Beat Back The Birds - Bro Jesse Howell 8-20-2023

That's all we that's all that's all we could ever ask for is someone to

get under the load with us and get there. Get there with us,

work together, pull together. That's well, we're in this thing. We're

in this thing together. We're all trying to make it to Heaven. One

common goal, one end goal, one end result is what we're all looking

for. I begin to I begin to think that when brother Caleb was leading

that uh now he set me free two thirty five, I believe, or

three thirty three, three thirty three, one line in that song really stood

out to me. Like a prison like like a bird from prison mars and

flown. If you've flown out of some prison bars, you can burn.

If God's delivered you from from the change a hand you what's found. If

God's touched you and away and he opened the old cage up, he would

go ever seen U of heard get a cage open up and just stay in

up in the cage. That's that's not the will of God. When God

opens up a cage for you, takes flight and fly into the heavens.

Fly into this guy, fly into the high things of God. I appreciate

the spirit of the Lord. We filled this morning. Appreciate what brother Nathaniel

had to say. I was kin with him Saturday. I called him and

I said, I'm gonna pray and take over spirit on you. I'm just

gonna, I'm gonna, I'm gonna pray that you get on here and just

run with it. But I really appreciate what he said. I believe it

will do with some good. Uh. We want to say quickly, I

appreciate this opportunity confidence in my pastor we missed them, praying for safe travels.

We're gonna read in two places this morning. My co text will read.

First, we'll read my primary text. Last, we're starting Second Samuel

the twenty first chapter. Then we'll read. Then we'll move over to Matthew

the thirteenth chapter, Second Samuel twenty one Matthew number thirteen. Now, if

you pay attention to these two texts, you'll quickly see the common denominator and

you get a little head start. Began reading in verse number eight, the

twenty first chapter of the Book of Second Samuel. But the king took the

two sons of Risk, but the daughter of Ayah, whom she bear up

to Saul arm and I am a philis chef, and the five sons of

Michael, the daughter of Saul, whom she bared up for Adril, the

sona bars LII, than the hold of fight, and he delivered them into

the hands of the give you nights, and they hanged them in the heel

before the Lord. And they fell all seven together, or put to death

in the days of harvest in the first days, in the beginning of barley

harvest, and Rizpa, the daughter of Aiah, took sackloft and spread it

for her upon the rock from the beginning of harvest, until would have dropped

upon them out of heaven, and suffered neither the birds of the air to

rest on them by day, nor the beasts of the fields by night.

Flipping over to Matthew the thirteenth chapter, we began reading in verse one.

And the same day went Jesus out of the house and sat on the seaside,

and great multitoons were gathered together unto him, so that he went into

a ship and sat, and the whole multitude stood on the shore. And

he spake many things under them imparable, saying, behold, a sword went

forth to sow, And when he had sowed some seeds felled by the wayside,

and the fouls came devoured him up. That'll be all of our reading

this morning. And if the Lord will help me for just a few minutes

of your time, I want to speak this morning on beat back the birds.

Would you lift your hands all across the house and ask God to have

his perfect willing way in this service. Nord, we thank you for your

presence that we have felt already. Lord, we thank you for your spirit,

the annoying thing that has broken through this place like a mighty rushing limp.

God, I ask for a coal of heaving to come down and an

be a peach your word. God, I ask them by your spirit you

would anoint the seeds with my Now, God, give me things to see

that would help the people. God, we asking the name of Jesus.

Let me let them see you and knock me. God, let them see

your grace, your love, and your mercy. Hide me behind your shadow,

God, that nothing I say or do would help them. Lord,

in the name of Jesus, we pray in Jesus name, Amen and Amen.

