The Wolf Within - Bro Jesse Howell 8-16-2026

Jesus.

Well, I certainly appreciate the spirit of the Lord and

the service that we've had thus far. It's just been

a wonderful presence of God. I want to say, we

miss our pastor so very much. Amen. I miss my Pastor.

I love him. I miss my mother. I love her dearly. Amen.

All that they do for the church, I just appreciate

them so much. I wonder if I have to get

some brothers to help me too, maybe two brothers.

She read some scriptures for me. Amen. Brother Nathaniel honored

our pastor this morning. Amen.

And I just love that, appreciate the Lord. I believe

that the service has been wonderful. I've been studying. I've

been studying. I'm not going to preach along those lines tonight.

I feel like the Lord directed me in a different way.

But Brother Nathaniel was talking about not letting the journey

detour detour you or amen, or turn you aside.

And I've been studying there. Amen.

And then I was up late Saturday night and studying

along the lines of Jesus when he set his face

stead fast to go to Jerusalem, Amen, knowing what was

waiting for him, knowing the things.

That would that would that that would that would.

Happen and transpire while he was there still, he set

his face to go to Jerusalem.

Amen.

And I was up quite late studying that, and I

really felt like that's the direction that we would go

today or this evening. And I and uh, right when

I when I got my message done, it's in here.

I could preach it, but I just really don't feel

like that's the way God wants me to go. I

have that completed message in here in my notebook. And

I got into bed and my wife was already in bed.

The kids were asleep, and I told her goodnight, I

gave her a kiss, and I laid my head down.

As soon as I laid my head down, I felt

the Lord speaking to my heart something, and I say, well,

maybe that's just me, you know, maybe that's just me.

It was completely contrary and completely different that what I had.

So I said a little prayer, said, God, if that's you,

just let.

Me remember that in the morning.

Just keep it with me throughout the night, and when

I wake up, let it pop back into my head.

And I slept solid through the night. Me and brother

Philip had put a good day of work in on

Saturday over at a project that Pastor had us Amen

working on, and Sunday morning this morning, rather as soon

as I woke up, the first thing I thought of

was I remembered that thought, Amen, that I had last night.

And then Brother Nathaniel came in here and was preaching,

and it's just just I want to.

I want to. I want to preach what God wants

me to preach. Amen. I want to preach along the

lines that He would have me to preach. Amen.

So I want to turn for a golden text here

tonight to the Book of Genesis, chapter number twenty seven.

Love or love my pastor so very much. We miss him.

Hope they're doing wonderful him and our first lady. I

want to say thank you to Pastor for the opportunity

to preach here in his pool pit and in the

work that he's established here through the power of God. Amen.

Thank you to you all for your giving. May God

richly bless you, Amen, for all that you've done for

His people. Genesis chapter number twenty seven. Brother Nathaniel, would

you read Matthew chapter number twenty six, Verse number sixty

nine through seventy three. Brother Samuel, do you have that

other microphone. Matthew, chapter number seven and verse number fifteen. Please, brother,

brother Nathaniel Matthew twenty six sixty nine through seventy three, Please,

my brother.

Now Peter sat without in the palace, and a damsel

came unto him, saying, thou also was Jesus of Galilee.

But he denied before them all, saying I know not

what thou sayest. And when he was gone out into

the porch, another maid saw him and said, unto the

that was there, this fellow was also with Jesus of Nazareth.

And again he denied with an oath, I do not

know the man. And after a while came unto him

they that stood by, and said to Peter, surely thou

also art one of them? For thy speech, bewrath thee.

There was one thing that betrayed Peter. There was one

thing that gave Peter away, Amen, And that was his speech.

That was his voice, the way he talked.

Brother Samuel, would you read Matthew, chapter number seven and

verse number fifteen, My brother, beware of false prophets which

come to you in sheep's clothing, but inwardly they are

raven wolves.

Amen.

We're going to try to tie this all in together

this evening. It might not make sense, but hopefully, with

the Lord's help, will tie it all in and we'll

get the whole cake. Here amen, Genesis, chapter number twenty seven.

It's going to be a few verses here. I feel

like the Lord wants me to read a little bit here.

Verse number six is where we'll start. And Rebecca spake

unto Jacob, her son, saying, behold, I heard thy father

speak unto Esau, thy brother, saying bring me venison and

make me savory meat that I may eat and bless

THEE before the Lord before my death. Now, therefore, my son,

obey my voice according to that which I command thee.

Go now to the flock and fetch me from thence

two good kids of the goats, and I will make

them savory meat for thy father, such as he loveth

and thou shalt bring it to thy father that he

may eat and that he may bless THEE before his death.

And Jacob said to Rebecca, behold, Esau, my brother is

a hairy man, and I am a smooth man verse

number fifteen. And Rebecca took goodly raiment of her eldest son, Esau,

which were with her in the house, and put them

upon Jacob, her younger son. And she put the skins

of the kids of the goats upon his hands and

upon the smooth of his neck. And she gave the

savory meat and the bread which she had prepared, into

the hand of her son Jacob. And he came unto

his father and said, my father, And he said, here

am I who art thou, my son? And Jacob said,

unto his father, I am he Sau, thy firstborn. I

have done according as thou badest me. Arise, I pray

thee sit and eat of my venison, that thou soul

may bless me. And Isaac said unto his son, how

is it that thou hast found it so quickly, my son?

