It's Not The Talk, It's The Walk - Bro Jeremy Howell 2-9-2025

But I want y'all to see this. Tell them what

that title is. It's not the talk, it's the walk.

The title of this morning sermon is, it's not the talk,

it's the walk. Now, I want you to see the

lyrics of this song that they sang this morning. Most

of you probably missed it. Most of you probably were

unfamiliar with the lyrics of this song. It was probably

new to you. I would say among seventy seven people,

maybe seven people the science the fourteen of four caught

what I'm talking about right now, and so the spirit

of God was speaking to somebody. This is why it's

important that we have ears to hear, because God is speaking.

The problem is people are listening. But come here, brother Nathaniel.

This song that you guys sang to the Glory of

God was titled he made a Change.

First one was beautiful. The lyrics of verse number two

was beautiful. But notice this course the bass singer saying

he made a change. The rest of the quartet said,

he made a change, and the way that I'm talking.

The bass singer followed with he made a change. The

rest of the quartet said, he made a change in

the way that I'm talking. This morning sermon is titled

It's not the Talk, It's the Walk. Thank you, Brother Nathaniel.

So again I appreciate Brother Nathaniel oh beying the Lord

this morning in his song selection that they sang before

the preaching. There is no doubt the Holy Ghost is

speaking to somebody. The lyrics of that course begin with this.

He made a change, and the way that I'm walking,

he made a change in the way that I'm talking.

And this morning's message is titled by the Holy Ghost,

It's not the talk, It's the Walk. Again, Brother Nathaniel

and I had not spoken to one another prior to

this service period, Brother Nathaniel, which you turn with me

to James chapter number one and verse number twenty two.

Brother Jesse Luke chapter number twenty four and verse number

twenty five.

And may I direct your.

Attention, beloved to Joonah chapter number three and versus numbers

four and five.

Again, Beloved, may I.

Direct your attention to the Book of Jolah chapter number

three and versus number four and five.

Let us hear what the Spirit of God is saying.

Unto this group of believers today, Brother Nathaniel, James chapter

number one and verse number twenty two.

You please my brother, by doers of the word and

not hearers, only deceiving your own selves. Amen, Read it again,

Brother Nathaniel.

B d doers of the word and not hearers only

deceiving your own self.

I don't want to deceive myself.

I have a problem with other people being deceptive when

they speak to men. I'm uncomfortable with deceivers. I certainly

don't want to deceive myself. Brother Jesse Luke, chapter number

twenty four and verse number twenty five. Then he said,

up to them, o fools and slew of heart, to

believe all that the prophets have spoken.

Those are the words of Jesus.

He called some people fools because of the slowness of.

Their heart to believe.

How many of you know it's ugly to not believe,

all the ugliness of unbelief. Let's stand right now for

the reading of our golden text. Jolah chapter number three,

Verses number four and five. The Bible said, and Jolnah

began to enter into the city a day's journey, and

he cried and said, yet forty days.

And nine of us shall be overthrown.

So the people of Nineva believed God and proclaimed.

A fast and put on sackcloth.

From the greatest the of them, even to the least

of them. May we pray, Heavenly Father, with thank you

so much for the opportunity to be in your house.

Lord, I thank you for this thy people.

I pray that you would set a guard at their

ears and help them to hear what it is the

Spirit of God says under the church this morning, through

the preach word of.

God, let them hear your words.

God. May I be your oracle even now, I pray

that you would set up God, are it at my mouth,

and help me to say the things that you would

have me to say. Nothing more or less. God, May

we be hearers and doers.

Of your word.

May we follow your instructions. May we take action. We

give you the praise and the honor and the glory

in Jesus' name.

In the church says Amen.

As you're being seated, say hey, neighbor, it's not the talk,

it's the walk. I want to point out something here.

In verses number two, verse number three, the Bible said, arise,

go unto Ninevah that great city, and preach unto the

preaching that I bid thee so Jonah arose and went

unto Ninevah. According to the word of the Lord. Now

Ninevah was an exceeding great city of three days journey.

Remember that it was an exceeding great city of three

days journey. As a preacher, he would be talking, and

as a preacher he would be walking.

Again.

As a minister, he would be talking, and as a

minister he would be walking.

Our text is found in an Old Testament book of

the Holy Bible.

Men, women and children have found the characters and storyline

of this book to be most captivating and fascinating.

Myself included.

I became fascinated with this book of the Bible upon

my mother's knees as she read this Bible story to me.

I have seen.

Church nurseries with this theme, Jonah and the Well. There's

a lot of people quick to point out that it

was not all that.

It was a great fish.

Well, us Floridians know that if you were to spend

a few days in the Gulf of America, or the

Gulf of Mexico as you know it, that after being

out there for a few days, if you go into

waters deep enough, you will see great fish that we

call welles, sister, how and I have traveled down to

the Caribbean.

We've been up to.

The seas of Alaska, and we have stood aboard of

seafaring vessels, and we have participated in something called well watching.

And I can tell you, no matter what the critics

and the skeptics say, that it can be so.

Easily so that a well could swallow a male, could.

Swallow an individual whole without any problem. But the Bible

states that God prepared a fish specifically for swallowing this

prophet that was disobedient to his word. It was not

that the prophet had not heard the word of God.

It's not that the prophet did not have the talk.

It's that he was unwilling to take the walk.

You see. Even though some.

Churches have used this theme to hold the attention of

little ones who were spending some time in their nurseries

for whatever reason, we know that there is a whole

lot more to this book of the Bible than what

our children have gotten from what is painted on the

murial in the walls of those nurseries.

You see, little ones spend times.

In Sunday school class and they learn about Jolnah and

the well for whatever reason, that teacher feels like she

must share that story whipped those little ones as she

points out the primary characters and the central theme of

this amazing book of the Bible. And when she begins

to do that, Sister Hannah could tell you that first

she names Jonah the prophet. Not only is he a prophet,

he is a prophet of the Lord.

