Little Things Are Big To Him - Pastor J.D. Howell 5-3-2026

Amen, a message the Holy Ghost title little things are

big to Him? How many of y'all believe that little

things are big to him? If you'll turn with me

to the Book of Genesis, May I direct your attention

to the eighteenth chapter. We'll be reading verses number seventeen

through nineteen. Brother Nathaniel Luke, chapter number sixteen, Verses number

ten and eleven, and Brother Jesse Matthew chapter number twenty

five and verse number twenty one. Please, my brother, I

want to say I thank God so much for our

church family. We are blessed. I've been blessed to be

part of this beautiful work that God is doing in

South Florida. And it's an honor of privilege to serve

and labor as your pastor. You all are the best.

And I believe that, Brother Nathaniel Luke, Chapter number sixteen

versus number ten and eleven.

My brother, he that.

Is faithful when that which is least is faithful also

and much, And he that is unjust in the least

is unjust also and much. If therefore ye have not

been faithful in the unrighteous Mammon, who will commit to

your trust the true riches? Amen, Little things are big

to him, brother Jesse Matthew twenty five and twenty one.

Brother, his Lord said, unto him, well done, thou good

and faithful servant. Thou hast been faithful over a few things.

I will make thee ruler over many things. Enter thou

into the joy of thy Lord.

Amen.

Let's stand for the reading of our golden text, Genesis,

chapter number eighteen, verses number seventeen through nineteen. The Bible says,

and the Lord said, shall I hide from Abraham the

thing which I do, seeing that Abraham shall surely become

a great and mighty nation, and all the nations of

the earth shall be blessed in him. For I know

him that he will command his children and his household

after him, and they shall keep the way of the

Lord to do justice and judgment, that the Lord may

bring upon Abraham that which he has spoken of him.

Let's pray, Heavenly Father, we love and we praise you.

We thank you for the opportunity to be in the

house of the Lord tonight. I pray that you would

anoint this thy people, set a guard at their ears,

and help them to hear what the Spirit of God

says into the church tonight. Lord said, a guard in

my mouth, and help me to say the things you

would have me to say, nothing more or less.

Help them to.

Hear thy words, the word of this blessed book, and

what the Spirit says, help us to heed.

Lord.

May we depart this place joyfully and not sorrowfully in

Jesus's name. And the church said Amen again, preaching a

message the Holy Ghost titled little.

Things are Big to Him.

Our texas found in an Old Testament book of the

Holy Bible, the first book of the Bible, the Book

of Genesis. Since I was a child, I have loved

the word Genesis. To be honest with you all, I

have prayed of late that God would lay it upon

the heart of one of our mothers in this building

to name their daughter Genesis. And I believe in time

we will have a little Genesis walking around in this place.

The name Genesis means origin. If you want to read

about the creation of the world or about the existence

of mankind, read this particular sacred writing. The Lord, the

Word himself, the Creator, did something huge and great when

he spoke this world into existence. As travelers, people that

visited six or seven countries recently in less than two

weeks time, Sister how and I did this, and we

can tell you that the world is a big place.

And we are told that the inhabitants of this world

are in number of seven plus billion people. And I know,

the more explorations that I do in this world, I

realize just how big it is.

It's huge.

And so after the Lord made man in his image,

he blessed the man and his wife, and he commanded

them to be fruitful and multiply. And the Lord went

on to tell them to have dominion over the animal

kingdom and to take care of their little part of paradise.

The garden of Eden was a very special place, and

God told the man Adam to keep it and to

take care of it. And if you travel with Brother

Nathaniel and I to the island of Dominica down in

the Caribbean Sea, you will see people that take this

verse literally and they feel it their personal responsibility to

beautify their island known as the Nature's Island. And Sister

Howell was amazed during this last missionary trip as she

accompanied us at the beauty of the island. Now keep

in mind her and I have visited some other islands

of let and she noted that those other islands are

not nearly as beautiful, and that is because people of

those islands do not feel the need to beautify that island.

