Gehazi The Galoot - Bro Nathanael Howell 7-12-2026

God, you think for the wonderful service we've had thus far,

I sure am.

I thank God for the presence of the Lord. Amen.

I thank God for always been doing it, Beth thew Amen.

The season of revival that seems to be perpetually perpetual

of late Amen. How God has been working and moving

and helping us, I mean, all the wonderful things we

have seen Him do.

Amen. We missed our pastor terribly. Amen.

We pray that God Amen would go with him Amen,

and God would meet with Sister Neely have been such

a precious saying of God.

Amen. She always Amen. She has to be precious to me.

She always brought me reces and recie pieces Amen.

So how could I not love her? Amen.

Y'all know my love for reces Amen. And she definitely

stoked to that fire.

Amen.

So Amen, I love Sister Neely. A been more than

I can of putting the words this morning.

Amen. We all feel the burden and the strain, no doubt. Amen.

I've been through a few trials here in my time

at Bethel, some bigger than others.

Amen.

But there's one thing I know of of the Bethel

hole in his church family.

When you go through something. They get in there and

go through it with you. Amen.

I've never seen a church amen, that dances with those

that dance the way Bethel does.

Nor have I seen a church.

That weeps with those that weep and then the way

Bethel does. And men truly Emen, God has knit us together,

and I'm so thankful for that.

Amen. So great to see all of you out this morning. Amen.

Familiar faces Emen.

Some of you may not know where, Amen, but that's

Aunt Sandy back there.

Amen. So good to see them. Amen. We love them. Amen.

The Howl family loves them. Amen. So good to see

them this morning.

Second Kings, this morning, if you would, I'm gonna try

to get this off of my amen heart the way

the Lord and Man would have.

Me deliver it.

And I'll be honest with you, Amen, I do need

help from Heaven today. He been my kidness Stone decided

to start moving about eight o'clock this morning, so I

think it's just the devil.

Amen.

So we're gonna, amen, try our best with the Lord's

help to still deliver our burden.

Amen.

When I do ask you, amen, please, a man, would

you pray for me? A man as we attempt to

do what God has asked of us.

Amen.

Second King's chapter number five. Let's look at verse number nineteen,

and men, when you have it, Amen, praise God. Second

King's chapter number five and verse number nineteen, very familiar

reading this morning. And he said, unto him, go in peace.

And so he departed from him a little way. But Gahzi,

the servant of Elisha, the man of God, said, behold,

my master hath spared name, and this is in not

receiving at his.

Hands that which has brought.

But as the Lord liveth I will run after him

and take somewhat of him.

Sogahesi followed after name.

And and when Naman saw him running after him, he lighted

down from his chariot to meet him and said, is

all well?

And he said all as well.

My master has sent me saying, behold, even now there

be come to me from Mounty form two young men

of the sons of the Prophets.

Give them.

I pray thee a talent of silver and two changes

of garments. Amen, if you would stretch your hands toward heaven, Amen,

ask God to help us this morning. Lord, thank you

for all that you've done for each one that's here. God,

thank you for your word.

God.

Thank you for the presence of God, the spirit of

God that is our liberty.

God.

We thank you for each one that is here to

this morning, and we'll be here tonight.

God. We ask you, Lord, let your will be done.

God, Let your will prosper in this service God, in

this message.

Lord, would you, annoying God, each and.

Every one of our ears to hear the words of

God said to God about my mouth, and let me

say nothing more and nothing less than you would have me.

Speak to your people and help us God in these altars. Lord,

help me say nothing more and nothing less than you

would have me. God, let us depart this place joyfully

and not sorrowfully in Jesus' name. And the church said,

Amen and Amen, I'm thankful for this opportunity.

Amen.

Thank you for your giving. Oh how I love and

adore my pastor. Amen, and appreciate his labor of love.

Amen.

Praise God and all that He has poured into us

of lady as Amen being Amen. Praise God wisdom from

on high.

Amen.

Our text here is founding in a very familiar part

of the Bible.

Amen.

