A White Tuxedo - Pastor J. D. Howell 12-7-2025

The Book of Isaiah.

May I direct your attention to chapter number sixty four

and verse number six. Brother Jesse Matthew, chapter number five

and verse number twenty. I feel like Muhammad, allIt tonight.

I've got my coach in a corner over here. Brother

chip Roy is in a corner. Praise the Lord. If

I run over to the corner of the matt or

the ring and I say to help me out, coach,

I needed to tell me where to swing, only opponent,

Praise the Lord. I'm not putting on. I want these

young people to know it's okay. It's okay, it's okay

to ask for help. Amen. All right, Brother Nathaniel Isaiah

chapter number sixty four, verse number six, Brother Jesse Matthew,

chapter number five and verse number twenty, and believe it.

If you will turn with me to Saint Matthew's Gospel.

May I direct your attention to chapter number two two,

and we will read more scripture than we have done

in quite a while. We'll read verses number one through fourteen.

May I say, beloved, you are a beautiful group of

saints of God, and I appreciate you all so much.

I covet your prayers. Brother, Nathaniel Isaiah sixty four and six.

My brother, but we.

Are all as an unclean thing, and all our righteousness

are as filthy rags, and we do all fade as

a leaf, and our iniquities like the wind, have taken

us away.

Amen, how many of you believe that salvation is by

grace through faith? Thank God for the ruby red blood

of Jesus that has washed our sins away and cleansed

us from all filthiness of the flesh and spirit. I

thank God for that, brother, Jesse Matthew, chapter number five

and verse number twenty For.

Us say unto you that it is accept your righteousness

shall exceed the righteousness of the scribes and Pharisees. Ye

shall in no case enter into the Kingdom of Heaven.

Preaching the message the Holy Ghost titled a white tuxedo,

A white tuxedo. Let's stand for the reading of our

golden texts. Matthew, Chapter number twenty two, Verses number one

through fourteen. The Bible says, and Jesus answered and spaken

to them again by parables, and said, the kingdom of

Heaven is likened to a certain king which made a

marriage for his son and sent forth his servants to

call him that were bidden to the wedding, and they

would not come again. He sent forth other servants, saying,

tell them what you are bidding. Behold, I have prepared

my dinner, my oxen, and my fatlans are killed, and

all things are ready come unto the marriage. But they

made light of it and went their ways, one to

his farm, another to his merchandise. And the remnant took

his servants and entreated them spitefully and slew them. But

when the king heard thereof, he was wroth, and he

sent forth his armies and destroyed those murders and burned

up their cities. Then sayty to his servants, the wedding

is ready, but they which were bidden were not worthy.

Go ye therefore into the highways, and as many as

ye shall find bid to the marriage. So those servants

went out into the highways and gathered together all as

many as they found, both bad and good.

And the wedding was furnished with guests.

And when the king came in to see the guests,

he saw there a man which had not on a

wedding garment, and he said, unto him, friend, how camest

thou in hither, not having a wedding garment, and he

was speechless. Then said the King to the servants, bind

him hand and foot, and take they come away, and

cast him into outer darkness. There shall be weeping and

gnashing of teeth. For many are called, but few are chosen.

Would you pray to not Heavenly Father Lord, if I've

ever needed you, I need you tonight, God Lord, I

pray that your spirit would be like a spark to

the powder keg of my soul. Lord, set me afire

through the flame of the Holy Ghost. Ignite me, I pray, God,

and let me be a light, a candle, Light my candle.

I pray that you would anoint this thy servant by

thy strength and thy mind and thy spirit. O God,

I know the enemy will fight us tonight, Anoint me,

I pray. Set a guard at my mouth, and help

me to say the things you would have me to say,

nothing more or less. Anoint the ears of this thy people,

that they might hear what the spirit of God says

under the church.

Tonight.

Let these say as go below the shoulders, we pray, God,

and may we receive this word gracefully and joyfully. May

we depart this place joyfully and not sorrowfully in Jesus's name.

And the Church said, hey, man, as you're being seated,

look at your neighbor and say, hey, neighbor, do you

have on the wedding garment? Our Texas found in a

New Testament book of the Holy Bible. The Book of

Matthew is the first book of the New Testament. Tonight

we will be looking at a parable of our Lord Jesus.

In this parable, the Word himself tells the story of

a king who prepared a wedding banquet for his son.