And then she begins to speak of this.

Large fish who provided accommodations for the run away prophet.

And next we will think of the Assyrians who lived

in the capital city of Nineveh. According to the written

record of Jonah, chapter number one, in verse number two,

the Bible said that Jonah received instructions from the Lord

to leave his hometown and his own people. He was

to arise and go to Nineveh, which was a great

and a wicked city. The Lord Lord commanded him to

set foot on the soul of that land, and the

Lord wanted him to cry against their wickedness. Evidently, the

Lord never forgot what he had told Jonah to do.

In fact, during the early years of his ministry upon

the earth, the Lord.

Was speaking to a group.

Of people and he referenced Jonah and his experience in

the wells belly, we finded Jesus mentioning Jonah and likening

himself unto being in the belly of something for three days,

like Jonah was in the belly of something for three days.

It seemed like in my prayer cause that as the

Lord whispered the title and the text of this mornish

message into my soul, that God let me know that

there is a great fish if he would something prepared

for you to teach you that it's not only in

the top, but it's in the rock. It seems to

be like somebody in this building today.

Is allowing their conscience.

To be seered and their heart to.

Be heartened, and they're becoming foolish minded and slam to believe.

All that the prophets have said.

The Spirit of God has moved in services, and preachers

have preached her, and she teachers have felt inspired her

to teach some of your school lessons that were specific

for individuals right here in that classroom, and tongues and

interpretation have taken place. Services have been interrupted by God Almighty,

who said, I have something to say.

I have a word of warning, a word of confirmation

to what my preacher has been saying.

You do know that when a preacher preaches her, if

he's been called of God, he is preaching and proclaiming

what the saith God.

Throughout my ministry of nearly twenty years.

In South Pard, a lot of times over the years, sister,

we would get used by the Holy Ghost. And one

of the things I think the most of it is

when God would speak through her and say, yes, he

is my servant, and yes I have given him this

word for you this morning. You see, joe A spent

three days in the very of the Great Fisher, and

our Lord never forgot that experience. And our Lord appreciated

that experience because he read that he himself would spend

three days in the belly of the grave, in the

belly of the earth. That I want somebody this morning.

To know I came with a broken.

Heart and after pouring.

Tears, hold his nurse to tell you.

That God has already began the creation of your trial

that will bring her into your needs. For about ten

years I wanted a preacher a message title of player

meeting after Sushi bar the Goddess not they allowed me

to preach it. Some preacher listening right now may use

it her and may take you places. I'm l for

the holy ghost inspiration that you just received, a preacher,

but I want you to know when Jonah was in

the belly.

How La and plaid on his.

Facer and things that were not.

Oh, come on putabad. They were on the shirkaboreal to

eat or to consume her. He started praying and while

he was praying there, he made a promise.

To the Lord. I know that I've known her what

to do.

I'm a Catholic, I'm a preacher. I know how to

talking that Connor. If you don't help me, I'll be

willing to take the law.

You see, God warned him to walk her for.

Three days Thurney three the coupital of Cyril or a cereal?

Can I say for every day here? And he was

supposed to walk her.

He's been a day here in the worst mery. I've

never heard her preacher point that out, but I want

you to know her God.

The pointing that out to me today, what you are

for your eye in its talk to the commandment of God,

in your lack of obedience, breaks a trial into your life.

For every day you rebel.

Wherever service.

God brings them a trial. We ought to allow this

image day. So God cannot only conjure up a trial.

God can create a trial. I remember when God began

to mold me as a person and a preacher. Some

of that molding process took place in emergency rooms. Some

of that molding process took place in the neonatal intensive

care unit.

Come on, little.

Babies that were supposed to be born healthy, suddenly, to

our surprise, they had severe help issues. Come on, I'm

telling you we take for granted the things that God

speaks into our heart.

And when God speaks these things into our heart, he

intends for us to take action. Comor, are you with

me here this morning? I have a question for you

all today.

What was Jonah thinking when he decided to go against

the instructions of the Lord. What possessed him to do

such a thing. The Bible students and readers present today

know that Assyrians were one of Israel's nemesis. In fact,

this Syrians had taken Jewish people that were faithful followers

to Jehovah, people that followed you today is some perfect look.

They have been taken as well as their disobedient brother

and they have been played alive, and their flesh had

literally wall papers some of the walls of this capital

city of Nineva within the Assyrian Empire. There is no

doubt whatsoever that Chouldah was a little bit disappointed about

God to misshiit come on, sometimes we have disappointed by

God's instruction, but they are words of instruction, neverthelessa.

And they ought to be followed her.

Every character is to be captor the every record.

There come on now that God is killing us.

Is to be captor.

Even the kings within the Israel, at times they would

pull the record and they would say, water was it

that God told us today? And because the record was

pulled and consideration was given, soon was taking wonderful revival.

Say happened within the nation?

Look is wrang?

I'm asking you will.

Talk about they think about their servants, think about their souls,

thinking about their testimonies, said think about told you to

talk for case, say.

The what God saying?

What's in the record?

What's in the record?

Look back and see what did God say to me

and my family? What did God say to our nation?

What did God say to our church? The bethel hold

of his church? Who did he think you was?

I'm sure if he was married. He told miss Jonah,

he said, I'm going I can't do it. I am

taking action, but I'm going in the wrong direction. You'll

notice in that second verse of the first chapter of

the Book.

Of Jonah it begins with us arise, comm and go

to Ninevah. There is no doubt about it that Jonah

he got up.

But brother Jesse, when it got up, instead of going

in one direction, he chose to go in another. In fact,

if you look at your map in the back of

your Bible, you will see that he chose to go

just about one hundred and eighty degrees off course, literally

going in the opposite direction of what God told him

to do. At the Estra's conference yesterday, Sister Hannah said

a few words, and my wife shared them with me.

