A Charity Christmas - Bro Jeremy Howell 12-22-2024

Fortieth Verse Luke chapter number one versus number thirty nine

or forty. Please Brother Nathaniel Ecclesiastes, chapter number four and

verse number nine.

Brother Jesse Matthew, chapter number eighteen.

And verse number twenty, Praise the Lord. How many of

you are ready for Christmas? You've done everything you needed

to do. You've got it done, and you're ready. How

many of you still are not ready for Christmas?

You're not prepared?

You got some more gifts to buy, some more food

ingredients to buy.

Let me see you in that. How many of you

have some running to do? Yet? There's about nine or

ten of you you still have some running to do.

They tell me that there's seventy five plus in the

building this morning.

That's not too bad.

We've got sixty five people that are prepared and ready,

set on ready right now.

Got about ten that are procrastin the eaters.

Sometimes you have to wait until the last minute because

of situations and circumstances.

You're waiting on a bondness, a paycheck, or just.

Time, or sometimes your vehicle isn't functioning properly and you're

without a set of wheels and you have a problem

with getting where you need to go.

I know things happen, but I'm glad most of you

are prepared.

And for those of you that still have some things

to do, May God give you grace as you try

to do it last minute. May God have mercy on

you as you fight those people in those stores. I'm

telling you what, it was a madhouse in those stores

on Friday and Saturday.

I can't imagine how they're gonna be tomorrow.

With Sister how and I are doing some last minute

things as well. We've got a few more things we've

got to do it. Dear brother who attended our church

for several years. He drove nearly an hour to be here.

He was probably in his eighties. While he attended here.

Oftentimes he would stand up in our services and testify.

At the appointed time. He'd take his index finger and

his little finger and began to pat it on the

palm of.

His other hand, and he'd say, you know, the Lord

has been merciful and gracious to me.

He spared my.

Life and allowed me to live another day. And he'd say, apparently,

my Jesus has.

A few more things for me to do. My Lord

has a few more things for me to do. How

many of you believed God still got something for us

to do?

Amen before his return.

There's people that needed to be reached, and He has

you to do that. I'm so thankful for all of

the outreaches. With that in mind, we have our annual

whole Christmas gifts presents for the children of our community

coming up here in just the next couple of days.

If you'll look at a bulletin, you will exactly what

day of this week we will be doing that. That

is a wonderful opportunity to share the good news. A

lot of times we're handing out tracks as we hand

out the gifts, and that's very important.

Share the good news. Spread the good news.

Go tell it on the mountain, go telling on somebody

telling on the flat lands of Florida. Somebody share it

near the canal, Somebody share it near the river.

Somebody tell the good news. The King has been born.

It's so good to see you. Praise the Lord, brother Nathaniel.

Ecclesiastes, chapter number four and verse number nine.

Please two are.

Better than one because they have a good reward for

their late How many of you believe that two are

better than one?

A lot of times preachers and teachers.

Alive put an emphasis on the first part of that verse,

but they for some reason neglect to quote or read

the latter part of that verse. Brother Nathaniel, would you

read the latter point of that verse once more? Because

they have a good reward for their labor.

Because they have a.

Good reward for their labor, so there was a purpose

for their gathering, just as there is a purpose this

morning for our gathering. And there is no doubt there

will be a tremendous reward for our labors in the kingdom. Together,

Brother Jesse Matthew Chapiter number eighteen and verse number twenty.

Or where two or three are gathered together in my name,

there am I in the midst of them.

I want to bring something to their attention that the

Holy Ghost brought to my attention. May we stand for

the reading of our Golden Text. I'll encourage you to

read Luke chapter number one, verses number thirty five through

forty six today, But for the sake of time.

We will read Luke one, thirty nine and forty.

At this time Bible said and entered into the house

of Zacharias and saluted Elizabeth, and it came to pass

that when Elizabeth heard the salutation of Mary, the Babe

leaped in her womb.

And Elizabeth was filled with a holy ghost.

I want to preach a message the Holy Ghost titled

a Charity Christmas, and I want to dedicate this to

my beautiful wife, Sister Charity.

How may we.

Pray, Heavenly Father, we love him, We praise you. We

thank you Lord for your goodness. We thank you for

your mercy. I thank you for these precious people that

are in this building this morning. Truly, we are drawing

strength from you and your presence that you are in

the midst yes, and for that we're most thankful. We're

also thankful for the strength that we are drawing from

our brothers and sisters of light, precious faith that have

come your own purpose.

