Will Work For Food - Bro Nathanael Howell 7-2-2023

Amen. Ain't you thanking for the presence of the Lord thus far? Emen?

I believe he has a He always does have a plan for the service.

Amen. Where he's God. So I don't want to stand in the

way, but I'd rather like to be a health Amen to someone. Amen,

praise God. I thank God for our pastor. We miss him Amen

greatly this morning, Amen, and we're praying for his safe return. Amen.

Of looking forward to the night's service. Amen. How God will help

us there? Um? How many knows what Luca's first Peter three in chapter

first Peter, chapter number three and verse number one is that's I believe that's

where the Bible it said it starts speaking to the wives and said when there'll

be subject. Well, we got in the car this morning. I was

teasing my wife that come on, I said, well, you turn that

off offly quick. She was trying to disconnect the bluetooth. It was just

kind of something comical that happens. I was teasing with teasing her about I'm

gonna tell the church about how how you didn't want to hear that? Amen.

But I hope this morning y'all turned the preacher off. This morning,

y'all listening to what the Lord has I ain't here to hurt nobody. I'm

like, amen to speak to speak to you briefly, hopefully this morning,

unless the Lord wills otherwise. Out of the book of Second Thessalonians. Amen,

we'll look at the book of Second Tessalonians, and in chapter number three

we're gonna read a little bit over in Second Samuel as well. Second Thessalonians

chapter number three, we're gonna begin reading verse number six. When you have

us see a man all right, the Bible the word of the Lord said.

Now we command you, brethren, in the name of the Lord Jesus

Christ, that you withdraw yourself from every brother that walketh this orderly and not

after the tradition which He received of us for yourselves. Know how you ought

to follow us, For we behaved our We behaved not ourselves disorderly among you.

Neither did we eat any man's bread for naught, but wrought with labor

and travail night and day, that we might not be chargeable to any of

you a minute. You would stress your hand toward Heaven, ask God to

help us discord it. God, we thank you for traversing RACI many blessing

Lord God. Lord. We thank you bro that you've God, Lord,

all that you're doing. Lord, we ask that you would help Lord God

and every God Lord said it God about our mouth, after Lord and Jesus

name. We're asking thank you for halle Louis. Amen. I'm rarely one

of those preachers that reach with frogs. Am. I gont letting do this.

They gonna bear with me here, Amen. I'm sure we've all seen

signs like this, Amen, and they're getting Honestly, they're getting fewer and

far between. In the day which we live in. Amen. People have

a handout, Amen, but they're not really looking to do something to better

themselves. Amen. Flip over, we'll be the Second Samuel, chapter number

five. We're gonna read amen, a few verses here that the Lord had

laid on my heart. And it's going to probably seem like, how is

this going to tie together? Amen? But I believe the Lord can tie

this together and help us understand Amen. Something in the world of God.

Second Second Samuel, chapter number five, Verse number twenty two said, and

the Philistines came up yet again and spread themselves from the valley of refee him.

And when David inquired the Lord. He said, thou shalt not go

up, but fetch a compass behind him, and come upon them over against

the mulberry trees. And let it be when thou here's the sound of the

going in the tops of the mulberry trees. That then thou shalt bestir thyself.

For then shall the Lord go up, go out the fort thee to

smite the host of the Philistines. And David did so as the Lord had

commanded him, and smoked the Philistines from Geba until thou come to Gayzer and

man now back over in Thessalonians, will will start. I would consider second

Thessalonians, chapter number three my golden text here and then where the portion,

the main portion of my burden would be, as God directed me into this

sermon. And Apostle Paul, here the mighty pioneer of the gentile frontier is

the one riding here this book of the Abel Thessalonians. A man. He

is writing to a young congregation here, not in age, but a young

congregation in the Lord, and men, these are converts. These are the

converts, Amen. That and you, as you read through here, you'll

see an apostle Paul has almost like a father like burden for these uh,

these children here, that he is desired to impart the necessities of the faith,

in the necessities of the doctrine of the Lord and Savior Jesus Christ.

Some things he felt like he wasn't able to impartner them. And you ask

why is that? And uh, if you read about this this uh here.