And he said, because the Lord, thy God brought it

to me. And Isaac said, unto Jacob, come near, I

pray thee that I may feel thee, my son, whether

thou be my very son Esau or not. And went

near unto Isaac his father, and he felt him and said,

the voice is Jacob's voice, but the hands are the

hands of Esau. And he discerned him not because his

hands were hairy, and his brother Esau's hands as his

brother Esau's hands, so he blessed him. Would you lift

your hands and ask the Lord to help us. Lord,

we thank you so much for your goodness and your mercy,

for your grace, your kindness, and all that you've done

for us today. God, we asked that you would just

help us in this the remaining part of this service. Lord,

that you would help us speak as your oracle. Lord,

not anything that we would want to say, God, not

anything that we could come up with or thank up. Lord,

but the words that are fitly spoken, like apples of

gold and pictures of silver.

Lord.

We know we're unworthy God to be a vessel for

your words. Lord, but if you will allow us, God,

I'll be that picture of silver. Lord God, if you'll

fill my mouth Lord and teach me what I should say. God,

help us all to listen and heed the word of

the Lord. Help us leave this place joyfully and not sorrowfully.

And we ask it in the wonderful name of Jesus.

Amen and Amen. I want to preach at a little

message that I really feel like God gave me the

title to Amen, and that is the Wolf within.

Amen.

Here in our golden text is the descendants of the

great Man of God, Abraham. Isaac here is the promised

son of Abraham and Sarah's old age.

Amen.

We know the promise, Amen, that God had gave Abraham

and Sarah. And I see here that at this point

in time, Abraham's offspring and his descendants are starting to multiply.

And then the family is starting to grow a little

bit and get a little bit bigger. And maybe they're

starting to realize, Amen, that there's a chance for what

God said was gonna happen, Hey, really is gonna happen.

We realize it's starting to come to fruition.

Those things that were promised those many years ago, the

thing that God told us those many years ago, are

finally starting to come into view. And I see that

just as God said, they would start and begin to

multiply and become a great nation. You see here this

is the start, Amen of the promise becoming Amen, into fruition.

Isaac and Rebecca here at this time have brought two

young men into the world. After that God had healed

her barren womb. Because Isaac had prayed, Rebecca was unable

to have children and Isaac went to prayer and said, Lord,

I mean I can only imagine what he prayed. Lord,

I know you promised Abraham my father that he would

become a great nation. Now I've married this woman that

I know you gave to me.

We remember the.

Miraculous story of a Rebecca here. How the how Abraham's

servant went and found this woman for Isaac, and God

made a special special covenant there. And Isaac comes sure

prayed and said, God, you gave me this here woman.

Amen.

And and now I'm just looking for your promise to

be to come forward him.

And she can't have no children. Her womb is bearing.

But Isaac, the Bible says, he went and he and

he talked to the Lord about it, and God opened

her womb. And uh, the story here is ever so renowned.

How the twins struggled in the womb. They struggled, and

they struggled so severely that that old Rebeccah was inclined

to pray to God herself. Hey, Isaac got her into

this mess, amen, Isaac got her womb opened up. And

now the struggle is is so so hard within her.

The Bible said that Rebecca said, I've got to pray

to God about this because there's something going on in here,

and I have no idea what's going on. I just

can't understand it. It just don't make any sense to me.

So Isaac pray or Rebecca rather praise to God and said, God,

what's going on in here?

What is happening? What is the what is the reason

for this struggle that I feel?

God answered her prayer there in chapter number twenty five,

in verse number twenty three, the Man and God there

in the In that scripture text, he informs the woman

that there were two nations in her womb, that there

was two men. There was two there was two different people,

and they would be they would be very, very different people. Now,

the elder was wrestling with the younger in the womb,

and even back then, the younger refused to surrender. Hey

somebody just wouldn't give up. Somebody just kept tussling. Hey, man,

even though they were so little from the from the

time they were conceived, there was that struggle between Jacob

and esau Amen and Rebecca could tell that there was

something different about the way these babies are.

Acting in here.

There's something different about the way these kids are acting,

and even at that young of an age, Rebecca could

say there's a conflict going on inside. There's something going

on inside that I just don't understand that.

I just don't think it's normal.

I just think this is a little bit out of

the ordin Harry, God told Rebecca here that the elder

would serve the younger.

I'm trying to get somewhere. I just want to give

you a little backstory.

God told Rebecca that the elder would serve the younger,

and I personally believe that Rebecca was was very wise

about that foreknowledge. I don't really believe that she was

a loud mouthed woman that went around telling Esau every

time she got a chance. Now, God told me that

you're gonna serve Jacob, hey man, I don't I don't

think Rebecca was that foolish to go around and always

throw that.

Up in into.