There is no doubt there is a natural beauty about

those other islands. But the island of Dominica is more

beautiful because the government and people fill the need to

decorate their island with natural resources such as palm trees

and flowers and plants. And it's truly a paradise upon

this earth. And I'm thankful that Adam and Eve were

willing to do just exactly what the Lord had commanded

them to do. In fact, it was a huge undertaken

for man and woman to begin to populate the world

with little Adam and Eves such a big place. How

can you populate such a big place? But they got

busy working within their own little piece of paradise. And

there's a lot of people in this world today. They

don't get a lot done because they don't learn how

to work in their own little piece of paradise. They're

so busy thinking about this and that their mind is

a thousand or ten thousand miles away from where it

ought to be. I've learned that sometimes it's all in

the little details of life. That's what makes the difference

in families, in relationships, in work relationships, marital romantic relationships,

is that somebody is paying attention to the little details.

A little while ago, I asked, who likes white chocolate?

Who likes milk chocolate, who likes dark chocolate? Why would

a pastor ask congret against that kind of question?

And because I wanted to know, what do you like?

What do you care about? What matters to you?

A lot of marital relationships are strained because the other

party is not at all concerned about what the other

one likes. A lot of times, I'm busy, A lot

of times, most times throughout the day, I'm busy. But

even if I'm busy, and Sister Howell approaches me in

my office or the recliner or out in the yard

while I'm doing something, and she says something to me,

and I realized I was so busy I didn't pay

attention to what she's saying.

And just a few seconds later, I'm not really sure

what she said.

I'll call her and I'll say, Charity, hold on, just

a minute, walk back over here and tell me what

you just said, because the words of your mouth they

mean something to me. And I've heard people before express

to us that they suffer emotionally and mentally because a

father or a mother refused to use three little words

with him. The mother and the father wouldn't say these

three little, itty bitty words I love you. I remember

years ago telling the Howell boys, it's one thing to

say love you.

It's one thing to say love you.

But whenever you can look at that parent and without

reservation and hesitation, say I love you. I told him

when they were little. Why is it so hard to

say I love you? It's huge, sister Woot when we

use that little itty bitty word, eye Oh, the responsibility,

the involvement, the emotional, the personality, all of the personal

things involved with that word, I immediately's associated. And so

God looked down upon this earth and he saw that

Adam was doing everything that he needed to do, and

Adam was fostering a relationship with his Lord. But we

know the subtle serpent come in and he began to

distract even Adam from doing what they needed to do,

what God had told them to do.

Brother Philip, it.

Was in that small, little detail that he paid no

mine too. She wasn't faithful in everything that God had

told her to do. And we know that when God

placed them in that little piece of paradise, he expected

stewardship with faithfulness. So in the Book of Beginnings we

read of the beginning of mankind and we learn the

origin of a principle that God expects us to be

trustworthy and faithful.

Little things are big to him.

I remember when I was a little boy, sometimes around Christmas,

children would receive something called Uncle Milton's aunt Farm. How

many of y'all remember that? And all it was was

just this small little canister or container, and it was

constructed of a green or a bluish co collared frame,

and Brother Nathaniel, it was encased with glass or plastic panels,

and we would look upon that and we knew we

were supposed to put some.

Dirt in there.

And then in order for that little tiny container to

become an ant colony, we had to go out to

Popper or Grandma's backyard and get a scoop of fire ants,

good old Florida fire ants, and put them down in

that little science project. And Brother Nathaniel, I remember filling

up one particular Uncle Milton's ant farm, and putting all

them fire ants in there, and putting the top on it,

going in there and putting that on my dresser in

my bedroom, and Brother Jesse, I thought.

About all of those.

Moments that I spent standing there watching them colonize that

little container. I saw ants begin into tunnel. I saw

ants participate in teamwork. I saw ants, sister, how will

transport food from point A to point B? We know

in the Bible and Proverbs, chapter number six and verse

number six that said, consider the ant, thou sluggard grace,

Consider the ant, Dylan, consider the ant.

