Looking for leaders - Bro Jeremy Howell 8-13-2023ogg

Glad to be in the House of the Lord. That's what you call it.

Didn't love so I'm going to church. Somebody asked you the question,

what is church? You know that place we call the House of God,

the place of worship, where we worship the Most High God. It's good

to see you in the House of the Lord this morning. I appreciate the

way the Holy Ghost has moved. He moved so mightily in our midst During

the congregational enquires, singing as well as well, a quartet was singing,

I'm so thankful for a moving of the Holy Ghost. Anytime he begins to

move, it is mysterious, and it is most needful. Is most needful.

We should never quench the spirit of God. We should never try to

damper that atmosphere. We want to encourage that type of atmosphere because it could

be indicative of the enemy has come in, lack of flood, because the

Spirit of God will raise or erect or lift up a standard against it.

Sometimes I just say, Lord, if the enemy is coming in like a

flood, if the tides of life are just swelling so big that they're going

to overtake somebody or overwhelm somebody, thank you for your Holy ghost giving them

what they need to overcome. Amen. I preached a message years ago overcoming

your obstacle. Also preached another message titled overcome or never Come, And I'm

telling you we could be overcomers. We could be overcomers. If you have

your Bibles with you this morning, turn with me to the Book of Judges.

May I direct your attention to the seventeenth chapter in the sixth verse.

Brother Nathaniel, First Corinthians, chapter number nine and verse number five. Brother

Jesse, First Timothy, Chapter number three and verse number one. It is

so good to see each and everyone in the House of the Lord this morning.

If you have been absent lately, we have missed you. We're glad

you're feeling better and able to be here. We missed Brother Gabriel and Sister

Candace and their son, brother Luther. If they are vacationing, they are

missing everyone. They send you their love. We look forward to their return.

Pray for traveling mercies that God will keep them while they're vacationing. How

many of you have heard of tragedies happening while people were off vacationing. Where

I'm from, one of the famous home builders of that area had a ski

accident. He was skiing snow skiing and had an accident, if I remember

correctly, and his life was forever change during a vacation. I'm not saying

that concerning brother Sister Gabriel, but I am saying that we should pray for

one another even while we or they are a vacation here right, we can

never take a vacation from the people of God, the House of God,

or from God himself. That's what I'm saying, So pray for them.

We missed them. Good to see sister Lavinia here this morning. There's so

many of you now it's easy for me to overlook who's here. But we're

glad you're all here, all right, Brother Nathaniel, First Corinthians, chapter

number nine, in verse number five, Will you read that, brother,

have we not power to lead about a wife? As well as other apostles

and as the brethren of the Lord and cephas? Amen? Did y'all catch

that the Man of God? The apostle Paul, writing to the church at

carl rented his first epistle to these Corinthian saints of God. He said,

have not our power to lead y'all need to remember that I'm preaching a message

the Holy Ghost titled looking for Leaders. The New Testament Church of today and

of yesteryear has always needed God fearing men and women and the leadership roles within

the family of God. Brother Jesse, First Timothy, chapter number three and

verse number one. This is a true saying. If a man desire the

office of a bishop, he desireth a good work. So if a man

desires as led by the spirit of God, if it's the Lord that worketh

in him, both to do his will and to do of his good pleasure.

If God has put it in his heart to preach the Gospel, praise

the lo. That's a good work. If God has put it in his

heart to be a bishop or a pastor of a church, praise the Lord.

If God has put it in his heart to be a leader, Praise

the Lord. Let's see how the Holy Ghost connects these dots. This morning

we're at his mercy judges chapter number seventeen and verse number six. May we

stand for the reading of our Golden text. The Bible says, in those

days there was no king in Israel, but every man did that which was

right in his own eyes. My mind. Let's read that together. In

those days there was no king in Israel, but every man did that which

was right in his own eyes. That sounds like a chaotic situation. Let's

pray, Heavenly Father, we love it. We praise you. We pray

asia for the opportunity to be in the house of the Lord, this place,

Lord, that we have designated to worship you here in this building,

in this place we have gathered together to lift up your name, Most High

God. Lord. I pray that you would anoint this thy servants. Set

of guard had my mouth and helped me to say the thieves, that you

would have me to say nothing more or less, and anoint the ears of

this thy people, that they might hear what the spirit saith under this church

through this preach word, not my words, but your word. God.

I pray, speak through your words, speak through your preacher. I pray

that you would help us all God, help us. Nor let these sayings

go down below the shoulders, let them penetrate our hearts, fine souls and

bodies. We pray, and may we receive this joyfully and not sorrowly.

In Jesus name. Amen, Raise the Lord. Look at your neighbor and

say, hey, neighbor, are you looking for a leader? I hope

you have found one. Brother, road Cap said, I have found one.

As I was saying that, praise the Lord. Let's do some preliminaries

and roll right into an introduction. Here. Our text is found in an

Old Testament book of the Holy Bible. As a student of this divine library

comprised of sixty six books, this Holy Bible has always fascinated me. This

past weekend, I encourage all of our preachers, and they are numerous in

number, to immerse themselves in the Word of God. I asked them and

challenged them to totally soak their spirits, hearts, mind, souls and bodies

with this blessed book. If you'll soak your heart, mind, soul and

body with the Word of God, you will find that you have what you

need in order to stand in these last of the last days. And also

I know of these young preachers, and these middle aged preachers, and even

the older preachers that I encourage to immerse themselves literally dip themselves into this Word

of God, delve into it. They will have what they need in order

to properly lead their family, lead the church, and to lead a nation,

because literally they are saturating their mind, and they are putting on the

mind of Christ. By immersing themselves and washing themselves with the water of the

Word, you won't have to worry about them being ungodly leaders. You won't

have to worry about them tripping up and leading you in the way that the

blind end up in. You know, the Bible said there would be those

that followed leaders that were blind, and as they blindly followed those blind leaders,

both the blind that we're doing the following and the leader that was blind,

both of them ended up in the ditch. Our text is taken from

the Book of Judges. I have always found great preaching material within the Book

of Judges. The content is so perfect for preaching those of you that have

preached at all. You know that whenever you turned to the Book of Judges,

immediately the names of great men of God as surface upon these pages.

