When The Party Is Over - Bro Jesse Howell 8-4-2024

Gave the fear of the Lord here this morning.

I appreciate everything that's been done this far in the service.

I've enjoyed the word from God, the singing, the Sunday school,

everything that has been gone.

I'm certainly thankful for this opportunity to preach. I'll give

honor to my pastor. I miss him this morning.

Love him, deary, A wonderful, wonderful example, a man of God.

I certainly think the Lord for him.

Amen.

I have been, I've been. I've heard preachers all my life.

I guess say, I'll wrestle with the Lord over this one.

And if I've ever if I've ever wrestled with the Lord.

Over over a messages, this one, I'll be honest. I

didn't want to preach it. I wasted about a good

hour and a half in study yesterday trying to get

out of it.

And I knew I hadn't missed it because the Lord had.

I told I told God, if if you want me

to if you want me to preach this, then I

need obvious confirmation from you.

And as I sat in my in the floor with

my Bible, my notebook in the in my baby boy's

nursery if I've had confirmation. I got confirmation from the

Lord on this message.

Here this morning seemed like the service was going in

a in a different way, and I'm sure it went

that way for a reason, because I'm sure there's a

saint in here. Myself included that God helped in the

service up until this point, right, we were strengthened, and

we were and now it's time to help someone else.

Now I need you to help me in here tonight.

Don't get all quiet on me this morning.

Get in here. You got your help. I've got help

in the beginning.

Of the service, and there's somebody else that the Lord's

going to reach to you.

This morning.

I wrestled with it because I didn't want to preach

this on a Sunday morning. I'll be completely honest with you,

I really didn't. But I believe that the Lord has

a word for someone. I don't think I'll be too.

Long unless the Holy Ghost has other plans.

Just give me a few minutes here and we're gonna

try to help somebody.

You can be turning to the Book of Dan, your

chapter number five. The Book of Dan, your chapter number five.

I was awoken out of my sleep last Sunday night.

I didn't look at the time, but I would guess

it was.

Two or three in the morning, is what it felt like.

You know, Sometimes that can be off. You can feel

like it's later and you pick up your phone and

it's early. I feel like it's early, and you pick

up your phone and it's late. My guess is two

or three in the morning.

And with this thought, the Lord woke me up and

I wrestled with it for over a week.

I said, God, please don't let pastor ask me to preach.

I love preaching, I really do.

And sure enough, the Saturday morning, I woke up to

a text on my phone, hey son being ready to preach,

and I said, oh God, maybe.

I can get something different.

So I tried.

I tried.

I promise you, but I believe God wants to help

somebody here tonight.

But but but but the words will fall on death fears.

If you don't want to be changed, as Brother Samuel

testify out here this morning, if you.

Don't want change, if you're not ready for that change,

if you're if you're if you're just enjoying living life

the way that you've been living, if you're just enjoying

playing games.

If you're just enjoying partying right, And I don't.

Mean like literally going out and and drinking till you

can't walk straight. I mean playing with God, playing games

with God, and in the House of God, and your

chapter number five, we'll be reading verse number one.

Bel Shazar King. The king made a great feast to

a thousand of his lords, and he drank wine.

Before the thousand bel Shazar, why don't he tasted the wine?

Commanded to bring the golden and silver vessels which his

father and Nebuca Nezar had taken out of the temple

which was in Jerusalem.

That the King and his princess, his wild and his concubines.

Might set there.

Then they brought the golden vessels that were taken out

of the temple of the House.

Of God, which is that Jerusalem, and the King.

And his princes, his wives, and his concubines.

Drank in them.

They drank wine, and they praised the gods of gold,

of silver, of brass, of iron, of wood.

And of stone.

In the same hour came forth fingers of a man's

hand and wrote over against the candlestick upon the plaster

of the wall of the king's palace, and the king

saw the part of the hand that wrote. Then the

king's countenance was changed, and his thoughts troubled him, so

that the joints of his loins were loosed, and his

knees spoke one against another. And with the Lord's help

here to morn him, I preach just just a simple

thought on when the party is over. When the party

is over, we'll just stretch your hand towards heaven and

ask God and help us.

