Living Waters of Grace, April 10th, 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.

I mean, you just couldn't wait to tell people about what the

Lord's done for you. You were yakking and blabbing

and wanting to grab everybody and take him into heaven.

And then what happens so many months or years later?

You're. Oh yeah.

The good old days When I was born again, I remember that I

was really on fire. And boy, I wish I could go back

to those days. Well, you can go back to those

days, get rid of trying to do it in the flesh, and ask the Holy

Spirit to fill you again and control you and empower you.

When a child gets a new toy, what's the first thing they do?

They show it around to everyone, showing just how cool it is.

But what happens after a couple of days?

Well, the toy becomes old news and they forget about it.

We cannot let that happen to us when it comes to the gospel

today, Pastor Clark says when we choose to follow Jesus,

initially we want to share with the whole world, but then over

time it becomes a memory we refer to.

The Bible calls you to make disciples of all nations.

Don't take that lightly. Now here's Pastor Clark in

Galatians Chapter 3 with today's edition of Living Waters of

Galatians 3 · chapter mention

Grace. We get so weighed down at times

and we like all I'm just not passionate about the Lord

anymore and I don't want to read his word and and I don't, you

know, I don't, I know I should be involved or plugged in and

served and where, but I just don't have the energy and I'm

lukewarm and I'm backslidden and we make all these excuses of God

and God's like, what's your problem?

I mean, you know, what do you expect?

You think you're going to do something?

No, it's through the power of the Spirit, by faith.

And so we ask God to do for us, in us, through us, what there's

no way we could do ourselves. That's why Paul said be filled

with the Spirit, walk in the Spirit.

It's a command. Be energized in your daily life

by the Spirit, because what the flesh profits nothing.

Have you tried to prop up your humanness, your your fleshly

abilities to try to do something for God?

It doesn't work man. And it's something we all have

to fight against every day of our life because it's just, it's

just, it seems like it's endemic in human nature to somehow want

to justify itself by its so-called self righteousness.

You know when someone criticizes you for something or they make a

statement to you about something, some failing in your

life or weakness, are you insulted?

And your ire goes up and you think, well, who are they to

tell me about whatever it's self righteousness because you're

wanting to prove to someone else that you're better than you

really are, instead of just saying, hey, you're, you're

right. I'm even worse than that.

That's freeing, you know? And then say, but pray for me so

that God can work in me, so that I can be what He's intended in

me to be, not by my own abilities, but by the work of

the Holy Spirit in and through my life.

And so he says in verse 4, Have you suffered so many things in

vain? If indeed it was vain, Therefore

he who supplies a spirit to you and works miracles among you,

does he do it by the works of the law, or by the hearing of

faith? The question again, just as

Abraham believed God and it was accounted to him for

righteousness, therefore know that only those who are of faith

are the sons of Abraham. So when you look at all the Jews

who have ever lived throughout the course of history, those who

are part of the remnant in the Old Testament and the New

Testament who have believed in the Messiah to come by faith are

justified. Abraham for sure never proved to

you or me by his life that he was perfect, nor did he ever

make a statement that he was accepted to God, accepted by God

because of what he's done, but because of what Christ has done.

And he's noted in the book of Hebrews as the father of faith.

And so it says the Scripture foretelling that God would

justify the Gentiles by faith, preach the gospel to Abraham

beforehand, before Christ was even born, saying in you all the

nations shall be blessed. So Abraham's out there that

night and God gives him a vision, shows him the stars.

And it says as a in this heaven, and as the grains of sand in the

sea, so shall be my descendants, those who believe in that

Messiah. This is Abraham has.

And so the scriptures for seeing this would justify the Gentiles

by faith. Preach the gospel to Abraham

beforehand, saying, in you all the nation shall be blessed.

So then those who are of faith are blessed with believing

Abraham, there's only one way to get to heaven.

And Jesus said you must be born again If you flip over to John

John 3 · chapter mention

chapter 3. For some of us, it seems

somewhat elementary, but if you're dragging around your

human carcass trying to live the Christian life, you need to be

reminded, as I did, that you and I, if we're Christians, that

they didn't get here by something we worked up in

ourselves. It was a miracle.