Sister Hannah said, whoa be to us if we receive

words of instruction today and we go directly against the

words and the will of God, and before we even

get to the fellowship, Paul, we have done contrary to

what God has spoken.

To son to not come.

I'll preaching it or message the holiness title there. It

takes more than a talker. It takes luck.

It's not the talk holding, it's the walker. It's one

thing they're talking, it's another thing. The living was a

preach every corner of every city you live in America.

They know how to talk, but.

When they're walker, how.

To church up, they walk her one hundred and eighty

degrees away from their teachers.

What scrapsom.

Even the great Apostle Paul said, how is it that

you preach something and do another?

How is it that you talk about this and do

contrary to what you just talked about? What possessed Jonted

to do such a thing? Was it racism? Was it bigotry?

What was it?

Probably all the good because the Israelites had been taught

for years that if you were not a Jew, you

were a dog, you were all scaring of the earth

if you did not convert.

To Judaism, and gentiles.

Were able to do that, they could be recipients of

the law of Moses, they could be keepers of the

Law of Moses.

And they could even go.

To a ceremonial and a ritual called baptism and literally

be brought in to juday Ism even though they were

a gentile. There are Old Testament examples of this as

well as a New Testament.

Example of this in the Cellar of Purple's Life of Lydia.

She was a gentile that had converted to Judaism and

eventually converted from judae Ism to Christianity. Brother Nathaniel, I'm

sure that inside of Jola's heart us this anger, if

not a hatred for the series because of what they

had done to the Jewish people.

But God had told him what to do. And can

I tell you, no matter what your excuse is, no

matter what your explanation.

Is, or when God tells you what to do, you

ought to do with that Father, don't be our hypocrita.

When you're raising your children there you expect them to

do exactly has.

He tell them to do.

It's not our father.

It's not our father, it's not our father.

Within that tamic connection has something for us to do.

And what he tells you a for saka, not the assiming.

Or ansess together. He means exactly, I can't pro fema

and killing the child.

Sister Hawe's feeling very ill this morning.

She said, if there's ever been a morning that I

didn't feel like going to church, it's this morning. I

ain't heard her say words like that in fifteen plus years.

And it wasn't that she wasn't excited about what God

was going to do. It was the fact that she.

Had slept little in preparing to deliver something to the

women of the Bethel Holding His church, and she ended

up last night becoming very ill, including throwing up because

of the letdown of the build up. That is a

good excuse for laying out of church on Sunday morning. Huh,

But Sister how or Brother Howell said, it's not good enough.

A lot of times on Sunday morning, I feel bad.

It's been that way since I was a child. I

don't understand why it is, but when my body begins.

To energy up and the level up and.

To wake up for some reason, I get sick just

about every single morning. Cause somebody relate why people are

thinking about breakfast. I'm thinking about why do I feel

so nauseous as about six or seven people in this

building plague for that? And a lot of times after

I eat breakfast on a morning, I feel sorry for

eating that breakfast and I end up feeling worse. I

want you to know, Sister.

How knows how I feel most morning, and.

This morning, she knocked on my office door and she said,

how are you feeling?

I said, to be honest, not too good. I would

have never complained.

She said, I know you're not, but here or too

Pepper minsa to help you with that morning nausea.

Come on now, I'm not talking about her.

That's associated with pregnancy. Some of you ladies know what

I'm talking about. The sister Howell, she had very difficult

to Pregnancysa and brother Jesse, you will remember your mama.

Getting in that f three fifty Newly Diesel. We your

dad in as he was pioneering a church in South

Florida and driving to South Florida with a pet bucket

in her lap. We keep on the way to church.

How good services he did. We peek on the way home.

I'm telling you the damn We'll give you every extisa

if you're looking for water for why you should not participate.

Now in that place.

So there's a faith building hath coming.

By hearing and hearing by the word of God.

Trola was told to rise and go to dinnever he

Arosa and Winnatossa.

So I'm telling you, if we missed churcha, you better

not do the little mad I said that sent around.

I say he can't. I said, I'm a day.

You better not be fat.

I'm target. Do you not take up with.

Not a tear? God of cass of it of them?

If Father again? Unless somebody think these are the words

of a mortal man. It's interesting that the lyrics are

the chorus of that song. Said he changed the.

Way I talk, He changed the way I look, Unless

you forget when she had a bucket in her leapt

we were driving two hours. There were times I did

a U turn in the road and headed home and said,

God is too much only to go around down the

road and do another U turn.

I'm telling somebody in this building this morning. God is

for U turns. I'm in engineering.

I'm in specialized drafting. I do it on a daily basis.

I understand geometry with the best of them. I speak

as a four. I was in Port Canaveral a board

a very large seafer and vessel, and we went right

by one of Jeff Bezos's Blue Origin barges, the centerpiece

of his majestic barge, which had.

About a four or five story tall work.

Tower on it.

You could find it online but the centerpiece of what

was sitting in place on that barge was something I

literally detailed or drafted myself.

I'm telling you it looks space age. It's got foordible

support legs that I operate on high draulics.

When mister Jeff Bezos, who's in competition with Elon Mosca,

goes to retrieve one of his rockets, they put it

on something that this man is pastoring a.

Little country church hit label Florida Drew. I'm telling you

I saw it with my old eyes. My children and

have seen it.

With their old house.

I could have went it somewhere else today, and I

could have done something else today.

I'm telling you the sky it's not to limit. One

great man.

Said, when you think the sky, it's the limit. Look

and you'll see there are feet prints on the moon.

I am involved in the aerospace industry, and I will.

Tell you this.

If the dead line's on Sunday, we're not pushing.

Back to Monday. I'm locked on the center.

In the house.

They come on king O, Jeff Bezos is protector. Come

old else?

What kind of t I said?

Are you possessing too?

