Pastors Exhortation 12-29-2024

That I'm able to fill his presence in this ouse.

I don't know what I would do if I couldn't

detect his presence in my life. I'm thankful for this

time of year. How many of you had a great Christmas?

Did you have a great time with friends and family?

Most importantly, did you have a great time with your Savior?

I think about the blessing of family, Church family, each

one of you.

Being present in the House of the Lord this morning.

When you think of Christmas time, do you think of family.

There's a lot of people out today because they are

with family. They're visiting for the holidays. They have put

a priority on spending time with family. Some of you

were unable to travel due to limited finances, maybe a

lack of vacation time, and your employer would not permit

you to go, or your financial situation would not allow

you to go, so you were unable to be with family.

But the good news is with church family today.

There's many different reasons why we can't always get together

with our natural family, but there should never be any

reason at all, given or sided for why we can't

together with our spiritual family.

With that in mind, there are some sick today.

Sister Crystal messaged me before the service and she said, Pastor,

I hate to tell you this, and I hate the

thought of this, but I had to misservice this morning.

I've been sick through the night, she said, not just

a little sickness, but I've been through the entire nights sick.

I feel sorry for her, don't you feel sorry for her.

We've got one preacher. He's out visiting family, and also

we'll be preaching somewhere else today. But we have gathered together.

They tell me about seventy something people in the building,

and we've gathered together with one purpose in man, and

that is to worse him.

As the wise men made their track.

To Bethlehem, they came with one purpose, and that was

to worship him. I am definitely thankful for church family.

How many of you believe it's important an imperative that

we have church family.

Amen, you cannot go at this alone.

When Mary and Elizabeth received the glorious promises that they

were given from angelic messengers, heavenly beings descended onto.

Earthlings and spoke to them.

And let them know that there was going to be

something transformative take place in their lives. Something miraculous would

happen in the barren womb of Elizabeth. There would be

planted a prophet. Jesus himself said, among them that are

born of women, there will not be, There has not been,

there never will be a greater than John, my cousin John.

He's the greatest preacher, the great prophet. But you know

what in the womb of Mary was the Son of God.

And those two women they had promises, and they held

on to those promises.

And you know, there's a.

Song that touches a lot of hearts, but I don't

believe the lyrics are correct. It was written by Mark Lowry,

so called Christian comedian. I'm not as judge, and I'm

not being critical of the inspiration or the writing of

that song.

But it's titled Mary. Did you know if he had

studied his.

Bible in depth, he would have concluded that, without a

shadow of doubt, she knew because she had been visited

by an angelic being. She had no doubt. The Bible

said without faith, it is impossible to please him, for

he that come with the God must believe that he

is and that He is a rewarder of them that

diligently seek him. She opened up her heart and her

wound to.

The reception of the Messiah.

If she'd have been full of fear and doubt, there

is no way whatsoever that that promise would have been

planted in her wound. She had no doubt, her faith

did not waver. She received gladly and joyfully. In fact,

she felt highly favored and greatly blessed.

And she was.

But the Bible said, she pondered all of these things

in her heart, and there is no doubt. Through the

course of God Incarnate's life, the Word became flesh and

dwelt among us.

There's no doubt.

While she carried the christ Child, while the Christ Child

was being born, while the Christ Child was being raised,

when it became a man, there.

Is no doubt. She continued to ponder in her heart.

That doesn't sound to me like somebody's faith wavering or doubted.

When she saw him do things that the ordinary person couldn't,

she continued pondering and thinking about the marvelous things that

the angelic being had told her.

Now y'all think about this.

She fulfilled a prophecy that was given in the third

chapter of the Book of Genesis. The prophecy that that

serpent would bruise the heel of the woman, and that

the woman see would bruise the head of the serpent.

She realized, I am that virgin. I believe it was

the prophet Isaiah. He prophesied that a virgin would conceive

and bring forth the Messiah. So the prophecies of Genesis,

chapter number three and the Book of Isaiah are being

fulfilled in this woman, who has no doubt she is

the vehicle housing transporting.