Is growing up and even still today I love getting around.

First Samuel and Second Samuel and First Kings and Second Kings.

I love to get there and started reading about the

account of great men of God.

Amen.

Men of God that impacted Amen, people, Amen, men of

God that impacted tribes, men of God that impacted nations,

and men of God that impacted when you look at

the grand scope of it.

The entire world, the entire human race.

Amen, after them that preceded them, and still being impacted

by such men as we read about.

Amen.

Here in this text, Amen, the Bible talks to us

a little bit about these people, and we're aware of them.

Amen.

And Second Kings is a book that kind of begins

to detail some of that which happened to the nation

of Israel. I mean Elijah. There was a special man.

He was a person that was assistant. If you would

to Elijah, the prophet of fire, a man that man

that would a man call down fire from heaven and Amen,

God would listen and God would answer a man.

It was Elishah.

The Bible said that one that poured water on the

hands of Elijah.

Amen.

He later received the double portion and a blessing that

would befall the first born.

Sona a man.

No doubt Elijah had many spiritual children. We know of

the schools of the prophets, and when Elijah asked him

for a double portion them, he was asking him, treat me, Amen,

like your first born son.

Amen.

Jacob would bless his children, and there would be one

get a double portion.

Amen.

And so it was if you read, Amen, back there

with the four fathers a man, one child would be blessed.

And ASA's heart was Amen to receive. Amen, praise God

this birthright, if you would, amen. And so he would

cry under him Amen. And Elijah said, it's a hard thing. Amen,

I can necessarily grant it to Amen. But if God

so wields it and you see these things happen, Amen,

that will be a sign under you that you have

received the double portion. And sometimes that's how it's best

to do. We've got to leave it in God's hands.

Amen.

Sometimes we've gotta let God decide here. But the truth was,

Elisha walked away with a very a very special blessing

Amen in the mantle of Elijah passed down to Elisha. Now,

as you read Second Kings, the tragedy I find oftentimes

that really gets a hold of me is the fact

that there was nobody to follow the man of God Elisha.

There was nobody to take up his mantua. And in

this generation and this day, it seemed the mantle fell

to the ground because this young man, most likely Gahaziah,

who had the opportunity to receive the blessings of God

and handled it carelessly and he let it fall by

the wayside.

The name Gahzi means a valley of sight. Amen.

There's a lot of people we see him get in trouble,

Brother Jesse, because they get too busy looking at this

and looking at that. And it seems gaheyes ees characteristic

wise to not really stop and realize what he had

in the moment. Now, I know where we've been as

a church family. Amen, and I I hope Amen, the

Lord will speak to all of us. But I'm preaching

them myself and to the saints as much as the

sinners this morning. Amen, For negligenza will cost you boding opportunities.

Amen.

Foolishness will cause you to lose her Amen.

That which God has praying to give you. It will cost.

You your inheritance, It will cost you your blessing. It

will cost you the food Amen on the tree, your

experience bearing places and drive places when you quit, Amen,

realizing just how good you have it and how blessed

you have been. I mean, it happens to the sinner.

It also can happen to the saint. And I don't believe, Amen,

it's a corrective message this morning for the saint as

much as an encouraging message. Remem because Gahayesi, what's gifted

a wonderful chance to experience, even the matter that it

fell from Elijah, he was a gifted that opportunity to

be the next one in lie the predecessor. If you would,

I remember that one that would inherit her Remember the looker, Amen,

from the eyes of the people when they thought of

a man of God. He had already been a stablisher.

Elijah is a man of God. He need already been

a stablished Elisha is a man of God. So what

was Gahayesi going to inherit the labor of love, for dedication,

for blood sweating tears. I remember the persistence of those

men that had went before him.

Remember there are those a.

Trifle I mean, with such an inheritance is there are

those that have been given macha women, but they don't

seem to handle him. That that soul its valuable, and

they let it s through their finger women.

All the while those theomen like Gehazi, they've been to

lose out.

