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The over these - Bro Nathanael Howell 7-30-2023

Bethel Holiness Church - Sunday Morning Services

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  1. Amen, praised God turned to the Book of Saint John. I'd like to

  2. say, we certainly miss our pastor Amen. An well, thank for our

  3. fathers here though man a blessed Trinity, a member. We missed our shepherd,

  4. Amen, certainly missed our shepherd sister. How all those that are out,

  5. Amen, we've missed them. Prayers for their safe return, Amen,

  6. Thank you God. We're going to the last chapter in the Book of Saint

  7. John. Amen, Champion number twenty one. Amen, as throughout the week,

  8. this this thought, the Lord had laid this thought on my heart and

  9. mean it originated in our co texts. And we'll go there. Amen.

  10. Hereafter Saint John wants we prayed, but it just stuck with me. I

  11. know God, Amen, has laid this on my heart, and I hope

  12. Amen, I can get it across the way he would have me get across

  13. him. Man, you know we're mortals. Amen. So, but if

  14. we can become Amen of oracle, Amen, someone God can speak through Amen,

  15. that that is our desire. Amen. Saint John twenty one, beginning

  16. in verse timber fifteen, Amen, We're gonna read through seventeen. A man

  17. fifteen starting says so when they had died. Jesus saith to Simon Peter,

  18. Simon, son of Jonas, love us down me more than these. He

  19. saith unto him. Yea, Lord, thou knowest that I loved thee.

  20. He saith undo him, Feed my lambs. He saith under him again.

  21. The second time, Simon, son of Jonas, love us down me.

  22. He saith under him. YEA, Lord, thou knowest that I loved thee.

  23. He saith under him. Feed my sheet. He saith under him the

  24. third time, Simon, son of Jonas, love us down me. Peter

  25. was greed because he had said under him the third time, lovest thou me,

  26. and he said unto him, Lord, thou knowest all things. Thou

  27. knowest that I loved thee. Jesus saith under him. Feed my sheep.

  28. A man, if you would stress your hand towards heaven, ask God to

  29. help us this morning. God, We thank you for your mercy, your

  30. grace, Lord, this opportunity. Lord. We don't take it lightly.

  31. God. It is of the utmost and florest and seriousness. God, Lord,

  32. we thank you for your presence that we felt this morning. God,

  33. we asked that you would bind the hiddence of the adversary God, the afflictions

  34. of the adversphary God, help us overcome the obsta course. Lord God annored

  35. me to say nothing more and nothing less than that what you would have me

  36. say. Let me speaks your oracle. God. Lord God said a guard

  37. about my mouth, and I would only say that that you would have me

  38. nothing more, nothing less. Bless thy people, God, Lord, speak

  39. to us. Help us in the altar. Serve, Does God make yourself

  40. real to us in Jesus Holy name. We're asking him, praying and thanking

  41. you for it. Praise God. Amen, you may be seated in the

  42. house of the Lord. Amen, Praise God. Flipping the psalm chapter number

  43. thirty one, Aman, let's read Praise God over there at verse number twenty

  44. three, Praise God. Psal I'm thirty one and twenty three. Amen to

  45. the chief musician, a psalm of David. Amen, he wrote, blessed,

  46. Oh let's see where we had here, So I'm thirty one and twenty

  47. one. Blessed be the Lord, for he has shoot be his marvelous kindness

  48. in a strong city. Amen. Praise God. And then going on down

  49. to twenty three, it said, Oh, love the Lord, all ye

  50. his saints. Amen. Now we know David's life when he was Amen,

  51. no doubt a man that lived a hard, hard life Amen, probably harder

  52. than most people live nowadays. And there was many times he was running for

  53. his life. Amen. Many times he was fleeing for people that wanted to

  54. do him hurt for no good reason. Amen. But he would say,

  55. oh, love the Lord all ye his saints. Amen. Our text here

  56. has found Amen. In the last chapter of the Book of Saint John,

  57. the author is a man praised God, identified indirectly as the disciple whom Jesus

  58. loved. Amen. A lot of us know who that is. If you're

  59. a Bible reader, that would be John, the son of Zebedee, that

  60. disciple who was always in close proximity to the Lord. Amen, in a

  61. part of what you could consider almost seemingly the inner circle, those three that

  62. made up Jesus's inner circle. Amen, James, Peter, and John.

