Obligated To Be His Oracle - Pastor J. D. Howell 11-9-2025

Bethel.

I thank God for your giving. I appreciate you so much.

The Honduran shipment has made landfall. We have looked at

our package, which is a pallet full of about fourteen

boxes of gifts that you all gave from the Barrels

of Blessings Ministry. We've looked through the glass door and

saw your palette, your Barrels of Blessings. Thank you so much.

They go tomorrow to collect it. And you know how

the government is, the government of Honduras wants forty bucks

for us to get that and to take it out

of the port. So you know what I'm gonna do tomorrow.

I'm gonna send them forty bucks because we're not gonna

let four thousand dollars worth of clothing item sit there

and them take it for forty bucks. I'm not gonna

be stubborn. I'm not gonna put up any resistance. But

if you'd like to give that forty bucks, there's an

envelope nearby. You could toss it in there and just

say to help retrieve our belongings. Amen, all right, I

want to preach a message the Holy Ghost titled obligated

to be His Oracle, not only are we obligated to

be the arms and legs, the hands and feet of

the Master. We are obligated to be his oracle or

his mouthpiece. If you will turn with me, we will

look at Romans chapter number one and mad direct your

attention to verses number fourteen through sixteen. Brother Jesse, First Corinthians,

chapter number nine and verse number sixteen, And Brother Samuel,

Genesis chapter number four and verse number nine. Are you

glad to be in the house of the Lord tonight?

I am thankful for the way the Holy Ghost moved

in the service up until this point. I appreciate your

obedience unto the Lord. And truly the Lord has shown

his pleasure concerning your obedience and kiss this service with approval.

And I'm thankful for that all right, Brother Jesse, first Corinthians,

chapter number nine and verse number sixteen.

My brother, for though I preach the Gospel, I have

nothing to glory of, for necessity is laid upon me. Yay,

woe is unto me if I preach not the Gospel.

For necessity is laid upon me. Is that what it said,

Brother Jesse, For necessity is laid upon me? Woe is

me if I preach not the Gospel. This is a

message the Holy Ghost titled obligated to be his oracle.

When you walk out of those doors tonight, I hope

you have a sense of obligation, Brother Samuel, Genesis chapter

number four and verse number nine.

And the Lord said, unto Caine, where is able thy brother?

And he said, I know not. Am I my brother's keeper?

He should have felt obligated to be his brother's keeper.

And there's many reasons for why he should have felt

that way. All right, let's stand for the reading of

our golden texts. Romans chapter number one, reading verses number

fourteen through sixteen, the Bible said, I am debtor, both

to the Greeks and to the Barbarians, both to the

wise and to the unwise.

So as much as.

In me is I am ready to preach the gospel

to you that are at Rome. Also for I am

not ashamed of the Gospel of Christ. For it is

the power of God unto salvation to everyone that believeth

to the jew first and also to the Greek. And

verse number sixteen he declares that he is not ashamed.

And verse number fifteen he declares his eagerness to preach

the Gospel Brother Thomas Stereoret is eager and obligated to

be the Lord's oracle, and so should we all. Let's pray,

Heavenly Father, we love and we praise you. We thank

you for the opportunity to be in your house.

Lord. I need you desperately. You know how much I

need you.

Lord, Lord, I fell a bird, and second to none

I've ever had. I need your help, Lord, annoying this

thy servit seat of guard at my mouth, and help

me to say the things that you would have me

to say. Nothing more less, I pray that you would

annoy the ears of this thy people, that they might

hear what the Spirit of God says unto the church

tonight through this preach word of yours Lord, may these

sayings go below the shoulders that them saturate the spirit

and the soul.

I thank you for that. Lord.

We give you praise and honor and glory in Jesus' name.

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

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

feel obligated to be his oracle?

Hey? He man, praise the Lord.

Our text is found in a New Testament book of

the Holy Bible, the Book of Romans. This particular book

of the Bible was written for the Christians who lived

in Rome, both Jewish people and non Jewish Christians. It

is in this Pauline epistle that we find the great

Apostle Paul making it clear concerning the Gospel of the

Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. There is no doubt that Luke,

the Beloved Physician, had felt it his duty and his

responsibility to make the Gospel of Jesus.

