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Fast Food - Pastor J.D. Howell 7-5-2026

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  1. Your bibles. Will you turn with me to the Book

  2. of Exodus. May I direct your attention to the twelfth

  3. chapter and verse number eleven. Brother Nathaniel Acts, Chapter number

  4. twelve versus number six through eleven. Brother Jesse, First Corinthians,

  5. Chapter number six versus number eight through eleven. How many

  6. of you had some barbecue yesterday?

  7. A few of you?

  8. How many had some hamburgers, hot dogs, baked beans, potato salad?

  9. A few more of you?

  10. How many had some homemade ice creams, some homemade desserts,

  11. munchie snacks, things like that. Oh yeah, a whole lot

  12. more of you. Amen, It's good to see you in

  13. the house of the Lord today, Brother Nathaniel Acts, Chapter

  14. number twelve versus number six through eleven, My brother, And

  15. when Herod would have brought him forth. The same night,

  16. Peter was sleeping between two soldiers, bound with two chains,

  17. and the keepers before the door kept the prison. And behold,

  18. the Angel of the Lord came upon him, and a

  19. light shined in the prison, and he smote Peter on

  20. the side and raised him up, saying to rise up quickly.

  21. And his chains fell off from his hands, and the

  22. angel said under him, gird thyself and bind on thy sandals.

  23. And so he did, and he saith unto him, cast

  24. thy garment about thee, and follow me.

  25. And he went out and followed him, and.

  26. Wist not that it was true which was done by

  27. the Angel, but thought he saw a vision. When they

  28. were passed the First and second war, they came into

  29. the iron gate that leadeth into the city, which opened to.

  30. Them of his own accord.

  31. And they went out and passed on through one street

  32. and forthwith the Angel departed from him. And when Peter

  33. was come to himself, he said, now I know of

  34. a surety that the Lord hath sent his angel, and

  35. hath delivered me out of the hand of Herod and

  36. from all the expectations of the people of the Jews.

  37. So Peter was told to put on his shoes, Brother Jesse,

  38. first Corinthians six eight to eleven.

  39. Brother, nay, you do you wrong and defraud, and that

  40. you're brethren, know ye not that the unrighteous shall not

  41. inherit the Kingdom of God be not deceived, neither fornicators,

  42. nor idolators, nor adulterers, nor effeminate, nor abusers of themselves

  43. with mankind, nor thieves, nor covetous nor drunkers, nor revilers,

  44. nor extortioners shall inherit the kingdom of God. And such

  45. were some of you, But ye are washed, but he

  46. are sanctified. But ye are justified in the name of

  47. the Lord Jesus and by the spirit of our God.

  48. All things are lawful unto me, but all things are

  49. not expedient. All things are lawful for me, but I

  50. will not be brought under the power of any amen.

  51. And such were some of you. You left one place

  52. for another place, You left one position for another position. Exodus,

  53. chapter number twelve, verse number eleven. The Bible says, and

  54. thus shall ye eat it with your loins girded, your

  55. shoes on your feet, and your staff in your hand,

  56. and ye shall eat it in haste.

  57. It is the Lord's passover. I want to preach a

  58. message the Holy Ghost title fast food fast food. Looking

  59. at our golden text again verse number eleven. Your shoes

  60. on your feet, and ye shall eat it in haste.

  61. Let's pray, Heavenly Father. We love and we praise you.

  62. We thank you for the opportunity to be in the

  63. house of the Lord. We pray God that you would

  64. annoy it this people help them to hear what the

  65. Spirit of God says.

  66. And to the church today through the word of God.

  67. Thank you for the teachers teaching, the singers singing the

  68. words of this blessed book. God have been sent forth

  69. through song and listen. I pray that we would hear

  70. in heed. I pray even now that we would hear

  71. what the Spirit of God is said under the church lost,

  72. set of guard at my mouth, and help me to

  73. say the things you would have me to say, nothing

  74. more or less, and not the people and the preacher.

  75. We pray that we would debard this place joyfully and

  76. not sorrowly, in Jesus's name. And the church said, Amen,

  77. reading again our golden text. And thus shall ye eat

  78. it with your loins, girded, your shoes on your feet,

  79. and you're staffing your hen, and ye shall eat it

  80. in haste. It is the Lord's passover. Our text is

  81. found in an Old Testament book of the Holy Bible.

  82. The Book of Exodus is the second book of the

  83. Divine Library.

  84. It is also a book of the pentitug.

  85. We know that the first five books of the Bible

  86. are very very special, for within them we find the

  87. Law of Moses.

  88. And if it's the law of Moses.

  89. It must be the law of God, because we know

  90. that anything that Moses gave to the people came from

  91. the Lord. And I feel like it's very important today

  92. that we hear what the Spirit of God is saying

  93. unto the church. To every preacher in this building, it

  94. is important that when you minister to a gathered people,

  95. that they hear from the Lord. They do not need

  96. to hear a sermon that was plagiarized. They do not

  97. need to hear a message that was generated through artificial

  98. intelligent technology, and they do not need to see something

  99. that has been copied from a book. They need somebody

  100. to preach unto them what thus saith the Lord. Somebody

  101. on bended knee, through prayer and fasting, needs to get inspired,

  102. just as these holy men of God were inspired. The

  103. Bible said that the holy ghosts moved upon those holy

  104. men of old, and they gave us these wonderful, wonderful

  105. words that we find in the Divine Library. Now, some

  106. of you celebrated Independence Day yesterday. I would suppose every

  107. single individual with an age of understanding understood exactly why

  108. we were celebrating here in this twelfth Chapter we can

  109. find recorded events that have been on my mind and

  110. I've been unable to shake them. And perhaps this morning

  111. will be an unshakable moment and movement for somebody today.

