From Filthy To Filled - Pastor J. D. Howell 4-5-2026

Amen, un message the Holy Ghost titled from Filthy to Field.

If you have your Bibles, will you turn with me

to the Book of Proverbs. May I direct your attention

to the twenty fifth chapter and the fourth verse. Brother

Nathaniel Job, chapter number twenty three and verse number ten.

Brother Jesse one, Peter, chapter number one and verse number seven, Bethea,

we have had a wonderful resurrection Sunday again. Thank you

so much for the meals that were prepared today. Everything

was just outstanding. You're to be commended for all that

you did. I can tell you did it with excellent

so for that I'm very thankful. Brother Nathaniel Job, chapter

number twenty three and verse number ten.

My brother, but he knoweth the way that I take.

When he hath tried me, I shall come forth as gold. Amen,

when he hath tried me, I shall come forth as gold.

When he tries you, how will you come forth? As

for Job, He'll come forth as gold. But ask for us,

how will we come out? Brother Jesse one Peter chapter

number one, verse number seven.

That the trial of your faith, being much more precious

than of gold, that perisheth, though it be tried with fire,

might be found unto praise and honor and glory at

the appearing of Jesus Christ.

Tried with fire. Let's stand for the reading of our

Golden Text. Proverbs chapter number twenty five and verse number four.

The Bible says, take away the draws from the silver,

and there shall come forth a vessel for the finer.

May we pray, Heavenly Father, we love and we praise you.

We thank you for the opportunity to be in your

house tonight. We pray that you would anoint this Thy

servants said of guard at my mouth, and help me

to say the things you would have me to say,

nothing more or less. Anointy ears of this thy people,

that they might hear what the Spirit of God says

into this church tonight. May these sayings go below the shoulders. Lord,

I pray that these words, your words, the word of

this blessed book, the Bible, the Holy Bible, would saturate

the soul and the spirit go below the shoulders. Lord,

May we depart this place joyfully and not sorroply in

Jesus' name. And the church said, Amen, as you're being

seated reading our golden text again. Proverbs chapter number twenty

five and verse number four, take away the draws from

the silver, and there shall come forth a vessel for

the finer. Our text is found in an Old Testament

book of the Holy Bible. The Book of Proverbs is

known as a handbook for people that love the Lord.

I doubt that anybody of the world would be interested

at all in taking up the Book of Proverbs. If

any worldly hide were to take up the Book of Proverbs,

they would find themselves becoming all the more wiser as

a result to being a student of this particular book.

I remember when I first got saved nearly thirty four

years ago. The good, sweet holy Ghost provided insight and

instruction to me and set me on a path of

studying this Bible, specifically this book of the Bible, the

Book of Proverbs. There was not a day that went

by that I did not read at least five chapters

out of this book of the Bible. And I feel

today that I am wiser because of the study that

was involved in that particular book of the Bible. Brother

Dan Little texts me either this morning or last night.

He said, Pastor, I just want to let you know

I appreciate you, and I appreciate your wisdom very much.

I've never asked anybody to declare me to be a

wise man. I've never felt like I am a wise person.

I know that children sing the song about the wise

man building his house upon the rock and the foolish

man building his house upon the sand. And definitely I

have felt it of most importance to build my house

upon the rock Christ Jesus, and to build my house

upon the foundation of the Word of God, and specifically

the Book of Proverbs. Because Solomon, a Jew, was the

wisest man in all of the world, and most Bible

scholars and theologians feel that he was the wisest man

to have ever lived. There will never be an equal

to him in wisdom. And so I know that this

is a very important nugget that God has brought forth

unto us. Tonight, I want you to look at it

one more time. That verse says, take away the draws

from the silver, and there shall come forth a vessel

for the finer. So every person that reads the Book

of Proverbs, they have an opportunity to do more than

just live and learn as they walk through life.

They can live life skillfully.

Every wise man and woman will pick and choose their

ways and battles. They will pick and choose their ways

and battles wisely. In all of their getting, they will

get wisdom. They will find it to be their greatest possession,

their most prized possession. Once they have it will be

wisdom and the good news. It is available to us all.

In all of our getting, we should get wisdom. And

wisdom is the principal thing. And if any man a

lack wisdom, he is to request it of the God

of Solomon, the same one that gave it to Solomon.