Christ very clear.

In fact, when we look at the writings of Luke,

specifically Luke's Gospel and the Book of the Acts of

the Holy Ghost, we find that Luke offered much insight

into the workings of the people of God and the good,

sweet Spirit of God. And the Apostle Paul was also

one that had a sense of obligation concerning offering clarity

concerning the revealed will of God, which was Jesus Christ

in person, and also concerning the Gospel, the Bible, the

Blessed Book the revealed Will of God. So the Apostle

Paul here in this Pauline Epistle the Book of Romans,

he goes the extra mile in making it clear that

Christians should be righteous people. In fact, one of the

sole winner's greatest tools is.

The Book of Romans.

Early on in ministry, simply from repeatedly reading the Book

of Romans, I picked up on the fact that it

was one of the best books that you could use

in leading somebody to Jesus Christ.

How many of you have ever heard of the Romans Road?

I remember a few months ago I mentioned that to

some of you to church. Probably about fifty of you

told me you had never heard of the Romans Road.

That is a soul winning tool.

And a lot of the scriptures that are part of

that soul winner's tool are scriptures taken from the Book

of Romans. And so we find here in chapter number one,

in verse number fifteen, Apostle Paul states that he is

most eager to preach the Gospel to the unbeliever and

to confirm the gospel to the believer, the Gospel of Romans,

if you would, the Gospel of Jesus Christ. It tells

us how to get right with the Lord. Years ago

I heard a black brother singing a song and the

lyrics go something like this, And my daughter in law, Rachel,

likes to sing it. I've had her sing this song

to me before, meaning she has text to me the

lyrics of what was on her heart, and I could

hear her spirit singing, and it goes like this, Let's

get right, church, and let's go home. The Book of

Romans will help you get right. It will show you

the way to the path of righteousness. When attempting to

lead someone to Christ, a soul winner will refer to

the verses of scripts are found in this book more

so than any.

Other book in the Bible. I believe that.

And the Bible said, a soul winner must be wise

if they're going to be successful, if the Kingdom of

God is going to be advanced and enlarged by any

single believer, they must have a good knowledge and understanding

of the Gospel. And they must be full of wisdom.

And the Bible said, if any man lack wisdom, let

him ask of God, which upbraideth not, will give it

unto them liberally. Now wonder how many people in this

building tonight terribly lack wisdom? Is it not poor judgment

for you to live your life feeling like there is

no need whatsoever to attempt to win one soul for Christ?

Is it not poor judgment and a terrible lack of

wisdom for you not to feel a sense of obligation

to tell somebody there is a devil's hell to shine

and a Jesus filled heaven. Again, it's evident that the

apostle Paul felt it it was his and every believer's

responsibility to reach the loss with the gospel. In First Corinthians,

chapter number nine and verse number sixteenth, Paul states, for

those I preach the Gospel, I have nothing the glory

of for necessity is laid up me. Yay, wool is

unto me if I preach not the Gospel. Notice what

is written there, for necessity is laid upon me.

It sounds to me.

Like he felt obligated to preach the gospel of Jesus Christ.

I'm so thankful that brother Jesse Howell gave a good

report a little while ago that through a sense of obligation,

he had felt it important to pick up that nursing

home ministry that Sister Walkem and I had laid down

because we moved on to other ministries and coming behind

us had an impeccable time. Brother Jesse come through just

when an elder woman needed a preacher to come through

the most, and he gave her some spiritual nourishment that

was most refreshing for her soul.

Only was she refreshed.

By the water of the Word, but her family was

refreshed as well as they saw somebody that possessed them

a sense of obligation to reach the sick and the shutting,

somebody that was willing to reach the least and the

lost and the lonely. The results of that seed being planted,

his brother Jesse will be the keynote speaker at.

Her memorial service.

And oh, thank God for one little seed that was

planted in a nursing home. It has opened up an

opportunity to spread the Gospel seed to.

That woman's family.