Esau's face, hey Man. But deep down in Rebecca's heart,

she kept an eye out, and she's kept an ear out,

and she always wondered when would God make his promise

come to pass? When would be that time when God

flipped the switch, hey man, and made what she prayed about,

and that answer that she got in her prayer cause

it Hey, that thing that God had promised her. I

really believe that she wondered about that, Amen, And deep

down in her heart she always wondered, when's.

It gonna happen? When is that gonna come to pass?

That thing that God gave me, that prayer that that

God answered in my prayer calls it?

When will that come to pass? Amen?

I believe she was waiting for the day, and she

was just washing as a wise woman would, Amen. And

I believe that she was waiting to see that thing

that God told her would take place come to pass.

Amen. I believe she longed for the day to see

a prayer answered. Amen.

I believe she longed for the day, hey, to see

a promise fulfilled. Our text here that tonight allows us

the opportunity to watch how a sibling conflict that originated

from the womb.

Turns into an all out war.

Heymen, once was just a little tussling or a little jealousy,

now turns to hate. With this story today, with this story,

this evening, what's starting out as a little seed of

each one trying to get the better of each other.

Now someone inserts themselves into that situation. And now what

was a little conflict, What was a little bit of

a competitiveness, Amen, What used to be just a little

bit of competitive nature between brothers, hey, where one was

always trying to get the better of each other. Now

there's a real conflict there. Now there's a real problem there, aymen.

Because Rebecca had overheard Isaac hey man, or Rebecca was

in the house.

Whenever Isaac Cody.

Is from Isaah Esau, I'm gonna bless your son, hey man,

I want the Lord to help us, hey man, Rebecca

over Isaac speaking with Esau about his blessing, Amen, about

the blessing that he had planned for the man Esau.

Amen.

And Rebecca remembered, no doubt the promise that God had

given to her.

Amen. And and uh she really.

Uh would would have remembered exactly the moment God spoke

to her.

And I believe she really.

Understood the importance of this blessing right here, Amen, the

blessing that Isaac was talking about.

Amen.

And I believe in her little mind, Amen, she could

not see any other way for God to bring that

to pass. She could not come up with any logical

explanation of how Isaac can give his best blessing to Esau,

how Isaac can give his very best to Esau. And

she couldn't understand how God could take and how do

Isaac's best.

Amen.

I believe Rebecca thought that this was her opportunity. This

was possibly the only opportunity and the only chance that

she would ever get. Amen to see Jacob become the

man that she knew he was supposed to be. Amen,

to see that little child that she knew God has

such great plans for. I really believe that Rebecca thought, Amen,

that this was her opportunity. Sometimes our little our little

humanistic brains, that's the way we think. Hey man, we

can't see outside of our little world. We can't see

outside of our little pre pe our little pea world,

peaceized world. Amen. And I don't think Rebecca could see

pass that, Aymen. I don't think Rebecca could really get

over the fact, Amen, that Isaac was about to bless

Esaul and Rebecca here and we've really appreached our or.

Rebecca sees her opportunity to force the hand of God.

Rebecca sees her opportunity to get right in the middle

of something. Amen, that I know one hundred percent. I

don't know how he would have did it. I don't

know how he could.

Have did it. But I know that God would have

worked that out. Amen.

I know that God would have still made his word

come to pass without Rebecca getting in the mix.

Amen.

But sometimes we just can't help ourselves, Amen. And we

should help ourselves, Amen. But sometimes we just don't help ourselves,

and we just get it right in the middle of

God's plans and we just met everything up.

Aymen. I don't want to be like that.

I don't want to get in the middle of God's

perfect plan, Amen, and trying to work my way in it.

That ain't gonna work.

Isaac sends Esau to the fields to harvest a deer

to bring venison to his table before he dies. Rebecca

jumps right into action when she hears this. It was instant,

as soon as as soon as Esaul cleared the forest.

Hey man, I believe that Rebecca was cricket, was hard

at work. She went and got you remember the stories.

She went and got Jacob, and she said, Jacob, your

father's about to bless Esau, and we've got to do

something about it. Esau's about to get your blessing, and

we've got to do something about it.

We've got to put a stop to this.

We've got to get in the middle of this, and

we've got to get in front of this, and we

gotta really figure out how we're gonna do it.

And Rebecca comes up with a master plan.

Rebecca comes up with a with a just a great lie, amen,

and just a great wonderful idea. And she's certain that

she will make God's promise come to pass. She's certain

that she will make God fulfill his promise.

Amen.

She's certain that she sees away to make sure that

what God said comes to pass. And if I'm honest

with you tonight, I really admire Rebecca in some regard

for the links that she went to.

Amen. You look at everything she did.

Now, it was wrong and she should have stayed out

of it, But you gotta admire the woman, hey, that

saw what she thought was the end of the road

to see what was happening in her life and say,

I've gotta do something. I've gotta get in front of this.

I've gotta stop this. Isaac's about to make a mistake, aymen.

I really believe that Rebecca felt like Isaac was about

to make a wrong move.

Amen.

So in that regard, I admire Rebecca Hey for doing

everything she could.

She tried her best. Amen. She did everything that she

knew to do, but it was the wrong thing. Amen.

