Both - Bro Nathanael Howell 8-16-2026

Thankful for the service we've had thus far, the wonderful

presence of God.

Amen.

It's always wonderful Amen to be here in church with

you all, and men always special Amen, always something Amen,

to be enjoyed Amen, and treasured. I'm most grateful for

this opportunity.

Amen. Thank you all for your giving. Amen. I sure

miss my pastor this morning. Amen.

Sister how we missed them so much. I mean we

miss our Moses Amen this morning. And the Bible does

say to give honor where it's due. And Amen, I

for one, and I know you always well are extremely

grateful for their labors of love and this region.

Amen. And no doubt his reward will be great. Amen. Amen.

Their reward is gonna be great. And I'm thankful for

that Amen, because I could never repay them.

Amen. Only God could amen sound thankful. Amen. God's gonna

handle that. Amen. All I gotta do Amen is show

them my gratitude. Amen. Here Amen, while they're here. Amen.

Brother Jesse, Amen, would you mind to help me this morning?

Brother Samuel, could you read a co text as well

this morning?

But love it.

We're gonna be going to mark chapter number two. Amen,

Mark chapter number two. It's gonna be a familiar portion

of scripture. Amen, that the Lord laid on my heart. Amen,

Brother Samuel. If you would find James chapter number two

and verse number eighteen, Amen, Brother Jesse. Would you find

first Corinthians, chapter number thirteen and verse number one, Amen,

Brother sam that'd be James chapter number two and versus

number eighteen, Brother Jesse. One Corinthians thirteen and verse number one,

Brother Samuel, would you go ahead and read James chapter

two in verse eighteen.

Yeay, A man may say theou hast faith, and I

have works. Show me thy faith without thy works, and

I will show THEE my faith by my works.

Yes, Lord, Amen, Brother Jesse. One Corinthians thirteen and verse

number one.

Though I speak with the tongues of men and of

angels and have not charity, I am become as sounding

brass or a tinkling.

Symbol of teenth and symbol, Amen, Praise God. Brother Caleb

talked a little bit this morning, and I heard him

when he said Amen. He said he told him, Amen,

you can't have one without the other.

You can't have one without the other.

And you'll kind of see Amen, how the Lord Amen

was speaking to us even through that Amen. As we

get into this sermonymen, if you would stand for the

reading of God's Word this morning, mark chapter number two.

We're gonna begin reading at verse number five. When Jesus

saw their faith, he said, under the sick of the

palsy son, thy sins be forgiven thee. But there were

certain of the scribes sitting there and reasoning in their hearts.

Why doth this man thus speak blasphemes?

Who can forgive sins? But God only?

And immediately, when Jesus perceived in his spirit that they

so reasoned within themselves, he said, unto them, why reason

ye these things in your hearts? Whether it is easy

to say, to the sick of the palsy, thy sins

be forgiven thee, or to say, arise and take up

thy bed and walk, But that ye may know that

the Son of Man hath power on earth to forgive sins.

He saith to the sick of the palsy.

I say, unto thee, a rise and take up thy bed,

and go thy way into thy house. I mean, if

you would stretch your hands toward Heaven, ask God to

help us this morning. Lord, We thank you for your mercy,

your grace, your many blessings. Lord, thank you for all

that you've done in this service already the spirit of

God that we have failed the Lord. We are so

grateful for the anointing and the liberty.

God.

We're so thankful God that you have a plan and

you orchestrated. It's not man's design, God, but your will.

And we submit to your will and ask you. Let

it God come to pass here in this service, even

as it would in heaven. Bless this thy people, God

said a guard about my mouth. Let me say nothing

more and nothing less than you would have me. Let

us depart this place joyfully and not sorrowfully. In Jesus'

holy name. We ask and pray and thank you Lord,

praise God. And the church said, Amen, Amen, look at

your neighbor this morning in honor of our pastor, because

we miss him so much. Amen, and tell them I'm important.

I want you now to look back at your neighbor

and incredulously tell them I am too.

Amen. You see both of us matter.

Amen. You matter, Amen as much as I do. I've

never claim to be amen better than you or Amen.

I've never claimed to be more important than you. And

we have some friends here in our text and it's

a very familiar passage of scripture that saw the need

of their friend.

Amen.

Our text is found in the second Book of the

New Testament and bears the name of its author.

Amen.

By the second chapter, Mark is already detailing to us

the miracles that were being performed by the Messiah.

Amen.