That's such a pagnant Joondah, it's better than my God

than there.

What's in the garden then?

And the Holy girls to say it. Johnson's those stains

into this who said tues you this day? Who you

will serve it?

I'm not afraid to tell the Blue Origin project management team.

And it's been a couple of years since we worked

on that one, but I'm not afraid to tell them.

I'm sorry it ain't happening on Sunday. Them drawings are

expecting on Monday morning at seven o'clock.

Expect them on Tuesday morning at seven am.

I know, I know, a simple country preacher can't tell

you nothing any but I'm not nearly as.

Simple minded as you think. Not that you think that,

but I'm telling you it's not the talk, it's the walk.

Jonah could have been like Jeremiah when Jeremiah said, I'm

done talking.

About it, I'm finished. But you know what jon would

be like.

Jeremiah, And he said, but his word is in my

heart like a burning fire shut up in my bones

that I'm weary with forbearing, and I cannot stay what

Jeremiah was saying. God has put it in me to

preach it that I am going to preach it.

The same thing was.

Spoken by Apostle Paul, with different burbiage and words.

He said, woe to me if I preach.

Not to guspel. And I'm telling somebody this morning, there

is a great fish, so to speak, there.

Is a great trowel.

It is already's flashing in the waves. It is hitting

in your direction, like the god of torpedo. I said

that that first benny, oh, come on, has been prepared,

that great hast torpedo, and that guy.

Of torpedo his head and off in order outside.

The Bible said whom the Lord loveth, he chaseth and rebuketh.

And then he said, that isn't enough that you received

rebuke and chastisement. He said, be zealous therefore and repent.

I'll come in here today, boss man, to reject your ultimatum.

That's what the three Hebrew children did. Wouldn't never connois he.

That's what they did.

Wasn't the nebby on Nevy, the world empires leader. Come on,

the Babylonian Empire's leader, mister Nebby. They walked in new saying,

mister Nebby, we're not careful to answer you. Concern of

this thing. I'm parapraise. He said, what you know, want

to Lord delivers us or if he doesn't, We're not

gonna go.

Against what our God told us to do. Now did

God say it or not?

Did he say, remember the Sabbath day to keep it holy,

Remember to set aside that rest day, the seventh day

over the tailor when he's setting aside and you rest,

and you get that faith, the.

Old of faith coming by hearing and hearing by the.

Word of God.

But when I'm supposed to be here is all day.

We're supposed to.

Take action and do.

What possesses your dad and mam to do something different

and what God says to do.

That's a spirit.

It has to be.

It oppresses you before it takes possession of you.

The Bible students, you know the Johner received the summons

and a commission to do.

What God told him to do.

But brother Aaron, what he went one hundred and eighty

degrees or thereabout and fled Westford.

Let me ask you another question.

Did he really believe wouldn't be consequences for disregarding the

word of the Lord?

Do they really believe that there will.

Not be consequences for going back to God dominations that

do not promote righteousness and godliness. Somebody said, one preacher

said recently that he stood in the general assembly of

the Church of God, and he looked and saw a

multitude of people that were living in contradiction to scripture.

And he said, as he stood.

There and watched everybody, be careless about that situation.

He said, God's spoke the humans shook him, and be

careful before you shall here. He said, God's spoke to

him and shook him.

That said these words, Can these dry bones live? He said,

He shook some more and basically said.

God let him know. A revival can and might.

Even come to that denomination. I want you to know

that God's brid has never been a bad, a dry

the lifeless.

Bones maying her denomination fills her.

The bride continues living, and she is a glorious churcher.

She lives without spot, she lives without blootersha, she does

not commit habitual sin.

Hold and days they makes this her.

In fact, when the prophet of God Elijah, he stood

among religious people. How many of you know Jizabel loved preaching.

Chizabel loved prophets.

Oh come on.

But she didn't like preachers of righteousness and preachers of truth.

What was it? She had eight hundred and fifty preachers.

She loved preaching. She won't worried about anybody being lone winded.

She went worried about going to church.

All day long work.

She set there patiently while they're trying to go fire

out of heaven.

She sit there patiently while they.

Use trickery and deception to try to make a mulda happen.

She had four hundreds in this group, one hundred and

fifty of this group, and you.

Know what, sister room mate, But she had a problem

with that lack creature that really treating to her.

Tell their card how of heaven.

She loved preaching. She was willing to be the whole day.

Until the words that God was thinking. That's what the

king said. The King said, find me another one.

This one always prophesied negative things.

Concerning me in my ministry and my kingdom, so to speak.

Find me another one.

And the Man of God pretty much said, I paraphrase,

what's you want to be lied to? Anybody can lie

to you.

I've got fifteen grandchildren, all under the age of fives.

I guarantee you we can find some of them that

have not prayed yet to lie to us. You don't

have to have a scholar that graduated from Bible semetary.

In this seminary to lie to you. You can find

just about anybody that was willing to lie to you nowadays.

But one man of God might have stood in the

multitude of a vast number of people, Brother Chiff Roy

at the Church of God General Assembly.

He might have stood there and heard that.

But Brother Jeff Roard, I think he pulled out of

that group probably forty years ago or thereabout right thirty

thirty seven years ago. I left that group thirty two

years ago. You know why I left the group, Not

because there weren't wonderful people who were family members in it,

not because they didn't have good organization, not because they.

Didn't have good teachers at the roots. I left because

they stopped talking and walking truth. And you know what

the truth is.

Some of them can still talk it, and some of

them can walk it here and there, but they're fewer

and far between. But I want you to know, before

there is a revival, there has to be a humbling

of oneself.

They have to be willing.

God's not gonna force revival the Wesleyan people. The Methodist

movement was a holiness movement, and now they're voting in

bishops that are homosexuals.

They're voting bishops that are the lesbian.

Do you believe there's gonna be a revival among their

Methodist people?