God's promises don't require us to get in the middle

of of them. God's plan don't require us to get

in the middle of them.

God don't need our help, hey man. God don't need

us to get in the middle of his promise. Hey.

And make it come to pass. What God said he'll do,

he'll do it. Amen.

If God said it's gonna happen, then it's gonna happen.

Rebecca.

We don't have to understand Hell, we don't have to

understand why or when.

It's gonna happen. All we have to do is put.

Our trust in God Almighty, and say, God committed.

To your hands. Just leave it along, Rebecca. I see

what you're trying to do.

I see what you're trying to do in this situation,

but you're just making it worse. Just let it alone,

Let God work it.

Out, Let God do the work. When we get in

the middle of.

God's plans, we complicate things and we messed things up.

Rebecca here, though good attentions.

Maybe she goes way out of line, she goes.

Way out in left field.

And I give her the benefit of the doubt and

say she thought she was doing right.

Maybe she really felt like she was doing the right thing.

But in this time here she goes way off course,

and she sets her very own two children at war

for nearly twenty years, for nearly twenty years. It was

nearly twenty years before Jacob and Esau ever saw each

other again. And Esau hated Jacob, and Jacob had no

desire to see Esau because he knew if he saw him,

he knew what he saw would do. Because Rebecca got

in the way. Jacob and Esault didn't care nothing about

each other. In fact, they wanted to stay away from

each other.

Amen.

And I believe that if God would have did it,

if they would have worked it out, but with God's plan,

if they would have waited on God's timing, if they

would have waited on God's direction, then he saw and

Jacob still could have been a good relationship. Hey man,

it didn't have to be the way it was for

that twenty years. Hey, if we'll just let God.

Do it, his way. Hey, if we'll just let God

do what he's gonna do.

Mama should have just let God handle it. Mama should

have just let God work it out.

Don't get in the middle of that. Just let God

do it.

Might take a little longer than you think they should,

but the results will be better, Your family will be better.

Trust let God do it.

Trust Wait up, God's timing. God could have worked it

out a lot better than you. God could have did

it a lot better than you can.

But we know.

Rebecca devises hair her plan to steal the firstborn's blessing

from me. So and that was a big thing in

those days. It was a mighty big thing. She comes

up with a scheme, and she comes up with a plan,

and she says she lays it out for Jacob. And

when Rebecca tells Jacob the plan, Jacob spots a big,

gaping problem in it. He said, there's an issue, Mama,

there's something that you're not thinking about. It's all well

and good father's old. Isaac is old, his eyes are dim,

he can't see, but there's a big problem in your playing, Mama.

And he brings to his mother's attention the fact that

Esau was a hairy man, and he was a smooth man.

He was not hairy like he saw was. Now maybe

he has something to do with older brothers. Uncle Jeremiah

can grow a beard in one night, and I can't

grow sideburns. I wouldn't if I could, anyways. But Amen

saws a hairy man. Amen Esau is a hairy man,

hey man, And Jacob said, I'm a smooth man.

I ain't got that problem.

Hey, I ain't gotta worry about that, and and don't

you know Isaac knows it? Hey, Mama, did you think

about that? And you know Isaac he can't see, but

he can still feel. And I know my father when

he hears his voice of mine, he's gonna say, come here

and let me feel you, let me put my hands

on you. Hey, I know what he is so fell like. Hey,

I can't.

I can't. I've gotta stop.

Saying, hey, hey, buddy, buddy. He's so knows Isaac knows

what he so feels like. And Jacob knew it. He said,

I don't feel nothing like that. I don't look nothing

like that. I don't sound nothing like he saw. I

ain't got the skill that hes So has HEAs saws

a mighty hunter. Father knows it. He's a man of

the woods. This was a problem. Indeed, this was a great,

big problem. This was something that they had to come

up with a solution for. But this problem wasn't too

big for old Lion deceiving, conniving, sneaky scheme and Rebecca,

the sister of lying, deceiving, conniving, sneaky, sneaking little band.

He ran in the family, Amen, being able to lie,

being able to cheat, being able to deceive. Amen, just

ran in the family, you remember, laving God's sake them

later on, Hey, so that big sister or little sister,

whatever it was, Amen, she sure came up with a

light of scheme. Hey man, that what probably wasn't too

big for them. She just said, you sit down, Jacob,

you sit down and listen for a minute. Mama's got

it all worked out. Don't you worry about that. I've

got a plan. Old Rebecca isn't stuck in the least.

She is a thrown off of her plan. She ain't

thrown off of her deception. She ain't thrown off of

her lie. She just says, go get the kid, Go

get the goat, Go do the thing I told you

to do. Go get the goat.

I'll make the meat.

I'll make the savory meat that your father loves, his

favorite meal that he asks for.

I'll make that. All you gotta do is get the goat.

I'll make the meat, and we'll use the skin of

that goat, and we'll fool your father. Amen, look right here,

he's the best I had. It's the best my wife had.

Rebecca said, I've got a plan. I know exactly how

to deal with this issue. She said, I've got the

perfect fred. All you gotta do is get the goat

and we'll use that skin.

We'll use that our layer. Hey, and we'll.