There are other authors that it seems like it takes

them a little bit longer to get into what Jesus

began to do, Amen, and what he was doing throughout

the land. We have some of them give us a

long backstory, and I'm so thankful for it.

Amen.

There's nothing I love more than Christmas Day sitting down

and reading Luke's account of what happened before.

Amen.

Jesus got to this point in his ministry. But Mark

kind of jumped straight in here.

Amen.

And we find this familiar story Amen, in the already

in the second Amen chapter of the second book.

Amen.

And I find a familiar story to each and every

one of us that are a Bible reader or was

raised on the pew.

We're familiar with this story. Amen. There's a man sick

of palsy. Amen. He's laying there in his current state.

His friends can't help him, no doubt, And we see

here their tenacity and determination. If they had thought there

was a way before this to help him, they would

have done so.

Amen.

But here there offered a ray of hope, and they

seize that ray of hope when they grab this man

that can't do for himself, and his friends carry him

to Jesus. Amen, because they see his outward need, and

upon arrival em in. Despite probably what I would have done,

Jesus does something a little different. And that's why it's

so important that we as believers be spirit led and

spirit field.

Amen.

Because Jesus here has a man set down in front

of him. His friends have went the great links to

see him healed physically. And what Jesus addresses is not

his physical ailments, but his spiritual ailments. And in verse

number five, the Bible said, when Jesus saw their faith,

he said, unto the sick of the Palsy's son, thy

sins be forgiven thee Amen, he sees his physical condition.

Yes, I believe you couldn't miss it.

I believe it was evident for everyone in the building

that this man was a paraplegic.

Amen.

This man couldn't do for himself like others could. I mean,

I probably believe Amen that Amen, anyone in the building

in the front row with a saw this man had said,

we're gonna get to see a show this morning. The amen,

because they've dropped him here in front of Jesus, and

we know his power to heal the physical body, and

Jesus Jesus physical aimen condition but instead addresses his spiritual state.

He sees his physical condition, but rather addresses his am

in spiritual state. And verse Samuel sixteen and seven, the

latter part of that verse said said for the Lord

seeth not as a man seeth. For a man looketh

on the outward appearance, but the Lord looketh on the heart.

And Jesus gets a man set down in front of him.

That if I was in that crowd this morning, I

would have said, his most important need is that he

receive a healing in his physical body.

Amen. I guarantee you many in that place.

I mean, when Jesus said, thy sends me forgiving, THEE said,

that's not really why this man is here. Even that's

not really what was important or what this was done for.

Imagine you were this man's four friends.

You just tore the roof off a house and drug

a man up a building that could not help you.

He was nothing but dead wade, and you.

Drop him down in front of Jesus, and instead of

Jesus addressing Amen, here's a withered state am in his

state of theymen, not completeness, his state of lack of

Jesus looks at him and says, son, Thy sends me

forgiving thee aymen, and let me tell you for rind.

Even then ported too being led up the spirit is

often amen judging the exterior and miss the spiritual.

Often we can look at the.

Persona they've been sitting on the church forew and say

they've got what they need. Why because they've gone on there.

They've been holiness attire, they've been friend. You can be

as lost as the devil, and a look as holy

as Peter, James and John and Jesus and the spirit

women will lead your pastor to address the spiritual nature

and the spiritual things, for there are things that are

not but spiritual leaders earned meaning, Brother Nathaniel can come

on a Sunday morning and look at you and say

they're fine, They've got it down. They look holiness, they

represent Jesus well, aymen, and I can know the look,

but the spiritual conditioner and the spiritual stay women. Then

you're women praise God.

Being where you are the essence of who you are

as a Christian.

I mean I may miss who you are on the

inside because I judged you by the exterior. But you

drop you hide in front of the preacher of Jesus,

and he will address your spiritual condition and begin to

talk to you about what's been going on through out

the leak, even nothing nobody else knows about what God

is sin good purple leads a committee. I can't tell you,

but Jesus saw it in there. I mean I couldn't

have looked at him or told you that man's been thieving.

Oh that man ain't man praised God stole the neighbor's horse.

He probably did, and but nevertheless there was something in

his heart what Jesus saw, and he began to address it.

If he was here this morning and walked in, e men,

no doubt I would have said, Lord, we're gonna need

a healing this morning. I would have catered to that

which was visible visual, I mean invisible and apparent. But

the Bible said them that are led by the spirit.

They are the sons of God, the true men of God.

Amen. Praise God.

Can look beyond the exterior, Amen and see the internal issues.

We have a pastor that is spirit led, and none

can question that fact.

Amen.