And if you remember back when the Holy Spirit came into you

and you were born again, wasn't life exciting the Christian

life? Wasn't it exhilarating, Huh?

I mean, you just couldn't wait to tell people about what the

Lord's done for you. You were yakking and blabbing

and wanting to grab everybody and take him into heaven.

And then what happens so many months or years later?

You're. Oh yeah.

The good old days When I was born again, I remember that I

was really on. Fire and boy, I wish I could go

back to those days. Well, you can go back to those

days, get rid of trying to do it in the flesh and ask the Holy

Spirit to fill you again and control you and empower you.

And when the Spirit here, it empowers us, life gets thrilling

again and exciting. And I can talk about this by

experience. I got saved when I was 20.

And long, long pilgrimage of ups and downs and walking in my own

humanness and my weakness and my flesh.

And I'm learning, as you know, as I go on a little more every

day, to really believe it when the Lord says it's not by Mike

Clark, not by your human ability, it's not by your power,

it's not by your intentions, it's not by your obsessive

compulsive behavior, it's not by anything but by my spirit, saith

the Lord. And it takes the pressure off me

guy, and you guys too. I mean, if you're here today and

you know, you know that it's been a long time since you've

drunk from that fountain of life that brings living water to your

soul. It's here today.

He's here, It's him, He's available.

And all you got to do is say, Lord, I've been trying to do

this myself again, and I'm giving up.

And the Lord is not going to say, what do you mean you're

giving up? You can't give up.

I'm depending on you. I need you got the Lord's a

good. Now I can take over.

Yeah, well, now we can begin to get some things accomplished

because I'm in charge, not you. So Jesus says you must be born

again. He's speaking to this guy in

verse one Pharisee name Nicodemus, a ruler of the Jews.

And the man comes to Jesus by night and this is a Jewish

leader and he's a servant in the in the fair recidical movement.

And he addresses Jesus as rabbi teacher.

We know that you're a teacher coming from God, for no one can

do these things that you do unless God is with him.

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

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

He wasn't talking to him about obeying the law and fulfilling,

fulfilling the law. He was talking to him about

something he never heard in his life before.

He said, and Nicodemus says to him, how can a man be born when

he is old? Can he enter a second time into

his mother's wombs and 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, and that which is born of spirit is spirit.

Do not marvel that I say to you, you must be born again.

The wind blows where it wishes, and you hear the sound of it,

but cannot tell where it comes from, where it goes.

So is everyone who is born of the Spirit.

And Nicodemus answered and said, How can these things be?

And Jesus answered to him and said to him, Are you the teacher

of Israel? And you do not know these

things? Isn't that interesting?

The blind leading the blind how many churches a day on a Sunday

throughout the earth are trying to tell the people they got to

get better, they got to work harder, They got to do this and

they got to do that and they're condemned and they're beaten

down and they're walking out. Man, I got to do that.

I'm such a loss. I just can't do it and instead

of the shepherd's taking the load off and Jesus said my yoke

is easy and my burden is light right coming to me, all you that

labor and are heavy laden. I'm that isn't my guilt trip.

That isn't what I'm giving you learn of me, for my yoke is easy

and my burden is light. And Jesus is saying you're a

teacher of Israel and you don't know these things.

Most surely I say to you, we speak what we know and we

testify what we've seen and you do not receive our witness.

And there's a struggle in society and Christian society

today of a group of people that believe in works, righteousness,

and a group of people that believe in grace.

And Paul couldn't have gone any clearer in Ephesians 289.

For by grace you've been saved right through faith.

And this is not yourselves. It's what a gift of God, not of

works, bless. Any man should boast.

We need to praise our Lord for what he's done for us.

Amen. We need to thank him for his

grace. We need to praise him for his

grace and Be Walking in Grace is a great book, if you've never

read it, called Why Grace Changes Everything.

It's the whole philosophy of what Calvary Chapel is about.

And I encourage you to read that book if you haven't read it yet

because we can forget. And Paul wrote the book of

Galatians to Christians in Galatia who were starting to

forget that they were saved by grace and they were trying to

get back in God's good graces by the energy of the flesh.