Now Jesus is teaching a large group of people from a boat down by

the seashore, and he begins to tell him a parable of a sword and

a seed. And a little side note here is I believe that the words

of Jesus are just as relevant today as they were back then. So if

we all believes that this morning, if everyone believes that what Jesus said back

then is just as relevant today as it was back then, let's put ourselves

in that great multitude in our minds. Let's go there. When Jesus is

sitting in a boat. Picture it if you if you believe that what he

said is just as relevant today, picture yourself in the great multitude. As

the Mighty Teacher is teaching the boats just off the shore, the waves are

hitting the boat, rolling on the shore and rolling back. You can hear

the sounds of the wind blowing. And above the sound of the wind is

the voice of the Mighty Teacher, the teacher of teachers, the blessed son

of God. Now when you put yourself in there, where your toes in

the water, right there at the head is closed to the boat as you

could get, and where you're back here behind a tree, hanging out with

your pals, did it really matter to you that you could hear everything that

the Master was saying, did you really care that the Master, the teacher

of all teachers, was spilling everything he had from the throne room of God,

giving it to you handfuls on purpose? Or were you stating in the

pack trying to get away as far as you could so you could say I

was there. I want it. I want my feet to be with I

want to be just as Jesus is right here, and that's as far as

I can get. I want to be hanging on to the boat which deep

in the water, listening to the Master's voice. Many times I've heard this,

this pararable priest and talk about evangelism and witnessing, and I've heard it

said that the souler is not responded pile for where the seed lands. Just

sow the seed and let God do the rest. And when we are doing

public evangelism and one on one ministry and witnessing, it's true we can't control

where the seed lands and where it ends up, whether it's gonna be on

good ground, whether it's gonna be on stony ground, And we must let

the hero and God onlineing do the cultivating on the land of that ground so

that it can bring forth good fruit. Because the Bible said they must have

a willing heart, a willing mind. But I felt it much prayer and

study, this parable take a turn for me, and it went in an

another direction. And I've never heard this parable preach this way, or I've

never read it in a book or ownline. But all throughout the Bible,

there are many many instances. I wrote down two scriptures here, but all

throughout the Bible, there are many instances when our children, in our offspring,

are referred to as seed. Our parable was a soul or so and

seed in an angel, and well, just for reference, an angel was

speaking to Abraham and Genesis the twenty second chapter in the verse seventeen, and

he says that in blessing, I will bless thee and in multiplying, I

will multiply thy seed as the stars of heaven and as the sand which is

upon the seashore, and thy seed shall possess the gate of his enemies.

In the Book of Romans, chapter four, verse thirteen, Paul was speaking

about a promise given to Abraham. Paul says, for the promise that he

should be the heir of the world was not to Abraham or to his seed

through the law. He didn't say that they were gonna that they were gonna

be aired to the world, the world because of the law, but through

the righteousness of faith. So in those two passages you see where Abraham's children

and there's more in the Bible. I just got those two where Abraham's children

are referred to as seed. And as I begin to think about that,

and I realized that Abraham's children and off spring we were considered seeds and mentioned

the seeds in the Bible, and parallel to seeds in the Bible, then

I begin to think mine must be as well. If Abraham's children are seed

that's Abraham would plant, my children must be seeds that I will plant,

and we must be careful where we plan them and what they getting rooted into.

So as we look at the parable with all of that in mind,

we suddenly realize that where our seed is up after we plan it is very

very important, and it really doesn't matter. This sword that Jesus is talking

about with was very slow for in his field print and he didn't take the

time to properly dig up the stones and to pull up the thorn bushes,

and he didn't take anything, and he just sowed the seed. He just

walking by haphazardly, carelessly sowing the seed. The Bible said some fell on

stony ground, some fell among thornton it choked him out, and some did

fall on good ground. If you finished reading the parable, what I want

I want to focus on this morning. This those seed that fell on the

wayside, and the Bible said that the birds came and to valor them.

God has trusted us to raise our children and those that we influence it.

If you say I don't have children, we are influencing others is just as

much as parents are, especially when it comes into the house of the Lord.

You might not have as much influence over their home life as you think,

but you, when you darken the tours of the Church of God,

you are influencing children and those that are younger than you, and maybe even

something that are older than you. But God has trusted us to solve these

precious seeds, and we must make sure to bring them to church and teach

them what the Bible says about sin and wickedness, because it's running rampant in

our world today. We must guard what is being planted in their minds and

do everything that we can to come back the evil that this world is trying

to see in their tender hearts of Fesian six and four says, and ye,

fathers, provoke not your children to wrath, but bring them up in

the nursing and the admonition of the Lord. It is out of god given

duty to bring them up with a love for God, a lover his word,

and a love for the truth. And it seems to me as I

looked across this world that there are so many parents in this day and age

that leaves their children to themselves and their caress concerning what is being planted in

their minds and what they are being introduced, what they are being introduced to.