The names of great men that are recognizable within all of Christian of men such

as Sampson and Guinea, and topics have been taken from the lives and the

actions of these two great men of God. Also, different types of messages

have been reached about these men taking action as leaders among the people of God.

I know when I first looked at this Book of Judges and considered preaching

from it. This morning, the Holy Ghost had led me into this book,

and I began to thumb through the pages, and I looked up in

the upper left hand corner, and I saw the title of this book.

The name of this book is Judges. Now, that title itself is very

intimidating, especially to a secular world that does not want anybody putting their nose

in their business, especially to somebody that's sitting next to the watercooler while you're

in the break room on the job, and they don't want to hear you

witness to them about Jesus or tell them what the Bible says. It seems

to me like the modern Christians anthem is don't judge, don't judge. But

we've got an entire book of the Bible here designated to about Mia and talks

about Mia. Who were judges? Now, Brother Thomas Sterret, if I

understood you correctly, last week you were telling me that you had received a

jury summons and that you were called to the Hendry County court House and were

to report early and not to be any later than on time. And brother

sterret you said, y'all went through the jury selection process, and after you

had been selected, you stood before the judge. If I was to ask

brother start right now, was he nervous or anxious about standing before that judge?

He would say, without a doubt, I was very nervous about standing

before such a prominent person as the judge. Why is this It's because of

the authority that that judge possesses. It's because of the power within the hand

of that judge that holds that gavel in his hand. I mean, just

with one sentence, that judge can send anybody in that courtroom to prison.

It does not have to be that one that has been charged with a crime.

It doesn't have to be that one that has committed a crime. It

can simply be somebody that is asserting their opinion out of order and getting loud

and disorderly in the courtroom, and that judge consentenced them to prison or sentenced

them to spending time in the county jail. So, whenever I read the

title of this book and God begin to draw my attention to that word judge,

I realized this book is speaking about men and women concerning Deborah. Men

though that were in leadership roles, and I thought, my hi, the

title of this book of the Bible is literally saying leadership leadership within Israel during

this period of time. And I know that Brother Starred he was probably a

little bit uneasy until they moved him from the jury selection booth and actually put

him on the jury panel. You see, at this point he would have

been on the judge's left hand, and the judge would have saw him as

his friend and knocked his foe. Brother Starred would have been very concerned if

he'd had been sitting shoulder his shoulder with a defense attorney and that prosecuting attorney

breathing down his neck and pointing his bony finger in the face of Brother Thomas

and saying you're guilty. But no, Brother Starek was not guilty of any

crime at that time. Praised the Lord. And I know that there are

people this morning already you put up your defensive hute it to your defensive system

because of this word to judge, I don't personally intend to judge anybody this

morning. Although the Bible said that the wise man would judge all things,

would wisely consider all things that are before him. Huh. And I feel

like this morning that there are some people in this building that are looking for

leadership in your life. I feel like there are people that have saw some

things that have disappointed them, and they say, well, I know that

if I had the right kind of leadership installed and in place in my life,

that I would not be so disappointed so often. Huh. Now,

I've known that there's some of you in this building that value leadership, while

there may be a few others that cannot stand up to have a leader.

I'm one of those people that likes to have a leader that knows what he's

doing. If we're doing something important, if somebody's leading me on a fishing

excursion, I like to know that they lead me into that path, whether

those fish are schooling, they're running. I like to know that somebody that's

leading me knows where we need to be in order to maximize our potential and

get whatever it is we're trying to get. Y'all hang with me this morning.

I'm trying to go somewhere. There was a time in the Israelite history,

in their national history. What they could say, we do not know

if we've got to what we need. Concerning the leadership you've heard of sister

we testify numerous times of about a twenty year period here in South Florida when

she would say, Oh, God, send us a pastor, Lord,

we need pastoral leadership, not only in the bill, but in this region.

We need somebody that will support our belief system concerning inward and outward purity,

concerning inward and outward and holdliness. You see, Sister Wood was not

in pursuit of just any person to come by and try to attempt to lead

her to heaven. She was looking for the right to kind of a leadership.

And here in this Book of Judges you see that there were times when

the Israelitza had leaders that led them the victory, while there were other times

they had no leader at all. Over time, each tribe found themselves praying

and asking God to deliver them from the hands of their oppressors. So why

were those people being oppressed? It would simply because every man was doing that

which was right in his old eyes and not doing as God would have them

to do. And so God would allow her oppressors to come in or get

this. God would allow wrong leadership to come into the place of a position

of leadership, and the people would call apart. They could fall apart to

by being a tact from the outside, and they could call it apart by

being a tact from the inside. That was the concern of the great Apostle,

the Apostle Paul. He said, when this leadership is gone and I

pair of praise. He said it more eloquently. He said, at the

time of mind departure, when there is no longer the Apostle Paul getting starred

in a room in dark, dark dingy prison cell, when my pianists no

longer and being put to department, when Luke is no longer helping me writing

letters. That will come a time when grievous wolfs will come in. I'm

talking about the grievous wolves that had furry coats that were blood stained and blood

some time with the sweet people of Cords blood. Oh yes, that's what

Apostle Paul said. They would not spare him the block. He was not

talking about the poker of Lusia Parker. He was talking about Corts people.