  63. Amen. So here the son of Zebedee, John is writing to us,

  64. and he tells us, if you flip over just one chapter, Amen,

  65. you could see there just at the last verse here that he wrote in chapter

  66. number twenty. He gives us the reason why he had written this book,

  67. And I said, but these are written that ye might believe that Jesus is

  68. the Christ, the Son of God, and that believing ye might have life

  69. through his name. Amen. Y'all believe life is in his name this morning.

  70. Amen. There is no name given under heaven. Amen, whereby we

  71. may be saved. Amen. And that is the name John is writing to

  72. promote here, and he pinned down in his last chapter. Amen, basically

  73. the Amen, the benediction of his gospel. Here he pins down just in

  74. these last few verses are very important and needful. Amen. An encounter and

  75. account of something that happened with Jesus and the disciples. Amen. We know

  76. of Peter and how he had fallen. We know how he had denied the

  77. Lord three times. When we see there Amen, in the verse beginning to

  78. talk about Amen seventeen, Peter being grieved because he had asked him the third

  79. time. Amen, as no doubt this was probably in reference to Jesus reminding

  80. him. Amen, as all Amen. A well equipped position will do when

  81. you go in the hospital. Amen, They're gonna find where it hurts,

  82. right, They're gonna stir up those feelings of pain. Amen. If Jesus

  83. here begins to put him and remembers, Amen, where he had fallen no

  84. doubt, and he said it did grieving. Amen. But his response was

  85. beautiful. He said, Lord, Amen, thou knowest all things. And

  86. if anybody don't stop there, he still don't doubt his love for Jesus.

  87. And he says, Amen, thou knowest that I loved the email. So

  88. I'm thankful. Amen. This morning we can know we love the Lord.

  89. Amen. I'm gonna give you some context before we get started here. Amen.

  90. Our text begins as Peter tells six of his fellow disciples. An,

  91. I go a fishing Amen. This is the beginning of chapter number twenty one.

  92. Amen. He speaks Sister Thomas, Nathaniel, Amen, James and John

  93. the Son's obxevity, and the Bible says two other disciples. Amen. And

  94. those disciples response was we go with the also. Amen. So they all

  95. go and they go out fishing, and we know the child's song. They

  96. fished all night Amen, but they caught no fishing. Amen. There's nothing

  97. more frust grading Amen, the fishing all night and not catching anything. Amen.

  98. So I'm sure they've had a rough night. Amen. And they come

  99. to the state the day begins to dawn, and there's a man standing on

  100. the seashore. Amen. And he asked them, children, have you any

  101. meat? Amen. The Bible doesn't say you they give him a linked their

  102. response. Amen. The Bible says they simply answered him no. Amen.

  103. Amen. Somebody asked me, after fishing all night, I bought you a

  104. little short too. No, I got nothing. Amen. So here they

  105. answer him a simple answer no. And he said, unto them, cast

  106. on the right side of the ship. Aman. And we know they ended

  107. up nanny. I believe it was one hundred and fifty three fish Amen,

  108. and one neat, but a miracle, two miracles and multitude of fish Amen,

  109. and the net didn't break. Amen. We know of how Peter jumped

  110. overboard and swam to the Lord to be the first there. Amen. And

  111. how Jesus would later send it back to help out with the nets. Amen.

  112. How many sons out to a good day of fish to try to leave

  113. their brothers with it. Amen. Anybody the priest God Amen, So Jesus

  114. here sends Peter back. Amen. He says, amen, go bring him

  115. that fish to thou hast caught. Amen. And they come and they have

  116. a meal with Jesus. Amen, no doubt they are reminiscing of the times

  117. he had taken Amen, just a few fish and fad Amen a multitude.

