The burning fiery furnace - Bro Jeremy Howell 1-14-2024

To the Book of Isaiah. May I direct your attention to the forty eighth

chapter. We will be reading Versus number nine through eleven. Brother Nathaniel Daniel,

chapter number three, Versus number twenty through twenty five. Brother Jesse Hebrews,

Chapter number twelve, Verse number twenty nine. Brother Nathaniel Daniel, Chapter

number three, Verses twenty through twenty five. Will you read those, my

brother? He commanded the most spidy men that were in his army to buy

shadrack and meshack and a bent to go and to cast him into the burning

fiery furnace. Then these men were bounding their coats, they're hosting in their

hats, their other garments were cast into the midst of the burning firing furnace.

Therefore, because the king's commandments were urging the fire, the furnest exceeding

hot. The flames of the fire slew those men that took up shacked me,

shacking of Bendigo, and these three men shadracked me. Shacking of Bendigo,

fell down bound into the midst of the burning fiery furnace. Didn't e

Knezzar the king was a stone he and rose up in hastess and Spacon said,

unto his counselors, did not we cast three men bound into the midst

of the fire? They answered and said, under the King, true old

King. He answered and said, hello, I see for men loose walking

in the midst of the fire, and they have no hurt. In the

form of the fourth is like the son of God. Phraise the Lord.

I would like to point your attention to the twentieth verse of that third chapter

of the Book of Daniel, and said that he commanded the most mighty men

that were in his army to bind Shadrack, me Shack and Abandigo, and

to cast them into the burning fiery furnace. I want to preach a message

the Holy Ghost titled the Burning Fiery Furnace, Brother Jess Hebrews, chapter number

twelve and verse number twenty nine. For our God is a consuming fire.

Our God is a consuming fire. Let's stand for the reading of our golden

text again. Isaiah chapter number forty eight, Verses number nine through eleven.

The Bible said, for my name's sake, will I defer myne anger,

and for my praise, will I refrain for thee that I cut thee not

off. Behold, I have refined thee, but not with silver. I

have chosen thee in the furnace of affliction for mine own sake. Even for

mine own sake will I do it? For how should my name be polluted?

And I will not give my glory unto another. The Lord was allowing

Israel his people to survive and not be completely consumed or destroyed for his own

sake. We will be following a mental outline. It's a very short outline.

Two points for your good and for his glory. Let's pray, Heavenly

Father, we love it, We praise you. We thank you for the

opportunity to be in the house of the Lord. I thank you God for

the way that you have visited your people. You've made them happy in your

presence. You have blessed them as a king would lord his people. A

good king you are, and you have blessed your people wonderfully. I pray

that you would anoint this thy servant, said, a guard, have my

mouth, and help me to say the things that you would have me to

say, nothing more or less. Anoint the ears of this thy people,

that they might hear what it is the Spirit of God. Saith up to

this church, this party. I pray, let these words go below the

shoulders that I'm getting that heart, that soul, and that spirit also in

that mind above the shoulders. I prayed God that they would not be here's

only, but that they would heed the words and be doers. We thank

you for this place that we can gather in. We thank you for the

breath that we breathe. We thank you for your spirit that we feel will

give you the praise and the honor and the glory for everything you've done this

day. And may we depart this place joyfully and not sorrowfully in Jesus' name.

And the church says amen. Looking again. In verses number nine through

eleven, the Bible said, for my Name's sake, will I defer my

anger? And for my praise? Will I refrain for thee that I cut

thee not off. How many of you know the Bible said it is other

Lord's mercies that we are not consumed. There's been a lot of things said

over the last couple of weeks that have troubled my spirit as the pastor,

And it seems to me that the Lord has let us know that there are

some furnaces of affliction being prepared for some in this building. Verse number ten

said, behold, I have refined THEE, but not with silver. I

have chosen THEE in the furnace of affliction for my own sake. Even for

my own sake will I do it? For how should my name be polluted?

And I will not give my glory unto another. What the Lord is

saying right here is you are my people, and people are looking on and

how you do, and no matter what you do, I'm going to try

to do my very best to make the best I can out of you,

if you will allow me. Because people know you claim me to be your

God. People know what you have said, people know who you claim to

be. And the Lord was allowing Israel to survive and not be completely destroyed

for his own sake. That's what this is all about. It's for his

own glory. Our text is found in an Old Testament book of the Holy

Bible, the Book of Isaiah. The title of this book bears the name

of its author, the son of Amos, had a tremendous burden on his

heart for his people. Isaiah saw things that were forthcoming, things that troubled

his heart and mind, his people and his fellow Israelites had been nourished by

the Lord. They had been brought up under the wing of the Lord God

Almighty, known by name as Jehovah to his people. But for summer reason,

these people had rebelled against their God. In the first chapter of this

sacred writing, in the fourth verse, specifically, we read the following,

A sinful nation, a people laden with iniquity, a seed of evildoers,

children that are corruptors. They have forsaken the Lord. They have provoked the

Holy One of Israel unto anger. They are gone away backward. They are

gone backward. If you will, they have backslived. Now remind us that

the vision of the prophet Isaiah was concerning pending judgment. Judgment was coming without

a doubt. The Lord is still angry with the wicked every day. The

Bible said that God does not change. It is impossible for the Lord to

lie. It is impossible for us to revise the words of God. If

anybody attempts to do so, if they remove a punctuation point or mark,

if they remove a comma or a period, they are going to face the

judgment of God for attempting to revise the word of God again. It is

only an attempt. They will never successfully revised the word of God. The

Bible is right, and many people are wrong. I don't want to be

a persecutor of truth. I want to be a promoter of truth. And

the prophet Isaiah was sent to preach to his people concerning judgment that was coming

upon the land of Judah and Israel. The judgment that he was preaching about

was not coming upon the Gentiles and the surrounding cities around this precious city.