They don't have a foreman, but they are faithful.

They don't have somebody looking over their shoulder, but they

are faithful in the little things. And it didn't matter

whether or not they were in our backyard or in

Uncle Milton's ant farm, which was nothing more than a little, tiny,

narrow container in my bedroom, those ants found purpose every

day to do something because their commander in chief, their creator,

had demanded stewardship with faithfulness. We know that not only

did the Creator require of Adam and Eve's stewardship with faithfulness,

but the Lord required the same thing of the ant.

And I want people in this building here to know

that God is expecting faithfulness in all things out of us,

just like he did with Adam and Eve, and also

with Abraham, who is known as the Father of the faithful.

One that earned that title because when God spoke to

him in his comfort zone, he felt like God was

faithful and God was trustworthy, and he needed to trust

the Lord and obey the Lord even when it didn't

make sense. And he is known as the Father and

of the faithful because he left his comfort zone and

went into the unknown, not knowing where God had sent him,

searching for a city that hath foundation.

Oh, come on, whose murder and maker is God.

But everywhere Abraham went he prospered and owned this journey

of life as he experienced it day by day, day

after day, this man prospered and God brought great abundance

and wealth into his life because even though he was

searching for finality in his situation, while he was there,

wherever he was at, he was busy doing something. Come on,

now we know concerning the coming of the Lord. We

are watching and we are waiting for his soon appearing.

But brother Jesse even the Lord said, OCCUPI till I come.

We are blessed to have preachers that know the mind

of the Lord, preachers that come to the pool it

and preach what the saith God. We know that Abraham

too had heard from the Lord, and Abraham had this

relationship with the Lord that when God wanted to do

something huge, Abraham God a hold of the little details

the prophet Amos set in chapter number three and verse

number seven. Surely the Lord God will do nothing, but

he revealeth his secret unto his servants the prophets. This

past Wednesday Night's message was about servants and their servitude,

about how the prodigal son left out a son and

he came home with the right attitude, petitioning and requesting

of his father that he can labor as a heired

of servant. I wonder how many people in this building

here tonight value or put a high price tagger on

stewardship and a faithfulness. I wonder how many people in

this building tonight, besides Mother Thomas Charity would say, there

is no doubt the Lord is looking.

At the little details.

You're asking God to speak to you in your life,

and there's no doubt. Abraham and Amos would say, if

you've got the right relationshipping with the Father, that the

Father will speak to you, because if you stay closer

to the Master, and if you wait on him hand

in punt and you have an intimacy between you and

the Master, it's not that eventually you will hear something

you should not know about her. It is eventually they

will feel that you're trustworthy and faithful enough because of

your stewardship to tell you about what's fixing to go down,

or what's forthcoming, or what's about to happen because of

that relationship with the Master, and revelation is brought forth.

And that's what happened in the life of Abraham. As

we read our text, the Bible said that God spoke

with the other members of the triune Godhead, and so

we need to tell Abraham.

About this thing that we're about to do.

If you're living your life with Christians concerning direction, it

is because that relationship with the Master is not how

it needs to be. I'll tell you one thing the

sister Howell and I have never had a problem with,

and that is knowing the weal of God or the

mind of God. The reasons for that is and we

learned years ago. If we will keep a closeness between

us and the Lord, he will reveal his intentions to us,

not only for us our family, but also for this

church family. If you're full of questions here tonight and

uncertainties concerning your future, it is because you do not

have the right relationship with the Lord. So God wants

to tell the father of the faithful about what he's

gonna do. And Abraham is thankful that the Lord is

not gonna hide it.

That is determinology that the Lord are used.

Shall we hide these things from Abraham? You will remember

the prophet Elijah, while speaking of someone, he said, the.

Lord has chosen to hide this staying from me.