  118. Here they have a multitude of fishes. Amen. But Jesus already had something

  119. on the grill, I believe, Amen. And they said he fed them

  120. bread and fish, and he break it. Amen. I'm sure that we

  121. know of the disciples on the Damascus road and said, when he prayed and

  122. break the bread, Amen, they realized to what was Jesus. I believe

  123. honestly in my heart there was a unique way the Lord would give out the

  124. meals Amen, and drill over them and bless them and break them. So

  125. I'm sure they were enjoying seeing Amen, that characteristic of the Lord as he

  126. began to open Amen, the bread to them and distribute food. Amen.

  127. Now a wonderful life, blessing, it says. So when they had died,

  128. Jesus saith under the of the Simon Peter. Amen. Anybody get that

  129. first part. Amen. Jesus said waited after they eat Amen, to hit

  130. him with the hard stuff. Amen. Praise God. He waited until they

  131. were fat and sasty. Amen. I believe that the good trait Amen.

  132. Why anybody's eat and the man, let him enjoy the or food. Amen,

  133. let him get fat and sassy. Amen. I'm then amen, if

  134. you got something to say, Amen saying Amen, y'all haven't been to one

  135. of the business means. I just went to a three day audit Amen,

  136. ten hour days. And oh it seemed like they really turned up. After

  137. lunch time. Amen, they'd be asking amen, skirt around the bliss questions,

  138. and then they would take those questions and redirect them directly. Amen.

  139. After everybody got fat and sassy. Amen, on me folk bradis Amen.

  140. So here Amen, Jesus begins to get to the heart of the matter.

  141. Here, and this is where my burden is. Amen. Verse fifteen says

  142. Jesus saith on the him. Amen. So when they dined, Jesus saith

  143. under Simon, Peter Simon, son of Jonas, love us down me more

  144. than these Amen. So here Jesus gets to the heart of the issue.

  145. Amen. To the heart of the matter, and the heart of the issue,

  146. and every Christian's life Amen is in fact the heart. Amen. Love

  147. is defined by the word Amen, by these words, an intense feeling of

  148. deep affection. Amen. And I have to lay a foundation here. Amens,

  149. I pray y'all with bear with me. Amen. So First John Amen

  150. four and seven. Amen four tenth of number four seventh through twelve. I

  151. want to read this before we get too far in this Amen. So love

  152. is defined through words by an intense feeling of deep affection. Amen, But

  153. it is defining in action by First John four seventh through twelve and seven.

  154. Loved. Let us love one another, for love is of God. And

  155. everyone that loveth is born of God, and knoweth God. He even loveth

  156. not. Amen, knoweth not God, poor God is love? If this

  157. was manifest the love of God toward us, because that God sent is only

  158. begotten sign into the world that we might live through him. Herein is love,

  159. Not that we loved God, but that He loved us and sent his

  160. son to be the propitiation. Amen for our sins we loved. If God

  161. so loved us, we are also to love one another. Amen. Praise

  162. God. Now men have seen God at any time. If we love one

  163. another, God bretherin us, Amen, And His love is perfected in us.

  164. Praise God. We know. Amen. Of one of the most famous

  165. If you would scriptures of the Bible. Amen. John three and sixteen written

  166. Amen by the same author. Amen of our text this morning and said for

  167. God so loved the world that he gave his only begotten son, Amen,

  168. that whosoever would believe in him should not perish, but have everlasting live.

  169. Amen. Now, this world's definition of love is Amen, to praise God,

  170. to have someone tell them what they want to hear. And this world's

  171. definition of love is Amen, I have me go love you religion. Amen.

  172. This world's definition of love is let me do whatever I want to do.

  173. Amen. But this is not the love. Amen. That is that

  174. is a true and a real love. Here a man Jesus begins Amen to

  175. ask Peter some hard questions. Amen. He begins to get to the heart

  176. of the matter, and Saint Peter, Amen, what's really gonna matter here?