And our good God, which is also the good God

of Solomon, will give it to all of us liberally,

and he will not upbraid us. There's plenty of wisdom

to go around. In fact, in this particular book of

the Bible, there's enough nuggets of wisdom for every person

in this building to pick up one on a daily basis,

and we would never exhaust the supply. So are you

in the minding business? Are you interested in sifting through

the filth of this world and mining the nuggets that

are available and attainable through the word of God. I

want every wise person in this building to understand that

sometimes we have to allow the word of God and

these proverbs to purge.

Things from our life.

And Proverbs twenty five and verse number four it reads again,

take away the draws from the silver, and there shall

come forth a vessel for the finer. How many of

y'all have ever cleaned out a cluttered house or a barn?

A lot of you have.

There's four people in this building right now who have

experienced this very recently, a lot of you know. I

own the business Merit Construction Services, and within that business

we provide a still detailing and drafting service, as well

as a still fabrication service.

But from time to time we will offer a.

Landscaping and a grass cutting service. But here lately I

have been offering a cleanup and clean out service, and

I have found it to be a most needed service,

because people just at all are not interested in cleaning

up and cleaning out things. They are okay with letting

things accumulate and letting things stack up until things are

in total disarray. And so brother Samuel's sister Hannah, brother Jonathan,

and brother Ethan, they were asked by me to clean

up a place not too far from here, and out

of respect to me in my business I don't want

any of them loose lips to provide information concerning the

location of our customer's property or his cluttered house or

his cluttered barn at the end of this service, I

want them to keep that information confidential or between us.

But it belonged to an old, decorated veteran, and as

far as we know, he is deceased. And it appeared

to me that he was a good man, a man

that served God and his country with honor. I don't

know that he was a holiness man, but apparently he

was one that feared God. I've heard Brother Samuel tell

me some things that this man's son has said that

has let me know that these people are for God

and country.

And so, even though this man was a.

Decorated war hero, he needed to declutter before he departed

this life. But he was unwilling to declutter, even though

he was a highly decorated veteran. And there's something else

about this man that I know that nobody else in

this building and knows but his family. Now, Brother Samuel,

and I can tell you that, without a doubt, this

man was more than a decorated war he wrote, he

was more than a veteran. He was a pack rat.

And it's getting very quiet in here. I feel like

I'm stepping on some toes unknowingly and unintentionally. You see,

the house and the barn were packed with stuff, both

good and bad.

Help me, brother, Samuel, did you tell me?

In that barn and house you found rusted tools and

broken pieces of furniture, and old newspapers and old papers.

Sister Howell, he found some stuff that had not been

touched for decades. I'm sure Samuel Howell looked at that

situation after I sent him there and said, oh boy,

and then turn his head and looked at his sister,

sister Hannah Howell edwards as she put her hand over

her mouth and probably uttered these words, but where or

where do we begin? But I'm sure that both of

them knew what I knew, that there had to be

some good stuff in there somewhere. And I know tonight

that God has let me know concerning some individuals in

this building.

There are some good things inside.

Of you somewhere. I still believe in you. I still

believe that God can do a wonderful work in and

through your life. But someone had to be the first

one to begin the purification or the cleaning of process

at some point by the Samuel willing to break the ice.

And and as he began to sift through the rubbish,

and he found metals of honor. And after the debris

was removed, and after this and that were shot to

the side, and after certain things were hauled to the dumpster,

and some things.

Carried off sight sister Howell.

After all of the clutter had been removed, good stuff,

for valuable things begin to surface. And some of the

bad things that had to be removed were literally earned

full of ashes. And to our surprise, the homeowner had

no desire what soever to tind to the ashes of

what seemed to be family members and family pets. Amongst

those urns ashes were the remains of a little baby.

You would have thought that this family member, or this

person that is controlling this situation, that there would have

been a desire in their heart to properly dispose of

those remains. But there was no desire at all in

that man's heart to properly dispose of those remains. He

told brother Samuel. The talk of the town is this

that your daddy is a good man, and he is

an honest man, and he's a holiness preacher man. And

I want you to commit those earns and those ashes

to him for his disposal, because he will know the

proper way to dispose of these asheshop it gets right

down to this, that man did not want to deal

with the draw said all. He did not want to

deal with a clutter, and he was not altogether concerned

about what might surface through this purification process. But in

our golden text here tonight, it says, take away the

drawsom from the silver, and there shall come forth a

vessel for the fighter. Can I tell you that brother

Samuel Howell would say tonight without any hesitation, that the glory.