Of course, it's supposed to be a happy occasion, a

joyous time, a time of feasting and merriment. You will

remember that the Lord Jesus said that whenever the Son

of Man returns, it will be as though it was

in the days of Noah. They will be eating and drinking.

There's nothing in the world wrong with eating and drinking,

nor is there anything in the world wrong with merriment.

As long as Jesus Christ is an invited guest and

willing to be a participant in such a festive time.

And we know that we are certainly living in perilous times,

it's not a festive time. It is a perilous time,

and I feel tonight that there are people in this

building that do not have on the wedding garment. After

preaching this morning, and after feeling the way we felt

around the altar as we prayed, we could tell there

were two or three that just simply were unready and

unprepared for the coming.

Of the Lord.

And I was greatly troubled in my spirit, even perplexed

that young people and young adults that consider amongst this

number of seventy five saved and sanctified people, that somehow,

in the midst of this perilous time and also such

a festive time for the Bethel Holiness Church, that they

would be unprepared. Since the wooding, this seems like something

that I would like to participate in. A great time

of feasting, a time of merriment. We see that this

is the most wonderful time of the year, this Christmas season.

We get excited because we're gonna be with friends and

family over the holiday. And I'm telling you, there's people

in this building that could not even wait until after

Thanksgiving to play their Christmas music. There's some in this

building that we're not hesitant at all to put up

a Christmas tree and to hang some lives. They were

excited about celebrating. But according to this parable, after this

king sent out the invitations through these messengers for the

Prince's wedding, hardly anyone was interested at all in attending

this wedding celebration.

They would not come.

The invitation had been received, but Brother Nathaniel, the RSVP,

indicated that they would not attend.

And I see that in our altar services.

I'm not worried about what's going on out there in

the other.

Churches around the world.

I'm not worried about what's going on tonight in the

other churches throughout America. They tell me we've got seventy

five or seventy seven in the building tonight.

And I'm not even at.

Altogether worried about seventy something people in this place tonight

as preach. But I'm very concerned about two or three

individuals in this building that has received an invitation, and

for whatever reason, they have no desire had all to

attend an altar of sacrifice.

They have no desire.

At all to attend an opportunity to accept Jesus Christ

as their personal Lord and Savior. They have no desire

whatsoever to seek out sanctification and holy ghost baptism.

We know here in this parable that the Lord.

Jesus was speaking that the heavenly Father had made provisions

for the Jewish people to inherit eternal life through the

Prince Jesus Christ. But even though the Father or the

King had prepared such a feast or banquet, there were

people that were unwilling to participate. In fact, one of

the verses of scripture says, there were some prime cuts

of meat on this backwitting table. There was ox meat

and the meat of the fatted calf. All things were ready,

all things needed were in place, and brother Nathaniel, all

people had to do was to attend in order to

eat and drink them and be mery. But the Bible said,

they made a light of it. To them, it wasn't

a big enough deal. They didn't see the need to attend.

One went back to the farm, the Bible said, in

other words, one felt like plowing the field or tilling

a row in the garden was more important than attending

this wedding festivity. And others went back to sell merchandisee.

That's what Jesus was stating in this parable, they are

not interested at all in me being the.

Way, the Truth, and the life.

He was referring to his Jewish brothers and sisters that

were disinterested in him being the road.

To salvation personified.

I'm telling you the Bible said he came unto his own,

and his own received him not I'm telling you this

as equal as the rejection of the Jews concerning Jesus,

as it is with you, the way you've been rejecting

the messages that the Lord Jesus Christ has sent your way.

Sister Howell said it best tonight.

She said, when you look upon our pastor and see

the burden that he's been over the last couple of weeks,

and you hear the messages that God has given him

to preach the three four pibe in this place, you

can't help but wonder what is wrong and with some

of these people. What was wrong with the Jews who

said in great darkness and saw a great light.

I'll tell you the explanation for that. It's a biblical.

Statement to their deeds were evil, and me in love

of darkness rather than a light.

In layman terms, I want.

To tell you that these Jewish people wanted to keep

doing what they had been doing.

They wanted to be religious.

I believe it was Leonard raven Hill that said, man

is desperately religious. But what we need is something more

than a legion. We need a personal relationship with the Prince.