  177. Amen? Is it that you jumped out of the boat first? Amen?

  178. It ain't amen that you have. Amen. We're winning the fish all

  179. night. You got that kind of tenacity. Aven. The heart of the

  180. issue here he is a Peter to you love me? Huh. Amen,

  181. you said brieviously you loved me up. Amen. You said the Lord of

  182. men would forsake me. I would not forsake you. Amen, you said

  183. your day, Amen with me to the cross. She said, you would

  184. go with me to troubles and trials. Amen. The when they amen,

  185. when he got harder and life began to test you, and ben you love

  186. begain they meant to be try to it was found not to be the death

  187. of you out and then portrayed it her even we all know sometimes they are

  188. limitations to our love. We all know sometimes may and we need more that

  189. just a matter verbal. We need more to just a matter be Never wanna

  190. say I have it a death feeling. I have a deep perfection, but

  191. we must have an action that goes along with a live May and we can't

  192. say that and I'm living her. Maybe we can't pretendular and I have it

  193. that side. We all have some form of love even that we displayed.

  194. And he could probably best the more most acrid leer and then be identified by

  195. that whichween put our timing too. And then he said, hey, I

  196. put my most of my time into the jobb Amen, excluding those things you

  197. have to do, Amen, looking at those things you want to do,

  198. those hobbies, those things, Amen, that you just getting thrill out of

  199. those things and really get your clock ticking now, Amen, And here Jesus

  200. is asking him. And then we all know Peter's background. We all know

  201. where Peter come from. A we all know where the son dos Emity come

  202. from. A. Amen. These men were fisher Amen, huh Amen.

  203. And here they had already had one to encounter with the Lord. They had

  204. had another Amen, the man's own experience. And until they knew Jesus wasn't

  205. about. Amen. And we know sometimes and services and Amen, Jesus is

  206. in our midst Amen, but too many times, and we don't have a

  207. focused love on what he's trying to do. Amen. And here Peter went

  208. fishing. God, they've been knowing the Lord was somewhere and could be visiting

  209. somewat And then we got Pea with a rather do they go down to the

  210. lake on Sunday knowing the Lord is about and knowing the Lord they visit somewhat

  211. And then we've got pe with a rather right there in TVs. And then

  212. on Sunday rather than go to the house of the Lord. And then what's

  213. wrong with this world and what it's wrong with the work with God? They're

  214. lacking a love because a love would put aside sold a real Lord would put

  215. us life you desires a real Lord, and then let you classify that what

  216. you want to do, and then do that what you need to do.

  217. They've been trying to get it. They've been past the foundation here they been.

  218. Second Timothy fur Untin sent for demons all what an infamous character of the

  219. Bible down? What an infamous Amen. He's borderline Praise God, God uh

  220. celebrity status in the House of God, because he is often used to reference

  221. dot Guan. That's just they ain't got it no more. They ain't got

  222. the love no more. And sent for demon's health for shaking me. Amen,

  223. not because Amen. Praise God of anything. Amen, Praise God.

  224. He didn't leave the mission field because he had to go attend the funeral.

  225. He didn't leave the mission field an apostle Paul here, Amen because urgent business

  226. called him away, or because he got a change, Amen, and directed

  227. from the Lord. But he left because he loved this present world. Amen,

  228. and is departed unto fessel Anika and men. Now, as I studied

  229. here, I began to feel promptly to look up the meaning of this word

  230. fessel at night. God never done that, Amen. But it means victory

  231. of falsity. Amen, And imagine someone and it's so many of the treach

  232. world that didn't do this very thing, and then they leave their love for

  233. God, and then they go and hold on to falsity, and then they

  234. leave true religion on divide, which is this is the Bible does divide.

