

Holy Spirit's leading them. And, and they would be speaking

to the body. And then they'd sit down and

someone else would get up and share.

And maybe a woman would come up and sing a song or read a Psalm,

or it was powerful. And down deep inside, as you're

sitting there, you know God wants to use you too, but you're

afraid because you're thinking, what if I look like a fool?

What if I say something that's stupid?

What if I'm not correct? Or what if I blow it or

whatever, You know, and God's like that, your heart's

thumping. You know you're supposed to say

something. You don't.

You've all had those opportunities when you're in a

meeting and you know God wants to use you.

A Wednesday night's study to say something, to pray or whatever,

step out in faith. And it's scary.

And I remember the first time I went up there and I thought I

had something to say. And when I got up there, I

looked in the Bible, I realized I had nothing to say.

It was terrible. I got up there and I'm supposed

to say something, but I have absolutely nothing to say and I

could have read something here, but the Lord whisper in my ear,

you're a phony cloak. You're a phony.

If we got to deal with you're going to be humble and you're

going to be and I'm like freaking out and at the back of

the wall. It says this first to bring to

naughty the things that are that no flesh should glory in his

presence. It says in First Corinthians

1550, flesh and blood cannot inherit the Kingdom of God.

The part of us we war against will not be in heaven.

That's good news. The fallen sinful nature will

not follow us into the Kingdom of God.

When we get into the Kingdom of God, the former things have

passed away. There'll be no more pride,

There'll be no more selfish ambition.

There'll be no more anger or hatred or unforgiveness or

bitterness or lust. All that stuff is going to be

gone, the unyielded self life that we still struggle with and

as a pastor I have to constantly bring my will under subjection

of the Lord and say Lord not my will but your will be done in

every area of my life. That unyielded tendency in our

lives that fights against us in this body, the flesh to try to

make excuses for sin or attitude won't be in the Kingdom of

heaven. You ever have your wife or your

husband say something to you like, you know you did this and

you did that and and the first thing you want to do is justify

yourself, right? Well, no, that's not the way it

went down. That's not really what happened.

I was really doing this and the person's like looking at you

like you're lying. But in our minds, we're

justifying our behavior, right? I'll give you an illustration of

my own life. Last night.

My grandson comes to spend the night with us, and I love

hanging out with my grandkids. But I told you guys I'm going to

add it to the computer when I have to investigate something to

buy something. So I'm busy studying about

netbook computers because I need it for my job.

It's different than a laptop. They're smaller and they're

cheaper and they're, you know, whatever.

So I'm like doing this extensive research that I think is real

important because I got to get this thing soon.

I got all this pressure on my life next week to serve all this

data and all these reports and everything.

I need to have this device. And, you know, my conscious is

telling me get out there and play with Logan.

You know, get out there and play with Logan.

I kept like, well, I'll get out there in a little bit, right?

And then they watched a movie and I figured I can be back here

now because they're watching a movie.

I'm justifying myself. Then I come out and we're going

to play kids Monopoly. And then we were going to read a

book and I was real tired. And I said, why don't you read a

book to us? That way you can put Papa to

sleep while you're reading, you know, so he's so cute.

He's laying beside me reading this book.

And it's amazing to see how this kid reads at first grade.

I mean, all I could read was see spot run Jack and Joe up the

hill. Remember that?

And they're reading way beyond what we could read back when we

were in school in first grade. Cindy and I are talking and and

she just said, you know, you blew it last night.

He doesn't get up here that often, right?

So honey, I was in there studying.

I was doing my sermon too, you know, and she says all the time

I said, well, no, no, but a lot of the time I'm trying to

justify here, wait a little bit. I'm not really.

Finally I realized that I did blow it.

I was convicted. But it's interesting how we want

to justify the flesh. And you can't make excuses for

the flesh. It is what it is.

It's despicable, it's self willed, it's selfish, it's our

enemy, you know. And so thank God, you know, as

I, you know, dealt with my heart there, he was playing with a

puzzle. And I redeemed some time.

I sat down. I'm not good at puzzles, but I

sat down and I was able to put five pieces in with him.

And, you know, we had a nice time.

We connected there. And next time he comes up, I'll

be more sensitive to, you know, turn the computer off and, you

know, hang out with him. But you know, this tendency that

we have to constantly crucify the desires of our own self will

and our own passions, our own desires.

