His compassion for His creation - Bro Jeremy Howell 10-15-2023

Creation, his compassion for his creation. Will you turn with me to the

book of Psalm Bad direct her attention to the one hundred and third Psalm verses

number thirteen and fourteen. Will be our golden text this morning, Brother Nathaniel,

the Book of Saint Luke, chapter number seven, verses number twelve through

fifteen. Brother Jesse one John, chapter number three and verse number seventeen.

Brother Nathaniel wants you to have that when you read this part of the Bible

right here, this scripture Verse Luke seven, twelve through fifteen. Now,

when he came now to the gate of the city, behold there was a

dead man herried out, the only son of his mother. And she was

a widow, and much people of the city was with her. When the

Lord saw her, he had compassion on her and said, and to her

weep not. And he came and touched the bayer, and they that bare

him stood still, and he said, young man, I say unto thee

arise, And he that was dead sat up and began to speak, and

he delivered him to his mother. Praise the Lord. Brother Jesse first John,

chapter number three and verse number seventeen. Sue, whoso hath this world

good, and see if his brothers have need. Shuteth up his bowels of

compassion from him, how dwelleth the love of God in him? All right,

let's stand for the reading of our golden text Psalm one O three verses

number thirteen and fourteen. The Bible says, like, as a father pitieth

his children, so the Lord pitieth them that fear him. For he knoweth

our frame. He remembers that we are dust. He knows us better than

we know ourselves. The Lord has compassion on us when we suffer. He

knows us better than we know ourselves, for we are His creation. Let's

pray, Heavenly Father, we love and we praise you. We thank you

for the opportunity to be in the house and the Lord with this thy people.

God, I thank you for the gathering in this local assembly of believers,

of people of light, precious faith, people that believe your word is

true, people that hold you got your word when you promised to meet them

here, whether by two or three, or twenty or thirty or two hundred

or three hundred. We thank you Lord for this thy word, the blessed

Book of Truth. We pray that you would have known this thy serve and

sent a guard at my mouth and help me to say the things that you

would have me to say, nothing more and less, and knowing the ears

of this thy people, that they might hear what the Spirit of God saith

or to the church through this preach word, through this blessed book, not

my words, God preach through me when it goest. I pray that these

sayings will go below the shoulders that I'm getting that heart. I pray let

them saturate the mind and change the man, that they might not be hears

only but he this blessed book we pray, and the words there in.

I pray God that you help us. May we depart this place and joyfully

and not sorrowfully in Jesus' name. Hey, man, look at your neighbor

and say, hey, neighbor, did God create you? Now replied to

them and say, he sure did? Ain't I pretty? Oh? Yes,

I'll let y'all settle that argument after the church service this morning. It

is good to see each and every one of you in the House of the

Lord. Do you believe we're in the House of the Lord. It is

my pleasure this morning to preach to you a text that the Holy goes gave

me. He bestirred my spirit, and our text is found in an Old

Testament book of the Holy Bible. Once again, as in recent weeks,

we are in the book of Psalms, that He's song book. An Israeli

person would be very familiar with the writings of this precious book of the Bible,

the Bible, God's Word, the Holy Bible was written by holy men

that were moved on by the Holy Ghost, and we appreciate the writings of

the sacred writ We treasure these sixty six love letters that the Lord gave to

us to hold in our possession. If you were to look at that gold

laced pages, look at those gold laced pages, you'll notice that probably some

of that gold dust, just figuratively speaking, has been removed from the edges

of the pages that should contain the book of Psalm. A lot of times,

us as believers, like to Israeli's who also believed in the Lord God,

we resort to these beautiful Psalms in this book of poetry in our times

of need and christ as it just seems like the writings of this book of

the Bible are so relevant to each and every one of us today. In

a recent sermon, I preached from a song of a Sap who was the

chief song leader appointed by David, his King. David had observed that the

man Asap was one that was faithful to the House of God. As Richard

Jacob said just a little while ago, we come to the House of God

to get a feel of because sometimes during the week we hear our motors sputtering,

and we know that we must gather amongst the believers and receive a filip.

We find that God chose this man a Sap, and told David to

appoint him to stand out or emerge from the midst of the others, because

he was faithful to play upon the symbols in the House of God. In

fact, David noted that this man was a man that could see things most

men could not see. His writings were in dickie of the power of God.

This man was familiar with the power of God, and so his writings

were indicative of that. They indicated that this man had a personal relationship with

his Lord. And that's the kind of person you want leading the choir.

That's the kind of person you won't filing away songs in the Israelite him book

if you would, that's the kind of person you want, Brother Jesse getting

inspired and leading song service before camp meeting or before they would go to the

House of the God hearing their special feat. So Asaff gave us a beautiful

song. And if you would like to hear that servant, you could speak

with Brother Jeremiah after the service and he can direct you to the archive and

you could find out just exactly how God spoke to us concerning the writing or

the song of Asaf. But this morning we're looking yet again at a song

of David, the sweet Psalmist of Israel. Everybody in this building knows it.

To the day, David is still the most beloved crowned king of Israel.

They still referred to him as their favorite. He was their favorite because

he could speak to the common man. He was their favorite because of his

personal relationship with the Lord. He was also their favorite because he was honest

about the makeup of men. He was one that was transparent with his fellow

man, even though he was in a lofty place, in a high position.

This man, in his writing speaking of King David, a lot of

times he would talk about how his spirit was low, while at other times

he would talk about how his spirit was high. If you knew a complete

study of the life and the writings of David, you will find that he

was not bipolar. You will not find that he swung from depression into extreme

joy. But you will find a man that was transparent and honest with his

people that were under his leadership concerning life, the brevity of life, the

friilness of life, Brother Nathaniel, this was a man that just got righted

down amongst the common people and related things to them that God had given to

him, also relate to them of things that he had experienced himself. And

he was honest that no matter how great we become in God, there's still

gonna be those times of froilty. There's still gonna be those times of weakness.