As I begin to pray, I realize, Sister Wooding, there

are some people lost in a vastness and of darkness

because they do not have the revealed will of God.

And the reason they don't have the revealed word of

God is because and they don't have a relationship and

with the Lord. So get the imagery here. God has

had enough and country more lingo. He is prepared to

wipe these people off the face.

Of the earth.

And because of their wickedness. Their wickedness is enormous and

it's huge.

It's great.

And brother Nathaniel, because of the magnitude or the enormity

of their wickedness and their annihilation will be great.

It'll be enormous, It'll be huge. I remember when.

Donald Trump first ran for the presidency of the United States,

one of his favorite words was this huge. We heard

him say, this is going to be huge. And you

know what, Sonoma and her sister city tomorrow, they could

expect nothing less than total destruction and complete annihilation for

their sins of homosexuality. Sid of me, all of those

gross sins and that they were committing did not come

without price, and they did, in fact come with a

huge price.

And there's a lot of young people.

They focus on the big things of life, and they

the focus on something big that they.

Want to get into.

They focus on some big adviction, they focus on some

big exploration, and they failed to realize there is a

miracle standing or working for their good right there in

front of them. I want you to know I did

not learn what I know about the ant because I

was in the backyard.

I learned that they practiced the teamwork. I learned that

take transported food. Oh, come on, should I say it?

And I learned that they were busy, busy, busy.

Working below the surface. And because I brought them in

to my little space.

And I want you to know, they were not out

in the wide world. They were in their captivity, so

to speak. That they weren't and they colonized, and they've

done what they could do.

While they could do it.

And I'm telling her how young people forget about the

big dreams, forget about them, and pictures that.

Are huge, forget about her.

That's for race and the uncharted and the unknown and

faith reality.

But none of it will never become a reality without

a relationship with the.

Lord, and knows how to reveal his secrets, what to

his servants. So I preached about the servants and their servitude,

and Amos said, he revealeth his secrets unto his servants,

the prophets, little humans. So the creation of the world

was huge, but the massive act of judgment against Solomon

Gamar was huge, I'm telling you, is equally huge as

the creation of the world was.

It's gonna be the case when God.

Destroys this world, when the earth itself melts with a

fervent heat. You looking for something huge. I want you

to know Hell He's going to be huge. I want

you to know that Hell is growing every day. Hell

knows the plan and the purpose of Almighty God better

than some of us do. I want you to know

that the inferno called Hell, that place about her darkness,

that lake afire. However you want to preach up, I

want you to know, it's huge. There will never be

a neighbor there. There won't never be a friendship there.

There won't never be a companion there. There will never

be a sense of security there. There will never be

a sense of love there. I'm gonna tell you. If

you stay lost to you know, you child, You're gonna

be lost. You know, you tell Sometimes it's best to

just figure out that you belong on your little parcel

of ground. Impressor pee Patrall, you right take her seriously.

Depress a little cultry or church, you right take it seriously.

If there's one child, you right take her how seriously,

as mother Philip.

Does ay them. We don't have to have a house.

For her kids to appreciate a child, I tell her,

somebody here tonight, you're looking for huge.

I want you to know her little things matter to God.

Man in these huge acts of God, the world never

forgets that He's God. And call them natural disasters, they

can call them acts of God. I'm telling you the

United States of America is no different than any other

nation that they've experienced an act of nature or an

act of God. It has nothing to do with the

strength of Mother Nature and Father Time. It has everything

to do with the Almighty God. And sometimes he punishes us,

little humans. And you know why. He punishes us for

our little, little, little faith. He punishes us for our

lack of faith. He punishes us as to how our

little friend, the Finite self because of our faithlessness. He

told us Servant Abraham what he intended to do, and

he gave warnings. He made a way of escape, and

he proved to be faithful to humanity. He warned to

help them, but if they didn't accept the help, they

would be destroyed. The Bible say, concerning sin, he is

our way of escape. Concerning hell, he is our way

of escape. And I want to serve notice on hell

right here, right now, and tell our young people concerning temptation,

he is our way of escape. You say, but that's

huge because of the day and hour that I am

living in.

