A Plea In The Pit - Bro Jeremy Howell 10-5-2025

Who know you will honor me throughout the year. But

I do appreciate it very much.

Thank you so much for have given this morning, and

the Pastor Gobin, this first lady will definitely reap the

benefits of that your goodness to us.

Thank you.

Hey, if you have your bibles, will you turn with

me to the book of Psalm, Man, direct your attention

to the fortieth chapter, Soalm chapter number forty, and we'll

be looking at verse number two. Our golden text will

be solved. Chapter number forty, verse number two. Brother Nathaniel, Exodus,

chapter number three and verse number eight. Brother Jesse, Romans

chapter number five and verse number six. It's good to

see brother Jacob's daughter and her daughter here this morning.

We miss those that are out sick today. Still have

a great crowd here. They telling me about seventy five

or so. So I'm thankful for that. God's been good

to us. Praise the Lord.

Amen.

Brother Nathaniel, Exodus, chapter number three and verse number eighth.

My brother and I have.

Come down to deliver them out of the hand of

the Egyptians, and to bring them up out of the

land onto a good land and a large onto a

land flowing with milk and honey onto the place of

the Canaanites and the Hiptites, and the Amorites, and the Perizites,

and the Highlights and the Jusides. I am sure those

people that had been cleaned unto the Lord for deliverance

were glad that the opportunity for deliverance had come, and

it was up to them to embrace the hand of

He who desired to deliver them.

From a horrible place.

Again, it was up to them to latch a hole

of the hen that was present to save them out

of that horrible place, Brother Jesse, Romans, chapter number five

and verse number six, when we were yet without strength,

in due time, Christ died for the ungodly amen. Even

if they didn't have the power to deliver themselves, they

still had to reach forth and had to try to

get a hold of a reaching down hen, and wanted

to lift them up and out of a horrible place.

Let's stand from the reading of our golden text. Please

thank you for standing in honor to God's word. Psalm

chapter number forty and verse number two. The Bible says

He brought me up also out of a horrible pit,

out of the myri clay, and set my foot upon

a rock and established my goings, looking at.

The first part of that verse again.

He brought me up also out of a horrible pit.

I had what seemed to be a vision.

And in that vision I saw a female hen as

it began to slip down in.

The mirey clay, and it was just about to seat

beyond the bottom. But I saw a hand come from

out of know where.

I slipped gently in the hand of that woman's head

that says, to weep my sow.

The Lord pulling up that woman.

And before her face came out of the mud.

I didn't see who it was because the vision was over.

Let's pray Heaven and Father, we love it. We praise you.

We thank you for your goodness and your mercy. I

thank you for what we feel in this place this morning.

Hold.

I'm thankful for the spirit of God that we have

felt already.

Lord, I am and nobody, You were everything.

You're everything to us today, God, and we depend upon you.

To help us and to lift us up and out.

We prayed that you and a knowing this, I serve

and said, a.

Guard in my mouth and help me to say the

things you would.

Have me to say nothing more or less, and then

ideas of this thin people that they might hear what

the Spirit of God says it to the church this morning,

We'll give you the praise and the honor and the

glory in Jesus's name.

In the church said.

Heymen, as you're being seated, look at your neighbor and say, hey, neighbor,

have you ever found yourself in a horrible place? In

a horrible place, I want to preach a message the

Holy Ghost titled a Plea in the Pit. A Plea

in the Pit, reading our golden texts again, so I'm forty.

And verse number two is that he brought me up

also out of a horrible pit, out of the mirit clay,

and set my foot upon a rock and established my goings.

Our textas found in an Old Testament book of the

Holy Bible, the Book of Psalm fortieth Psalm, we find

its author, who is the Sweet Sawmist of Israel, David,

maintaining an attitude of praise. And I'm thankful this morning

that we can praise him whether we're.

On a solid rock or in the bottom of a pin.

And I want you to hold to this mental outline

as I'm preaching to you what God gave me to

preach to you today. You can praise the Lord in

the pit, and you can pray to the Lord in

the pit.

And my desire this morning is that someone will do both.

That before this service is over, that somebody will recognize

they are in a pit, and that they will begin

to praise the Lord, and after they've been brought up

and out, that they will just praise Him all the

days of their.

Life going forward.

And so we know that the Sawmist was one to

practice what he preached. And I noticed that when he

put pen to parchment he had a certain pattern when

it comes to writing. Anybody that has studied the poetic

writings of David knows that this man.

Of God was definitely inspired.

You could tell that God breathed into this man. And

because God breathed into this man, this man literally was

able to relate to every person of every generation. How

could he do this thing because he, too, as Jesus Christ.

Was, was a man that was subject to like passions

as you all are.

He was a man that would pray when other people

didn't feel like praying. He was a man that felt

like praising God when other people just felt like it

was time to hang up the instruments and to sit

in an ash pile and have pity on himself. But

David was a believer that when he found himself in

a horrible situation or a predict that he could pray

and that he could praise the Lord.

And as you study this psalm, you'll seize.

Practice of what he was preaching.

This man of God believed it was necessary to praise

the Lord because of all of the Lord's marvelous and

wondrous acts. Despite so many unpleasant situations that surface in

the life of David and all of the trouble that

he endured in his short life, he made a deliberate

effort in praising and worshiping his God. And that's why

you're here this morning. You're making a deliberate effort together

together in his house, in the House of.

The Lord, exalting his name together.