  235. Amen, those kinds of things, but they begin to get pulled away by

  236. their own lost time and they lose their love and man teams. Here was

  237. a Missionaria, he was a militant disciple. He was someone that put it

  238. all of the lighter, someone that practice suit case and till the treacherous sees

  239. someone that it ain't been either of our seen aven for the sake of the

  240. Lord. Maybe some lord that risk Amen, a one of disease for the

  241. Lord. You said even now, Yes, my friend, he's someone that's

  242. done much more. Ain't be the meeting people with the church working day,

  243. ain't got the truth is and the sigh and the brought about it is deep

  244. A second him because he's been a li with the world. What about victory

  245. the first City? Oh God, I mean we're all here today, Amen,

  246. prise gone it. We've all seen men, friends and family turned their

  247. back and eye. I pray I can get through this and help somebody.

  248. I mean, Peter spoke truly when he said, man, thou knowest some

  249. speak professions of faith and swelling words of passion. Amen. Beer half for

  250. shaking him with her action. Amen. You want this as a simplistic text.

  251. Amen, that lets you know exactly where the Lord stood on this.

  252. Amen. Just turned to John fourteen. Amen to chat and verse number checking

  253. number fourteen of birth number fifteen, and he said, if he loved me,

  254. keep my commandments. Amen. So here he's saying, Amen, those

  255. things that I have bid you to do, Amen, you must do them.

  256. Amen. Here Amen, in the Turk world today, Amen, we

  257. how I don't tell me Amen. Not here in Bethel Amen. But there

  258. he is a bad deceiving spirit of the world today. Amen, that says,

  259. don't tell me what to do. I'm my own person. I don't

  260. know my own destiny. And if nobody tells me, no, my friend,

  261. if you love him, you would kill his commandment. A man of

  262. the Bible said, it's commandments or got to grieve is of God to many

  263. people a day day come of the Lord's commandmentus being pleads, and why because

  264. they have new live ever call the Lord. They haven't live like the one

  265. that lay it all the line. They better left them high deliver. It's

  266. a treat of and man. Do you love me more than trivialities of the

  267. world? Do you love me more than the dances? Do you love me

  268. more than the bars and the clubs? Do you love me more than hobbies?

  269. A man? And weakened pleasures? A man? If you didn't love

  270. me, huh, you would not presave them. Love yourself together as the

  271. manner of dear love that no law. Girl, love me? Oh God,

  272. you're gonna help me this morning. I'm trying to preach on here and

  273. ben the over these there's too many do walls the water, there's too many

  274. have been warm. These ealthy pressures. They hold back the last time I

  275. seize it, and not the perfect lava. I'm a master lived that cares

  276. and on hold, damn it tied up the lady. The Bible says,

  277. even that one that is forgiven much loveth much. Oh God, we all

  278. have been been given morning, and we ever could pay for it, or

  279. as we have, what do we love him? Amen? Much? I

  280. mean? Is our love abundant and a parrot. Amen, not just of

  281. our words, with also our deeds. Amen. Loose sixteen to thirteen said

  282. no servant can serve two masters, but either he will hate the one and

  283. love the other, or else he will hope you the one and despise the

  284. other. You cannot serve God and ma'am and old God. Jesus himself,

  285. our Savior, spoke Amen these words saying God. Amen, you cannot serve

  286. God, and you cannot serve ma'am and hau and men. We also know

  287. the scripture that said, ah, sweet water and bitter. Huh, will

  288. not pull out of the same fountain. H Amen. You will, amen,

  289. lit serve a master huh and hate another. Huh. You will't love

  290. a master and despise another. You can't come here this morning and pertend aymen

  291. that you have it all figured out. You figured out how to walk the

  292. tight rope Amen of Blah the Lord and a tight rope blah bla the world.

  293. There is no such and a thing that exists, even because there is

  294. a cathma that separates Father. They didn't fight up and stand up. It

  295. is a cathom of holiness, shame off, caup gerification up and a live

  296. lived set apart from the Marda. And you can't have the best of both

  297. worlds. I mean, there is no best in the world. There is

  298. no best in the world. Oh God, as I studied and mean this

  299. and ben coming to my heart. You love him with your all, or

  300. you love him none at all. You love him with your awe, or

  301. you love him none at all. And then you say that's hard. Amen.