This mor wanted to do as we are doing to

worship you. We draw strength from them. We thank you

for community and service.

We thank you for power that comes from you, and

also the energy of the strength that we received from

my brothers and sisters. We prayed that you would anoint

this thy servants, set a guard in my mouth and

help me to say the things you would have you

to say. Nothing more or less, and anoint the years

of this thy people, that they might hear what the

Spirit of God said to the church. I pray the

sayings would go below the shoulders. We give you the

praise and the art of the glory. May we depart

this place joyfully and not sorrowfully. In Jesus' name, in

the church said Amen, as you're being seated, look at

your neighbor and say, hey, neighbor, I can feel it

in the room. Ask them this question, what is it

the presence of the Holy Ghost? Say it again, Hey, neighbor,

I can feel it in the room.

Praise the Lord.

Our text is found in a New Testament book of

the Holy Bible, the Book of Luke. This book is

the third book of the New Testament. It is the

first of a two volume work done by the beloved

physician Luke.

It is the parent that the treaties.

Written for the notable and noble Theopolis and so many

other believers that we call Christians.

The purpose of this book was written.

In order to give this generation, in every generation actor

the resurrection of Jesus Christ, an assurance of the life

and the ministry of Jesus, and also to give them

confirmation of the lives and the ministries of the Apostolic brethren,

the apostles whom our Lords specifically chose to travel alongside

of him in the ministry. How many of you believe

that the Lord could have went at it alone? For

how many of you have felt the presence of the

Lord in.

This place today? Here in the Sunday school.

Hour, during the time of worship, as Sister Howell led

the congregation on inquire singing, we felt the presence of

the Lord. And I want you to know your drawing

strength from that, brother and sister to sitting next to

you on that pew. I have been in church buildings

where there are few in number, and sometimes we encourage

ourselves with that verse where two are three are gathered together.

In My name, There am I in.

Their mintst Because of the low number in attendance during

that specific service in that setting, Brother Jesse, it troubles

us because there's so few in number. But I remember

Brother Platte talking about a time when he attended the

church by himself.

He sent in order to the doors.

Open, I had to attend that church by myself, he said.

Service after service, it was me myself and I, he said,

I sing it him out of the old rent back hymnal.

He said, I read my Bible, testified and prayed and

went home. He said, after about a six month period,

his wife, missus Barbara Platt, decided to join him, and

he talked to me a lot of times about the

strength that he drew in having his wife by his side.

Several years ago, I preached a message title there is

no such.

Thing as the Lone Ranger.

The title of that TV series itself is deceptive.

For anyone that is.

Familiar with the Old Time story hour program The Long

Ranger or the TV series, you know that the Lone

Ranger had help. He had help and a trustee, sidekick

and fellow companion named Tonto.

There were also other people that would help him.

I feel like it is definitely an interesting listen. I

personally love to listen to Old Time Radio and listen

to that program, The Lone Ranger. But I know that

it is a terrible, terrible thing to imply that we

can do this alone. I don't care what it is

we're doing in life, it is difficult to do it alone.

And I would say, out of all of the apostles.

Certainly the apostle Paul was the one that had the

ability and the power to do this thing we call

Christianity alone.

But we will find all through.

The Pauline epistles, which are in his writings, that he

did not go at it alone. One of the reasons

for that are the writings of our code text this morning,

that Jesus Christ himself rected his disciples not to go

at this alone. Concerning evangelism, outreach and ministry opportunities, they

should be embraced by twos. I know sometimes as a pastor,

I have to go at it alone. I know sometimes

you have to go into the streets and stand on

the street corner alone and minister. But we must admit

that it's always easier and better for us, our spirits

and for others if we have that trusty companion or

sidekick alongside of us. I remember, as a street preacher

having my wife stand by my side, and the street

that I drew from that brother Jesse, and.

In time I had six children standing.

By my side, And oh how different it felt when

I was out there alone versus when the Howell family

was out there ministering together.

I've heard brother Plat talk about how.

He was tremendously blessed as he saw this church begin

to come to life. After that the Holy Ghost had

breathed life into the nostrils of the Bethel Holiness Church,

and he saw this church began to flourish and prosper.

A lot of times he told me, said, I had

a vision from the Lord one day, and I saw

this coming to pass, and I wondered, would it ever happened,

would it ever come into fruition and praise the Lord.

When he died, we were running about forty and he

was so blessed. He stand up and testify and say,

I think all from my brothers and sisters in Christ.

A lot of you stood by his bedside when he

was a dying man, and you will remember him talking

about how blessed he was to have you as family.