  112. I feel like there's no doubt about it that God

  113. is speaking to somebody concerning freedom. There's no doubt in

  114. my mind that God is speaking to somebody concerning a

  115. pivotal moment that is about to appear in your path.

  116. I feel like these Israelites knew all too well that

  117. God had been using Moses to bring about victory in

  118. their lives. There was much anticipation and expectation when they

  119. realized that God had heard their prayer and God had

  120. sent a deliverum. And so they find themselves here at

  121. this time of their life, at Freedom's Eve. If you

  122. wouldish deliverance Eve for israel I see in this chapter

  123. of pivotal Moment for the people of God. Yesterday, on

  124. the fourth of July, we celebrated freedom or our freedom.

  125. Let's put ourselves in the Israelites shoes at this time.

  126. For over four hundred years, For nearly four hundred and

  127. thirty years they had been in Egypt. Not always were

  128. their slaves, but for a large part of their time

  129. there they were slaves, and as slaves they were ready

  130. for deliverance. There's no doubt. When they were under the

  131. rule of Joseph, the Hebrew pharaoh, they were not slaves

  132. and they were not feeling the pressure for deliverance. But

  133. at this point in time, every single Israelite or Hebrew

  134. is feeling pressure for deliverance. And so for many, many

  135. months some had prayed and asked God to send deliverance

  136. their way, and their deliverance came by the mouth of

  137. a deliverer that was not afraid to speak to Pharaoh,

  138. a man that was not a politician, a man without

  139. fear of favor, a man not looking for affirmation, approval,

  140. or applause from any dignitary politician or pre eminent man.

  141. A man that was humble, a shepherd, man that could

  142. have been the very Pharaoh sitting upon the throne, that humble,

  143. meek pastor that shepherd Moses put his finger, his bony finger,

  144. in the face of Pharaoh and said thus said to Lord,

  145. let my people go, and you all know the process

  146. of deliverance. There were some plagues, Brother Jesse and the

  147. rope cap and some others recently taught about the plagues

  148. of Egypt. I want to call them the plagues of

  149. God because God had a perfect plan and God was

  150. using these plagus in order to execute.

  151. That perfect plan.

  152. You see, these plagues of Egypt produce this moment, this

  153. pivotal moment. The plagus brought them to the past over moment.

  154. The Lord told the Israelie that this month is the

  155. beginning of months for them. It's a time of new beginnings.

  156. It's a moment of newness of life. Sister Howell did

  157. not know what I was gonna preach on this morning,

  158. and as we were leaving the house, she was playing

  159. that song sung by Gordon Moe talking about a time

  160. of newness of life or a time of new beginnings.

  161. And I feel like there's a handful of people in

  162. this building today that have cried out by reason of

  163. affliction and a bondage spiritually. There's people that have sighed

  164. under their breath, and it's time for them to drawn

  165. nigh unto God. You can tell the Spirit of God

  166. is calling some unto him. The Bible said, no man

  167. coming to the Father except the Spirit draw him. Can

  168. I tell you it was time for these people to

  169. be drawn out of Egypt, just as Moses as a

  170. baby was drawn out of the river. Now it's time

  171. for these people to be plucked out of their captivity

  172. and their bondage.

  173. It's time for somebody.

  174. In this building this morning to experience newness of life.

  175. You must be sick and tired of the way you're living.

  176. By now, the Bible said, if any man be in Christ,

  177. he is a new creature. Old things have passed away. Behold,

  178. all things have become new. Meaning for that individual, there

  179. is newness of life. I feel like somebody in this

  180. building today is on the brink of deliverance. You are

  181. at freedom's eve.

  182. You see.

  183. The Lord knew how to point these Israelites to their

  184. day of deliverance. And I feel like God has instructed me,

  185. as your pastor, to point you to your day or

  186. time or hour of deliverance.

  187. You see. Passover night would be a pivotal moment.

  188. For the Israelites, but there was so much more happening

  189. that night. As a shadow and type, this passover pointed

  190. to the plan of redemption for mankind, that pointed to

  191. the spotless and sinless Lamb of God, Jesus Christ, who

  192. would bring forth some redemption to the human race. The

  193. apostle Paul understood the significance of the passover that took

  194. place some here found in the record of the twelfth

  195. chapter of the Book of EXODUSM and he also knew

  196. of what had happened when Jesus Christ stood as the

  197. substitutionary sacrifice. The apostle Peter in One Peter, chapter number

  198. one and verse number eighteen and nineteen, he wrote these words,

  199. for as much as ye know that she were not

  200. redeemed with corruptible things as silver and gold from your

  201. vain conversation received by tradition from your fathers, but with

  202. the precious blood of Christ, as of a lamb, without

  203. blemishop and without spot. You see for every member of

  204. the human racem who is bound by sin today they

  205. can find a freedom through Jesus Christ. And every person

  206. that is bound by sin is sitting on Freedom's eve,

  207. if they will only look and see that freedom is

  208. right there at their fingertips.