I'm telling you here tonight, I'm preaching to a couple

of you in this building right here at the Methel

Holiness Church. And so the messengers of the King, they

have invitations in their hand. According to this parable, they

are going about inviting anyone that would come to this

wedding celebration. And some decided that they would reject the invitation,

while others felt like they would kill the messenger. And

that's what's going on today right now, in this day

and hour, in the same way that it was going

on in the days of our Lord, and even before

his time. People are killing the siren of the Lord.

They are murdering her the male man. I'd like to

preach some time on that titled murdering her the Male Man.

Ey Bible reader and student prayers tonight knows very well

that the Lord had offered a wonderful opportunity to the

Jewish people, and he offered the new wonderful things for

the Hebrews from the days of Abraham, throughout the daft

time of David, and right all through the lifetime of

the Prophets until the time of John the Baptist. The

Lord wanted to do great things for the Jewish people.

They had been a blessed with the Abraham and coming

into the dividic coming into and.

So many other things.

And God had blessed them and graced them with me

in like her Jeremiah, Amos, Micame, Melekiah, and more. To

show them a more excellent way, a way to lead

them to the wedding, a way to lead them to

the banqueting table. But Jesus himself said, you killed the

propets that were sent undo you.

Not only did they kill the mail men, not only.

Did they destroy the messengers, and they killed the Prince himself.

And I know there's some of you.

Unless you experience a supernatural change in.

Your life because of the way.

The Holy Ghost is dealing with you, you will too

one day develop feelings in your.

Heart about the mail man.

I'm telling you the call for the you, he's the

same for the gentile. Every believer, whether you oh gentile is,

you must be born again. If you're a pharisee named Nicodemus,

if you're a religious leader named Sala Tarsusa, he must

be born again. And I want you to know you

then I believe a salvation by grace to your faith.

When you're born again.

You will listen to the messenger, you will read the mail,

and you will show up.

Have to banquet.

I said you will show up, have to banquet. Brother

Philip just brought in a white tuxedo. Thank the Lord

for that. I didn't ask him if he had one,

and I'm not gonna ask him where he got it.

But friend, you better get one, and you better wear it,

not so much proudly as humbly. And you better know

that you need to do your best to live in

obedience and compliance with the word of God, and try

to keep yourself hunspotted.

By the world.

I can't imagine what somebody would be thinking that would

rather choose the pleasures of this life than to feel

the joys of the Holy ghosts as he moves upon them.

I've seen people that have tasted of the Lord, and

they have turned and walked away and went back into

that world, brother Philip, if they own a white wedding garment,

it wasn't too long before that white wedding garment was

stained and spotted by the things of this world. I

don't know about you all, but I surmise and suppose

that brother Philip hopes tonight that we do not get

anything hold that white tupsiedo. I didn't ask him to

bring it, but somehow it is here right now. I

ain't told him anything about this, and somehow it's.

Here right now. Are you with me?

I don't know if that is the suit and he

got married in or not, but whatever it is, he

has no desire that you or himself mess it up.

I remember, just hours before he was to wed sister Elizabeth,

there was a certain number that called his phone. My

son Samuel, captured the moment. He showed me a couple

of days ago. He said, dadd have you ever seen this?

I said, no, what is it? He said, that's your

baby boy about to get married. I said, I suppose

as much. I was thinking that's what you were gonna say,

he said, but there's more to it. Think about it.

I said, I don't know what happened Samuel, or what's

going on? He said, Dad, did you notice he's on

the phone. I said, I see that now. He said,

just a couple of hours before he was to get married,

he found out the cancer was malignant.

And he said, if you look at this other picture a.

Little later, he's wearing his white tuxedo and he's got

a big smile on his face, but if you look

in his eyes, you'll see a tear in there. He said,

he was a good bridegroom. He was not gonna rain

on his brides parade. He wasn't gonna cry. He just

grin and bear it. What I'm saying is, moments before

the wedding he got horrible, devastating news, but he went

on in this white tuxedo and he went to the wedding.

I'm telling some of you, I don't care what's happened.

I don't care what the devils don't they you? That

is no reason at all to run to the hog pill.

Try to consida, take care of yourself, take care of

the wedding garment. I've heard the people getting bitter and

because somebody had done them wrong, they take their wedding

garment and run it through the muck and the mar

and sometimes they put it in the flame and pass

it through the fire because of something that's happened to them.