How many of you know Church family is a blessing.

To have Church family is a blessing. Some of you

do not have family. A lot of your parents are

dead and gone, some of your siblings have passed now,

and you do not have family, and you're sitting at

home alone during the holidays. I want to comfort you

this morning and encourage you to have a look around

and see just how blessed you are. Not only do

you have seventy five plus brothers and sisters in cross

present today, you've got a large family. In fact, when

the Great Apostle peered into the Kingdom via vision, he said,

there's an innumerable host of my family members.

No man is able.

To calculate the sum or give the total of this number.

So I feel like this man Luke was a wonderful

companion to the Apostle Paul. This past Wednesday night, I

preached a sermon the Holy Ghost titled Heavenly Hospitality, and

we talked a little bit how the beloved physician would

have been most hospitable.

He would have been a very kind hearted.

Man that would have been a great traveling companion. Thinking

about that, God began to deal with my heart about companionship.

You may have a spouse that has betrayed you and

went in another direction, but you have companionship and kinship

with somebody in this building this morning, besides your Lord

and Savior, Jesus Christ.

It is true that you're blessed to have the Lord.

That's the greatest gift that we could possess. That's the

best friend that we could ever have. With all the

blessings of companionship.

And community, a lot of people get themselves in harm's

way and jeopardy because they do not value community. In fact,

there's a lot of people Baxley and right now because

they felt like they could do alone.

They felt like.

They were strong enough spiritually to sit there at the

house without receiving confirmation and assurance of their certain experiences.

And with that thought in mind, I want to point

out that there came a time in Mary.

And Elizabeth life when they had received some beautiful promises,

and you know, they received assurance in confirmation by their reunion.

I want you to think with me, Imagine the energy

and the excitement in the room as these two came together.

Imagine the energy and.

The excitement with the apostle Paul and Luke as they

traveled together. You see the experiences of Paul in Silace.

You see the experiences of Paul and John Mark, and

they are full of energy and full of excitement. You

see these gospel writers that gave us these four gospels.

Three of the.

Four were companions of our Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ.

But Luke had not been a travel companion with Jesus personally.

He may not have known Jesus.

But Luke developed and fostered a relationship with the Apostolic brethren,

the apostles that traveled with the Lord. So three of

the four Gospels were given to us by men that

witness as eye witnesses the daily life.

And ministry of the Savior.

But Luke, he's an outsider, He's a gentile, he's not

a Hebrew. He's a physician by occupation. And it comes

into an experience with Jesus Christ, and he falls in

love with the brethren, and we find that he embraces

of the people and the children of God.

And no doubt he was the student of.

The testimony and the writings of these other authors of

the other three.

Gospels, and better Jesse. I feel like.

Luca developed a continuity between him and the brethren. Her

hav many of you in this fielding this morning, you

value kinship and friendship. You see the continuity between the

historical writings of the.

Four authors of the four Gospels of his remarkable.

Truly, they had a story to share with the world

about a man named Jesus. They had a story to

tell about the thirty three and a half years.

In time when God incarnate.

Came to live amongst humanity. Beyond the continuity of the

themes purpose in the writings of the four Gospels, we

see a continuity between Look and some of the apostles

of the Lord Jesus. There is continuity in their personal

relationships and friendships. Continuity is the state of quality of

being continuous. Again, continuity is the state or quality of

being continuous. Even if there are bumps along the way,

there are no greats. I said, Even if there are

bumps along the way, there are no breaks. And that's

how it should be in our relationship of the Jesus Christ,

and also in our marital relationships and in our spiritual relationships,

specifically concerning our church family. There will be accidental bumps

and accidental bruises along the way, but we have to

have to hide and there should not be a breaker

in the continuity of our relationship and our local assembly.

You see, the personal relationship between Jesus and most of

his disciples did not cease her after time had passed her,

and even after time had elapsed her.

And after he had went on the glory.

They maintained their personal relationship with the Lord. I remember

when sister who lost her brother Jean, she said, I'm

not ever gonna look.

For another because he was my forever.

What she was saying is, I'm not gonna be of

the free holiness mindset that I've got.

To have a man, that she's got to have a man,

or he's.

Got to have a Wolling Day will shut this one

up over there and pushed them into a.

Marriage her that they are unhappy.

What Sister Rude was saying.

Her, I'm not exactly just looking for a physical relationship.

I've already had the relationships. My relationship, sir, do you

know the Bible said that what God has joined together

let not matter for the sunder.

You see, Jesus forged.

Her in the power of the Upper Room.