And we do not realize how much we should value cod the leadership in our

life because the Old Testament took believes so to speaker, thus a believe in

Jehovah. The Israelites found themselves or pressed him at a plintet wind they chose

to do it to their way. When they done it, that's how they

saw that it fit to be done. They were oppressed them at a plictet,

they got the wrong leader, and or come on the outsiders begin to

a put them and impress them. But the Bible said, when they begin

to pray, and they called that on the neighbor, Lord, the Lord

would raise up. I said, the Lord would raise up not only the

spirit of God to be a standard, but God would raise for man that

you're in Egypt and you're crying out, God, a raise up promoses.

If you're in the belt in they's eyels and you're crying out, got no

raise h Jeremy, I can't give you that. If you want to God

the leadership up in you're in life. If you want somebody, I stand

up bringing them somebody that will lead to somebody that will bring you cry out

point, I said, cry out point. That can't be that. God.

We'll give you. I get it that God. Then you give your

sands of what's going on in the Pentecostal and holding his churches today. Brother

Howell, I don't know you answer that question, because as soon as I

tempt to answer it, somebody's gonna prompt me accuse me of not respecting the

leadership within our movement. I do respect the leadership that is within our movement.

I've always respected the Reverend John Gabbard, the Reverend Manny Sutherland, the

Reverend Don Rich, and the Reverend Randy Webb. These guys have been a

tremendous blessing in my life. The Reverend Bill Houston was a great friend of

mine. In fact, he preached his next to his last sermon right here

at the Bethel hole in his church and preached along these lines, the anointing

is at Bethel. He was a great friend of mine. I want you

to know that even Noah, these men were great leaders within this movement.

There were great leaders because of their great personal relationship. And some of them

are still living praise the Lord, and they still maintain a great personal relationship

with the Lord. I feel like a real leader realizes that he needs a

God as much as the people need God. If that leader ever comes to

that place where he does not feel like he needs God. Truly, those

people that are following him are headed for a bad destination. You will remember

that Moses was a renowned a leader and he came out to the right time.

God always shows up at the right time. But for every leader there

must be multiple followers, becaus God Rosa. For Moses, that did not

ensure the difference for her that he brewed people that were living in the land

of Osan, they must have followed. And I know that God is our

leader, and there's a lot of people that declare him to be their leader.

But are they following? Are they in love with that leader? Jesus

said, if you of me, you will follow my directions. I'm paraphrasing

again. His ectual words were, you will keep my commandments. You knew

realize that Jesus was on the ultimate mission to get mankind from this planet Earth

to their eternal abone in that wonderful Sir Leicester City Heaven. And he gave

us fall that a road back. He gave us verbal and written instructions to

ensure that we had what we needed to get there. Oh. Yes,

if Boses ports in that direction, you got to walk in that direction.

It doesn't matter if the red sea, that the tide is here. It

doesn't matter that the red sea he is stand. Oh yes, come on,

now have it a people I've we seen come up to the blood of

cheese outside and they put their toes in that beautiful red sea, only the

tiant the gold. I cut in at the Egyptian MANETs, I'm asking you,

he leads. But when you followed, I said, I'm asking you.

Even there he leads. Hear you followed. So God raises up men,

then God also sets men down. I believe that, brother Jesse,

after the death of Joshua, there were men that had been shoulder to shoulder

with Joshua, men that had fought faithfully beside the side of Joshua and the

other great men of God Caleb. And in time these men became the elders

of this nation of Israel, and they assumed those leadership roles as the elders

of each tribe, and within this nation of Israel, they served a faithfully

in their post of duty, in their divine assignments. How many of you

feel like God is still assigning the roles of deacon. He's still assigned the

roles of owner. He's still a side of the roles of pastor. I

wonder why so many churches trade pastors so much? Is it because nobody's really

faster than praying about leadership? Could it be that somebody isn't looking for leadership?

Could it be that somebody don't walter that kind of leadership or come home

now? But these editors of Israel, they were looking for leaders and they

find a set we need, especially anointing men or women are couting devil's case

that would ride up and they became known as a judges. They come on

even the elders. So we're looking for leaders, and the people were looking

for elders. So the people were looking up for leaders, and the elders

were make up for leaders. Hey, y'all cannot hear this, mord.

And you ought to be under somebody that's got their ear bit towards God.

It was better. J Wallace, un believe called Friday to sit pastor.

The reason why I sit under you and your ministry, it's because you've got

an ear to into the Lord. You've got a mind after God, you've

got a part after God. That's good as long as my heart is after

God. Nother j follow. But if I ever turned away from color and

the good Shepherd, as you're under Shepherd and I just appoint you, you

still must follow Jesus. And not to be clear, I don't high plans

are disappointing anybody. I said. I mean about high plans or disappointing anybody

that I'm preaching to somebody this morning. You need to know it's okay,

huh to be looking for leadership. Well, all they do is talk about

outbreach. I haven't preaching about fourteen days, so I'm just about done.

Amen. That's the only bad thing about thinking extending vacation. Brother Nathaniel is

trying to get reconditioned. But the Lord is helping us and he does.

But I want you all to know that they'll talk about things and how they're

gonna do this, and sometimes even that pastor or that assistant pastor, or

that elder and that sony is good teacher, or that events coordinator will stand

in the pool and they will a lot of the people and talk about how

they're gonna do outreach, how they're gonna win the lost, how they're gonna

have VBS, how they're gonna have extended revivals. How they're gonna get out

turned oh man, and fulfill the great commission. There's a clarion call for

us to be soul winners. You do know that, right, And because

that very person a leadership, that person that is responsible, they do not

lead by example. Every outreach ministry that but the holdest church has has been

started by a pastor Howell and the first lady. We've started another one that

you won't barely know anything about. And we're waiting on the right time to

turn that over to somebody after they get to murden. Do you know why

they're not taking an action and only talking. It's because they really have been

burning and they don't want the responsibility of doing it. When they get up

Monday morning, there's don't glitter, there's no glamor, and there's no glory

to get down there with a homeless person and hearing this say, I'm a

back friend holding us a preacher. I'm so glad he showed up, showed

up. I'm killing myself today. Oh come home. Now, you know

what take whether they do have a pancake breakfast after church or Sunday night,

I have a talk on dinner after church up. Oh, we'st night,

and I'll take a wait a gat it. I thought, were you gonna

reach up for the lost t Wait a minute, I thought you was gonna

lead us into the nostrous field. Time I said, the field right,

the hardness, pray adas the leaders and walk her come into that field.