And I thank God for this unified spirit that we

feel in this place today. As I was reading through

this fortieth Psalm, I noticed something a little bit different

about the palm, and it stood out to me, Brother Jesse.

Throughout the years, while reading the psalms.

In the Hebrew Song Book.

I noticed a pattern the author, especially David, seemed to

stick to when writing.

A lot of the Psalmists.

When writing these songs would begin with a person finding

themselves in trouble, and they end with that person promising

the Lord that they will praise.

Him because they have found deliverance to.

The mighty hand of God from that particular situation. They

had been delivered and they felt the need to praise

the Lord. But this sob Psalm chapter number forty begins

with praise. Look at first number one. I waited patiently

for the Lord, and he inclined unto me, and he

heard my cry rise about the psalmist to say, of

praise the Lord.

My prayer did not fall upon death.

Pears tuned in to my plea, and he heard my prayer.

And I want to offer praise and tell everybody that

he heard my prayer and brought me up and out

of this horrible situation. So he begins to beg the

Lord to deliver him at some point, and then he

has no problem whatsoever praising God for the deliverance.

But why is it today very few people are.

Willing to enter a plea with the Lord and to

pray and ask God for deliverance. People seem to be

able to endure so much today. I don't know if

it's because of prescription drugs or because of the distraction of.

Television and Hollywood.

I don't know what it is, but people seem content

to wallow in the misery of mind. It seems to

me like.

Very few people anymore are reaching up to reaching down

hand you are, Oh, no.

It's trade.

I was talking to my precious mother in law only

a couple of days ago, and she said, Jeremy, how's

it going down there? It's been about twenty years since

you took charity in your family by the hand and

led them into La Belle to do a work for

the Lord. How's it going down there? And I said,

Laverne is going quite well. God has been good to us.

I said, for the first six years it was a

bit of a struggle.

But after praying and fashion.

And seeking the Lord, we are reaping because we did

not faint. She said, that's right, it's time to reap.

And she said, how many are y'all running down there now?

I said about seventy to eighty, And with this look.

Of surprise, she said, my Jeremy, that is so good,

she said.

Even in this day and hour in which.

We live in, it's so good.

She said.

Very few people find it important to go to church anymore.

A lot of the nominal.

Churches of this area have less than fifty on Sunday

night and mid week because people are just disinterested in

praying to God. They're disinterested in corporate or collective worship.

I can't image and developing that mindset or having that

mentality concerning the things of God. But if I'm David

saying I'm glad for the opportunity to go to the House.

Of the Lord, whether I'm standing on.

The rocky foundation of the Temple of God or whether

or not I'm seeking in the mire, I'm privileged to

be able to make a plea under God and give

a prayer unto God, and offer a.

Praise unto God.

And so David was not hesitant or reluctant at all

to beg the Lord and ask.

Him for his deliverance.

When you look at Psalm chapter number forty and verse

number two Golden Text, Daven knows the identity of his deliverer.

You have heard before people say that I don't know

exactly what happened to me, because I was in such

a sad state of mind that when my deliverance came,

I don't know who my rescuers.

Or my deliverers were.

And in time, some little girl or some little boy

gets introduced to that hero that saved their life.

I remember years.

Ago hearing of this little girl named Jessica that had

fallen into a big pipe and it fell hundreds of

feet below the earth's surface, and search and rescue began

to look for this little missing person, and you know,

they found her after they heard her cry. And some

years later she was introduced to those that delivered her

and those who were rescued. But David does not need

to be introduced to his delivery.

He says, he brought me up also.

Out of a.

Horrible pit, out of the.

Miry clay, and set my footpot of rock and establish

my goals. It's evident the Soallest experienced times that are

distressing times in his life. There's no doubt in anyone's

mind today that every person who is alive is dealing

with things on a daily or weekly basis, that at

times they are distressed because of those certain things that

are going.

On in their lives. The Bible writer wrote Abyss when

he said, man that is.

Born of a woman is a few days and full

of trouble. Every person in this field, and just like

Jesus Christ would know, you know what it is.

To feel how this sum is spelt.

And there's people in this feeling, this foreign feeling, exactly

how this sum is spelt. When it finally decided it's.

Time to cry with a loud.

Nois unto God.

And perhaps somebody in this feeling in prison today, you

seemingly are waiting patiently on the Lord to deliver you.

And when you read this song by the Jesse, the

first three words go like this, I awaited impatiently.

I don't want you to think that David was sitting there.

At the bottom of a pit, passively sinking in the mire.

As I read this chapter and took in context, I realized,

this is a man that finds himself seeking in the

miner and realizes if he.

Goes below the surface power comuve.

He will be never seen again. I don't believe Dave

was giving us this picture and this imagery for us

to think of a person that was just sitting there

until they died. We're just sitting there until they sunk

out of sight. This Somers had no desire to seek

below the bottom. And I feel like there's somebody in

this fielding today. You better start reaching up to that

reaching their own hand.

Somebody could ask me, what do you see in these

verses of scripture? Brother?

Cheer me well, thank you for asking me. How I

feel about it? I see Dave and pleading.

From the bottom of the horrible pit.

He's lain impatiently, but better than a fan, you'll I

feel like he's crying with a loud voice.

Is there anybody out there.

That could save me?

Is there anybody out there that could hear my cry?

Is there anybody out there unfamiliar with what I'm going through?

Is there anybody out there familiar with what I'm.

Going through that would care enough to come by this

way and lend a helping hand. When I read that

first number two, something stood out to me, And is

he described that place as a horrible pica.

I believe he.

Had been in there so long that he knew every crack.