The judgment that was coming upon the people that professed to be God fearing people.

The Bible said that judgment must begin firstly at the House of God,

and so judgment was coming upon Judah and Jerusalem. The israelied the descendants of

Abraham, the people that professed Jehovah to be their God, the people who

claimed to be the followers of Jehovah, people that profess the law of God,

which was called the Law of Moses. They believed the words, but

they did not keep them. They preached it, but they did not live

it. They did not walk the walk. They talked the talk. You

see, the Book of Isaiah is evidence enough to prove to each generation that

the Lord is not okay with immorl and idolatrous people, especially those who name

him as their Lord. What preacher, that's Old Testament theology right there.

We live in the age of Grace, so many preachers today tell their parishioners.

But friend, allow me to point you into the direction of the New

Covenant and the New Testament. Specifically, in the Book of Second Timothy,

the beloved apostle Paul speaking to his success Sir Timothy. In that writing in

the second chapter and the nineteenth verse, you can read, nevertheless, the

foundation of God stand ashore, having this seal. The Lord knoweth them that

are His, And let every work that nameth the name of Christ depart from

iniquity and not on said, if you read the Bible through and through,

you will see we still have much work to do. Again, if you

read the Bible through and through you as a believer or proclaimer of being a

Christian, you will admit that we still have much work to do. Look

at your neighbor and say, hey, neighbor, he's still working on me,

and he's still working on you too. Whether you like that or not.

Even those that do not profess to you Jesus to be the Lord.

Their soul still belongs to him. Even the atheist that tries to deny his

existence. Their soul still belongs to God, and his spirit still strives with

them. I'm telling you I thank God for the goodness and the grace of

God, despite our ingnorancia of His will, despite our ignorance of His plan

for our life. I want to preach to us a message this morning,

the Holy Guest title the Burning Fiery Fairness. There is a furnace for the

agnostic, There is a furnace for the atheist. There is a fairness for

the believer. There is a furnace for the followers up Jehovah or the Lord

and Savior Jesus Christ. And I thank God for every time any person in

any of those categories find themself in that furnace of a priction, whenever God

begins to prove himself under those people. And a great friend of mine goes

by the name brother Jonathan Robertson, and Brother Jonathan Robertson got saved her late

in life. He said, for many years he denied the existence of the

Lord God Almighty. But he said, at some point he realized her.

There had to be her, a divine hand that orchestrates every event, a

scenario of a life. But at some point he humbled himself to the possibility

that there could be a God, the reality of God and brother Jeering,

mind set on bending need, he prayed and said, God, if you're

out there, I want to accept you, I want to receive you.

I want to believe in you, and I ask you to receive me as

your child if what these creatures are saying is true. In the process of

time, after going through fairness after furnace, he has found himself to be

a lover of truth. He's found himself to be like Jobn, a righteous

man that is perfect in his generation. Young people, you can stay obstinate

to the plan and the workings of God and your life for as long as

you please. But I want you to know there's some things in your life

that you have made control over, and one of those things being the fairness

of a punching that God puts it in your path. I've seen the way

that Holy gainst Him has did with us, said who recently asked him.

The preachers have preached him, their messages have been sober. Last Sunday night.

But it Jesse said, it was my desire and intention and plan to

preach this people happy. But God had another plan. That preacher, I

want you to preach her. Whatever it is. God has asked you to

preach her, even if it means putting this congregation in a furnace every time

when come to church. We're not gonna shout that our praises of God.

That's gonna be sometimes that we get don't bend in need, and we confess

it that He is Lord and that we are not alive to his perfect will.

I don't know about you all that I want him to do whatever he

needs to do with our church family to make sure we remain in is prison,

to make sure we stay in the center of God's will. I want

to always know him as Father that I want to be identified as his child.

Have many in this building this morning that can save. It's been God

that has been good for you, not the spiritor for this world, and

has been God. Yes, for His stain's sake. You up in Brest

for his namesake. You have been protected for His saith's sake. You're not

concerned. You're in this precious house we call the house of God. He

calls her of his goodness. It's not of your work say that, it's

of his workings. It's the reds do it. And it's motherless in our

eyes. What's been going on around here? Pastor, I'll tell you what's

going on? The Lord has not some people old that the furnace awaits them.

There are people in this building that have already passed through the furnace,

and they are a vessel for the fighter now after passing through the furnace.

I remember when I first was converted. I was a believer in Jehovah and

Jesus Christ. But apparently I had believed an imitator. Apparently I had believed

in anti Christ, someone that did not fully promote or stand for the unadulterating

word of God. There are so many religious people today that do not stand

for or against for the things that Jesus has put in this blessed book.

But at some point I remember coming into contact with the God the Blessing Book,

and I took a copy of the King King King James translation into my

hand, and I begin to ingest every word and never believe these words were

speaking to me. If you never believe that he's speaking to you. You

will never hear hooly what it is he is saying to you, You will

never get come missing Chackson. He is speaking to you. The purpose of

the prophet, I'll say, wassa to sound their Lord into sion, to

let him know your passiveness will not be accepted the life see baysical attitude that

you had as your professor to need people of God. The paint that paksliding

me while you proclaim to be hearing from God is unacceptable. That it's intolicble

God. I'm not having put up with it. What I say or with

sayan is this judgment? Tell me is forthcoming for your patentness obedience and your

patent sin. Judgment is fair coming Heaven. Every believe we are, in

fact, without adopting most certainly, Oh yes, absolutely a judgment bound people.