Lead me, preacher, look at the leadership. Lead me, preacher.

Don't lead me to the tithe being only don't lead me to the building fund

collection. Only lead me to be a servant practice, servant leadership. Minister.

Oh, oh my God, I feel the Holy Ghost right here.

And so these men that have been faithful with Joshua and the elders, they

be going to cry out for deliverance. And God gained them these great judges,

and then we know how it goes. They had good judges and then

they had bad judges. They had great victories and they had terrible downfalls.

I mean, I suspe at the design of the roller coaster was taken from

the role model of the nation of Israel during this period of time and history.

You have your ups and you have your downs, and then by the

Jesse's because of the disappointment of these judges within that type of judicial system.

They begin to cry out again for leadership, and they say, we have

looked upon the other nations and for a leader. They have something called a

king and improved over night. You've got something called a monarchy. Right.

A monarchy is that right where there's one man reigning supreme. And God took

this as an offense. When Samuel petitioned the lord. Samuel was the leader,

he was the judge. At this point he heard from God. God

gave Samuel he needed to you see it this time. Why would you be

asking for a king when you've got a leader like Samuel? And God told

Sanator Delta, be disappointed, buddy. How they did not reject you.

They had rejected me. And God took offense for this request of leadership,

because God do. If a man does not remember that he is the under

shepherd, under the over shepherd, if he does not remember he is a

servant, not a letter over God's heritage. If he does not remember that

it is God that keeps Israel, that it is God that leads Israel,

then that man, even if he's specially elected and chosen by God himself and

his name is Saul, if he does not keep God corkst not leadership.

Rolled will corrupt him because there is a possibilities when there is power, I

said me, and are corrupted he sometimes because of power. Being are corrupted

sometimes because of possessions. And can I tell you when they love power and

they love possessions, they love pre eminence. That I want you to know.

That's what the New Testament told us something in the Book of Revelation.

They will come to the place and I say, a rich I've increased with

kids, and I've got need or nothing. Listen back, cat, you

need a holy esprit. Listen who needs spiritual gods? Who the spiritual can

lead usselves? Well, I'll get the pastor to work for me. And

then wants to borrow to come servant to the lender. But the holy ghost

just spoke something to me. But it's different when the lender is under the

leader. You see, we see throughout the nation of Israel's history they were

looking for a leader. They were looking for a leader. The elders made

room for special men. You have to make room for those special people in

your lives. There's a sign on the bulletin board in the hallway and the

back of the church It says, if you do not allow him to speak

into your life, then he is not your pastor. He's just a preacher.

These men would speak into the lives of these people that were looking for

a leader and had accepted a leader. Sampson was one of those men whom

the Lord raised up to deliver them. Gideon is another one of these men

that the Lord raised up to deliver them. These leaders were simply tools in

the hands of God. Getteon maintained a proper understanding that the Lord is the

deliverer, that the Spirit of God is the deliverer. And God made sure

to prove that to GeTe It would he make Gette minimize the size of the

army that God would use as the tool of deliverers from God's people. There

was no way anybody could say, praise get It. There's no way whenever

we have a wonderful revival as somebody could say, praise Justin or praise Jesse,

or praise and Jeremy. There have been times that we've seen God allows

somebody to decrease h that He might increase. Uh. You better never seek

out of God's glory. It's God that giveth, that is God that taketh

away. It is God that sets up, and it is God and removes.

From Powell, it was mission and places I preach it a postoral message

right here, just farted. This's nothing to shout about it. But you

ought to thank God help for cod flearing leadership in your life. If you're

attended up in Acostal and our Holiness church and you've got a cod fearing man,

he say that, this pastor in that Loncal building, in that local

Sibney. You want to say thank you God for god fearing leadership if you've

got it, adding a Sunday school teacher, if you've got it, a

militant Sunday school superintendent. Anting outreach coordinator. Oh yes, somebody said one

time our outreach program. He's the altar shout on that time. Oh you

want to, but that's called an in reach opportunity and an inny reach program.

You first got okay up the great condition and reach out to then cod

well reach. This generation doesn't want to be corrected. They can hear you

say something as a fifty year old man with silverling it in your hair,

and know what God is doing for his people, and know and testify what

great things God is doing is proclaiming to be true and preach it that the

fruit comes up on the tree, and that that fruit is indicative of what

kind of tree is bearing that fruit. If you see an acorn, you

cannot deducted. That's an orange tree. If you see a persimmon, you

cannot deducted. That come off of a mulberry bush. And so these people

they're in den they're looking for position, they're looking for placement, they're looking

for power, and what they want to do is suppress real leadership. Sometimes

real leaders do refer to other leaders of yesteryear and they say, hey,

that guy was simply immortal, such as I. That is not to minimize

their talent or their ability, or their calling or their election. That is

not to displace their position. But there are people that will hear a preacher

say something like that, and they will twist it to and act as though

that preachers trying to tear down leadership. They'll act like that pastor and is

talking only to this flock. Because they were there and listening, they go

out and say that pastor tore down this prominent person. This pastor spoke adversely

concerning this person. Now listen, let's just make up a name, Mickey

Chotson, because the Bible talked about those being easily offended. All come on,

now, used to not be so easily offended. But if I say

that Mickey Johnson, which is a made up name. If I said Mickey

Johnson, may be allowing this to go on in his church, but I'm

not going to allow it to go on in my church. What is the

harm? It's somebody telling their own church how they feel like God is meeting

them as some people. There is no harm at all in it. But

I tell you what is harmful. It's some preacher that caused himself a preacher

or the evange was being president in that service and hearing the real leader challenges

people, or hearing the real leader chastising, or a customer holding this foodment

in the direction is coming, and then go out there and act like that

spiritual leader is trying to tear down leadership. No, that's not what's happening.