  209. Today is today of salvation.

  210. It is past time for them to leave their sin

  211. fu lifestyle. It has past time for the Israelites to

  212. do what God had told them to do. It is

  213. time to leave the children of Israel had spent right

  214. at four hundred and thirty years, which is a lengthy

  215. season of time in this land of Egypt, and they

  216. were ready to leave some.

  217. Things behind them. I wonder how.

  218. Many people in this building today are ready to leave

  219. some things behind you. The Apostle Paul said, this I

  220. do forgetting those things which are behind me, and reaching

  221. forth unto the things that are before. I press forward. Now,

  222. that's not only talking about the memory of things behind us,

  223. speaking of what awaits us, what is in our future,

  224. the possibility of our future, the opportunities ahead of us.

  225. Apostle Paul was saying, if you're going to receive what

  226. is in front of you, you have to forget about

  227. what is behind you. And Brother Samuel Starret touched on

  228. that a little bit this past weekend. I find the

  229. timing of this message most interesting, having considered the fact

  230. that three of our church members have contacted me over

  231. the last couple of days and told me that they

  232. have resigned from their jobs. Now, I have not heard

  233. of any person in this building resigning from their jobs

  234. in a long time, and their resignation and their resignation

  235. letters or announcements have nothing to do what I'm preaching today,

  236. but yet it has a lot to do with it.

  237. You see, my son in law, brother Jonathan Edwardson, messaged

  238. me a few days ago and said this, Hey, Papa,

  239. I hope you're having a great day so far. I

  240. have received an offer letter from a company called SHM

  241. say from Human Medicine, and I wanted to ask you

  242. to look at it, and I want to get your

  243. opinion on it. What are your thoughts concerning this, Papa,

  244. He said, I feel like it's God's will to move

  245. in that direction. I definitely don't feel like it's his

  246. will to stay here where I am right now. He

  247. goes on further with saying this, I've not had a

  248. good feeling about this company since we were bought out

  249. over a month ago.

  250. Something does not seem right.

  251. Basically, what brother Jonathan was saying to me, as his

  252. father in law, it is time for me to lead

  253. this place, AmAm, and I'm going to have my shoes

  254. on and I'm going to get out up here just

  255. as soon as I can. He said, I don't feel

  256. right about this whole situation. Doesn't that echo the words

  257. and the sentiments of the Israelites who were being held

  258. in captivity in the land of Egypt.

  259. And the letter continued, and I'll let it stop there.

  260. Basically, brother Jonathan is saying, I'm sick and tired with it,

  261. and I'm uncomfortable with it, and if I need to

  262. take a pay cut, I will gladly take a pay

  263. cut in order to get out of this place. And

  264. I told Brother Jonathan, I said, well, it sounds to

  265. me like him. You've already made up your mind and

  266. you've already prayed it through because you said, I don't

  267. feel right.

  268. About being here.

  269. I feel uncomfortable with the situation. And I feel like

  270. finally somebody has got uncomfortable being where you're at. And

  271. I thank God for the shift in that situation. For

  272. I remember thirty two years ago, when I got my

  273. heart fixed in God, I had got uncomfortable in my situation.

  274. I was miserable, I was unhappy. I was sick and

  275. tired of the way that I was living, and I

  276. was ready for a change of place and a change

  277. of pace. You see, for somebody in this building today,

  278. it is time to leave. So brother Jonathan Edwards is

  279. not the old person in this building that turned in

  280. a two weeks notice. Over the last couple of days,

  281. brother Aaron Wood turned in a two week notice.

  282. Brother Bufort Stagg sent me a copy of what he said.

  283. He said, I am happily turning you my two week

  284. noticing for the company that brother Jonathan Edwards has just

  285. resigned from. You see, these three brothers are letting us

  286. know that they are trading their current situation for something better,

  287. and so, if not Monday, in the very near future,

  288. these brothers are going to entertain and operate within a

  289. new job, Brother Buford, I believe you're pleased already, I

  290. told Brother Buford, and Brother Jonathan, I said, already, I

  291. sensed that the weight of the world has been lifted

  292. from your shoulders. Don't you feel like the Israelites felt

  293. the same way when after four hundred and thirty years

  294. of living in Egypt, they finally realize that they can

  295. leave some things behind.

  296. I don't know about y'all, but I'm sick.

  297. And tired of the way this world is a going,

  298. and one morning I will leave it all behind. The

  299. cares of life are hard to carry. I'm thankful that

  300. we have a blessed hope that we can get out

  301. up here, when I look at the things that my

  302. seventeenth grandchildren are going to have to face, things like

  303. I would have never imagined or dreamed of a little.

  304. Child facing in their lifetime.

  305. I can tell you I'm saying, Jesus, would you come quickly,

  306. Lord Jesus. I know that that last person has to

  307. be saved, that last person has to be sacked upon

  308. and filled with the holy ghost. But Jesus, would you

  309. come just as quickly as you can?