It's anybody's guessing, But you know what it They don't

want it to It's not gonna happen because the.

Bible said the truth will sex a preat they will

set a preak on the lostyle. They're sein Christians do

not willingly commit habitual sin?

Are there any basis? J Isabel?

And they have They knew what they were doing when

they took over the empire. These people knew what they

were doing when.

They took over these denominations.

And I doubt it's how they unlikely actually that there

whatever experience a gre ain't a liken it.

The prophet said, if my people.

Which are called by my name, that sounds like God

fearing people, people that can talk.

To talk, but are they willing to walk to walk?

If my people which are called by my name they

call themselves judaizers, they call themself law keepers they call

themselves sadath keepers. But if my people, which are called

by my name, will humble themselves.

And pray, but it doesn't stop there, and turn from

their wicked ways, then I will hear from heaven. Why

does it say that, then I will hear? Why?

Because I said, God here not the prayers are sinners

one in context?

Yes, he does hear the prayer of a repentant sinner,

one that is sorry for their sin. But he does

not hear the prayer of someone that continues in sin.

But cass up All says, how shall we that attend

to sin continue living in it?

Over their head? God?

So God, I feel the preacher in this house this morning.

I'm telling us not to talk.

It's the wall. I know a lot of.

People that know how to talk it, but.

They're unwilling to walk it. I know, then, who used

to preach the gospel. They no longer preach the gospel

because they did not want the law. Should I keep

preaching or should we go to the chicken house?

Did Jolie really believe.

That there wouldn't be consequences for disregarding the word of

the Lord.

When God uses these people whom he has gifted, and.

He's gifted to church with pastors and preachers and teachers.

Brother Robbie Hester text me yesterday he said, preach it, Bishop.

I think he listens to some of our messages.

He said, preaching Bishop Brother Rafael Douglas on the island

of Dominico, which is the third world country. About every

week he messages me and he says, Bishop, keep preaching.

I thank God for that divide encounter, an.

Appointment between us when I met my bishop, my spiritual father.

Oh, come on, I'm telling somebody. It's one thing though,

to talk it, it's another thing to walk it. Why

did this.

Man disregard and discount and discredit what God had said?

Why didn't he understand that God's instructions were too significant.

And substantial to ignore.

I would die before I received tongues of interpretation through

a spirit of love and deliberately transgress what God has said.

I would physically die.

Before I go against the grain of what God said.

When too annoying preachers have yoked up.

And God made it clear, it's not the talk, it's

the walk.

Your neighbor can hear you talk about Jesus, your co

worker can hear you talk about Jesus. They can see

you standing on a street corner talking about Jesus. But

if your actions speak other one come on. Actions speak

louder than words.

You ought to go to church will have a revival.

But where are you at? It's not that I need

membership here.

We're running between seventy and eighty even on Wednesdays. It's

not that we run seventy or eighty on Sunday morning

and run twenty or thirty on Wednesday night. We're running

between seventy and eighty on Wednesday.

You know what.

There's some people that tell you, well, there's a church

a lot closer than that one that you're driving an

hour or two. Well, sister, how and I felt like

the church it was for us, which was this one

was two hours away from our house.

Huh.

But I'll tell you this, it took tremendous sacrifice to

do that for six years. A preacher from up North

Indiana is the state that he lives in, and he

pastors in I knew him back.

When we were young preachers and we were preaching for pastors.

In their camp meeting, and he heard that I came

to South Florida to pioneer slash pastor of church down here.

And it went by that.

Several years passed on, and brother Jesse, some people started saying,

where's brother Jeremy Howell at?

We don't seem at these meetings anymore. Where's he act?

And that preacher he came to my defense and.

He said, he's got a burden for them people of

South Florida. If you were to go down there, you

would see his burden for them people. He's committed and dedicated.

He's got a bird for them people. He drives two

hours one way to service, and he's been doing that

for six years. Come on, now, I'm telling you. People

can tell where your burden's at. They can tell where

your heart's and Jonah, why is your heart in Tarsius?

God's words and God's.

Instructions are too significant, substantial to ignore. As a child

of God, he should have paid attention, heard what the

spirit of God was saying to him, and did what

the Lord said to do. We should pay attention and

take action again, we should pay attention and take action.

The howl suns, there's five of them, and a beautiful

daughter who's just like her mama.

She's a great teacher of the scriptures.

And I want y'all to know there has been times

in the how we young men's lives that they have

been asked to work on Sunday, and there was a

time or two they would pull their boss out of

the fire here or there.

Come on up here, how well, young men.

But I'll tell you this, It wasn't that I didn't

want musicians on the platform.

And it is not that I wanted musicians on the

platform for them.

It wasn't that I was preferring myself to have what's

called a functional music team at Bethel.

I was concerned about their soul, and I went to.

Them individually and I spoke to them as men, and

I said, listen, that job that is consuming your Sundays,

because that's the day that we have set apart to church.

I've raised you better than that, But that job.

I'm okay with you building your employer out here and

there in a case of emergency.

But if you don't realize this, it's become a vacuum.

And your employer has realized that you're reliable, that you're dedicated,

that you're trustworthy, and you.

Will do what no one else will do.

You will go the extra mile, and they've figured out

they could just let you do it and they won't

have to do it. And they're not going to church,

and the other men are going to church, but they

rather be on their fishing boats.

They're wither be on their party boats. They'd rather be

at the flue market all Sunday. If you don't.

Realize it, they might don't realize it, but the devil

has employed them to pull you out of church and

actual law. I told them, I said, it's time to

find a new Joba. Do you believe that God's ain't

going to help you time the new joba?

You're the boss?

What stuffs cat to in you on his day?

Mean the Genius's day? Thank your brother, Thank your brother.

What else is more important than hearing the voice of

the Lord? Hearing it and responding to it? Again? Remember

this mental outline, Pay attention and take action.