And that's why he said, oh, foolish Galatians, who deceived

you? So he says, no one has ascended

to heaven, but he who came down from heaven, that is the Son of

man who's in heaven as Moses was lifted up, as Moses lifted up

the serpent and the wilderness, Even so must the Son of Man be

lifted up, that whoever believes in him should not perish, but

have eternal life. For God so loved the world that

he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believes in him

should not perish, but have everlasting life.

This is a good news for you and me today.

For God did not send His Son into the world to condemn the

world, but that the world through Him might be saved.

He who believes in Him is not condemned, but he who does not

believe is condemned already because he's not believed in the

name of the only begotten Son of God.

So today there's two groups of people here.

We have the condemned and the free.

If you're here in Christ today, you're forgiven, you're under

his mercy and his grace, and you're free.

But if you're here today and you reject the message of Christ,

you're condemned already because there's no other way to be saved

but through the miracle of new birth.

And you might sit here and say, well, I don't know if I've ever

had that happen to me. If you're, if you're saying that

today it hasn't happened to you, but it can happen to you.

And there's many here that can testify of the power of the

spirit and, and the experience of being born again.

I remember when I was 2020, I was living at the shore and I

was working in a parking lot and I was just coming out of hippie

thing. And, you know, I, I still, you

know, thought that way and that I was slowly changing because

the Holy Spirit had come into my heart and my bedroom.

I was reading the Bible and I was saying, God, if there's, if

this is real, I need you to reveal yourself to me because I

think I'm going to lose my mind from the abuse of drugs in my

life. And I started with Matthew and I

went through Mark and I went through Luke and I went through

John. And by the time I got to John, I

was in love with this person, Jesus Christ.

I said, I've never met or discovered or read about anybody

like him. He was cool all the time.

He handled every situation perfectly.

He had a love that I wanted to emulate my life for people.

And when his love apprehended me, it changed my life.

The beginning of the road that leads to life.

And so I, these guys are saying, you know, you go to this church,

man, it, you know, it's good down there.

And that's a church, man. I've been in church.

I'm not interested in church. You know, I've been in these

dead churches. I don't, I'm not into the

instant American, you know, I'm not into the institutional

church and had such a disdain for it that Cindy and I refused

to get married in a church. We had to get married outside of

church because of what it had represented to us growing up,

both of us. So I remember, you know, they

said we'll get down here, man, it's cool.

You know, there's people down there talking about Jesus and

I'm thinking people in church actually talking about Jesus and

they love him and they want to follow him.

You know, I'm thinking that I've never seen anything like that.

So I went in and right across the top of the church, big

Brownwood statement, you must be born again.

I walked in. I was like, that's what happened

to me. That's what happened to me.

You know, my hair is jumping down and I had my multi colored

quarter away pants on. And people are like, yeah, man,

you know. But the pastor, he, he just like

he, he knew what it was about. He knew what had happened in my

life. And so he began to mentor me and

eventually Cindy and and you know, so if you haven't been

born again, I highly recommend it.

Acts chapter 4 again, this is the power of the Holy Spirit

Acts 4 · chapter mention

through the apostle and he's preaching and this is the the

power of God through this man's life.

Peter and verse 8 filled with the Holy Spirit said to them in

verse 8 of chapter 4, rulers of the people and elders of Israel.

If we this day are judged for a good deed done to a helpless

man, by what means has he been made?

Well they just the Lord just healed.

This guy says let it be known to you all and to all the people of

Israel that by the name of Jesus Christ of Nazareth, whom you

crucified, whom God raised from the dead by him, this man stands

here before you whole. This is a stone which was

rejected by you builders, which has become the chief

cornerstone. Nor is there salvation in any

other, for there is no other name under heaven given among

men whereby we must be saved. So the the authority of the

Apostle Peter, a born again Jew, filled with the power of the

Holy Spirit, speaking to his own people.

You guys missed it. You're trying to build these

tabernacles and do all this religious worship and, and all

this stuff you're trying to be so precise with and so detailed

with. And the main thing that makes us

all work is Jesus Christ. And you've just pushed him

aside. And so your structure and your

building and everything you've stand stood upon in regards to

your spirituality is going to fall and be decimated because it

can't stand up against the truth of the person of Jesus Christ.