Was in the ashes and were not too.

Far away from the urns, and the ashes were for

folded flags. Old glory was rapped there among the ashes.

And I feel like somebody in this building tonight needs

to get the imagery of our golden texts.

You need to pick sure. A silver smith is in

his shopping and the fire of purification is burning hot,

and he is pouring sweat profusely, and he takes a

piece of ore up in the tongs and inserts them

into the flames of.

The herds or the oven.

And he knows as good as any other smith that

this is or it is nothing more than a composite

of both good and bad elements in there, some dirt

in there, some grit in that ore, are some little pebbles,

and other things that are undesirable according to our text,

and the purpose or the mission of the silver smith

is to produce a vessel that is a very fine vessel.

And so if we keep that in mind, we will

know that this silver smith is producing a beautiful silver platter,

a silver vessel, or a silver goblet of some kind,

perhaps a serving utensil of silver. He's not interested in

fashioning a cast iron skillet. He's fashioning a very fine vessel.

And that is what the Lord is trying to do

right here amongst the members of the Metal Holiness Church.

And if you would, he's not wanting to accept the

cast iron skillet of the Ecumenical Church movement. He is

looking for a vessel that is meet for the master's use,

a vessel of the finer. You see, there is a

difference in a refined vessel or something that is of

composite nature. In the decorated veterans home there were things

that brother Samuel felt and did not belong inside of there.

There were things he felt should not have been in

a professon Christian's home are born. The silversmith felt the

same way about the dirt and the grime in this vessel,

and thus he increased the intensity of the heat. It

was purpose to take away the draws and to remove

the chunk. Let me preach to a few of us

in this building tonight, Let the Holy fire up God

deal with a drawsom in your life. Allow the Holy

Ghost of God to remove the grime and the filter

in your life. If I'm telling you that Christians are

not sinning habitually, and Christians are not sinning on a

daily basis, but sometimes as Christians we recognize her that

there are things in our life and in our relationships

that do not belong there. I want to name a

few things that do not belong her in the heart

of a Christian. Competuousness, envy, jealousy, and maliciousness, bitterness. All

of these things do not belong her in the heart

of a child of God. And I wonder if there's

somebody in this building tonight that would come to the

altar and pray and ask God to put you into

the hurt that is holy, and ask God to increase

the fire, to increase the intensity.

Of the fire in your life.

If you want a vessel for the finer, then you

will allow him to put you in the fire. Young people,

a lot of times we have to turn loosen of attitudes.

Sometimes we have to turn loosen of toxic relationships.

The apostle Peter put it this way.

Our co text reads like this one Peter won in

seven that the trial of our faith, being much more

precious than that of gold, that perishing them, though it

be tried in the fire, might be found under praising

and honor and glory at the appearing of Jesus Christ.

So listen, please, Brother Samuel showed up at the warrior's house,

he showed up at the veteran's house, and you got

to realize that the Lord is attempting to make an

appearance at your house tonight. The Lord has come as

a silver smith, and he is standing outside of your

heart's door, and he's asking you to allow him to

come in and to clean up your house. Now, God's

knocking at your heart's door. It's God that's asking you

to open and allow him to come in and clean

up that mess.

And, for the lack of a.

Better word, let him fire it up, I said, let

him fire it up, let him be as a refiner's firing,

and let a purification process begin. I want to ask

you here tonight, what are you for? Are you for.

Putrification or purification?

I'm preaching a message the Holy Ghost titled from field

Hunt to Being Filled. It is very basic. We've heard

preachers say this for years. But if somebody brought a

crystal clear glass of water in here, you would drink

from that clear water. You would drink from that clean glass.

Oh come on now, But if somebody was sertain it

in the least, if somebody was to contaminate it, if

somebody was to put something in it that was undesirable,

that you would not even sip from that glass. Now,

what makes you think that God would do what you

wouldn't do? What makes you think that God would call

you son when you are not a father like? Come?

What makes you think God we'll accept the word Christian

when you are not christ like? Come? Listen, Christians, they

are not temperamenta. Christians do get angry at times, but

they don't get out of control. Christians might get angry,

but they seeing not Christians do not christen.