James, chapter number.

One and verse number twenty two said, but be doers

of the word and not hearers, only your own selves.

It's great to receive the spoken written to preach word,

but it's greater to do what we are told to do.

Brother eld Moore used to sing a song, and and

when like this, why.

Don't you do what God told you to do, the

purpose of the written word is to change the lives

and minds and hearts of individuals. The purpose of this

sacred book, this divine library of sixty six love letters,

is to change lives, minds and hearts. Let me ask

a question, Is it changing you?

Is it changing me?

Evidently the Lord had to take further action to change

the mind of Jonah, and the church said, oh, man,

he knew it.

He knew it.

In fact, his preaching was so effective that when he

went through the capital city of Assyria, the city of Nineveh,

on that three days journey, every man, woman.

Boy and girl, including the beasts of.

Burden, the animals, fasted and they change. Pagan people received

the word of God. They could talk to talk now,

and they could walk the wall Pagan people. But I

know people of God, people of God that cannot receive

the word of God. Gladly like the rich young ruler God,

I've did everything that You've.

Asked me to do since the days of my youth.

I've been impeccable. I really know the law.

I can recite it, I can preach to that person

at the water cooler on the job. But Jesus said

the one thing to like us. I've hit a stump

right here, Gos. I've bumped up against that rebellion. I've

bumped up against that stubbornness. While everybody else is doing

it and they're getting by, are they really getting by?

Are they really getting by with it? You can't do

wrong and get by no matter how hard you try.

The song right of Him is.

The word of God changing us this morning. It's the

word of God changing pastor this morning. Pastor and his

wife weren't feeling good this morning. The pastor's wife said,

I sure don't feel like going to church.

Your feelings have nothing to do with faithfulness.

You gonna accept that from your wife, and she has

an affair with a boss man or affair with a coworker.

I just wasn't feeling you. I was feeling someone else

at least.

Brother Nathaniel said, good preaching. I'm not boasting and I'm

not being arrogant. But I was sitting on a pond

tomboat watching the sunset yesterday evening, and Brother Nathaniel said, Dad,

Wednesday Night's message, it's probably my second favorite message that

you've ever preached. I don't know who missed it, but

that's saying something about young man that's a preacher himself

and a great sunny school teacher, and to sit under

his dad's ministry for.

Nearly two decades.

I'm not reprimenting anybody that's a faithful member of the

Bethel Hole in his church.

I'm certainly not preaching to our visitors, whoever they are,

wherever they're at. I'm preaching the people that know better.

You know better, because sometimes it's that spoken word in midweek.

That keeps our children from falling late week. I know

from experience. But if this experience won't teach you, there

is a great trial, a great fish that will teach you.

God loves you that much. But I want you to

know you don't want to go through that.

God had been dou with me, and I'll give you

my personal testimony. God had been dealing with me about

doing something that seemed so simple to most people. I

didn't tell them, but once I did tell them, they

thought it was so simple, and I too, tried to

explain it away and said, it can't really mean that

much to God. Surely that's not substantial significant to God

and Sister Work and I kept pushing it off, and

then one day tragedy struck the howl the household, and

Brother Samuel took a fall that he wasn't supposed to fall,

and he began to bleed internally, and the blood was

coursing through his stomach and through his intestines at a

rapid rate until it.

Began to exit his backside.

It pulled in his stomach to such a degree that

his stomach rejected it because the intestines.

Couldn't pump it and absorb it quick enough. He spewed

quod life red blood, both ends amen.

Sister Howell said, we know that God can prepare a

grape fish when the messengers unwilling to be the messenger,

when the ministers. I'm willing to be the minister, when

the mentors unwilling to be the mentor. Y'all remember Wednesday

night's message, Mentor Moses.

I didn't tell anybody there was something God had been

dealing with me about doing.

And when we got to where the ambulance was supposed

to be in, the ambulance wasn't there because the ambulance

had got intercepted by another mother and another child that

was gravely ill.

I knew, then, God, you're proven to me. If you

want to take my son's life, you can.

And I was on the phone with an I won

one dispatcher and I said, you're not here. Yes, sir,

we're here, a mother and a toddler. This ain't coincidental.

We're there.

I said, no, you're not. I'm with the mother toddler.

She said, let me make another phone call. She said,

this hasn't never happened in our history. I don't understand this,

but somehow we got intercepted, and we thought we were

with y'all. I said, while y'all are making your mistakes

and blunders, my son is bleeding to death.

In fact, he's all but bled out.

Now. He's cold to the touch, he's lethargic, his eyes

were stuck open, and he's getting that death mask. They

got there drug around. I said, there's liquid life blood

in this solo cup.

I doubt it, Preacher.

That looks like it's probably root beer, taining with cold

of animal crackers.

Who I said, it's blood.

They said, if it's blood, will pour drogen peroxide in

it if it starts bubbling up because of the enzymes

and blood.

We'll know, I said, go ahead. They walked and drug.

Over to the Ambuletce opened the door, found some fumbled around,

found some hydrogen peroxide, fumbled back over. I said, I

guess he'll die while you try to figure out whether

it's blood or not. Now it is a smart hey

like pleading. I guess he'll pass right here. I said,

there's a big full of blood on my floor at

the house thirty five miles away, because we lived out

in the country. He finally took that hydrogen peroxide and

opened the caf on it, turned it up, forwarded it

in that cup and it started.

Forming like a volcano, just foaming. I will never forget

for as long as I live, the foam running over

that cup. And he looked at me.

His eyes got real white. He said, well, I guess

it is blood. And he took off running. He got

in the back of that ambulance and we started head

to the hospital. He said, if I do a certain thing,

he said, you know we're in trouble. And you know

what they did that certain thing. I said, oh god.

We got rushed in.

They rushed him into the back, started running tests. They said,

this is too big for us to handle a Lacoln

regional hospital.