On the wall of that pit.

When you'd been there so long that the insects like

spiders and answer are your friends and your.

Neighbors and your company. You have been in there too alone.

They even didn't say, well it was okay.

Or it was firing while it lasted.

They even recognized this is a horrible place. And that's

the same place that the Israelites found themself here in

the time of Moses.

Our brother read our context this morning.

It was Exodus, chapter number three and verse number seven,

and it went like this, And the Lord said, I

have surely seen the affliction of my people which are

in Egypt.

Let me tell you something.

If you're in Egypt, you're in a horrible ploice. And

God said, I have heard their crime by reason of

their task masters, for I know their sorrows. And if

you're a lost and undone without God, you are in

a horrible poice, and your life.

Is filled with the sorrows.

The context of this is Moses is busy doing what

Moses did as a shepherd, and while he is tending

after the flock, there is a bush that is caught fire,

and we call that the burning bush. And while Moses

is there with his shoes removed from his speech, and

God telling in this place, it's not a horrible place.

It is a holy place.

And so while.

Moses is in a holy place of God, against to

tell Moses about Moses's siblings and family members and its

people being in a horrible place. It is to how

the purpose of this burning bush experience was not just

for God to communicate or converse with Moses in a

glorious manner. Better, Nathaniel, the purpose of this supernatural visitations

for God.

To tell Moses. I know of their ROMs, and I

know of their sorrows.

I know all what the Israelza are going to grue.

There was a time that the land.

Of Goshen was a holy place. It was designated for

the people of God. But that holy place has become

a horrible place.

Oh, come on, now, I'm telling somebody in this fielding

this morning.

You know that where you're a.

Dwelling, so to speak, he is a horrible place. And

every center that is living a life without God, they

are in.

A horrible place.

And said God told Moses, they are doing something differently

than what they've done over the last four hundred years.

They finally got sick and tired of a horrible place.

And there is a plea from the pit, and I'm

telling somebody in this fielding today until you get to

the place.

Where you are sick and tired, happy and in Egypt.

For being in the pitt, you will still continue hooky

to slowly.

Seek in the mire.

God had not lost his view of the israel Lights

that they've found themselves seeking in a mire of distress

and despair. The Egyptian Bondacia would be a horrible place

to be stuck in. Hoe Come on now, when them

being went home away to their wives and their children,

the wife had to look upon the fur rempacts of

their husband's where the testmasters had been the doctor blood

and the wife had testimony that I was not much pregnant,

and I delivered our baby today, only.

To have that baby more.

Plucked out of my arms and cast into the crack

of the union and pisted horns up the nile. They

were living there in a terrible place. I remember when

I first realized as a young man, that's the word.

He's a terrible place. That I realize I better chained

my children up in the ways of God, that I

better make myself take them to the house of God.

I'm telling you, this world is in total chaos.

It's unreveling at the scene.

So in the mir of distress and despair, in this

horrible place where they're come, port to prayer when people

are seeking, when they're stunny deeper in the mid will

there go fair to a prayer. You see the Israel

like me in it and been making bricks of what

of blood?

They lived their.

Life in a horrible place. They lived their lives, you

deeping bood. They came home with burt on their face.

They creme home with burn on their body. And I

want you to do what's worse than that? There's a

money soul. I don't live a Genji left a temple

and a dark concerned.

Is a horrible place.

That's not a place where God let.

God said, your body is to be the temple of

a holy ghost.

It's to be a holy place, not take a horrible place.

And I want to tell you here.

Today there aren't you chips and testmasters say spiritually that

are making you do things you don't.

Know to do when you're cursed in it.

To you said I did it.

But now you've found out it is the emans of

hell that makes you lose control.

He is the demons of hell all that makes you

hold on to the habit. Then is the demons of

hell that makes you hold on to the addiction.

That good an eye it realizes I'm in a horrible place.

If they'll cry out, God will hear them, hear their distress.

Here in the middle of that horrible place. It's a

horrible place.

The Bible said, there is a way that seemth bride

and demand, but the end there of his destruction.

It's death.

But on that way, that broadway, there's much distress because

the way of the transgressor is hard. Recently, I was

a praying and the Lord began to paint a picture

for me to see that like I've never seen before.

And the imagery goes like this.

You know, there's a way called the stress and the narrow.

And Jesus Christ himself identified him as the way he

himself is the only way to the Father.

And so I saw this.

One lane highway, and brother Jesse similit stretched from earth

to heaven. And on that way were the words the

Highway of holiness, the highway of holiness, that appeared to

me about every three hundred feet. There it was written

the Highway of Holiness. And there was an arrow pourting

in the upward direction, and by.

The road cap there was another way that was literally

half as wide as the earth, and on it was

called the broadway, and it seemed to be elevating, but

there were ear rows that showed people were going in

the opposite direction.

And upon closer, Officer, I realized these people were going

directly one hundred and eighty degrees in the opposite direction.

Of those that were on that narrow path.

That says the Howel. I noticed that that path, although

it was.

Wide, it had a smoke to it, and Brother Nathaniel,

it was somewhat spiraling downward.

And Brother Samuel Howell, you preached.

On dizzney demus, and I'd say there were a whole

lot of dizzey demuses on that highway. On one particular

lane was written the word Hinduism.

On another particular lane was.

Written some other things, and then on another lane some

other I realized all of the religions in.

The world were on that broadway.

And then I realized all of the.