The church at Thessalonika was a church that was about one hundred miles from

Philippi. There was an estimated about two hundred thousand inhabitants here in this region,

and there among those was a very strong of Jewish and juday iSER come

community here. And because of this we saw that Apostle Paul became a persecuted,

very old in the birth of the church at Theslonaika. And then we

saw throughout the Bible Paul would pine your churches. Sometimes the Bible showed us

he spent two or three years. Amen. Sometimes he would come and go,

and man saw he made it back to others he never made it back

to never made a return trip. Amen. But here we would find in

this in the Book of Thessalonians, where he had a burden to return and

he would say, pray for me, amen, that I'm able to make

it back to you here. Aman, this is a young congregation, a

congregation Amen, that needs something from the Apostle Paul. But because of persecution,

Amen, there was a separation. Amen, and we miss our pastor.

As I've already said today. Amen, you can kind of feel how

the service is and imagine that being an indefinite situation. Amen. Apostle Paul.

In the church to deathelon Nika, a man experienced a separation very early

on after they had been converted. Amen. And we find he wrote upon

the wrote one epistle unto them, which is the First Tessalonians. And then

and again he had another burden too, writing to them Second Testalonians. And

man were reading in chapter number three. Amen, Paul is instructing them in

regards to how well abled bodied individuals ought to conduct themselves. And I pray,

I want to turn me off. Y'all bear with me here, Amen.

Paul gives here a directive and a commandment. Starting in verse number six,

he said, now we command you, brethren, in the name of

the Lord Jesus Chrift, that he withdraw himself from every brother that walking disorderly,

and not after the tradition which he received of us. Amen. So

Paul here gives them a commandment, a directive a man no different than it

passed to us, to stand up here and say so and so quit doing

this, show us though, quit doing that, a man, You're gonna

enough in trouble if you keep going down that road. Here he tells them,

Amen, to withdraw themselves from a certain type of individual. He intends

for it to be obeyed by everyone that reads this epistle. Amen. And

this should be obeyed by even us in this day and generation. Amen.

We know the Bible that all scripture is profitable for doctrine. Amen. He

shows them an example here he puts them and then to a particular amen,

individual, and it is him and those that were with him. He puts

them in remembrance of the way they conducted themselves. And we know there are

ways and a Christians should conduct themselves a way a Christians shouldn't conduct themselves.

And here and then he's got some people in the church here in this alone

and the thistle and Naga. Amen, they're acting a little bit out of

character. Amen. And they're trying to get a free ride free ride if

you would, Amen. Now we o. The Bible tells us that I'm

trying to live a foundation. Y'all there with me here. We know the

pause character, Amen, And how the Bible would speak of Amen. When

he was at one individual's house, it might have been lydia. He was

a temp maker. Amen. The Bible said he wrote wrought with them in

their occupation. Amen. Apostle Paul wasn't a preacher that would just come through

town, that traveled from a continent the continent, trying to find the next

free ride in the next handout. And there are preachers that used the children

of God as merchandise. And we don't have a pastor like that a man.

But there are preachers that use the children of God as merchandise a man.

It's an easy occupation. They preached once or twice a week a man

in two or three different states, and not to pay the bills, and

they never really hold down a job. A man of their family suffers because

of it. And we know the Bible said he a man that wouldn't provide

for is all his worth? All right, y'all preaching this morning, Amen,

So here he Apostle Paul, is not someone Amen with this kind of

characteristic, but rather he shows them a good work and the Amen. The

Bible said, and they amen, that he wrought with labor and travel night

and day. Amen to day, that he would not be chargeable to anyone.

Amen. If there is a work to do, and the Bible said

he that nought to do good and do it, then not to him it

is sin. Amen. So when you know what to do, you know

how to do it. Amen. If you don't do it, it is

sin. And here he described it as walking disorderly. Amen, Oh,

disorderly with me those who were idle Amen, who were idle people, loving

and unwilling the word you say, that's hard preaching rather than Daniel. Well,

I'll be able to push out around me. Amen. That is what

someone else described it out abe at the yarn. He could be with him.

Amen. So if you're a loafing or unwilling person to work, Amen,

Here you would have been described by Apostle paut a disorderly individual. Amen.

