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Trusting The Transition - Pastor J. D. Howell 11-23-2025

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  1. Okay again John, chapter number seven. May I direct your

  2. attention to verses number thirty seven through thirty nine. Brother Nathaniel,

  3. would you read Acts chapter number nineteen and verses number

  4. two through four. My brother, he said.

  5. Unto them, have you received the Holy Ghost since you believed?

  6. And they said, unto him, we have not so much

  7. as heard whether there be any Holy ghost? And he said,

  8. undo them. And he said under them, what then were

  9. you baptized? And they say, unto him John's baptism. Then

  10. said Paul, John fairly baptized with the baptism of repentance,

  11. saying under the people that they should believe on him,

  12. which should come after him, that is on Christ.

  13. Jesus, Amen, Brother Jesse. Salm chapter number forty two and

  14. verse number seven, Deep Caleth, unto Deep, at the noise

  15. of thy water spouts all thy waves, and thy billows

  16. are gone over me. Amen, you've guessed that the Lord

  17. spoke into my heart that he wants to fill some

  18. more with his sweet Holy Ghost. And I'm just a

  19. male man here tonight. I'd love to see you walk

  20. out of here just full of the Holy Ghost. Let's

  21. stand for the reading of our Golden Text John chapter

  22. number seven, Verse number thirty seven through thirty nine. The

  23. Bible says, in the last day, the great day of

  24. the Feast, Jesus stood and cried, saying, if any man thirst,

  25. let him come unto me and drink. He that believeth

  26. on me, as the Scripture has said, out of his

  27. belly shall flow rivers of living water. But this spake

  28. he of the spirit, which they that believe on him

  29. should receive. For the Holy Ghost was not yet given,

  30. because that Jesus was not yet glorified. Could we pray,

  31. Heavenly Father, we thank you for the opportunity to be

  32. in this thy house, among this people. I pray that

  33. you would anoint their ears, set a guard at their ears,

  34. and help to hear what the Spirit of God says

  35. unto the church. Not of my words, but of your words.

  36. I pray that you would anoint this thy servant. I

  37. need your help desperately. Set a guard at my mouth,

  38. and help me to say the things you would have

  39. me to say, nothing more or less. I pray that

  40. these sayings would go below the shoulders. Let them saturate

  41. the soul and the spirit of men, women, boys and girls.

  42. And may we depart this place joyfully and not sorrowly,

  43. in Jesus's name. And the church said, Amen, as you're

  44. being seated, look at your neighbor and say, hey, neighbor,

  45. you gotta trust the Transition. I want to preach a

  46. message the Holy Ghost titled Trusting the Transition. Our text

  47. is found in a New Testament book of the Holy Bible,

  48. the Book of John. In the seventh chapter we find

  49. a record of Jesus attending one of the many Jewish feasts,

  50. namely the Feast of Tabernacles.

  51. If you'll have a look at verse.

  52. Number one, you'll get clued in there as to what

  53. this celebration is all about. And during this time the

  54. Lord made an appearance. Aren't you thankful that the Lord

  55. made an appearance at eleven fifty three Cornelia Drive tonight

  56. as more than two or three saints are gathered together

  57. in his name. I'm thankful that not only did he

  58. make an appearance at such a feast as this here

  59. in this narrative, but that He has made an appearance

  60. with us here tonight. During this particular time, it would

  61. have been a festive time of the year for Jewish people,

  62. and it wouldn't have been considered strange at all to

  63. have had the miracle worker amongst them. In fact, the

  64. Lord Jesus had been very active in his earthly public ministry,

  65. and at this time he is wildly popular. If you would,

  66. this is another transitional moment in the ministry of Jesus.

  67. This is the beginning of the ending.

  68. Again, I'm preaching a message the Holy Ghost titled Trusting

  69. the Transition. And so this is the beginning of the

  70. ending of the Lord's earthly ministry. And even though the

  71. Lord is so wildly popular, there are people that will

  72. be there during this festivity that despise him. One biblical

  73. author said that these men envy him without a cause.

  74. In other words, there's no reason at all whatsoever for

  75. their sentiments and their feelings concerning the Lord. The only

  76. thing that we can deduce is that he is such

  77. a great guy, such a wonderful person, who is so

  78. highly anointed, and so mindful of the least, the lost,

  79. and the lonely, that the goodness if God Almighty is

  80. upon him, and his ministry is fruitful, bearing evidence through

  81. signs and wonders and notable miracles, And so people conclude

  82. this man is Messiah others day's a miracle worker and

  83. others are trying to figure out who he is.