In Pentecostal moments, the power of the Holy Ghost forcing

the fire her relationships between him and those believers about

a hundred and twenty people God in a relationship who

the Holy Ghost.

They had been in a.

Relationship with Jesus. But Jesus that said, I'll go, but

I want be forgot now when I send somebody left

to you and they received that.

Third part to look a Godhead.

Now the computor left, Jesus said, It says, speeding for

you that I got left. If I don't tell the

confident leo head not come, well, I want you in this.

Sometimes when we choose her not, they're going to church.

When we choose her not.

Go have holy communion.

And the comfident he does not come.

Right, I'm telling somebody there.

In this theater, this.

Man that Jesus said, Jesus said, I said, Jesus, saying

that where two there three.

I gave the desert here my name day.

Clearmody in their best.

Obviously he was given assurance and reins assurance and comfort

and consolation in the gathering of a few. Well, why

didn't he go to the ultimate extreme and say where

one is gathered? Truly this biblical examples of one such

as Daniel who went through the den of lions, not

a lion's den, as to speak of one adversary in

the form of a lion being in a den, but

a den of lions. Some people say up to ten

lions in that den. And it's true that the Holy

Trinity was present. But we all serve find an example

in the Bible, where three Hebrew young men had a

nown michel and as a rye some of you know them,

a shadrecked me shack, and a big the gold. They

stood for truth and righteousness in their treasured community. In fact,

Daniel was among their community. He was among their confidants.

He was somebody that they valued as a real But

we final a certain day that Daniel was nowhere around.

But those three men worked.

Together that they went through the power together. They went

through the fire together. I said, they went to the

fire together. This is a symbolic that sometimes when you hurt,

that fella and sister hurts up. When you suffer, that

father and sister suffers with you. Hey, come on, that's

the words of Jesus. I'm telling somebody. He yes, Tess

showed up for Daniel in the ind of lions. That

remember he also showed up that fourth.

Man in the power his present.

And there was only community between brother.

Oh, come all, I had somebody this morning.

You need to stop and consider, contemplator, what a blessing

it is.

To have a brother and a sis.

Christmas faith for my precious faith and in this has

for God.

This morning.

The biblical writers said these words, how good and how

pleasant it is for brethren to dwell together in unity,

as the people of God, saying this morning the praises

of God. Whatever, the musicians stopped their playing. As they

had played skillfully, I had been blessed. But when the

notes were silenced, and when the voices of the singers

were silent, I no longer heard the music of the instruments.

I no longer.

Heard the beautiful sound of the skilled musicians. I no

longer heard the beautiful voice of the choir and the

congregants and the song leader.

But I heard the voice.

Of my brothers and sh that did not have a

microphony in their hands.

I heard some weeping. I heard some say glory to God.

I heard some say hallelujah.

And as the pastor of this church and the shepherd

that God has appointed the presided over this people, I said,

under Shepherd to him. I stood over there in the corner,

and my soul was blessed as I heard the fellow

worship person worshiping and praising God.

I want you to know you are not supposed.

To try to go at this alone. I'm not preaching

anybody particular. This morning. Hell, I'm just preaching what God

puts on my heart. I could truly say I've got

nobody in mind. But I want you to value the

kidship at the.

Friendship and the continuity of this Christian community that.

God has blessed.

You were.

So beyond the continuity of the thieves and the purpose

and the writings of these gospels, we see a continuity

between these people of God always stressed friendship amongst siblings.

In our household.

Sister, how and I stressed friendship in our relationship. We

first develop friendship before we got into a romantic relationship.

I want you to.

Know it's a sad thing and an indictment to parents

when those children have been reared and mom and Dad's

home and them siblings are fighting like cats and dogs

and fushing incessantly.

As much as the devil does every time.

God boves and works miraculously, which is without season.

The devils are fussing every day.

Because God is a busy God doing wonderful and beautiful

things for his children. But sad thing when parents don't

make it a priority to teach siblings.

To get along.

There might be some siblings in this fielding this morning

you could go past the wedding years, past the times

of your marriage, and go in separate directions from your

your siblings.

And never see them again, and it would not bother

you one bed. It would bother you that you hurt

ten years.

Later that they died.

Why because you were arc enemies, you were chief competitors,

You were each other's nemesisa in the household of your parents.

It's a shame of your parents. And I smeared it

in their face this morning.

If a brother and a sister cannot get them old,

that they cannot go haita properly.

I sit it in churches as well.