Oh God, now I believe there was no doubt something

in the heart of this young man, Gehzi, something inside

of him. Now you gotta consider the environment to accurately

assess the situation. You see, this young man would have

walked shoulder to shoulder with Elisha.

He wasn't pin pals, he wasn't email pals.

He didn't call him every now and then and talk

to him about a problem.

Amen.

He was a close confidant to the man Elisha.

Amen.

And here amen, God begins, Amen to show us in

the Word of God, the tragic end of someone with

so much potential and such a wonderful opportunity.

Amen.

Him. This is each and every one of us, They

men that have been given an opportunity to come to

the House of God and experience the goodness of God.

We've all been brant here. They meant something special. Oh God, Well,

look at verse number twenty with me. But Gahazi, the

servant of Elisha, the Man of God, said, behold, my

master has spare naming.

And then if you skip down the verse twenty one,

the Bible.

Said, so Gahayesi followed after naming Sogahyzei followed after naming

a remember something that is startling.

Amen. In the latter part of verse number twenty.

The Bible said, he would take something of him.

Amen.

There's a lot of church people that seem to think

it is okay to take something of the world. And

I know you've heard some of this before, and I

know you aman a little bit tired, but Amen, please

bear with me. We try to get where we're going here.

Amember the exterior struggles theymen come to the surface.

Amen. In our text, in a wash of inca.

Amen, the exterior struggles of this man, gahyes E become

most visible.

Amen.

Those on the outside theymen. Because God makes it plain

and clear. And then there's a hearty shoe a man

in the prophet to be God makes it prain and clear.

There's a hearty shoe in the survey of Elisha, in

the church member of Elisha. You see, this man would

have been they mean the Elcis church member.

He would have ate lunch.

With him, he would have ate breakfast with him. He

would have ate supper with him. It would have been

a very close knit bond. The haze I would have

been there with the picture of water. Every time his

hands got dirty, every time he made a sacrifice, every

time he offered up a man an offering to God.

He would have been the hayes Ice standing there. Ain't

observing but your proximity to the Man of God. The

man will not save you. We will not get you

to heaven. We will not cause you. They meant to

have passage through the pearly gates the men, how close

you are, and even your friendship, the men will never

preserve you.

Wo men, when you're harboring.

Passions such as the Hazei, theomen dead. The hayse I

held all to them and his inner passions, and he

protected them. The man he held under them. His conversations

at large would have been weird of Elisha.

He would have the.

Men been getting mentored and molded by this man. This

would have been the man that said, you shouldn't have

done that, or you ship done it this way.

Women.

All the man of God that had his hands all Elisha,

and all the man of God that had his hands

on the HAZEI, but one benefited and another threw it

all away. Wouldn't be came a man of God, and

another word sacrificed to all for selfish whims, a man

of selfish desires. He mean, I find it to be

a warning Amen to the best or in his church.

For we live in a radical time, a time when

and men, the radical seemed to wages war on mortality,

and they seem to attack the norms established in the

word of God. They men praise God. But in the darkness,

the Bible said, the light would shine brighter. It wouldn't

be able to overcome the light. That which is given

to the dark day would be superior to that which

surrounds it. Amen, that which is given the men in

the dark time, that light would not be able.

They man to become prehended.

The men, and I wonder how great the light, and

how great the minister, and how great the man of God.

To Southwest Florida, they men, when God Siennah us a

man of God. We're a passion for the precepts of

God's word.

Amen.

In all the light is shined into my path. Women,

that shown me clearly the way I should walk. In

all the way the light Shona. Theymen to each and

every one of us. They men, But it was our

choice to walk in the path. It is our choicer

to continue their inner behave th chos a different road.

Why Elisha chose they meant a road of holiness and

prospered and became well known and well because he was

sincere and his heart was in it.

I mean, there was a young man standing by Elisha.

There was a young man there. Man. He was there

in body, he was there seemingly in mind.

Oh, but the first opportunity we find here where there

is something to be gained outside the wishes of God

and God's plan to hate woman chooses his own path.

Who says I got her? I've got to get after him.