It didn't matter if you were living in.

The day and hour of Abraham and the sister city

Solomon tomorrow around the corner, or you're living near Miami, Florida,

or Los Angeles, California. I want you to know he

has made a ray of escape from temptation.

Oh thank God.

Sometimes I think we'll sing that song a little too

free mindedly.

Oh how the heart is tempted to sin.

I tell you, if you'll walk in the spirit, who

will not fulfill the lust of the fashion, how you're

gonna make it? Abraham, one step at a time, ten

feet at a time, one mile at a time, one

twel at a time. I will be faithful, I will

be trustworthy. I will who may God no matter what?

Amen?

Amen, he told us servant Abraham what he intended to do.

What about Whenever God speaks to you through the preacher,

and God tells you, hey, there's harm coming your way.

Sometimes maybe God said that, and God's trying to keep

you out of harm's way. Then other times, maybe the

devil sent that you could ask job. It could come

from all four corners and it could come from either

the Prince of the Air, or it could come from

the King of Glory.

He told his servant what he intended to do.

Listen, God hasn't commissioned us to take over the world

by military might. God hasn't asked brother Nathaniel to name

every animal on the planet. Every animal within the animal

kingdom has to be named. Adam could say, that's huge,

But you know what God did tell Brother Nathaniel to do.

Give them daughters a good name. The Bible said, a

good name is rather to be chosen than great riches,

and love and favor, rather than silver and gold. And

I want you to know Fathers has imported it was

Let Adam name them beasts of the field, and the

foul of the air and the marine life.

The responsibility was huge.

But the responsibility on your shoulders to name them kids

the right names, Oh, come on now, and to bring

them up into nurture and the admonition of the Lord.

And if Abraham Lincoln's mother had not had nurtured him,

if she had not have been faithful in those little things,

O honest table would never have become her our king, David,

I know Israel has got her beloved King, and we've

got to our beloved president. It started out with a

little washboard. Mama had a little cabin. Come on, a

little school marm and a little school house. Somebody telling

her little boy, I said, God is in arrested with.

Them little things. They made something big to God.

Man.

I'm tired, I'll tell you that.

But it's a huge responsibility to bring these children up

in the nurture and ammunition of the Lord. And he

has required little tiny things of most people who were

in this building to night, go to the ant, dau

slugger dealing, go to the ant, grace, go to the ant,

and you look and you look at that teamwork, and

you look at that transportation.

Oh come on, now, you look at the way.

That little tiny creature that's just hoping your pinky finger

does it crush it?

You look at how frail.

Life is for such an insignificant finite being, But yet

in it it possesses a work ethic that is superior

to Jesse Howell, and that is saying something. And that's

what I'm trying to tell you. At the end of

this life, God's gonna be looking for servants that he

can say well done.

Well.

Whenever his army comes marching in, I wanna be in

that number. I hope he never sends a marching band

of army ants in, and all of us have to

get down there on that street of golden and God, say,

consider the ant, How sluggard you should have worked while

I was dead. You should have reached the least and

the lost and the lordly. I'm not gonna stand here

and tell you you've got a green passer into the

glory world. I'm telling somebody here to night, go to

the ant to a com Milton's poem. Order it off

of e Pay order that old answer antiqua, you little

thing off of Amazon if you can find it. A

considered the ant, I say, consider the faithfulness of the air.

I sluggard.

When I get a million dollar house, I'll clean it.

When I get a million dollar business, how i'll push it.

When I get that thirty dollars an hour job, how

I'll work hard. Bless God, you shouldn't even hit this

news button on a six dollars and fifty cent an

hour job. That there'll be such a thing, he said,

I no, boy, Ye, sister Wooten, he has not required

big things of us. He has not required huge things

of us tonight, Sister Howell. But every individual needs to

be trustworthy in small responsibilities that he is placed in

your hands. I've seen people before act like they would

be better parents if they had a dozen kids.