The Christ Child.

Do you all believe that? And she's pondering all of

this in her heart. When she travels to the little

town of Bethle her back is aching, she's perspiring. In

other words, she's sweating. She's hurting because also in the

Book of Genesis, woman kind and received a promise because

of their sin and their wilful disobedience, there would be

tremendous labor and tall and sorrow involved in childbearing. And

so here's this woman that received a beautiful promise. Now

she's having labor pains. A virgin is having labor pains,

a virgin whoself admittedly said, I've never had relations with

a man.

I've never known a man when you study the genealogy

of Mary in one.

Gospel, and study the genealogy of Jesus and another gospel,

you'll find that it is said that this one begot

this one, this man begot that one, this one begot

that one, Jacob begot Joseph. But when it comes to Jesus,

it does not say Joseph beget Jesus. In fact, it

says Joseph, who was married to Mary Comma of who

that's feminine singular of who the Christ Child was born.

And I'm paraphrase sister Hill.

The gospel writers did not claim Joseph to be the

father of Jesus. Study the genealogy. Somebody said, I get

bored when I read that stuff.

You shouldn't.

There's a lot of good things in there. And so

she was bringing forth the Christ Child and suffering, just

like you, ladies, have suffered when you brought forth a child.

It was the flesh, the blessing of the spirit, and

the travail of the flesh. The blessing of the spirit

the travail of the flesh. And I want to tell

some in this building this morning, we have received some

beautiful promise.

And brother Waldo.

Butler's inspiration for what I'm saying right now. But he

said it's not cheap, but it's gonna cost you something.

You're gonna have to pay the price.

You're gonna have to be willing to forsake the world

and the pleasures of this woman and the spirit of

this world. And it might hurt your pride, it might

hurt vanity, it might hurt whatever identity in this world.

But it'll be worth it. It'll be worth it.

The Bible sudden lay aside every weight and the sin

that does so easily besets you, and set.

Out on that race, to run that race.

I thank God that every one of you in this

billing have made a decision to.

Serve Jesus Christ.

If you're here this morning and you have not made

that decision to serve Him in spirit and the truth

and worship him as the wise men did, as king

of king and Lord of lords, you can do so

this morning. God can change your heart. He loves you.

You know why he came.

You know why he exited the womb of that woman,

the birth connect y'all, y'all think about this. That woman

was travailing with great sorrow, and there's no doubt that

the heavens lit up with angelic beings, and they sent

shepherds and wise men, followed a star. There was wonderful

things going on. But Mary personally, she was travailing.

I've seen my wife labor and travail. You've seen your wife,

You've seen.

Others labor and travail to bring forth life.

At some point, sister whooting, that hid popped out, and

at that moment God was with us. I guarantee you

every devil in hell tremble when God in the flesh,

God incarnated, popped out.

Praise God.

Did y'all imagine that that little baby he knew a

baby be born on a mission. Phase one accomplished. He

couldn't high five his mother at that point, but he good,

as said, Mommy, mission accomplished. They came through great labor

and travail from bommy and baby. And that's what's happening

here this morning. I feel like we're in the labor spiritually.

And then there's somebody that can be born spiritually. Somebody

can become a child of God. Somebody could pop out

of that wild of the church.

That woman of the Christ, the bride of Christ, had

been born. Praise God, set pre set pree. You know

why he came, you know where it popped out of

that wound.

For God so loved.

The world that he gave his only begotten son. One

of the Gospel, one of the New Testament writers, he

described this gift that was given the humanity as the

unspeakable gift, which means the indescribable gift. I got some

good gifts for Christmas, I sure did, sure did. Got

some really good gifts for Christmas from my sons and

my daughter and the in laws. Just got some great gifts.

But I can describe them to you into a teeth.

But thanks because of God for his unspeakable gift. It's indescribable.