He's got something I need and I will have something

of him. What does this world have that you would

need to take of them?

What does this world offer her that man?

They would afford you anything great than the blessings of

God we experience. Take my yoke upon you and learn

of me. Gehazi never put the yoka on, and he

never learned.

He never learned.

I mean, we like gaheyzi, and this is gonna maybe

a little slower this morning, we like Gahyze I, can

squander the gift of God. The Bible spoke of a

time when there was no open vision. The Bible spoke

of the adverse effects on the people. When there is

no vision, they would begin to perish. But sadly, there

are those that dwell in the vision. I mean those

dwell and Amen in close proximity. Two am in the

will of God and the plan of God. But they

seemingly never obtain the will of God.

They never really get it.

Brother Jesse said, they never actually get that heart change. Amen,

they never really get altered by the power of God.

You see, you can come sit in the church pew

all you want, Amen.

You can listen to a preacher, preacher all you walt, Amen.

I can tell you this, Amen.

The truth is you could listen to preaching in hell

and it wouldn't save you. And there's a lot of

them listen to it, then the preaching on the church pews,

and thanks that a man is good enough to save them.

But the truth was Gajese I realize one day at

the end of this chapter, theym in my close proximity

through the of God wasn't enough to save me. They've

been min women walk with a man of God wasn't

enough to get me what I needed. And I'm telling

you this morning, man, if you don't get a hold

of the gift of God that is eternal life through

Christ Jesus may man, you can amen, sit here in

the women the hooton manita we man we have around

here they been where Amen. Eighty percent of the church's

shouting and speaking in tongues.

But it won't do you a bit of good. Women.

You could sit here in the prayer meetings, in the

altar calls.

Amen.

Oh gahayze eye wo man, you could squadder golden opportunities

and away he said, Was he not with us?

Did he not walk up and down our eyes? Oh?

Yes he did?

But gahayes eye, he didn't catch you and it didn't

affect you like you needed a two Oh friend, don't

be look haze I they've been.

Let God put his hands or you.

Let him put his hands on you. If you're reading

Luke words him men from our Savior Chieftain number twelve,

it's a cautionary writing. It's a cautionary writing to each

and every one of you. I've been raised on a church.

Few the men are in church for any period of time,

And that served verse forty seven, And that servants we

knew his Lord's will, and prepared not himself. Neither did

a word to his will shall be beaten with many stripes.

But he knew. But he that knew not and did

not commit things worthy of stripes shall be beaten with

few stripes. They men, listen to this, for unto whomsoever

much is given of him, shall be much required. And

to whom men have committed much of him, they will

ask more. I mean, I am come to send fire

on the earth, And what will I if it be

a man already kindled? We've been given a wonderful opportunity. Amen, Bethel. Amen,

often says all of us. Often say, I mean this

is the best church this side of heaven.

Amen. So uh Amen, you may be here.

They been praised God and listening to me, and think

I they've been trying to beat you over the head.

Men know why treasure what I have, Amen, And I

and want to stir myself Amen, to realize to him,

to him that much has been.

Given, much shall be required.

I mean we find here the truth Jesus says Aman

that if you've been given much, he will expect much

from you. The gift is immeasurable, the opportunity is equal.

The requirement demands high dibdems.

But why does the response very? Amen?

If I could ask you one question and man, why

does the response vary? I mean, we see some flourisher

and some do so well while others struggle. The truth

is they were never in it. They were never desirous.

They were never truly an elisha. They were a gahzi

in disguise they been They were actually a wolf in

sheep's clothing.

They man.

If you don't see them prosper. It's not that the

opportunity wasn't equal. If you don't see them go forward

in God. It's not that his hand of grace wasn't sufficient.

If you don't see them excel they meant and walk

forward with God hand in hand into the Promised Land.

It's not that God didn't pay the path or present

the playbooker they remember. It's that they simply chose their

own path. They chose the walker. They in their way.

The Bible said you must walk there, and there is

a specific path you choose they meant, and it must

aligned with the will of God and the plan of God.