People that are not keepers of the book, who do

not promote and hold the sound doctrine, they also had

their own lane. Everybody had a different denomination. Everybody had

a different religion. Even within Christianity, there was probably thirty

something lanes that were I'm telling you divided.

They had their own path, they see rock, they had

their own way.

The Christians would say, we're not like the Islamis. Look

in their lane.

And Islamis would say, we're not like the Hinduhosa.

They're looking their lane. And I realize all of those

people were on the same road, just the different lane.

They were over the broadway that had many lanes. And

I realize the word holiness is a more important than

we realize. The word holiness being on the church monkey.

It's not what it takes to get you to heaven.

But we know holiness represents, we know what it means,

we know what it indicates. It indicates our people that

have recognized we cannot go.

With the pattern, and we cannot go with the treads.

We cannot over the fasting treads, we cannot go over

the plow or come on, now, you gotta be like

that salmon. You gotta swim upstream in a down stream

a world. And I realize we better hold on in

the Bible, and we better stay on this straight and

narrow pathway.

What does the word hole in us mean? Only means

so much more than what so many people believe it to.

Me when they see it posted on a church.

Marquee or when they hear somebody say I belong to

such as such.

Home in this church.

The word holding us literally means separated or sactified.

Unto God, from the spirit this world. And I'm telling

you the Bible sid without holiness, no man shall see

the Lord.

And you can tell when somebody has been divided, or

when somebody's been separated out from the currents of compromiser

and the spirits of this world.

But you can also pit of it when they're lost.

In the currents and they're in a world pool that

is spiraling down with and taking them to a place

of destruction. We are not to think so highly of ourself.

These are the is relightes that God preserves.

From the Pharro's hand.

But in new time the pair Roh's hand that He's revived,

it's recovered, it's renewed. And because of the disobedience of

God's people concerning holiness, concerning sanctification, they found themselves in

a horrible place and this stuck there there there's no

army that can get the house up that take.

Um out of there.

That's just don't out of horses that can get them

out of there.

Then David saying that you get sending.

The horrible place he finds himself.

In years later, that there's no other hand that can

get me out of here. There's no other ear that

can hear it where I'm at. That I'm telling you, David,

and that he is relax in their day, realize it's time.

To fly out. Take God and listen hold me. That

did I filling.

Somebody here today that.

It's time may for you to fly out. Take it

before they get your.

Child, before they get the rest of the family. God,

you can't mercy hold me.

So many people are stuck in tomorrow. They're stuck in the.

Seriesple that chose to cope with dope, people that chose

to cope befornication, people that chose the cope with various things,

and they find themselves.

On a downward spiral, and Sister witness sinking deeper and deeper.

At some point, most find themselves in distress, like this

young man that we saw recently. Sister how and I

were around somebody that took a different road, and it

was a road on the highway of what would call

Christianity or christen But Brother Jeremiah was a different path.

And we realized after we went to the right and

he chose to go to the left, that after many many.

Years, that family was controlled by vices that they should

not have been controlled by. We realized that the longer

time passed by, the greater the divide. And I told

Sister how the other day, I said, it ain't that

we haven't walked through hard places, and it ain't that

we haven't had it hard at times, and it's not

that our children have it veered off course at times,

and it's not that we have just been perfect altogether

every time and every situation. But I said, honey, I

have I had that vision and understanding. I said, I

know we're on the right way because the Bible said

the way. The transgression is hard, and I know it

ain't been no better roses for the holiness people.

But I know this today.

Ain't nobody in this building had to hit a joint

for peace of mind.

They ain't nobody had.

To store or stiff a lot of crack in order

to cope with a batsman and child.

There ain't nobody popping pills in.

Order to deal with their horrible situation.

And they find themselves stuck in.

And I'm telling you that where people at early hold

disagreed with the life tresses and then the seas that

I made concern of my family.

But now after twenty to thirty years.

They say, I see why you.

Did what you did. Listen, I'm telling you, Yes, we have.

Found ourself in hard places.

And yes, just like the prophet Jeremiah, we have found

ourself in horrible places. Jeremiah found themself in a horrible

picture for preaching the gospel that I want you to know.

I have been a recipient of the goodness of God.

And every time, brother, it's a preacher or a person

that needs help her if they'll plead and ask God

to help them, God will.

Pull them out that horrible.

Prace that just stuck in.

Don't come on now.

In Egypt, they were being afflicted that God heard them

crying because of the way they were being treated by

their taskmasters. And God, come knows es I came to

deliver them. God wasn't so much trying to manifest himself

to Moses as he was saying, We've.

Got business that Tim do.

We've got to deliver my people man out of the

hands of ghost people.

There how of the liver God's people left out.

Of the handsome on the Egyptiens. He came to bring

them out for and out of the land of Egypt.

And the first comes on to.

Say he's going to bring him output and out and

bring them to a good land.

He's going to bring them to a land up on

milk and honey.

He's going to bring them to a land up where

the blessings of GodFor you a burn that's come on.

Now, I'll tell us somebody to day.

I saw you seeking in the mire. It's time and

to tell your him elput and say God, do you

hear me?

God live in verne? I'm seeking that in this hall

of place.

My mother in law told me. She said, Jeremy.

Today even in the am on the churches, there's very

few people going to church, and she teaches Sunday school

every Sunday morning.

And she goes to prayer meeting at church every day.

Says to how every morning she gets up out of

bed and goes to the church and praise with a

group of women of a charismatic persuasion. And she said,

in there, with some it's chaos and confusion, and with

some it's difference and discord. And she said some it

seems to there just to distract her and get her

off of course on what she's teaching on.