I can't tell you how good he's been to him,

and sister, how Sin's a good saving. I can't tell

you how good he's been to me since I gave.

My heart to him.

And I'm so thankful, Brother Butler, that in his great

love toward us, God gave his only big gotten son,

his only born son. For God so loved the world

that he gave his only begot son, that whosoever believed

that him should not perish but have everlasting life. Thank

God for his great love. Out of his great love,

he lifted me up. Out of his great love, he

pulled me out of the miry play.

Out of his great love.

He said, my feet upon a solid rocket and evenness

of an unstable world. Out of his great love, Thou

and love to my soul delivered me. Thank God for

his great love. Somebody needs to hear that this morning.

Thank God for his great love. And you know, also

you can detect the love of family. God could have

circumvented family church.

Family is very important.

Jesus could have just appeared in the wilderness and walked.

Out of the wilderness into town.

Jesus could have appeared in the pasture where the sheep

were lying. He could have just appeared. He made several appearances.

It's called Christophanes in the Old Testament. He made several appearances.

Later on the New Testament, writer said he appeared in rooms.

He walked through doors that were closed, He walked out

of a tomb that was closed.

He could have made an appearance, but for some reason

he wanted to stay in the womb of a woman.

Forty weeks am I right? The thirty nine or forty weeks.

Go through the gestational period, exit the womb, Hello world, right,

and be born in a family.

Right.

There's a lot of people today they don't make going

to church of priority. They don't value family.

They don't value family.

But Elizabeth and Mary, when they had been blessed so

greatly blessed and highly favored, they got together, and you know,

there was a lot of excitement and energy in the

room when they came together. And when they came together,

they received assurance, reassurance, confirmation of what was going on.

The Holy Ghost manifested. The Holy Ghost spoke to them

as they came together.

Where two or three are gathered together in my name,

there am I in the midst of them.

Two are better than one. They have a great reward

for their labor. I'm glad that we could come together

in unity.

No Christians should not agree to disagree.

And I do.

I do without hesitation or reservation. I do disagree with denominations.

I did pretty good in school. I have a company

that's called an engineering company. I know numbers, I know

what an integer is, and I know what a fraction is.

It was never God's intention for the bride of Christ

to be fractionized or fragmented.

Or divided. I'm not into spirit of.

Ecumenicism saying us all just figure it out and agree

to disagree. No, I'm saying we better make the Bible

a priority. Right. We need to become non denominational, and

we need to become the.

Bride of Christ. We need to become the bride of Christ.

Because somebody is wrong somewhere in these denominations. They're newly formed,

newly organized. They've won't have been formed within the last

one hundred years. How many of you know how long

it's been since Christ lived on this earth. Tell me,

tell me I'm like fourth or fifth generation Church of God.

My wife's like fourth or fifth generation Assembly of God.

But I'll tell you we laid aside some things. Assembly

of God, Girl, came together with the Church of God, boy,

and we made the Bible our focus. Because I found

out Assembly of God different from the Church of God,

Church of God different from the sembl of God.

We came together and put our nose in the books.

I'm not critical of any denomination, but the Church of

God criticizes the Catholic Church. The Lutherans criticized the Presbyterian Church,

while this fussing and feudion and fighting. It can't be

the perfect will of God. Dam not Babnists, Presbyterian, Lutheran.

I'm Christian right. Christians first received their label in Antioch.

They received their label in Antioch.

Because of the memory, cry of the parenting and the

life of Christ by the believers. And that's what I

want to be known for as the Bride of Christ,

the Gride of Christ.

I love everybody. I do.

I appreciate him. God loves everybody. He gave himself for everybody,

nobody excluded. He wants everybody to be part of the

Bride of Christ. But when you slice it, I'm telling you,

and you look at it, there's a division amongst the

body of Christ.

And there is teaching. There is teaching that tells us

it should not be like that, I've hit a stump

right there. Why would I be hitting the stump right here?

Why would I be hitting the stump right here?

It is true that history repeats itself, and it is

true that we learn.