Deceive your father. Rebecca laid that ghost skin on his neck,

put some of that on his hands.

Hand.

He walked into the presence of his father. Henry said,

I've got the covering. I've got the hour appearance. Hey,

I'm god, what mose people look at? If you touch me,

I feel like that. If you look at me, I

look like it. I've got the outer layer, I've got

the goat sin, I got the outer covering.

I got enough the food, Rebecca said. All we need

is a little covering.

All we need is a little something to cover you up.

We just need a little croak. We just need something

to hide the truth. We just need something tay you

to deceive everybody, they to deceive Isaac.

There's far too many people just looking for a goat skin.

There's far too many people that's counting on their outer covering.

They lie up word for word with the church by

their side.

It's a lie.

Rebecca said, you know your father's old, he can't see.

His eyes are dim. I'll just put this goat skin

on your neck and we'll fool the old man, and

we'll make you think that you're something that you're really not.

There's far too many people in the church world today.

There's far too many people in the church wild.

They are just in a difuse money.

I'll just put this goat skin on your neck and

your hands, and we'll deceive old Isaac. He'll never know

what happened, he'll never know what hit him. Friend, it's

gonna take more than some outward appearance when we stand

before God Almighty. Brother Nathaniel was preaching some of it

this morning. We can't count on outward we can't count

on the outward appearing. I've been a this who in

this church my whole life, thank God, thank God. But

I can't count on what I learned on that pew

to get me into heaven. I can't count on lining

up with what my father preached to me, hey, to

get me into heaven.

I've got to have something on the inside.

I gotta have more.

Than a goat skin. I've gotta have more than just

to come in. I need something on the inside.

You can try to hide behind that standard, you can

try to hide behind that board, that uh, that that

dress code that you wear, but it takes more than

looking the part, and it takes more than acting the part.

When Jacob came to Isaac in our text here, Isaac

he knew something was off. He could tell something just

ain't right about this man. Something just ain't right about

this guy. I can't put my finger on it because

I'm blind, but I know something ain't right.

I can tell something ain't right.

Isaac knew something was off, and he said this, you

feel like he saw, and I paraphrase, you feel like Esau.

Your hands are harry, the back of your neck is harry.

You've got the covering, but something ain't right. And he said,

you feel like Esau. Later on in this scripture, he said,

you smell like Esau. You smell like the woods. You

smell like you've been hunting. But you sound like Jacob.

There's something inside that's coming out. There's something inside that

you look the part outside win. Most look at you.

They feel like you've got it down. But when you speak,

the truth is known. Isaac said. The voice don't sound right.

There's something off when you speak. There's something off when

you're talking. There's something that just ay right by the

way you're talking. You're acting like he Saul. You feel

like he Saul. You feel like he Saul. But something's wrong.

But something's off. Quit trying to for God. Quit trying

the for Isaac isaak, No, something's off. He knows something's wrong.

I'm not mad, I'm not mean.

I'm preaching what God gave me. I struggle with titles.

I tell my brothers I fight for titles. That's doing

me the last thing I get. But I got to

church this morning before the service. I knelt down in

that office and went my knees at the floor and

my feet my head touched the back of that chair.

God said, the roof within outside you look.

Good outside, you look.

Right by inside.

There's a loof inside, there's deception.

Inside. Something's wrong, and your voice is portraying you. There's

something off about the whole situation. I say, no, something's.

Bad role, But because of my state, I.

Can't figure it out. I can't put my finger on it.

You got some parts down. Pat you get here five

point thirty, you find a poison one of them pews.

We're up here at this altar.

We're on this platform, and you kneel down and you

pray before charge. When the congregational choir starts singing, you

clap your hands, You lift a hand of God, you

shout A man.

Pastor starts preaching.

We lift a hand, We stand up, We get in

the amen corner.

And all along we're covered in goats hair.

All alone, we're covered in goats can All along. We're

just trying to blend in and we're trying to deceive.

But the Man of God will knock be fooled.

Isaac was fooled because his eyes were dead. Isaac was

fooled because he could not see. You've got things mastered.

You got it down to a t. You know how

to say A man right. When Pastor gets done with

that sentence, he's saying, you know how to clap your

hands when the service.

Gets to the right point.

You know how to take a lap when the music

just right. But all it is is a goat skin.

All it is.

It's just a false, fake folly for side.

You got the right look, you got the right smell.

But something's not right when you talk. There's something inside,

and you think you've got it all covered up with

those goat skins. You think nobody can see you. You

think nobody knows that it's you. Isn't it the ostrich

that's such a fool stick their head in the sand.

Ain't if the ostrich such an idiot? God made them

that way. You know, I've guessed some line or something

needed an easy pray. I don't know. God made them

that way for a reason. Maybe it's a snack for

the weak lions.

I don't know. God did it for a purpose.

But those ostriches stick their little heads in the sand, and.

Nobody can see me. Nobody knows just me. You ain't

hiding from nobody.

Your family sees it, The people on the job see it,

the people on the church. You besides you see it,

and bless God, your pastor sees it, and they all

see it.

Out of God.

