Living Waters of Grace for May 13th, 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 world system satisfies the desires of the fallen nature.

So even though we're Christians, we still deal with sin, right?

And we'd be lying if we say that something doesn't affect us at

times or attract us. It does.

We got to fight against it. The Bible tells us as men to

flee youthful us at war against the soul.

You have to put yourself in a place that you're not going to

be attacked by the world system, but the world system is designed

to satisfy the fallen part of your nature, your flesh and your

mind. Hey, we're all human, right?

We all have cravings and desires.

If you're trying to lose weight, you're not going to go hang out

in the donut shop or at the ice cream parlor.

If you're trying to do a digital detox, you've got to get out

into nature, away from technology.

In today's message, Pastor Clark expresses to you the importance

of being on guard against the sinful system of the world.

Don't let the world entice you to compromise your walk with

Christ, but steer clear of all of its fleshly lusts.

Now here's Pastor Clark in Revelation Chapter 18 with

Revelation 18 · chapter mention

today's edition of Living Waters of Grace.

In spite of the darkness and this last day of the

tribulation, God's glory is going to shine, because the

Angel illuminates the earth with his glory, so the darkness can't

ever outshine the light. And it talks about this

judgment. It says the nations have drunk

of the wine for the wrath of her fornication.

The kings of the earth have committed fornication with her,

and the merchants of the earth have become rich through the

abundance of her luxury. This Joel judgment is spoken

about where Babylon is fallen shows that in chapter 17, the

ecclesiastical system is fallen with a great harlot we studied

about several weeks ago. And now in chapter 18 we see the

political financial system becoming affected by what's

going on. And Babylon's going to receive

double for her many sins. The dwelling place of Satan.

There's so many places on the face of the earth today that is

the dwelling place of Satan, of demons.

I think bars are and nightclubs are the dwelling place of

demons. Unfortunately, I attended some

of those places after I became a Christian for a while.

I knew down deep inside that I shouldn't be in those places

because I didn't. I wasn't like that anymore.

But you know, through business situations or whatever, I was

compelled to go to some of these places at different times.

And I'll tell you like it's sense of darkness and what

happens as a Christian, if you hang out with people who are in

the dwelling place of demons, it will have a tendency to pull you

back from the direction that God wants you to go in.

It will cause you to go backwards in your spiritual life

that we use that word backsliding.

And so there's many, many places that are the dwelling place of

demons. Now here is a mine which has

wisdom. The seven heads are the seven

mountains in which the women says this judgement has become

the pollution of the whole world.

I know you folks that have kids. You love your kids.

Some of you have chosen to homeschool them.

Some of them you haven't you? You got them in public schools.

I'll tell you guys, it's your responsibility to train your

kids in the way of the Lord. In these days, you can't depend

on anybody else to train your kids up in the way of the Lord.

It gives us warning in the Old Testament that the children of

Israel were told to teach their kids from the morning when they

got up to when they went to bed at night.

They would read the word, they would disciple them, they would

teach them the ways of God. Unfortunately nowadays, and I'm

not saying any, you guys do this, but too many people depend

on the Christian School to educate their kids spiritually,

or they depend on the church that teach their kids

spiritually. And the church has a

responsibility to teach everybody from the baby up to

the oldest person. But one day a week for 45

minutes isn't going to cut it, right?

It isn't. It's your responsibility to

teach your kids, but what's happening is all this pollution

is affecting your children. And if you're not on top of it,

when your kids come home from school and you're asking them,

well, what is it you learned today about science?

Or what is it that they taught you about how the world

developed? And you're not circumventing the

darkness that's coming in to infiltrate their lives and to

cause them to become jaded in regard to the things of God.

You're going to have a real problem when they get older and

they become adults. The world system that we're in

today is opposing Christ and every angle.

It exists today to make you and me a slave to its system.