Pastors have purposely so disclarit among the credit and not

allow the experenial supers to get along. I'm telling you

it's good that us person for pethers and sisters to

tell you what to cohabitate to church together unified.

It's a client shame.

What's so called Pentecostal Christians can't get along. Pastors preach

a different message and that that John and Jesus preach.

They refuse to preach a message of repentance. They refuse

to preach the undoluded, unadulteriorated nontained word of God. The

Bible teaches us that Christians should not agree to disagree,

that Christians should not be people of a different denominator.

Christians were called Christians and Antiocha because of their Pentecostal experiences,

because of their manner of life, because of their mimicry

of Jesus, his.

Ministry and his life. They were Christians.

That I'm telling you, God is not a god of denomination.

So I still good in arithmetic, in matter in school.

And then a minute a church organization becomes a denomination.

It is divisive.

Do y'all get that?

Do y'all understand magic? We all should have one common denominator.

This should equal a whole number. That is, Jesus and

the Church are equal in reality.

Now, I'm telling you, when you've got a Church of God,

a siding of God, a christ region to Luther, the badness,

a nothingist, somebody went roun somewhere, take me back to

the unkarouma, Take me back to the miner and God

is where I re stated, I church of God.

I'm a sent of God.

Oh trust what your old love darking. I trust you,

I trust I trust you, I trust you.

I will not ever again belong to the Church of God.

Never they went wrong when they divided. That's a newly

foreigned organization. Considering how much time has went on since

Adam and.

Eve's existence, that Jehovah's Witness is.

A newly formed organization. How could did Jehovah's Witness be right?

What did everybody else do before the formation of Jehovah's Witness?

What did everybody do before the formation of the dividing

spirit behind the Church of God. I'm a Church of

God man eighteen years of it.

My life is an assimilar God woman, nineteen years of it.

Her mother is an Assembly of God woman. Her grandpa

wasn't as similar god man. Her grandpa was an old

time assimbly god woman. My daddy was a Church of

God man. My granddaddy was a Church of God man.

My great granddaddy was Church of God.

I don't know how many.

Generations we go back, but if you go back far enough,

you go back to the Assusa Street.

Revivedal before the study.

Being divisions amongst Pentecostal people. Who started this great Pentecostal

movement of the modern era was the movement of the

Holy Ghost through a revocation of pactification.

The value for casatas the.

One they're not live a sacti piety.

It's coltious to know the lie of their churches.

It's coltius to love a day.

Jesus said in the Book of Revelation, do you have

a day? But again, why isn't everybody focuses on the

name or love to life?

What is the fantasy over their denominations?

What is the fascination of what Grandpa had?

What about what Jesus had? He didn't say, upon.

This Baptist church, upon this descent of God, upon this

church of God, out being by church, He said, upon

this rock.

I am becoming more persuaated by the day.

Because of the light that is in an organization and

a denomination. In my diligence studies of scripture, I am

becoming more convinced by the.

Day that a church should be autonomous.

Meaning capable of self governing, and that a church should

not belong to an organization of a period. I was praying,

and I'm gonna get real personal. Come up here, simply, God, girl,

I was praying about a week ago, and I still

don't understand the fullness of this but I'm gonna share this,

and I know you all will share the message.

But that's all right. I am telling you come up

here and stand behind.

Me in this pool pit. Standing right here, hide and

behind it is big enough. I know this message will

get shared. I know this will bring forth private conversations

and discussions by hypocrites churches, caiphas and Judas and political

hierarchies like pilot inherent. It ain't backbone to do anything.

I know this sermon will be passed around. I know

there's good holdiness people in the Church of God, but

they're becoming few and far between. I know what God

dealt with us about when we had to come out

thirty something years ago, and I tell you this, it

ain't progressed for the best at all in thirty something years.

And some of them are just now figuring out that

the head has been sick for a long time.

The problem thirty years ago was that with.

Good people that had good hearts wanting to do right

and keep it together, the problem was the head was

sick and the head was going to destroy it. That's

the problem with the dominations. When you have a hierarchy

and you have an overseer It doesn't matter how beautiful

of a congregation you have in South Florida. It doesn't

matter who you feel like you Elisha is Elijah, It

doesn't matter.

What your plans are.

The district overse and the state oversere they can manipulate

the situation and put whoever they wont to in that

pulpit of that church, that people's child Bill and that

people's bloods went in tears Bill, and they consume the

handily if they wont to, and if they desire to

destroy the most holiness of cartner Lass by simply putting

the wrong person in the poolpit.

Now you're looking at a Church of God Boy again.