And I don't understand how these Jewish people could listen

to the preaching of the great Prophet Jeremiah and Isaiah

and not understand Jesus, he's the one to perfect righteousness.

In fact, Isaiah was so excited one time as he

was preaching her prophesying. He said, and in the mountain,

shall the Lord of Hosts make unto all the people

a feast of fat things, a feast of wines on

their leaves, of fat things, full ofmorrow of wine on

the lees. Well refined, oh, sister Janet, he the Lord

was wanting to put before the Jewish people banquets. You

talking about boutiful blessings. That's the name of our outreach

ministry in Sea Bring Florida boutiful blessings. The Jews had

for blessings before them, and for some reason they did

not want to set it a banqueting table. I love

what sister Wooton said concerning Jesus and the manifold blessings

of the Bread of life himself. Let this fat girl

belly up to the trough spiritually speaking, and let me

eat of the blessings of the Lord. He is the

bread of life. I'm telling you. At that banqueting table,

he's flying a banner over your head. And the words

love is in the house, and the word holiness is

in the house. And the word faithful he is in

the house. And the word true he is in the house.

And the word worthy he's in the house. Oh, brother Philip,

you wore that spotless and white tuxed over to your wedding.

I've worn one a few times myself.

I remember I wore one the proma, and I wore

one to some sort of calendar couple event at the

high school. But the one that I remember wearing the

most was the one I wore to mining your mama's wedding,

and Brother Jesse, after that I put that white turck's holder.

I walked differently. I didn't wwn.

Anything had all to get off on me. After I

slipped on her them white shoes. Let's call it the

white shoes syndrome. After I put her on them white shoes,

I walked differently. I didn't walk through the merca, I

didn't walk through the mira.

Here you're somebuch to the behin.

I walked differently, and I'm telling you here the night

abresainta godd Ha's.

Got on a white garment and got a white shoes,

and then a walk differently. Amen, Thank God. Amen.

The Lord is that sweet bread of life. The Lord

is that fountain of living water. And the Lord is

the one that supplies the white suit.

I said.

The Lord is the one that supplies the wedding garment.

Times were different then than they are now. In these times,

the master of the house, or the king or the

father provided the coat for the visitors and for the bridegroom.

And brother Jesse.

When them invitations went out, he wasn't saying if you

got a suit, come, He wasn't saying if you got

shoes come. He had the garments in the closet. His

seamstress is the one that put them together, I said.

The feast was prepared, Everything was ready.

Are y'all getting this?

The calf was fatted, the oxen were about to low

for the last time. The butcher's knives were sharp, and

the baker's dough was needed. Oh, come on now, and

the wedding garments were ready, and sister Kathy's rope caps

fingers are sore. What a seamstress that woman is. I

want you to know. The seamstress of the house had

the garment and Brother Jesse, that man would put it on.

The guests that didn't have a garment.

You know what they had to do, gladly they had

to take off their coat and their bitches and they

had to put on the wedding garment. And you see

right here this bedroom was excited to have a change

of clothes. And this is wife Sister Roodin. I will

never bore off on this cheap, greasy grace reda chip roy.

I will thank God for the ruby red blood, Oh

Jesus and his righteousness and.

His garment hall, thank God.

I'll trade my coat for his coat any day.

And you know what.

The King stood there on that day and he noticed

some had been to the dressing room. You're gonna have

to go through the dressing room. And I tell you

how you go through the dressing room. You go through grace,

the goodness and the grace of God that leadeth you

to repentance, brings you to godly sorrow.

This is where I need you coach, and that.

Godless sorrow leads you to true repentance, not easy believism,

not cheap and greasy grace, but leads you to an

altar am I doing good coach leads you through the repentance.

And you know what, Brother Philip, hey, thank God, you

come up squeaky clean, not because of your works, not

because of any good you've done, or what's it called

imputed righteousness, but because of the imputation of His righteousness.

My God, I'm holy today because he is holy. I

can be holy today because he he is holy.

I'm perfect today because He's perfect.

And I can be perfect because his garments perfect. There's

not a flaw in his garment. It's impeccable. Het Henders, Nobody,

Isaiah and Jeremiah. They looked for it to this day.

The angels are peering into this service tonight. They would

welcome an opportunity to put on that wedding garment. Sister

Hawlad's favorite song that she wants me to have played

at her funeral, but we won't have to do that.