And the only thing that can free us from the system is the

person. And the power of the Holy Spirit

is Christ. And the Father sent him forth to

do the work of convicting the world of sin and of

righteousness and of judgment. The apostle Paul tells us we're

not to be conformed to this world.

It's not a suggestion, it's a commandment not to be conformed

to this world. One of the easiest way to be

conformed to this world is allow that to, to be on 24/7.

I, I personally don't see a whole lot that's worthwhile

watching on there. It's like a waste.

You might think I'm a fanatic, but you know, I still have ATV

because my wife still likes watching it, but I, I don't have

any interest in that television. It's a waste of time.

Tell me one thing that's good on there.

Football. That's about it, you know, But

the problem is you got to deal with the commercials in between,

right? And that's when you go

backwards, scantily clad women with the beer commercials and

the fancy car commercials. And you know, it's just like,

brother, I'll tell you. But you know, the TV is what

conforms you subliminally to think the way the world does.

It takes your kids and causes them to have a worldview that

isn't Christian. It's a worldview that's fallen.

And so Paul tells us not to be conformed to this world.

The world system satisfies the desires of the fallen nature.

So even though we're Christians, we still deal with sin, right?

And we'd be lying if we say that something doesn't affect us at

times or attract us. It does.

We got to fight against it. The Bible tells us as men to

flee youthfulness at war against the soul.

You have to put yourself in a place that you're not going to

be attacked by the world system, but the world system is designed

to satisfy the fallen part of your nature, your flesh, and

your mind. That's why it's going to be very

easy for the Antichrist to deceive the masses in the last

days, because he's going to promise them all these

possessions. He's going to promise some

wealth and prosperity, and everybody's going to have the

sense of entitlement. And that's why I keep bringing

up through this book, the prosperity gospel that's being

preached out there today is a perfect segue into what the

Antichrist is going to promise the masses, using the false

religious system to get people to be interested in greed and

themselves rather than being interested in giving and being

sensitive to others. And verses 4 through 8, he hears

this voice from heaven saying, come out of her, my people, lest

you share in her sins, unless you receive of her plagues.

The Lord saying the sins have reached up to heaven and God has

remembered our iniquities. In other words, sin has gotten

so high and so much in God's face that there'll be a time

when God says that's it, it's over, enough's enough.

I'm going to eradicate this blight from civilization and

humanity, and it's not going to have control upon people anymore

because it's going to be put to death once and for all.

Call sin and death one day and the Book of Revelation will be

thrown into the lake of fire. And so we see that God's

faithfulness and His warning is to the people who are left on

the earth at the time of this tribulation.

There'll be many people that will come to know Christ during

the tribulation, and they can't take the mark of the beast, so

they can't buy and do commerce and sell and do business because

they don't have the code and the number to get them into the

system. So they're going to be like

nomads running the earth, hiding out, trying to protect

themselves from the internment camps and that kind of stuff.

But God is warning the people on the face of the earth at that

time that do know him, that are part of his remnant that come

out from among these people that are on the face of the earth

that are worshipping the fallen world system.

And he says come out and be separate.

In other words, they have to avoid defilement or they'll

become partakers of the sins of the people.

And today, some of us might have become defiled by situations and

places we've been recently or things we've watched or heard or

seen or purchased that have had an ungodly influence in our

life, and we need to avoid this defilement.

First Timothy chapter 5 says neither.

1 Timothy 5 · chapter mention

Be partakers of other people's sins.

Don't share in other people's sins.

Keep yourself pure. Ephesians chapter 5 starting

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with verse 8, it says for you were once darkness, but now

you're light in the Lord walk as children of light.

In other words, there was one time all you did was dark

things. That's all you thought about.

I remember there was a time in my life every day I get up and

think, OK, what bad things am I going to do today?

I had a whole list of them and it wasn't a good day for me

unless I accomplished my list of of sin.

It says you once were like that, but now you're light and the

Lord walk as children of light. In other words, don't walk the

way you used to walk, for the fruit of the Spirit is in all

goodness, righteousness, and truth.