From history, and those who do not learn from history

repeat the same mistakes of those who made history. But

historically it has proven denominations do not work.

Because at the top. Corruption evolves over time.

As I said, most of these denominations are newly formed.

Some of them are only a couple one hundred years old.

Some of them are less than one hundred years old.

And if you'll look in less than one hundred years

or just over one hundred years, they've corrupted themselves to

the point that John Wesley's group, the Methodist, who begin

to value sanctification, and they taught holiness, and they taught

separation from the world, just.

Good Methodist people.

The Church of God came from the Methodist, but the

Methodist recently decided that it's okay to ordain homosexual bishops.

Right.

So historically we have figured out and we must always

accept the truth as believers. Historically we have figured out

that denominations are corrupted because of the head. I mean,

the Catholics claim to come out of here's preaching, right.

So why are you against against Catholicism. Why do you

say you're a Protestant not a Catholic? What is your problem?

Because the Pope consults himself as though he's God, because

he does claim to be God on earth, because he

does claim to be the fourth person of the Godhead.

Oh, yes he does.

What is your problem with the Catholic Church or problem

was the head. We've got to understand something we can

not in our judgment. We have to have righteous judgment.

And if we're going to judge the Catholic Church, we

have to judge all of these other denominations with righteous judgment.

And if the head is sick and.

We're staying away from the Catholic Church because the papacy

is sick and the priesthood is sick, they could take

you to Peter, they say they could take you to Peter,

being the founder of their religion. Y'all didn't know that.

Digit.

I'm a student of religion, and I will tell you ignorance.

Is not bliss.

We have to find the truth, and if we seek

the truth, we will find the truth. What we gotta

do is lay aside. Our difference is when it comes

to living differently than what.

The Word of God tells us to do.

We need to lay aside every way and every sin

and do our best to strive to enter in that

straight gag.

Can somebody say, man, the preachers been made to preach

here in a minute.

But God so loved the world that he gave us,

his only begotten son. All that matters this morning is

not that my name is.

On a road book on this earth.

What matters is not that I'm a member of some

organization or denomination.

What matters is that my name is written in the

last books of a life. What matters is that my

name is written in heaven.

I'm thankful that it made news in heaven when you

got saved. I'm thankful when you gave your heart the

Jesus the Heaven's rejoice. Oh, we have moresidered, the needing

to repent over that one little laws slam.

You are that one little last lad god Our said

we are his.

People and the sheep of his pasture. But he went

looking for you, he found you. He puts you on

his shoulders and brought you to those green pastors.

And I'm thankful that we're found in the fold. I'm

thankful that we can be found in the fauld.

I'm thankful that we didn't circumvent family church time come

into the.

House of God.

Jesus did not circumvent that stable. He didn't circumvent his family.

He didn't circumvent all of the events that were going on.

He went right through family. He sure did.

And I want to leave this with you before Brother

Caleb preaches, because the most of you like to hear

from me, so I want you to hear. Brother you say, well,

I may not be the preacher. Is God mindful of me?

I am not the teacher is God.

Mindful of meat.

I'm just the person that's sits on a few and

I'm found faithful service at the service. I'm not circummitting

my church family. I'm not letting the spirit of grieve

keep me away from the House of God. But I

really don't have much of a name. I want you

to know God knows who you are.

You're not standing up here right now with a microphone

in your hand.

Consider yourself blessed. I didn't ask to be doing what

I'm doing right now. In fact, I tried to get

out of it for about eighteen years. I ran from

the call for about eighteen years. Consider yourself blessed. But

if you'll consider the Nativity as you study in the

second chapter of Luke the Physician's Gospel, You'll see that

Zachariiz had something to say.

You'll see that Mary had something to say.

You'll see that Elizabeth had something to say, angelic being's

had something to say. But you know what, Nowhere in

the Bible this morning did I find where Joseph.

Was able to say anything.

Nowhere in the Bible do I find where the earthly

father of Jesus that would be responsible for teaching him

the trade of carpentry, which in that day and hour

was masonry.