Christians do not fight.

In fact, in the Word of God, it says that

Christians and are not strikers, and they are not brawlers.

Christians don't go around with that filter radiating from her

what's supposed to be God's temple. I didn't even think

of this until now here we are again talk and

a mouth to cleansing the temple. What is going to

happen here tonight with you? Will you depart from filter

and be filled with the sweetness and the goodness of God?

Or will you hold on to putification versus embracing up purification.

That's the purpose of this entire service tonight. I've already

exhorted for about an hour. I'm more out, and some

of you your minds not even on what the Spirit

of God is saying to the church. You'll continue to

struggle tomorrow with only God knows what. You'll continue whole

on on to the bitterness. You'll continue whole on on

the jealousy. You'll continue whole on in me. You'll continue

hold on the line. You'll continue hold on on the hatred,

you'll continue holding on the coveteousness.

Can I tell you that that is filth?

Now? The Bible said in the Book of Job that

there was a man in the land of us, and

his name was a Job. According to the Word of God,

he was perfect and appright, and one that feared God

and eschewed evil and brother steric. The Bible said that

man had seven sons and three daughters, in other words,

ten children to take care of. And this man would

offer sacrifice on a daily basis, praying for him the

salvation and the deliberance of his children. He would pray

for their acceptance of Almighty God. And even though this

man had this wonderful reputation, that he could be considered

as an upright man in the sight of God and man,

that God would the need to try him, that God

would allow Lucifer to try him, that God would suggest

that Lucifer try him. Oh, come on, I don't know why.

Sometimes we have to go through things. Whether it was

God volering tearing us for the trio or Lucifer suggesting

that we be the one tried. Whether we're serving God

for naught or not, has nothing to do with it.

Sometimes the pride or tried to and sometimes those that are.

Not so a priud or tried.

Sometimes it rains on the just and the unjust. But

in Job's case, how could there be any more purification?

How could there be any better refinement? How could there

be any better scenario in here life? But God knew

Lucifer put him to the test, to put him to

the fire, don't take his life. But when he has

been tried, Job will stand up and say, no, he

slay me? Yet? Will I trust him? The Lord? I'm

telling you, a man that was already considered to be perfect,

God was gonna allow her the purification processor to happen

her in his life. Yes, I'm like mother Samuel to Knight.

I'm in this house and I'm trying to get it decluttered.

I'm trying to get it to decontaminated. That I'm trying

to help two or three of you realize her. You

can go from being filthy to be in filled with

the sweetness and the goodness of God. Amen.

Let him fired up. Let him fired up.

Hey man, brother Samuel, there's some very valuable things that

you have discovered, And you know what, we'll keep those

findings between us. Oh, thank God for that. I'm thankful

that Brother Samuel and his team begin to take away

the dross. Sister Whoot, and you would be very familiar

with the process of making cane syrup. I was privileged

to have seen my granddaddy make cane syrup and one

of his best friends, Jimbo, only one time, but I

saw the old kettle that Poppa and Jimbo had, and

that old kettle set out in the back of Papa's

yard for many, many, many years. And for those of

you that are Florida crackers, you know that process. They

go into a cane field, whether small large, and they

put in the sickle and Brother Jesse then they strip

the stalk that they've just cut down of its leaves

and then they run it through a grinding process. They

crush it and they press it. And I've seen them

use man power before as they begin to crush them

cane stalks. And you've seen them use donkey power before

as they turn the wheel of the grindstone. Oh, come on, now,

you know what their purpose was to press it with power.

They would press it with power. And that's the problem

with a lot of preaching today. That's the problem with

a lot of religion. Today everybody's got an appearance, they've

got a format, and they've got a fashion.

But they deny the need of power.

It doesn't matter if you're running a refinery or distillery

or whatever it is. You can't do anything without the power.

You can't do anything without either manual pressure or the

pressure generated by a piece of equipment. But after the pressing,

they light a fire and they begin something called the

purification or purging process, and they burn that syrup and

they boil that syrup until it gets all all of.

The impurities removed.

Doesn't that sound out what was going on in the

life of job and Job twenty three and ten. But

he knoweth the way that I take. When he had

tried me, I shall come forth as gold. This man,

no doubt felt like he was being pressed. If he

didn't feel like it, his wife made sure that they

felt like they were being press And we know not

only his wife felt like she was being pressed up.