All that every person who possessed professorsm to be a

believer would share these feelings with the apostle Paul, For

necessity is laid upon me, and yea whoe is me

if I preach not the Gospel. Every believer, especially those

who belong to the Bethel ho in this church, should

feel obligated and compelled to reach the least, the lost,

and the lonely with a message of hope. We should

feel the need to reach our fellow man, and within

our local church, we should feel the need to grow

in grace and in the knowledge of the Lord and

Savior Jesus Christ, and to develop and to grow and

to be mature in the things of God. Right here

in the midst of our church family. I can find it.

In a lot of churches today. There's only a handfull

of people that are interested in helping.

Do things around the House of God. Holy.

Your hand of people are interested in helping with the lawn.

Only a handful of people are interested in helping with

a cleaner before and after a church fellowship. Where is

the sense of obligation concerning these kind of of things,

I believe to night, I've made it.

Clear to you already the the problem.

We're a lot of the Pentecostal and holiness churches, he is,

nobody's got that sense of obligation anymore.

Only a handful you do.

If you go to this church and another church, that church,

and another church, the pastor will tell you the only

him and his wife and a select view feel the

necessity of doing something.

Around the House of God.

I heard a pastor recently say that only he has

a desire to be on the new church for that

church family. I don't want to reign on his parade

that I want to say this. If nobody has got

a sense of abrogation now, they will not have a

sense of abrogation to take care of it an actress death.

Nobody will feel it necessary for their responsibility to overseal.

The House of God.

All the necessity of servitude. This is a pastoral message tonight.

This is directed to the members of the mestel hol

in his church. And I know without a doubt we've

got one of the most unified, closely knit groups of

people that I've ever been around. I have been in

church for fifty years and like a lot of you

that have moved here have said, we have never seen

it on this fashion. I believe it is the key

to the moves of God that we have coupled with

a desire for sanctified living. I feel like a unified

people who are sanctified could expect nothing more than a

down pour from the glory world of Almighty God. But

I know amongst the seventy or eighty here to night,

that's probably only sixty. And that is a remarkable number

that I am one of them preachers that I'm not

going to let two to five for one or two

decide they're not going to help with the Lord. And

you know what, it comes more just swinging a mopa

in the men in the women's bathroom. It comes more

then pushing a vacuum cleaner up the center out and

dragging it between every few. What about some of you

that don't want to do that? But why, oh why,

when you come to God's house do you not have

a sense of obligation that.

You owe it to God Almighty to.

Worship Him, to be active in service and the lift

ype the Holy name, Oh Jesus. Ever since they save

me the naught, he washed me cleaner, I'm my sin,

there's been a praise in my soul.

I can't help me say thank you Lord.

When a preacher preaches like this, You know, sometimes we

immediately think of those that operate in the ministry of helps.

We think of Brother Justin and Sister Kathy rope Cap.

I mean, brother Caleb in his life time has seen

Mom and Dad are church workers. The Howill family can

tell you that whenever I was just sitting in a

few and the how Will family were members of a

holiness church. We were church workers when we were not

members of a holiness church, but members of a Church

of God. And when my wife was a member of

an Assembly of God, we were church workers without makeup.

She's been a church worker, which she was not sactified

with makeup. She was a church worker her. Y'all listening,

do me? And I know I feel like I'm preaching

to the choir of tonight. I know I feel like

I'm really not hitting ten or twenty or thirty on

the head with this message tonight. But I want you

to know God dealt with me this afternoon to tell

you you need to know something about India. You need

to know something about endearment. The reason why Dorcas had

such a powerful influence over the people this because of

how active she was in her local church.

I'm telling you there's a lot of people.

They won't what Iris Wooton's got. They won't what Charity

How's got, they won't what Kathy roe CAP's got, they

won't what Justin roe Cap has. But they don't understand

it takes a becoming part of the family of God.

And this is a reason why a lot of people

stay outside of the fringes.

It is because they know what they need to do.

Even some have a sense of obligation, but they choose

not to do it.

Amen.

Whenever I started coming down here and mode church yard

for another church for years and I never got any praise,

I never looked for approval, affirmation, or applause. And to

be honest with you, I really never expected God to

do anything wonderful for my family as a result of it.