Nowhere in the.

Bible do I find where Joseph's words were recorded. Right,

But he was just as significant in the life of Jesus.

And I'm a feeling the Holy Ghost right therapy. You say, well,

does my presence matter? Does my praise matter? Does my

faithfulness in the poll matter?

It matters?

And I want you to know Heaven took notice of Joseph.

I said that Heaven took notice of Joseph and every

person that's in this building this morning.

I want you to know something. He knows your name.

You matter to him. He loves you. He wants to

bring you into his fold. He wants to wrap you

up in his arms, and he wants succeed to it

that you make it to Heaven.

You know why he came anyway to keep you out

of hell, Because God made a hell to torment one

third of the demonic angelic bids.

And then, to his surprise, when he created the Garden

of Eden in this world, those two willing vessels to

serve him and walk with him in the garden of

the cool of the day suddenly became unwilling to obey him.

And when they became unwilling to do as he had mandated,

God realized they're gonna go to Hell, right.

And that's when they activated the Cavalry Code.

And all knowing God knew that mankind would make him

as and make a bad choice, and that they would

begin a spiral slough into Hell. And that's why I'm

here today, cause thirty two years ago, as a young man,

I realized I don't want to go to Hell.

Brother Michael LaRue, I'll mention this and I'll let the

preacher hit in my pool pit. Some of them like

to hear from pastors. So let me talk to you

just for a minute longer.

Brother Michael Joseph LaRue talked to me for years about how.

He did go to the doctor. He depended on his

God and he did. He done really good with that.

But I told him, I said, if you ever have

a kidness stole. You'll reconsider that he never rebuked his

pastor and never argued with his pastor.

But I could see as the seriousness of that situation

in grabb he resonated with him, and he wondered where

I passed.

That desk, or will I cave?

I was out of town and I got a message

from Michael Joseph Laru.

He's here right now.

And you know what he said, I've been to Eon

and he said, I'm hurting in my back, probably like

Mary was hurting in her back when she was.

About to deliver the Christ Child, just to want to

stare at you know what I'm talking about.

His faith, faith, faith, faith, faith, faith, faith, faith, faith,

faith until pain comes. And I'm talking to you with love.

That's why we have to reach a church. We in

the spirit of Christ.

We don't want anybody to go to Hell. We don't

want anybody to lose out with God.

We don't want anybody if God doesn't want anybody to

the Bible said, he's not willing that any should perish.

Michael Joseph LaRue. He said, Pastor, they said, I have

a kidney start. They have a kidney start. Pain is

persuasive right, pain is a motivator. Right on, pain is persuasive,

And God is punishing one third of the angels that

fell from Heaven in.

An eternal lake of fire in Hell.

God is punishing that Hell was made to punish angelic beings.

And when you study the scripture, with one splip of

the sword, those angelic beings could slay three hundred thousand mens.

So God realized they don't need to go there. And

the only way.

We can keep them out of there is if god

blood is shed. And that blood that flowed, now Calgary's

brown was not the blood of Joseph Right.

The Gospel writers made it clear. It was not the

seed of Joseph right blood. It was the seed of God.

It was God blood. And this is what I want

to leave you with.

The Bible said, everything he shall out, and every tongue

shall confess that Jesus's Lord, brother Aaron. They'll do it

before they go to Hell, after the judgment, they'll do it.

But Brother Jesse, hell fire.

The pain of hell fire will persuade anyone.

That he's king of kings and lord and lords.

And the pain of hell fire will persuade anyone that

I should have been thankful to him.

I should have valued his word. Thank you for my

gift card, Brother Aeron, where there it is. Thank you

for giving up to me.

The pain of hell fire. The pain of hell fire,

the pain of a kidneys stone, move and move.

Brother LaRue to the emergency room. The pain of labor

moved Mary.

Into a stable to the point she forgot about her surroundings.