And that's why we treasured David, because he's just the common man,

you know, He's just the common commoner's king, Brother Jesse. He's one

that come out from the sheep coat and God anointed him and called him to

be the special person in the midst of God's people. And Brother Jesse,

I think about this man David often, and what did he have to say?

To us this morning in this song, when he put pen to parchment

and began to write these words, as the Holy ghost to overshadowed him.

Perhaps his blood pressure had increased, his heart rate had increased, maybe his

palms had got a little bit sweating. He knew that God was prison and

he began to write down the words of this psalm. Some of you have

already read it, as I've been given this introduction. The words of this

one hundred and third psalm begin like this, Bless the Lord, oh my

soul, and all that is within me, Bless his Holy name. It

appears to the readers that Daved recognizes how the Lord has blessed him. Daven

understands the many benefits and blessings bestowed upon the believers of the Lord. In

the first two verses of this chapter, the psalmist is blessing the Lord because

of the blessings that the Lord has given him. He has received some things

from the Lord. Preacher, if you're able to pre only by the grace

of God, and that is a gift or a talent that you have received

from the Lord. Sunday school teacher, if you're able to teach very well,

that is a gift and a blessing from the Lord. Moms and dads,

those little children that you hold in your arms this morning, they are

blessings from the Lord. In fact, our text speech concerning a father and

his children plural, not child singular, but a father and his children.

You see, David, recognize us that the Lord has a house full of

children. If you want, He's got a word full of people. I

do not know the prince and population number of Health, but I know that

it exceeds seven million people in this world. And our Lord is ever mindful

of all of those people, whether it be mister Elon Musk or mister Tyler

Wooton. Our God in Heaven is just this mindful of those to men,

as he is those that are in this fielding this morning, because they are

His creation. The Bibles that we are His people and the sheep of His

pastor. I know that the nation of Israel they claim to be the people

of God. I know that the children of God claim to be the offspring

of God Almighty that's been born by the Spirit. I know that all so

that all of the people, both past, the present, and future that

have lived within humanity are also the creation of God. And God loves each

and every person that it doesn't matter if it's the boom of skinned rod or

the hopeless person under the bridge that fort myers. Our God is mindful of

them, as he is the middle sphare oh on the gable end of the

barn. I'm telling you God is mindful of us, even realizes that the

blessing, Sir, of the Lord, and the bitter fits come upon the

sinner and the righteous, the unrighteousness and the righteous, the sinner and the

same. Thank God for the blessing, sir or the Lord. Does it

not rain or the just and the unjusting man? The daughter out on a

swift prints this morning with a syrette in hand, that took a pup of

it and had no desire, took them to the House of God. Our

Lord pities him this morning. And Our God's not faring that that man should

perish. That God will rein down du from heaven and also shower us for

the sky upon that man that is diligence in his field, just as equally

as he were raining down upon the righteous man's field. I'm telling you the

even understood the bite pits up the press of the Lord. He recognized that

the only thing we can do is praise them at times, despite the situation,

despite her our weaknesses and party, Sir, we must just praise him

that he goes all the same three times the two verses. In the opening

of the introduction of the song, the lyrics saying bless the Lord or my

soul, it says, bless this the only name. The dearer says,

plessing the Lord, all my soul. That's the thankful. That's you too,

who recognize the bear pits and the blessing her of God. The how

to wonder for it is, sir, then how wonder point is if he

are to processor the way he has. The unrighteous may not bless his name,

this spading in his house, the who the righteous, we repress this.

I want a name that just praise. We won't be continually. And

I know that his name may not be uttered death for the rips or the

unrighteousness manning. But he's still he met his death. He's unwilling that they

lose, they're sold And in turn, be said later the fire, I

thank God has benefit. So I thank God for his blessing that I also

thank you for his tender messies, the compressing upon the righteous and the unrighteous.

We're so easy to judge skid robot and the addict that is found forgetting

that the Lord is their creator. For those effect to twist the words of

preachers. I am not saying that God makes junk, and I am not

saying that I'm writing help permits and listens to sin. I am not saying

that God is just gonna overlook rebellion, stubbornness and delivered actions against him.

I know that the Bible said that God is angry with the wicked every day,

but if you take this in context, you will see that even though

He is as angry as a father gets with his child at times, the

Lord still loves him unconditionally. He still believes in them exceptionally. He's still

hopes in them prayerfully and payfully. That's why Jesus said he I pray for

all, and then said all to come. What they're saying is, I

hope they understand her as some part in their life of what I'm doing.

I hope they understand why I shut them out of the way. The eternal

dam Nay said that they face the climb her on that cross her I'm doing

this for the up I hope they recognize it. I hope they understanding.

How about you all this morning? Can you find a reason to praise the

Hope? Can you find a reason to bless this holy name? It praise

to bless his holy name? The minor said, the name of the Lord

is a strong tower. The righteous running to it and are saying, do

you know there are unrighteous people that are not blessing his name. They are

not activating a fortress by the sproken name of Jesus Son. They're like you

are. And just because we are in that mighty fortress of our God,

is not mean that God is not bindful of the s and the sick.

They're out there in that world. I speaking of physical sickness, yes,

sir, but also an a spiritual sitness. I want you to know today

you will believe you can bless the Lord. Bless the name of the Lord.