So again, you can't get saved through Buddha, Krishna,

Muhammad, any everybody but Jesus Christ Jesus said I am the

way, I am the truth, I'm the life.

No man comes to the Father but through me.

So today in Revelation 1217 we see the Jewish remnant and to

the day as we think about Israel, they're filled with

unbelief for the most part. As I said earlier, the virtually

the whole world is anti Israel and the stage is being set in

these last days for the tribulation events that are

going to come upon the small nation of whom the Lord loves

Iran of Jennidad, however he pronounces his name.

That guy thinks daily his purpose in life is to wipe

Israel off the face of the earth.

He's he's not a fool. This guy is focused, he's

determined and he's not going to let anything set him aside from

his goal. Now we're thankful God's

sovereign and and it's not going to happen the way he predicts,

but nonetheless, he could be used by the evil one that caused

great chaos in this nation. And every day there's pressure,

the mounting in that part of the world because of what's going on

in that part of the nation. Now, what's God's heart for

Israel? If you turn to Luke chapter 13,

Luke 13 · chapter mention

as we begin to wind down, it's real important to get a picture

of how the Lord feels about this country, how he loves it.

Luke chapter 13, Luke chapter 13, verse 34 and 35.

Luke 13 · chapter mention Luke 13:34

This is Jesus lamenting over his beloved city, Jerusalem.

O Jerusalem, Jerusalem, the one who kills the prophets and

stones those who are sent to her.

Think about all the Old Testament scriptures where they

rejected God's prophets and his messengers.

How often I wanted to gather your children together as a hand

gathers her brood under her wings.

But you were not willing. See, your house is left to you

to desolate. And assuredly I say to you, you

shall not see me until the time comes when you say, blessed is

he who comes in the name of the Lord.

The Bible says when Christ returns at the second coming,

every eye will see him coming down out of the clouds of glory.

And the Jews, the remnant, all the people who are on the face

of the earth, it says they will look up and see him whom they've

pierced and realize He's their Messiah.

And there'll be a great in gathering of multitudes of

people into the heavenly Kingdom at that time.

Now flip over to Romans Chapter 11, Romans Chapter 11, verse 23.

Romans 11 · chapter mention Romans 11:23

And they also, if they do not continue and unbelief will be

grafted in, for God is able to graft them in.

Again, this is talking about the nation of Israel.

OK, they they rejected Christ and it appears that there's no

interest, but that's not the way it ends.

This is what the Lord's able to do if they don't continue an

unbelief. In other words, if they begin to

become believers and and there are many born again Jews over

the last since 1948 when the nation was restored.

There's this movement toward the homeland and and Jewish people

all over the world. It's like a magnet.

They're not a they don't understand why all of a sudden

they want to go to Israel, but God has put it in their heart.

That's their homeland, that's their, their birth land.

And so there's this movement of, of immigration into this nation

from all over the world. But the Lord has a heart and a

purpose. And he says that he can graft

them in again. For if you were cut off of the

olive tree, which is wild by nature and were grafted contrary

to nature into cultivated olive tree, how much more will these

who are natural branches be grafted into their own olive

tree? So the wild branches where they

Gentiles people like us that God in his mercy transformed us and

made us fit into his eternal plan.

But he didn't set aside the nation of Israel, his remnant,

his people and he's going to be able to graft them in again.

Who are the the natural born people that God has intended to

save from the beginning and verse 25 for I do not desire

brethren, that you should be ignorant of this mystery.

And so the Lord telling us today his brothers and sisters in

Christ here at Calvary. He doesn't want to us to be like

confused about this stuff mixed up.

I mean, it's amazing how many evangelical churches that they

have different opinions about this subject.

Lest you should be wise in your own opinion.

That blindness, in part, has happened to Israel until the

fullness of the time of the Gentiles has come in.

And so now we see that the body of Christ is the Gentile

movement. The time of the fullness of the

Gentiles is when that last person gets saved as as the

gospel goes into the ends of the earth, when that bride of Christ

is complete, then we're taken out.