I tell you what would happen.

It'd be a dozen more Hellions than the one they have.

Notice the Lord revealed his will and planning Abraham because

of abraham faithfulness. He heard things other wouldn't hurt. He

heard things others would not have heard because of his faithfulness. Hey,

should we tell Abraham what we need to do? Should

we tell Abraham what we've got to do? Yeah, you

gotta tell him. Why should I tell him? Because look

at him. He's down there working harder than anybody else.

He's not stumbling into success. He's just simply being obedient

from one place to the next. And when he's there,

he's got good stewardship going on, and he's trustworthy and

he's faithful.

He's trustworthy.

When there was just six or seven of us around here,

now there's only a few more. There's only about eighty

here tonight. I'm not passing pastoring eight hundred something people

but you know what, I gotta be faithful, I gotta

be trustworthy, and I have to handle these small responsibilities

that he's placed in my hand. Abraham was a trustworthy servant.

And I can tell there's just a handful of people

in this building you don't like the idea of being

a servant. Since the haw told me the other day,

she's we didn't even discuss the sermon. This is the

only thing she said. She said, Jeremy, last Wednesday night's

sermon was just something else. And she said, I feel

a kickback from just a handful of people when you

talked about an employee is nothing less than a servant,

nothing more than a servant, nothing less than a servant.

You're a servant. And she said, I could tell some

of them didn't like that. And I said, well, the

whole thing about that message was if you can't be

a good servant, you can't be a good son.

Oh my God in heaven, if you were.

To win the sweepshakes tomorrow, that's right, sluggard, Now you

be polishing that jaguar, wouldn't you know? You wouldn't The

Bible said, by much lawfulness of the hands the building

to kaith since to how and I drove by a

three million dollars church facility today, wondering if that would

be something that God would have us purchase, help this

people purchase. And you know what's as to how we

could tell the ants we're doing a better job in

the churchyard than the people were. I've never seen something

so neglected as what I saw today. It is still

worth a lot of money, is still very valuable, It's

still very precious. But Brother Nathaniel, I'm gonna say it again,

the little bitty ants were more more faithful to the

commandments of God than the ministerial, pastoral and personal staff there.

I'm just telling you what is a cry and shame.

The Lord trusted Abraham with training those under his care

and influence. The servant of the Lord will train and

teach others. And you know what, not everybody's gonna listen.

Some are gonna be bullheaded, some are gonna push boundaries,

And you know what, they don't have to worry about

you things anyway, because the lawbreaker, the disobedient, the unruly,

their life usually ends up in shambles anyway. They usually

end up with nothing. If they do live for any

length of time at all. Most of them end up

because they don't pay any attention to instruction, They disregard wisdom,

They run past understandings, flag and warning signals, and they

end up in a huge hell wondering will somebody speak

to me words of truth, understanding of wisdom again, and

there will never be another voice heard concerning how to

correct the error of their ways. But right now you've

got Abraham's walking around here, that's trying to instruct, that's

trying to train, that's trying to teach. Listen, parents and preachers.

God cares about what's going on into the house when

church service is at being held. I love to hear

crickets preach. Listen, parents and teachers. God is interested in

what's going on at that house when church service is

at being held. Faithfulness and the little things matters to

the Lord. Faithfulness and the little things matters to the Lord.

In Luke, chapter number sixteen, verse number ten and eleven,

the Bible said, he that is faithful in that which

is least is faithful also in much. And he that

is unjust in the least is unjust also in much.

If he therefore, if you have not been faithful in

the unrighteous man, and who will commit your trust to

true riches. Every person prays that tonight knows much about

the biblical character Abraham.

He was a great man of God. Right. He was

a great man of God that did great things for God. Right.

Oh, but he didn't become great overnight. It was a process.

This is what the Holy Ghost gave me while I

was praying this morning. It wasn't a one step process.