He knew that God would forgive us. If you look at the third

person, you'll find another reason to praising him. It's because her he has

forgiving our sir, Are you forgiving her this morning? Then that's reason enough

to praise him. Some people come at church and down in ours and the

money drops her complaining about how bad they's had to They're gonna senter can do

it and to hospower. I'm telling you, Ruler, he'sting to praise the

Lord. This fire m was coming over. They can press his way.

How about it this morning? Can you find one reason right now to bless

his holy name? He sure does deserb it. I remember in October of

nineteen ninety two I got saved. I'm about to celebrate thirty one years of

him saving my soul. I can go pre conversion and see the hand of

God in my life. I can see the mercy of God when he spent

my life in August of nineteen ninety two. I should not be here this

morning. I had an appointment with death and disaster. But belar, room

camp. If it had not been for Jesus fooling out of the hands of

death and the devil and destruction and disaster, I would be daring who I'm

telling you in an eternity and burning him. A governor's health. You know,

I know who has the final say, sir as to who goes to

heaven and who does the hell and when they go there, the devil can't

take you to hell and less Jesus on yost door that I thank top in

August or train twenty two. Oh, thank god I did knock down to

hell little holy ghost. Jesus as the keys to death, hell and grat

The devil can't just pull you out by the filling and say I'm gonna destroy

you. You know, we fear that one that can destroy both soul and

body in the hell. If you end up in Hell, and if the

unrighteous en up there, it's because they chose to go there. They forced

the hand of Jesus to unlock the door. Yes there's a crosser in the

way of every person or the ring to Hell. Yes there's pups in the

road, and yes there's often the so they have to overcome to end up

there. I can praise it for that encounter and that experience that I experienced

in August of twenty I'm sorry in nineteen ninety two. He deserves every word

that I utter. He deserves every syllable that to hole it ghoest utters through

his people. He deserves it. He is so deserving of our praise,

and we are so undeserving of his beneficence to be a benefactor of the Lord.

Is such a blessing to realize I'm about to preach and to begin to

pool air into my lungs in hell and exhale in hell and ex hell.

Do it, Brother Jonathan, do you thank God for that breath that God

gave you and your body? Thank God for the breath of life? I

said, thank God for the breath of life. Do you know a birth

of life? Breath? There's nothing but the insistent and involuntary testimony to the

existence of God. Every time that heart pizza, every time it wants nothing

involuntary previous to God. O, my God, and I feel a hold

of go in that place. Ain't not for every breath, every breath.

Modern songwriters root songs like this. He knows my name, every step that

I take, every move that I make, I know a benaura. Because

he knows my name. That's enough reason to praise him, brother, to

thank you, and to praise his name. Because he knows my name.

I also praise him because he forgives us. Not only because he loads us

for bitterfit, but because he forgives us. If you were to go on

down to the twelfth verse of this chapter, you would see that he forgets

us so well that he tosses the transgressions and the memories thereof concerning him personally.

He tosses the transgressions and the memories of our transgressions as far as the

east is from the west. Now, if you set out the chasing the

east, anybody that knows or come on that the earth is round? You

know what I'm talking about. It's first in a revolutionary cycle of a dial

chase in his tail and aren't able to get it, and you can chase

himself around this globe and sinta. You go catch up to them if you

don't want to, the only one that one you're gonna say, our nan

is a transgression, a sinsa of yester year, or us solely trp to

stop there anything about it that? Come on, David, how can you

get up? Come on? Because God forgave me that I've forgive myself.

I said, God forgave me, then I forgive myself. I can't stand

it when people remind new converts of who they used to be. I know,

we give our testimonies, and sometimes preachers say, look at here,

here was a drug dealer, here was a drug in it. We encourage

others at times by our testimonies, but certainly not glorifying in them, not

lifting up ourselves in glory in them. If you look at that with a

road cap as far as the east is from the west, so far had

he removed our transgressions from me? David said no, He said from us

all inclusive of the people of Israel, also the people of the world.

Brother Thomas Dire, Now you know why every Saturday you're on the recorder here

the metal preaching. It's because you're moved with compassion for the sinner, and

you believe that there is himpa in the name of Jesus. I remember doing

it myself until we turned it over to go to steer Saturday after Saturday,

somebody moved with compassion, letting somebody know that he is able to forgive them,

He's within it to forgive them, to wipe up the slave clean.

I'm telling you you might behave awhelm about that cronical son and daughter that I

want you to know that conc Or the famous tronical son who returned home to

be the content, that is the author and the Kennis that your prolical sons

tame I'm telling you, I'm expecting him to come home of things. Indicative

of this man being a parent to the pronocal son was his unconditional love and

his compassion. So pronocles may come home having left their swine in the pens,

and that's a good thing. But you will not see them come home

without the stitch of the swine. That's what David said. He lived to

me up and out of Amory Pitt, Amory Pitt. David said, I

acknowledge my sins and my transgressions are ever before me. But David said,

create in me a clean heart, world God, and renew a right spirit

within me. David is activating to create the power of our almighty God.

Don't you know that the Creator enjoys creating something out of nothing. He gave

us this example in the Forgetting of Time, when he spoke into nothing and

something came into order. He didn't even speak the chaos and bring it to

orders, to spunk to nothing. They call it to order. That I'm

telling you it might be so that that last love of pat is little Chaolope.

But I want to about her. God to bring them, but to

order, I said, God, heck, he could bring them to order.