And there's been times he embarked and endeavored to salvage

a soul. Amen, that I completely missed the need in

that life. Amen, in praise God, and I will be

the first to admit.

Amen.

I Amen, Amen, endeavor and strive Amen to be such

a man.

Amen.

But if we're not a man living like we need to,

your exterior Amen, should not be looked on. You should

not come in here expecting us to church you.

Amen, like you just walked out of the upper room. Amen.

If you've got heart.

Is shoes, you should not spect us Amen to treat

you like a great a blue ribbon. Amen, child of God,

For we are commanded. If you live in contrary to

the word of God, we cannot bid you God's speed.

We cannot put a stamp of approval on you or

your efforts.

Amen. I don't care what your exterior looks like.

Even there ain't a person here an that I personally

wouldn't slide before Heaven's judgment, bar amen, and put their

standard on display and say, Lord, I feel like they

measure up.

But friend, that don't amount of hilapines.

If you ain't got, if you ain't got regeneration and

salvation on the interior, you can look as good aymen,

praise God as your neighbor, aymen. But if you haven't

got the same salvation, they men, do not expect the

minister from the preacher to over looka the degradation.

They men, clothed in holy women were rather filthy rags. Wymen.

Let me tell you there were some Parisees and scribes.

They men.

They had it down, Brother Samuel. They knew how to looca.

They knew how to talk, they knew how to walk,

they knew.

How to tithe.

They knew how to give offering, even on the Minta

and the coomen, those little things.

They men.

They were a Christian, They were a Jew. They iSER,

They were a Jew of the Jews, they men. But

then Jesus looked at them when he saw their current state,

they in that spiritual condition, and he said, you are

nothing more than a pretty separacher. You've tried to cover

it off with some white Russia. You've tried to clothe

it and make it look good. What the truth is

inside of you?

There is a hey, hey inside of you.

There are dead men's bones, the dead man yet, le Us,

you haven't.

Cleaned it out. He's still inside of there.

Jesus didn't pet them or say your standard looks good,

and your offering's good, and your talk's good. He said, friend,

I see you, and I see the inner man, and

I know a state, and it's racking. Many would have

assumed this big this, the biggest need here was this

man's paralytic state. They are backsliders that come home and

they get in trouble because they want the preacher to

help them get their feet back under them. They come

home and they say, I'm here to do better, especially

when they get their start a lot of times in

worldly sanctuaries who oblige them, and they put on their

garbe and say, all I need is to get my

feet back under me.

I know how to live, I know how to walk,

I know how to talk.

This man's biggest need was not the fact that he

needed to get his feet under him and begin to

stand on his own again. His biggest need was internal

them in sole regeneration, renewing, reviving, restorative power, founding.

The blood of Jesus.

There is something, amen, that you can come in contact

liver that will clean up the interior and the exterior.

Women, praise God.

There's something that you can touch that does away with

interior struggles. Aymen, praise God and the exterior struggles. Amen.

But there's a lot of them. They came home and

never got regenerated. They just put on their own costume

and said, let me get my feet under me. Oh,

heal me on the exterior. Heal me on the exterior.

They will let me blend in with the congregation, and

there was never a hard regeneration. Yes, you can be

in the congregation a man who look as holy that's

your neighbor, and be a man of vile surfing her

on the inside, be a riving us love and man,

be somebody that is never fout the good of God.

Clense them from and to learn passions and prides. Heyman,

you could still walk a garden to the flesher while

looking like her. Heyman, you areh somebody hamn run of Judas.

He looked as good as James. He looked as good

as John. He looked as good as Peter, but there

was never harder regeneration. I don't care if you claim

to be an apostle, if you claim to be a preacher,

if you claim to be a saint, you could still

be a judass.

I got a ways to go this morning. Come on

trying to hurry here.

Jesus sees there are two needs of which he is

capable to work in both of them. And I came

to preach for just as long as the Lord will

help me.

A mess.

It's simply titled. Both know your ears didn't blink, and

you miss part of it.

That's all there is to it.

I was down praying Wednesday and found myself praying, Lord,

I need your anointing, and God, I need liberty and God,

we need your power, and God, we need your direction,

and Lord, we need you to bind the hindrances. And Lord,

You're anointing will break the yoke. But I don't need

the hindrances bound more than I need the yolks broken. God,

I need both of them, and you're capable of going

to do both of them. And this paralytic man gets

dropped down in front of Jesus, and Jesus isn't only

able to make him look like everybody else, He's also

able to.

Make him for the kingdom of Heaven.