I really never looked to receive some kind of benefit

for my actions towards the family of God and given

towards them. But I have found that it was most

beneficial and that God compensated me because I was willing

to do it. I am not tooting my own horn.

I'm not being arrogant, I'm not being proud. I'm just

trying to lead you by example and let you know

you can do it if you will tune in to

that sense of obligation.

There's some of you. You got a sense of desernment there.

Some of you consens the boogerman in the neighbor on

the pew. You consense the problem with a charismatical on

the job. You consense the problem when Nancy Pelosi and

Chuck Schumer. Some of you could even sense the problems

with Donald Trump. Oh come on now, but where is

your sense of obligation concerning evangelation, A concerning reaching out

to a lost and a dying world and helping your

church family with day to day church business.

Pastoral message right here?

Twenty plus years of pastoral ministry right here coming out tonight.

When attempting to lead someone to Christ, you have to

use your mouth. I'm telling you.

If my dad and Mama were backslid that they were unsaved,

they would hear from Jeremy Howell at least once every

month concerning the need for their salvation. I remember first

Realiznce Howell so many had lost a sense of obligation

in our Pentecost and Holiness churches. When God dealt with

me after a season of prayering fashion to walk around

and pass out flowers inviting people to revival, I asked

about twenty brothers, would you be interested in going around.

With me and knocking on doors? And I went with

one man.

That was not really serious about the Lord, because the

Bible said to go with two.

And the reason why I went with.

Him because he was the only one with a sense

of obligation to do something for the Lord. I'm gonna

tell you you need to put your arms and your

legs and your hands and your feet to work.

Yes, but you've also.

Got to use that mouth. And that's what Apostle Paul

was saying. For necessity, it is laid upon me. God

then ask you to spend all afternoon prayer about tonight's message.

God's commissioned me to do that. And that's why I wonder,

oh how I wonder why so many took theirself away.

They never purchased a tract. They never feel the need

to tell somebody about their state her mind not being wrong.

They never feel a burden to tell somebody about Jesus.

There's something wrong with that. There's something wrong with that.

And I say this humbly.

Multitudes are gonna go to hell for that.

Hold that every person who professes to be a believer

would share these feelings with Paul and so many others

in the Bible. Brother Jesse, I'm not telling people to

make their mission fill their job, although it can be one,

and if you don't use wisdom, it won't be your

mission field very long. I'm not telling you to be

slothful and lazy and put tracks in everybody's lunch box.

I'm telling you to fast and pray and ask God

who you can hand a handful of purpose too. I mean,

may the spirit a bow asp come upon you that

you could see a root out there somewhere gleaning of

some roots out there barely getting by some root out

there scraping the bottom of the barrel at night, And

may you drop somebody a handful a purpose. Do you

know why brother Richard Jacob is here tonight because Brother

Jeerimiah took a message's pastor preached and put it in

the audio sermon library. And brother Richard Jacob, he took

that handful of purpose and God convicted him and have

to plant him where he says he's doing better.

Ah, come on, now, what about it right here tonight?

Do you feel see it of obligation to pray with

somebody until they pray it through? Do you feel a

sist of obligation to pray with that young person until

they receive the Holy Girls.

We used to have a sense of obligation to pray

with a young sister.

Sisters, you know why because somebody prayed with us until

we prayed it through.

Who are you preaching to tonight, pastor all of us?

I'm preaching to myself.

Every believer should feel obligated and compelled to reach the least,

the loss and the lonely, all the necessity of servitude.

Paul and the other apostles understood this, regardless of what

benefits they may or may not receive, they knew expected

it to be done. The great commission is to be

fulfilled by any and every believer. Any and every believer

needs to feel obligated to do their part. What I

like about about the Holiness Church, there are enough outreach

ministries for you to get involved in to help you

with that sense of obligation. Why didn't Caine have a

sense of obligation towards being a great older brother the Abel?

This afternoon, God began to deal with me about the

attitude of Cain. And that's where so many Holiness and

Pentecostal people, and of course the nominal churches.

I'm not preaching to them. I'm not part of them.

So sitting down, shut up, and letting me preach to

your Pentecostal and Holiness churches. I'm not preaching at a

Baptist convintion. Tonight, I'm talking to some it should be

their brother's keeper. And the Bible set in Genesis four nine,

and the Lord said of the cane.