The pain of that kidney storm persuaded Brother Marue to

go to the emergency room, to the point he forgot

about his conversation with Pastor.

In the moment.

And I want you to know, if you end up

in hell, it wasn't that God didn't provide a sacrifice

for you. It wasn't that God did not love you.

It wasn't that God did not have a plan. It

wasn't that God did not try.

It wasn't that people did not pray.

It wasn't that the love of God was indetectable.

It's because we chose right. We chose to go to hell.

But this morning I want to choose life and not death.

This morning, I want to accept life and reject death.

I want to accept his love a salvation for my soul.

I want to accept redemption by the blood of Jesus.

Get in the altar and say, God forgive me. I'm

sorry that my sins call such suffering on that cross.

I'm sorry that that God blood had to be shit

on my behalf. I'm sorry. I'm sorry.

And you know what, brother Doler, after someone makes that

decision this morning to be saved, they will never be

sorry for that choice they made to make him their savior.

How many of you could show me by the raising

of the hand, you've never been sorry since you gave

your heart to Jesus. I've never been sorry. Thirty two

years now have come and gone. Years now have come

and gone. And in this world, brother Jesse, we've had

tribulations and trials.

But because he.

Gave me that promise, where two or three are gethered

together in my name, I'll be in the midst of them.

I had found him to be present. And how wild

family fault cancer in twenty twenty four. The battle began.

In twenty twenty three, we fought one of the most aggressive,

rarest types.

Of cancer in the world.

Was one case of about four hundred and forty our

Drummer Boy, one of the most beautiful Christmas songs you'll.

Ever hear The drummer Boy.

I've been working on a servant for four or five

years titled the drummer Boy.

God is building that sermon.

I never would have thought that my son would be

an illustration in that servant. But my wife bought some

drumsticks that were personalized.

Drumsticks. We ordered them and had them delivering.

They said they won't be here until after Christmas, and

we said we really would love for them to be

here for Christmas. About two days before Christmas, to our surprise,

they arrived. I was thankful for that, brother Caleb on

one drum stick, are they up here? You know?

What did it say? Soys to howl? On the first

drum stick.

The first drumstick had an inscription on it the sept

we beat cancer?

What else is the how?

And the second drumstick said a prayer and a song

at a time. A prayer and a song at a time.

Y'all want to know how we beat one of the

most aggressive, rarest types of cancer by going to church,

not circumventing the church family and most spoken tongues. By

going to church. One night, the Holy Ghost moved amongst

our brothers and sisters right, I'm glad I didn't miss that, Sir,

most important that.

I'm glad my son didn't miss that service.

And Sister Wood and brother Philip pulled them two drumsticks

out of seemingly they're scabbard. Little did we know them

drumsticks were swords, wherewith we would fight back cancer, one

drum beat at a time, one prayerod of time, one

song at a time.

There was a sword.

He pulled it out and he read it, and then

I noticed he read it again, and sister heal. The

Holy goes settled down right in the middle of the

Howell family Christmas, and we cried, some of us wept,

some of us praised the Lord, thankfulness and gratitude for

that night, God healed our son. And you know what,

God sent his son to save us from our sin

and all a sudd to give.

Us a way of escape from disease. Oh Jesus, I

feel that in my soul. He cat out of my hunk.

He came out of my seat. He came out of

my hunk. Hold y'all, no, he cat got no my

hunt got yo. Time he came got mom. He came

out on my side. Time he hang out of my side.

Time he ta heh ain't I say, under thee, Come

under me, and I will receive thee.

Look the whole.

My yoke is easy, My burden is lied. The way

of the transgressor is hard. Follow me and I will

lead you to lie and life. I will lead you

to green pastors. I will lead you to steal waters.

And I say to these this day, there's keeling in

those waters.

Again. I say to these, there's skealing in those waters.

Eating 'em for your soul, eating 'em for your pot,

eating up for the spirit, eat 'em for your party. Again.

Once more, I say, there's keeling, getting.

Those for.

Rad and.

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