And when you've been given so much clarity, they mean

so much a revelation from the man of God.

Hona, you are without excuse.

You are without excus man, you have no excuse. They

men no reason? Why they men know whymn praise God, complain?

Ask you why, oh God? Them in the truth is

you are a gahayes eye wondering the pews. You're a

gahzed eye wondering the men of God's house. Or imagine

with me, how did he walk through the prayer cluset

of Elisha and leave unchanged? How they walk through the

prophecies of Elisha and come out the other side unscathed

and unaltudor and unregenerated, undesirous of the gift of God

because of the passions he harbored and protect Tina.

In his hearror, he would rather.

They men eat the huska woman then find the biscuits

on the porcher. Oh friend, they mean, I tell you, Rda,

I treasure my work with God, I treasure my church,

and I treasure my pastor.

For it is the gift of.

God he has given us a man of God after

his own heart. That is poor blood, sweat and tears

into this worker. And if you ever walk through those doors,

they mean never to return. It's not that Elisha. Wasn't there,

wasn't present, wasn't available. It's a jugah haese I chose

your own path and chose your on the road and

never submitted to the will of God. And man, that's

where you're headed. I mean, I my God, hey, that's

where summer headed. That's impossible, Brother Nathaniel, God, God don't banish.

I seem to recall God moving on a man of

God to write words that went something like this, Brother

Philip Jacob, Have I loved.

Esau? Have I hated?

Was it because Esau was offered any less opportunity? He

was offered the greatest of the two. He was given

the more. He was the eldest. He received the double portion,

or would have it was his right to receive. But

the heart issue in Esaul, Amen was the Bible said

he despised.

He is both right, Amen.

And some they get to that state and men where

they begin to despise that which they have been given.

The truth this Some of you, Amen, ain't prayed Amenore, Hey,

I'll get in trouble right here. Some of you ain't

worked for the birth right you've been given. Some of

you wasn't here for twenty years while Pastor Doug and

falled and prayed and fasted. And then you get handed

the gift of God on a silver platter.

Amen.

And if you don't treasure it and realize it really

did cost that man of God something, Amen, you'll think

it's frivolous and it's fleeting, and it was easily earn't

it was?

Amen?

He fought hell flouda, Amen, he fall. Amen, Praise God

the slaughter or the gates of Hell. And if it

have not been for God establishing this church on the

rock Christ Jesus, the gates of Hell had they men

prevailed and going over Ursurica. But the truth is you've

now been given a well established worker.

They been a well functional church.

They been where the Man of God, women comes of

this blessed sacred desk every Sunday morning, every Sunday night,

and every Wednesday.

And we all know a man he's got something.

The man he's about to feed the children of God

that is wonderful and needed. The Remember, if you ain't

worked for Aida, and you ain't been out there fighting

Floyda and you think her. I mean, it's old you

and you serve it and you deserve this and that

they man, friend, you don't deserve.

Amen, Praise God. One flee they man.

Praise God. Off dog, they man, you don't deserve. They

men one rock got world. Amen, Praise God. And the

belly of a soul pig they been. What you need

to do is realize it is the gift of God

to be treasured and the boy Amen, loved and cherished

from today until tomorrow and until time.

And so shall you love the work of God and

treasure the.

Man of God and the power of God and the

liberty of God and the spirit of God.

That somebody would really treasure the work of God, somebody would.

Really treasure be Elisha in your life, the Man of God.

And realize it's fleeting, it's passion. You won't have anymore away,

Lift your hand and love on the Lord.

There had a he had h so he followed after naming.

So he followed after name.

And he makes a choice to chase the darkness inside,

to pursue the lust of the flesh. There comes those

times when God forces a person to choose. It was

no coincidence that Gahazi had not been sent to town

for apples. It was no coincidence but Gahesi had not

been sent to the meal.

Amen. Praise God for some corn. Amen, Praise God flower.

What God did was orchestrate a divine crossroads.

He gave Gazi a choice.

Now, how many have walked away from the perfect will

of God in pursuit of that which they truly desired

on the inside.