  310. Can?

  311. I tell you that too many generations had experienced the

  312. crack of the whip upon their back. These Israelites knew

  313. it is time to leave this leakedy season of bondage,

  314. and it was time to leave the older behind. I

  315. doubt for very long there was somebody saying, I want

  316. to turn around.

  317. I know, after a period of time, we know the

  318. rest of the story.

  319. We know that some decided that they'd rather go back,

  320. but better Jesse, they really did not know what they

  321. were talking about. They had no idea really what they

  322. were wishing for, because if they went back, Pharaoh would

  323. have had seven taskmasters to every one that they had before,

  324. and Pharaoh would assault to it. And that if you

  325. turn back, and you come back, you never leave again.

  326. And that's what the devil does concerning those that have

  327. been saved them and sactified and holy Ghostfield, and who

  328. turn and walk away from the grace and the goodness

  329. of God. And the devil says, you know what, then,

  330. I don't want to ever lose them again to the

  331. Father for the Father's house, sin seven more, and let

  332. them occupy the mind and the thoughts of that individual,

  333. and do whatever you can to oppress it and possess

  334. them to keep them from ever being liberated again.

  335. Now you're already in bondage.

  336. That is why I'm preaching this message this morning with

  337. two mental outlines, one of them being souls s O

  338. U l s and the second one being the second

  339. point being.

  340. S O L ees souls and souls them.

  341. Why, oh why would anybody, after the teaching you've heard

  342. this morning, and after watching a country celebrate us independence,

  343. after a message like God has given you this morning,

  344. why would you choose to remain in a not so

  345. comfort song. You're not comfortable where you're actor and you

  346. never will be. The Bible said that is relaxome for

  347. crying out by reason of their bondage. Can I tell

  348. you are crying and it won't be too long before

  349. you're dying. You need a deliverer, and it's Freedom's eve.

  350. You are at a pivotal moment in your life when

  351. you can turn from that current lifestyle into a new lifestyle.

  352. You can turn from that unhappy individual into an individual

  353. that is full of joy. You can walk away from

  354. being a tormented individual to being a person that possesses.

  355. The prince a piece and who has a piece that

  356. passes to all understanding.

  357. I want to ask you here today, are you willing

  358. to leave your old identity behind? Are you willing to

  359. leave for other things behind? The Bible said that they

  360. made preparation. These israel lifes got ready, They had their

  361. shoes on, they had the food in their hand.

  362. And they went when God told them to go.

  363. I want to ask a handful of people in this

  364. building today, are your shoes ow? Are you packed up

  365. and ready to go? I feel like finally somebody is

  366. ready to walcome away from former mindset, so previous mentality,

  367. and ready to embrace the foolness of God's goodness and grace.

  368. That's what you gotta do. You gotta walk out of

  369. that view.

  370. Symbolizing the walker, how to beat up, the walk from

  371. the world, the walk.

  372. From the old creature state of mind and become a

  373. new being.

  374. In Jesus, I realize this Sunday morning, and some of

  375. us are just waking up. Like Sister House said, we've

  376. crashed from all that sugar. We've ate, We're tired, we're

  377. wore out, we're exhausted. But aren't you tired of that

  378. lengthy season of bondage? Aren't you tired of sitting behind

  379. bars of iron and watching others enjoy free them and

  380. liberty and peace of mind. It was time for them

  381. to leave the old behind, and the walk of faith

  382. was theirs to own. You had to own this message today.

  383. You have to own this moment. You have to see

  384. that this is your pivotal moment. You have to see

  385. that this is a process. You have to see that now,

  386. right now, God has done his part. God has raised

  387. up put a liver his son, and God has proclaimed

  388. the Pharaoh the devil.

  389. Let my child go listen. Pharaoh may have.

  390. Repeatedly heartened his heart and change his mind, but the

  391. day of deliverance came.

  392. But I want you to know if.

  393. God tells Lucifer to let you go, if you rattle

  394. them change and shake them fetters and say God, I

  395. won't out of here, you better put your shoes on.

  396. You better mean what you say. You better say what

  397. you mean. Because if your meaning victory is coming, I've

  398. set up your meaning.

  399. Victory is coming. And the devil cannot harden his heart.

  400. The devil cannot change his mind, the devil cannot hinder deliberates.

  401. For whom the sun makes free is free.

  402. Indeed, I'm telling somebody today, this freedom's eve for you. You

  403. can be free today.