Where is able thy brother? And he said, I know not,

Am I my brother's keeper? It's every bit.

The Caine had a bad attitude, and his answer reveals

this to us. He felt no responsibility for his brother,

I said, he felt no responsibility for his brother. But

what he did for you was to be his brother's rifle.

What he did for you was a spirit of competitiveness.

And when God shut it down, he was upset with

his brother.

Man.

Pastoral message to night, what's happening in all these churches

that used to run one hundred, two hundred and three hundred. Well,

we started outreach ministries, they say, after we got down

to twenty and thirty. But the motives are impure. Whenever

you're doing it to post it on social media?

Is then?

Is it then hey self denial work? Is it then

making yourself of no reputation work?

Oh?

Come on, now, we may share of what we do

with one another here at Bethel, But I ain't melling

out flyers trying to tell everybody about what we're doing.

Sometimes you can make a good thing a bad thing.

I ain't talking about sharing it with your family. I'm

talking about by advertising about.

What you're doing for the lord.

And that's where that young ruler was, That's where that

rich man was.

Rather just see.

Everything he had done. He had done to be seen

by others. He had done it for somebody to check

up ruble boxer, for somebody to check the affirmation blocks,

for somebody to check her.

Oh, come on now, the applause block. What about it?

Jesus would show him how to make yourself of no reputation.

That would have been the day he became nobody, and

Jesus would have been these somebody.

That was his problem.

He didn't like the fact that he'd had to blend

in with his brothers and do what Jesus commissioned or

commanded him to do. That word commission seems a whole

lot more friendly than the word command, doesn't It. Isn't

it interesting that Cain would rather be his brother's rival

rather than having a revival with able Ables over there

having revival and Cain's wanting to be his rival. I'm

telling you, when you get in it your modus better

be pure, brother, stare at you know what he'd rather do,

like most jail less people do. He'd rather commit a

violent act against Abel than seek his brother's best interests.

He'd rather slay his brother. Oh, come on, now, is

that not where we're at today? Somebody'd rather ruin the

reputation of somebody that selfless and somebody that's given and

only to be seen by God. But somebody rather murder

their brother. What happened to me and your brother's keeper?

Where's the sense of obligation that I must be my

brother's keeper, that is my brother? Sounds to me like

Caine had the same attitude problem. The prodigal son's older

brother had. Thank you, Holy goes the prodigal son's oldest brother,

he had a problem. And if I'm not mistaken, that's

found in Luke's Gospel around the fifteenth chapter in the Brotherhood,

we find the eldest brother his reaction to the return

of the younger brother, brother Samuel.

Was not a good one.

And the Bible said that the father had to go

out there to the eldest brother, and he had to say,

why are you not coming in? And I did a

little research on that word of what the prodigal son's

father did to the oldest brother. That was a few

months ago. I was concerned about that particular word, and

it literally means he scolded him because of his bad attitude.

And so the father goes out there and says, you've

got a bad attitude concerning.

Your younger brother.

I'm asking y'all here tonight, where was the eldest brother's

sense of obligation concerning.

His little brother?

I mean, he told the prodigal son's father said, son,

you've been with me.

All that I have is yours.

You're about to have pre eminence, You're about to have prestige.

You're about to be a powerful man like that ruler

that brother Jesse talked about. You're about to have the estate.

You're about to have it all. Why can you not

go in there and celebrate with us? You know what

I feel like the Holy ghost he's showing me right now,

he will have said something like this, where's the sense

of obligation? Do you not realize the people in this

community are looking up to you?

Do you not realize your little brother needs you now

more than ever? Oh my God in heaven, I try

to help somebody to not see yourself.

Amen.

I remember seeing them that felt like they had to

go to work on Saturday because the pastor called for

a church workday. I could preach this to encourage us

to evangelize the lost and dying world. And I can

preach us to encourage us to be our brother's keeper.