We know Joe felt like he was being pressed up.

That is why he was sitting in the ashpow. And

I want you to know the glory is sitting in

the ash pole. It is sitting there in humility. It

is taking it like a man. It is taking it

with a smile on your face. Has taken it without

abusing God, has taken it without cursing his name, has

taken it without blaming God. Come on now, oh, come on,

you know that's what David did. He sat there in

the ashpow, he put on his church clothes, the letting in,

he fatherer, and he began to encourage himself in the Lord.

He encouraged himself in the good things of God. Now,

what makes you think God's gonna accept a lesser sacrificer

upon the altar of ashs you that he would with

job David. When you find your selfa going through hardship,

that is when the sweetness comes out. When you find

yourself being pressed, that is when the sweet juices foes.

I'll tell you, when the nature of the cane stalker

begins to break down, that's when the golden juice falls.

And when you're pressed to what comes out? Do your

cuss do you turn red past, do you get angry?

Do you get mader? I want you to know God

He'll continue to take you through the pressor until you

are broken down.

And after you're broken down, he'll boil you.

The best thing you can do is just say, you

know what, naked, I came into this earth, and naked

shall I return. I came into this earth with the

things God gifted me with, and I'll leave this earth

the same way God gifted me. I came into this

world with a certain amount of intellect, and I'll leave

this world with a certain amount of intellect. I came

into this world ugly, and I'll leave this world ugly.

Do you know I know of a preacher who was

very mad because he was not of a different nationality.

That preacher tried to call me today. They said when

he was in sin that he would walk around and

curse men and God because he was not of a

certain nationality. Even though he was a United States citizen,

he wanted to be of a different nationality, of a

different country. Can I tell you it takes a very unwise,

a foolish man to walk around and want to be

Chinese when he's an American. It takes a very foolish

man for a Chinaman to walk around and wish that

he was American born. You are what you are, aren't y'all?

Thankful that God introduced himself to Moses as I am

that I am, which is where you find the name

of Yahweh. God said, let me introduce myself by this name, Yahweh.

I am that I am.

But Apostle Paul put a spin on it, and I've

been working on a sermon. God brought this to my

attention in a season of prayer. Apostle Paul said, by

the grace of God, I am what I am. God said,

I am that I am. An Apostle Paul said, I

am what I am because of who He is. And

you are who you are tonight because that's who He

made you to be. He knew who he needed on

this earth at such a time as this. You may

not be Queen Easter Hey. You might be Lydia. You

may not be Apostle Paul. You might be Timpathy. You

might not be Charity. How you might be Hannah Edwards.

You might not be black headed. You might be brown headed.

You might not have steely brown or black eyes. You

might have blue eyes. Oh, come on now. You may

not be an a student to as hard as you try.

You might be a sea student. But you are what

you are by the grace and the goodness of God.

And I'm telling you sometimes people go through things and

they blame God, they blame authority, they blame the preacher,

they blame the pastor they blame the parents. But I

want you to know you are who you are, and

you ought to be the best version of help yourself.

I said you ought to be the best version of

help yourself.

I feel like preaching.

He will try you. He will take away the filthy attitudes.

He will feel you with sweetness and goodness, nurst of all,

he will feel you with the sweet Holy girls. So

let me get this straight. You want to curse God

because you have it rough, But job being a perfect man,

an upright man, sister wooting, and he's got to go

through it. You the thought, because of his holiness and

because of his righteousness, there'd have been nothing else to

be done. But God knows this man. Even if he

goes through it with it not being needed, he is

not going to complain. And even when his best friends

come and they falsely accuse him, and when some of

them literally declare him to be a fool, and some

of them literally declare him to be backsliding and against God,

and some of them basically call him an infidel. He

will sit there in that press, has the evil demons

of Hell press him sore, and as boils begin to

surface on his body, as he's scraping those balls with potsherds,

little broken pieces of pottery, and then he finds out

all of his kids are dead, the ones he prayed

for every day, the ones he warned about the devil,

the ones he warned about contaminating your soul with the

things of this world, the ones that he warned about

the lust of the flesh and the pride of life,

and the lust of thy sister whit. He found out

his mission project of his own family is over, His

ministry is over. Even as empire is sunk, everything's going

up in smoke. The enemies have been stirred up by

Satan himself against him. And he's sitting there and the

impsel Hell are pushing on that press. And somebody could say, look, look, father, look, father,

look what's coming out of the press? Liquid gold, liquid gold.