  404. Fast food, hurry while there's time.

  405. Now, here's the moment, today, here's today coming.

  406. Die Now, the.

  407. Master callers ay, man, it's the appointed moment.

  408. It's the appointed time.

  409. Now, it's the time to pivot and run in the

  410. other direction. Those eyes that had looked at the oppressors,

  411. those eyes that had looked wearily at the opposition, those

  412. eyes that had looked so sadly at the tyrants, those

  413. eyes that had looked so mournfully at the backs of

  414. their wounded loved ones. Now when they pivot, their eyes

  415. of hope, their eyes of desperation, their eyes of if

  416. I can just get out of here, If I can

  417. just get out of here. I remember reading Cord ten

  418. Boone's account of being imprisoned by the Nazis and how

  419. she lived in that ravens Brook concentration camp, and Brother Jesse,

  420. how she was looking for the perfect opportunity to escape,

  421. but she found no opportunity to escape. And when her sister,

  422. that God fearing woman, Bessie Timboom, passed away, she knew

  423. that Bessie had successfully escaped, was absent in body from

  424. her and from the Nazis and Ravensbrook. But Brother Jesse,

  425. she knew she was in the presence of the Lord.

  426. And Cord tin Boom said, you know, it'd be easy

  427. just to end my own life, she said in one statement,

  428. but I knew that a Christian God fearing person cannot

  429. end their own life, and so I must endure hardness

  430. as a good soldier. She knew and practiced and preached.

  431. I must be faithful unto the end. I must be

  432. faithful until that gate swings open. I must be faithful

  433. until I see a window of opportunity raised. I must

  434. be faithful until I hear the words go. And she said,

  435. on a certain more unannounced and unexpected her when they

  436. read the names on the list, and a brief moments

  437. she heard Corey ten Boom and she realized, freedom is here.

  438. My opportunity to make a break to safety is here.

  439. I'll tell you what Corey tin Boom did not do.

  440. She did not go to her bunk. She did not

  441. go to her barrick. She did not go to her bed.

  442. She did not go to all her friends and asked

  443. them to pray about the situation or asked them to

  444. escort her to the gate. She got out of there

  445. when she could. And I'm telling you now is the

  446. day today, Right now is the moment you have your

  447. shoes on, I said.

  448. I feard it him my spirit, you got your shoes on.

  449. I preached a message the Holy Ghost titled past food.

  450. You better take other passover.

  451. Lamb while you can.

  452. You better put take off other pissover feasta while you

  453. can get on about it, get moving, get riding, get

  454. away from that lofestyle.

  455. Amen.

  456. They knew the atmosphere was changing, Sister Howell, when they

  457. started getting spiritual warnings and spiritual instructions. Something went like this,

  458. take a spotless slamb and kill it and place the

  459. blood upon the doorpost. Brother Jeremiah Howell, your life was

  460. forever changed a few nights ago, as you had a

  461. vision of the base of the cross at Calvary, and

  462. as you saw the pool of blood at the base

  463. of that cross. And if you look at our golden

  464. text Exitus, chapter number twelve, verse number eleven, and thus

  465. shall ye eat it with your loins girded, your shoes

  466. on your feet, and your staff in your hand, and

  467. ye shall eat it in haste. It is the Lord's passover,

  468. meaning when you hear the sound of a going, when

  469. God says go forward, you better go forward. When God says,

  470. my spirits are drawing, you better get in the curing

  471. of a spirit. When you feel that urge to pray,

  472. you better pray. When you feel godless sorrow bringing forth repentance,

  473. you better repent. The Lord told you them to eat

  474. the supper with their shoes on? Has God told you

  475. to eat your supper with your sandals on? Here is

  476. the first record of fast food. These people were expecting

  477. to leave as soon as possible before sunrise. They wouldn't

  478. belong to another before sunrise. They would be a free

  479. individual before sunrise, they would know the taste of freedom.

  480. Before sunrise, they would enjoy independence. They were dressed for

  481. the occasion, packed up and ready to go. And I

  482. feel in my spirit that somebody has tressed for the occasion,

  483. and you're ready to become a child of God. I'm

  484. not talking about your outward garment. I'm talking about your

  485. inward garment. You're putting on the helm and of salvation,

  486. your feed a shd. You've got the breastplate of righteousness,

  487. and you're ready to get out of here. You're ready

  488. to experience a deliberance and victory. Before they could go,

  489. they had to experience a substitutionary sacrifice, meaning somebody's got

  490. to pay for this, somebody's got to die for this.

  491. Without the shedding of blood, there is no remission of sin.

  492. The lamb must die and the blood must be applied.

  493. Deliverance only comes by the blood of the lamb. Could

  494. the church say, Amen, God will bring you out a bondage.

  495. I said, God can bring you out of homosexuality. God

  496. can bring you out of fornication. God can bring you

  497. out of thievery. God can bring you out of drunkenness.

  498. We may not have any of that here this morning.

  499. There may be somebody listening. It's in that situation. But

  500. God can bring people out of bondage. My question for

  501. these people at this pivotal moment is are you ready?

  502. Acts Chapter number twelve, verses number six through eleven was

  503. one of our cotexts, and our brother read about Peter

  504. the Apostle being in prison, and last Sunday morning we

  505. talked about the purpose of prevailing prayer, and we talked

  506. about Mary, the mother of John Mark, who was hosting

  507. that prayer meeting. And the Bibel said that early the

  508. next morning, the apostle Peter was going to be executed.