God.

We thank you so much for your goodness. God.

We thank you for your birthy and for your grace. Lord,

for your kindness. God.

We thank you right now Lord for giving a care Lord,

hearing the service for someone. God, for taking thought of

us brother soul here tonighte this scorn.

God, we asked that you would speak to them, God,

that you would give us ears to hear. Lord, that

you would give us willing hearts, Lord, to understand and

to take it account what you're saying. Lord, we'll give

you the glory.

We'll give you the praise in order in Jesus' name,

Amen and Amen. In my study here last last night,

yesterday evening and last night I studied out this kingdom.

And this nation, if you will, Babylon. These people were

notoriously known as uncontrolled. They were uncontrolled in their drinking,

they were uncontrolled in their eating. They were known to

just just to be like they had no self control whatsoever.

This was a very common thing. And in our text

here took this morning, we find we find no different

characteristics of this king, Bill Shasher. We read about Bel

Shazarn and he ruled the kingdom for of Avalon for

about thirteen years before this great feast here tonight this morning.

Brother, And in my study, I realized.

That historians believe that that Bell Shasher's mother was the

daughter of nedgicant Nezzar. So the mighty Neducud Nezzar's daughter

has this boy named Bell Shasri, and he and he

ascends the throne after nedicand Nezzar. So Bell and Bill

Shazar has made a royal feast. The Bible says to

a thousand of his lords, and these men the in

this term lords and theeds, princes or governors or or

basically the rulers of the land. So so Bill Shafmer

calls together all the all the big shots, if you will,

all the big wigs, and he calls them and he

makes a feast, and uh, he makes a feast to

all these people. And it's concubines and the wise, and

they're just having a big old time and they're having

a big old a big old head and a big

old party, a big old feast, if you will.

The Bible calls it a feast. But there was much.

There was much, much party and going on. What a

magnificent show up, Well, no doubt what what was was

was was shown the.

Carrying on the railvry just just just all the.

People in Bam and Bill Shafer is then the look

at what I've done. They were very, very very arrogant people,

these kings were back in the day.

They love to make a big show of what they

had and what they did and what they could do.

And the honored guests of the King were received into to.

The banquet hall.

The banquet hall would have been part of the castle

or the the palace there.

It would have been beautiful.

It would have had it would have had memori memorials

of past wars. It would have had the fine art

that they had back in those days.

It would have been decorated to.

PROFECTIONI it would have just been awe stracking. You will

walk in right, they say, you have to pick your

jaw of the floor, because because this would be a

place of grandeur, it would be I mean it held

a thousand, one thousand men or rulers, lords, if you will.

It held the king, It held.

The the queen, and the.

Wife and the concubines through the big old.

It was a big old place of beautiful, a beautiful

architect and design.

It was just a magnificent show.

And there was no doubt music, there was no doubt

dancing and frolicking around.

There was no doubt partying there.

And it Yes, they walked in to this Bakert Hall,

I know. They were met with Babylon's finance. They were

met with Babylon's best servants. They were met with Babylon's

finest cuisine.

They were met with the best food of the land.

They were met with the best wine that could be made,

the best.

That that bel Shazer had was manifest and was there

because these kings would hold nothing back and showing their

will and showing what.

They could do and showing their power. And heard all

my life the.

Saying and the little phrase that life is a party.

I've heard it. I've heard it. I've heard it. I've

seen it on pictures and everything, and it shows to

be a modrow of.

The modern day, the modern day society that feels like

they give no account to tomorrow, and they feel.

Like they live like there is no tomorrow, when in

fact there is and tomorrow. So I feel like this

was the case here to this end, then artext that

these people were living like life was a party.

They were living like the prophet of old had it prophesied.

They were living like I say, Jeremiah hadn't come down

the road and said Babihlon will fall. It had been

prophesied for a poem a Babelon fall.

And I'm getting ahead of my message. I've heard I have.

Acquaintances, and I have relatives. Then whenever I look at

their lives, so realize that they're too busy having what

they call a good time, that they're too busy partiers.

They make it spoil of their lives to tell their

count what God is trying to say.

To them, they take a count or what really theirs?