I don't know if I'm fourth or fifth generation or

beyond that.

And you're looking at Assembly of God Girl again.

I'm preaching a message the Holy Ghost titled a charity

Christmas an Assembly of.

God Girl and a Church of God Boy.

I bled Church of God, I sleppt Church of God.

I worked with a youth in the Church of God.

I took them on skating trips in the Church of God.

She's singing in the choir of that Assembly of God

Mega church. Her former pastor, Wayne Blackburn pastors the Victory

Assembly of God in Lakeland, Florida.

Google it. That was her pastor. That's a very big church.

We come from, not backwood country churches, who come from

well established, foolly functional churches that there's no doubt some

great Man of God built, Great men of God built

that Assembly of God.

Great men of God built the Church of God. I

come out of her great granddaddy. Now it's your granddaddy.

Logan mark was that your granddaddy was an Assembly of

God ministry. They went to youth camp and what's called

Master Peace Gardens.

It was way better than the youth camp all went to.

And why Mama, do I have to go there?

Assembly of God had the best youth camp facility and

you had.

To pay a premium to go. Her granddaddy.

I had to see in the way things went hawked

with the record keeper. In Missouri, that's where the Assumings

of God's headquarters are, the state headquarters. You go to

the Branson and Springfield area, you will see Assembly of

Gods everywhere. Are y all praying for me? I'm gonna

slow down just a little bit. I got so much

to preaching. I didn't attend on saying all this, This

is the Holy Ghost.

Speaking right here through his humble servant, and I'm nothing

but dirt.

We got to change our mindset because we're married to denominations.

We're married.

You have a hard time pulling them people out of

the Baptist Church and the Lutheran Church and the Catholic

Church because they bowed to never leave. Where's that in

the Bible. But we left fully functional churches. As far

as I know, the buildings were paid for.

We had at.

Christmas time, Christmas cantatas saying by road choirs, beautiful services

we participated. I was Ebenezer Scrooge in the church Christmas.

For many years, we were rejects in very large functional congregations.

In fact, when I met Sister.

Hawa, went to her church for the first time, which

was taboo for a Church of God to marry Thesembly

of God girl.

Again, it was taboo because the.

Church of God people were bullying Assembly of God people

way back then, saying she's way too world and then

people's way too.

Worldly for us. But them women had pulled poodle dog

hair tight.

Kiki perms into the lips in the Church of God,

and they were judging the Assembly of God. I guess

it was a battle of who could wear the shortest skirt.

So they were upset with me because I was leaving

the Church of God in Bradley going to the Moultbar

Assembly of God to talk to Sister Charity. And we

knew nothing of independent holiness people. We knew nothing of

a church being a totomous. We had no problem with

respecting our elders. We had no problem with service to

our pastor. I have no problem or pastor appreciation services.

We were not rebels by nature. In fact, when I

saw Sister Howell, she was like the girl that poured

the water on the hands of the preacher's wife.

If I have to be honest.

Of the one hundred and fifty that were there on

Sunday mornings at her church, she was their favorite. Talking

about the pastor and the pastor's wife, she was their favorite.

We didn't leave because we were rebels or renegades, Dear.

I didn't leave the Church of God because I couldn't

minister there. In fact, the night that I left, the

pastor came to me and offered me a promotion and

also offered to go buy a ten thousand dollars piano.

Sister Howell was witness to that. They will buy you,

they will phone call you, they will make friends with

you on Facebook in order to keep you because they

want to keep the tie. I'm preaching on a charity Christmas.

I'm preaching on a charity Christmas. What does this have

to do with your text? Have a seacret?

There's now I feel that to slow down right here.

I was praying, and I know this is going to

go around and people is going to say, who does

he think he is?

First? Let me answer that question. And when you share

these clips, make sure you don't edit out. I am

a nobody, Jemmy, I am a nobody.

I'm the least of my brothers and sisters in this building.

And I'm tired of seeing the devil bullyeve them. I'm

tired of them being treated like they're misfits. I'm tired

of the devil treating them like they're the ones that

are wrong because they're standing for truth and righteousness.

I'm tired of that foolishness. But I was praying last

week and some of you independent holding us people can.

Fall out with me all you want to about this

but I was praying, and I do pray, and anybody

listens to my preaching, you can tell I pray and

my message has come from God. Does when them God's

stealing and start using them what they've been doing. They

can't find no other online resource.

Right home on yet.

Right, it's not my messages anyway, they're God's. But first,

let me say again, I'm a nobody. I'm less and dirt.

I know how I beg God to help me in

that office.