Proverbs six and eighteen.

And then drops us off in the middle of some

stirring scriptures, some very hard stirring scriptures. It talks about

that which God hates, those things that are an abomination

unto Him fiber of sixteen eighteen. Set in heart, Amen,

this is one of the things. A man in heart

that devises wicked imaginations and feet that be swift and

running to mischief.

You know what we find hays I.

Doing at this opportunity that presents itself. Amen, he gets

his Amen tennis shoes on, if you would, he gets

his running shoes on, because the opportunity he has been

waiting on is now a man in the distance and

eating farther and farther away, and in the truth is

the man. There are some people, aymen, that when that

one opportunity presents themself its self and they realize it

is now or never a man, they will choose that

opportunity over God and his name.

And the men begin to become a silhouette.

Oh, with all the passion and fervor and strength that

gahayze I did po sess theymen, but never invested into

the work of God. He throws it all on the line, Amen,

and becomes a gahayze e boat.

Amen. He begins to run with everything that is within here.

They man in the Bible talks about running that we

might obtain, and the Bible said gahays eyes.

He said, there is something I've gotta get from him.

There's something he has that I need, And he's a

running that he might get something from naming her. Oh,

where was the energy? Where was the investment? Where was

the heart in the work of God. But the minute

you get presented on opportunity by the world, they mean,

some will throw it out of the wind leyman and

forget that. How precious it is that brethren draw together

in the unity, and how sweet the anointing is, and

how great the peace is, and they're sacrifice it all

for a fleeting moment he will never see naming her

let me know of again.

But he didn't really want naming her. He wonted what

he had. And some of You gotta be careful a man,

and what you after. You may not rote the person.

You may think you want what they have or ameen,

but that that drives him to the barstool, That that

drives him to the cloths.

They man. It don't make them cool, It don't make

them all some.

It makes them to speak of all and destitute and

broken down. Amen, Praise God. What are you after this morning?

I'll tell you what I am, A double portion of

thy spirit of God breathe only old breath of God.

I deceased the Lord, show me thy glory, opening up

the windows of heaven, and pour me ow a blessing.

Let me be ready in the times of refreshing, coming

from the presence of the Lord. This was not the

prayer of hayes Ee, but most certainly wise of that

sincere earnest women, man of God, Eliza, Oh God, What

of aching when we consider his choice? What of Judas?

When we ponder his path and what of Demus when

we consider his desertion. I'm preaching a message even the

Lord gave me. Some of you may have not heard

this term before, but I find it most fitting when

I consider the blunder this young man made.

Amen. It came to me so clearly.

Gehaze i the galut, gahayze i, the galute. When you

look that up, it's not a slang word or anything

like that. It's an old expression that says one who

is strange or foolish, one who is strange or foolish.

I find it most strange that he walked away from

the mantle of Elisha. If there's one man in the Bible,

I would travel back and meet and love to sit

at his feet for hours and listen. Elisha, a man

that we suppose undouble the miracles of Elijah.

What a heritage. Oh the foolishness.

God handed Gehzai a chance to be the servant to Elisha,

at the very least, quite possibly the next prophet, but

he foolishly squandered it. It was him, and praise God's

sacrifice on the altar of self gratification.

Luke nine and twenty.

Three and he said under them all, and he said

to them all, if any man will come after me,

let him deny himself, take up his cross daily and

follow me. He said unto them all, if any man

will come after me, first, you're gonna have to deny yourself. Next,

you're gonna have to take up your cross every day

and follow Jesus instead of following God. Gahese I followed

after naming, instead of following Yahweh. Gahze I chose what

he could get in a moment from naming. If only

gaheze I had picked up his cross instead of that

which would cost his soul.

Amen. And there's a lot of you, Amen.

Even today, I still am, And until we go into heaven,

we will all live with two choices, Amen, because of

free will.

Amen.

And we will all be able to choose Amen, to

pick up our cross, amen, or to lay it down

and follow after something else.

Amen.