A Truly, there is an order in the house of God, Ayben,

there is an order in the Christian life. Maybe we know we should

pray, we know he should read, we know we should work in the

occupation that God has given us, and then with diligence and putting everything in

it here. And that's if you're walking outside of those boundaries, you are

a disorderly individual. And if you're a love for a praise God. All

that seems like a heart preaching this morning, Amen, But it's okay,

Amen, if you're willing to change. Because Apostle Paul here is preaching to

some people, Amen, that he realizes that they need Amen to make improvement.

Amen. And we all need to make improvement, all of us do,

Amen, even whether it's in one area or another. Amen. And

we know that he would tell them later on in this chapter. Amen,

treat him not as an enemy, but admolished him as a brothers. Do

here this morning. I'm not come to treat anyone like an enemy, Amen.

But the burden of my heart wouldn't be to admolish us. Amen.

That there is work to be done. Amen. Although Apostle Paul advocates the

church Amen, to help those that need assistance, nowhere do we find him

instructing the church to give money or food to the well abled. Amen.

So there he is something we all can do. Amen. And we must

use that which we've been given, Amen, properly. We must use that

that we've been giving Amen. I because stewards. I mean, we know

of the Bible that talked about the Lord that would turn into the far country,

Amen, to receive a kingdom to himself. And then and he gave

even the three servants, one would multify five, and the tailor, aymen,

another would take the death of the Lord had given him, and then

there would be a profit. And many there was one individual. The Bible

said he wrapped it in the handkerchief and hid it. And the Bible said

that the Lord was theory displeased when he come again, saying, you know,

I wrote where I had not labored up. Man. He was basically

saying, you go, man, I was gonna be expecting something in return.

I entrusted this to you. And God entrust us with things, children,

He entrusts us with health, He entrust something, and to be good

members of the congregation. He entrusted us to be good witnesses in the world.

We've got to uphold or into the parking lot. And God gives us

something, we must be some wata ay Man. That's a good steward of

the word Amen God, now here and men, we didn't read down this

farm, but first number eleven said, for we hear that there are some

which walk among you disorderly, working not at all, but the busy bodies.

And then so here that people Paul is talking to. Amen. They're

able to walk around, they're able to talk and communicate. Amen. But

they're just being busybodies. Amen, they're not really working. And you asked,

Amen, preach your high how are you gonna tie this in together?

Amen? What are you even preaching on? Amen? My side hope it

was blue number one. Amen, we'll work for food. Amen. So

there's there's people that that freeload and the load Amen, Preach God. Amen.

Old brother Bary could say there's work to be done. There's work to

be done, right Aman. If there is work to be done, as

I've said, he that knows to do good and do it and not to

him and his see, and then when I was a child, and then

a steel and then we'll hear it. If you see if he's a candy

rapper in the churchyard, you've been down and pick it up, hey,

man, if you see it can lay it out by the volleyball pool when

nobody's around. Aymen, you pick it up. There's some things we know

that are good things to do. We know, ay, been there there

what we should do, But then we failed to realize the importance of just

how it can't affect us spiritually. You say that can't affect me, Yes,

it can. It's the small foxes that full divide, the Bible said,

and those small foxes will create even bad habits. And you're lito,

Amen, Overlooking the sin will turn Amen to grossness of immorality if you don't,

Amen, of hold the word of God. There was health delivered to

the saint. Amen. Apostle Paul here is telling them. I've heard about

those better loafing. I've heard about those bet are contributing. I've hearn it.

I thought that aren't really committed. I feel the Lord here this morning.

Maybe there is something to do. Maybe we can't up the church expecting

the free ride, expecting the free mill. Have it. Not pray all

we go, but come expecting God to bless sizes of Yes, God and

bled enough in the stare. He has more than enough for all who are

hungry, Oh, who are thirsty, get coming to him, and they

shall be filled without money, without prisa. They remember, give God willing.