We will stand before God. It's amazing how the conviction of an anointed

holy ghost field preacher can make us feel so uncomfortable and uneasy and unsettled.

But we never let the possibility of the appearance of Christ standing before him,

and him revealing himself and manifesting himself as the unnipotent One, the omnipotent One,

the Jestine. For some reason, that never chills our blood. For

some reason, a lot of people never consider that any further. They refuse

to allow that to go through their mind time and again. And this is

why we've got the preacher. He's preaching the same danger he's already preached her.

He's saying the same danger he's already said her. And you've got a

man like Isaiah who's preaching her through the range her fourteen for forty something years.

This prophet is telling people it's not gonna be good concerning you because of

your real plumb. They're transgressing her of the lawyer of God. I want

to pull a little harder, preacher for those who shall been trying to reach

her, and try to let him know you've better stop her before you enter

the furnace. You think this fine man, look in the moral will it

be when you're fighting yourself in the midst of the anger and their right and

their fearing love in Almighty God. For truly, it's a fearful thing to

fall into the heads of the living God. God could speak to people concerning

anything, whether it be to obey Him and serving him, and he'll speak

to them through a preacher, and through his word, he'll preach to them.

He'll speak to them, He'll open the pages of the Bible to them.

The wind will go through their vehicle and it'll ruffle the pages, and

that Bible that they haven't open their bunks will open to a certain passage,

and that passage will speak to them. What we thought was the natural wind

was actually the rustling of the wings of an angel of mercy that had come

up to that pea cross. God allows automobile abstinence. God allows natural collisions

with calamity in this life to change the order of your life. You feel

like you're in control. That I thank God that he is omnipotent. I

thank God that he is omniscient. That I know that the omnipotent, omniscient

God that I'm serving, he knows the way that you take. Joe said,

I'm now on the way that I'm taken her, and the Almighty God

knows the way that I take. But that's stopped there till does it no,

He said, when he has tried me, I shall come bare to

ask for I want you to know this did not take a tunisia in your

family. He said, not take a to levision in your mind. There

cons and an honor to stop you. Tras I have progout what God said.

Mare said, I will stop you then will tracks when you buy will

sap up and telip in a fearing of God Almighty, then will stop you

in your tracks. If you'll read the book, you will have to admit

very soon that God will change his people, and they will change for the

better. The vessel will be refined if it has not purified properly, it

will be crushed through the hammering of the Word of God. It will be

brought to a powder that can be used to be folded after its infused.

Will hydration of the Word of God. And that person against the washed himself

by the water of the Word. How many people in this building have been

washing your soul with the water of the Word. How many people have been

allowing Jesus to wash your so clean by his ruby red blood. I thank

God for the washing of the water of the Word, and I thank God

for the washing for that ruby red blood of Jesus that purifies us again.

You say, I know the way that I take. You're not really sure

about that. You feel like you are, But I want you to know

there are uncertainties in this life, and you do not know what tomorrow holds

them. That I do know who holds tomorrow, and I know what's in

his hand. It's not only the blessings of himself, but for someone it

is a furnace. Again, these hebrew men that I rather read about,

they found them suffer in the minister of the burning, fiery furnus. I

know we're gonna lock out of this store momentarily, and it dances some meating.

But if they'll tear you just a little water, let me give you

some meeting from a hide, a lifehood that can feeds a sword, just

a little wall. How it walks in the girl that Paul told Timothy,

and the probation of God stand as sure, and the child of God musty

politics from Nichol and other words. You've got to fatat to from the presence

of the evil doer. We've got to natate or evacuate from the presence of

road. Do it there? Yes, evil communitations come takes good manners.

If they've furn us, prepare for you. Some of you have been through

furnaces. How did you come out? Did you come out worse. Did

you come out more often? Did you come out making promises? I tell

you what I'm gonna do. I'm gonna serve the Lord. I'm no longer

gonna kick against the Prince. After coming under the influence of the light that

it's brighter than the noonday sun. Did you retreat to darkness after coming out

of that furnace with that fight that was so blinding that it should have blinded

you to the things of this world, that the spirit of this world should

have no longer in tysia? Did you walk right baka into that black hole?

Did you go right baka into the poor may lifestyle? Did a conversation

change after you've been through the furnace? You see this Book of isaa it's

literally like a many Bible. There's sixty six, so that represent the sixty

cents of books of the Bible. The first few chapters on the Book of

Isaiah represent the Old Testament in number chapter the verse I'm telling you represents the

Old Testament. And then the latter part of the Book of Isaaia it represents

the New Testament. Literally chapter the book and Brother Jesse, it's a message

of hope I heard what brother Jesse said. I heard what brother Philip said.

I heard what brother Nathaniel said. It's very sobery. I love sleep

over it. I want you to know if you don't allow this furnace that

you're knowing through, I am not to go through to change your Ultimately you

will be destroyed. I remember my best friend, he had three rents back

to Bacca. After the second one a backslaughter with to him, it said

Michael Pergo shepting. God's trying to get kid said he you matter listen to

help what he ready? I said, he I wants it now. Unless

God back to him, he's in the furnace with a fire that cannot be

quits. Today started out a little fender bender, a little nudgeon of the

Holy Ghost, A little nudgeon. Come here, brother, just see.