She can play it at mine. It's Kenny Henson singing

I Am the Envy Angels, Holy Girls, Free will they

chose to be obedient to the heavenly calling.

They chose to open their ears.

They had ears, and they allowed themselves to hear what

the spirit was saying unto them. Come, ye, you ain't

got no money, Come to the banquet, Come without price,

you're thirsty. Come to the well and drink you're hungry.

Come and partake of all of this freely. I feel

the Holy ghost in this house, Sweet Jesus. The bountiful

blessings of the King was everywhere. And then after these

Jews had been invited, they rejected him, and they crucified

the Lord of Glory. And this is where the big

bang happened. The earth shook, the earth trembled, and Jesus

opened the back door to us dogs.

Into the gentiles.

And he turned the back door into the front door,

and gentiles started walking in to salvation through Jesus. I

don't know about you too, but to bar the lyrics

of a song I love. The best thing I ever

did do was when I took off the old coat

and put on a new. And while the Jews are

rejecting the opportunity to go to the banquet, the gentiles

are flooding in this is whosoever will let him come.

And the King says they wouldn't come. They didn't find

it in poor enough, they didn't lock my garments. They

didn't want to come. They'd rather plow a field than

have a rib by. They'd rather sell merchandise and to

have prime rib open it up to all of them.

And when them gentile dogs come to me, when Charity

Mask comes to me, when Thomas Sterk comes to me,

when Irislim Moot comes to me.

When Jeremy Horwell comes to.

Me, dealing with regret and battling unworthiness, oh he'll say,

it's all right. I've got a garment that is custom

filter just for you. Oh thank god, he knew our

needs and.

He knew, yes, he knew our size before we came

to him.

Let's move forward to our text.

Matthew, chapter number twenty two and verse number eleven, And

the Bible said, and when the king came in, come here, King.

He surveyed the crowd, and then walked one that did

not have on the garment. Come here, brother Sam, mister

at you're such a good, safe, sanctified holy ghost field man,

that shouldn't bother you. Hen walked a young man, a

man who had not on the garment.

I don't need that garment. I got my own garment.

And the king pointed him out and said, how did

this one come in without.

The wedding garment?

Who let him walk past the dressing room?

And the King said, friend.

Came ust thou in here hither not having a wedding garment,

And the Bible said that unwelcome guest was called friend.

And he was as speechless as this young man is

right now, because he knew what all had been provided

for him. He knew he chose to walk past the

dressing room. He had nothing to say, the same way

he having Jezebel their eight hundred and fifty prophets, and

the confused Israelites had that day on Carmel. He's speechless

because he knows anything he says will incriminate him, because

he knows he's a thief and a rubber, and he's

coming in a different door, and he's coming in a

different way. I'll tell you how they got in there.

He didn't go to the room. The rebellious man wanted

to wear the article of clothing that best suited him,

and that's what people want to do. They want to

heap unto themselves, teachers having engineers. They want to go

to churches where they're comfortable and where they're cozy in

the little corners. And you know what his selection of

garment and his choice of raiment offended the King. Your

works are as filthy rags. It's crazy to think some

people would rather rely on their own righteousness rather than

be covered by His righteousness. And that is the phariseical

spirit of the Pharisees.

Caiphas Annis and.

All of them hypocrites, all of them pharisee, all those

that love the utmost seats, those that prayed to be heard,

all of those that said I'm a Pharisee. Among the

Pharisees Kia Saul of Tarsus.

Included holier than nows.

Isaiah sixty four and six said, but we are all

as unclean things, and all our righteousnesses are filthy rags.

All of our righteousnesses are as filthy rags. Brother Simon

and brother Samuel stare It, and brother Samuel Howell, and

brother Micah David and brother Jesse David. Right now, their

raiment and their garment is not measuring up to the

righteous garment of the properly prepared and the properly adorned

wedding guest.

I hope you pray for me right now.

Jesus is quite quite.

The preparer you thought.

John the Baptist was preparing the way Jesus said, I'm

gonna prepare them, my house father. I'm gonna prepare them

a feast. And then when you read Revelations, chapter number six,

I think it's verse number eleven or thirteen. In Revelation seven,

verse number thirteen, someone there talks about all them saints

walking around in them white robes.

At the big.

Celebration, the wedding of the bride united with the groom.