Aymen, in this morning, they man, there is not one

that matters more than the other. Hey man, If you

get regenerated and you don't eventually line.

Your lifestyle up with the word of God.

A hey man, let me tell you them in your

lifestyle will cause you to go to hell. And there

isn't a person in here that could live and look

holiness enough without an internal generation that would they men

make them worthy to go to heaven. What you need

is good old fashion They in no way around it.

Don't dig under the walls or climb more ruder or

go around there. You just need a good old fashioner reprientencer.

Where you find.

Both of them, where God does the worker, and he

moves in your life and you get run.

That's well, lie the other.

Both means one as well as the other, one.

As well as the other.

Brother Philip, I can't live good enough to deserve heaven,

and I can't go to heaven without regeneration.

The Bible said, there he is a man a second birth.

Every lasser one of us must experience a bar nothing. Aymen,

our holiness, dress styles and appearances one theymen exclude us

from meeting that requirement. But the Bible said holiness, without

which no man shall see the Lord.

Amen.

So without your holiness, you can't go to heaven and

have salvation.

You can't go to heaven.

It's gonna take both of them to see you through

the pearly gates.

You can't pick one and neglect the other.

Amen. You can't cleave the run and hold to the other. Ruh,

you better have a grip on the ball of them.

That's ted ass the other one. Rue, that's well, that's

the other.

Our humanity leads us to uh, leads us so often

down a path where we major on the visible and

quit considering the fact. There is more to be considered. Amen,

more to be done, Amen, More Amen that we must do.

Amen.

You tell me it isn't true that when you look

at yourself, you want to look at where you do best.

You want to look where you're gifted. You want to.

If you're good at carpentry. You don't focus on the fact. Amen,

Praise God, you can't lay tile. You focus on the

fact you can rough frame a closet in an hour

and a half. If you're good at backing an eighteen

wheeler out, you don't focus on the fact that you

can't do electricity. You focus on the fact I'm the

best semi driver. Amen, this company's ever seen, and they'll

never find a finer one.

Amen.

But friend, Amen, in our walk with God, we cannot

major on one.

And neglect the other.

We are to be equally balanced, even we are to

be somebody that walks from the spirit and does not

fulfill for rest of the fresh There are many Christians

in many churches on this Sunday morning, they men brace

God that their lifestyle would never tell the world. Theymen

that they're a Christian, and there are others they mean

that they're lifestyle cows the world. They're a Christiana, and

they ain't no or saved than the person at the

Presbyterian Church because they never experienced even that second birth

and that region a racing. I don't care if you

are raised in holiness or race in the world. I

don't care what your heritage he is. It doesn't matter

to God. What matters he is a what's going on

on the inside and the current state of the outside,

for He cares about both and has given us director

and scriptures concerning both of them. And if you eye

offend thee, theom inprendice just that you've got a problem

with the eye. And if you hand offend thee, he

can have a shirt touching its wristbone.

Amen.

But if it offends you that inside him and praise God. Problem,

it's gonna have to be a dreath. Because the Bible

said from inside proceededth out these things. Aymen have brought

you reason inthornications. You can look as holiness, Amen, please

God as anyone, and still there'll be thanks proceeding from

the inside because the interior man was never there or addressed. Yes,

I'm preaching. I'm preaching to us this morning. That didn't matters,

But we be both. Some want to be taking it

face value.

Bear with me for a moment.

Some want to be taking it face value, and their

spiritual side never be addressed. You See, they'll show up

at a church and say, I've been church hurt, so

you gotta be careful how you preach to me. I've

been offended, so you gotta be careful how you talk

to me.

My God, it don't matter. Amen. If you've got shin

in your life, the preacher has to address it.

Hey, hey, hey, amen, it don't matter the wounds, Amen,

you may bear in your spiritual back. Jesus Christ became

Lord and Christ. He became both of them.

After that.

His back was a ribbna and his beard a rifter,

and amen, crown of thorns. They'men raked across his scora.

He became both of them. Amen, I'm this man good

of sented. Look how bad I look on the outside,

How bad I've been treated. Everything I've been through, even

the Cord's life has dealt me.

Look how bad they are, our preacher, just look at me,

Just look at me.

Don't ever talk about my sin, talk about our peniful

for on me has been treated.

My daughter with bear sitting.

On the inside, you better been holding up, may man

not the preacher will be spiritually led this. Don't turn sideways.