I don't want to dishonor you or make you upset. I think you're safetified

enough to know. But when we're daydreaming and we're beering off course and we're

just in law I live, and we're not taking things seriously, God will

come and give us a nudge. And you know what, when we get

that nudge, we're supposed to look at the Lord apostle Paul Knu that nudging

was a calling to no longer be Christianity's persecutor with Christianity's greatest promoter. But

God got pastor the nudging of giving him a heavenly vision or an encouraging word

after death, or the marvedum of Stephen. I mean the angels appeared to

Stephen, the son of God is standing at the right hand of the Father.

You could hear the angela choir proma see it from just the appearance of

Stephen. But it was not enough to turn Palm, who would be known

as Paul with the Bible said when he went on his own way, Yes,

God knows her the way that you take, but you're gonna be tried.

And whenever he was over his road to the Nascus, there appeared a

son that was not the issue in there appeared an s ow end. It's

the same sun shine. That shoulder is a farming on this south. Never

come messing. It was no long your head a no trump. But if

God press a Paul her off of his high horizon, he found himself.

He's lowering her. Only don't well it, don't get don't lock you right

up, proud. They don't knock you for not against us. They don't

knock you for the offt guess that he is messing Will? Who are you?

Lord? Paula didnified him mouse, He knew all on, he knew

all on. And Jesus said, it's hard for you to kick against the

preach. The way of the transgression is hard. You're going through service at

the service you'd being preached to. You'd be a ministered to, unless you're

a twisted freak. That should bother you. If we like that, it

ain't nothing to try for Will, if you like it, they don't fucking

up wave not good God treating cherosy, and like you in Hell, he's

not dead, he's dead in this life. Well, he's very much alive

in hell. The Bible said there was a rich man, and I believe

modern historians said he was called Doctrophies. There was a rich man that fared

sumptiously every day. I got Facebook, I got social media. I'm rich.

I'm increased with goods, and I have need of nothing. There's no

knowledge being with hell from me, for I frequent the world wild, well,

I frequent the world wild. Well, I'm rich you see, and

the Bible said to tad Man he died, and last Reus also the beggar,

he died after the dawn had licked the swords of the beggar, and

after the servants had tampered the prince for the jesse. They both die and

walk into eternity. The poor man gets evacuated from torment via or via angelic

beings, and they carry him away into Abraham's bosom to be in the prayersence

of the Lord because he's absent in body. But the rich man, after

he winces from whatever pain that was upon him, from whatever happened, after

he winces in that horrible pain, when he opens up his eyes, when

he lifts up his eyes, he is in hell and he is a torment

soul. Yes, we can thank God that we did not die in that

automobile that was in Gulta in planes. That's because Jesus was there. Yes,

we can testify her that we did not die in the midst of that

trial, can tens her because Jesus her who was there of her. But

I want somebody else to know that there can come something taking place in your

life that you cannot evacuate. Problem that there is no escape their here.

Oh God, have been a preached to them this morning the way you would

have been to preach to them, Lord, your person, your man,

your woman. You do not realize you can't take care that's gone place her

a worry for I call you don't want to go there? I say,

you walked through the land of Judah for forty yours. He knew something others

did not understand. He had a hold of something that had apprehended him,

and he could not pride to get a hold of it. That's what Apostle

Paul said. I'm trying to apprehend that was after end of me. I'm

trying to get a hold of this, and that's what I'm doing as your

beloved pastor this morning. I'm trying to get a hold of this and help

you better understand that Brother Philip preats us this past Sunday night. He said,

when God leaves you, that brother Nathaniel preach Wednesday night, he's gone.

Do you know every atheist will get their wish would they end up in

hell? And every atheist that wish that he did not exist, that hope

He was not divide orchestrator of the world. They will get their wish just

as they desired. The Bible said, God gives us the desires our hearts.

That God is not real. You might fantasize that hell it's not real,

But I want you to know the real reality of it is. It

is real, and He is real. And yet again there's another preacher preaching

of churchman that's forthcoming. You hoped by yourself, how of that might have

had no common Lest keep me put in that burning, tiring furnace. The

Lord is not okay with the morality and ichnowlatrous practices or people, especially those

who name him as their lord. Well, I serve the Lord. I

got baptized when I was eight, and I haven't been to church since.

But my name's been on the road down there at McGregor, First Baptist of

Punta Gordon. I don't even know such a church exists. I'm just throwing

something out there. You mean your name's been on there since you were eight

years of age and you got a baptismal difficult, But you haven't darkened the

doors of God's house since then. Our Christ is such an experience as a

preacher. That's Old Testament theology. I'm God. I belong to God.

God's gonna take care of me. God didn't even like that theology. According

to what Isaiah preached, the foundation of God stand ashore and the righteous with

apart from iniquity. I want you to look at your neighbors, say again,

hey, neighbor, is he still working on you? Is he working

on you? While Pastor's preaching the blacksmith creates things from wrought iron. How

many of you are familiar with something called blacksmithing. My wife and I we

like to go to Pitching Forge to the sea, and in that particular downtown

district there is a place where mere mortal men are blacksmithing. There's blacksmiths in

there. Every time I go to Pitching Forge, I want to visit the

smithy, so some call it the smithy or the blacksmith shop. And Brother

Jesse, because I'm a preacher and I know how hard it is sometimes to

forge people's life and to mourn them as that instrument of that tool in the

hand of God. Sometimes I feel, even though I'm immortal, as the

hammer in the hand of God, that hammer that break into the rocks in

pieces, that hammer that speaks the word of God, that annoyty that comes

from the Holy One, that destroys the yokes of sin and bondage. That

I know, sister Howl, the frailty of myself, I know, I

know that I'm unable to do it without the empowerment of the Lord. And

so I go in there and I'm watching, observe the ways and the tools

of the blacksmith, smell the aroma of the smithy in all real lives.