  84. Are you getting it?

  85. Christ at this time is a celebrity in that part

  86. of the world, Brother Chief roy and he would have

  87. been wildly popular amongst Jewish people, Samaritans, and other people

  88. of different nationalities. And when he comes to the big celebration,

  89. he doesn't roll in on the back of a camel.

  90. Or in a rolls Royce.

  91. This man that made himself of no reputation walks in

  92. humbly and meekly, and these Jewish leaders they begin to

  93. despise him. So not only is Jesus present, Jewish leaders

  94. are prayers. The Holy One is present, and so are

  95. the hypocrites.

  96. They know that.

  97. Judaism is going through a transition and that there will

  98. be a lot of Jewish and gentile people that will

  99. slowly but surely transition from Judaism to Jesus, and jealousy

  100. is their answer. Rather than surrendering their hearts through humility

  101. and sincerity in obeisance to Jesus, they decide that they

  102. must put a stop to the words of his mouth

  103. and Brother Jesse. The first verse of this seventh chapter

  104. tells us the readers. Why the Lord would have been

  105. hesitant or reluctant to make such an appearance during the

  106. Jewish feast in times of celebration. In fact, verse number

  107. one says, for he would not walk in Jewish because

  108. the Jews sought.

  109. To kill him.

  110. One country bumpkin, illiterate preacher who meant well, said, see there,

  111. our Lord was against jewelry, it said right there, for

  112. he would not walk in jewelry.

  113. But the Lord would not walk amongst the Jewish.

  114. People because of this reason, And it's reason enough they

  115. want to kill him. Who would think such a thing?

  116. Is that concerning such a wonderful man? It bewilders me

  117. how easily people are offended by the Lord's words. Perhaps

  118. the words of your Sunday school teacher this morning slightly

  119. offended you, But I doubt you drew the conclusion that

  120. they should be taken out behind the oak tree out.

  121. Back and murdered because of their topic.

  122. No, I'm all struck at times when I see how

  123. many people that profess to be Christians choose a reaction

  124. such as this, namely hostility. Why did they choose to

  125. be hostile instead of be humble?

  126. Brother?

  127. Road cap I'll never understand while somebody would choose hostility

  128. over humility, at this time, Jesus was experiencing growing hostility

  129. from the Jewish leaders.

  130. In fact, the Lord is not doing.

  131. Too well with this time of transition that he has

  132. to trust the process.

  133. You'll find as.

  134. He gets closer to the end, he goes into the

  135. Garden of Goosemite.

  136. To pray it through.

  137. Or how benefited we would be if we would praise

  138. some things through, just like the Lord is Savior Jesus

  139. Christ chose to do. You will remember the earthly nature

  140. of the God Man.

  141. Said, it is not my will that I slowly, but

  142. surely go through this.

  143. Transition as the miracle man to the Messiah.

  144. That gave his life for the world.

  145. He could have remained a miracle man and said that's it.

  146. And brother chip Roy elected to go back to the

  147. throne of his father. But he went through with it.

  148. And I want you to know there's somebody or some

  149. people in this building who need to.

  150. Trust the process. I've got an uncle.

  151. He's probably around the age of sixty five at this time.

  152. He pastors and what.

  153. Some would consider to be a megachurch where five to

  154. seven hundred are in attendance at various times, and recently

  155. he suffered a massive stroke that rendered him in mobile.

  156. For the most part, I have set with him.

  157. I've looked at him eyeball to eyeball, and I have

  158. watched him and navigated the process. I know that his

  159. church people believe in the Messiah. They believe in the

  160. miraculous power of the Lord God, and they've been praying

  161. day and night on end for a miracle for their passion,

  162. and a miracle after some time has not come. His

  163. words to me was one night I just settled it

  164. in my heart that I've got to trust the process.

  165. I did not think of this example prior to preaching.

  166. This has come to mind right now while I'm a preaching,

  167. and you know what, I have seen him slowly but

  168. surely begin to rehabilitate himself. He is a person that

  169. holds title records in the state of Indiana track records.

  170. He's an athlete. In other words, his name is on

  171. the board in the hallway near the principal's office.

  172. More than likely. But if you were to.

  173. Ask him tonight to try to match that time, to

  174. match that record, or to beat that record, he would

  175. say there's no way I will ever run again unless

  176. I experience a miracle.

  177. I'm going somewhere. You hang taught with me here tonight.

  178. In John chapter number fifteen, in verse number eight, we

  179. find John's record of a warning from the Lord, and

  180. Jesus said, if the world hate you, ye know that

  181. it hated me before it hated you.