  302. And it's not the Jesus I serve. Amen, my friend, is

  303. not that. It's not that Jesus you service that you don't serve Jesus.

  304. Amen know, Oh that's that's mean, Brother Nathan Yo, Amen will flint

  305. with me. Amen. Praise God to Matthew chapter number ten. Amen,

  306. Let's see Amen, what the King of Glory had to say about these things.

  307. We Amen, praise God. Think of the Lord. Amen of someone

  308. that loves h say, man, praise God unconditionally. And yes that's true,

  309. Amen, because he has a love of Amen for us that would reach

  310. into the drecth of sena Ammber. When he pulls us out of the direct

  311. of sin, I know what stage of his blissom Amen. With the stitch

  312. of sin on them, he washes him and then brings them. And Amen,

  313. praise God. This is why a man he for both holding us something

  314. and purity. Amen, I praise God the Gord it preached before our pastor.

  315. And at the prodigal son did come home riding down the road with a

  316. pig under his arm. And then now he fell out his feet, he

  317. got clean dollar and then he got restored, and then he became a sign.

  318. Oh God, Matthew Tanner, verse thirty four. He think not this

  319. is Jesus. Just you didn't read. Think not that I'm come to send

  320. peace on the earth. I am not come to sit peace but a sword.

  321. For I have come to send a man invariance against his father, and

  322. a daughter against her mother, and the daughter in law against her mother in

  323. law. A man's souls shall we thee love his own household. He either

  324. loveth father mother more than me is not worthy of me. And he either

  325. loveth son or daughter more than me is not worthy of me. Heither taking

  326. not his cross and following after me is not worthy of me. But he

  327. that findeth his life shall lose it. And he that loses his life for

  328. my sake shall find it. Amen. You say what I said was hard.

  329. No, my friend Jesus here very clearly shows out. Amen, it's

  330. more than just a happy, go lucky realig you now, Amen, we

  331. expect Amen. Praise God. Amen, Praise God, Oh God, Hellelujah.

  332. Amen. This charismatic church world. Amen. They say you can't get

  333. saved Amen, without sending a little bit every day. They say you can't

  334. be perfect, my priyana. The Bible says, true, that's a perfect

  335. man. Pay sunvation, pray, sanctification and pray God. God shut the

  336. little I saw you horrible. I feel that bad. God, Oh loriie.

  337. Do you take your cross willingly and follow him? Or have you been

  338. left? Amen? Praise God. Have you let the backslider's companion doubt didn't

  339. filtrate your mind? Praise God, hallelujah, and the love of typical things.

  340. Amen, began to take hold of Amen in your herder as you begin

  341. to prioritize the present world over the Master and his pre eminence. Oh God,

  342. there's true men in the church world today. And then they charac too

  343. much about what they think. They character much about what someone so fast,

  344. instead a lot about what he said. He said you can't holla, And

  345. that served two masters ay man, you can't holla and that praise God,

  346. serve water and love the other. Louisa running at an area playing for me,

  347. Oh God, I have a burden the priest this morning you did he

  348. like I said, And closing, I ask you this. Do you love

  349. money and built the lucre more than the Messiah and his love? Do you

  350. love the present world more than knowing he is present and which you always do

  351. you love attention from the opposite sex more than you love the alpha and the

  352. omega? Do you love the night life of the far country more than you

  353. love the pride and morning star? You love your hobbies and hang up more

  354. than you love the hell healer? Do you love the liquor more? Don

  355. you love the Liberator? They met Jesus. Ask the man one time where

  356. you go away? A s to mini Amen and went away because they get

  357. out a law to mine and win away end of the preachers. I'm done

  358. with my religion. I'm going with my love for the Lord, only to

  359. find dollar. They got the present world and gave it all up, threw

  360. it all away. Shoot, demons could have had the bisada. And then

  361. I told the bostle Paul, I'm going, I'm going to minister the thessal

  362. Alka. I'm going. I feel called over there, and there's a lot

  363. to do. All the sudden, they meant, the Word of God is

  364. preacher, and they feel called to the Presbyterian Churchill, the Word of God