And that wasn't an evil desire to do that research.

I got to do it, you know, regardless.

But I can pick the times when I can do certain things, you know.

And so we're to walk in the Spirit.

We're to be controlled by God and everything we do.

Now, when you read the book of Genesis and the way the world

was and the way Adam and Eve were before, the fall is the way

we're going to be in the Kingdom of heaven.

God's going to restore everything to the way he

initially wanted it to be. And I can't wait for that time.

It's going to be glorious. But sin is this enemy right now

in this life and it manifests itself through, as I said, this

body and these fallen desires. Again, the difference between an

unbeliever is all they can do is be held captive to the fallen

desires over and over and over again.

The difference with a Christian and a believer is we have the

ability now to overcome what is attacking us and what is

tempting us and what is happening that is wrong.

We don't have to allow it to control us.

We can ask God to give us strength and we can overcome it,

and we don't have to be victim to it anymore.

Now God says that the foolishness of man is evident,

and what we're seeing in Revelation here in chapter 19 is

the foolishness of man warring against God in 19 and 21, and we

see the consequences of these world leaders at the time.

You have the unholy Trinity, you have the devil, the Antichrist,

the beast and the false prophet. And in 19 it says, when I saw

the beast, the kings of the earth and the armies gathered

together to make war against him, Capital H making war

against Christ himself who sat on the horse and against his

army. How foolish to think that man

can ever win a battle against God.

You know, there was a time in our lives today as Christians

that we were like these people here that are preparing to do

battle against God. You may be here today and you

are fighting against God. You're his enemy.

And it says in Ephesians chapter 2, in him we were made alive who

Ephesians 2 · chapter mention

were dead once in trespasses and sins, in which time we also

walked according to the course of this world, according to the

Prince of the power of the year. Our allegiance was to the devil

and the demons. That was our whole life and we

didn't even realize it. It says among whom also we had

our manner of life, our conversation and time passed

fulfilling the desires of the flesh and of the mind and we're

by nature the children of wrath. Even as others.

Ron and I talked about this. Ron teaches immense study on

Saturday. What he came out of, like maybe

a lot of us was was really bad, wasn't it, Fulfilling the

desires of the flesh and of the mind.

He talked about the struggle because people were becoming

Christians that he loved and they started telling him what

happened to him and it gave him conflict and he knew this is

what he needed. But the devil and the flesh

wanted him to stay in the bondage of the old life, send

them to hell. But God in his grace

miraculously broke through it says the next verse in Ephesians

2. But God, who is rich in mercy

for his great love, wherewith he loved us even when we were dead

in trespasses and sins, that's all of us, hath quickened us

together with Christ by grace. Are you saved?

And now he's a man of God, has a woman of God as his wife, and

young children of God. Amazing how God can turn our

lives around. A young man told me about his

addictions to drugs and how horrible it was, and how he's

been clean now for a couple years, and how he was baptized

and now he's a new creation. If any man is in Christ, he's a

new creation. Old things are passed away.

Behold, all things are become new.

Some of us here today have things we have to turn over to

Christ in order that we can see Him save us.

Armageddon. It's the vengeance of God

against the ultimate arrogance of man.

We see the beast and the false prophet, the enemies of God, the

leaders of the ungodly Kingdom. They're cast into the lake of

fire before the great White Throne judgment.

Now, next week we're going to look at chapter.

The next several chapters are astounding as we close the Book

of Revelation up. But these two characters were

cast into the lake of fire even before the final judgment.

The beast and the false prophet, the devil will be cast into this

fire after the thousand year millennial reign, which will

occur after the second coming of Christ.

And we'll look at that in Revelation 2015.

Now, the lake of fire, as we begin to conclude, is hell.

And it's for anyone that's not found written in the book of

life will be cast into the lake of fire.

God has a book. That book is open.

And if you're his today, you're born again.

You're a believer in Christ. Your name's written in that

book. And when God opens the book, it

isn't like God needs a memory. I wonder if Clark's in here.

Let me see here. Oh, yeah, Yeah.

He's back there in 1971. He got born.

And God knows everything about everybody.

He knows those who are his and those who aren't.

But hell is not prepared, as I said earlier, for you.

It's prepared for the devil and his angels.