  182. The Lord will.

  183. Never ask you to do something that he himself has

  184. not done. He told you to be holy in this

  185. world after he came into this world and was holy.

  186. He told you to strive to be perfect after he

  187. himself came into this world and lived alife that was spotless, impeccable,

  188. and no unblemish.

  189. It's every bit that our Lord Jesus was.

  190. One that had an endurance second to nobody. He was

  191. one that trusted the process and trusted the transition, Oh

  192. brother Nathaniel. He endured hardness as a good soldier and

  193. didn't allow the critics and the skeptics to hinder him

  194. or harm his ministry, especially when it came to the

  195. outpouring of the Holy Ghost. I want you to get

  196. the imagery that is painted here in this narrative. The

  197. true story about our Lord here is during the feast

  198. of the tyburn Knuckles. He comes into the place where

  199. a lot of Jews would have been, and because he's

  200. wildly popular, a lot if not all eyes or own him.

  201. He's a heavily persecuted Jesus by Simon. And at some

  202. point on the last day, the Lord Jesus stood up

  203. and he cried, if any man first to let him

  204. come unto me and drink, think about his behavior, Think

  205. about his manner here, think about what he's doing. This

  206. would have been totally, absolutely unacceptable for him to stand

  207. up and a fantatically declare that's a thing. And he says,

  208. he the believer told me, as the scripture has said,

  209. out of his belly chauffeul rivers of living water. The

  210. apostle John used verse number thirty nine to explain to

  211. everyone what they should know about what Jesus was saying,

  212. and John, in parenthese says he the Lord was speaking

  213. of the holy ghost the believers would receive after he

  214. was glorified. In the Book of Backs, around the nineteenth chapter,

  215. the apostle Paula he was.

  216. Coming through an area where a man.

  217. Name Apaulis and had been preaching, and brother Nathaniel Luca.

  218. He gives us the record of what happened.

  219. There were some people in a season or a time

  220. of transition, and Apostle Paul asked him about their experience

  221. and their transition from the Judaism to John's baptism. But

  222. what they need to do is go on under perfection,

  223. and they need the transition from John's baptism under Jesus's baptism. Heaven, John,

  224. hurry on in this ministry, he said, I've got to

  225. go through a time of transition. I've been baptizing everybody

  226. in water in the name of my first cousin. But

  227. there's gonna come a time that I must decrease and

  228. he must increase. You'll go from being wrecked after the

  229. baptizer named John baptizes to be in baptizer in fire

  230. by the Lord Savior Jesus Christ. I'm telling her, somebody

  231. in this building tonight.

  232. It is a time of transition up for you.

  233. It made me a rapid processor or a slow processor.

  234. But the time for change has come, I said. The

  235. timer for change has come.

  236. For all of you holy ghost seekers.

  237. I'm here to tell you tonight ye shall be filled

  238. with the Holy ghost I'm here to ask you to

  239. receive the Holy Ghost. And so while he's on his

  240. third missionary journey, Apostle Paul goes through Corinth.

  241. And he finds these believers and one.

  242. Of the first questions he asked him is have you

  243. received the Holy Ghost since you believed?

  244. And they said, into him we have not. Some more has.

  245. Heard whether that be any holy Ghost. I'm preaching the

  246. people to Knight that know very well who the Holy

  247. Ghost is. He needs no introduction.

  248. You know who he is.

  249. And these precious people her breakfaces had heard a man

  250. come true name of Polas who was preaching. He took

  251. him from Judaism to John's baptism, but he couldn't take

  252. them to Jesus's baptism. And I'm telling you here the night,

  253. there's one man that can take you through to His

  254. honor baptism.

  255. And that man he's the Lord and the Savior of

  256. the world, Jesus Christ. Amen.

  257. Whenever the Lord walked on the seashore at different times,

  258. he spoke to commercial fishermen and he said, I want

  259. you to leave your time of prosperity and your time

  260. of job certainty, and I want you to follow me

  261. and the Bible said, immediately they left their nets, they

  262. left their coworkers, they left their employers, they left their employees,

  263. and they left their boats.

  264. And they began, sister Howell, this time of transition.

  265. And they went from being the famous fishermen on the

  266. Sea of Galilee to be.

  267. In understudies of the Messiah.

  268. And you know what, Brother Nathaniel, I feel like eleven

  269. out of twelve knew they better trust the process. The

  270. one named Judas who would not trust the transition. He

  271. was always trying to outtake the will of God. He

  272. was always trying to figure out, what can we.