They can handle a lot of things there.

They said, we're gonna take you by ambus or buy helicopter. No,

we can't even wait on a helicopter. We've got to

keep gone.

Let's get on I four and head over here to

Saint Josephs.

By the time I got to Saint Joseph's there was

a specialist who said he never saw people whatsoever he

got beyond that he had many people working under him.

He said he heard about the phone call and the

specialists from Lakeland had called him and said, this is

a severe case. This kid is rupturing and hemorrhaging internally.

I walked in their system. Would you talk about the

literally the red carpet treatment.

That man himself doctor thyrou Arason. I called his name.

He told sister how and I He said, I'm not

normal to hear these hours of the night. I'm not

really normal here A oh really, he said, but I

heard about this. He said they called me and said

they needed me to come here, and I said, thank

you for coming. He said, we're gonna get back there

and start doing the endoscope and looked at what's wrong.

I was in there begging God. I said, God, I

know what you told.

Me to do.

I won't do it. But between Lakeland, Florida and Tampa.

Florida on Interstate four, it was just me in a

work truck while my bride, my baby who was dying,

was in an enblance.

I said, God, I know what you told me to do,

and I said, I'm gonna do it. I'll do it.

I'll tromise. Just let him live, Just let him live.

I'll do it, and I'll never again disobey. Amen, Brother Jean, Amen.

Doctor tyru ERSU wasn't in that room but ten minutes.

He paged me past the Howell, past the Hawe.

Come to the waiting room. Got went there. He said,

I need to take you up back. He said, is

your this your wife? I said, it is my wife.

He said, mister missus Howell, I want you all to look.

He said. There was three major tears right here by

the heart and the stomach. Lighting. He said, but to

healed perfectly.

I don't hear.

He said, In fact, your son needs a transfusion. He said.

I have handled severe cases.

He said, I've seen people down offering to table after

being shot in abdom and he said, your son's blood

lost is equal to that. He said, I've seen people

come to this hospital broken up internally with great loss

of blood.

Your son's condition is equal to that. He said, he

needs a blood transfusion. But I suspect there's a higher

power involved.

And you know what I said, Amen, Amen, And I

walked around that corner and I said, God, you'll never

have to prepare a great fish for me.

And I've never been.

Tipted not to come to the Belt, Florida ever since.

I've never been tipped Come.

On, I'll come on.

I'm telling you there is a torpedo.

You can call it averere, you can call it a

great piece, you can call it a trial.

When I'm sure in the midst of that storm, them

sailors saw a big fin. Perhaps they saw some water

blow up, and they probably thought, what is that fish

doing here? I want you in there. There are consequences

for everything.

That we do.

Because Joan was on that ship, this so obeying God. Oh,

that there were seaphert men, sailors that were not a fault.

There were people suffering who were not a fault. I

sent bones and boys and girls.

And dads and turns people and people.

In this country can suffer and not being fuck Come

on now, I'm telling you him being.

New and a something.

Great to this.

God is in this and.

They lost precious target.

The Bible said that they're hurling and tossing things Overbola

and come on and worry about their lives.

Dad.

It's time that just stop being selfish.

Mama.

There's time that just stop being selfless a monkey bus.

It's time that to stop being selfas and be considered

of God, be considered of God's.

Mans, and just do what God's into them. Ay Man,

You'll imagine the looks on.

Their sailor's faces as they realize this start should not

be soken.

We shouldn't be going through this right now.

We consider the forecast, we consider disguise.

Can I tell you who need to.

Start out of the morning what losguise and before in

the suns find you you can.

Go through the dactor's til have your life.

What little bit of light there was in the storm.

Was knocked out When John I listen the will's belly,

I said, what little bit of light and hope there

was in my situation? Why, sir, what salt des salt,

who was in the worst belly. What be doers and

the word and not hearers on them? Deceiving your own self?

Oh God, I feel the Holy Ghost in this place

at Bethel, where you're blessed to hear great listens being

talked by Sunday school teachers on a weekly basis.

Bethel, we're blessed to hear.

Great preachers preach sermons that are God breath and God

inspired on a weekly basis. We are well fed and

wealth watered at this church. We receive sermons, we receive

lessons that are intended to benefit us.

But come on, all of these lessons and sermons, you.

Will not benefit us unless we take action to what

was spoken by the Word.

Of God and by the Holy Ghost himself. Plain and simple,

It's not enough to hear God's word. We need to

do what he says. Jonah heard and Jonah arose. But

Johnah did not go in Annemah. He went somewhere else.

He'll tell you don't know. Having his heart, his mind

and actions change.

By difficult circumstances, Joah decided to do exactly as God

told him to do. I have not conjured up this

morning today, I have not created this morning today.

This is of God. The Bible said in Jonah chapter

number three and verse number four and five.

And Jonah arose, remember the second verse of the first chapter,

arise and go to ninevah. Brother Nathaniel, he went one

hundred and eighty degrees in the other direction. But brother

chip Roy, after the third chapter, in the fourth and

fifth verse, we hear and Jonah arose, and he went

unto ninevah.

Let me tell you. God can put you in a trial.

That'll make you want to go to church, that'll make

you want to live right'll make you want of their

separate saint.

The pie and set apart. God can put you.

In their services where you're begging for God to heal

your baby, where you're begging for God to heal your wife.

God can make you so needy of His spirit that

you will get.

Up and go.

Come on a rise and go, a rise and go.

And then the third chapter he said, oh, look, Jonah,

he a Rosa, and he winter unto Niniva. According to

the word of God. Not only am I gonna talk

to talker, I'm gonna walk the walker.

And I go on.

And tex said, after the first day he was.

Still crying out, you know, lie and stop her because

he thought there was a day a chila for every

day of disobedience. And I want you to know, Jodah,

it's not about to stop at the work, good servant,

after word Sunday your services to one big week service

to walk the three days journey and her play. Revival

was brought to Ninnah because of the obedience and the

accident of Jonah.