I don't get the big head. I don't swell up

like I'm somebody.

Brother Jean Butler, He'll tell you if I running to

you at the park, I'll talk to you like you've

been my best friend all your life.

And that's what I'm talking about this morning. You can

tell you'll talk on somebody.

You can tell when there's continuity between brothers and sisters.

You ever got around somebody said the spirit wasn't right.

I can tell the.

Spirit wasn't right.

Well, you know what my spirit bear's witness with every

person in.

This building is born.

I can tell where my spirit bears witness with people

there that you'll to God. I can tell what I

mean my brother and sister, I've bet him in Canada before.

And they walked up and said, we could tell you hell,

you had it right. I said, how could you tell that?

They said, by your spirit. I've met him in Canada,

I've met him in Alaska. I've bet him on cruise ships.

I've met him in South Florida. I've met him into

smoking mountains. So I said, God, God, what do you

mean by this?

He said?

FT Mason died a holiness man. His wife got a

holiness demon. Now, if you got a spirit that most

of sue discord among the brethren right now. That was

the problem that developed in this region was the Pusson.

And the Bartons and the lack of put me on

between Mother.

And God, said brother F. T.

Mason. Began to lose the grip on these Church of

Gods with them this trip and state overseers started putting.

The WNG men in the pulpits, and then roll Mere

started influencing the parishions.

That I was a beeper in a crowd in my office.

I'm running out of time. And God said, if.

You could have sent them services and really seen FT.

Mason's heart as he wept and.

He cried as he saw what he bre be dissolved

by preachers that would.

Not hold up the treas her.

God said, he.

Sent right there standing for what he preached poor.

But he stood poor what he preached the gift all

their years, and he died living it.

My heart broke, My heart broke in Twain. That's the movie.

Now, I'm not sent here to preserve holiness and standards

of truth and righteousness and the Word of God, because

you can't even hear the Word of God holy preached

and intelligent fashion anymore anyway.

But I'm not here to preserve.

The preaching of the Word of God and standards and

truth and righteousness at this location.

Only God, let me know it's bigger than O. D. Coleman.

God let me know.

It's bigger than Rodny Faulkner. God let me know it's

bigger than brother Bill Durden. And that's a good thing.

I'm sorry that you've got your favorite quarterback.

But you know what witness little independent holiness churches all

over this region.

He will know that this was bigger than Jeremy Howell.

And then it was bigger than that.

To nation, it was set of trying the badness. He

came in the spirit of Elijah, some of you and

amy U to remember that our teas was walking high

and preaching truth and.

Holded us and righteousness.

And I want you to know it's back. I said

that he is all time.

Preaching all time.

Hold of this SERVI says, Oh, they are God.

And what we will do we will refuse to.

Form an organization.

And what we will do, we will refuse.

The goad of denomination. So they go overseer her to.

This soul that God has got together.

What happened in the churches in this region.

And we had good church and believed in one way,

and another church that believed in another way. A church

of God up to worth thirty miles believed it different

than the Church of God over here. Another church of

God an hour away believed in different than another one

twenty minutes away from that one.

Where is the.

Community of the spirit of God.

Up between people of God.

And honor to the spirit of ft Mason. I say,

we're Christian soldiers. I say in the same cities. I say,

in the same spirit, Nay, God of North Teas men

to go into the same cities. And the Pioneer and

the old time Pentecostom style churches and a similar God

Girl and a Church of God Boy became independent. We

set aside our doctrinal differences. We came together with a

common denominator of the Word. We set aside to a

doctrinal differences, and we came together for the sake of

the Kingdom and for the sake of the Word of God.

And the end result is this.

The continuity in their.

Personal relationship and friendship is remarkable. I'm not talking about

the spirit of e communticism, where a bunch of church

and God preachers come together on a Friday night and

they shah lah lah lah lah over people they've been

quote working with for thirty years. You can work with

a rebel this person for thirty years all you want to.

That's not indicative nor of a good leadership ability, nor

is it a testimony to your patience. I've been working

with that sister for thirty years. I've been patient with her. Well,

what's your problem with your leadership? You ain't got the

Holy ghost a naughty because the Bible said the Holy

ghost will destroy you. We specialize in working with people.

In fact, every one of these people are working progress.

And I've been told about people sitting in the pews

right here. That's been with me for a while.

I've been taught by independent and nominal churches. Their pastors

included that there is no way we will help them.

There's no way they will change. They will never change.

That's right. We won't do it, but God we will

do it.