  273. Do in this hearse? What kind of kingdom can we

  274. build in this hearth?

  275. And Jesus would tell him, my kingdom is not of

  276. this earth. And I want to tell somebody in this

  277. building the night, don't be like the trade or do this.

  278. Don't look for something in this hearth. I'm telling you.

  279. It comes from within you. He comes supernaturally, he comes spiritually,

  280. it comes mysteriously. It is the sweeter Holy Ghost. So

  281. eleven of the twelve they trust the transition. And it's

  282. easier said than done. I'm sure there were a lot

  283. of people, hundreds, if not thousands that would not have

  284. obeyed his command and accepted the commission. Generation has no

  285. problem whatsoever at all with transitioning. In fact, a lot

  286. of you in this building tonight you have worked with

  287. somebody that has transitioned from one gender to the other.

  288. I remember hearing somebody tell me years ago, depending on

  289. how much money they got, depending upon how many treatments

  290. they want to endure in a set period of time,

  291. the transition may take anywhere from two years to five years.

  292. Brother Chiff Roy, you would creep me out if you

  293. told me tonight I'm gonna begin the slow but sure

  294. process of transitioning from chip to chip hat. I would

  295. never let him preach for me again. And I know

  296. there's something wrong with Chiff Roy. You see, transition is

  297. something that can take play slowly, or it can take

  298. place rapidly. But change it happened suddenly. And I want

  299. you to know here tonight, as Christians, we have been

  300. slowly but surely transitioning from this world to another world.

  301. And the Apostle said, one day we shall be changed.

  302. And as long as you live in that fleshly body,

  303. you will need to transition, You will need to improve

  304. you will need to grow in grace. You will need

  305. to grow in stature and in the knowledge of the Lord,

  306. and say to Jesus Christ Amen. Even about Jesus, it

  307. was said, if you'd look at him after he was

  308. at the age of twelve, that he was growing in stature.

  309. In other ways, he was being enlarge. In another ways,

  310. he was increasing in measure. Brother Nathaniel, I feel like

  311. that is what is going on here at Tibethel Holiness Church,

  312. that God has put it in somebody's heart to begin

  313. a time of transition. I remember it was around the

  314. beginning of twenty twenty three when Brother Jesse said something

  315. happened in his heart, and he said, I just felt it.

  316. I didn't fully understand it, but I felt a tug

  317. for the glory world to draw nigh to God. And

  318. somehow I knew I had received the summons to appear

  319. where he is.

  320. And Brother Jesse said it wasn't but a couple of months.

  321. That night, in a service, I was asking the church

  322. together and to pray for Brother Nathaniel and his dear

  323. family that had been afflicted of the death. And while

  324. we were praying, I since the brother Jesse is still

  325. the pastor's son.

  326. He is still the church pianist.

  327. He's never taught a Sunday School lesson, he's never preached

  328. a message.

  329. He hasn't talked in tongues.

  330. All of the reasons why because he has not to

  331. receive the Holy Ghost of since he believed. I don't

  332. know how old you were when you received the Holy Ghost,

  333. probably twenty six years of age. He had been in

  334. the pastor's house. He had heard the same messages everybody

  335. else had heard. He had been in the same revivals

  336. everyone else had been in. Brother Jesse was annoying and yes,

  337. but he did not have what you saw him have tonight.

  338. What God needed to do.

  339. Was transition brother Jesse from a believer to a spirit

  340. bill believer. And I want to tell some people in

  341. this building tonight you can walk out of this building

  342. now saying I've always loved him, I've always been a believer,

  343. But tonight I am a spirital feal believer. Oh, if

  344. you'll just trust the transition and embrace the change.

  345. Amen.

  346. Imagine again, Jesus in the middle of a feast and

  347. just hollering out if any man urst. And that's what

  348. your pastor's doing here. Tonight, Sister Howell, somebody is thirsty

  349. for the good things of God. And what I want

  350. you to notice, I've never noticed it. I've been in

  351. church nearly fifty years, been preaching twenty something years, been

  352. teaching Sunday school for probably thirty something years, Brother Nathaniel,

  353. I've never thought of it like this until the Holy

  354. Ghost brought this to mine this weekend, Sister Howell.

  355. The first question Paul.

  356. Wants to know about these students of Apollos is are

  357. your spirit filled? I get it that your believer because Apolos,

  358. according to Luke the Position, he's an eloquent speaker. According

  359. to Luke the Beloved Position, he is definitely zealous, He's

  360. definitely passionate, and he's able to persuade the Jews that

  361. Jesus was the Christ of Paul doesn't come in and

  362. try to discredit the labors or the ministry of apolosy,

  363. but he wants to ask them a question.