And Brother Nathaniel, I thought, man, there ain't no.

New thing under the sun.

It don't matter what church you're in anymore.

There are them trouble makers. There's those people that's asking

a question just to throw.

Her off track.

And she said, I said, I won't to scream, And

she said, I won't go in there and take that

bull by the horns.

And I'm gonna ask her, you don't even believe what

you're holding in your hand. You don't even trust God

to his word for what it says.

Stop reaching out to the cosmos and pulling these questions

out of the sky when you can't even wrap your

mind around on what God said it is worded. And

then just before we left, she said, Jeremy, let me

ask you a question. And she said, after death, what now?

She knows the Bible probably as good as anybody in

this fielding And I got to preach to her for

about seven minutes, says the how knows it's true.

She got touch God helped her.

I said, the Bible said to be absent in body

is to be present with the Lord. And she said,

right now, some of these teachers, and she's her teach

along them lives all them years now, they're teaching on everybody.

Most saint and sinner go to a purgatory of sorts.

She didn't use that word, but they.

Go to Paradisa. I said, that has reformed Catholic theology.

I said, they're trying to park everybody for a decision

at a later day. But when you die, you are

in either heaven or Hell. I said, Jesus saint down

there in Paradisa, ain't down there with all the sinners

and all the saints.

Oh, come on, now, we can't bring him out. We

can't put her out.

The there is some crooked cassa in this world. I said,

that's a reformed Catholic theology. And abduction, I said, Jesus.

Said, I go to my Father, and Jesus is at

the right hand of the Father.

And where Jesus is, every deceased believer is. I'm telling

you this day and hour. You can't hardly believe.

You anything that you hear a preachers say, because the

spirit of Antel Christ he is so power upon it

is so widespread.

This is the woton, this wrna? Is it a predicament?

This Florida?

Is this such a distress?

The creation itself is crony. The earth is splitting, earthquakes

are happening now.

The heavens don't know what to do.

They don't know whether to cry laid out of heaven

up or a triumph for tears. I said, Creation that

self his crony. A kid would living up in Paris

this time.

So how about it? What are you gonna do?

Are you gonna wait until your ears.

It's melting with a fervent heat. Are you gonna wait

until your hair that leaves.

Beneath your feet erupts and the songs hallow things, including the.

Substance of the earth, which includes people. What are you

gonna do? Then it'll be too late to cry out

from such.

A hair, But it'll be too late to cry out

from such a hold.

I'm gonna be in a hole that place, sir, when

that's happening, I said.

I want to be father in a whole in place.

When that's happening. But you know what was gonna be something.

They're gonna wake up, like the.

Rich man DoD They're gonna find themselves in a horrible place.

And that rich man he asked, father Abraham, Father Abraham,

Lazarus right there, that one, it was the beggar in life,

that one right there. No, not that one, not that one,

Not that that beggar than I knew personally, the one

I ignored, the one that I had close company with,

but yet didn't foster relationship with Lazarus. Have him dip

the tip over his finger and water, have him come

to me, then he cool my parts done, Bob was

said in hell he did rift up his eyes being

into himent.

And that's just how what I saw. I saw that

fetite little.

Hand looked like a middle aged woman was going down

and she was just beginning to realize I'm sinking.

God.

And a lot of people think David was trying to

tell us, you just passed up to sit there when

I waited patiently.

It's a horrible place. He's sinking. In mind.

I could hear to weep a prophet now, Jeremiah, when

he was in such a place that man had mercy

on Jeremiah, and he went told the king. He said,

if we leave him in there, he's gonna die. And

that's what I'm telling you. If you don't reach up,

you're gonna die. Ten minutes from house too soon, and twenty.

Years from now too soon. But I know this. When

holding flies over your.

Pit, he starts fluttering his rooms, sitting for that divide

hand to reach down.

The holy dove has spotted your horrible place.

I feel impressed of the Lord to share this with you.

When I was a teenager, I enjoyed riding horses. My

room was decorated in horses. When it was unpopular for

little boys to wear cowboy boots, I wore cowboy boots.

Nobody else in the school wore cowboy boots. When they

were Nike and Rebok, when they debated which one was

a better shoe, when.

They debated which one costs more? I wore cowboy boots.

They weren't just the ordinary cowboy boots.

They were riving stake skinned cowboy boots.

Invitation, but snake skin nevertheless, And Brother Nathaniel, more than

anything in my life, I loved riding horses. And then

in the early nineties, remember a mining company called Mosaic

come into Central Florida, and they began to swallow up

the competition, like imc Agricus Tech.

And Brother Jesse and a wit that they swallow up.

Those mining giants.

As they grew, they began to swallow up entire towns.

Brewster is no more. There used to be a post

office there. There used to be what they called a

watering hole, which was a beer joint.

Was there.

There were stores there. I know of men that I

know personally that were raised in a town of Brewster.

These mina giants began to target the area that we lived.

In colch Shakhora.

It's just how you will remember how everybody protested the

mining giant Mosaic coming.

Into our area.

I remember them big drag lines that were so huge

that you could drive a full size ISSUV up into

the bucket done. My kids have seen me stand in

the buckets of those big draglines, and I looked like

a flea on a dog.

I mean, they're huge mining machines.

And I remember county commissioners and city commissioners and congressmen

trying to.

Listen to the pleas of the people.