David said, so hath he cast our transgressions far from us? He's

removed them from us. I can't cast them off. You could cast them

off. I could cast them off. That's why in August of nineteen ninety

two I came to church and I said, God, the waits of my

sin her more than I can bear. I heard some weight lifters talking recently,

and they said, this young woman who was a petite stature went into

that gym. I cannot remember the name of the gym. But those guys

were a fit able body men to be doing that. That was their sport,

their hobby, Bill Jesse. But this little petit woman that did not

have any more muscle on her arms and a frog does its legs, I

mean this little tiny biceps had went into that gym, and those guys said.

She thought she could do anything. If you guys can do it,

I can do it. And brother Jesse, they said, she got on

that bitch and asked one of them to lift that that weight off and to

handed to her. And they were holding and she was insulted by their assistance.

And they were holding two fingers under and two of them men's pulling up

on the bar and brother Jesse, she's insulted by their assistance. Come on

you getting the cho She's insulted by their assistance. Finally she's given a hall

to me to let me have it. That was the last thing she should

have requested of them, two power liters. They let her have it,

and Brona e j that chest immediately with conking that bar was browing the rim

teacher of that petigue for a woman her, she could not handle her for

right talk. The enormity of what was only the eye of ball was two

MUCKs. And I'm telling you that is why man he Tod said a sun

because the den, I said, almost creating her color temple, and Todd

gons he just creates all humanity her just don't need to turn down. They

got me entrust her by the lights for the old seins, I said that,

being trust her mother going to her for the rate for the scizzible sins

or he has removed them from us. I thank God this morning that I

didn't had to enter this place with condemnation. I thank God this morning that

he has set me free. And who in the sun has made for it

is free. Indeed, the Somist goes on in verse number four and thank

God for rediption, for redeeming him from eternal destruction. It is clear to

the reader that the sons knows that the Lord loves and cares for him deeply.

Not only him, but the entire nation of Israel. Not only the

entire nation of Israel, but the entire population past, present and future.

We put setting me and at one time as setting Mellion. Later. God

knows the status and the state of everyone of his people. I'm preaching this

morning all his compassion for his creation. If you look at our text again,

the Bible said, like ansel her Father pinions his children the little pity

of them that fear him, for he knoweth our frame, and he remembers

that we are dust. David knows all too well on the heartbreak of the

father. That's why when Joe out killed Asalim, David boy until Isray was

far mishaken that David boy, he said, oh who Absalom? Who absal

would that time on a time from hu Asalom, when we know what he

was doing. He was being propetic. They come on, chees us,

sir, what died for his son? For God son come old, that

he calmed her his only but God's son, that whosoever believing in him should

my parents. But I'm never lasting life. David could not deliver his son

Absolom from his weaknesses, from his sins, from his transgressions. I believe

what he was saying, Brother Philip is son. If I could have got

you to have a broken and a contrast spirit, son of I could have

just got you to do like I did and fall down besieging him for mercy.

Oh my God, I'm sure, sister witness. David stood there and

looked at the corpse of Absalom, and saw that the darts of Job's men

had pierced through, and saw the ribbons of red where each dagger had had

the dart had impelled him, the ribbons of red going down his son.

David had no idea that our heavenly father would one day looked at ribbons of

crimson strewn falling down upon his son, and the spirits of brokenness that would

turn the lights of the world out. The world itself, creation itself would

prevail, that it would grow because the orchestrainer of all of the galaxy freed

the light itself has been dapping and narken because of Creeper or his son.

Look, can I tell you God loves usself as much as he loves his

own son, his own and the gout's son, who wants to get eat

a bit a pincer of heaven he wants to make through a trying to heir

to unequal senters of every square inch of Clara of who he went, Come

Russa, they gonna just see your parents trying answer with Jesus. Benefactors of

the blessing, declaring brokenness, declare are frailty A reaching for souls. This

morning, the Lord pities his children. David had pitied absolute I have pitied

my sons at times. A lot of times I say my five sons and

hand over there is probably want to go and your one daughter. You know,

I never forget Hannah. A lot of times I say my five sons,

and Hannah can saying I'm my one daughter. I'm talking to that one

your one daughter, I'm talking to that one lost sheep. This morning,

the ninety nine can sit in a pew and thank God for his benefits and

his blessings, and for his forgiveness and for his kindness and his gentleness and

his compassion upon us. But I'm reaching for somebody this morning. As a

father pitieth his children, so the Lord pitieth them that fear him, For

he knoweth our frame and remembers that we are dust. The Lord has compassion

on us because he knows we are his creation. He knows his creation.

He knows you better than you know yourself. I must repeat that again.

He knows you better than you know yourself. He knows where you are reinforced,

and he knows where you are crip on. He knows your strengths,

and he knows your weaknesses and serve us to debone. He knows your frowl

teeth, and he knows how fragile you are old. But he still loves

you. He saw when you made a messer because of that mistake. I'm

gonna say it again. He knows that you made a messer through making that

mistake. But he still loves you, and he had compassion on you.

A lot of preachers try to make it out like God is standing around a

corner with a baseball batter just waiting on you to make a mistake or a

mishapper and knock you upside the head and throw you into the eternal laker,

a firel you can miss her. God is holding the cheeser to death,

hell and the drive because he does not want anybody coming there by the devil's

appointment. Are you getting mess her? Or yes? The devil used to

have the king, but now Jesus got the key, tak us a watch,

and prodigal sons and daughter's going to hell. God knows a w that

homeless dombey turn the hell. God doesn't want that. I didn't couldn't slide

into eternity in the hell. I'm telling you, Come on now, God

lost them. Lo, the song writer a modern time, said these words.

They penned these words. He knew me, yet he loved me.

He who made the heaven shine so unworthy of such mercy, yet he loved

me. When he was on the cross, I was on his mind.

An omniscient God could have thought of every one of us, and could have

counted the weight of every one of our sins in a moment of time.