The most impudent part of the botsmith's shopper or the smithys the furnace, and

what's insider about turns. I don't know the degree or the temperature of the

furnace. All the matters, because I know every fold gonna go through the

furnace. Everything that the Bossmilica intends to be better than the If what experience

and betterment will passer through the fire, the passer for the fire, we

will not be consumed if comfort is with us the smithy, the smithy.

Right now, young man, your shoulders are square, he chim's up.

You're bold, you're brazen, you're obstinate, and your goofy and you're goofy

and your volus. Right now, young woman, you're arrogance. It's laughable,

not only by God, but we're able to laugh over it because we

realize just how silly it is and how detrimental it is, Oh God,

to fall into the hands how the living God sho is sober you to realize

there is a fire in furnace that is not Brother Jeremiah heated just a little

bit, but it is heated to a degree that it will change your mental

makeup. Then it will break you down to him. It broke Apostle Paul

down. That light that he saw was coming from the heavenly smith. I

said that smithy that he went through, Brother E. J. Robinson immediately

cleared him of his arrogance, cleared him up his resistance. And God,

could you in a situation where you begged him for mercy and you plead for

him to have mercy. Oh you are never dying soul. Oh my God.

I've been bedside of people that were eating up by cancer. One man's

spine had been severed into by cancer. And Brother your mine, that should

have been a furnace enough to persuade him to plead with God for mercy.

Instead, he was cussing the doctors that did not find it in time.

Instead, he was cussing his family that he could not parent, and we're

not coming to see him. I said, sir, I'll look your soul,

and I'm in here to tell you. You're in no shape or situation

to curse anybody. He went on to curse God. I said, God,

we'll get the lost life, and you put me somewhere. Ain't that

God? Before you meet you? I want to believe that he heeded that

wise counsel. These preachers have been telling us if they think their premises of

your soul, these men have been telling the sun not come. We're just

say what my constant's training that I could bear. I don't care how many

preachers have lied to you, how many tell evangelists, how many megachurch pastors.

There's probably song listening the pastor big churches. I've been receiving reports that

men who have big devotionals Bible studies, that men the pastor sizable churches with

sizeable congregations have preached some of my messages. That's great, because they're not

mine. I've also received reports that they say some of my phrases, and

people know without a doubt they've been listening. That's fy. Uncle sum have

contacted me and asked me could they use the messages. They've asked me for

manuscripts, transcripts for sermons, and I said, no, let God do

it. But I want you to know, preacher, if you're lying to

them people and you can't thrush them into the furnace, and you can't bring

them into the smithy, and the sound of the hammers tracking the object that

is upon that handle, which is the word of God, and the annultant

is making an impact when the word of God is not bold in Christians,

what is the output of a church after six months when they're working with somebody,

what is the output? Well, garbage in and garbage out? What

is on the tree. If we're producing the primitive men it were producing mus

sections, If we're producing obitual sinners, it's not the smithy that I did.

But it's not a foster this supper, it's not a fine talking fairness.

Then I being here because the Holy gust you improve. But the way

to see we will replet. Then if will refine all for our good,

all for his goy. God is a perfectionist. God is a perfectionist all

things, including perfection are possible through God. Will you sin all has sinned

and following short of the glory of God. But he would not mandate.

He didn't ask him. He said, be he perfect. Yes, we're

not perfect, but we're striving to be. We should not be sinning every

day. We should not be slipping up every day. And God puts us

through these furnaces of affliction to perfect us. What he said, that will

perfect that could discerning me? Are the lessons being learned? Are the lessons

being learned? Young man? God can take that's strong back and then straight

shoulders and snapped them in th way. Was it the man that played the

role of Superman all them years? What was his name? Chris uh,

Christopher Rees, Chris Reese? All them years he played Superman. I'm just

gonna step in the phone booth, walk out Superman. I'm gonna step in

the back office, walk out Superman. I'm gonna fly off the top of

the building, even if it's the Empire State Building. I'm on this fly.

Yeah, that's what some of you do, and I'll just fly right

out of this service. But y'all know Christopher Wings had an accident, did

he not? You know? What he was doing, Superman was riding a

horse. I rode a horse for a lot of years. I never got

thrown not one time. That's unusual. I rode some wild ones, and

I rode a lot, not as much as some, but a whole lot

more than others. Brother Jeremiah had him jump up in the air with both

feet. I'm telling you this vertical, all four feet vertical. And then

while they're in the air, kick up or kick the back up in their

just invert bucking and kicking Brother Jesse and fighting, and never got thrown not

one time. Christopher Reeves, Superman got thrown off. That's what happened to

Apostle Paul. He got thrown off his high horse all over. Yes he

did, Christopher Reeves. I'm sorry, buddy, but you got thrown off

your high horse. And Superman found out it takes more than the power of

a man to overcome anything. Since Superman had chrystinot and it was his weakness,

he couldn't even ride a horse. You can't do anything without the empowerment

of God. You can't do anything without the ability that God giveth. I

bet God before I preach every service, almost start crying, and I said,

God, you know I'm incapable of doing this. Sir, you know

I'm uncomfortable with doing this. You know I'm unable to do it. To

the fella Jesse, I don't do it. That's the ability that I have

that I do it. That's the ability that God gives her. If God

uses your brother preacher, say thank God. If a preacher can preach better

than you, say thank God. I'm trot t getting here, I'm crying.

He's not that ability. By that grace Thy God, and young man

I wants in the nerve her Christopher Reeves got a spiral towards seven. The

man stricken her will cancel her had a spinal close seven. I don't know

what happened to somebody if God severed the spiritual steal corner in the nervous system

was pastor fially, what about God gotta still be here, but you won't

know that the fatal still But do you walk down? They said you could

cut that man's live off, and because the spinal cord was shivering, most

likely he wouldn't feel it. No spiritual enoughness is the most horrible of things.