What it is, silly evans? Listen? What it is, silly

preacher? He is you trying to sow discord from the brother and the ones

you're talking about here and the person you're talking about here and talked about somebody

elswer they're hard by the spirits agree they're in the same book. Just because

you can say there's a disagreement there, there's some kind of gray area there.

To stop being there is h But what disappoints me it's with those same

tail bearers that twists the truth. Don't stand up for holding this, so

they don't support leadership. They don't live like other govern used to live up

there. They don't there for like gonna southernly live, he brother govern lives

now they don't ben like gonna let you crow lives. Now they're trying to

take the church up in another direction. Those are the troublers of Israel.

Look I said that other trouble isn't in Israel. And now stop the kind

of leadership come I'm looking upon in this holding us knew my tail, I

said, that's how to leadership. But how luck apart so young preaching that

can't even a teacher's wife how to be holding us inwardly and outwardly. They

can't even teach their own family how to pray and the altars and not tear

the church apart. Can't even be respected because they're so goofy. My problem

is not with those blessed men of yesteryear that preached at strength. Is spit

white that taught us right. I have never not supported spiritual leadership. I

am totally untolerant, intolerant of young men that are confused this younger generation and

secretly tearing down that leadership of yesteryear and deliver leading the church in a different

direction. And the thing about it is, little preacher, let me tell

you something. All of the above knows what you're doing. We see what

you're doing, and guess what. You're not welcome for leadership at Bethel.

We know pips squeek leadership when we see it. We know strong leadership when

we wish witnessing, and strong leadership will always admit it's not my doings,

it's God's doings. And in this Book of Judges we've said that you find

the example of Sampson, and you find the example of Gideon. And you

know what Gideon's declaration was concerning victory. He said, the sword of the

Lord, and may I paraphrase first, and the sword of Gideon last.

The sword of the Lord first, and the sword to get in secondly,

because deliverance comes from God. And if God is in that spiritual leadership,

people will not have to be coached and coursed out of sin. They will

not have to be pushed through their addictions. They will be led to that

fountain that is full and flowing with blood that flows from a manual's veins,

and they will find deliverance come down. After reading this Book of Judges,

it's clear to see that leadership must be present in the child of God's life.

Look at our text again, Judges seventeen and six. In those days

there was no king in Israel, but every man did that which was right

in his own eyes. Again, only a few chapters into this book,

the reader soon realizes the importance of godly leadership for any Christian family or nation.

While reading this book in the Bible, the readers noticed there were times

when the nation of Israel did not have God fearing men and leadership. Roles

sister, which says, She's lived through that, and that is no situation

conduce of spiritual maturity and growth. And because of this, the Lord allowed

people to be oppressed. Sister, we will tell you she was oppressed.

There's some of you in this building. You said you relocated. I don't

know where you came from. I probably didn't even attend the church that you

came from. It was probably spectacular, wonderful, probably had great leadership.

But for some reason you said you were oppressed. Could it have just been

the God wanted you here? But there's times, and we see this as

evident within the nation of Israel's history, you can't just have any kind of

leadership. And always when there's absence in leadership, people begin to do things

their own. When that preacher won't stand up for the truth, and you've

got all kind of holding this preacher saying I'm having an issue now in my

church because that can't be speaker simply wouldn't lead his people. He knows what's

tradition, he knows what's custom, he knows what the Word of God says.

He has the information that he needs to lead to God their people,

but for some reason, he just don't feel like leading by example. For

some reason, he just don't want to get into poopit and say anything about

some things. So for some reason he just kept bringing himself to do anything.

At that moment, to that man is no longer a leader. We

have to accept that his leadership responsibility has failed, and he is not wanting

to suffer persecution for taking a stand. He'll come on. The sheet deserve

a leader. The sheet des are better than that. You can't lead the

sheet to themselves. You gotta let the sheep they call the decisions. You've

gotta have a shepherd that make us some decisions. This is a little deeper

than some realize. Are going over some heads. But imagine how quickly,

brother Jeremiah, people begin to develop different views. Right here in our Golden

takes, every man is doing that which is right in his own eyes.

These people are literally cherry picking their own paths, cherry picking what they want

to do, how they want to live. They decided that some of the

things that some of the old preachers of yesteryear, back in the seventies and

the eighties and even the nineties, preacher, they decided that, you know

what, it doesn't matter anymore. I'm not gonna touch on that, not

going to harp on that. There's more to preach than holiness. And so

these churches get left to themselves and they cherry pick what they want to do,

and they pretty much get defiled inside. And also it shows up on

the outside, and they're just doing what's convenient for them, brother Nathaniel,

and they're twisted scripture. They live and however they want to live. They're

taking their family down the road however they want to go. And so it's

true that this nation fared better when they had a God fearing man and a

person that God has selected as judge in this will of responsibility. And it's

true that these ben had some minor defects and some imperfections. They did not

have the holy ghost that we had today, and they had not been blood

washed by the blood and the lamb. But still these people were following these

men despite their perfections, and they were anointed and appointed by God to lead

and God and direct God's people in God's way. It's not our way,

do they burger, king, We can't have it our way. We got

to have it God's way. That's why we're singing that song out all way.