Oh dragon, don't come into our town, old dragon, don't

eat up our trees, don't chew up by our longer,

don't tear up our hunting grounds. They made it the

same as though that hunting ground was sacred. Don't destroy

our wildlife. But Mosaic moved into our area. Nevertheless, despite

the plea of all of them old timers, some of

which I knew, that had literally staked out what they wanted,

they didn't even spend a penny on it back in

the early nineteen hundreds, They just cleaned it. But here

come the mining company, and some because the money was

so good, they sold out.

And since the women, there was one particular old.

Man that when everybody else sold out and left them

to the power our community, one old man said, you

can't have my particular parcel of the ground.

And you know what they did with that big drab line.

They got just as close as they could to his

fence post and dug the earth up. Now I'm talking

about deep crevices.

And deep holes.

Some of those holes would plunge twenty to thirty to

forty to sixty feet deep, and they ripped up the

earth just on the other side of his property line.

In that part of the.

State, most everyone knows that when it comes to a

farmer maximizing his crops, there are some potential growth opportunities

because of what.

These guys had to offer.

They mind pot ash, they mind phosphate, other minerals and nutrients.

Ands As to how them greedy farmers were okay.

With the mines coming in and destroying the land because

they wanted the vital nutrients for their crup and some

embraced these people, while most refused to let them come

into their area.

But you know what, by the Tyler, when they were

set and down.

They had confiscated and purchased so much property.

That had destroyed Central Florida.

To this day, when you're driving along the highways, the

Yankee Office would assume.

That to be the mountains of Central Florida.

I remember one asking me one time, to y'all know

anything about these mountains.

Why are there no trees on them?

Why is there no vegetation on these mountains? Why they're

so rocky? I said, listen, that is the waste or

the by product of the great mighty industry down in

our area.

And that soil is full of top.

Are y'all listening to me?

And sometimes them talks and seat below the surface, and

they get into the aquafa and they.

Contaminate the water surface and the water source.

And sister Howell, literally the mining company swallow up the

entire towns, and brother Nathaniel, you've seen it. And they

just strip mine acres and acres and acres, hundreds and.

Thousands of acres. And when they get done, after.

About fifteen years of people protesting and after activists telling them,

look at this wasteland and all the refue just look

at the way you're.

Leaving this beautiful property ravage. Look at this, the mining

company figured out.

They better start bringing in big bulldozers and start leveling

things off.

But the land is never the same, and they plant pine.

Trees and they have to plant a certain amount of

vegetation per acre, a certain amount of trees, certain number

of trees per acre.

Well, this horse riding full decided to.

Cross the highway because they didn't want to spend the

money to build a boundary fence. And I crossed the

highway on my horse, and I thought, this is the

best riding country I've ever rode.

In in my life. I could see off into the distance.

I could see all of the pools of water that

were left behind, lakes that didn't used to exist or

now in existence. Waterfowls there the mass are swimming into

little water holes. I took that horse through those wastelands.

I looked at the.

Little immature trees as they developed. I looked at the

saw grass that they had planted. And after a couple

hours of riding out there, just like somebody riding horse

back in the West, I said, you know what, old boy,

I guess there's good things coming out of this, because

I have a place where I can work you in.

It's a beautiful place. It's a wonderful place. And I

slid out of the saddle and stood there my jigs

and I pitied him on his neck muscles. I scratched

his mane, I robed his ears. I said, you wore

out at your boy, Let me get you some water.

So I pulled the bridle over his head. I let

him his bridle to the water. It's a beautiful place.

It's an oasis. It's not a holy place. And I

thought I could feel a holy God out there.

It's a beautiful place, I said, drink cheeks, and he

didn't argue. He winned.

I just heard a horse in my mind. Here, beautiful place.

I could live here, spirit of Daniel Boom to get

on me. I could build it here, to build a

cabin here. I could live in this beautiful place. Pads

are on the water now, lily pads both altra crokeet

crickets or chirping bake fisher in the water's edge.

Brother Jeremiah, and Jigs is drinking, and suddenly I heard.

I turned around and I looked at just a small

crack in the earth, and I said, huh, imagine that.

It's just the ground set of it. I'm preaching to somebody.

Right now behind you is a hairline dr but it's

fixing the flash fire. And my instinct said take the

mighty beasts and run. But my knowledge and my wisdom

it said you'd be okay. It's just a little crack.

But my good instinct said run.

And that's where you're at. You're in the battle. Do

I cry out for help and I take.

The chance to continue. Jiggs picked his head up and

his ears started moving around. He started jerking his head.

He got an uneasy feeling, and the earth shook underneath

our feet and Jigg's got to jump them. I said, no, Jiggs,

don't panic, No, Jiggs. Camumbe came doubleye is a one,

and then it broke. Blue said here we are. We're

on an island flowing out until forty to sixty foot

deep frost food pit. My sister Neely.

That island wasn't stable, it wasn't a solid rock my feet.

He lifted me up and out of a horrible pit,

setting my feet on solid rock. I realized him and

I both are on a little island about eight foot diamond.

And we're selling out toide of death. And then.

Brother Steret, just like somebody dropping a dirt dollar's nest

in a gallon of water, it busts and it starts dissolving.

And I could swim like a fish, but I love

that horse so much. I didn't want to leave him

because I knew I was leaving him to his death.

And I started swimming towards the shore and the baint's

breaking away from me, and I get my elbows up

the bank and it was quick saying, now lam flat,

and I get jigs that are getting turned around and

he's fighting. And he finally gets both of those hoofs

on solid ground, fight through the.

Mud, and he gets up to his shoulders and he's tightening.