We must realize.

That how we live on lives day to day and

how we spend our weekends.

I learnt a secular job, and all I hear now is.

The weekend when it's five thirty. By six thirty, I'll

be a few deep. That's all they live for. And

they say, I drink up until Sunday, and I try.

To stop early enough so that I can come to

work Monday and function. It's all I hear now that

they party. It's all.

It's war.

That's all it's worked for them. They take no account

of the future, judgment alright, let me tell my friend

here this morning, there will come a day when we

give account.

There.

We will come a day when we said the foreign

Almighty God, and we answer for our deeds, and we

answer for our actions. Bel Shazer was partying like it

didn't affect his future. The fallen into minds, I told you,

I got ahead of myself. The fall in the minds

of Babelord had been foretold by the likes of Isaiah

and Jeremiah, the Mighty prophets. It had been foretold many

years prior, right, but bel Shaser refused to take heed.

He refused to take it seriously. His own grandfather.

Testified in Daniel chapter number four, verse number thirty seven.

Now I negicanisard.

Praise and extone and honor the King of Heaven, who's

all works are truth and.

His ways are judgment.

Listen to this right here.

Keep in mind who these kings were. I he told

you they're very arrogant people. They're very very odd.

What do you call that?

With the clothes and all that.

They were rod materialistic, very very very arrogant people. And

his grandfather told him, and those that walk in pride,

he is able to obey him, trying.

To lord him what he's trying to tell him. Hey,

sign be careful. He tells what you trail on. God

he's able to abase you. He's able to bring you

a lord. He's able to wake you up.

This predecessor had warned him, and God was able to

humble him.

But who has time to worry about that? When you're

having such a great party?

Who has time to worry about what God said? When

you're running the middle of a good time, when you're

run in the middle of that joint, when you're running

the middle of it, darting.

In that thing, throw yourself on.

Who are come to worry about what God thing?

Who has time to listen to the testimony of those

that walk the road before you? Who has time to

listen to the man of God has been on his

knees bread? Who has time to listen to the passage?

When are your.

Head such a mighty fine time, give such a mighty

fine placed right?

The Bible says the why Belle Shatzer tasted the wine

while he was in the.

Middle of feeling just like he was feeling, feeling mindy fine,

he said, bring your golden and silver vessels. Now that's fine, okay.

The issue is, there's nothing wrong with their teens having

going in silver vessels, right, There was no nothing wrong

and nothing nothing against them showing their wealth in that manner.

If they wanted to drink water or wine unpermitted out

of they're going it in silver vessels.

Well that's quite all right. If I had one right now,

I take me a big sip of it.

I don't my probably never will. The issue here is

these weren't just any vessels. These weren't just any silver

and gold vessels. Want these warm waters?

He wanted.

Bell Shafer wanted the ones from the temple. Bel Sarians

are more of the holy things. Bel Siam Mona Dublin

was dedicated to God.

He called for him, don't get going down there to

the sorehouse.

Rnn it to Nanzer brought him up and he put

him in the sword. Don't get their holy things. I'm

gonna show God a thing. I'm gonna show God a

fare too. Solomon had dedicated these vessels. God had hordered

the dedication on the temple. The gold he had, God

had come down in that place the chirkaas horder.

The clown came off.

These vessels were.

Holding bell Shazer means to blasphee and the final living

God at his feest by drinking wine from the holy vessels.

What I feel like.

It's Bell Shaffer was thumbing his nose up.

You ever seen kids do that?

Then then above man then got it and you can't

do nothing about it. That's where bell Shaffer was out.

Bell Shander was so drunk, so full of himself, that

he thought he could take the heart of heights and make.

Frue with it.

He committed idolatry by worshiping the gods with a little

ge of gold, silver, brass, iron, woodenstone.

I read one man.

Said you have to be be mighty on what way

off mentally to worship God's like that.

I tend to agree with that.

You're pretty crazy to worship something like that. An I

don't made of gold, I don't made of wood my mind.

He mocked God by profaning holy vessels and trying you

do the same thing whenever you knowingly feel your eyes,

when you know when they feel your mind.

And you fill your life with things.