  509. Herod wanted to.

  510. Do that, but John Mark's mother, Mary and some praying

  511. saints went in there and prayed without ceasing. And the

  512. Bible said, even though he was facing execution the next morning,

  513. those precious saints of God had prayed.

  514. I'm telling you, Heaven had.

  515. Heard, and it was time for Peter to make his exodus.

  516. The Bible said God helped him, and the Angel the

  517. Lord came upon him and a light shined him. The

  518. Peerson and the Angel smoke Peter on the side, and

  519. he said, arise.

  520. Get up, Peter and get out quickly.

  521. And the Bible said the chains fell from his hands.

  522. Peter had to be woken by an angel. Peter had

  523. to be shook by an angel. Peter had to be

  524. picked up by an angel. You know why because even

  525. Peter understood, without divine intervention, there is no plan of escape,

  526. and I must just simply trust the Lord. But I

  527. want you to know you do have divine intervention. You

  528. do have people praying for you. There's been prayer meeting

  529. on your behalf. There's been repibles on your behalf, has

  530. been moves of God on your behalf.

  531. And just as Mary.

  532. John Mark's mother and the saints had prayed for the

  533. release by divine hand, Peter the apostle, even now I

  534. feel like her by divine hand. Here is somebody pointing

  535. you out of the prison. There's a light shining on

  536. your path, telling you the way to go. Will you

  537. walk her in the gospel lot that shines. Will you

  538. take the Angel of the Lord by the head and

  539. let him lead you to the altar gate?

  540. Will you accept deliverance?

  541. Put your shoes holder and walk out of that prison.

  542. Put your shoes holder.

  543. It's time to get out of here, the Bible said,

  544. And his chains fell off quickly, and the angel told him,

  545. girl yourself, bind on them sandals and get to moving.

  546. And he followed the Angel of the Lord into deliverance.

  547. God told Peter, put on your shoes, boy. And Israel,

  548. they were told, put on your shoes. Be ready in

  549. that moment when you feel that quickening, when you feel that.

  550. Spirit of God come in.

  551. Even David and his soldiers were hunkered down waiting on

  552. the troubling in the top of the Moulbi trees. Even

  553. all them lame and importent and weak and crippled and

  554. disabled people that were laid at the gates, laid at

  555. the pools, they were always just waiting on something to

  556. come by or someone. It didn't matter if it was

  557. an angel of the Lord after a long season. It

  558. didn't matter if his angel the Lord at a certain season.

  559. It didn't matter if it was the apostles of the Lord,

  560. James and John at the gate beautiful or at the pool.

  561. It just doesn't matter.

  562. They're all waiting on someone, waiting on something to say,

  563. it is time, It is time. Could you imagine all

  564. them is set at the gate. Could you imagine them

  565. saying it's time. Could you imagine all them is set

  566. at the pool saying it's time.

  567. You know what?

  568. They had every excuse in the book, didn't they? A

  569. lot of them said, I'm laying in my feet. A

  570. lot of them said, you know, I can't even pull

  571. myself with my hands and arms. But in this case,

  572. every person is able to reach Jesus. Every person is

  573. able to crawl of Jesus, every persons able to call

  574. out to Jesus.

  575. What about you right here today?

  576. Are you willing to put your shoes on and make

  577. haste and get to where the passover lamb is?

  578. Amen?

  579. Deliverance, deliverance, Deliverance is yours. But there's peril and procrastination.

  580. There's danger in delay, and if your very nature demands

  581. that you take your time. I've seen some people take

  582. forever to put their shoes on. I have been amazed

  583. at how long it takes some people to put their

  584. socks on. I'm fifty years old, sister, how I could

  585. probably time it. I'd say, socks and shoes together. I

  586. always have them on in less than one minute. That

  587. is both socks and both shoes, and that is actually

  588. lacing them up and tying them. I'm telling you, brother Samuel,

  589. what I mean by that's pulling the laces tight and

  590. tire them. I'm not saying putting new laces in my shoe.

  591. You know what I'm saying. I mean, I don't waste

  592. a lot of time putting my shoes on. When I

  593. was an athlete in high school, I didn't waste a

  594. lot of time putting my shoes on. And I tell

  595. you a soldier that's in the foxhole, we're in the

  596. trenches overseas, if for some reason he has taken off

  597. his shoes, he doesn't take very long to put them on.

  598. But I kind of feel like most of them leave

  599. them on because they don't know when the commander or

  600. somebody in charge is gonna say boots on the ground. Well,

  601. boots gotta be on your feet before boots are on

  602. the ground. And that's what I'm preaching right here today. Hey,

  603. fast food, come on, it's time to get an altar.

  604. It's time to eat, it's time to feast, it's time

  605. to get boot. You gotta have streak for the journey.

  606. That's what the Angel told Elijah. He said, arise and eat,

  607. for the journey is great. Oh come, on now, meaning

  608. you gonna need your shoes on. You gotta go somewhere.

  609. You gotta move away from here. You gotta move away

  610. from slowfulness, and you gotta move away from laziness. You

  611. gotta move away from a bad attitude. You gotta move

  612. Come on now, are you with me? You gotta move

  613. away from sometimes. That's what deliverance means to you. You

  614. gotta move away from ravens Brook. You gotta move away.