What I'm saying is, if it's good and pleasant for

brethren to dwell together in unity, then it must.

Be horribly terrible and unpleasant for them to be disunified.

It's not a batch of honor to go to a

meeting if it's a Baptist, Luther, Catholic, Church of God

assembling God. I'm picking on Church of God assembla God

because you're looking at former Church of God and dissembling God.

People July have grounds to say something. Now, if you're

a Lutheran or you're Catholic, you talk about the Lutherans.

And the Catholics and don't think it's funny.

I can talk about Church of God because.

The Howell family probably paid more tie than to the

Church of God over the last one hundred years in

any other family I knew. And she can talk about

the Assembly of God again we didn't come from pipsqueak

Church of God's and Assembly of God's out in the

sticks in the country as compromising. My text is this,

there was continuity between Mary and Elizabeth. I don't know

how long it had been since they had got together.

It could have been a good while since the how

will stand up right here? On December the twenty second,

nineteen ninety two, a Church of God boy knocked on

an Assembly of God girl's door.

And I've done the unthinkable and the unimaginable. I walked

through that.

Threshold on December twenty second, nineteen ninety two. Right today

is December twenty second, twenty twenty four, thirty two years

ago our relationship began. I'm preaching a sermon the Holy

Ghost titled a Charity Christmas.

I can remember it as it was yesterday. You can

sit down, Sister Howell.

I can remember getting out of that camaro, closing the door,

walking up on the front porch, being nervous as I

did the raditat.

Tattle on the door.

She came to the door with the biggest smile on

her face. Brother Butler, was just a beautiful moment. And

what I want to point out was the energy and

the excitement that became apparent in that.

Room at the moment of our union. I want to

point out.

The energy and the excitement that was evident by Zacharias

that anyone else that was pleasant when married and Elizabeth

came to get.

Thirty two years ago.

A lot of you remember your marital anniversary, the days

that you did, the commitals and the vowels. You remember

that day. We remember the day that we became official

because sister Howell, she says, you know, our wedding anniversary

is August twenty seventh, nineteen ninety four.

But she said, we've been married and we've been bonded.

Since December twenty second, nineteen ninety two.

That was the best Christmas when we came together.

God's people have gotten to forget about these obligations and

committals to denominations.

Come on, come on, I agree, my God. Where did

you side on the line that you have to die?

Church of God?

So we live and learn from history and historically we

now have evidence it does not work. I said, the

nominations do not work. I said, the nominations do not work.

Such a God, a similar God.

We forgot about it. They retain that the other, and

we fell in love of the Bible.

God.

I tell the pature be in this house, he got a.

Kid about some taste.

Lay there by hide they go on caller.

If they want a connection, there is a connection. Right

here's the reciprocal Just get connection. And that's what I'm

telling people that are looking for truta and righteousness or

the old top holding us so lo mon at nation Creepsure.

It's right here.

It's not to neither. Let's through the word of God

and through the Holy test I.

Say it's up here for that.

But you know what I see if the Lord Terry's

what God showed me in that office. I see a

holiness church in bell Bray.

I see a hol in this church includens.

The I see a home in this church of hell out.

I see a home in this church. Can a mocking

leave the room rail her hour?

I know?

I said, go ahead, tell him.

We're telling me that God tell.

Me O telling this. He's telling that the hell.

Tell that church of God.

Boys that got the back told on a red road.

You're to.

Tell him, tell him you're coming. Tell him set from

hold in this church is telling tell him liberty.

Hold in this church there is colored I tell him you.

Let this sitterble is hold and lo to.

The not what's any day?

But look coming, I'm trained soldiers there just coups rejexted

from the troll country. So called touches will become obsolete

when the power God comes over you, judge, we could

have followed over for me to be assembly God. Her

pastor wanted us to go with her.

My pastor wanted her to go with me. Early on

the DEVI will try to.

Get between us. I'm preaching on a charity Christmas. Wouldn't

it be wonderful if.

Just as she did on December twenty second, she said

I'm married to him? Wouldn't be wonderful?

On this December twenty second you get a charity Christmas

experience and you say what, I ain't married to denomination

ever again.

I ain't married to confusion ever again. I ain't never

dragging my daughter any of that mess again.

I ain't never gonna try to explain to Jesse again,

Oh I'm filling the holydays?

Would y'all rather shout get over this? I'll let your

mother try to explain to.

Your daughter why that.

Sister ain't living rights. Come on, I'm telling you this game.

When we can come together, then we can kill their

Energy of the exciteness of Inok, the House of God,

because of people have a common denominator.