Matthew 2541 tells us that it's a place where the fire is not

quenched. And Mark Chapter 9, it's a place

Mark 9 · chapter mention

of regret and torment and fire, and there's no water to quench

your thirst. Luke chapter 16 in Revelation,

Luke 16 · chapter mention

it speaks about hell, where the smoke of those tormented there

goes up forever and they find no rest.

As I told you in Galatians 5, those who practice sin will not

inherit the Kingdom of God. You have to stop the desire to

sin, and the only way you can stop that is by coming to

Christ. And He'll take that desire away.

Some of you here today I know are on the edge of coming to

Christ, and the truth is pulling you towards the Lord and the

devil and the demons and the sin is pulling you away from God.

It's a conflict, but Christ wants to free you from that

conflict. John chapter 3 Nicodemus is a

John 3 · chapter mention

Pharisee, a a roller, a teacher of the Jews.

He comes to Jesus by night and says to him, Rabbi, we know that

you're a teacher, come from God. For no one can do these signs

that you do unless God is with him.

And Jesus answered and said to him, most surely I say to you,

unless one is born again, he cannot see the Kingdom of God.

Nicodemus said to him, how can a man be born when he's old?

Can he enter a second time into his mother's womb and be born?

And Jesus answered most assuredly.

I say to you, unless one is born of water and of the Spirit, he

cannot enter the Kingdom of God. That which is born of flesh is

flesh. In other words, our first birth

through our mother is the first birth, and that's born of human

flesh. And that which is born of

spirit, capital S Holy Spirit is Spirit.

Talking about a need to be born again, have a second birth.

Then Aunt Marvel, I say to you, you must be born again.

And you might sit here and say that sounds really confusing.

How does that all work out? Well, Jesus says the wind blows

where it wishes. You hear the sound of the wind,

but you can't tell where it's coming from and where it goes.

So is everyone who is born of the Spirit.

The way we're born again is to repent from our sin and to turn

to Jesus Christ. You can't get born again through

baptism. You can't get born again through

taking the Lord's Supper. You can't get born again by

saying, I'm going to turn over a new leaf.

I'm going to try harder. You can't get born again through

a priest or a pastor. You only can get born again

through the Holy Spirit. And the Holy Spirit is the one

who has the power to bring you into this second birth.

And if you're not born again, you won't enter into the Kingdom

of heaven. It isn't about coming to church.

Coming to church is a good thing.

That's where you hear about these things.

But church attendance can't save you.

Nothing can save you except for Jesus Christ.

He's the only one who can save us.

And so my prayer today is we've studied about this horrible

situation in Revelation and the end of chapter 19.

What's going to come upon the earth?

There's one reason to teach these things.

God tells us to teach his Word. But the main reason is that we

find ourselves either on one side of the bat or the other.

We're either part of God's family today or we're not, and

we all have to come the same way.

We have to humble ourselves and say, Lord, I need to get saved

today. I need to get born again.

I need you to come into my life and change me.

God wants to save people. He's come to seek and to save

that which is lost yield to Him. He wants to save you.

This has been Living Waters of Grace with Pastor Clark.

We're going through the challenging and also intriguing

Book of Revelation. Whether you're a fan of reading

ahead in books of fiction, there's such a benefit to

reading ahead in the Bible to read about how it all ends.

But in an interesting turn of events, the Book of Revelation

is not really the end, but rather the beginning.

It's the end of life as we know it here on earth, but there's so

much to look forward to for what comes after all the judgement of

the earth and those who reject God.

There's a lot to work through, and it can be heartbreaking to

read through the intense judgements and wrath that will

come on those who hate God with all their might.

The thing is, God has given chance upon chance to these

people. They don't want it.

So the outcome is that there are judgments and consequences for

those who've rejected the good news and the gift of salvation

that's offered through Jesus's death and resurrection.

Are you one who has heard about these things but doesn't really

want it because you want to live life on your terms?

Trust me, living for Jesus is so much better.

That doesn't mean it will be easy, but as you listen and read

through Revelation with us, you'll come to a stark

realization that you don't want to be on earth when the

apocalypse happens. So check out Calvary Chapel

online.com to learn how to come to a saving grace through faith

that will allow you to be with Jesus for eternity.

We'd also love to meet you in person at Calvary Chapel

Westmoreland. Come join us at 400 E Pittsburgh

St. Ste. 6B in Greensburg, PA 15601.

This has been living waters of Grace.