Because I tell you this after service today, I doubt

Brother Jesse felt like doing nursing home ministry, but there's

a sense of obligation. And do y'all know for six years,

I'm not bragging. I am being as humble as I

can be and speaking the truth in love for six years,

Sister Hole and I I got six little kids ready

and we drove two hours to church. And when we

got caught by one of them phosphate trains on the

back side of Fort Meen, a two hour drive became

a two hour and thirty to forty minute drive at

one o'clock in the morning, concerned about falling asleep and

then not being in park and running up vehico up

and under a phosphate train car. You with me, I'm

telling you, Brother Jesse, And what kept me coming it

was this mysterious sense of obligation. See him brother and

sister Platte in here on a pew, see him brother

and sister Hammond in here on a pew, and in

time seeing brother and sister wooting in a pew. It

was just a six of them, and I had this

tremendous sense of obligation. I felt like I had to

do it because I felt like Sister Wooden's words to

me are true. Sister Woodness told me often recently she said,

I feel like if you had to come here when

you did, I would have died and went to hell.

Now that's easy for a great woman of God like

her to.

Admit, But what about you?

Will you admit that you've lost a sense of obligation.

For any man that properly marries a woman, he knows he.

Will get a sense of obligation.

I remember when Brother Jeremiah was born December fifth, nineteen

ninety five. That means in just a few days, brother Philip,

he will be the big thirty. I remember when I

turned thirty. I remember thinking I was as old as

Jesus was when Jesus began his ministry. And brother Jerebiah

remember turning thirty three. In getting around thirty three and

a half and thinking my Jesus was dead and gone.

I'm telling you he was alive forevermore, of course, but

his ministry on this earth was over. And brother Jesse

Jesus had told his precious mommy one time, at the

age of twelve, he said, woman, do you not understand

I must be about my father's business. He had a

sense of obligation, Sister Howell, concerning the commission that the

Trayum God had had ordered.

For him to do.

And I remember when brother Jeremiah was born by Cecerian section.

I remember hearing him cry for.

The first time, and I lost my breath, And after

about four or five seconds, I was able to catch

my breath. What it was, This awesome sense of obligation

of my baby boy came over me. And I was

a different man right then than I was even when

the first sits of obligation came when I'm married, Charity Howell.

Are you me right here?

There's too much revivaling in so many churches today for

them to go out and to reach the lost and

the lonely. They're spinning all the resources on revival. I'm

for revival, but they're so desperately trying to grow their church.

They spend their resources on preachers that are preaching the

same messages repeatedly.

Not all the summer coming in without a burden.

But all they gotta do is do what God said,

go out into the world and preach the gospel. But

we'll run this one through of a certain pedigree. We'll

run this one through of a certain pedigree. We'll run

this one's through of a certain pedigree. And then we

thank God because after ten years we had a church

changing revival. But in them nine of ten years we

had a rival spirit. Hey man, what's this church doing?

What's this church doing? How many of they running? I'm

telling you God's fields are empty because people are lacking

a sense of obligation. Brother Jesse, I'm telling you I

believe that prodigal Son's father said to the oldest boy,

don't you feel obligated?

Brother Caleb.

You have the older brother syndrome like I do, And

I have the eldest brother syndrome. And I know there

are times when my younger siblings reach out to me.

It's not very often anymore, but most of the time

when they do, I may or may not want to

get involved in what it is they're bringing to me.

But brother Jesse, because I'm the eldest brother, I feel

somewhat obligated.

To help them.

Come on, now, you look at our golden text again, Romans,

chapter number one and verse number fourteen. He said, I

am debtor, both to the Greeks and to the Barbarians,

both to the wise and the un Why you tell

me that this man felt like he had a monetary

debt to those people.

Absolutely not.

He hadn't been to the Greek or the Barbarians bank,

He didn't know anybody any money. In fact, he forsook

it all for Christ. He said, I counted all but

done that I might win Christ. But he's said I'm

a debtor. Do y'all see this a sense of obligation?

This is a pastoral message, Hey, come on now. And

he said, I'm a debtor to the wives and the unwise.

Y'all know what an unwise person is, right, it's a fool.

And he said, I got a preach to the wise,

and I got a preach to the fool. I got

a preach to those that walter truth, and I got

ap preach to those that.

Despise the truth.