Well, do you remember, Priable, We're all having to submit from

our own desires, our wheels, fleshly desired. How the taihway low?

How did humanity end up with this dreadful thing called the ademic nature? How

did humanity end up with this dreadful thing called the ademic nature or original sin?

How did we end up in a place where a two or three year

old child could lie about stealing a cookie out of the cookie joy? How

did we end up in this place that mothers would go to abortion clinics and

abort that life that is in their work. How did we end up in

this condition because Eve did not follow her leader? Or I feel I preach

it a little while. You'll let me preach just a little while. It's

Harry, just a little while with me. I want to tell you that

there are people in this building that naturally follow quality leadership, while there might

be a one or two that buck up against godly leadership. Now it is

that the will of God. You know that you're in my I feel like

if Adam had had still been walking when the Lord and the cool of the

day, and if he had have been separated from Adam, and they'd all

have been following their leaders and all made them that have the rule over them

because they watched for their soul. If Eve had have been in that place

that God had designated for her to be in right here, come on by

his side, she was taken from out of the side as the rib was

taken and replaced right with that woman that had been as sufficient. Where was

she act? I believe if you study that third chapter of the Book of

Genesis, you can tell that Adam listened to her account of what happened.

He didn't disagree with her when she talked about how Satan came had come on.

Now she began to reason with the devil. The devil, being as

cunning wild as he is, he said, has God told you you can't

eat are the trees of the garden? And you know what he said.

God didn't say we can't have something to eat. Hey, the devil was

using trickery and deceit to establish communication and continuity. And then he goes on

and says, hey, God said, we can't eat of that tree of

the knowledge of good and evil, and we can't touch it. Right,

there was a mistake. God did not say that, where's Adam out there?

In this you read one of them verses, it says Adam was with

her, But if you study that in context, he was with her after

she persuaded him to eat of that forbidden fruit. You have to be with

somebody in order to take it and eat it. But if you study it

all in context, you can see that Adam had removed himself from leadership.

He was not where he needed to be. He was not worth she needed

to become. On Now, I'm preaching to you, and you do have

to go to certain churches that preach the truth to the Bible. Said there

would come a time when they would not endure sound doctrine her. They're not

gonna stand by the side of her or a preacher. They're not gonna endure

her. Couldn't been that even got to the place she didn't want to submit

to leadership. Couldn't got to the place where Adam saying, I don't know

that I want to go her on this walk with God as soon as you

alien make her suffer from the learning conte and prosprential Leadershipper and Brook your church

found that you will find yourself and make a good choice, and say you'll

find yourself and away, I see it's right to But the end, it's

the post from destructure her. It seemed right there that even when you ate

that few but through it was plans. At times it was desirable. It

looked into the eyes and that's what our touch, said her. These people

would do that that that was right to in their old eyes. The preachers

say, I don't see it that way. I don't see it the way

the hold of this preachers preach in the seventies, in the eighties and the

nineties said oh, yes, I'm talking to our generation. I don't know

how they preach it in the twenties, thirties, forties, fifties, sixties.

But this generation not even want what we preached in the eighties, And

they don't even want when we preached five years ago. God forbid that that

wouldn't be promoted in the spiritual leadership. Why why their issue is not that

they're challenging preachers they respected. Their issue is they'll say, if that preacher

I highly respected, don't do it right. Like Paul said, you follow

me as long as I follow Christ. That's the point that's being made.

But your issue is, I don't want that kind of spiritual leadership in this

movement and dependecast to the churchless or affiliated with me, because I don't want

anybody challenging me about some of the things that I'm secretly trying to change,

and you're changing them, and some of them can't meet speakers and preachers of

yesteryear sitting out there in the pews, and they're not getting preached anymore,

and they're saying things behind closed doors and after bury at the table and Denny's,

and I hoped to their peers and saying, you're dropping the ball,

boy, you're dropping the balls that don't act like you're supporting them, and

don't act like mother Howe or brother. Road camp is against those wonderful men

of God that preached old time, true blue, pure vanilla, great holiness.

We hide their respect, those men of God, some of whom have

preached for me all my God, I feel the hole that goes. But

what's you're wanting to do is be left to yourself. Come on now,

to be left to yourself. You know what the Bible said in Problems,

chapter number twenty nine and verse number fifteen. The first part of that talked

about a child being chasten, and then the second part of that verse,

the latter part said, but a child that has left to himself and bring

it to his mother to shame. Oh, come on now, act this

generation right here we see is another one of them generations that prefers and people

keep to themselves. They don't want anybody attempting to assist them in the attorney

called life. They don't want anybody attempted to point then they point to somebody

in their own direction. They don't want anybody attempted to say, hey,

wait any minute, work getting of course. They don't want anybody getting a

hold of other we or the chipper and trying to steer us back on course.

They want to be left to theirself. They don't want anybody to preacher

or message of challenges them. They don't want to be reminded of how we

lived twenty years ago. They don't want anybody bringing it up. I've got

a problem with that. I've got a problem with our lack of leadership.

I've got a problem with somebody not assuming the role of leadership and taking responsibility.

They want the position, they want the prominence and the power, they

want the pre eminence, but they don't want the responsibility. Adam and Eve

left to themselves. Eve left to herself. Adam accepted Eve's accountant of her

conversation with the devil. The secular public school system of this generation, like

many before, is encouraging the children of this generation to go deeper into the

islands of isolation and disrespect. I heard Sister Wood for the past ten years

crying this church house and weep and say they're brainwashing my family members in the

secular school system. She said, those that I have fed in my own

table, those that when my back was sore and hurt from working in the

yard and I leaned over my kitchen counter and prepared viddles for them to eat,

they would not even speak to me during dinner. They would not even

attempt to help me clean up, and they wouldn't even attempt to say thank

you. That's this generation the teachers are teaching them. Lead me on.