Let's say they're sitting there. Amen, it don't matter what's

going on. It's still seeing, it's still sing, and it's

still saying, hey hey, who second Peter one in ten said,

wherefore the rather brethren give diligence to make your calling

and election sure, for if you do these things, you

shall never fall. Calling and election two parts. There is

the calling more important than the election? Is the election

more important than the calling? Both of them matter to God.

Calling means invitation. God is not willing that any should perish.

He gives offen in a invitation. The calling is imported through.

Without the calling, we would not be able to make

Heaven our home. But election means your selection. He man,

what have you picked this morning?

The calling is there, and some.

Worry and bold in the factor that they've been caller

but never raker in the paths of righteousness, and some

raucer seemingly in the paths of righteousness, of having never

accepted their invitation to all down at Calvary and repent

of their sins. What is more imported the invitation or

the selection? Waitmen, there are two parts. What have you

chosen this morning? Are they both evident in your life?

Are they both president? Or are you missing wada or

the other? You must accept the invitation and continue to

walk according to your selection. Come out from among them,

be separate, saith the Lord. So he gave you an invitation,

But it's your selection to say I'm coming out I'm

coming out.

Lord, Hey, you hear the this morning.

You can act like oh I've been saying when I

was shoot that doctor will get you and you won't

even realize this. Nasty talents are in there. You can

glory in the invitation. They may have never made the

selection because the selection comes with requirements such as come

out from amndim and be ye separate eman, the pastor,

don't separate you, the youth pastor, Dollar, the Sunday school teacher, Dorara,

be ye separate, say up the line.

That's not the unclean thing. Are you here this morning?

You're glorying in the invitation, but never measured opa to

the requirements, not the selection.

You can profess and your heart be here.

Far from him, they say with their mouth they but

their selection says they are far far from me. Both matter.

If he's in two and nine said, not of works,

lest any man should boast. Your works will never get

you to heaven. Your works will never make you deserving

of forgiveness from your transgressions. But we're gonna get somewhere.

Because they love to talk about that. It's not of works.

You're right, hey, it's right there. But let me tell

you the other side of this that is of equal

and part its. James and eighteen said, yeah, a man

say voul hast faced and I have works Brother Philip,

You've got selection, and I've got righteousness. You've got once saved,

always saved, and I've got holy attire. He ain't gonna

get to heaven the more than I am, and I

ain't gonna get to Heaven the quicker than him, because

they both matter to God. You cannot have, as brother

Caleb said, confirming this message, you cannot have one without

possessing the other. And in one man's car saying you

have virture and I have faith. Let us see which

is most effective. I have my salvation even with no outreach.

I have my relationship with no commission and compassion. How

is that effective faith? How is that effect of faith?

When you come on a Sunday morning and you've yet

to tell the lost dieing rad that God loves to him.

There's a host of holiness people. They ain't have no

how to reach, but they possess they've been praised God

supposedly for their faith without a workshire. They possess their

holy attire and claim to have the save relationship with God.

They ben who told us? Are they been?

We are the cher to the loss? They been friends.

You've got a hall of both of them. You've got

to be both off them. Oh God, helpless this morning?

Where are the others who have works with no genuine faith?

Those who get consumed with I feed the homeless, We

do hot dog giveaways on First Street, but they the Jesus.

They present the world in no way aligns with the

Word of God. So who's going to heaven here? I

know judge, not that you be not judge? They men

have follow it up, for with the same amen measure

that you meet, It's gonna be given that bar you set,

brother Jesse, even praise God, it's gonna be measured to

us again. But when the word of God's already measuring it.

I haven't judged a man, and I haven't extended the bar.

I've only simply said God's bar is here, and you're

not jumping high in a Maybe. I'm not judging you,

nor am I condemning you. But when you don't meet

God's standards, I've yet to judge you.

God's word has judged you. I've yet to condemn you.

Be ever resting under fire and unaddoterorated word of God.

Has condemned you. You own your rail to a devil's

hell if you don't have bars of damn.

I don't have to judge brother Samuel when God's word

has and I haven't judged him when I repeat the

words that have. Brother Jessy could find himself in jail tomorrow,

and I could go to the prison bars and recite

the verdict of the judge.

I have no more.

Condemned him to life in prison than anything but the

judge that did. He'll say what that man SAIDs true.

I said, you'll never get out of these prison bars.

They've been friend the world of God. He is the judge.

It is what we measure up to you, and it's

what your neighbor measures up to you. And you're not

a fall when you say they aren't meeting who the

standards of God. For a righteous man, a wise man,

and a good man judges all things. Woo. There are

many that failed to address the spiritual. The spiritual sins.