Down through the years, I've heard many believers say this,

I am not ashamed of the gospel. Is it that

down there around verse number sixteen, brother Wood, I am

not ashamed of the Gospel. I've heard them talk about it.

I've heard them talk about walking out of their front door,

walking through their lawn, getting in their car and driving

the church. I've heard them talk about the other people

got in their car, hooked up to their boat and

went to the lake. I've heard them talk about their

unashamedness concerning the things of God. And then you back

up another versa and they're basically eager to do this

and that. But whenever it comes to feeling like they're

indebted to doing it since to how, then it's a

different story. Then when it comes to obligation, then it's

a different story.

As the how. They never say I'm a debtor.

In fact, the laol to see church, we're rich, increase

with goods, and we need nothing, including a preacher. Most

holding his churches today, I wonder if they want a pastor,

and every pastor that's listening would say amen to that.

They want a preacher. They don't want a pastor that

will watch over the flock. They want a preacher that

will feed the flock. A pastor is to watch and feed.

A pastor is to speak into your life. A pastor

is to tell you what is safe and what is not.

I feel a sense of obligation to tell you, you

go there, you won't make it back. I feel sense

of obligation to tell you you mess with that you're

gonna get burnt. I feel sense of obligation to tell

you that relationship is not with you.

Oh, my God in heaven, Jesus, I'm I trying.

You got me into this, Jesus, and I have a

sense of obligation to preach it.

Jesus. Amen.

Oh my lord, brother, you may not be ashamed of

going to church, but do you feel indebted? Do you

feel obligated? I mean, it's one thing to strut into church.

Man, Praise the Lord. We're here.

Praise God. I'm unashamed of this. But how about come

Monday morning. While the world chases a lifestyle of indulgences

and selfish and sinful pleasures, we boast that we're not

ashamed of the Gospel. We're not ashamed to grow our

hair long, are we, ladies? We're not ashamed to wear

our garments long, are we men?

And ladies? We're not ashamed to keep our hair cropped?

Are we men? We're not ashamed?

But what about when it comes to feeling indebted to

tell the lost and dying world that Jesus saves and

that Jesus lives. Woe unto me if I preach not

the gospel. Charlie Kirk at least had a sense of

obligation concerning speaking out concerning national security and patriar Arctic things,

and even concerning the will of God, the Word of

God and the revealed will of God. He was definitely

open concerning the scripture. And you know what, whenever he

was assassinated, when that voice of truth obligated to be

his oracle, when that voice of truth was silenced by

the liberal left, people came out of the woodworks unashamedly

citing their entitlement of free speech and showing their support

for freedom of religion. That I remember telling you all,

give it three or four months and we'll see what happens.

And one of the boys told me while we were

in Tennessee, we were supposed to be wearing red in

the honor of Charlie Kirk. Now tell me how many

people you saw wearing red amongst the tens of thousands

of people, Maybe less than a hundred, I said, maybe

less than a hundred joined in that effort. I don't

care what it appeared like on social media that there

were the masses willing to wear red in the.

Face of the public.

The truth is a lot of them did not feel

obligated to be the oracle. They did not feel obligated

to wear red in public.

You know why, because.

They did not want to be in the liberal leftist

cross hairs. And that is why a lot of holiness

men no longer preacher, wasn't said the word of God

because they don't want to be he in the politicians

cross hairs. And all I can tell you hypocrite is

put me in your cross hairs. Many have since lost

that feeling of obligation to supporting the cause of Charlie Kirk.

There were some beautiful songs written of what we're gonna

do and how we're gonna.

Change the world. Oh Sweet Jesus.

Many have lost that sense of obligation since that was

faird initially, why we shouldn't forget Charlie Kirk's mission. But

even more so, we shouldn't forget about the mission of Christ.

He said, for necessity is laid upon me, for woe

unto me if I preach not the Gospel. Every Christian

should worry about being ostracized. They should feel obligated. And

that's where we're at. That's why you can't get very

many holding us of Pentecostal people. And I'm not down

on the holdness of Pentecostal people, but I'm gonna say

it again, I'm not preaching the Southern Baptist Convention. You

can't get many of them to hold a sign out there.