I thank God for brother John the way. He came in two Sundays

ago and three Sundays ago. They said I was that man pastor how was

preaching to them looking for something. He speaks to me that he's not past

feeding. He speaks to me. They didn't recognize us, that God is

in control. Oh, yes, there is a firing. Cortis awaiting somebody.

You missed me aid you survived that rerecord you survived. He in troll,

my Horsemack. You survived, but you can't survive being past feeling.

Every time I hear a preacher, preacher like the Brothers been preaching, and

I feel conviction, I say thank you God. I feel inadequate, I

say thank you God. I feel judgment. I say thank you God.

If you're feeling guilt, say thank you God. If you're feeling with conscious

speaking of truth, say thank you God. Don't you singer that contest?

Ask you somebody seeing that we are hollered, don't you walk out of this

building saying one more time you'll sear that conscience, You'll see that heart.

The blacksmith in his shop, there's a furnace the tools of the trade.

In the furnace, there will never be able to fashion a guarden tool,

a weapon, or a serving tray, or anything else. Fashion her shape

in the smith here unless the hand of the master is present. He tried

to get your attention for his namesake, for your good, and for his

glory. I had an automobile wreck. It was a bad wreck of sixteen

and a half years of age, if I remember correctly, I had got

up early one morning to wash my car before school. About six point thirty.

Just up the road there was a man going to the phosphate mine that

he worked at to make a living and earn a living first family. He

had both taill lines out. It was a dark, foggy morning, just

before dawn. I hit him at about sixty five miles per hour. In

in nineteen eighty four, tomarow in an immaculate condition less than fifty thousand miles

on it. I had bought it from a retired Navy, a veteran of

the Navy. And I want you to know, brother Jeremiah, I destroyed

that car. When I came to I walked out of that car and I

looked at the impallide help. And I looked at the car and I said,

God, I know you've been dealing with me to live for you.

I know you've been telling me to clean up my act. I was religious,

I had missed any services. I was playing the piano in church.

I was teaching Sunday school in the world a church her brother Jesseayd. I

knew the condition of my heart, and I knew my mind. I knew

what God knew. There's things God knows about you that nobody knows about it.

And I feel the witness of the hole that goes right here in this

building. I stood there and I saw my brother, whom I had so

much influence over, crawl out of the car, and I said, thank

you Lord that I didn't kill my brother. And then I said thank you

Lord of my soul in hell. The ambulance came in burgesse Irrespon Arts team

came. They parked and blocked the traffic in both directions. They opened the

back doors of the ambulance. They set me down, and I stared at

what could have been the scene of my death. And every time I passed

by that intersection that no longer exists. The mine's gone, the road's gone,

it's now a cattle pastor. They've even taken out and just say,

all the eastments and everything, but I know that was my furnace. It

no longer looks the same today. Most people would never know there used to

be a fledgend phosphate mind back in their brother Jesse were traffic backed up in

the middle of nowhere for miles as being made left and right hand turns.

Nobody would ever know that. Pastor how who's pastoring a beouthel hor and his

church people. There's sixty eight people in this building this morning. Two of

them are visitors. Something like that. Nobody would have knew this had been

where he died if he had not responded to the pressure. When the reality

of what could have happened set in, the strong man, the one that

refused to display emotion that the teachers played with smile Jeremy, the one that

refused to cry. Immediately, I realized God was speaking of me, and

I started throwing up. I remember coco pebbles hitting the ground, splashing on

the highway. I remember watching hot milk splash on the firefighter's shoes. He

says, all right, I can't wear that. What's wrong with you?

I said nothing. You wouldn't understand when God said, I will stop you

own trap. It's a fearful thing to fall into the hands. Going to

live in. God says to how our tech said, for his namesake,

for his namesake, for our good, and for his glory. There's something

this morning. You're in the furnace right now, there's some about to go

through the furnace. It's not by accident, it's on purpose. The Holy

goes, says, forewarned us. The prophet Isaiah preached for years. He

forewarned us. Could it be that the Lord is purifying your life. There's

something he sees, something needs to be dealt with, something needs to be

removed from your life. Second Printhians five US seventeen says, Therefore, if

any man be in Christ, he is a new creature. Old things are

passed away. Behold, all things have been I'm new. I'm trying to

skip over some of this. Historically, the Church has been persecuted since the

beginning of faith. The righteous have been afflicted, and for as long as

the sun has risen and said, the unruly, disobedient, and rebellius have

suffered or experienced hardship and difficulties. In short, people find themselves in the

furnace. Brother Phillips in the furnace of cancer. Sister Howell is in the

furnace of shortness of breath and has been there for fifteen months. Just the

littlest bit of exertion of energy cripples her. I let her out of the

car the other day to walk into a store such as TJ Max. I

took the car to park it. By the time she walked from the vehicle,

which was right on the sideworld, basically into the doors of the building,

I went parked the car. By the time I got back to the

vehicle, walked in where she's sitting on a bench inside out of the department

store, couldn't even walk fifty feet. Sister Cheryl Harrison is dealing with rental

failure. Both kidneys are shot. The furnace of affliction. I mean,

if you know, the Bible said it is good for me that I have

been afflicted. I'm not asking anybody to wish for a furnace to be presented

on your behalf or in your path, but I am telling you that they

will appear and identify themselves, not as Nebuka Nezzar's furnace, not as Job's

furnace. I don't know the purpose of Nevica Nezzar's furnace. I don't know

why it was designed. I don't know if it was to offer heat.