The Bible says, tramp a child in the way that they should go,

and when they grow home, they should not depart from it. And

parents nowadays refuse to invest time and energy into making making sure that they get

grounded in Christianity, from righteousness and holiness and holy living in accordance with the

word of God which is written in the Bible. And it is very important

that we take responsibility for our children, and we take it seriously, and

we understand that God has placed in in our lives to raise them to the

believers of the Bible and livers of the lives. In this society, I

see parents trying to act like it's normal when people want to so see the

homosexuality and perversion into their braising, into their rights. And they're trying to

proport our tutor to young ages. And I see people and shipping and hot

the parents back in life of their doctoration. Do I have a calling for

the work, And said, I hope my son don't put out game my

brother did. But there's nothing I can do about it. I said,

I'll tell you, I'll call him. I said, there is something you

can know about it. But these people down days, these parents, they

say, there's nothing I can do about the perversion. There's nothing I can

do about the wickedness. But there is something you can really turn you get

so righteous. See, you can teach about fresh God, you can preach

about the gold Father, the mayor. There is state that you can do

in their society to see to it that your children don't dne perverted and struggling

for life. The soul, the school system and the neighborhood friends are trying

to pervert their innocent mind as such a good age. It's bewildering I have

I would have cool workers that I work parting closely with because of the type

of word the Armian. And they're constantly talking about the evil that's in the

school system and how they hate it and how they hope it don't get off

on their children. But they say there's nothing they can do. I try

to tell if you can do something, but they're trying to graft you the

thought processes of leniency of the wicked in this day into our young people and

in our children. And it's a relentless attack of Satan. Every time one

dayvil gets gone down, he says another one against these ten that are six

Saturday, ain't nine ten? It's a costed bombardment. The Bible says in

some seven and eleven. And God children's the righteous? And God has ain't

we with the wicked every day? And if God is angry with the wicked

every day? Who thinks that we should be leaning in tylerant to wickedness?

If it makes God angry? Should we tolerate it like they want us to?

Should we be leaning against it like they want us to? Like though

men in the world aren't today we read an our text that the sword didn't

pay much attention to where his sea landed. He could have gone the extra

mile. He could have made sure his seed baded into fert of earth,

in good ground, where it could flourish and grow. Verse four of our

texts says the birds of the air came and devoured his seat. I didn't

read anywhere in that parable where the sword was too concerned that the birds were

devouring his speed. He could have done something about it. I've heard a

stir scarecrows keep the birds out of the field. He could have did something.

He could have He could have tore up the thorns and pulled up the

rocks. But he wasn't concerned. He let the birds spoil his harvest.

Little foxes came in, little birds, Little foxes, if you heal,

came in and destroyed the vine. I was at work one morning a couple

of weeks ago. I was down in the market league. I was on

Durino Durango Lane. I believe it was since we wouldn't know where the village

is at right where the overpass is the equal housing, the low income housing,

and we were working on a looping project connecting some water vans, and

I'm sitting in a could of Sacket's. It's a cold of sack drive Durango

Lane, and I'm sitting in the driveway. And as I'm sitting there in

my work trucking the ay see, I look on the palate lines around me,

and I start to realize there's probably fifty to one hundred birds on the

palate lines surrounding my truck. And I begin to wonder, what what,

what's the attraction here? Well? I I continue to sit my truck and

a little and a little while later, this old elderly Haitian man gets up

off of his front portion. He has one of those cardos vans, and

he opens the back door to his cargo van and he pulls out a little

tumpleware container with some bird seed, and right there on the asphalt, he

begins to scatter seed to feed the birds. He carry cast his seeds in

the birds state he cast his season threw him out upon the asphalt pass this

too were a container. Back closes his cargo van. Noors goes and sits

on his front porch, and as soon as he sat down, here come

the birds. They swarmed off the powerlines to get that precious seed. They

didn't come. They've they've obviously been trained for this. This is obviously a

very frequent occurrence. All these birds knew that this man this morning gonna give

us seed. He's gonna feed us. But even though it was so frequent

that they were trained through that seed, they waited till the man walked away

and got back on the front porch to come in and get the seed.