They ain't sumitta God, and kill your party. Man. Now Here

it means where I would like to try to tie these two together. They

mean Second Samuel, chapter number five and verse twenty four said, and let

it be when now here's the sound of a going in the tops of the

moulberry trees, that then thou shalt bestir thyself for them, shall the Lord

go out before they despite the host of the Philistines. Here in this chapter

there are two battles found. Amen. And there are no doubt some of

the beginning of the prosperity of King David. Amen. As God would begin

to establish his reign over unified Israel. Amen. He calls up until this

point, and throughout the Bible we've seen Israel Amen would divide. At one

point David was king over the tribes of Judah, Amen, but not over

all twelve tribes. And here Amen, the Bible talked about how Israel would

come Amen, and they would make a league with David. Amen. And

then after this league Amen, God, Amen, the two battles kind of

came into fruition, Amen, And we saw God proof that Israel. Amen.

That God was going to use David to lead them to victory in their

battle. They now there are things though God tells us to do, and

things we know to do. God tells David here, I'm going to take

care of it. But when you hear me beginning to move, you better

bestir thyself is what he said, direct quote, bestir thyself. And then

there are people that will sit back and let opportunity pass them by. And

then when God has promised them victory and simply because they don't want to put

forth a little bit of effort, and then they want everything handed them on

a silver platter. Every hear God has hand to David a beautiful victory.

Amenbody's telling there's something you're gonna have to do. Yes, there's been a

time of waiting where you sat in the bullberry trees listening. Amen. But

now when you begin to hear amen, be on the move. You must

bestir yourself a man. You must get after it. Praise God, Oh

God. Sometimes they are bad habits in our lives, in ways that we

conduct ourselves that hider us from getting victory. And until we take the appropriate

action here, amen, we're not going to see the victory God a lock

to give us. Amen. We're coming down to the wire of convention.

Amen. And here Amen, I would like you to consider convention. Amen.

As I preached this morning. Amen, We're coming down Amen to a

time when Bethel does experience if you would have increased the workload. Amen.

There's time when we're praying at the altar for hours. There's time when we're

in the fellowship hall. Amen, it's time to take out the trash.

There's times amen, when us walking through the church on and you simply see

a piece of trash. Amen. And here we're gonna experience the workload that

is increased. But it must Amen. It is gonna take her and one

hundred percent Amen. Participation. Amen. We can't come and do convention expecting

to be fed and leave all fat and sassy without giving forth a little bit

of effort. And I know that the little differ got to preach this morning

and then, but I have a burden, a sincere burden to tell you,

Amen, when his time Amen, to do what God has us to

do. We can't be disorderly. May be there He is a lord to

the service. There is a norder to clean up, there is a horder

to service the food. Amen. And here's the Church of God. They

in the House of God. There'll be time to which visitors have come Hungria

then come with burdens maybe and maybe that's you this morning. They would take

preacher, I need something from the Lord. I need help. My friend,

is you optunitia and been to take action? And I encourage those here.

And then when they realize someone's praying, when someone's needn't gonna touch from

God, they wouldn't sit there and look a bada, but they wouldn't realize

I got don't learn from my bread. I've got to contribute somehow. I've

got to commit myself to God, submitting my ways under heel. Then let

it get work in my life. Amen. Oh God, Man, Well

I can hit a bunch of these this morning. Man, when it's time

to wash the dishes, help with the clean up, a man, And

so you have the nerve to just sit there and Amen? What about Amen?

If you say so and so caught me in a conversation. Amen,

Well that's real simple him And what upon the Paul tell you he said the

part Amen, just behind the breakaway. I'm sorry, brother, I've got

to go take out the trash even y'll say, hey, Mayben, Then

that seemed a little a little, a little far fett. It is untiling

you. You feel like, oh, don't be rooted by lead the conversation

and been my friend. If it's not a visitor point out their heart looking

for God. Amen, it was just a shoot the priest conversation. Amen.

Let me tell you your conversation takes second fit Awaymen to the work that

is being required. Amen. The work that is in progress must always,

Amen, take priority because there he is an order here. May if David

had an opportunity to sit there, Amen, or he had an opportunity to

stir himself fava, Amen, to realize I've got to do something. Amen,

I've got to commit, I've got the worker, I've got to do

my party. Then, oh God, a man, I hope brother,

when you hear the sound of chairs being stacked and then you don't find amen

a conversation to be had, Amen, Praise God, Oh God. Amen,

y'all bear with us word of life. I don't want to offend nobody.