I don't know how cold it gets a babel d I don't know if it

was to cook a lot of meat for the big army. I don't know

what the purpose of that furnace was, but I know that the devil wanted

to heat it hotter than it was designed to be heated. I don't know

how hot that furnace is gonna be, but the devil will gladly put a

billows to God's furnace. That's what God said. Have you considered my servant

Job. He's a perfect man. He fears God. He issues evil,

and Job says, yeah, well he does that because you're good to him.

Does Job serve you for not? God say, go ahead, good

spears life. You can harm his body, you can afflict him, you

can kill his children. Imagine when be the furnace of affliction upon Job.

When he came into his house, the only building of structure that did Paul

flat with us nothing eat because the cattle and the herds had been stolen away,

and inside of his old house are ten caskets of his ten children.

What a mass funeral? How a heartbreaking? What's a good boo? Job

Joab said, he knows the way that I take. When he has tried

me, I shall come path as cold. And the Bible said the latter

part of Jord's life the in state of that man. In other words,

it showed the end result is Joke came out purified. Chap came out with

fine. He was already perfect, he was already peteriful, with che hope.

He was already grating God. But he came out grater. I want

you to know, right people to own their purpose of God? Did they

win her? Even when the life says, charge cus your God and die?

This could be happening if you are not doing wrong. Falsecuses come false.

Excusers say this, and they say that, But Job says, the

Lord giveth and the Lord take of their life. Messing be the name for

the long I'm not talking about the purposer of Jorn's furnaser or the purposer of

never condesce. I'm preaching over your furness. What is the purpose of it?

Could it be that the Lord is purifying you like? Does he see

something in there that needs the change. If any man be in Christ,

he is or she is. May I borrow something from the sermon and insert

it right here, just paraphrasing. If any man be in the furnace of

Christ, if any man be in Christ Jesus, in the furnace of Christ,

that purifying fire, then he is. The Bible said, no,

maybe might be he is a new creature. The consequences of this new creation

is the oldest passed away. It has been removed, and if it wasn't

immediately removed, it will be removed soon, and very soon. It doesn't

take somebody a year and a half or two years to fall in love with

God and follow in love his word and try to please God through a being

from bol being as to his word. The problem with this generation is they

are not reading the Bible. They try to get up and preach an eloquent

sermon, withe the wonderful ortorical skills and ability, and go to explain to

us why it was not a well that swallowed Jonah. And they said it

was a great fish, a large fish. With Jesus and the New Testament.

He said that Jonah was found three days and three nights in a wells

belly. They don't read the Bible through and through again. If you read

the Bible from through and through Old Testament and New Testament theology, both covenants

old and new, you will find sanctification being set apart from the world under

God has always been a God idea. It's always been the perfect will plan

of God for his people. Should I keep preaching or should we go eat

chicken? Look at the evidence of those who passed through His furnace. They

have become a new We're transformed by the renewing of our mindset. The hidden

part of you, the unseen thoughts will change. This will be removed,

and things will be put in their place. Things I once hated, I

now loved. Things I want loved I now hate. They're detestable unto me.

Things I used to have pleasure in no longer please me. Some of

you coming off this ten day type of Daniel Faust. You're saying that sugar

I used to crave, I no longer crave anymore. You'll stop craving that

sin when you start taking in it. Brother John, pray for me.

I gotta stay sweet hell you man. I'm trying to stay sweet in the

air this morning, Church. The old everything that was part of our old

sinful nature is to be removed. They are to pass away natural pride,

arrogance, the lust of the flesh, the pride of life, habitual sin,

habits of godly passions, self, I just just fanity, and so

forth. Those are the things that should have died when we nailed them to

the cross, Brother Jesse, when you come to the pienna this morning,

please if they didn't die, there is a furnace prepared for you. Because

God is a perfectionist. You're gonna play games with God. God's not gonna

play with you. He's just gonna take you right off for the shelf,

that piece of raw iron, that piece of unfinished steel, and he's gonna

put you in the fire. You can squeeze his hand, you can try

to pull the tongs out of his hand. You can do whatever you want

to. But you're going through the fire. And the inspiration for this sermon

is I heard God say several days over the last few days. Multiple times

on those days, he said they can burn now, that they can burn

later. Let's stand natural pride, arrogance. It can be said, you

did it your way. You can't find yourself in that eternal fire, this

never quitch, fueled by the wrath of an almighty God. It wasn't prepared

for you, though Devachandezzar's furnace was not prepared for those three Hebrew children.

And because of that, God was there for them. Hell was not prepared

for you. You can't take it. But the truth is, as long

as you refuse and resist God, you will have residency there. In fact,

you already have reservations sys to Hell. And I lean out in the

morning for Miami. Got some business and other matters down there for a few

days. We've got reservations. Do you realize that if you're saved, you

already have residency in heaven. You're joint heirs with Jesus. Isn't that wonderful?

You want equal shares of heaven. You've accepted him, You've ceased from

your sin. You're his child. Isaiah could preach hope to you in them

last few chapters. Do you realize that you will join You will enjoy eternal

bliss forever. But if you're not saved from your sin, and that's the

purpose that he came was to save his people from their sin, not in

their sin, from their sin, then you already have a ticket for hell.