  364. It is the premier question that we need to ask

  365. most believers of all church affiliations and denominations today.

  366. Are your spirit filled? Have you received the Holy Ghost?

  367. Did Paul get that question, Sister Howell? Light bulbs about

  368. to appear over your head. I hope it goes from

  369. being a lot bulba to a tongue of piere. You

  370. know where Paul got that question our gold in text.

  371. If any man he's thirsty, let him come unto me.

  372. You know what he goes on to say, out of

  373. his belly shall over rivers of living water.

  374. Jesus was saying, I know you're here in church.

  375. I know the religious leaders are over there, but your

  376. parts to spiritually.

  377. But you're missing something.

  378. You're partying enough, you're feasting up, you're having a good time,

  379. but you're missing something. And that's what I want to

  380. tell somebody we love tonight. You're right in your feelings

  381. of I'm missing something. The night brother Jesse got the

  382. Holy Ghost. We were praying and I could tell he

  383. was just like any other believer, hoping for the best,

  384. doing anything, but daring not to cross his fingers and toes.

  385. But he's just praying, and I could tell he just

  386. can't get anywhere on his brother's behalf. And the Holy

  387. Ghost prompting me to ask the question, are you spiritual?

  388. We need a spiritual church to pray right now because

  389. our curly headed guitar player who does have the Holy

  390. Ghost has received an onslaught of hell, and his family's

  391. getting better. Then they're getting sick again. They're getting better,

  392. and they're getting sick again. And the Lord had talked

  393. to me and said that can't continue. It's only a

  394. matter of time till they don't get better again. And

  395. so that night the Holy Ghost spoke and said it's

  396. time to get spiritual. And for the first time in

  397. his life, I know, I changed his diapers, how burned him.

  398. He split up on a burd dipper on my shoulder.

  399. I rolled him over when he couldn't roll himself over.

  400. My son began to praise seriously and earnestly, and I

  401. remember saying something about the Holy Ghost.

  402. Is helping you now.

  403. And he shook for the first time the way he

  404. shook tonight while playing the piano. And I'm telling you,

  405. just as easy as somebody throws up a lot switch on.

  406. That is what happened right there. To Brother Jesse of

  407. the atmosphere was not electrically charged, but it was combustable.

  408. I said it was combustible. And I want to tell

  409. somebody inside of that big heart of yours, you're ready

  410. for somebody to be like her, a spark to a

  411. powder keg. And I'm telling you the sparker that you

  412. need tonight is here, I said, the flicker, the sparker.

  413. The fight that you need is to that.

  414. I remember when Sister Denise Shivers received the Holy Ghost.

  415. We was in camp meeting and the service was good

  416. that morning. But just being honest, it's an apollo service.

  417. It was just not electrically charged. It was just greatly

  418. empowered by the spirit of God. Is a typical camp

  419. meeting service. The preacher preached great, the preacher preached spectacular.

  420. But if you all will remember, think with me. We

  421. had an altar service that was not too long. We

  422. actually have the archive of that service. We went through

  423. that service and we were drawing an end, and Brother Nathaniel,

  424. I remember Brother Ropecap about to go to the pool

  425. pit to dismiss the youth choir to practice and to

  426. dismiss the preachers and the elder to the kitchen to

  427. get something to eat.

  428. And I'm not pinning roses on myself.

  429. I'm just telling you a story the same way Brother

  430. don Rich would tell you a story. And you know

  431. what I just told, Brother road Cap hold on for

  432. a minute. It may have been the only morning.

  433. That I said something.

  434. I don't remember saying anything else any other mornings. I

  435. let Brother Rod cap brun the morning services, but sister Wooting,

  436. I got in the pool pit and I said something

  437. along these lines, I feel like God wants to feel

  438. a sister with the Holy Ghost.

  439. And it wasn't long.

  440. After that Sister Niece come over there, and then Sister

  441. Denise's back there at her pew, and then she's walking

  442. up and down the aishe and she received the Holy Ghost.

  443. I'm telling you, we went from feeling nothing if you would,

  444. to feeling the power of God in the house. And

  445. that's what the Lord said, if you will feel after him,

  446. you'll find him. Oh he's not far from every one

  447. of us. And that's what I'm asking you here tonight.