Amen, but there is a big work coming Amen at night. I

couldn't make this up, I promise you I couldn't And as angels, little

people brain dressed this out of the word of God. Amen. I try

to convince you. Amen, we've got to be willing to work. Amen.

Apostle Paul here was very amen, very upset with some people. Amen.

He says, Remember how I work, and we know how Pastor works.

Amen. He works, not stop, always working, always doing something,

always trying to see who needs help, where they need help, how

they need help. Amen. An Apostle Paul puts them in remembrance and says,

Amen, of how I rot with labor and traveled night and day.

Amen, that we might not be chargeable to any of you. Amen,

that there is a work to be done here. Amen. If there is

a coming workload that must be shoulder, we must all individually shoulder. I

wish possibility, Amen, brings God. We all have a share of the

workload. You all have a spiritual and physical and monetary and been obligation to

the work of God. And men, I know that probably unpopular preaching.

Amen. God has promised us though and been certain victory. If we will

be willing to put forth some AfOR and effort the Amen. The Bible said,

muscle up the us and turneth out the corner. They been a david

with someone who they been was a young man who could see the cause.

Amen, a young man. There is a cause. And Amen, there

is a call the young ladies and the ladies there will be and he is

always a cause in the myth of the Word of God. They been he

got glories or clamors. Aymen, the house, yesterday's tomato juice on your

suit. And then because you had to take out the trash. Amen.

But it is a necessant here if the work is gonna go on, you

must be willing to submit up to the authority here. Amen. We must

walk orderly and Amen, submission to God's word. And in another way it

was described as circumspectfully. And then we must walk circumspectfully. Amen. We

must bear one another's burdens. Oh God, we get fed better amen than

any church I know. Amen. But we can't be a freeloader. And

then we have to do our part. And then to be about the father's

business. Amen. We come here, and as pastor preach what no biscuits

when we come here, there's always always especially prepared Amen, word of God

for us in that situation and moment. Amen, it's real easy just to

come here a a man and slide under the wagons pastor and pulling it.

Amen, A not contribute, amember. We must work for our food.

Amen. We must not be a beggar and a lack of barn in God's

kingdom a man. The Bible said, he never seen the righteous forsake it

up, and he never seen the seed begging for prey. A man,

my friend, if you're working, you'll never have to beg If you're putting

in the effort, you'll never be found lacking. Amen. If you'll do

what God said too with a joyful heart, you'll never come out sword or

come outside the work of God. Amen. Apostle Paul here and telling may

be there are your bad examples here, Ay, many, my friend,

don't be a bad example, and that don't be somewhat God, And they

will tell the children separate, get a little distance. You're getting a little

too close to a bad work, I think. Email The Bible says we

must work while it is yet day, and then for the night cometh when

no one can work. And I know this is different this morning, Amen,

but man, it is the burden of my soul. Amen. Praise

God. And I'm coming to a close here. And then the Bible said

he that provided not for his own is worse than an infidel. But it

goes on there and it says half, well, God have departed from the

fleet. Amen. So you you, you have departed here from the tradition,

if you would, as Apostle Paul described it, and have not followed

after the tradition which he received of us. Amen. If this is your

home church, Amen, you ought to feel a special burden and have a

desire to do what you can do. Amen, to make sure Aman,

she is well supplied. Amen. Praise God well, Amen, Praise God

for the orld. Cap teach and Amen. This morning talked about those that

would eat food. Amen, come to your table, eat your food and

not contribute, not fall after your customs, and not agree with what you

agree with. Amen. And here we're gonna be pooling as a well organized

machine. We always have always will. Amen. I'm not amen, nitpicking

what I am and abolishing here. Amen, that we would all commit here,

Amen, before it even begins to say, I'll go the extra mile

and then when when someone's not around, I'll be that one. If it

is so, it's old dollar, they've already worked so hard this week out

they been give a little more a man, they been. You want to

know what the post de pointed part of left though they just see will be

and then these altars right here, and man, it's real easy to have

a shouting service. Get our Lord. I'll truggle out of the Holy God,

filling off at assassy and happy in the Lord. Amen. If there

be someone with a burden that's still praying up and if we fail to realize,

Amen, God bless me so I can't give the others. The Bible

said, freely you have received. Now clearly give may been. So they're

burden that they're trevailing, that they're suffering it, they're crying God. Amen,

we must go the extra mile. Ay, Man, we must commit

a man of pray with them. God granted us abundant mercy and has shown

us. Amen. Praise God undeserved favor. That we may be like a

conduif amen to pass it on to others. Amen. The Bible said the

Amen, describing the horrors, and said the fields are wide unto the harvest.