And that's the way the devil will be when you saw that, when you're

so that seed, when you plant that good fruit, when you plant that

in your children and you let them be for a little bill you think they'll

be all right. You don't continue to water it, you don't continue to

pertilize and keep it up. As soon as you walk away, and as

soon as you give him a little bit of time, the devil will come

in and begin to devour the precious seed that you planted. In our context,

we read about a mama that stepped up and she refused to let the

birds and beast on her children and devour her precious seed. If you will.

When riskma's two sons were taken to a heel and hang to pay for

a broken valve on the notorious Team Sault. The Bible tells us that she

put a sign clothed her rock, and she beat back the birds by day

and the beast by night, and she refused to let him rest or her

children. And from all my studying and research, most people were saying that

that was a baddest space of six months that their father sat out there and

refused to let the birds destroy her children and destroy her precious seat. I'm

beginning to think, I know there was times that she had to eat.

There was times that she had to run into town for something or come to

her something, or maybe someone was bringing it to her. But maybe she

left someone say hey, I'm going to run into the town for ten minutes.

Can you watch she's can you watch my children? They're hanging up here,

can you watch my children. I'm trusting you to watch my children and

to protect them. And maybe she went up forever about to eat. She

came back and she seen him on nasty bird over here on this one.

What are you doing? I trusted you to watch my children. I trusted

you to pray for my babies. We must be careful trusting people with our

children. We must be careful, trusting that others are praying for our children.

If we don't do it, it might not be getting done except for

by Pastor and her first lady and a few out of the congregations. But

we need some parents that was standing in the fields and fight back to the

birds of wickedness, provision and comprovise. They're trying to devour our children and

young people, and we need to fight back to the foul of worldliness.

They're trying to crippit our churches and in our our children's lives. Call me

old fashioned, a seeking tradition. That's okay, because I'm beating max some

birds. You can call me old fashioned, that's okay. I'm standing for

holiness. You can call me seek the tradition. That's okay. I'm gonna

stand no matter what or what the world God says for what the Bible says.

Bidle holiness. I'm not backing up. I'm got loosing it up.

I said, I'm gonna sad in this day. Everybody tries to hang like

it's okay to loosen up, lighting up. I'm gonna beat back the world

the birds of compromise. I'm getting old enough now to look back and realize

that when I used to visit churches and campy and and assemblies, and I'm

hear Hawiians standards and and modesty and in the way we dress and in the

way we live act, I used to hear these things. And now these

same preachers and preachers wife they wants held to high value on holy living and

used to hold a high value, won't being back the birth they used to

hold a high value, are partaking their young people. They've backed up,

they took them back you they said that, I don't see if they want

anymore. And now these same preachers, pastors and pastors wife they wants held

to high value on these things, are now allowing their children and people in

their congregation that they have backed up, and they're allowing on the platform,

and they change their interpretation of the scriptures and what they want stood against.

They're now allowing on their children. They on their platform, and they're allowing

as they never want to dream that they never want to dream would have been

they would have allowed. They're allowing it because it's been so gradually. A

lion, I should have looked it up, and it just came to my

mind. I didn't think about it when I was studying. I don't think

it pikes a lion too long too to devour a carcass. You know,

I say, it could clean it pretty quick. These birds, these little

seeds, it takes time, one seed at a time, a little pink

here and a little little seed there, And that's what happens. It's gradually

over time they begin letting up, they get loosening it up, and little

by little they're falling away and they're backsliding. Little by little, someone has

left. The birds come in and devour the seeds of righteous living in the

holiness. Somebody didn't have a mind made up to beat back the birth of

compromise. Every time our pastor gets up in this boo bit gets God knowing

it at appointed don't preach what they says, what the saith the horn of

God. He's taking a risk, but says against the word of the devil.

He said, you ain't gonna have my see that I worked for you

weren't gonna have the present. See that I saw that I pointed my best

when tears and two, well, we need some parents to bass our pastor

to take a risk, was says from behind you get at the risk of

etermination and wrestle with resolved said, you're not having my babies. If God

saved your soul, you must protect it. If God saved your children,

you must do all. You can't get protected. If God sanctified you holding

through the Trinity, you must protect it. If you have received the Holy

Ghost, you must be back the birds of Monday, the lethargy, less

us yell, stir up the gift that is within you. Just because we

get the Holy ghosts don't mean that we have arrived and then we can sit

back and not fight and not big as the birds. We must see fight

a good fight. We must finish our coss. If we want to make

killing our home, nor sure it. Build it up. Build yourself up

on your ghosts, holy faith, praying in the Holy Ghost. Put some

value of the Holy ghost ings with him. You can't lose it. I

heard that people losing it. I had one elder, legitimate tell me years

and years ago, when you get the Holy ghosts, never lose it.