Your parents are ignorant. Your parents are idiots. They don't even know how

to turn on a computer. Let me tell you something, silly child.

It was your parents, or your grandparents and your great grandparents generation. They

were the leaders of the war of World War two. They were the ones

that liberated people from the tyrants, such as at our pitmer. They were

the ones that took to the factories and worked their fingers to the ball in

order to clothe fighters. I feel the holy ghosts. But this generation,

they're slept and they're thinking tain't no way them old preachers of yesteryear knew what

they were talking about. Whipper snipper, You've got a pump in to preach

in, You've got a parsonage at a holiness church to live in because of

a fighter. As a soldier, you might lae to great grandma or grandma

might not be able to turn on a computer. But can you so address

from a pattern? Can you build a battleship with your old hands? Can

you build a rockets with your old hands? I'm telling you come home now.

There are leaders of yesteryear that led us to be the powerhouse up that

we are today. Come out when you're out today because of the empire,

household men and women of God to paint the pole that you walk on.

Come now, I'm telling you, I thank God, but God fearing men

and women not words, and our our leaders go so much more to preach

on you. See, this generation wants to be isolated and there will be

extreme consequences for those who choose to do it their way. Y'all. See

what I'm holding in my hand, that's the Bible. This is his way.

Notice the words in our text. Every man did that which was right

in his own eyes? How many people here work a job? Raise your

hand, anybody, Brother Danny, You work a job, don't you?

Who's your employer? Walmart? Brother Danny? What would happen if tomorrow Walmart

decided to terminate all supervisory positions, If they fired all the bosses and all

of them supervisors, what would happen? Would chaos erupt? Brother Starets?

You work at a cabinet maker's facility, right, and we'll make cabinets all

kinds of things. Did you imagine if management come in to borrow and said,

we're terminating all of our bosses, we're eliminating their positions. Every man's

gonna do it as they seem fifth they're gonna do what's right in their own

eyes, Brother Starets. Seeing it be mere hours before the door closed,

and that's where I'm headed, Brother Danny Evarts, you'd say pastor maybe three

hours. We'd last maybe three hours, maybe three hours, because you know

what, everybody's gonna start fusting and fighting and arguing because they're gonna want to

do it their way. You know, they all got into their way anyway.

They all got their opinions. Because you hear about how they disagree with

the boss's opinion. Every day right that, there's thirty employees in the same

building. Everybody disagrees with the boss. So there's already thirty opinions on how

it shouldn't be done. Immediately, there's gonna be conflict because there's not somebody

in that position of leadership. I'd say in less than three hours, it's

gonna unravel because everybody's gonna sudden they have a stomach gape. Everybody's gonna need

to take their baby boy to the dentists. Everybody's gonna sudden they need to

go visit the great grandma they saw in about ten years. I'll come on,

I pray you know what I'm saying, Brother Caleb didn't be nobody left,

come quit in time, there'd be nobody there and the next morning just

a handful of faithful people. Only a few have ever survived where there wasn't

any type of leadership. There's only a few self motivators in this world.

I'll come on now field the Holy ghosting here. There's some of Christian people.

It shouldn't be this way, but they show up on time simply because

their boss says show up on time. Or get fired. It ain't that

they're trying to be hard to do it heartily as before the law, to

try to be a good example of how Christian work practice good work ethic.

They're simply scared they're not going to have a paycheck and they're gonna be able

to go to Longhorn. If I listening to somebody right now, are you

talking to their you upset? Are you? Is that what I'm here?

And I'm hearing something in my spirit right now? I'm on cave with him

firing all the bosses, aren't you really? You won't have an employer,

won't are to be up for sale in about three months if they eliminate all

of the bosses. And that's what they're wanting us to do, sis to

have with holding us preachers. So you want to cancel the presidency. You

don't want us to have an election, you don't want us to pray about

it. You want us to cancel just anybody that rocks the just a little

bit. Oh come on, now, chaos is going to ensue. Oris.

How many shops we get stocked at Walmart? None? Because everybody's gonna

be arguing. Everybody needs to get up early Do we really need to fire

all the bosses? Do I really need to cancel the parents? Who really

need to cancel? The holiness preachers? Do we really need to cancel the

law in posted? Do I really need to fire the police officers? And

no? Ten thousand times? Dog Hotan needs leadershipper, Our family steed leadershipper.

How torches need leadershipper, How holiness people need leadership. Could y'all imagine

what would happen tomorrow in the city of LaBelle if we fired the share if

we fired the city councilman, if we fired all the law enforcement our officers,

and we all did what was right in our old eyes. Picture our

fellowship, Paul. If we had a big fellowship tonight and we all went

out there, Picture our fellowship, Paul. If all of the parents walked

out and left the kids twelve an other to themselves, Give us us to

Rachel at the church and let her show you that picture of her daughter's bedroom

when they just got to themselves for just a little while, just a little

while, just twenty minutes of supposed that time. And it looks just like

Brother Nathaniel, that Hurricane Renee or Hurricane Rebecca went to them you talk about

whereas Waldo, both of them little girls are asleep, and you can't even

find him. And I'm not exaggerating. There's so much stuff. It looks

like there was not a drawer that was left full. Every drawer was empty.

It looks like everything that was standing upright is cast down. Looks like

every toy has been pulled out of the toy box and scattered. I thought

whether the thing to how could such innocent, sweet, precious little grandchildren such

as these of mine be so unruly and disordering because they must be taught.