And pleasures of this world. When you treat life like

it's a party, and Bill shasard you.

And you take no seriousness in it, and all you

want to do is play games, and you want to

hurt like too many church, and you want to act

like that you're serious, But all you're doing is having

a big show. And all you're doing is having a

big party.

Let me tell you something that we read in our

text and you so soon is forgotten.

In the middle of the riots excitement, in the middle

of the revere, the partying, in the middle of the feasting,

and in the minner of the oddsius worship, that came

fingers on.

I went on the wall.

When are in the middle of the party, fingers came

forth from heaven and began to draw in the in

the plaster of the wall he left alike. The Bible

says that the king's thoughts troubled him, and his knees

spoke together, and I.

Can't help but wonder why did why did his thoughts

trouble him?

And I read this in a commentary, but I promised

before the God I stand.

I had in my notes before I read it, and

I never looked.

At it Daniel commentary before. I believe it was Matthew Henry.

But I had it in my notes before I ever

read it in the book. Why did his sought trouble him?

Why did a hen coming on the ball that he

couldn't even make out? He didn't even know what he

was saying? His conscience, his conscience was eating him up.

His conscience was tearing him up from the inside all

the way to.

The outcome, because.

He knew deep down.

What he had done. He knew that heaven didn't bring

good news. I believe that Bell shays Are knew it

was the end of the line for him.

It was time to pray the price. The Bible says,

be sure your sins we'll.

Find you out.

Let me tell you something this morning, right now.

This morning, you may feel like that life doesn't have

to be taken all that seriously, and that you just

then day and that you take it as it comes.

That's exactly what Bell Shazar did. That's exactly what the

Kingdom of Battlelon was do it.

But there will come a time whin the foolishness win

the games, within.

All the frolicking and all the railry, we'll come to

an end and God will put an in to that baring.

God will put it in to the foolishness and the

games that you played. First number thirty says, in that

night Bell Shazzard was slain. Let me read it to you,

so I get it wrong. In that night was Bell Shazzar,

the king of county and slag Praise God.

In that night.

He got that for the last time. He hadn't most

God the last time. I'm not mad tonight this morning,

I'm not mean. I'm trying to help somebody.

I'm trying to help somebody here this morning that don't

feel it necessary.

Bel Shazer ignored the warning of his grandfather, and he

waited too late. Let me tell you something, Bell Shazar

didn't go out partying.

He was partying, all right, when the finger of God,

wrote over wall. But by that night he wasn't parting

no longer. It wasn't all funny games no longer. He

was greatly troubled. Twice in the Bible it says that

he was greatly troubled, and his countenance was changed. The

Bible said his knees spoke together like a little boy

in the dark, trembling, because he knew.

Those that were around him were astonished at the distress

of their king. Those that were around him were amazed

at this man that stood before him in such pomp,

in such splendor, was shaken to his knees. The Jesus

told us of a man in the Book of Luke

that thought life was to be lived fervously and care free.

The Bible says that he went.

Into a far country, and he wasted his substance with

righteous living.

He was living without thought.

The consequences, doing things that he didn't really run up,

didn't really take in account what would be the consequence.

But I must offer hope this morning.

Unlike the thing of bel Shasar, bel Shandro was too late.

Bell Shanser was too young. It didn't work out for

bel Shazar. This young man, the Bible says he came

to himself and he made his way back home.

Right.

He didn't bring that lifestyle with him. I heart he preached.

He didn't have a pig under this arm. There us

to be a change. He didn't bring the life style.

But you realize that what I'm living is getting it

is not getting me where I need to be. This

life that I'm living, all this spin me, all this

broad reason is not getting me where I need to be.

It's not getting me to the place that I need

to be. But what I need to do is just serious.

What I need to do is leave the leave.

The party, leave the games. One day he won't be

his handwriting on the wall. I'm gonna listen to me.

One day it won't be his handwriting.

On the wall.

I'll tell you what it's gonna be. It's gonna be

some clouds party. You're listening to me. I say it's

gonna be some clouds party.

Come.

Jesus Christ said, said, well up here.

You don't fail Sarator fail. Drive now, you don't fail

Sara's knees keep themself, you make their.