Sees everything at all times. You can be sure he

sees it. He knows who you are inside. He knows

what you're trying to cover up inside. When you open

your mouth. When Jacob opened his mouth, Isaac said, it

sounds like Jacob, something's not right, something's off. And when

you open your mouth, your true colors begin to shine.

The Bible said Jesus said, I believe it was Jesus.

Out of the abundance of the heart. The mouth speaks.

You say, how does my voice portray me? Well, because

your heart is not cleansed. How does my voice portray me?

Because your heart's filthy? And when you talk, your heart talks.

Man, we hear the filth.

And Isaac can tell something's wrong about that conversation. Something's

wrong about that voice. Jacob told on himself. When he

opened his mouth. He let everybody know, including old Isaac,

something's not right. I can't mimic I'm not a I'm

not a master at mimicry. Brother Samuel's pretty good. And

if I was Brother Samuel and I was in Jacob's shoes,

I'd be trying to talk, well, her dad, it's it's

you saw you know, I'll be trying to talk about

my big brother, Amen. But he either didn't try or

he just wasn't that good. Because Isaac sure enough knew

something wasn't right about that voice. Jacob gave it away

with his voice when he talked, but Isaac was.

Too blind to say it.

Isaac was too blind to say it.

Send the Bible, it's the word of God. I want

to say this. Isaac was too blind to see it.

And when I thought about that, I realize there's some

people that go to churches and.

Thank the Lord not here.

But there's some people that go to churches that have

pastors that are Isaac's.

They're just as spiritually blind as I don't know what.

And I'm sure they look at some of those situations

that's in their pews and they feel, just like Isaac

and Jacob did. There's the Jacob and the pastors of Isaac,

and the pastor can tell something ain't right. Something's going

on between that man and that woman, Something's going on

with that man and that child, But I'm too blind

to say it. The way they are giving away, I

can tell something ain't right, but I'm too old to care,

and I'm too blind to see.

There's some so called pastors that are like Isaac, and

they need.

Some spiritual lives because they's spiritual lies or so blind

that can't see the deception and the view. Then they

deca discern the ones that just are wearing goat skins.

They're just there in body, but their mind's far from it.

They're there in body, but their hearts far from it.

Hen and they know something wrong. They know something's off,

but they can't put their finger on it. God's neither

old nor blind. You might be able to hide from

some pastor up the street, some past her up the river.

You might be able to get in a pew, throw

your goat skin on.

Make sure it's tucked just right, so that every square

into your neck is covered. So if Isaac digs around

a little bit, I've got it all under wraps. He

can't even get his little finger up in there to

feel my bare neck.

That might be the case that some of them.

Churches up the road where that little coat skin collar works.

But God ain't blind, God ain't holding. He can see

through that foolishness. He can throw see through that facade.

He can see through that ghost skin. And if you're

getting quiet on me, well you're just holding your ghost

skin up like this.

Go ahead and tell on yourself.

Jacob, Go ahead, big bites hop easy, go ahead, go

ahead and show me you're hiding something. Go ahead and

show me that you got a big old meat coat on.

Ain't that what they call that, them, big old man

furry coachs. Go ahead and wave your ghostkin in the air. Right,

I'm not mad. I already told you I'm trying to

help somebody. I didn't ask for this message.

I love it. I love it, and I'm enjoying preaching it.

But I'm telling you, I think God wants to help

somebody to kill the wolf within. I think God wants

to help somebody to take off the goatskin and say, God, here's.

My tenuline health, here's all of me.

I believe there's hope. I believe there's hope for you.

I believe God wants to help you in that situation.

But you can't lie and say, oh, yes, Isaac, it's me,

he Saul, do.

It, ain't it's you. Can't go.

Quit lying to Isaac, quit telling Isaac, Oh, it's me,

your oldest son.

No, it ain't, Isaac.

Tell God who you really are. Let God know who

you really are. Let God know your secret parts. Tell

God here I am Lord. This is what I need

help with God. This is where I'm suddenly at. This

is what I can't over time God, this is where

I need your help.

You might be used to being around.

Some people that knew enough to know something wasn't right

because in place their finger on it. But God didn't

give us a blind leader, and neither one of us

intend to fall in the ditch. God didn't give us

a blind pastor. God didn't give us Isaac for a pastor.

Thank God for it. But he gave us a man

of God that can see to the heart of the issue.

And he can't get where we're at, and he could

talk to us, then he.

Can help us. God has given Bethel, the man of God.

With the spiritual sight to see the wolf within, to

look past the facade, to.

Look past.

Yus. God's given us a man of God that don't

allow us to leave the way to your matters. Hey,

manbody helps us in all aspects of our lives. Brother

Samuel read in chapter number seven of Eth of Matthew,

Chapter seven of Matthew, Verse number fifteen. Jesus said, beware

of false prophets which came to you, which come to

you in sheep's clothing, but inwardly they are ravening wolfs.

False prophets would come to you in sheep's clothing, portraying

themselves to be something that they wasn't, acting like they

were something that they are not. That's when we must

be harmless as doves and wisest servants. That's when we

must take the word of God rightly divided, and see

to it that we're not deceived, nor are we deceiving.