And he was so spirited.

Only two or three of us could ride that horse.

Many people tried to ride him.

He was a fighter.

He wanted to fight, he wanted to live, he wanted

to survive. He's fighting, nostrils were flaring, he's winning, he's working. Brother, Nathaniel,

we fought for our life for about seven or eight

minutes through that mud, and I got jigs final and.

Said, come on. Because one lively spirit could speak to

another lie of his spirit, he felt what I felt.

We're gonna survive. We're gonna that's what David. He hurt

my fight.

Yeah, you might be waiting patiently, but you're not passing

with singing in the mud.

There's a horrible pit.

Horrible way to die.

It's a horrible place die.

Without thought is a horrible way to die. And I

remember thinking this is a horrible.

Way to die.

There's nobody gonna find us out here.

And then come a brother riding a horse, and he said, hey,

are y'all in trouble?

I said, yeah, go get some help.

Sister woke.

We got out, and just as we got out, for

whatever reason I will never understand, Jeeves got spooped and

he turned one hundred and eighty degrees and he.

Jumped right back in it. And I said, oh God.

And then he was without strength. And our brother read

our context.

When we were without strength, when we were without strength,

when we got sick and tired of finding ourself, he

came unrescued, when we were unable to deliver ourselfs.

He came to our rescue.

And I remember saying, Jer's just keeps swimming.

Helps coming. James, just keeps swimming, helps coming.

About twenty minutes later, there'll come a grand wagoneer over

the hill that belonged to my a cousin, Carls, a

Southeastern construction vehicle, and it pulled up there and out

got two men came out with ropes and straps, and

they tied it around the jigs of Milly and they

pulled until a rope at the rope broke. We tied

it to the saddle and we broke a girth strap.

I had broke the rains trying to pull him out.

And you know what, it looked just about the hopeless,

and one of them men said, well, I'll probably break

his backbone. I'll probably terror's interests. I said, that's fine.

I don't want him to die here in such a

horrible place.

They said, Oh, we've got to put the pedal to

the middle, and we've got to use everything this grandchy

waggoneer's got. And I remember watching them a tire spin

and watching a muddy rooster tail fan out behind that

grand wagoneer. I saw it back into that wagoneer squat

and I saw it catch solid ground and I saw

Jeez glitterly get snatched out.

I'm a horrible pick. Oh he lay there, says the howl,

so weak. They said he won't make it. I said, yeah,

but he's up and he's out.

And I'm telling somebody here, they're.

Not as story as you think you are. Here much

we come, then you realize and you better.

Reached down, ready to that reaching down here, and let

God bring.

You up and out of that horror of my poy

so you won't.

Be touched by the corn up a cheech survival that

I want you to know as meta as you're touched

my cheek survival. I've touched them mostly by your struggling

m and by your seeking.

You may not realize and yet and I'm turning.

To the earth behind you has cracked up, and.

You are not just seeking the road, the bottom up.

Of the home up?

What about it touch this morning? Then?

Are you sitting there staring at me? Why I'm preaching

my touch, sider, and you're praying for the singer? Where

you're praying for that one there, he's better seeking that

you're known, where you expiritually say of God, you have

a voting for the last time?

Are you're praying enough?

As hard as I.

Preaching Zion, it's trevating. It's come time for birth, and

are you ready to deliver church?

What I want to point out here we'll dismiss afteril

we pray. I'll cross the road and ventured in the

waste lands of Mosaic.

Saving me to water a horse and take a ride

on a Saturday afternoon. Then it happened, after two and

a half hours of struggling to save that horse in

my own life, we've got him out to after one

hour preaching. I don't know if I'll get you out

there because it's not my hand that will pull.

You out there. He said, he heard about crime.

And I want to say this, as strong as Jigs was,

as powerful as he was, as willing as he was,

as to how he was not able to get out

on his own.

And that's what I'm telling somebody here today. You can't

get free. You want to get free, you can't. The

addict right now ain't happy. He's an addict.

A young man started dabbling with drugs to cope, and

started using drugs to cope, I want to say that again,

and started using drugs the cop Nowadays, you don't have

to go to the drug dealer.

You just go to your doctor.

I'm having trouble mentally, Well, here's a drug help you cope.

He got so defended on the drugs to cope with

life because the devil put him in a horrible hit.

The long story short is he started stealing to support

his habit. You think that woman out there selling her body.

Is doing it for the fun of it.

There's a few of them out there doing it for

the fun of it.

And there's a lot of them where the holdness phenecostal

seeing that God, Church of God or Baptists.

To do it, and they even wear a white dress

and get married. And they look at the man and

say till death do a part. And all it is

is just like with a prodical son, until you'll want

it's him too. I'll stay marry him for money and

not for love. It's filthy.

Well, I need him to help pay my bills, said

the woman who married someone would she needed somebody to

help pay her bills. Then after it's all sudden done,

she found out he's a child with listing. After she

married him to pay her bills, she finds out he's

gonna wrap sheet and a record half of all along, and.

So does this fire. There's a history of childless station.

Does that sound to you like somebody who's feeder on the.

Solid rockers that sund and you like somebody that's thinking

that is out of control when you can't find for

him putting, you're out of control, no matter how free

spirited you are, how much you're determined to make a

jigs and Jeremy, Maybe I should have titled this jigs

and Jeremy. With that young man brother Jesse, he used

drugs once and then he developed a dependency for drug

use and every brother's there. He started stealing, and then

he stooped to an all time load because he was

good looking. He started frequenting gay bars because he knew them.