I want to be ready, sister, how I led that

song tonight. I'm getting ready. I want to be ready.

But there's two or three you in this building night,

perhaps four or five. You better get ready around these

altars tonight, because your righteousness is not enough. In the

days that Jesus, the Pharisees felt as though their righteousness

and holiness would get them entrance into heaven. And they

were so righteous and so holy as to how they

didn't even need the gate themselves. They're righteous, all right.

But Jesus said in Matthew five point twenty for us

saying to you that except your righteousness shall exceed the

righteousness of the scribes and Pharisees, ye shall in no

case enter into the Kingdom of Heaven. So Jesus was

telling them, boys, you've done a pretty good job. I'm

not gonna throw down on your righteousness, but you sure

better improve soon. And that's what I'm telling some of you.

You've been hanging on the tuxed hotel a brother Nathan

way too long. You've been holding on the bridle gown

train a sister Wooding way too long. And you know what,

the children of God, they do exceed the righteousness of

the Pharisees through Jesus Christ, Bye through at Jesus Christ.

Jesus went on to say that the law states of

person should not kill. But Jesus, after talking about their

righteousness better exceed that of the Pharisees, he said, if

you're angry with your brother without a cause, you're just

as guilty as the murderer. Right after he said, unless

your righteousness succeed the righteousness of the scribes and Pharisees,

he said, you have a law that says you should

not commit adultery. But Jesus tightening it on down. He said,

let's exceed the righteousness of them Pharisees. It's dragging that

woman that was called in the very act. He said,

let's just tighten it on up. Let's don't loosen it up.

Let's tighten it up. And he said, if any of you,

whosoever their words and read, whosoever shall look upon a

woman to lust, that to her hath committed adultery already.

With her in his heart.

Now you know what, that word whosoever there in Matthew's

Gospel in the fifth chapter twenty verse, is a good

word to plug in there, because nowadays, in our day

and hour, it'd be if a woman or a man

looks at a woman to us heterosexual or homosexual. In

the days of Jesus, he's saying, if it's a phariseeis

crib or a publican, whoever?

And you know what, this generation of easy.

Believism, easy cheap, greasy grace, brother Jesse, they don't like

the preaching of the apostle Paul in First Corinthians, chapter

number six, where he said, whosoever dos those things that

he named in that chapter are not worthy shall not

enter the Kingdom of heaven. Should I take the time

to read all those things, I'll leave it to you

to look those things up. But that entire chapter of

First Corinthia, chapter number six does away with this. We'll

just live however we want to. I'll tell you this,

you will never fashion your own garment and it be acceptable.

You will never live holiness in such a way that's

impeccable without Jesus Christ living it through you. I've heard

people say I can't live it, I'm unable to live it.

You're right if you're not living it through and by Jesus,

and right now says to.

What I'm doing. I'm tightening it down on these three

or four people.

The saints have shouted and they've rejoiced, and we'll be

shouting again here in the next ten minutes if the

Lord helps us. But I'm tauting it, tightening it on

down to these that are living in this family of

God amongst us. They feel like they've got their own righteousness.

They feel like because their sleeves go all the way

down to their wristbone and their garment extends down to

their ankle bone, that their holiness and they're holy enough

to make it into that wedding. The length to your

sleeve has nothing to do with your salvation. Now, if

a drunk, a thief, a harlot, or a hormonger.

Is living on.

Skid row, our brother Jesse on the back street at

LaBelle somewhere, and they stumble into a Bible, and they

picked that Bible up, and they start reading it, and

the goodness and the grace of God his spirits starts

drawing them, and they start drawing night of God, and

he starts drawing night of them. And through godly so

they find repentance, and the ruby red blood of Jesus

washes them clean. They will no longer be such a person.

God will take that harley and that hormonger that dresses immodestly,

that's immorl and impure, and put within them a desire

to be modest and to be poor. I said, if

they stumble into the Bible and they start reading it,

they can wash themselves by the water of the Word.

They con sanctify themselves by the blood of Jesus. They

consactify themselves.

Through and by the Word. They can sactify themselves by

the spirit of God. And my question for you is.

