Chris,
The entire system is a system of error and that includes the theology of David Wilkerson.
Look at this statement...
Here is where many Christians fail. They say, "I am the righteousness ofChrist!" No! We are not the righteousness of Christ. We have had therighteousness of Christ reckoned to us! We have no righteousness inourselves; there is no good thing in us.
The perfect righteousness of Christ is not infused or poured into us.Rather, we are accounted righteous in God's eyes because of Jesus.Christ's righteousness is credited to our account! God imputes therighteousness of Christ to us.
This righteousness is not something that is in us. Rather, it is only inChrist. Yet when God looks at us, He sees us only as being in Christ --as perfectly righteous!
"Delivered From This Present Evil World!" by David Wilkerson, founding pastor of Times Square Church, New York City - March 25, 1996
David Wilkerson upheld the false gospel of substitution. He literally believed that the "righteousness of Jesus" is credited to the believers account. Thus in his mind, Jesus is the replacement saviour, the one who SWAPS places with sinner.
The Bible teaches no such thing. The Bible teaches that God reckons FAITH itself as righteousness, there is not any transfer of righteousness from Jesus to anyone.
Look at this verse...
Rom 4:5 But to him that worketh not, but believeth on him that justifieth the ungodly,
his faith is counted for righteousness.
Faith works by love (Gal 5:6) and works no ill (Rom 13:10) and therefore faith establishes the law as opposed to voiding it (Rom 3:31).
Neither righteousness or sin can be transferred. Sin and righteousness are moral issues, not tangible entities of substance that can be transferred.
The Bible teaches that he who DOES what is right is righteous.
1Jn 3:7 Little children, let no man deceive you: he that doeth righteousness is righteous, even as he is righteous.
Righteousness has to do with CHARACTER, not some legal transfer.
David Wilkerson implied a "sin/repent" cycle in his theology because he approached the Cross in the context of substitution as opposed to it being the means of PURGING AND PURIFYING. Without a purging and purifying then the root of iniquity remains.
Take a look at this quote...
Perfection does not mean a sinless, flawless heart. Man judges by outward appearances, by what he sees. But God judges the heart, the unseen motives (1 Samuel 16:7). David was said to have had a perfect heart toward God "all the days of his life," yet he failed the Lord often. His life was marked forever by adultery and a notorious murder.
The basic definition of perfect is: completeness, maturity. In the Hebrew and Greek, the definition includes: uprightness, being without spot, without blemish, totally obedient. It means to finish what was started; a complete performance. Wesley called it "constant obedience."
A perfect heart is a responsive heart. It quickly and totally answers the Lord's wooings, whisperings and warnings. This heart says at all times, "Speak, Lord, for your servant heareth. Show me the path and I will walk in it."
Once, during a long drive from the Teen Challenge farm in Pennsylvania to New York City, the Lord spoke to my inner man: "There is such a thing as a perfect heart. I want to show you what it is so you can seek after it!"
At that time God revealed to my spirit that Christ commits Himself to those who walk before Him with a perfect, responsive heart - and that three things distinguish such a heart.
A Perfect Heart by David Wilkerson October 2, 1989
David Wilkerson asserted that a "perfect heart towards God" can be inclusive of adultery and murder, so long as the heart responds afterwards. Hence the "sin/repent" cycle where one can "sin and not surely die" so long as one doesn't do it too often.
He was a false teacher who deceived many people with a "form of godliness" yet denied the power thereof.
I mean look at the quotes above. They speak for themselves.
Sure he might speak of holiness and obedience but the CONTEXT of those statement is within the framework of substitution and a righteousness transfer. Thus when the fluff is peeled away you still have "ye can sin and not surely die" and the denial of genuine heart purity in salvation.
It's not the Gospel. There is no real union with Christ wrought through entering into the New Covenant once and for all with the associated purging of sin and the purification of the heart. Thus there is no "made the righteousness of God in Him" via the means of the "Spirit of life in Jesus Christ." It NEVER happens! There is only a "form of godliness" masquerading as the real thing.
David Wilkerson believed in Penal Substitution and Original Sin and those foundational doctrines corrupted his entire framework. By promoting David Wilkerson you are promoting a corrupted framework which is established upon a corrupted foundation.