You see the parable almost of the paralytic. One major's

on what they do on his exterior, while another measures

themselves by their supposed spiritual condition. But both of them matter,

and they are both necessary. You don't a man and

can't pick one. You see, the Bible went on the saying, James,

I will show thee my faith by my works. What

he says here he is, I'm going to demonstrate to

you my faith, and it's gonna be coupled with works.

And you're gonna.

See that I have faith because I have love for

the brethren. You're gonna see I have faith because and

that I'd done it under the least of these, my brethren.

I've done it under him.

And my works we'll testify of me, even as Jesus said, Amen,

the works are telling the story of theymen, my Father's

testifying of me. They men, my works are testifying that

the Father. And then you can get them in some

church members you can't. They men praise God, get him.

Theymen praise God. To read a flower bed, Amen, praise God.

To put a coat of paint on a building. They

in the more thing you can get your two year

old to let you cram a pair of ice law

vice scripts are channel option in their mouth and yank

out of tooth. Amen, praise God. And then there are

others for Johnny on the spot.

Women.

But let me tell you, you can't have one without

the other. And the one that has no works, it's

just as guilty as the one full of works.

If neither, if either the.

Men party is lacking an elemental or of the ingredients.

They man, there can be a cake that rises and

looks beautiful and tastes like a cinder blocker, and then

you can let lose an ingredient and it'll never never rise,

and men praise God and it'll just be a power

of nasty, sloppy and man suripy sweeter nothing ness. But

you tell me what's better the cinder block that looks

like it should be a cake? They man, pray's got

that cake that tastes like a cinder block that'smissing something

or that power and nothing. There's some church members they

look like the cake. This is what I'm saying. They

represent Christ well women, but they're still missing an ingredient. Ephraim,

you're a happy makes cake. You're missing something, there's an element.

And then there are others with no works, no representation

of Christ, no love for the brethren, her he even

praise God. But they claim equally that they are saved

as the other Amen. But I will show thee my

faith by my work, and that I love the work

for God, and that I love my brother in and

that I love Church, and that I love my Lord,

that I love the worship, that I love to praise

my God. And it will be evident Him that was

forgiven Macha for all He's gonna love and much. Why

don't you love where you're never forgiven? Hemen, Why don't

you love where you're never forgiven? Where you never grims

and washed her and set free. I got a hurry

this morning. I gotta share this, and I'm wanna be quick.

I'm preaching to myself here because I've got a family.

Pastor laid a beautiful foundation and pattern for the Howl

children as someone who juggled ministry and family. The Bible said,

what does it profit a man if he gained the

whole world and lose his own soul? I know some

of the finest missionaries a man praise God, and I

could call one by name, But seemingly he saved a

whole region, but his children are as lost as the

devil is. There are many ministers who have lost their

children while preaching to the Lost Sheep. And one of

the things I admired about my father and always will

and always pray to pattern my life and ministry after

is he would take the time to spend the moment

with me, Amen, even as much as he did am

in the Lost Sheep of Israel.

Amen. But here's the problem.

Some say, I, I've gotta save my family, and there's

no outreach. So I cannot condemn one without condemning the other.

For they are both important. You see, the Bible said clearly.

To all go ye into all the world.

And preach the gospel, going to the highwaising hedges, and

compel them to come in. So which one is more important?

Which one it matters most?

Friend?

I got to tell you they're both importing. For rob

what profit was it if we were to save the

whole nation of Guatemara and never a man experience am

in our child falling out and all through every penance.

I mean, there was a ministry that we cannot discredit,

and it was the ministry of Noah. You see, Noah

re lives both or up the utmost important, and he

preached for one hundred years in the highways and the hedges,

and he compelled for one hundred of something years in

the highways and hedges. But then when the boat was

a flood, the Bible said, he's saved his household. Friend.

What matters most.

They're both in poortand you better be reaching the lost,

and you better be shaving your family. You better be

reaching the despicable, a man in the disgusting, while maintaining

focus on your friends and family.

Women, Praise God, there he is. Women. I don't know

what this hey, I don't know how to get it

across to you. I mean all I all I can

do is tell you they both matter.

I ain't got the words to tell you, but they're

scriptures that britain them both. And if their scriptures appertain

to both, they both matter as much as the other.

For they are equally settling heaven, they are equally everlasting.

We will equally be judged by both of them. They meant.

So I encourage every young minister moving for never lose sight.

Let both matter. Your kids matter and the drunkard matter.

And you must divide your time severally as the spirit leads.

You must be let out the spirit.