You claim to be justified, and you claim to be

okay through the imputed righteousness of Jesus, that He's put

his garment on you. But I propose to you tonight,

are you really wearing that garment? Because do I need

to preach it again? When you put on a white

robe and you put on white shoes and brother Philip,

they want to tell me they're saved, sanctified, and spirit filled,

they say, and they boast how their people don't go

down to the public beach, but they go to the

private beach where there's a bunch of people scannily clad,

and they say, we don't wear the bikinis, and we

don't wear the spiedos, but we wear swim trunks, and

our wives wear one peece bathing suits. I want to

ask you something, since when is a one piece bathing

suit been midest? And they want a debate whether or

not women can wear pants? Of what do Deuteronomy chapter

number twenty two mean.

I tell you what.

Deuteronomy chapter number twenty two means that a woman should

not be a tomboy and a boy should not be effeminate.

That's the context of Deuteronomy, chapter number twenty two. But

those that tell us it's not a sin for a

woman to wear that that pertained to a man, And

ask us the question, since when has breeches pertained to

a man? Even Grandma Clampet Granted Clampant, Jed's granny or

whoever she was, told Jed clamping on the Beverly Hillbillies.

I've got a great memory.

I remember Eli May Clampitt coming in there in her

bridges with that rope belt that she in the plaid shirt,

and I remember Granting looking like a holiness woman. She

was far from it. She's a perverted mind that I'm

telling you what. She's a nasty mouth little thing. But

I remember her telling Jed Elli May's uncle Ellen May

is wearing a man's garment. Now you need to start

picking on the holiness preacher and find out who wrote

that script for Hollywood.

You need to start.

Picking at tim and asking them what possessed them to

say such a thing.

Huh. But I know most of the breeches that they're wearing.

If they have to.

Lay on the bell, come on, I ain't always been holiness,

me and my wife having always lived a holy life

that pleases the Lord.

And I just preached for thirty.

Five minutes saying you cannot sow your own garment, and

you cannot fashion your own garment, and your garment is

not always under construction, but.

You can get it dirty. And you have to ask

God the same thing David asked.

God, by your creative and restorative power, creating me a

clean heart, O God, and renew a right spirit within me.

Wash me once again in the roomy red blood of Jesus.

Do you know it would have devastated brother Philip to

a falling in a madhole on the way to his wedding.

He would have devastated him. He had a devastates you

in the same manner.

When you fall into mud put off week.

Capture weaker had come to God saying, I'm your child,

I'm ready.

For the wedding. I'm glad.

The Bible said, if any man sin, let him ask

God to forgive him. You have an advocate. I'm glad

you have an advocate with a father. Even Jesus Christ

our righteousness if he totally totally has to do it all,

and he does, and he does, but you do work

out your own salvation with fear and trembling. You do

be careful where you go because you're a child of God.

You do be careful how you dress because you're a

child of God. What the sam of God, Church of

God preacher, the holiness preacher? Nowadays they say, well, we

just go out there and we bathe. You know, mixed

bathing used to be something that Pentecostal people didn't do,

and youth pastors now permitted to take people of the

opposite sex, and really that doesn't even matter in this

perverted generation. Are y all listening to Pastor Howell. I'm

trying to be careful here tonight. I'm not telling you

that you were the one that made that garment, brother,

that you wear. I'll tell you who gave it to you.

But the same one that gave it to you is Jesus.

He can take it from you. And that's where a

lot of people miss it. You asked Saul, because he

chose to disobey God's commandments, the one that gave to

him also took away. Even Job. A lot of people

believe Job to be the oldest book of the Bible.

Even Job said the Lord giveth and he takes away.

Was he gonna take away my salvation. I refuse to

be a Calvinist. And that's another message for another day.

But I know that I have a personal obligation and

a personal responsibility that if he's gonna trust me to

wear a white wedding garment, and if I'm gonna put

on a white tuxeda and wear white shoes, I'm gonna

be careful where I go. But nowadays we forgot the

song and the lyrics of that song that the Booster

Band sang years ago. Old, be careful, little eyes what

you see. Old, Be careful, little ears what you hear.

For there's a father up above looking down in love.

This generation wants us to believe he don't care a

thing about what you're doing with your wedding garment. I

don't know about you all, but if I give my

child something, I expect them to take care of it.

And this is what sums it up. If he's in you,

if any man be in Christ, he's a new creature.