He said. I had it and I lost it, he said, And

I'm having a fight so hard to get it back. You're not going to

prove which the Holy Ghost God gives you power if you choose to use the

power. Too many good people, too many creatures, and Christians have failed

and have failed fallen. When they have the Holy Ghost in their heart in

their grasp, you must nurture it, start it up, don't let it

tie. So I'm here at Bethel, have came to plant their children in

good ground. Most of us here the sporting, are above the age of

accountability. Most of the children here to sporting. My personal opinion, I'd

say Brother Tids is about the closest one that's that's not past that age.

If he ain't, I don't know. I think I've heard of people as

the old five. I've heard of people getting blood ball born again, filled

with the Holy ghost of five years old. Though I almost inclined to believe

that you can be accountable around that age. Most of us in this service

to sport at our past the age of accountability. And it don't matter what

our parents do. They can sell all the good seed in you that they

can. They can pour it into you every day, they can pour into

you every hour. And if you don't guard as yourself, if you don't

be back to birds yourself, they will steal you can be in a God

in the house. You can be in a MoMA and daddy house. They

praise till their needs a lot. It will hide. And if you don't

guard the seed, your parents have done what they needed to do. They've

got to in good ground. They've got to in a place where they toilet

the soil on his tail, where the rocks are removed. And they're trying

their best to be back the birth of time provice. They're trying their best

to beat back everything that come and gets you. But if you don't guard

it yourself, I feel the holy pool. If you don't put an effort

into it, you'll slide back into the place where you once was. You'll

slide back into the stony ground. You'll find thorns right around you, talking

a light out of you. I don't believe any parents that truly cares about

the world building, world be well being of the children would ever choose to

plan them in stony ground. We're somewhere forwards could spring forth him choke the

spiritual life for the home. We must have more concern Pardner offspring than in

old well had a tohoot our closed Bess for us crossed the rough so I

would you this was the home. We're gonna make an altar here. This

morning, this lawful sower seed fell by the ways side, and the birds

devoured it. Riskless sons were hanged, and she refused to let the birds

in peace throughout her children? Who will you be? Will you be the

slothful servant that just throws seed haphazardly and caressly, or will you be like

risker? They stand there and say, I will fight for my place.

I will do all that I can get. My babies have the ground.

I will weave back the birds. The story is yours today. The story

is yours. God started it, You finish it. God gave you the

seed, God gave you the ground. God again the story. You finished

it, your offspring. You're counting on you, the counting on us to

be godly examples to teach them the ways of God. We must show them

how a little hole in above reproach, it is possible. Through Jesus Christ,

our stadd who died for us, we can be back to bards.

We can't live above reproach. Do you never stop Mother's bread? They so

stop me, overturn every time I keep breaths no you don't pray things to

happen only out today we are wide. Oh well, keep paying for him,

never stopping. Well, there's prey so s STOs so far. It's

time I keep on breacause I know when we pray, thanks you happy and

honing out to them ble me it's tarring to long and I art to the

sea change belong they have this art. I keep baby and bath, then

stop praying, mother spradairyesco the super stop straight in so far please time Never's

time I keep on bracause I'm going when we pray, things can happen them

going down to them with us? Why don't win, I'll keep over now,

I'll never stop right this mother's dairy, stop the super stop straining and

so fun please turn pay living this time. I keep on rage because I'm

weep bray. Things can happen now to them with us. Why don't thing

to take smart lovers which change tune and say I'm get lifting up and now

even now I keep rageing for you. I'll never stopped raining and series the

super stop straight in by so they start where they are. There is time

I'm keep on res time to go to when we pray things to happen.

Moaning down today. O, man, I don't care this stime, to

this super Boston down souer Stee, that's something I done. I pray in

my senior legs. Oh, that's something I own us. You looks,

but now you see that's something bred in the mess. Stowing the arms lay,

that's something I love. My name st