An omniscient, all knowing God knew your weaknesses as well as your strengths.

There have been times when people have gotten to know you better. The closer

they got to your brother Tyler, the more they loved you, or perhaps

the closer they got to you, the more they decided that's desired and destined

to choose to dismiss you as their friend. Did y'all catch that the more

you get to know somebody, you'll either choose to just continue with them as

your friend or to dismiss them as your friend. Brother Jesse, pray for

him. It's a little bit warm up here this morning, Brother Caleb.

I thank you for being in the house of God this morning. Sick Even

if you're standing on the back wall, that makes two of us. I'm

up here at the front preaching that same sickness as trying to get a hold

of me. And I've stayed away from everybody. Threw up during the night.

Felt terrible, But I want to preach, preach to you all now.

So according to our text, the Lord he does not diss us or

dismiss us because of what he knows about us. I've seen people on the

floor respect somebody highly until that gossip Godler talks to somebody else at the water

cooler out them. I'll come on. Then they just believe everything that they've

heard and they have nothing to do with that person any longer he calls and

what they've heard about them. There's been preachers that have preached with an anorting

that informally been murderers and thieves and all kinds of things. But Brother Jesse,

when somebody in the town begin to spread the word of what that preacher

used to mean, they no longer had confidence in town for that preacher.

I'm kind of called the omniscient one, the all knowing why to steal?

Who wants us despite it what he does about us? I said, God,

he knows you uprising that he brings it down city. He sees when

you're star on it, and he sees when you're called. And it doesn't

matter what the pharisee or the delentious person thinks her costume wants him. When

you like a baby's wanting a vaca and you call her and hits your head,

God like a pother must have picked you up, dro up the good

that sets you over the way. That's just don't wanna can't come for madness

down? No, God, pull that tender myssings up. What a price

He knows, he knows, he knows they're an at it he knows they're

bound. He knows, but he still loves him, and he still pities

them. Brother Philip, the Lord knew about that cancer before you knew about

it. We come back from the cruise, I guess it was. I

got in the living room, Brother Philip said, Dad, could we sit

down and talk? I said, sure, so, he said, with

everything that you carry on, you having been a pioneer pastor for seventeen years,

he said, trying to make a living for all of the family,

and plus people in the church helping them or an extra income. You went

on and on and all is going on. When you said, Dad,

I hate to perform on you with you being a pastor, he said,

but I need to tell you something. He said. I've got a sign

of cancer. He said. It's just not getting any better. It's dublin

and it eventually tripled in size, right, brother and Philip, Well,

we found out it's an aggressive form of rare cancer. But brother Philip,

you know what, God, the omniscient one, knew all about that before

the doctors and we knew about it. I feel the preacher in his house

this morning, says the wounding. The Lord knew your strengths and weaknesses.

Yet he loves you. He loves you unconditionally, biter Danny Edwards. He's

an all knowing god. He's never making a new discovery about you. He

knows everything about you. He knew everything about you before you got seved in

that tent meeting, before you started attending servants up there at Tennessee. And

he still loves you today. He knows your Oh, come on now,

the Lord knowsa the thoughts of the intense of the heart. I'm talking to

real people in a real world. There's sixty some people here this morning,

and better. Samuel said, he's gonna get here as fast as he can.

He said, PAPSA preach to him. He laughed her. He said,

don't hold me anything back. Preach to him this morning. He said,

I wish I was there. He said, I'll be tuning in just

as fast as my big brother and get it up. Woted. You know

what coda. Samuel was saying that I miss my home church. Sister man,

He said, Papa, we miss our home church. We missing love

you, Papa. But matter essing you know what, I am a dad

to them. I do pity them when they're sick. My pity better,

Samuel when he was following that tuber in his inner ear that was threatening his

stole and his brain. But God, it's Michael, brother Samuel. It's

just rot and gonna fill up and gonna Danny more than I am. It

is true what I can say. That's their customer. They're on my mind

continually. I said, you're old, not my continually do you realize the

persons and the benefits of having a melancho has got you on the heart les

praying for you? What he what about you? What about problem? In

those days? For about us? The preaching of all about Yet he yet

he pities us. God, it's not John Christal. You young people don't

know who that is National and geographic taught us about you a great discovery.

God is Christopher Columbus. Or Sir Francis Drake, You young people that aren't

doing your homeschool work. Let me help my mom out here. Turn around,

let me give you a kick in the rear. If you'll do your

homeschool work, it'll make preacher easy on you later on. But Francis Drake

never did find the fountain of youth. But I can tell you, brother

Jesse, I have found him who has made the fountain of living water.

And you can search all your life for youthfulness. Huh are you all with

me? That's what this generation is in search of. They can't stand getting

old. I have figured out that we must age gracefully. Some of us

are agent gracefully, and some of us are agent not so gracefully. Oh,

come on, I'm trying to preach to you this morning. Then will

never be a new discovery for God concerning you. I may find out that

you've got some kind of growth on the camph of your leg. I might

find out upon your death, the mortician might say that you know, this

person was eight of them but cancer. But God will never make a new

discovery about you. You're not getting this. I think some of you are,

but some of you is still Sunday morning. But the Lord still has

compassion for us. Even though he completely knows us. He completely understands us,

He completely gets us. Old brother cheering Mina. Sister Leah gets you.