Finding out what is acceptable to the Lord, what's acceptable

to you, Lord, that's my prayer. Now, what is pleasing to you?

Not what's pleasing to my fallen nature, the way I used to be.

I want to live in a way that's pleasing to the Lord.

It says have no fellowship with unfruitful works of darkness,

but rather expose them. And we can't be around darkness

any of us. We shouldn't be messing with

that stuff. We shouldn't be in places where

darkness is being glorified and where people are ignoring the

truths of the Kingdom of God. It says don't hang out with

them, don't have fellowship with them, rather expose them.

If you're going to do anything, preach the gospel, share with

people their need of Jesus Christ, he says.

It's shameful even to speak of those things which are done to

them in secret. But all things that are exposed

are made manifest by the light for whatever makes manifest as

light. So we're in a place of

ungodliness. We're in a place of the

unfruitful works of darkness. The Holy Spirit lives in you.

If you're a believer, there's light in you that's exposing the

darkness. Now, you can try to hide the

light. You can try to ignore it like

it's not in you and participate in the darkness for a while.

But the darkness can't outshine the light.

And God will eventually have to chasten you and discipline you

and put you in a place in your life that you're going to repent

and get back on track again. He says in verse 14, Awake you

who sleep arise from the dead, and Christ will give you light.

See, then you walk circumspectly, not as fools, but

as wise. A fool walks in darkness after

they become a Christian, redeeming the time because the

days are evil. Things are getting worse and

darker and worse and darker. Therefore, do not be unwise, but

understand what the will of the Lord is.

Do not be drunk with wine and which is dissipation, but be

filled with the Spirit. Drunkenness is not to be

tolerated in the believers life. None of us have a right to get

hammered anymore. We shouldn't be doing that.

Now I'm not saying you can't have a drink because the Bible

doesn't teach that total abstinence, but the Bible is

real clear that you're not to be drunk anymore.

Amen. And so everybody has to know

when they're moving into a place of inebriation and stop.

So my job to judge you if you have a glass of wine or you to

judge me. But if you see me drinking more

than one glass of wine, you have a right to say, Clark, you're

heading in a dangerous direction.

What the apostles saying here in Revelation isn't just so much

for the people that are going to be left here, but where are you

today? Are you living as an unwise

person? Are you in places of darkness?

Are you allowing yourself to participate in things that

Christ had to shed his blood and die for and so he's warning them

in revelation to be protected as a repent so that they won't have

the plagues in verse 8 come upon them in that day that the

remnant is spared from the plagues.

So what sins will be judged? Well, we've already looked at

many of them here we see idolatry.

We see in verse 7 it says in the measure that she glorified

herself. Pride lifting themselves up in

this time, living in a way that is ostentatious is one thing to

have wealth is another thing to use your wealth in a wise way.

I've known people who are very, very wealthy that live like they

have no money, and they use their money in ways that are as

wonderful in the sense of helping other people.

You know Sam Walton, the founder of Walmart, that company is the

biggest retail corporation in the world today.

When Sam Walton developed his business and became extremely

wealthy, he lived in the same modest ranch home.

He never sold it. He drove his used pickup truck.

He could have bought anything he wanted, but that wasn't how he

was wired. He was a fascinating individual

and even all the money he had set up for the generations of

the family, the kids, the grandkids, the great grandkids

that have all come on down the road.

He set the trust up so that there was only so much money

given to them at certain periods of times in their lives so they

wouldn't go out and squander their wealth.

Because he knew that the danger of money could cause a lot of

problems, as the Scriptures say, in people's lives.

So we see here the pride. We also see the the heart of the

Church of Jesus Christ and the last days in Matthew 25 prior to

the final judgment. Now a lot of people say, well,

you know, I'm I'm saved, I'm going to heaven.

Well, how do you know why? I pray to prayer and I'm going

to, you know, I believe in Jesus, I'm going to heaven.

That's all there is. You know, well, thank God for

the simplicity of the gospel. But the gospel is much fuller in

the sense of what real belief entails.