  615. I'm feeling him right now forgetting those things which are

  616. behind and reaching forth under those things that are before.

  617. Praise the Lord Jesus help us right now. And I

  618. want to get in trouble right here before we have

  619. the altar call and first corint this chapter number six,

  620. there are some categories of sins, and those that commit

  621. those sins would be sinners. And the Bible said they're unrighteous,

  622. they're unholy, they're impure, they're immoral, immoral, and the Bible

  623. said they will not inherit the Kingdom of God, they

  624. will not be possessors of the promise, they will not

  625. enter in And Apostle Paul was talking to members of

  626. the Corinthian Church that was no doubt drifting back to

  627. former lifestyles or being tempted or being pulled to former lifestyles.

  628. In those writings, he tells some of them. He said,

  629. your saints now, but you were sinners. You have a past.

  630. You have a dark past. You have a very black past.

  631. You have a past that nobody needs the resurrect. You

  632. have some dead zombies, and some dead monsters, and some

  633. dead grimlins, and some dead minions, and some dead things

  634. that are beyond the blood that nobody needs to bring back.

  635. You've got some things that are covered. You got some

  636. things that are on the other side. And he used

  637. this word some And during the night I tossed and

  638. turning around four o'clock in the morning, about the time

  639. you were getting home. I kept thinking of that scripture

  640. that said and such were some of you, It did

  641. not say and such were all of you. Not everybody

  642. comes from degradation, Not everybody comes from a despicable past.

  643. Not everybody makes horrible life choices. But the good news

  644. is deliverance can come to good boys and good girls,

  645. and bad boys and bad girls. The truth is a

  646. sin is a sin, But there are degrees and.

  647. Levels of sin.

  648. And Apostle Paul said there's some of these sins that

  649. some of you committed, and I'm telling you he didn't

  650. expect them to commit them again. And such were some

  651. of you. It was in your past to be slothful.

  652. It was in your past to be lazy. It was

  653. in your past to be effeminate. It was in your

  654. past to be a truckerd. It was in your past

  655. to be homosexual. It was in your past. I feel

  656. the need right here to explain there are plenty of

  657. scriptures in the Sacred Library that speaks against homosexuality. And

  658. if you study those particular scriptures that are our second

  659. co text this morning, you will see that there is

  660. no doubt about it that the Apostle Paul is speaking

  661. of two men in bed together or two women in

  662. bed together, vice versa.

  663. And there is no doubt that he's talking about.

  664. An effeminate or a womanish man, one that's girless, one

  665. that's pampering himself, one that's going to bathroom body works

  666. and getting their products.

  667. Are y'all with me?

  668. A man is becoming a little tender, a man is

  669. becoming a little delicate. A man is not to slight

  670. effeminate women. I mean, I thank God for effeminacy. I

  671. thank God for very girly, girly girly daughters, don't you, brothers, Hey,

  672. I don't like the tomboy thing. I don't like it

  673. no more than I like a tomgirl thing or whatever

  674. you would all that it got quiet right here, right now,

  675. I don't like it. But I'm telling you what Apostle

  676. Paul said. Some of you did walk away from bathom

  677. body works. Some of you did walk away from being

  678. lip wristed. Some of you did walk away from men

  679. and men being in bed together. Some of you did

  680. walk away from homosexuality. Oh, come on, now, I feel right.

  681. Some of you did walk away from immorality. Some of

  682. you did walk away from perversion. But he's saying, if

  683. you go back to it, if you go back to it,

  684. if you go back to it, you're not gonna make

  685. it to God's heaven. If you go back to it,

  686. you're not gonna be called God's child. If you go

  687. back to it, you're not gonna be known as a Christian.

  688. If you go back to it, that's not christ Like

  689. God's people don't do such things as that.

  690. So this tells me they're not the right.

  691. Oh but some so there are opportunity for deliverance from homosexuality.

  692. This tells me they have to run moment.

  693. Some saw their opportunity to be delivered from effeminacy.

  694. Somebody saw an open door.

  695. I'm asking you right here today, do you not see

  696. the open door?

  697. Do you not have your shoes on?

  698. Now?

  699. Here's the time? Today is Today.

  700. Are deliverance, the day are deliverance.

  701. It's so cool. You tell her, You tell her about Freedom's.

  702. Eve, the donning of a new day, the day of

  703. new beginnings. If you have your shoes on, you're gonna

  704. run out of sodom and gomara. If you have your

  705. shoes on, you're gonna leave that former lifestyle behind. If

  706. you have your shoes on and you're ready to get

  707. out of there, you're gonna leave them iron bars.

  708. If you have your.

  709. Shoes on, you're gonna leave the prison food behind, and

  710. you're gonna grab that Paschal Lamb, prays God, and you're

  711. gonna be ready when he says, go, I'm going just

  712. as soon as Mosah says he said go, I'm going

  713. just as soon as the Lord says it's for Piple.

  714. I'm ready for for Papa as soon as the Lord said,

  715. come to me, my child, I'm going to use Floyd.