I just think she knows how to read you. Maybe you're so much

like her daddy. She say, well, brother Jamie, if you hear

this, I'm just kid. I don't know anything really about you. Brother

Jamie. But somehow Sister Leah gets you. She understands you. Old brother

Philip was starting to find out. Maybe Sister Elizabeth gets you. Maybe she

does it. She'll figure you out after a while. You're definitely want of

a kind. But you know what, Brother Jesse, the Lord pitieth his

chuning. I want you to know God has compassion on his creation. I'm

preaching on his compassion for his creation, and my I reiterating here compassion is

not sympathy, and compassion is not empathy. You may not understand what I'm

saying, but listen. In the seventh chapter of Saint luc Gusper I rether

rent to us of an actual happening in a currency where Christ walked up her

and canceled a funeral. There might have been attends her at that funeral service

that had had sympathy. Concert in hand. They might have had a budua

but plans. They might have had infantry. But I want you to know

her Jesus did not reach out to or called to sympathy, who reached out

to my hand and touched her to marry her. I'm telling you God and

testing what Jesus had something there for this Sunday. Then her a car,

I said, Jesus. Second more, I said, a card. Yeah,

compassion. Sometimes when parents bury children unexpectedly prematurity, because of horrible things,

the only thing we can offer is a card. And we try to

offer compassion. But a lot of times it's too late. It's just too

late. It's just too late. I don't want to wait until they're gone

to make a difference. The marble said, if there's a man that has

these world's goods, and he seeth his brother in need, and he shutteth

up his bows of compassion, and we'll go on to that here in a

minute. But I want you all to know Jesus did not personally deliver a

card. He delivered compassion. The deceased had a miracle waiting on them.

I don't care how dead and this world they are. I don't care how

dead to God they are. They may be deceased, and you might have

already put them away in a coffin, and you might have already, as

their parent, or as their friend or their coworker, might have even put

a nice little sympathy card on that coffin. But I want you to know

I felt it yesterday, and God has been dealing with me again today already

about compassion. And I come to preach to us about the compassion of Christ

and says to how he handed her more than a card. Jesus made a

miracle out of that mood mess. And I was praying, Brother rod Cap

he said, what happens when pastors behind closed doors and writing? Let me

tell you what happened. I was putting pin in the parchment and writing in

the parson's office, and Brother rod Cap, all of a sudden, the

spirit of God unctioned me to write, Was it a mistake that got this

woman in that mess? Was it some kind of mistake that got that young

man in the mess that he was in? It led to his devisor?

Or yes, there's been a lot of people. They should not have took

that first simple, They should not have took that first dimper. They should

have never put it in that littlep or come on, they should have never

injected their first ounce into those veins. There was a mistake that led to

a masser. And don't you think the attic nonsa? It was a mistake.

I'm told the howldser all in there loss, I said, no,

matter, how did it gets her? Never choose the cooper with deeper,

who ride the altar, who ride the archer throwing their church, not the

saint's pray. I'm telling you, if a person mistake that cost him his

lifer, God was steer got a worker a miracle for a look and not

a made a bad charge. And it might be affected you. But I

believer in a corner a miracle, something through the passion mean your hamper his

deepo wasn't a mistake that created a dismiss We aren't sure what the cause of

death was. Did he eat too many mushrooms? What was the cause of

death? Did the don't get jump off the cliff? What was the cause

of death? What was the tragic mistake the crowd Nevertheless, they have empathy

and they have sympathy, but what we need is compassion. Again, they

had sympathy and they had empathy, But what we need is compassion. In

your life. You need a preacher with compassion. You need parents with compassion,

because it will make a difference when you get into the rocky places in

life. Just having somebody that is compassionate will make a difference. Jesus was

willing and able to help. Do we need to go or should I keep

preaching? It was completely natural for the Lord to care for the child of

this woman, just as she cared for her child, Brother Staring, it

is nothing more than the love of God reaching through you into the streets of

Label. Every week, Brother Jesse, I can say this you and Sister

Hannah, you too carry a burden for the sick and the shut INDs.

Brother Nathanael, and Sister Rachel, you too carry a bird for the children

in the elementary Sunday School class and the Hope Outreach class. Brother and Sister

road Cap and the rest of the whole team, y'all carry a birden for

of those homeless people in Label, and a fort myriage. But I want

you to know there is not any greater care for anyone by anyone than when

the Lord shows love and caring concern for his own children, moms and dads,

admitted, Brother Jesse, as much as you love the sixth and the

shut him, there is no way you care for them as deeply as you

care for that little boy sitting right there behind you, Brother Nathaniel, as

much as you carry a burden for the lost of the Hope Outreach class.

There is no way you can truly admit and say I love them more than

I love my old children. Are you all women? But I want you

to know God loves your child, and God loves his child. He loves

his children more than we love them. They are our offspring, yes,

but they're his handiwork and they are his children. All. Come on,

now, is there any greater or care for anyone that care that he has

for his children? Why because they're his old creation. Brother Caleb, you're

standing on the back wall sick this morning, at least six to eight feet

away from everybody. But who cares for you most, Brother Caleb, your

Sunday school teacher or that person in the pew, the Sunday school teacher.

Why because he's your daddy. Don't you feel life your brother cares more for

you, more deeply than anybody else. Brother Philip and Sister Elizabeth, you

too are married. You'll get married a couple of weeks ago. But Brother

Philip, I want you to know it doesn't matter how jealous Sister Elizabeth I

might get at times, I will always be your daddy. They come on,

you stood up in this pool pit and balling and squadling and said,

that's the best parents of boy could have ever had. They've been so good

to me. You never felt the need to leave our house to find the

will of God. You never felt the need to move to another state to

find the perfect will of God. We made it comfortable for you. We

were concerned about you. We pushed ourself as feelings aside and sacrifice for you.

How that is why you feel a way for us that you knew.