I know that took an unexpected turn, but the Lord

gave me that in prayer, and I had to share it.

Noah warned the world and won his family. What a

successful ministry, What a successful ministry.

Shoe headed.

There are many things that we can do that are

not good enough if missing key ingredients. Have you ever

felt your praise was bland? It wasn't quite what someone

else's was. And a pattern for you in life and

in service is the cain and able worship service.

I know we're slowing down a little bit. Let me

talk to you just for a minute.

Is it because of God's partiality, because that's one of

the major focal points of his personality. No, partiality ain't

in there. I believe in calls and effect, especially in

the spiritual realm. There are no happen chances or coincidences,

but rather there are results directly correlated with God's approval

or disapproval of one's actions or offerings. And so we

read here, and then we read here in verse Corinthians,

chapter number thirteen, a cotext the Bible said, though I

speak with the tongues of men and of angels, and

have not charity, I become as a sounding brass or

a tinkling symbol. Though I have the gift of prophecy

and understand all mysteries and all knowledge, and though I

have all faith so that I could remove mountains and

have not charity, I am nothing. And though I bestow

all my goods to feed the poor, and though I

give my body to be burned and have not charity,

it profiteth me nothing. Now I ask you, in honesty,

can you condemn any one of these actions in themselves.

I cannot condemn speaking with tongues. I cannot condemn prophesying,

I cannot condemn giving of your goods to feed the poor.

And I cannot condemn martyrs who sacrifice it all. But

without two elements, it is no good. It benefits you

none at all. You must have both of them. And

this is one of the things I mean, I think

of it. Maybe you don't want to think about it.

If I'm ever at the chopping block, me and my family,

and that man executes my daughter in front of me,

the moment I lose my love and I lose my head. Next,

where am I headed? Where are you headed? Let me

ask you on your level. You go out there and

hold a church sign without love for those souls passing by,

of what benefit we go to the nursing home and

we don't love those elderly folks.

Of what benefit is it to us?

I could spend my life in the nursing home preaching

the Kingdom of Heaven and Jesus Christ him crucified, buried

and resurrected and never amen, get to Heaven and God

say welcome to the pearly gates. This is important. It's

all important. Everything in the world of God is important.

You can go out there to check a box so

others see you, and you do it before men.

Mean a little bit here. You don't benefit off a bet.

When you walked out there to check a box and

you did it without the love of God.

Hi.

You nothing my sounding brass and a tinkling symbol a

brand instrument. But you couple that brass and that tinkling instrumental,

you couple that drama with a band, put it with

a piano and a bass guitar, and it makes something beautiful.

You couple that ministry with a prayer life and a

bird in a and a liar. It will be something

beautiful and most effective. But it ain't a getting you

into heaven, a none at all, And it ain't fool.

I'm the preacher or the pastor when you check that

box with no burden and no love for the lost,

you're just out there so you don't women feel condemned.

Shoot, Am I a win?

Then voice, I'm gonna close here. Brother Jesse, come to

the pan if you don't mind. Brother, Pure religion and

undefiled before God and the Father James one twenty seven.

Pure religion and undefiled before God and the Father?

Is this.

To visit the fatherless and widows in their affliction and

to keep himself unspotted from the world. What is more important,

brother Philip, to visit the widow and the fatherless? Or

is it more important to keep yourself unspotted from the world?

Can you do one without the other? First?

John four and seven four seven and eight, Beloved, let

us love one another, for love is of God. And

anyone that loveth is born of God and knoweth God.

He that loveth not know if not.

God, for God is love. You have work without love.

You visit the fatherless and the widow without love, Brother Buford,

It don't do us no good, but we go in there.

See mister John Man, I love to see that guy.

You see though your souls passing by that street, Coiner,

some of you walk that bowl is superhanded to that

person that's destitute and broken, and that heart of compassion

reaches out and gives them a good old hug. That's

pure religion, and it's undefiled. But you can have pure

religion and it be defiled, and you can be defiled.

You can be undefiled and have defiled religion. You can

have a defiled exterior and a polluted interior, and you

can have a clean interior seemingly and a polluted exterior.

But I cannot say one is more important than the other.

And they all love to come through here, those.

They been.

It's a hard isshoe well, bless God, obviously, But you're

telling me one's more important than the other.

No, they're both important.

It's important you're unspotted from the world this morning, and

it's important you have a heart for those destituting broken souls.

Don't check a box without charity, don't check a box

without charity. Don't God God a costume without charity. Headed

There are two things that make up what is required.

One without the other is one short, and two without one.