It wasn't a ten step process. It wasn't a hundred

step process. It wasn't a thousand step process. It was

a lifelong process of faithfulness. Well, I'm going to I'm

going to well, I'm going to come in the morning.

I'm gonna get up at ten thirty. I'm going to

how I'm going to I'm going to I'm gonna clean

my bedroom. I'm gonna pick up them dirty clothes. It's

been in that corner, and I'm gonna drag him to

the other corner, at least that other corners closer to

the door. Grace, consider the ant thou sluggard dealing, Consider

the ant now sluggard, Huh, the Lord new Abraham would

do exactly what it told him to do now. I

guarantee you it's these sluggards. Don't put this thing on repeat.

They ain't gonna change the air of their ways. And

I'll tell you there's nothing makes me sicker than watching

a sluggarde. Look what doest thou down here? Jonah Sleeper,

Brother Thomas, there, it ain't no sluggard. Hat, Brother Aaron,

what ain't no sluggard?

Huh?

If I become maintenance supervisor or foreman, then I'm gonna

feel like good morning, mercy, elders, get my back. The

Lord knew Abraham would do exactly what he told him

to do. He would speak to Abraham, and Abraham would

pay attention and he would listen. He that hath an

ear let him hear what the spirit said, unto the church,

do you have yours? Listen to what the spirit is saying.

Abraham would relocate if he needs too. He wouldn't meet

with the altar when the Lord asked him to meet

at the altar. It's a big thing, isn't it. It's

huge when you relocate, EJ. Wallace, that's huge, Brother Gabriel,

Brother Ej. It's huge when you pack your bags and

move your family. It's huge.

Some of y'all were willing to obey God in the

huge things.

But why are there some that will not do what

God told them to do concerning the little things?

I feel it. What about the big assignments?

You're looking for them, but what about the small assignments?

Matthew twenty five and twenty one.

His Lord said it to him, Well done, thou, good

and faithful servant. Thou hast been faithful over a few things.

That sounds little, doesn't it? I will make the ruler

over many things that sounds huge. Doesn't hinto Thou into

the joys of the Lord.

You mean, if I tend the mind little family, if

I tend to my little churchill, if I provide from

my little family, if I provide sermons from my little church.

When I get to heaven, I can expect something new.

I'm telling you I ain't expected anything us in this life,

but I'm expecting something ruder.

For huge in the afterlife.

The context of that is for the servants who've invested

what their Master gave or lent them. Their faithfulness turned

into fruitfulness. And that's what I want to leave with you.

Your faithfulness will turn into fruitfulness. The Lord is looking

for us to be consistent and dependent. While some of

the investors fell short, others fulfilled their responsibility and obligations.

Brother Nathaniel, before the martyr, was asked the question deny

or die? He had to be faithful in the little things.

The Lord watches how we handle the daily assignments of life.

I remember watching old brother Platt show up on Saturdays

at the Sister how and I got down here late

because I had worked all day, Our family had cleaned

up her own yard. We got prepared for Sunday. We

drove down here late, late, late late, And even though

we got here at two o'clock in the morning, hoping

to get at least six hours sleep as a baseline,

at six point thirty had old mow were fired up

back there, and the kids they couldn't sleep.

Through that old loud lawnmower.

And Sister Platte's cold him, and she said, don't you

know the preacher's only been in bed for four hours,

and you're gonna mow around that parsonage down there. You're

gonna mow around that church. Couldn't you at least wait

till eight or nine o'clock? Little old Johnny Platt ready

to be faithful, reminds me that old Church of God,

Brother brother Herbie Twists. An hour before every service, he

walked in there and through that light switch he went

over and dropped them thermostats. You see, these men continued

serving God and God's people even when what they did

seemed ordinary, even when what they did was the same old,

same old, even when what they did was repetitive, even

when what they did was uneventful, even when what they

did was unexciting. I'm telling you they weren't standing in

the poolpit preaching a sermon, but I could tell Brother

Johnny Platt was looking forward to Saturday as much as

he was Sunday. I'm telling you, consider the ant dau Sluggard,

Brother Platt, herb Betwists were consistent and dependent. They were

faithful and reliable. They were dependable. And I want to

close with this. As I was praying this afternoon, the

Lord reminded me of the Emperor penguin, and Brother Tyler

Wooton could tell you that the Emperor penguin is the

largest of that species. And I know I've seen them.