Galatians tree in one, and I'm coming to a close

this morning, Galatian stree and one said, all foolish, correct Galatians,

who hath bewitched you, that ye should not obey the truth.

You see, something got a hold of gahyze I. Here Amen.

And the truth is it altered his outlook and changed

his mindset. No doubt he started off with great jubilance Amen,

as all of us would have, kind of like when

you start that new job.

Amen, and you get there. Oh you're just Amen, You're

ready to go to town. Amen.

My goodness, There's never been a better crew, a better boss. Amen,

there's never been Amen. Praise God, anything better than what

you're experiencing. The walk with God should never lose the

honeymoon phase. Your walk with God should never lose your love.

The words of God caution those in Revelations, Amen, that

had left that which they once possessed. And I don't

know what happened to Gahayzi, but I do know the

Bible said these Galatians Amen, they were bewitched. Even they

would begin to be under the control of something that

altered their perception of reality. Something got a hold of Gahayzi. Yeah,

something can get ahold of you. Or if you're in

that state now, you must be honest and know when

you came here, Ay matter if it was all green pastures,

it still is.

Something's making you look at the septic tank.

As they say, I don't man, that's the only place

you'll find greener pastures.

Let's stand this morning. I've delivered my burden.

We must never let our perspective become altered by our adversaries.

All the inner turmo. I see here.

As the rider shows us the heart of Gehazi, gehayze I,

the galute Gehayzi, now known as Gahesi, the foolish, Gehazi,

the squanderer, Gahayzi, the wasteful, not gahez I, the man

that a man prayed for a little dead boy, and

he was raised gaheze I, the nothing, the leper, the worthless.

You see the Bible, and we're all familiar with it.

The Bible said the leprosy therefore of name, and shall

cleave under thee under and unto thy seed forever. And

he went out from his presence a leoper as white

as snow. It was not necessarily common for a man

I don't believe to be completely overtaken by leprosy. Some

it would be their nose, and their hands, and their

feet and different parts. But I believe the Bible quite

liberally when it says he was white a snow. I

believe gahes I became one of the worst lepers mankind

ever saw one bad choice and one wrong decision all

the wasteful heart of those consumed by a wanting spirit, Oh,

the wasteful heart of those consumed by a wanting spirit,

because that when they knew God, they glorified him not

as God. Neither were thankful, but became vain in their imaginations,

and their foolish hearts were darkened. Brother Jesse, would you

come get us a song? This morning? We find here

Gehese exalting his will over God's will. Elisha had already

said no. But then Gehese I chooses yes. Man, I

wish it. I mean, would you bow your heads this morning?

Neither were they thankful, but became vain in their imaginations,

and their foolish.

Hearts were darkened.

I mean this morning, I planned to pray that God

would help me always treasure truth and righteousness. I planned

to pray that God would help me always see the

true benefit of the Bethel hole in his church.

More than I even do now, I tell you the truth.

Amen, among my salvation in my walk with God, I

feel the greatest blessings in my life are the Bethel

hole in his church, my pastor and pastor's wife, and

my wife and children, and my Bethel family.

I know you all feel likewise, but old Slewfoot likes

to get in there. Amen.

Praise God and start making you wonder if he's done that. Amen.

I doubt he has. If I doubt you've let him. Amen.

But this morning I encourage you, haze I it's still

as good as it ever was.

Amen.

If you let the devil amen push you away, It's

still as wonderful as it ever was. The blessings of

God are still as rich as they ever was, and

they still ain't had no sorrow with it.

That Amen.

So this morning, could we come and pray? Say, Lord,

I don't want to be a foolish Christian. I don't

want to lose the proper perspective of what I have

been given. God, Him that has given much much shall

be required. Lord. Shall my return unto You must be

more than those I judge myself By.

Lord, we thank you for the best of holiness Church.

This morning. We thank you for our pastor.

We thank you for a golden opportunity to worship You

in the beauty of holiness here in these United States

of America. God, we thank you for the revelation of

your word, the truth of your will. We thank you

for your kingdom. God, let us treasure truth and righteousness.