  448. You know the season of transition has already begun and

  449. you're trusting the process.

  450. But tonight could be the night. It's up to you

  451. and God.

  452. I have nothing to do with it, But tonight could

  453. be the night that you put your figure hid that

  454. spiritual electrical outlet and make connection and gain continuity with

  455. your God. If you're ready to pray I'm ready to

  456. be finished. The disciples had to trust the transition. I

  457. remember when the Lord dealt with me to come to

  458. South Florida. It's been a good while now, and he

  459. spoke to me and he said, Jeremy, I want you

  460. to go down to LaBelle, Florida. For six years, there

  461. was a transition. Something was evolving, something was developing, just

  462. like an embryo in a mother's womb, there was something

  463. going on. There was a burden growing, there was a

  464. desire growing. There was a fire beginning to burn. And

  465. for six years, we drove two hours to church, and

  466. we drove two hours home, and we worked up there

  467. where we came from. And when we had revival, we

  468. drove two hours to revival and we drove two hours home.

  469. After six years of that, somebody said he must have

  470. a burden, because if he didn't, he wouldn't be there

  471. and he wouldn't be doing that. I'm gonna tell you

  472. what it was. I was trusting the transition. I was

  473. trusting the process. And I want somebody in this building

  474. here to know, to know, you have had an Apollo's experience.

  475. You have had a baptism of water. But if Paul

  476. was here tonight that little man of short stature would

  477. point a bony finger at some of you and ask

  478. you the same question he asked these disciples, and emphasis

  479. and corricta, have you received the Holy Ghost of since

  480. she believe the Holy.

  481. Thank God, y'all told her about what I by.

  482. By tie by, these twelve men stood there, regenerated, converted.

  483. A work can process baptized in John's baptized baptism. But

  484. you know what, not many days hence somebody in this

  485. building is gonna be baptized in the Holy Ghost and fire.

  486. That's between you and God.

  487. I remember when evangelist Silas Carver come down here. It

  488. might have been for the first or second time. His

  489. wife had a lot of confidence in us at that time,

  490. and she still does, and so did brother doodle Bug.

  491. And as far as I know, that might have been

  492. the first service. They were here, one of the first services.

  493. And their little daughter, Brooke Carver, was seeking the Holy Ghost.

  494. And that's been years ago, and she came up, Sister

  495. Wooton and the same holy ghost that talked to me

  496. over the weekend talking to me that morning before service,

  497. and that little girl was so thirsty and she was

  498. so hungry for the Holy Ghost, you could see it

  499. all over her. And before I got to church, Byther

  500. just said God had clued me in that he warned

  501. a filler. And God spoke and said, not many days,

  502. hence ye shall be filled with the Holy Ghost. And

  503. the Lord spoke to me some days later to drive

  504. to North Florida, and he said, when you go in,

  505. doodle Bug will be there and his daughter will be there.

  506. And you know what, when we walked in, it was

  507. but just a few seconds later she went through to

  508. the Holy Ghost. And brother Silas Carver come over there,

  509. and he said, brother, do you see that it happened

  510. just exactly the way the Holy Ghost said it would happen.

  511. I'm asking you here to not come on now.

  512. These twelve men were able to transition from Judaism to Jesus,

  513. and from John's baptism to the Lord Jesus christ baptism.

  514. You know what happened. The apostle just said, receive him.

  515. The Holy Ghost a man.

  516. The message of Apollos is good, it's grand, it's real.

  517. You could trust it. Everybody knew it was real. Brother

  518. roadecap he's mighty in the scriptures. He's spurving in the spirit.

  519. But what other people understand is a quill In Priscilla

  520. have met Apollos too, and when they met Apollos, they

  521. asked him the same question Paul's asking the people that

  522. herd to Paulo's preach, and brother a Quilla and sister

  523. Priscilla said, Apollos, you're quite a preacher, but I got

  524. a question for you.

  525. Have you received a holy ghost?

  526. And you know what, that eloquent speaker, the one that

  527. was mighty in scripture, he didn't close the door on

  528. that transition. He trusted the transition. I feel like preaching

  529. here tonight. It's like when you're baptize in water. You

  530. trust you're going from dry to wet. Oh my God,

  531. oh thank you Jesus.

  532. I feel someone's burden. You said I needed time.

  533. You've had it, and now all you need is a

  534. moment to transition yourself from.

  535. Not being spirit peeled to being spirit filled.

  536. I remember that night sister Howell went from a believer

  537. to a spirit feel believer. It was in our living room,

  538. her nerve, a rickety ceiling pan.