  716. As soon as the Lord said possessed Canaan, I'm walking

  717. into cana Come on now, I'm telling.

  718. You there's a deadline. I feel like yet again, there's

  719. a deadline. The spell of God is calling. There's a deadline.

  720. You better get you while you can. While the gate

  721. is open, run through it. The righteous scarcely make it.

  722. The door's closing. May we stand the doors closed?

  723. They say, well, I'm bound by this, and I'm bound

  724. by that. Really, why not be bound for the promised land.

  725. I'm bound by Pharaoh, I'm bound by Herod, I'm bound

  726. by Sin. I doubt we have any gross im moral

  727. perversion in this place. But if there was somebody tattooed

  728. from head to toe, brother Jesse, if there was somebody

  729. tattooed from head to toe, and if they had even

  730. been through the surgery and have been a transgender from

  731. a young age and went through surgery at the surgery,

  732. at the surgery, at the surgery and made the transition.

  733. When he says transformed, you can transform. It may take

  734. a year or two to fix the outside. You messed up,

  735. But He'll fix the inside in a moment. Oh, I

  736. feel a witness of the Holy ghost. Freedom's Eve, Freedom's Eve,

  737. so night before they had their shoes on, eating supper.

  738. Souls and souls eating supper, Keep your shoes on. I'm

  739. just waiting on brother, how to say God told him

  740. that doors open. I'm just waiting on God to show

  741. me one more time that door's open. I'm just waiting

  742. on God to show me he ain't left me. I'm

  743. just waiting hold that one mercy drop to break loose

  744. from the end of.

  745. My Savior's fingertip.

  746. Forget having a young man dip his finger in water,

  747. or an old man dipping his finger in water and

  748. cooler parts tongue. All you need is one drip of

  749. that living water, one drip, one mercy drop. The blood.

  750. The blood says you can. The blood says you can.

  751. I could take time to tell you of just how

  752. strong the Bible is against the sin of homosexuality, whether

  753. committed by acts or committed in the heart. I can

  754. take you from the Old Testament to the New Testament.

  755. I can show you these words in First Corinthians, chapter

  756. number six, and show you just exactly what they mean

  757. in the Greek a guide is girly at all is

  758. in trouble with God. And we let them get in

  759. our pulpits in Pentecostal independent holiness churches, and we want

  760. to act like it ain't what it is. I'll tell

  761. you where they blown with their shoes on, waiting for deliverance.

  762. Not in our pulpit preaching deliverance. But is deliverance there

  763. for them?

  764. Yes? And I want to tell some of you.

  765. You've been battling bad attitudes, some characteristics, we'll call them

  766. inbred sins. You've been battling some things anger, hatred, malice.

  767. Could you believe that God is telling you that once

  768. and for all that enemy can be behind you today?

  769. Will you believe?

  770. Will you put your shoes on as we bow our

  771. heads and close our eyes, would you put your spiritual

  772. shoes on? And would you get ready to make tracks

  773. through the gates of deliverance and say God, no more

  774. evil surmisings, no more mixed notions, no more vain imaginations,

  775. no more impure thoughts, no more unclean habits, no more

  776. evil desires, no thieving, no stealing, no cunning, no more conniving,

  777. no more gossiping, no more murmuring, no more complaining. What

  778. is it that you're in bodied to? What does the

  779. Egyptian Taskmaster represent to you? What does Pharaoh in Egypt

  780. signify to you? What are their types and shadows?

  781. You know?

  782. And I don't care to know.

  783. But what I do care to tell you is the

  784. type in the shadow of Moses, the pastoral lamb and

  785. then being ready to go with their shoes on. That's

  786. all I care about, is you get what you need

  787. around these altars? Is there somebody else that wants to come,

  788. that would come right now of this altar and say, Preacher,

  789. it's not gross sin, just something that bothers me. I've

  790. been bound to it for a long time. Most people

  791. wouldn't even consider it sin. But it's just something that

  792. plagues me. Could it be just as a pivotal moment

  793. for you to be free of that? Hey man, anybody, Preacher,

  794. I've got something by buthering me.

  795. It plagues my mind. It battles me.

  796. I battle in my mind over it. The devil lies

  797. to me. The devil tells me I'm not saved. The

  798. devil tells me I'm not sanctified. The devil tells me,

  799. I'm never gonna receive the Holy ghost. I'd say there's

  800. probably at least a half a dozen that's battling in

  801. their mind in some way. Anybody else old live spirit

  802. to tell you all kind of things. Wouldn't it be

  803. great to actually put your foot on the neck of

  804. the enemy today and the enemy realize you have your

  805. shoes on. You're running through Deliverance's gate today. That's about

  806. half the church. I'd say, let's all just bring our

  807. burdens to the Lord. I'd say, let's all look for

  808. the open gate. Let's look for the raised windows of opportunity.

  809. Let's all find a place to pray. Say Jesus, Jesus,

  810. if you're a vial sinner, say Jesus, would you save me,

  811. deliver me. I'm having supper with my shoes on. I've

  812. feasted at your table today, and I'm ready to turn

  813. and to go and send no more