You have a new nature. This is why the horn

monger and the harlot and the thief and the murderer

feels the need to clean up, because he's on the

inside running around with the Holy scrub brush cleaning you

up on the inside. And when he cleans you up

on the inside, you don't want to put a stumbling

block for your brother and sister on the outside. Brother Nathaniel,

I want you to pray for me just a little longer.

You aren't saved by works, but works will follow you. Friend,

asked Paul, the one that said you want a pharisee.

I's a pharisee. I was one of the best pharisees

you ever find, but I needed Jesus, and I'm a

new creature. Ephesians five and twenty seven said that he

might present it to himself a glorious church, not having

spot a wrinkle or any such thing, but that it

should be holy and without blemish.

Let's stand if we can sinster.

How you were leading a youth choir in a song,

and the lyrics were what I quoted at the end

of this morning's sermon. It said, change me, Lord, change me, Lord,

don't let me stay the same. And as sure as

I live, the Holy got spoke to me, brother Jesse,

and he said, there's two people on this platform that

are okay, just as they are, And your pastor's wife's

crying and weeping. If you could see it with spiritual

eyes like I did over the last week, she's in

the dressing room preparing for that big day. Friend, how

came you tonight into the Bethel Holiness Church after all

these years without a wedding garment? If any man be

in If and in Christ. The white tuxedo Dad, if

you'll look, there's a tear in his eye behind the

big smile because he's got cancer and it's one of

the rarest, most aggressive forms of cancer. He's white on

the outside, but inside there's a cancer. And that's what

I'm asking you right now. You're in a garment of

your own fashion and your own design, and inside there's

a cancer eating you alive. As sure as a man

puts on a white tuxedo and a pair of white

shoes walks differently, so will a child of the King

after he's put on the white robe of his righteousness.

M hm. And what I wanted to do was sing

that song. I'll tell you the best thing I ever

did do was take off the old code and put

on a new But Brother, chip Roy, I almost felt

like somebody needs to go old school and repent in

an old fashioned way. Tonight before the saints rejoice, head

show these altars are open. Here no no, here, no no.

You make excuses for your sin. You can't save yourself.

But he will tell you what to do. There's two

in the altar even now. Nay, ye do wrong and defraud.

And that's your brethren. Know ye naught that the unrighteous

shall not inherit the Kingdom of God.

Be not deceived.

Neither fornicators, nor idolatiers, nor adulterers, nor effeminate, nor abusers

of themselves with mankind, nor theist, nor covetous, nor drunkards,

nor revilers, nor extortioners shall inherit the Kingdom of God.

But this is what I like. And such were some

of you. But you are washed, but you are sanctified.

But you are justified in the name of the Lord Jesus,

and by the Spirit of our God. Flee fornication. Every

sin that a man doeth is without the body. But

he that committeth fornication sinneth against his own body. What

know ye not that your body is the temple of

the Holy Ghost, which is in you, which you have

of God. And ye are not your own. For year

bought with a price. Therefore, glorify God in your body

and your spirit, which is God's. There's two in the

altar right now praying, and I trust there being honest,

and that they're experiencing godly. Are that worketh under repentance?

And I trust they've thrown off the old men and

that they're putting on the new. There's two young men

in the altar. Are there any ladies? Are you having

a hard time crucifying pride? Are you having a hard

time crucifying self? As rebellion still raging in sight of

your heart? You can't afford to mishaven? Friend, Friend, how

is it that you came in here not having on

a garment? There's one sister, one young lady?

Is there another? Is there another? You know?

The best thing to do is make your calling an election?

Sure do your first works over again, Brother Samuel Howell

said when he got serious about his salvation. It wasn't

long after sanctification ensued, and Holy Ghost baptism came soon after.

Are you really justified? Are you living with a clear

and a clean conscience? Do you breathe easy at night?

Are you tormented? Which is it tormented or comfortable, fully trusting,

with blessed assurance, or full of unbelief and wondering. Let's

fix it tonight, and this is what I'll about it.

There's some others that need to come into the altar

right now, and there's some that need to help these pray.

You pretending to be right isn't going to help your case,

because the king knows who's wearing his garment. Well, I

thank thee Lord that I'm not as this sinner. That's

what the Bible said. The Pharisees did. They smoked their chest, said,

I'm glad I'm not locked in publicans. I don't care

how long your hair is, ma'am, And I don't care

how short it is, ma'am. You need an inward work

done inside of you that will cause you to take

his words seriously