The rapture occurs. But the Lord is not finished

with Israel though. And the good news is that Israel

was set aside for a period of time so that God can have his

perfect will and work and our hearts and lives.

Now Revelation 17 flip over there.

We're going through a lot of flipping around today, but

that's good because that way you'll get familiar with these

things and you can share them with other people.

Revelation 17 says Behold, he's coming with clouds, every eye

will see him, even they who pierced him, and all the tribes

of the earth, referring to the descendants of Abraham, Isaac

and Jacob of the earth, will mourn because of him.

Even so, Amen. They pierced him.

They rejected him. Zechariah chapter 12 refers and

Zechariah 12 · chapter mention

details the ones who are identified as the ones who

pierced him as the House of David and the inhabitants of

Jerusalem. And he prophesized that they

will have tears of true repentance because of what they

did to their Messiah. And it says here in Revelation

17, all the tribes will mourn. Zechariah 12/10 says, And I will

pour on the House of David and on the inhabitants of Jerusalem,

the spirit of grace and supplication.

Spirit of grace. That's what we need, isn't it?

All of us. I pray that this place is a

spirit of grace for you, that God's Holy Spirit pours out on

you and builds you up and strengthens you and encourages

you in the grace of God. For there's nothing else that

can sustain you and me but by the grace of God.

And then they will look on him whom they Pierce.

I like to end in reading Psalm 122 tremendous messianic Psalm

prophetical that will one day be completely fulfilled.

It says I was glad when they said to me, let us go into the

House of the Lord. Our feet have been standing

within your gates of Jerusalem. Jerusalem is built as a city

that is compact together where the tribes go up, the tribes of

the Lord to the testimony of Israel to give thanks to the

name of the Lord. For Thrones are set there for

judgment. The Thrones of the House of

David. Pray for the peace from

Jerusalem. We support the ministries in

Jerusalem. We pray for the peace of

Jerusalem, because until there's peace in Jerusalem, there will

be no peace on this earth. Peace be within your walls,

prosperity within your palaces. For the sake of my brethren and

companions, I will now say peace be within you.

Because of the House of the Lord our God.

I will seek your good. Does God have a plan for Israel?

Amen. He sure does.

Does he have a plan for us? Yes, he does, as I have not seen

nor ear heard nor entered into the heart of man the things that

God has prepared for those who love him.

If I was a dancing pastor up here, I'd be dancing all around

like a maniac. I'm psyched today.

I mean, I just, I mean, this, this stuff, if it doesn't like

wake us up out of our complacency and lethargy, man,

what do we need? We need a blood transfusion,

right? Not a human blood transfusion,

but a Holy Spirit poured out. Holy Ghost Jesus, blood

transfusion. Amen.

We are digging into the Book of Revelation here on Living Waters

of Grace. Pastor Clark is tackling this

challenging book as we try to discern the messages that are

within its pages. There's so much imagery and at

times you're not always sure what's literal and what's

metaphorical. At one point there's a reference

to an adulterous woman riding on a beast.

And as someone else mentioned, at one point it almost sounds

like a rodeo from hell. And in actuality it kind of is.

You learn about the downfall and demise of a sinful and

rebellious world, falling down in worship to someone who is the

anti hero, the enemy, Satan working his insidious ways into

the minds of fallen people. It's sad and it's heartbreaking,

but it's a classic story of good versus evil.

Thankfully, we know how this story ends.

Jesus wins, Jesus reigns, and evil is conquered once and for

all. We pray and trust you've

received Jesus as your Savior. But if you haven't, don't wait

until the events in Revelation become what's happening on the

streets. None of us wants you to be there

at that time. Instead, we'd love for you to be

with us in heaven as we celebrate the marriage supper

with Jesus as his bridegroom. To get a better understanding of

where we are in the Book of Revelation, to listen to any

messages before or after this one, you can find them at our

website, calvarychapelonline.com.

That's it for today's edition, but we hope you'll want to hear

Pastor Clark teach more from the Book of Revelation.

It can be exciting to think about the future for believers,

but it can feel a bit harrowing for those who don't believe.

Come hear more next time on Living Waters of Grace.