In real belief entails change of conduct.

Then I'm not walking in darkness anymore, because if I'm still

wanting to walk in darkness, I haven't been converted yet.

If my heart still desires the fruitful works of darkness and I

want to do those sinful things, Christ hasn't conquered my

heart. I'm still rebelling.

I'm still lost. I'm still in my sin if that's my

main propensity and focus of my everyday life.

But this is the final judgement here and this is shocking to a

lot of people, says this is the Son of Man who'll come and he's

going to judge the nation's. When the Son of Man comes in

verse 31 of chapter 25 in his glory and all the holy angels

with him, then he will sit on the throne of his glory.

Picture this. All of us will see this

encounter. All the nations will be gathered

before him, and he will separate them from one another as a

shepherd divides the sheep from the goats.

And he will set the sheep on his right hand.

If you're a believer here today, you're sheep, the goats on the

left. If you're an unbeliever or a

poser or a phony, you're on the left.

And the king will say to those on his right hand, Come, you

blessed it of my father, inherit the Kingdom prepared for you

from the foundation of the world.

Listen to this. I was hungry and you gave me

food. I was thirsty and you gave me

drink. I was a stranger and you took me

in. I was naked and you clothed me.

I was sick and you visited me. I was in prison, and you came to

me. And the righteous will answer

and say, Lord, when did we see you hungry and feed you, or

thirsty and give you a drink? When did we see you as a

stranger, and take you in or naked and clothe you?

Or when did we see you sick or in prison, and come to you?

And the King will answer and say to them, assuredly, I say to

you, in as much as you did it unto one of these, the least of

these, my brethren, you did it to me.

So in a church what we do is for one another, right?

It's Christchurch, and everything we're trying to do as

a body of believers is for the sake of people that don't know

him yet, for the sake of people who do know him, to help our

missionaries get the gospel out to the ends of the earth.

When there's a need presented, we're involved in meeting that

need because everything that we do in the microscope of God's

judgment, when God sees are we living for the sake of others?

Many say to those on the left, depart from you cursed into

everlasting fire, prepared for the devil and his angels.

For I was hungry and you gave me no food.

I was thirsty and you gave me no drink.

I was a stranger. You did not take me in.

I was naked. You did not clothe me.

I was sick and in prison. You did not visit me.

And they will answer, saying, Lord, when did we see you

hungry, or thirsty, or a stranger, or naked, or sick, or

in prison, or did not minister to you?

And he will answer them, saying, assuredly, I say to you, And as

much as you did not do it to the one, the least of these, you did

not do it to me. And these will go away at the

everlasting punishment, but the righteous into everlasting life.

So the world system is either compelling you to move away from

it. So you take what it is that

God's allowed you to have and prosper you with.

And you pray and you say, Lord, what's the decisions you have

for me? What missionaries am I going to

help? What person is going to show me

they have a need? And I'm either going to ignore

them and blow them off whenever I have enough to take care of

that need and I'm going to walk away.

Or I'm going to use what it is and God's going to put it in my

heart to say, God, Clark, help that person or do this or do

that, that be sensitive to that situation that's being

disconnected from the world system.

The world system, though, is telling you no, you can't do

that. You're a fool.

You don't know that person. You don't know what they're

going to do with this or that. All this skepticism and all this

fear and trying to hoard everything you have for yourself

and where's it going to end? It says these will go away into

everlasting punishment, but the righteous into everlasting life.

So what's the priorities of our stewardship in this world system

today? The plagues are going to come.

The entire economic empire, the Antichrist is going to collapse.

The remnant are going to rejoice to God's righteous judgment.

But what about you and me today? Where are we with this system

that we're still influenced by? Jesus talks about the importance

of laying up for yourselves treasures in heaven in Matthew

6. Do not lay up for yourselves

treasures on earth, where moths and rust destroy and where

thieves break in and steal. But lay up for yourselves

treasures in heaven, where neither moth nor rust destroys,

and where thieves do not break in and steal.