But brother, you're out of my home and out of touch and out of

reach now. But I want you to know I will always have that feeling

of love of a father to you. It doesn't matter if you're a trucker

head and a shrimp boone to it from myst port. It doesn't matter if

you're being somewhere else lost in game without God. I'm the steel luck you

aren't conditionally What are you talking about? I'm saying, Sister Elizabeth by a

merrity. But she could never replace the poll I could never be the lock.

But it shit to be seen her true character cause she differentiated between the

two. I see a lot of jealous wife ruck, a lot of holes.

Come on, now, is that a come mister Elizabeth, you need

to remember whose house you can't wait too, and who prayed that that happened.

This ain't no hiring right here. I'm gonna obey God, whether it's

my friends, family, sons and daughter in laws. And you can let

ten minutes in an hour long sermon or ten seconds of God in his part

words and our long sermon confuse you. God has not given us the spirit

of fear, and God is not the author of confusion. But I know

the Holy ghosts when I feel it, and I know when I speak as

the oracles of God, and I know when I warn comforts ye took I

took for the mother to see, Brother Philip, I will continue to share

your pains as though it was my own. I will continue to lay on

my floor two hours every night until God releases me. It didn't matter if

I needed to disappear from the wonderful people I loved on a cruise and they

probably wonder, Where's brother? How will at? I'm going to stay committed

to my vow to God that I will continue to pray until God gives me

an answer. We went to Branson, Missouri. I said, Philip,

every night I've been on my face for two hours. I said, God

has done yet gave me the answer. But I know that God has showed

up and that's enough. And you ever be telling you that, as we

wrote down in the elevator, I will carry your pain. I will carry

your burden. Oh come on, now, that's what a father does.

You say, Well, I don't do that. I want you to know.

God dealt with me about nine months ago on a Sunday afternoon to head

south to my son that was working. I did not understand why God told

me to go south. The Holy Gess has got this again. And I

just told sister howel we won't be eating over the cactus Mexa resta front today.

We're gonna get something to go and surprise Jesse, I take something to

eat. Little did I know when I arrived a bad drug deal. It

just happened and one of the men had to front of Jessie as he was

working on the side of a street in a Buckley, Florida. They had

approached him as the city water the man director of standing right there in the

middle of a truck deal that went bad. Something unexpected took place, something

you were not anticipating. On a Sunday afternoon. The world was about to

unravel. Don't you think that it was not daddy that was being moved.

There was a heavy father moving on your pastor moving on your daddy. What

I'm saying gonna Chessie. They're gonna fill up her. Say oh, thank

God for the father. Don't don't feel the pain. That won't tell you

you recall usl The circumstances fly on a pin in this building, and road

car pills are pay. He does his trug and he wants to you.

Guys, we'll get over what I was saying to sister Elizabeth. You might

as well get over it. I will always be his daddy. I don't

think you have a problem with that. But that doesn't mean you would be

tempted. You know sometimes whenever little women get married, they become territorial.

Suddenly they got the whole world together. The bride's mama can't help her all

that's mama. Huh. I don't know where this is coming from. As

a father, piteous, it's children. As a father, piteous it's children.

I feel holy goods this right here. Jonathan. You're talking to her.

You're an official, But this will always be my baby right here.

I'll kiss her right here, and I'll be doing that until she dies.

Around die, and it don't matter what kind of whatever it gets in his

heart. I'm telling you, I feel the boldness of the Holy Ghost,

and I love every sow in this building. I bought her a dunkin doughnuts

refresher. I have never handled Hannah interperfectly. She kisses me on the cheek

every night before bedding. Most nights I don't kiss her back. But the

other day I handed her a dunkin doughnut refresher. Ain't that good sanctify preaching?

And I kissed her on the cheek. I said, this is from

my one and only, baby girl. I know there's a lot of times

I say my five sons, I said, this is from my one and

only. You know what, God's got a lot of wanting on this.

Every one of us are wanting only because if you had to have been the

one and only the needed heal the cancer, he died for it. If

you'd been the one and only need to revive was a young man who died

for you. He saw this beautiful thought, Sister Tracy and brother Danny,

that I'm trying to protect right here the following the leading of the Holy ghosts.

But Brother Danny's sister Tracy will always be Sister Elizabeth Parris brother sister how

will always be Brother Phillip's parents. I'm telling you, are y'all getting the

mind of God. It doesn't matter how far the prodigal goes. It doesn't

matter how far he runs. They will always be his children. It doesn't

matter they can disown him. This fellowship the Lord refuse to have anything to

do with the Lord, But the Lord still has compassion on them. Isaiah

fifty three and four said, surely he hath borne our grief and carried our

sorrows, Yet we did esteem him, stricken, spitting of God, and

afflicted. Do we know of another person that would have done for us what

Jesus did? Phil, If I can commit to pray for you, and

I did it again last night, despite throwing up multiple times. I told

the Lord just before I walked away from that few, how will I preach?

Because I'm so sore I can't breath. He helped me. I was

praying in that office before church, brother just say said if you don't help

me, And then I realized it's here. The Holy Ghost is here.

You know why, because he loves his people. I said, Lord,

what I need you to do is use me as an instrument to minister to

your people. And if you choose to take the sickness, do so and

keep it. But if you choose to return it after I've been anointed,

so be it. Just please let me deliver my burden to these people.

In that scripture Isaiah fifty three and four, listen, he said, our

griefs yours, and mine, Our sorrows yours, and mine, our transgressions

yours, and mine, our iniquities yours. And yet we esteemed him stricken,

smitten of God and afflicted. It goes on and say, we have

gone astray. We have turned the iniquity of us all. That's what Jesus

said. You brought her to be stalled. He that is withoutus and among

you. Let him cast the first storm. He suffered for us. He

did all of us. This for us. He endured the brutality of the

Roman soldiers, for us. He endured the shame of the cross for us.