And Jonah began to enter into the city a day's journey.

How they cried, How they said, yet forty days and

Ninevah shall be overthrown.

What if God said, and yet forty days shall be

your coxeclipses. The author wrote this phrase on purpose, and

Jonah arose, and he wrote that verse that began with

a rise. It's true Jonah arose the first time after

he was called to go to ninever.

But he did what Jonah wanted to do, and he

went with his plan instead of Gods.

I'm gonna say it again, says to how and I

could have laid out of church today because we both

didn't feel good. But do you think God would be

offended if we'd have done that? And come twelve o'clock

while you are reading lunch.

If we was at Walmart, I.

Won't go the how.

God doesn't misunderstand us. God has perfect understanding our motives

and our actions. Your boss even refuses to be deceived,

and he refuses to misunderstand when you called them one.

Too many times again.

I'm not looking for three to five members or ten

to twelve. I pastored here and preached like this when

there was only three or four of us.

I'm concerned about one soul. It's about to have a

prayer meeting at the sushi bar.

And when you get in there with the gastric juices

of a well, in the stench of rotten fish, when

you find yourself on an interstate. My pastor Howell was saying, God,

spare my boy's life. I just heard God speak something

into my heart. You say it won't happen. Oh, but yes,

that we all.

For.

I see the fin of a great trial, I said,

I see the fin of a great triune. Think of

the selfishness of Jonah and the consequences of his actions

towards others. Sailors suffered, and they didn't deserve such a storm,

a storm that was sent by God. To one man,

yet it affected the lives of others in a great way.

Let's stand this morning since the wood. That must have

been a severe storm because they were crying out. And

y'all want to know what Jonah was doing.

He was sleeping, old, unconcerned and the selfishness of a

band and new how to talk to talk, but was

unwilling to walk the walk while they were hurling their

precious cargo overboard.

He's asleep while we're reaching for souls. They're sleeping. I

worked so hard during the week, I got to catch

up on some sleep.

Notice the storm itself didn't change his mind, but being

in the belly of the Great Fish did. After all

of this, joln had changed his mind and decided on

doing what God had told him to be.

Let just see when you come to the piano. My

concern is, after this message this morning, it may not

change your mind.

After the spiritual storm, they awakening and they arousal.

Is it still going to take.

The Great fish. God's word is powerful. It's able to desern,

it's able to divide the thoughts, the intents or the

heart are known by the power or the word of God,

and it's able to change our course if we allow it.

But what I want to point out these Ninovites, though

they were people, they believe the words of the prophet,

and they repented.

My question is this born and.

Says to howell, who will believe the words of God

and the story of the words of JOm.

When Jesus was speaking to a husband or life.

Team on the road to Emmaus, he had been speaking

to them about the prophets and the things that the

prophets had said, And Jesus scolded and chastised them. Verbally,

he said, old fools and slow of hard to believe all.

That the prophet has spoken.

The context of that verse is our Lord Jesus speaking

to people in order to remind them of things that

have already been spoken, had already been said by the prophets.

I'm not preaching anything new today. Lessons have already been taught,

Sermons have already been on this specific subject.

Holy ghost talks and interpretation have already been directed. The

Pagan people responded. The Pagan Assyrians had not up until

this point heard the words of God's been, while God's people,

brother Roucap were bent slow of heart to believe.

The Pagans were changing their minds and actions.

According to the word of God. These people gladly received

the word of God. They held the word of God

in high regard. I want us to bow our heads

this morning. Can He make a change in the way

that you're talking? Can He make a change in the

way that you're walking? Can God change your mind?

Without a doubt he can? My question for you is,

will you change it before you experience? It's a trial

that is meant to change. Can you change it?

In this spiritual storm and to shake up this morning?

If you're in this building that God has spoken.

To you in any way, would you raise your hand

right now? I'm not mean.

Y'all know that I'm not hating on anybody. Y'all know

that there's six people with their hands.

Raised right now. I'm glad God was mindful of this

group of men. Six men. Is there a sister?

There's a sister. Is there another sister? That makes seven?

That represents perfection? Right?

Is that the perfect number this morning? Seven?

There's one of these six men that's already in the

altar on his face. I want y'all to know that's

the mark of true repentance. I'm not worried about what

anybody would say or think. I'm going to do what

God has told me to do. I've heard the voice

of God, and I'm going to circumvent that consequence. Is

there someone else that would make their way to the

altar right now where brothers and sisters can pray with you.

Is there someone else that would make your way to

the altar? Brothers, I want you to look at these men.

I want you to find someone to pray with. They're

not a shame of you, They're not a shame of

their God.

The world is pulling, the world is pulling God. I

know you spoke to me. You've made a change in

my life. I'm here. I accept that I don't want

to go through a trial that's meant to mold me.

That trial is not meant to break you in order

to destroy you. That trial is meant to mold you

and to shame. The formation of a man and a woman.

Of God will come through the scriptures.

And if the scriptures are gonna fact that it will

come through the fire. I'd rather, indeed, in a deep

dark grave.

That's what I amer my, my poor soul was saved.

I'd rather have Jesus in anything. I'd rather have Jesus

in anything. Somebody's tell the Lord.

I hear you, Lord, I hear you, Lord, that call

quincess circumstances is avoidable.

It is affordable.

The people, none of them believe God. Truth was given

and it was not to be contemplated, but it was

to be done. We need years to hear and we

need to bring all of that which we have heard

this morning to the point of obedience. It's not knowing only,

it's doing. It's not the talk, it's the walk. It's

not knowing only, it's doing.

It's not to talk, it's the walk. Jolenah was to

talk and walk. Jolena was to talk and walk.

Show me, brother showed me, sister showed me, Baba, show

me Daddy by example, sayta God should be Bob's ante.

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