Amen, pray the Lord of the harvest, Amen, that he would

send forth laborers. Amen, We're all laborers. We all have a work

to domember the Jeff, could you come get us a song this morning?

And been. Yes, we've all amen, been in travail. Yes,

we've all struggled. Yes we all Amen. Sometimes feel I was scraping the

bottom of the barrel. Amen. That God will never fail us when we

put forth the effort. Amen. God will never amen let us come short.

Amen when we don't Amen, praise God committed. If we commit to

God, He'll never let us come up short. Amen. Now you say,

I don't really know that God would recognize this, And this is where

I felt like closing here. Amen, we know the Bible beginning to tell

us of the Church of Smyrna, the Church of Thiatira, the Church of

Pergamus. Amen. And he began to describe certain aspects of those churches where

they fell short abn a sum of how Amen they were doing okay in one

area but needed to increase in another. And then when you say, preacher,

God really won't realize Aman, if I go the extra mile, I

beg the gift different Amen. Revelations Chapter two and verse number two said I

know thy works and thy labors and thy patience, and how thou canst not

bear them which you are evil and hast tried them, We say they are

apostles and are not, and has found them liars, and has born and

has patience. Every mind name said, has labored and has not fainted.

Amen. Yes, he went on to tell them, Hey, there's some

improvement in others I've said. Amen. In every Christian life there is room

for improvement. If you feel like you have no room for improvement, Amen,

that you must relook at. You might think a reseelf evaluation and realize.

Amen, there is always room to grow. Amen, in gracing the

knowledge of the Lord and saved of Jesus Christ. Amen. Here God saw

their labor of love, He saw their patience, He saw how they had

worked and not fainted. And men, and God knows our labor, and

he knows our lack of it. Oh God, He's looking for people with

a servant's heart. Amen, that will work for him while it is yet

day, Oh God, yesternight comments when no man shall work, Oh God,

you would stand this morning. The Bible over and over. A second

dosalone is chapter number three, where we read verse number eight said, neither

do we eat any man's breath for naught? Oh God, this word not

here means without a cause or in vain. And we're all fed a portion

of the Word of God every Sunday morning, Sunday night, Wednesday night,

and musings Amen, little Amen, encouragement Amen, through text messages or however

it may be a mean But us must not be someone that's eaten it for

naught. And men, there is a work to be done here a man,

we have the bread of life, been divided in healthy portions. Amen.

The Bible described the time that would come Amen, and the children of

God, when there would be amen, a lack Amen, the lack of

the word of God, a lack of knowledge, they would perish because they

didn't have Amember. Here we have more than enough. And then if we're

wealth supplied, Ammber, we must work for our food. We can't get

a free ride. I mean, if you would come in this morning and

pray and been realized that the labor is great, Amen, but the harvest

is plentiest and been God withlife encrypt some of us. Amen, to do

the world that is ahead. And then there are people coming him and desires

of something from God. Amen. We must be the labors in his vineyard.

And then we must be one that would give of ourselves amen for God's

glory and free this morn not my dream. Now Lord, in your own

time only and make as change me. Lord, don't let me stay the

same. I want to be more like you. Won't take my life,

my life all that wanted to be, change me, Change me, dear

Lord, will change me? Lord, or change me? Lord, don't

land misnay the same, for I want to be or like you. Won't

chake my life and make my life all you wanted to be more prease change

we change Lord? When our diffciree, it's sweezy, just see change me

Lord, to be just alie you. And when and you begin to break

and boom my life again, do you say change me? He comes harder

you do change belong? Or change belong? Oh lady, be staying the

same, for I want to be like you. I wan't take my life

make mine, Oh that you wanted to be be? Change change me all

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