How can they hear without a preacher? How can they preach except they've been

sent? And that's where we get to this proverb sixteen twenty five. There

is a way that seems right to a man, but the end there over

the ways of destruction. And I want to close with this thought. As

brother Jesse comes to the piano, everything including our churches, families, and

nation, rises and falls on leadership. And this is where if I love

Trump, warned Jesus, I'd put a plug in here for Trump. But

I don't love Trump more than I love Jesus. But I sure did enjoy

having him as a leader. Of this nation. I thought he'd done a

fantastic and a great job. What about the president now? Is he a

leader? You know, Saints of God, moms and dad's preachers, pastors

listen to me. I'm not a twenty year old or thirty year old,

almost fifty years old, forty eight years old, silver and my hair.

I might speak it as a novice, i might speaking to hurt anybody,

but I'm gonna say it again. Everything, including our churches and nations,

rises and falls old leadership. You remove brother Nathaniel and Sister Rachel from Sister

Rebecca and Sister Renay's life, and you watch the chaos that ensues. Apostle

Paul said, as soon as I'm removed, there's going to be eternal consequences

simply because I'm not in leadership. They took Trump out of office, removed

him. Most people believe chaos has ensued. They're entitled to their opinion.

And you know, there's great honor in being selected as a role model for

God's people. However, Brother Jerrem's very dangerous when that role model or leader

wants all the honor, the praise, and the glory, and so we

turn all the honor of the praise and the glory vertical, and we turn

it up to him and say, Lord, thank you for giving us what

we need to lead us to heaven. And here's the burden behind this morning's

message for the road, Captain. It's very sickening and disheartening when we see

preachers, parents, people, individuals despise the responsibility associated with leadership. If

you're going to be a pastor, pastor, have a burden for those people

and tell them what the Bible says, because what's going on behind closed doors

in our restaurants shouldn't be going on. There's too many people and preachers saying

why isn't somebody saying something? Why isn't somebody doing something about it? Because

they're afraid of the persecution of the religious sort, they're afraid of being canceled.

Well, I will say this, you can't silence the voice of the

Holy Ghost. People are fickle. Ask Moses. One day they're complaining about

manna. They need quail. Then they're complaining about quaill. They need something

to drink. Then they got something to drink and it tastes like lemonade.

Bitter. People are fickle, and brothers Samuel. Even when people are fickle,

Moses knows they still need a leader. Let's stand this morning. Corporate

America understands this. The Church understands this, The Catholic Church understands this.

The Protestant churches of America in the world understands this. We need leadership.

And I want to tell each one in this building this morning, if you

ever get to that place where you think I don't need a pastor, I

don't need a preacher, I don't need a teacher, let me pick on

that song as long as I got a King Jesus. That second verse I

don't like. The first verse. I love. But there has been a

time and Sister Wooten's history when she would say I didn't have a pastor,

I didn't have a preacher. I couldn't rise up and preach. I couldn't

shape myself and start a church. And I said in an area where there

was really no hold is that's her testimony. Those aren't my words. But

this morning she's surrounded by sixty other people. I think it said there's sixty

one people here. She's got six sixty people. Now she's not alone anymore,

Brother Samuel. But what's comforting is there's not sixty one people trying to

go our own way. What's also is we have a common denominator. It's

the man Jesus, and it's his book. It's his book, and the

truth is sometimes his book is gonna judge us, and it's gonna challenge us.

And what I'm asking you to do this morning is they begin to see.

Would you close your eyes? And I want to ask you, can

you humble yourself unto the words of God, not Pastor Howell's words only.

I appreciate your respect, I appreciate your admiration. I appreciate your faithfulness.

But is there's something in your life? Is it called rebelion? Is it

called stubbornness? Is it called by will my ways? Is there's something hindering

you? This morning? I want you to come into this solitary prayer,

which is would you do that? I feel this shock. You need a

leader. You need this Bible to lead you. You need the words of

God to lead you. You need the Spirit of God to lead you.

It'll guide you into all truth. I've heard of people before, Brother Road

kept saying this. I'm gonna continue serving God by myself, and you know,

what after ten years, fifty years, twenty years, they lose out,

they lose their way, They lose their way. Personally, I had

to relocate to be in the will of God. Personally, I had to

leave that place that I had worked for for so long and start pastor to

church leadership. If it's so important, Is there anybody in this building this

morning that would come forward and yell at us off? To anybody? I

know I'm preaching to Bethel, it appears at every person in this building values

leadership and it cares that way each and every service, but brother World Camp,

I believe I'm talking to at least one this morning. I'm saying this,

Leave me, Lord, lead me, Lord, lead me, Lord

lead me. Is there anybody we got warning? Is there anybody else?

Help me to submit my will? Here's another help me, Lord, to

totally submit to you. Daddy's lead your family, Apostle Paul said about power

to leave. They could leave brothers and sisters, wives, sons and daughters

to have it. They could lead. Can you leave if you need help

this morning? It coming a leader over your family. Could you get an

altar with me and pray? Mommy is if you need help guiding your own

house, bringing them children up in the nurture and defoition of the Lord.

They're following their dear. Let's pray there's somebody in this building. The cry

of your soul is I'm looking for good. I'm looking for it. Yah,

May God bless you. He still raises up leaders, and you will

be lad if you're stopped. Make me army place love you all day,

star shine, don't on me. Let you love shine through me, and

then leave below a hollow anywhere you been up, open love. I want

to be with and the dame with all and y they start shine no home,

Let shine d leave the Lord our father. Anywhere you open love to

love joy games. I've never seen one. I won't the window contain the

all. Baby, Please start shining your own lit you love time we are.

We'll follow where hel be ad will fall. Wherely will father please please

veryly be a wheels allows me will follow, very be we follow. I'll

go queens, I said, yeah, I did for myself, and my

say call a b C and all love me he will be. I'll go

with waiting where we follow beyond hollow, veryly behind will follow. I'll go

with plea. I'll go with him to the dutchment. I'll go with him

the judgment. I'll go Dutch. I'll go with him whez him where we

follow me. Allow, I'll go Awa