I'm telling you what I admire them. I guess I

have looked at every type of penguin there is, And

one time a zoo keeper told us that said that

that emperor penguin. But they live in the Antarctic, if

I'm not mistaken. And brother Tyler, he said that the

males are the ones that incubate the eggs. He said

that them female egg, them female penguins will lay those eggs,

and that by the masses they will leave, and they

will go hunt food for two to three months, and

they leave that egg in the care of that male penguin.

And that zoo keeper said that if that egg so

much as touches the icy floor underneath their feet, that

baby penguin dies, if it's for just a few seconds,

and so for sixty five to seventy five days, I believe,

They said, that male emperor penguin stands still balancing that

egg on their little feet, and there's nothing but just

a thin layer of penguin flesh, if you would, between

their egg and death. And God put it in that

emperor penguin not to save a nest, but to save

one baby.

And they will weather storms and suffer. They said.

Of course, God equipped it them with oils and feathers,

but they said, don't think they're not suffering. I said,

what do you mean? They don't eat, sister woot and

you're feeling it too. They don't eat that they might

sustain another life. I'm gonna tell you when we get

to heaven, I don't want a little microscopic sized ant

to come storming in there to headquarters where the General,

the creator of the cosmos is sitting there and ruling

the universe from the sitting position and a little tiny

voice of an itty bitty ants a reporting for duties.

I don't want a little efferor penguin to come uddling

up and saying I was more cautious and concerned about

preserving a life than they were. I was more faithful

and the little things let's stand. I feel like the

Holy Ghost wants to help somebody in this service tonight.

They're not feeling it. Some are, but the ones that

need to understand what I'm saying are not getting it.

Creation itself testifies against humanity by the masses, whether little

or small. Creation says we can do better. Now, what

about the human with that mind that God has given you?

Do you know what makes us special?

Our minds and our souls, Brother Jesse, soulless creatures are

better stewards and more faithful in the little things.

They say.

If that male emperor penguin so much as Flinch's or

gets startled and that egg rolls out on that icy floor,

it's over. And the first thing then female lifelongmates do

when they come home from hunting with food for the baby,

and then next the male. So the first thing they

do is walk over to their companion and look to

see if their baby made it. And they said they

will grieve that those male emperor penguins will grieve when

they realize I didn't pull it off. I lost my

one little ed biddy baby, God forbid. But if brother

Philip lost his one little child, it would be earth shattering.

And know how easily we lose one hour? And that's

what Jesus said. What you could have went to prayer

meeting with the creator of the cosmos for one hour.

It don't take ten hours, ask Crystal Harris. It just

takes an hour each day. Oh yes, so, Bud, let's

about our heads.

May we.

Shall we close those eyes? Please?

Is there somebody in this building right now that would say, preacher,

I understand that little things are big to God. Little

things are big to God. Now, can I ask you

a question? Would you meet me your pastor in the altar?

Because I feel like this little church means all the

world to God. Well, I guess it's just a hand

for of us. But it will be said by the

ant and the Emperor Penguin's example, little things are big

to him. The Emperor Penguin will incubate the egg in

the harshest of conditions. He's faithful to do so and

refuses to leave the egg. The martyr brother Jesse that

refuses to deny and would rather die.

He had been faithful.

In church attendance, studious and studying the Word of God.

But I don't have much. Little as so much when

God is in it. There's a little man with a

lunch box. That day the Master needed a handful of

fish and bread that he could bless and provide in

abundance for the masses. Little things are big to him.