For where your treasure is, there your heart will be also.

So I have to say to myself today, as we begin to conclude

in regards to the world system, I can teach this stuff, I can

talk about it, I can exhort you, but I need to exhort myself.

Where's my stewardship? Where's my heart affections?

Where's my priorities? Does God own what I have?

Do I surrender my life to God, every part of it, everything I

have, everything that is mine, or does it have a hold on me?

Does my stuff have a hold on me? Am I giving more allegiance to

the present world system? Is my treasure you Jesus, or is

it the treasures of this present earth?

What is it that you and I are putting our focus upon as we

live our lives today? The last thing I want you to

look at is Second Corinthians chapter 6, because these things

2 Corinthians 6 · chapter mention

are going to happen. When they do happen, if we're

with him already, we're still going to have to give an account

for what we did with our lives. And the Lord will say, well, you

know, you believed in me, you trusted in me.

You're in the Kingdom and the Bible says that some of us will

be saved as oh by fire. I don't want to find out what

that means. I hope you don't either.

Doesn't sound good. It's good to be saved, but it's

the be saved by as oh by fire. Sounds like this is skin of our

teeth and we were on the edge of being cast into the fire.

The Second Corinthians chapter 6 tells us here again, the warning

2 Corinthians 6 · chapter mention

that I read about at the Lord's Supper.

Allow the Lord to deal with your hearts, all of us, and allow the

Lord to separate from your heart what might be there that is

causing you to be tied into the world too much.

But the Lord deal with that stuff and he'll, he'll help you

to be free from it. He'll lift it off of you.

He'll put things in priority and he'll put things in place in

your life. You know, the cost of

selfishness and the cost of greed affects your marriage, it

affects your kids, it affects your relationship with the

people you work with, the people you're concerned about, your

burden for. There's no power outside of

yieldedness to God. And God wants us to yield to

him, all of us. How much does he want of my

life? He wants it all.

And that's something that I have to look at in my own life every

day. Every day I have to fight

against the pressures of the world.

Every day I have to make a decision what I'm going to do

with my checkbook. Every day I have to make a

decision what I'm going to do with what God trusts me with.

And it's, it's, it's not easy guys, as you all know, if you're

honest, but you know, prayer is a wonderful place to come

because we can say, Lord, help me to understand the dynamics of

this place. I live in this earth that the

ancient Israelites said wasn't their home.

They were looking for a city whose builder and maker was God.

It says they dwelt in tents as temporal dwellers, as

sojourners, as nomads, not putting roots down in this world

because they were looking for a city whose builder and maker was

God. And the church today is so

anemic and so weak because believers have chosen to give

allegiance to the world system instead of the Kingdom of God.

And the Bible says in the last days that we're to come out from

among that kind of living and that kind of concept and be

separate. It says judgment has to 1st

begin with us and us meaning the House of God, but that we would

listen to what Paul says when he says what agreement has the

temple of God. That's you with idols if there's

idols in your life and lay them at the feet of Jesus so he can

smash them and pull you out of the bondage that they've allowed

to control your life. For you are the temple, the

living God. As God has said, I will dwell in

them and walk among them. I will be their God and they

shall be my people. Oh, may we be able to say that

today that He is our God and we are His people.

Come out from among them and be separate, says the Lord.

Do not touch what is unclean and I will receive you.

If you're touching unclean stuff.

Stop it today, deal with it today, and walk out with a firm

conviction by the power of the Holy Spirit that from this day

forward you're not messing with certain things that you were

messing with. I will be a father to you and

you shall be my sons and daughters, says the Lord

Almighty. Therefore, having these

promises, beloved, let us cleanse ourselves from all

filthiness of the flesh and spirit, perfecting holiness in

the fear of God. His 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

judgements 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. 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

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Come join us at 400 E Pittsburgh St., Ste. 6B in Greensburg, PA

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