Hand right on the wall.

Start now, shauser, you won't kill Jesus flies north easterns. Guy,

I won't be here. Don't put it it for me on,

come on, Why as we know it will.

Be no more.

There will be no more games. I heard it say

it Hill the party, You'll be the baracue.

It won't be no game. There won't be no party

down there with Jesus. Mister scud loss Book of Moses

leaving the palace of Pharaoh to be the humble big

man in the Book of to be a humble big man.

And he spoke of this in the Book of Hebrews.

I was supposed to read that.

I forgot.

That was my context.

He brings chapter eleven, verse twenty four. But by faith, Moses, when.

He was come to years, refused to be called the

son of Pharaoh's daughter, choosing rather to suffer affliction with

the people of God and to enjoy the pleasures.

Us sin for a season. There will coming in to

the pleasures, There.

Will coming in to the big happy time. There will

coming in to the party. Bell Shazar knew that Heaven

hadn't brought good news. His thoughts troubled him. His knees

were knocking before he ever heard Moses left the palace right.

Moses left the palace, and Paul said it was because

he refused to.

Enjoy the visions of sin for a season he could have.

He refused to be called the son.

Listen to this.

He refused to be called.

The son, the grandson of Philoh. I've heard that all

my life, Bill Shazer was his grandson of Deduca Nezzar.

Moses refused to enjoy phase parties.

If you will to.

Refuse to enjoy the best that he is your tend to.

Offer, there will coming in to the pleasures, whether you

leave right or whether God pulls you out. God called

Bill Shafsmer's number the young man in Luke that he

came to his mind. He came to his right self.

Bill Shaffer didn't have that right before, before ever hearing

the interpretation of the message, before Daniel was ever called

Daniel was an old man by now. In fact, if

I read the Bible right, Nde can Nezzar's wife is

the one that remembered Daniel and told Bill Shazer it

was his wife. It was Nadekonzar's wife or daughter and called,

tell Bill Shazzar, I know a guy that can speak

to you. Let me ask you something. Did Daniel come

in there scared? No, Daniel's conscience wasn't bothering him.

He wasn't worried at all about his life was in danger,

his life was It ain't a line.

Cyrus, I believe it was was outside the gate. Some

of the scholars believed that Cyrus chose this time because

he knew the party was going to be taking place.

Some scholars say he knew that the king would be partying,

and all of his lords and all of his rulers

and captains or whatever that is compassity company and compass

in that word lords, whatever that is. He knew that

they would be in the party, and he chose that

time to strike. He chose that time to infiltrate the

city because he knew that their mind was where it

needed to be.

He knew they were too.

High on life to worry about what's coming in in

the back order, too high hold out to worry about

what's here in my mind, to hole life, to worry

about what's gonna take place in the afterlife. No doubt,

the testimony of Nevican desert his grandfather filled his mind

as he realized his fate was sure to come.

No doubt you remember Negecander, God humbled him. Was it

seven years? Believe it was seven years that he went

out like an animal. His hair grew long as they

had Hegel's toss his nails with fingers. He had hair

long hair.

Cordingly an't kempt like an animal of the field in

del and hair.

And David can Nezar.

Trying to word it.

I'm telling you how get through that ransom. I've walked

that road. I've lived the life you live.

You are doing nothing new. You ain't experiencing nothing of

Denny Canazar that ain't done them through Dendica Nazar tried

to warn him. Douglas Corrigan born in nineteen o seven

in Galaston, Texas. He built his fourth airplane in nineteen

thirty eight. And they said my mind was in a

cherry rig airplane. They said it was forever more homemade.

They say he earned the nickname wrong Way. That was

his nickname, wrong Way.

Because his both notorious flight.

His most notorious adventure was whenever his set flight from California,

and he flew from California to New York. His return plan,

I forget what they called that, his return five flight

plan said, I'm gone done to California to New York,

and then I turned around and I'm coming back to

Long Beach. His aircraft had no navigation equipment. The story

goes that the clouds were bad that day.

And he only used his own judgment. He only he

only used what he knew, what he thought, how he felt.

History records at the phrase flying by the seat of

your pants was mostly attributed in.