Gay men are suckers for good looking young men. And

they went in there and befriended.

Them old gay men at the gen clubs. I'm on something.

I'm glad this the whoop save and got a burden today,

brother Sam and he had a plan. I'm going to.

Go in there and just court this gay guy, and

before things get out of control, before things get physical,

I'll rob him and I'll leave.

Well, things did get out.

Of control, and things did get physical, and after he

went further than he thought he would ever go, he

went to the kitchen and took a butcher knife and

went in there and killed the man he had relations

with because the guilt and the shame of doing something

he thought he would never do. But you know where

the shame is. The shame is on him who allowed

himself to sink so low. The old gay man is

not so much as that fault because that boy deceived him.

I feel the Holy ghost in this place.

Brothers there, they look at us as they drive by

and sometimes even with unholy gestures they expressed themselves. I

want you to want to look at him with different

eyes through different glasses.

Today they're sinking. I'll tell you what he should have

called out.

On Jesus was before he decided to go to Blabar,

before he decided to snatch a purse. Sin will take

you further than you thought you'd ever get. It, take

you to a horrible place, and insists that you stay.

Jiggs could not make the escape on his own. The

trend there's no way for you to escape your predicament

on your own. We must call on Jesus and we

can depend on him in our problem of predicament to

deliver us. Recently, a preacher, I think he said, about

five hundred attends this church. They have two services on

Sunday morning in order to house everybody that wants to worship.

He's a beloved person to his congregants, although he's of

a different persuasion and different belief than we are in

some things. He had a terrible health situation developed and

he asked her brother, how well, your pastor of brother

Jeryl comes see him at just suffering a massive stroke,

a major stroke. He said, come see me. So I

went to see brother Jesse. The first thing I did

was walk into his bedroom.

He said, Hi, have bother.

I've been missing it to young branch. You know how

people's had a stroke sound And I said, you have

been He said, yeah, I've been listening to you preachers

of hat.

He said YouTube. I found you on YouTube. There's a

bunch of them on there. I said, that's what they

tell me.

There's over three hundred on there. He said, yeah, I'm

there over there. I've been listening to you preach.

I said, well, praise of them. I had no idea

Brother Nathaniel.

I spent four to five hours talking to him and

just you know, trying to be mindful of his situation.

I love him dearly. I appreciate him very much. There

having past appreciation.

Today for him, I genuinely thought about riding up there

and making a surprise visit.

I did.

I told sister how I may do that, But Sister

then I had this vision of this female hen sinking

below bottom.

I couldn't go. I couldn't go. I've never done anything

like that. I just wanted to help him if he's

sinking because.

Of his health crisis. I just want to let him know,

if you're listening, you asked me to come see you.

I just want you to know I'll be there.

I'll be there for you.

I went to leave, he said, something says to him,

I will never forget for as long as I live.

He said, Jeremy, there's something I want to tell you.

He said, You've got a backbone second to nobody I've

ever seen. He said, there's no doubt about up.

What's over?

And I thought, where's this coming from? Where's this coming from?

I'm getting ready to leave.

He says, I got something I want to tell you.

You have a backbone by man, and I thought, God

help me this morning to tell somebody that's sinking. Look

around you're seeking. I don't want to tiptoe through the taps.

I don't want to act like everything's okay. I want

to tell you you're sinking. And what happens when you're

on unstable ground? Jiggs could tell you, and Jeremy, how

can tell you in a moment that little island you're

on disintegrades if you find yourself in a horrible pit.

I was literally in a horrible pit.

An alligator invested horrible pit in a situation I knew

better than to put myself in. Let's stand, please, shall

we made When we find ourselves in a church where

they're not preaching the truth, you're in a horrible place.

In nineteen seventy six, the year that I was born,

Miss Donnie Rambow wrote a song.

Titled I Thank God He found me.

And just before I went to walk out of my

office this morning, the lyrics of that song in my mind.

Goes like this. I was going down for the last time.

No one heard my cry. My voice was swiftly fading,

drifting from the time went.

A hand from out of djick just slipped in mind,

and I thank God he found me just in time.

So one in this building today needs to be rifted

out of destruction.

I saw the ground the same, hope.

A clean repit.

If you have got to the place, maybe you attend

beth Or regularly. Maybe you don't attend beth Or regularly,

But if you've got to the place, or maybe you're

listening right now, hold mine.

If you got to the place where things are out

of your control, you're watching things you never really watch.

You're thinking it away.

But I never really thought She's think you're playing with

fire like I've never played with before.

You're bringing things into.

Your eyes that you had lived ever intend to bring

into your eyes. Thoughts are running through your head that

you thought they'd never run through your head.

You're beginning of sind.

On somebody right down, man and woman, boy and girl,

somebody that used to pray. These altars are open, but

you come forward at this time. Amen, every head bout

our eyes closed. A sister, you got in so deep

death about in the.

Spirit the goodness of God? And why wouldn't you want

to get dead through His goodness? And race? Sister Grace.

Somebody else, there's a young woman that said, I'm I

don't want to be in a horrible place. I want

to be in a horrid place.

A Sima said, he sent.

Me in heavenly places in Christians. Is there anyone here

today tell me the bird of preach to you, please? Yeah,

brother Jesse, when you come to the king, brother brother,

I thank god he found me just in time.

I think.

If it's you could be dealing yeah to time. You

can't do it all your own. The struggles real so

I think, is a person.

As Fariship we can't have that.

It's not adoption. Fashi