Is just one and it takes both of them.

Brother Philip, we started this by saying I'm important, and

somebody looked at you and said I am too.

We all are and equally in your life.

There is a spiritual man and a physical man, and

they are of both equal importance to God. Don't expect

to drop your broken self in the altar with no

desire for repentance, and expect the preacher to try to

heal before he addresses spiritual issues. You will not be

healed until after that your sins have been forgiven.

Your feet will not be put back under you.

Until you have been spiritually regenerated and the old man

is washed away.

You can come here for the next twenty years.

Your God in your costume without regeneration, and you'll never

be trusted or appointed even or assigned the due ease

of God. When the Lord looks on the heart and say,

as they're still broken, this and despair and despicable this

and sin. There there's a term called half cocked them

old revolvers. Brother, would you know them all revolvers that

go off at half cock? They weren't supposed to go off.

There's preachers that get in the poop at half cocked.

What's more important having the message or having the prayer

put into it so God blesses it. Brother Caleb, man

I shoo, I got so convicted and stirred and pushed forward,

and a man just just fired up and blessed all

at the same time. What was more important Paul sitting

in a damp prison cell and pinning the words, or

was it more important that the Holy ghost moved on him?

Because there was two things happening. Holy men moved on

by the Holy ghost bended. They both mattered. Your holiness matters.

Don't act.

Don't expect me to act like God's moving.

On you when you're not holy inside.

Don't expect me to act like you've been annoyed the

minister when there's no regeneration in your heart. Shoot and

Annis and man you read on down there thirteen one

instance thirteen. We just had heard a wonderful message. Abideth,

these abide Annaeus came to God. What mattered the part

they gave for the part they didn't. What seemed to

take precedence was the part they held back. And it

matters that you gave some, but it matters also that

you give all. It matters that you look good, But

it matters that your heart measures up. And it matters

that your heart measures up and your exterior measures up.

I feel repetitive, repetitive, but I could sick and tired

of It's a heart issue, yeah, but it's also an

exterior issue. Hebrews twelve and fourteen said, so two parts

follow peace with all men. That's good, charismatic preacher, it's good,

but you endeavor to follow peace with all men.

But there are two things that are impointing, equally and holiness.

Hey list them this morning, for I get carried away.

I've been here long enough for you to get my point.

What matters this morning? Does your works matter? Yeah, they do,

but not more than your interior. Does your inferior matter?

Yeah it does, But you better be showing your faith.

Are your works? You better be coupling it with something.

Pastor has told us that we must be a balanced Christian.

Jesus addressed both issues.

He began with the spiritual and addressed later the physical.

Both are up for consideration. Let me say that again,

and I will open the altars. Both are up for consideration.

The preacher and the man of God is equally entitled

to address Brother Samuel's spiritual state as he his is physical.

In equal proportion.

If you would expect pastor a man to address somebody

to come in here looking like the world a man

in the First Church of jessebel that tried to sing

and their exterior testified they weren't holy to the same measure,

that person that walks according to the lust of the

flesh should expect in no less regard, with no less

strict or passion and zeal to be addressed and say

you've got heart issues, Nicodemus, you.

Must be born again.

Hey man, if you would close your eyes this morning,

value heads. I know the Lord gave me this message,

and I hope to God it made a man sense

the way God would want it to. Pastors talk to

us about those bodies of Christ.

That are as if they are.

If somebody that exercises the right side of their body

and the left side remains weak, it becomes a freak

of nature and a strange thing, a bulging right bicep

and a whippy, loose hanging left bicep. Could you imagine, friend,

your spiritual man is no less amen like this amen.

It is the epitome of what you are, if you

have a garb with no grace and no repentance, or

if you profess grace, grace, grace, but there is no

evident work of grace. So I opened these altars this

morning to each and every one of us.

Amen.

And as Paul said, I strive, I endeavor one of

you this morning. Do you endeavor in the spiritual as

much as you do the physical? Do you endeavor in

the physical as much as you do the spiritual?

And could we come and pray this morning?

God looks at you and knows you are not hiding

who you are. God hasn't looked at your exterior, but

he has sent message after message telling you that there

is work yet needed in the interior. Man, prayer must

be made without ceasing. These kind go not forth but

by prayer and fasting. Of what benefit is prayer when

there is no fasting? And what benefit is fasting when

there is no prayer? God's word dictates the pooling partner

for the need. So this morning we relinquish our will

to him and say God, I say both matter, and

I got to major in both of them.

Amen. As they begin to sing praise God,