Coin for this man.

They say that that that that, uh, Douglas Corygan use

his own judgment, and you know where he ended up.

His three records, he ended up in Ireland.

That's a bit off from Long Beach, California, where he

was supposed to be going.

Now, some debate if he was.

Accident, oh lord, if it was purposeful he just had

an adventurous phone. But he said because he didn't have

no gauges, because he didn't have no navigation, he didn't

end up where he thought he was gonna end up.

Because the cloud coverage was so bad, he flew by

the seat of his pants.

And what he did is whatever he felt like, was like,

whatever he felt like he should do at that moment,

That's what he did. I feel like here today that

that might be the here.

This forting.

Whatever they feel is the right thing at the time,

in the moment you.

Ever heard of the.

Bible say every man did that which was right then

his own eyes. That's what mister Corgan done and where

it ended up at. I didn't know this story that

had the phrase flying by the seat of your pants

rolling over and over my head because.

I heard it, but I wasn't really I thought I

knew it it did, and so I looked it up,

and I looked up the origin and this is the

origin of that saving, of that little little little little.

Saving there, flying by the seat of your pants. Whatever

feels right, that's what bed servier was doing.

It feels like.

And don't get in the holy vessels, it feels right,

the profane a holy whatever feels at the time they

got coming into that mentality. There's gotta come a time

whenever you find by this. Yeah, there's gonna come a

time whenever your every brad said time this what the

word of God says? What do you hell they're proud?

Nor what you feel on a limb? And so I'm

gonna give you a song here tonight this morning.

I'm done.

Bill Shaster refused.

Guidance and testimony from those before him.

Bill Shander was worn.

He was warned, don't be stand. My heard this morning

is that this message will be a handwriting on the wall.

I pray that this message we'll ring true.

With someone, and you will take an account what your

future holds. What's your actions today attribute to your future? Tomorrow?

Wake God's number?

Yeah?

Oh wake? Got a sleep?

Yeah? Oh God? The pleasures of seeing a fourth season.

Moses refused, Bill Shaser indulged. Moses refused, and Bill Shazzar indulged.

You tell me it's one happy, the the desired ending.

Don't profane your vessel. You are a holy, a holy

You're made in the image of God. Every person in

here this morning has potential to end up.

In one way or the other.

You will end up ass Bill Shazor, or you will

end up like that young man that came to his

senses and said, what I'm doing is not working right.

The way that I'm living life is not working.

What I feel today, however I feel tomorrow. If I

feel like praying, if I feel like reading.

I'll do it.

But if I don't, I guess it'll be a cheap day.

I wonder here this morning if we got an honest heart.

I don't believe that God woke me up in trouble.

With me for a week now.

With this message that no one really realizes that they're in.

A position such as bell Shas are.

Where they're taking life with a grain of salt. They're

not giving a tall to tomorrow. H God put a

stop to that party. God put a stop to that foolishness.

They don't come a time. There will come a time.

When God puts a stop to.

It when you playing games the last time, when you

profaned the holy thing that God gave you.

The last time.

Hm h m hmmm.

They begin to sing, here's any this morning. I wonder

if we could find a place here in the altar,

you say.

God, I feel like I'm gone in that place. God,

I feel like I do take seriously what you've done.

Will pray for somebody in this room that you know

that you can look at the fruit of their life,

and you can look and you can see that we

need help here this morning. We have a few here

this morning that needs help well cure, that need to

take it seriously, that need to take the favor of God.

Seriously, Oh God, take the.

Call that you got to be a change change tree.

Five, say.

Change me more to be.

You beginning the.

Film again time say.

Change change me, change me, don't let me stay.

Say you wanted to be.

Change change.

Change you.

Say stand said.

To be.

Fat to.

Change change change.

Say said? Oh say.

So, say chasing mhm, change me, change me stay the same?

Change changed me a change me.

Still to the same.

Oh me.

All my life? Oh please speak say so, say.

Change me more to speak about change me, change me?

Changed me all?

Oh man, we stayed to stay black.

Take my fa wow that you wanted to be.

Changed me, change.

Changed me?

Change in scre