  539. She got the holy ghost.

  540. I'm telling you it can happen right there in your

  541. seat right now.

  542. Receive ye the holy guys.

  543. Jesus made an appearance at the Feast of Tabernacles. Basically,

  544. he is saying, if you need help getting from where

  545. you are to where you need to be, come under me,

  546. y'all see our text. Sister road Cap obeyed the Lord

  547. this morning. The holy ghosts got to move in in

  548. that altar service, and she pretty much said, woe be

  549. to the one that would lie to the man of God.

  550. And then I felt the Holy Ghost prompt me to

  551. take what Sister Roaecap said even a little further, and

  552. I said, woe be to the one that would believe

  553. a lie rather than the words of the Man of God.

  554. And we had a wonderful outpouring of the Holy Ghost

  555. in this place. Brother Philip has said recently, he said,

  556. in recent weeks, it's been amazing to see the way

  557. the Holy Ghost has moved. Did y'all hear the way

  558. that preacher preached tonight? He, like brother Jesse, began a

  559. transition in his life, him and his brother brother Samuel

  560. in February of twenty twenty three. I believe it was

  561. February fifth of twenty twenty three. On a Wednesday night,

  562. they went from being a believer to a spiritfield belief

  563. for both of them. But you know what Samuel told

  564. Brother Philip while working on the job some weeks prior.

  565. He said, you know what, I'm not one of them

  566. that believe in turning over a new leaf. I'm not

  567. one who believes and flipping to a new chapter in

  568. the diary. I'm not one from making folly promises. But

  569. he said, some hell inside, I feel this is my

  570. year sister would And he didn't have to wait til

  571. until December thirty, first of twenty twenty three. Here on

  572. February fifth, twenty twenty three, here they receive the Holy ghosting.

  573. Four hours and they're still lost her in the presence

  574. of the Holy Ghosting. Six hours later, they're still drunker

  575. in the Holy ghost in excess.

  576. I'm telling you here the natter.

  577. The Baptizer is in the house, I said, the baptizer.

  578. Is he in the house? Jesus is saying, if you're

  579. truly thirsty, come back to me.

  580. What Jesus is saying, forget Annes, forget Coppice, forgot to

  581. forget anybody else. Could you imagine, Brother Nathan, you'll do

  582. that for us sit right chair at the feast of

  583. the Tabernacles. I mean, there in a festive time, but

  584. people are miserable because they're feeling empty. I'm talking to somebody,

  585. you know, as a season, a transitional season for you

  586. going on. I'm telling you, like brother Jesse said, it

  587. was a season of transition. When Naomi came back to

  588. the House of Bread, right in the middle of their festivity,

  589. Jesus stood up and cried. The Bible said he stood

  590. and cried, Sister Wooding, if all eyes hadn't been on

  591. the wildly popular Jesus, they are at that moment. Y'all

  592. aren't getting it. If I was do the buck Carver,

  593. I'd be snapping right now. I'm feeling so much annoying,

  594. so much glory of God in this house, and so

  595. much fear of God in this place. I'm telling you,

  596. the baptizer is here. You know what I like about

  597. this holy fire baptism, Sister Janet Hill. We don't have

  598. to go down to the river. The baptizer can walk

  599. right up beside where you're at, and he can baptize

  600. you right there in the few I'm telling you, in

  601. the upper room where.

  602. The one hundred and twenty were gathered together.

  603. Where they were sitting up, they were filled where the

  604. Holy Ghost? And after day number ten, Brother Jessey, they

  605. were thirsty. Where is the Holy Ghost at? It's kind

  606. of like after a three day no food and water fast.

  607. After three days you're thirsty.

  608. Where is the water? Act? And you know what, you'll

  609. go to where it's at. I kind of feel like

  610. or Hannah.

  611. The Bible doesn't go on to say, but I kind

  612. of feel like some said I'll be right there Jesus.

  613. And Paul was reflecting on this.

  614. Paul was reflecting on this, Brother Thomas ster It, he

  615. was reflecting on this when he was telling them, believers,

  616. we find about next chapter number nineteen, have you received

  617. the Holy Ghost since you believed? Come on, we don't

  618. need any trickery. We don't need any deceit. We don't

  619. need somebody in the back room jiggling the pat under

  620. your chin. We don't need somebody repeating a whole bunch

  621. of syllables and a bunch of nonsense. I'm telling you,

  622. the Holy Ghost is locking unto water by Jesus, right there?