Amen.

You know those Pharisees dressed in their long robes. Jesus

had something to say about that. Jesus had something to

say about that. They looked like they were it. They

looked like they were the men. They looked like they

were somebody. They looked like they had it down. You

couldn't lay a finger on them. You ask him anything

on the law, Johnny on the spot, You asked them

anything about what Moses wrote, Well, they tell you forwards

and backwards.

They knew the law. They looked the part, but inside

brother Nathaniel said it dead men's bones. Amen.

People come making what seems to be reasonable, since false

prophets will come. And when we listen to what they

say at face value, makes sense that goat skin is

getting the job done. Eat saw's shirt, that smells like

the wood. It's getting the job done. It's doing just enough.

But when we look deeper, and we look below the below,

the out of layer, then we realize something's off inside.

From the outward appearance, all might seem well and good.

But listen closely because their voice. Listen closely, because their

speech will betray them. Their speech will give them away

if you listen close enough, If you listen close enough

to those false prophets, what they say won't come to pass.

Their prophecies will come to naught. And then you'll tell

it's a false prophet. And that's a woof wearing sheep's clothing.

Their voice, the things they say will betray them. I

want to ask those false prophets, what about those prophecies

you prophesied years ago?

Where are they at today?

Where are they at when you put a timeline on

that prophecy? Brother Beuford, you know what we're talking about,

I've seen men claim to be prophets of God. They

say this will happen in such and such time, but

just give it a little time. That speech betrayed them.

And if you're wise enough to listen, if you're.

Wise enough to hear, you'll realize their voice betray them.

You don't realize what they said gave them away.

Amen.

The sheeps, they're in sheep's clothing. Hourly they seem innocent

and harmless. Hourly they seem like they mean no ill

to any man or to anyone. But inside the Bible

said the ravening wolves, ravening wolves, and they're just waiting

to plunder and to destroy. They're just looking for the opportunity.

Right when they get you where they watch you, then

they pounce the false prophet's voice and words would tell

on them. And when you've got a cloak on, when

you've got just a covering, when you've got something that

you're just trying to hide what you really are inside,

when you've got a cloak on and you're just trying

to deceive those around you, there's always something that tells

on you. You can't cover every base. It is completely

impossible for you to hide everything from God and the

men of God.

You can do a pretty good job at it. You

can do a pretty.

Good job at it, but in time, your sins shall

find you out.

It could be your mouth it gives you away.

It could be the way you talk, It could be

the way you act to your co workers. And nobody

else knows, but your co workers know you're not Esau.

You're pretending to be somebody that you're not. You're actually Jacob.

You know who you say you are. What if your

co workers came to church. I think about that all

the time, constantly. What if my coworkers and I pray

to God one day they do. I've got some that

I love dearly, and I believe God would love to help.

But what if they came to sit on a pew

beside me in a year and they know I preach.

I don't go around telling them. I don't even know

how they found out. To be honest with you, I

don't tell them. I don't talk about it. I don't

talk about religion. They know I'm a Christian, they know

I don't cuss. They started a cuss jar the other day,

a curse jar to where every time they curse they

have to give one dollar or ten push ups. So

I told them let me join. They wouldn't let me

because they knew I'd never be contributing.

Amen. They knew.

They laughed at me, and I laughed with them. I said, y'all,

I said, come on, man, why.

Y'all being like that? Let me join. I won't end.

They wouldn't let me. But I think all the time.

I think all the time.

About what if in a year they came to church

with me and got truly born again, that truly saved,

and they sat beside me in the view and then

they said, now, Jesse, I've been working with you for

five and a half nearly six years now, and what

you're up there preaching, it's completely contrary to the way

you act at the break table. You preach against laughing

at those dirty jokes. You get up there and you

reprimand those people and you tell them you ought not

to do it. And I think about it, and what

if in a few years they sit on a pew

and they find me a hypocrite, they find out that

I was just wearing goat skin.

I hope that this message makes sense.

I hope we're understanding what I feel like the Holy

Ghost gave me. What if they realize you were all

talk and you didn't even believe what you said. You

talk to me about my fornicating and I do, and

I don't preach to them.

They tell me, I think they thank me for it.

I tell them, you ought not to be doing that

to your wife and your children, that you got at home,

going out committing adultery like that and think nothing of it,

come back the next day talking to the world, talking,

talking on the job about it. Ask them if they

ever come if I tell them I do, I tell

them that's wrong. You know better than that, They say,

I know, man, I throw up every time I do it.

I say, why do you do it? What if they

come into that house? What if they come into God's

house and they find out I ain't really what I

say I am. What if they find out I really

am just wearing goat skin, just a covering, just a cloak.

It could be your mouth. It gives you away. You

will give yourself away. You will give yourself away. I'll

say it again, you will give yourself away. It could

be your talk, It could be what you say. It

could be your eyes, you know, eyes are a big

tell tale Eyes will tell a lot about a person.

I remember years ago a man came and preached our pastor.