I'm not going. I have so much more to preach, and I

want to cover this. And Daniel three and twenty five and said, he

answered, and said, lo, I see for him being loose walking into

the midst of the fire, and they have no hurt. In the form

of the fourth is likely to the son of God. While you can let

God walk through the fire with you, while you can go through the furnace

with God. Brother Philip, We're going through the furnace with God. Brother,

Sister Cheryl, We're going through the furnace with God. It's just how

we're going through the furnace with God. Bethel, we went through the fast,

that furnace without sugar, soft tree, without meat, without so much,

with God, and he came out on the other side with us the

way blessed us this morning. Notice the statement by Nebuchandazar. They went through

the fire, brother hysteric, he said, and they have no hurt.

You can go through this fire, brother Philip, without any hurt, Sister

Cheryl, through this burning, fiery furnace without any spiritual harm. It is

that the fire's purpose to hurt you. It's not the will of God that

you be destroyed. But if you don't surrender these things he's trying to take

out of your hand to be of you will consume those things, and in

the process he will consume you. He brings twelve and twenty nine said,

for our God is a consuming fire. Why do you refuse to get these

things up? Each one of us here today ought to allow he the Lord,

to consume the things that consume us. As I was thinking about this

message, or Lord was dealing with me. Of the things that consume our

time, the things that absorb our time. The enemy of our soul desires

that each person in this build spend a lot of time and energy doing everything

they can but consecrate their lives to God. Preacher, I don't have time

for church, Preacher, I don't have time. But you have time for

heartache, you have time for heart break, You have time for so many

things. I want to ask this question as we bow our heads and close

our eyes, what are you absorbed in? And I want to ask you

a question, how is that working out for you? What are you infatuated

with? How is that working out for you? Is that painting out well,

stop daydreaming. Is it social media consuming your time? Are you too

busy for the House of God, the things of God? It would be

beneficial for every one of us in this building to allow the Lord Jesus Christ

to consume more and more of our lives and time. The beginning of the

twelfth chapter the Book of Hebrews said, let us lay aside every way,

and the Semen does so easily beset us. And the very last part of

that same chapter says, our God is a consuming fire. The Lord is

able to consume those bad attitudes, those evil thoughts, those beech spirits.

He can conquer them all for our good, all for his glory. Is

this something in this building this morning that would admit by the rais another hand

while everyone's heads bound, and I was a closing to say, preacher,

I admit God's put me in the heat. There's one immediately, two,

three, four, five, six, seven, eight nine. How many

of you would raise your hand and say, without a doubt, I know

now. I didn't understand it then. I didn't even see it for years.

But now, even after this morning's message, I see God was working

all things together for my good. I see now the purpose of the fire.

Richard Jacob's furnace, just the road CAP's furnace, Elijah Wallace's furnace,

Nathaniel Howell's furnace, Brother Nathaniel. I'm glad God stopped being my tracks.

I'm glad on State Road thirty seven. Maybe it's seven miles south of Brady

Junction. God stopped me in my tracks. How about it? Will you

humble yourself before God before you face another burning, fiery firmness. How about

it? Will you get it fixed up with God before you face the wrath

of God in eternity? The atheist will get his wish. There will be

no presence of God. There is there another that would come to the altar

this morning. I feel like this is one more roadblock on the highway to

Hell. This is one more stop. Basically echo one and affirming with the

preacher's preach. Preacher, I'm not going to kick against the pricks, Preacher.

I don't want it to be said he's gone. I don't want it

to be said he's gone. The burning fire refirmness. You can rest assured.

We don't know why I never Candezar's furnace with fashion, but I know

why this is fashion for you. It will refine it, it will purify

you. And he commanded the most mighty be that were in his army to

find shadrack me shocking up had to go and to cast them into the burning,

fiery furnace. Friend, He'll cast you in that furnace. Those mighty

angels. You're no match for them. You will go in. God bless

you as you humble yourself before the Mighty of God, which you just lost

the Lord to help you to respond to the heaven's blacksmith, which ask the

Lord to help you to be molded, to be clob on his hand.

Lord fashion me in your life has mold me somebody right now saying I understand

them, while the furnaces I understand, Lord, Lord love that know how

last I lost my way? Oh Lord, I wonder Father from the fool.

Listen they sing, and as you pray, I want to remind you.

Until I felt that such a scripture tells us it's for his namesake,

it's for our good, it's for his goory to his name, go a

slam shepherd. He saw mystard. He said, you are already through the

love me in the straight I never lost that this and not long ago alas

did me. I lost my way when I heard the ship fool. He

saw my sts say you already to the love me in the straight. I

didn't want that, and I lost my leg. He left the fool search

out and won who say left ninety and nine? He was one to be

see her that lest one hp having me it all. I felt a him

and I heard the shep birst start. He saw my step see Alwright live

me straight. I never w was that be all? And I long to

know I was dear love when I lost my way the shames you may take

you through the wedding super and ms A party on the road you're traveling on.

You must keep on the events. There's no place to turn around.

The space will make you start excuse be the final mountain. You will have

to find sease. Sweary lady when you reach your side because of all the

journey for the face to say things take you through the wild super lor ms

A party will for chal You must keep on the pace to turn around.

This great will big story could be o mount You will have to come telegation.

We will be waiting when you missed the other side. God, hear

me all the journey with the precious hand of God, w a free the

change of trust for some meetings to let you down. And you see the

train, and the more your heart is saying the bond. See God doesn't

need a pray. You pray and you stand much. Your life bounds proble

that should be in God, and you can't do. Oh, he must

to rush the same plan. It means a lot more than you can face.

Hope youldn't take the weird as the party for the rule to travel all

rusty ball place to turn around. This places lit by the storm. And

this could be the bottle mountain you have the misation will be wading when you

reach the other side. Be God all the turney for the precious hand the

God. He may take you to where they some party to turn along.

You must use all the America. No was to turn around his face little

bay the stone, Well, this could be the b