  623. Is it?

  624. Not? What they say, Brother Aaron Wood, what they say

  625. right there, licking it underwater, rivers of living water.

  626. You know what water will do.

  627. It will feel empty places. I said, you know what

  628. water will do. It will feel empty places. The devil

  629. has convinced you that your emptiness is indicative of your

  630. lack of God. But your emptiness is indicative of I've

  631. cleaned it out that it can come in. I said,

  632. you've cleaned it out, that.

  633. The Holy water can come in. WHOA, let's stand. The

  634. Holy Ghost is licking on the water.

  635. It feels the places that are available to be filled.

  636. If you're a sister Tonight and you need a holy ghost,

  637. would you come up front? If you're a brother to

  638. Night and you need the Holy Ghost, would you come upfront?

  639. Hey man, Musicians come up here, Singers come up here.

  640. Sister Faith, you're seaking the Holy ghost. Sister Grace, you're

  641. seeking the Holy Ghost. Brother Christian, Brother Beuford, you too

  642. are seeking the Holy Ghost. And here's what I want

  643. to tell, Sister Faith, Brother Daniel, you're seeking holy ghost.

  644. It's the one I wanna tell, Brother Daniel.

  645. I feel the Holy Ghost, Sister Wooden, Sister Hell'd you

  646. feel what I felt a little while ago? Sister hell'd

  647. you feel it? Brother, Nathanield you feel it? I want

  648. to tell you, buddy, I ain't got to know you yet,

  649. but I like you. Let me tell you. Sys you

  650. all ready for what does saith God? Let it hit

  651. you like a tidal wave. Let it hit you like

  652. a tidal wave. It'll be okay.

  653. Brothers. I want you to gather around this brother. I

  654. want you together around.

  655. These brothers, I said, Jesus said, out of your belly

  656. shall flow rivers of living water. That insatchable desire is indicative.

  657. Have I've got room for a gully washer. I've got

  658. room for a gully washer. Not that Fowlet that wash

  659. everything that needs to go away. Here's what I fell

  660. over the weekend. Left the fountains of the deep. He

  661. roughed in your soul, I said, left the fountains.

  662. Of the deep, He roffed in your soul.

  663. Psalm, chapter number forty two, verse number seven said deep

  664. calleth under deep, at the noise of thy waterspouts all

  665. thy waves, and all thy billows have gone over me.

  666. Brother Aaron Wood, I did a quick word study. The

  667. word deep refers to water under the crust of the earth.

  668. Some terranean waters. Can't you say?

  669. The Lord planning this while he was on earth, and

  670. he told Earth, it's gonna come out of your belly. Brothers,

  671. lay your hand on knees that are seeking the holy ghosts. Sisters,

  672. Jesus said, he that believeth on me, as the scripture

  673. has said, out of his belly, shout ribbons of ribbon water, Hallelujah.

  674. Receive me the Holy ghost. Well, I've got it. You

  675. can have any wall that you can get it. You

  676. can get that or diamond in down in your soul. Well,

  677. I've got it. You can have it any wrong and

  678. you can get it. You can get that all diamonds

  679. it you down in your soul. Well, I've got it.

  680. You can have it. You old if you can get in.

  681. You can get that old.

  682. Timonism down in your soul.

  683. I've got it.

  684. You can have me if you wone and you can

  685. get in. You can get that all diamonision down in

  686. your soul.

  687. Whell, I've got it.

  688. You can have if you won't, if you can get in,

  689. you can get that all time religion.

  690. Down in your soul. I've got it. You can have

  691. it if you wone and you can get in. Well,

  692. you can get that all diamonision down in your soul.

  693. To lock A Matthew, Mark, Luke and John Hey, y'all

  694. had any every one, Peter.

  695. Paul and Charles to Simone well, James Sonomamode Thomas Andrew

  696. you a Timothy or remark who Lazar Reus Tom the

  697. river Lader Emmathias told the servant and joshawayma have Ammathusia

  698. love Jarmiah, here's the kia.

  699. Seki and Jamadial Solomon kid the yard, Joe annoying, Oh

  700. his son shot rag me shuck aping the girl.

  701. We had all time religion him No, no, I've got it.

  702. You can have him. You can want and you can

  703. get in. You can get that all time religion down

  704. in your soul. Where got you can have it? If

  705. you want it, you beget it. You can get that

  706. all timelation down in your soul. My God, you can

  707. have it. If you want legs. You can get that

  708. all time religion down in your soul. What out got it?

  709. You can't have any wall. You can get it. Get

  710. that all dimoligion down in your soul.