In the second chapter of the Book of Acts, Peter places the blame

on all of the men of Israel, the Lord's very old children. He

said, you're the ones to be blamed for the execution of compassion personified.

Would you come to the piano, brother Jesse, Let's stand this. He

knew me, yet he loved me. First. John three and seventeen said,

but whoso hath this world's good? And see if his brother have need?

And shutteth up his bowels of compassion from him? How dwelleth the love

of God in him? Can I ask you a question, what did Jesus

withhold from you? Now? Man, I ask another question, what have

we withheld from Jesus? The Lord has compassion on us and our sin and

suffering, and desires that we would repent and turn from our sins. He

knows us better than we know ourselves. May we bow our heads and close?

And I want to tell the story of something that happened with sister Howl

and I. We had just got saved. We had began praying for the

loss and saw some come in as a result to just parts of compassion,

weeping and crying for the lost. The deacon in our church had just got

upset and left. There was some sort of disagreement between him and the pastor.

His wife had played the piano in that church for years. I want

you to listen very carefully. Their son that was in his mid thirties had

been a backslider for years. Brother Philip. One night, Yobama and I

was coming home from church. Just down the road from the place where we

were staying, we saw a man in the ditch. I slammed on the

brakes, put the car in reverse, and backed up. And I looked

and I realized he appeared to be unconscious. I rolled my winded down said

hey, sir, Hey, sir, are you okay, only to discover

he didn't have a stitch of clothes on him. I said, sir,

you okay? Have you been injured? Are you all right? Immediately,

Brother Philip, I felt compassion worn tears flowed don face. I didn't know

who he was, but I knew he was messed up. I opened the

car door, and he jumped up like a wild beast. I will never

forget it for as long as I live, and without a stitch of clothes,

he faced sister how and I. He had long, matted hair and

a long beard, and he was so scared, so alerted that we had

stopped here he is in darkness, in an area where nobody was seemingly in

the ditch left for dad supposedly, I said, are you okay? And

brother Philip, When the wild man lifted up his head, my heart broke.

It was the son of our deacon. I smelled alcohol. I smelled

alcohol. I went to the house called his daddy and I said, mister

so and So, I got some bad news. He said, what is

it, Jeremy, I said, your son's down here, just down the

road. Start naked, drunk, I said, And as I left him

to get help, just up the road and eighth of a mile or so,

there's all of his friends down there talking about how sorry he is,

worthlessly he is, and they're laughing at him, Brother Philip, because they

could see him down, they're starting to take it drunk, I said,

he's being mocked. I told Sister How, this is the deacon's son.

This is the man that took care of the church for years where my grand

and grandpa went to church. My heart broke, Brother Jacob, I said,

my heart broke. After awhile, Sister How and I got in the

vehicle to go check on him. Him. Brother would there was our old

deacon had his naked son over his shoulders and dragging him to his truck.

He threw him in there, took him home, washed him up, sobered

him up, cleaned him up, put clothes on him. I saw that

deacon in a church service sometime later, and he stood up crying with warm

tears of compassion for his son. He said, pray for my boy that

would be saved. He's out in the far country and his old friends are

mockinging. But then he turned his sister how and I, and he said,

in these fine people, when my son was lostin in a ditch,

they came looking for me, and I found my son before something terrible happened.

I came on a mission this morning for the King as the Father,

like the Father piteth his cheer, Jesus sees, Jesus cares, Jesus knows

he's concerned. Could we all just find a place to pray this morning.

I feel like there's a lot of us that could just ask God to give

us some more compassion, having compassion, making a friends. The example is

his compassion for his creation. Mother. Ask God to warm your heart of

compassion. Father, ask God to warm that heart with compassion, pastor,

ask God to warm your spirit with more compassion. I've been praised for God,

give me compassion. Give be compassion, Lord, compassion, compassion.

It could be you should be you Jesus, Jesus, Jesus, he knows

yet, he loves, he says, and he cares. He knows you

better than you know yourself. Praise are sque every day. Bot me in

a part every day is all it can stop this. Jesus goes ride way.

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Leny day can res home. It can hear dam scot it's Jesus goes ride

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just have a broken hog. Can feel when you got the no on?

Can you fill his jannel hand? I love and touch made you home again.

You made me longly place. But he's just a pray away. Let

me say he knows again for very hard. He's not the everything your hot

every head I'm working hard. Leny take away home. You can hear you

the Scott. Yes, Jesus does rideway. You are where you goes he

caves where you are. He's right here and he sees hard every head on

looking hard. Didn't he take you In's all? He can hear you.

It's goot, yes, Jesus stores rideway. Do you feel alone in the

crowded room like a ship the stranded on? And see have you been wounded

by some one that you can't only last friends hurts so deep the time wonted

He maybe'tly pa, he's at pay Oh, let me say that he knows

he can where you are. He's rock there, he sell very on looking

pot heard he take it in his hor He can heal you. God catjesusnow

drivway you are He doesn't he gave where you are. He's around desy,

burried on loving far. Let him bake in these all speaking to hear you

and thats gone. Yes, Jesus, go driveway. You want the room

you're family know, just have a groove and hard can make your fee when

you talk and know you fell on his gees his loving time. It made

you hold the baby long. But he's just a bred with But let me

say he knows became when you are drive dearcy, your hot Harry on his

hardest day thinking here yous God. This Jesus no rideway you who bega where

you are. He drive Percy, your mom very, be all the bar

little things to hear these as they can hear you whom THESS gone. Yes,

Jesus does ride when you are