  365. is preacher, and they feel called to the High Queen House because they don't

  366. have a lot for the Lord. They have a lot for church, and

  367. they have a love for religion. They have a lot for system getting together,

  368. but they lie for the Lord. Amen, being a player. Come

  369. on, brother, I'm preaching is And then with a sincere burden, I

  370. promise you I wouldn't want to hurt a soul. Amen, But I have

  371. no choice but to preach the truth written in the Gospel. And I'm preaching

  372. nothing outside of the bounds of God's holy, divine inspired holy goos functioned and

  373. breathe library. And when we read over in some thirty one twenty three,

  374. Oh love the Lord, and he doesn't exclude anyone. He said, oh

  375. yeah, this saints. I mean, if there's a promise that couples that,

  376. and it said for the Lord preserveth the faithful, Oh God, Oh

  377. God, we go. We also he asked Peter in our text three times

  378. until he was honest. Everybody asked Peter in our text, Well he spoke

  379. honestly. Amen, when the two it really resonated. And I wonder,

  380. Amen, sometimes, I mean, what the pastor would have to do,

  381. amen, to really get it to resonate in you? I mean, what

  382. would the pastor have to do? What extreme would he have to go to?

  383. A mean to really ring that one this Teito Todler, and to really

  384. ring their bail? Amen, Praise God. We know Jesus used this not

  385. only here, Amen to Houston with the with the rooster that crow three times,

  386. or he did not eve three times when the rooster qrow. He used

  387. it here to get his attention and asked him three times. And then there

  388. was a time when he was being called, and I believe he was at

  389. Simon the Tanner's house. A man in the Bible said, Amen, Jesus

  390. showed him a vision a man of things coming out of the heavens and a

  391. sheep. And God spoke to him and said three times, I mean calling

  392. on death, I mean which I've called clean unclean, And it said immediately,

  393. and then Peter realized, I mean, hey, I've been to listen,

  394. and God knows how to speak to us, and God knows what gets

  395. our attention. And here this morning I prayed it. I've said something that

  396. gets your attention. And then Pastor said, there are some converts and men

  397. in his pastoral ministry, and men, then you will believe you remember this.

  398. And I've I mean, I've been a part amen of this ministry now

  399. for probably mean maybe a little over fourteen years. Amen. It with my

  400. own eyes. I beheld those amen that professed amen, but did not possess

  401. Amen. And he said, oftentimes he would say, Amen, everyone all

  402. over the house say I'm madly in love with Jesus. And he said he

  403. could see those that had hesitance about saying it because they true, they didn't

  404. possess that love. And I could tell you, flat footed, if you

  405. don't have a maddening love for Jesus this morning, you have not what I

  406. have, Amen, Because I have something that would carry Amen. This old

  407. I praise God, whatever you want to call me, asparagus or whatever they

  408. had called me, he'd carry this old skinny. Preach your boy out there

  409. in the churchyard. Amen. I put his neck on a blood splattered chopped

  410. flock. Amen, from my savior, I tell my sick head and I

  411. my tad. Amen of that right there nicked you in the heart. You

  412. may just be who I am preaching too. You may just need I'm not

  413. saying you back slid. Amen. I'm not saying you falling away. But

  414. what I'm saying he is Amen. Maybe you need a priority adjustment amens,

  415. something that helps you Amen, refocused and reconnecting. Amen. Maybe you need

  416. another trip to the author. Amen, stand all over the house this morning.

  417. I thank you for Amen praying, and I'm gonna ask if we have

  418. a praying church in the altar service, Amen, because I feel God is

  419. working in hearts. I feel his conviction here. Amen, and I Amen.