When he has tried me, I'll come forth as gold.

Brother Jesse, you know a little bit about purging waterlines.

You purge with great pressure and with a lot of water.

Lucifer was sure that job would curse God. Lucifer was

so sure that job was serving God only because things

were going good for job, and God knew better. God

just went ahead and found the best candidate that would

bring forth the best sweet syrup. Have you tried this

cane patch? It's the best, It's the best. I go

out there and drive through Clewiston and Bell Glade, even

down towards you Mockolee and now even summoned South La

Bell and I see cane feel that the cane feel

that they can feel. Brother Stared, I had forgot you

worked there now for us Sugar, and years ago I

did some access platforms with some of those big conveyors,

ce ten towers, some of them conveyors, transferred towers, drag conveyors,

all that stuff. Personally did the drawings on a lot

of that back in the day, probably twenty years ago

or so. I remember driving through Clewiston. I said, I'm

close to where the sweet stuff is and somebody said,

how do you know, I said, because I smelled the

felt that is one of the stinkingest cities I've ever

been in in my life, and I can't smell good.

There was a water treatment plant behind my house for years,

and after seven years, I never smelled at one time,

Brother Stare. At many times we passed that water treatment

plant and sister house, sister handed said that's future. Oh

that's wretched, that's ungodly. That's while Sister Hannah Go felt

nothing but felt I'm preaching the message the Holy Ghost titled.

From Filthy to fhild.

I forget how we call what we called that stuff,

brother stare at bogossi or ball gas or something the

byproduct of the sugar cane. It's been years now, what's

it called gas? Ball gas? And I'm telling you it

looks terrible, it smells terrible, It is terrible. You chew

on that junk, it's fermented, it's wretched. But Brother Jesse,

in the storage barns of us sugar, there's the prettiest sugar,

grains of sugar, whether brown or white, whether refined or

not refined. If you could get in there, after getting

past the filt, you would say, I had no idea

something that sweet could have come out of that philt.

And that's what I'm trying to tell somebody. I pull

for some of you all day to day for restoration

to tell you it doesn't matter how low you've gone,

it doesn't matter how far you've fallen, it doesn't matter

how rotten you've got. I've heard even mamas before talk

about their own boys and girls and say they're just

so rotten. I don't know what to do with them.

But can I tell you, God can make that rot

just as sweet. And the best way to be refined

is to come to this altar and to kneel at

this altar right now while the spirit of God is moving,

and say, Lord, I'm willing for you to change me.

I don't want to stay the same. Lord, Refine me, Lord,

decontaminate me, Lord, cleanse me, Purify me, purify me. Lord.

After the impurities have been removed, he will move in.

Sweetness will flow out. Brother Samuel, you know what that

investor and the one that inherited that home is doing.

He's letting you do the dirty work so he can

sell that house. But just as soon as you take

away the dross, just as soon as you take away

the clutter, he's gonna send somebody in here to occupy

that house. He's gonna see nothing but dollar signs. And

that's what I'm trying to give you hope and a

promise tonight. I'm not gonna hold anything against you. God's

not gonna hold anything against you. But I am asking

you to take the doubt so you can be filled

with the sweetness of the Lord. Young people, if you're

in a contaminated relationship or a toxic relationship, it's time

to take to junk out so that God can bring

in the good. Let's stand tonight. May God help us

right here as we come to the altar, would you

bow your head and may we pray? Someone won't mind

filling a glass that has been perd of the filth.

And Sister Howell didn't know what I was going to

preach on tonight. She led us in song, and the

song spoke these words, what can wash away my sin?

Nothing but the blood of Jesus. What can rid me

of these contaminants? What can make me whiter than snow?

Nothing but the blood of Jesus. I'm not asking you

to kneel at the work bench of us, sugar, I'm

asking you to kneel at this holy ghost refinery here tonight,

and let God take out the filth and let God

work on that vessel that it might be meat for

the Master's use. Are there other people that would come

into this altar right now and pray with this brother

and say, Preacher, I need the builth to be taken

out so that the good can come in from filthy

to filled. Mm hmm