Had he preach and tried to help his family, but

he preached on wondering eyes. You can tell a lot

about somebody when you watch their eyes. And if somebody

sees somebody looking all the time, well you're looking to

so God help you. You say, I don't look blessed God,

Yes you do. There's always a telltale sign when someone

only has a disguise on. When you have no true

change in your life, there's telltale signs. The people around

you know it, the people around you see it. I've

got more notes. I'm gonna skip my last cotext as

we close. Peter's denial of Jesus. As he sat by

the fire, Peter sat around the fire. Peter sat around

the fire with those heathens, with those mockers. I believe

Peter did everything he could to blend in. He did

everything he could, did not stick out. If there was

a goat skin around, I believe Peter would have crawled

in it. Peter tried to disappear. Just blend in, Just

be one of the many. Just be one of all

the other ones sitting around the fire. I believe if

Peter had a shirt that he knew they would recognize,

he would have changed that shirt.

That's my heart.

I feel like if Peter had a pair of sandals

on that he knew everybody's seen me with Jesus in

these sandals, I believe he would have went home and

either went barefoot or no sandals. I believe Peter did

everything he could, just like Jacob, to blend in, to just.

Be one of the multitude.

But something gave Peter away. Brother Nathaniel read in our

text something go Peter away. He was his voice, the

way he talked. Those people that sat around that fire,

they said, your speech beraeth thee which is betrayeth. Your

speech gives you away. You talk like a Galilean. You

talk like those that used to run with that crowd

that Peter denies Jesus the whole while his speech gave

him away. He tried to be somebody he wasn't. He

tried to cloak himself, He tried to hide himself the

whole while he was not who he said he was.

Luke gives us a little more information there on Peter's

denial and the Bible said by the hand of Luke.

As he moved on by the Holy Ghost, he said

that it's Peter's cursing and said, I know not what

you're talking about. I'm not one of them. That's not

who I am. Now Peter lived the flip side of this.

They said he was with Jesus. He said I was not.

Many today say I am with Jesus, and the Bible

says you are not, and your speech betrays you. Luke said,

it's Peter's in the middle of all that denying and

all that saying I'm not who you think I am.

Pastors saying you're who you think you who are who

you are, and you're saying I'm not that that's not

who I am. You don't know me, you don't know

who I am.

You're all twisted up.

All those people around the fire try Peter tried his

best to convince him that they were he they were

a bunch of idiots, that they didn't know what they

were talking about. They said, your speech betrays you, Peter.

You act like one, you talk like one. Y'all remember

the old saying, looks like a duck, quacks like a

duck waddles like a duck.

It's a duck. Peter, you walk like one. Peter. The

way you speak, you talk like one. I know you're

one of them. Oh I am not.

You don't know what you're talking about. Yes you are, No,

I ain't. Yes you are no, I ain't childish. Give

up and let God be true. Drop the disguise, lay

the clue to the side, and let God be true,

Luke said. The Lord looked right through Peter. Peter's there,

making an absolute full of himself.

I am not.

God looked at Peter. The games was over. I told

you Jesus wasn't blind. Jesus ain't blind. God ain't blind,

or Pastor ain't blind. They see what they see, and

they know what they know. Peter went and arre you

with God. Peter didn't Are you with Jesus. Jesus didn't

say a word. He looked at Peter, and Peter knew

the charade was over. He knew the game was over.

And Peter, if you will, took off that old goat skin.

He threw it to the.

Side, and he went out and he wept bitterly and say, God,

I am what they said.

I am. I was with you. I am exactly what

they're saying. I am.

I walked with you. My speech gave me away. How

about not arguing with God? Let's stand if you're able.

How about enough with this charade. How about serving God

honestly this time? How about this time coming with a

pure heart seems futile my effort here. How about coming

to an altar tonight and say, God, you want to

work a plan in my life?

You want to work a will in my life.

Everybody has their own way of how that they think

it's gonna get done. Rebecca has her way, she thinks

it's gonna get done. But how about Jacob, when you

come before the Father tonight? Oh God, you take that

goat off, that goat skin off, and you say, God,

I'm not who Mamma saying, I am?

I'm really not? He saw God.

Really it's me, Jacob. And I'd love to see that

promise come to pass. I'd love to see that perfect

plan that you've laid out for me come to pass.

And Isaac, if this is not the time Mama wanted

me to come in here and bring you this meet.

Mama wanted me to put this goat's hair on my

neckd on my hands. But if this is not the time, Father,

I'll just lay it aside and I'll wait on your time.

How about laying the goat skin aside? How About letting

God work when he was ready. How About laying the

deception to the side and letting God move in his time.

How about quite quit trying to fool everybody. You going

through a lot of work killing that goat. You're going

through a lot of work trying to wash all the

guts off of that goat skin, just so you can

fool somebody.

Just be honest with the man.

Just be honest with the father, Jacob, Just be honest

with your father.

Tell him God, this is not me. Let's pray if

you feel like it. I've given altar call tonight.

I wonder if we have anybody here tonight with an

honest heart. They say, I lay aside the disguise or

laying aside to the facade.

Hey, and I come before you honestly, laying aside.

Hey, all the pretense, all the actions, all the fake,

all the phony. God, Your will be done, God, Your

will be done in your time.