  420. Have a desire Amen to see sol saved. Amen. But he even

  421. more sober in closing first John two and fifteen said, love not the world.

  422. Friend, He's talking to you, and this world is transcendent, transcendent

  423. generations, millions and billions of people. But he's speaking to you this morning.

  424. And he said, under you, love not the world, neither the

  425. things that are in the world. Why, well, you see, if

  426. any man loved the world, the love of the Father is not in him?

  427. Or do you love the pleasures of sin more than you love him?

  428. Would you choose these this present world? Amen? The laugh at the picnic

  429. teable would you choose? Amen? The snicker amen behind Amen, the church

  430. parking lot Amen. Would you choose the laugh in the public school? Amen?

  431. Hallway, Amen. Adult. Would you choose amen? Praise God that

  432. friendship that you know is going to bring you in the condemnation for a promotion.

  433. Amen. Would you choose things that would jeopardize your love and your connection

  434. with the Savior? Amen? Or would you choose him? A man every

  435. day? That's why some Sundays the safe when I choose him every day and

  436. all over again? Why because he first loved me? Even anyone feel the

  437. need to pray. I mean, I'd like to give you a chance to

  438. come and be honest. I mean, I haven't condemned anyone this morning,

  439. and in saying you're unsaved, I don't know. I'm not a poop,

  440. I'm not I'm anna sigh, I'm not nothing. I mean I'm a worm,

  441. a dog, the lost of these. And then when I know I

  442. would love to grow with the Lord, I know I would love to grow

  443. stronger and then because we pray this morning. As they begin to sing,

  444. I mean, I know God wants to working hunts. Oh let it work

  445. this morning, Oh honey. I'll Tacheesus every time he means hard to be

  446. the world you see, there's no going you need my mind. I'll Tacheesu

  447. s everytime I take Jeus. I'll take Cheesesus. I'll take Jeesu say every

  448. time he needs hard to be than the world. You see, there's no

  449. gute you need my mind. Cheus say times. I'll take cheess little ship

  450. every time he means more to me and the world you see, there is

  451. local Western in my mind, I'll take Jesus. Time stumping through my life

  452. and the choices either had made, looking to the left and right so hard

  453. to find my way, coming to a cross road where I called a glimpse

  454. of him sever your reaching now to me with hands and for my seeing,

  455. and over real love was shown on across the valry. I decided then and

  456. there the choice was clear to the I'll take Jesus, take us. I'll

  457. take jesusy time he means for to me and the world you see, bearing

  458. uncle Western in my mind, I'll take Jesus. Time would it for fortune?

  459. Tea should rise up like a son, shine to brite on the promises

  460. befall, I could become lording hands of comfromise could offer a wealth fame,

  461. tempting me to turn around denine Jesus name will I either be war man and

  462. had riches and the truth without a sick and call. Let me tell you

  463. what I do. I'll take Jesus. I'll take Jesus. I'll take Jesus

  464. every time, taming for to me and the world you see here in local

  465. question in my mind, I'll take Jesus every time. What if opportune to

  466. teach should rise up like a sun and shine shall bride the promises of all,

  467. I could become lording hands are calm, improvise could offer a wealth and

  468. fame, tempting me to turn around to nine Jesus name will. I'd rather

  469. be a poor man and have riches in the truth without a second though.

  470. Let me tell you what I do. I'll take Jesus. I'll take Jesus.

  471. I'll take Jesus every time he needs poort to me and the world you

  472. see very local westioned my mind, I'll take Jesus every time, stumbling through

  473. my life and all the choices I have made, looking to the ride,

  474. and there so hard to find my way, coming to her cross roof where

  475. I called a glimpse of him to save your reaching out to me with hands

  476. and for my sin over read love Shan. Then on a cross of Cowy,

  477. I decided the day the choice was clearing me out. Take Jesus.

  478. I'll take Jesus. I'll take Jesus sin every time. Oh he mean for

  479. to me and the world. You see, there's go question in my mind.

  480. I'll take Jesus every time. I