You know why, because they don't feel obligated to do so.

You mean the man that crawled up on a cross and.

Died for your sin, and was literally publicly mocked and

spit upon and mistreated and died for you and literally

stripped naked and a shame us before all.

Oh, come on, now, the wise and the unwise.

He was ridiculed. And yet you will not stand out

there and hold a sign. You're ashamed to put a

track to hold a gasoline pump at the convenience store.

Me, Oh my, what are we gonna do when we stand.

Before Jeremiah and Esther and Jeremiah and all these other

agreement of God on Judgment's day, what we gonna do.

Charlie Kirk's death motivated some to do better. In fact,

some are biting at the bit right now to do better.

But not everybody is canvas Owen's come out fighting Whenever

Apostle James was martyred, some came out fighting. When Apostle

Peter was martyred, some came out fighting. I can tell

you this. You let Jeremy Howe be maded for the

gospels sake, and there's gonna be something in them howl

boys snap. When the devil took Jephtha and Brother Nathaniel,

Sister Rachel, if you're listening, I mean the harm by this.

But when the.

Devil took Jeptha, I said, I hate you now morning

I've ever hated you. And if you thought this was

gonna convince me to leave holiness, I said, I will

now preach holiness more than I ever have before. And

there's some of you throwing your head up and down

and shaking it sideways up and down and shouting right

now amen, amen, But I'm asking you if that shoe

was put on your foot, how would you wear it?

Would you stand up in church and say something like this,

the devil's been fighting me, and stop testifying and stop

singing and stop preaching. Oh yeah, ten thousand devils said,

it's because I preach holiness. But I remember the night

the Holy Ghost showed me and Brother Nathaniel he was

right here, and I was right here, and we wept

and cried as God showed us Jepta was gonna die.

We wept and cried, and we prayed, and God spoke

to him and I privately in our spirits, and our

spirits spoke to one another, and we knew God had

told us He's taken Jepta. And now if I go

to Alva, Florida. It was my grandson that was the

first one planted in the new cemetery. I bought the

first eight plots, and the lawyer from Fort Myers bought ten.

We were the first two, I believe, and on my

desk pulled out recently, is the deed of them plots?

Should John need it, it's there, huh. You know why

sometimes we say things other people wouldn't say because we

feel a sense of obligation that it needs to be said.

Sometimes there's some things that need to be said and

nobody else wants to say it. Brother David King told

me years ago I just started preaching. He said, Brother Jeremy,

you know what makes you preaching different? I said, I

have no idea. I didn't know it was different. He said,

you'll say what none of us will say. And he said,

that's why you have results. He's not talking about me

being a wild bull in the China cabinet. He's not

talking about me being unwise. We haven't been unwise here.

An unwise man wouldn't grow a church. I haven't grown

to church. The Lord has grown the church. We haven't

built a church. God build a church. I feel a

burden right here. Somebody's getting this. Why is it that

only a handful feel it's their duty to do something

for God? Why do only a few sister how felt

obligated to spread the good news. You don't have to

be a preacher. You don't have to be a pastor

young men. I had a young preacher come to me

years ago when I started making the ride down here

six hours I mean two hours here, two hours back

with six kids for six years. He came to me

and for some unknown reason, just out of the clear blue,

he said, don't expect any of us to fill your burden.

Don't expect any of us to share your burden. What

you're doing is impractical, doesn't make sense, what you're walking

away from, what you're giving up for them, six people

down there.

It's impractical holding this preacher.

You burning fifty bucks to go down there eighteen and

a half years ago, diesel fuel five dollars a gallon.

It seem practical. You helping finance the work. It's insanity.

He said, don't expect us to share your burden. And

I said, where did that come from? I've never asked

you to. But today's sister, how while I was praying,

God dealt with me there in my office and said,

how many flowers has he passed out since he told

you not to expect him to share your birden? How

many doors has he knocked on? How many corners has

he stood on. I'm not talking about somebody in a letty.

I'm talking about a preacher. He told us to go

into the highways and into the hedges, and to compel.

We're commissioned to compel. I feel like there's a burden

descending upon somebody. The night my heart changed, Brother Randy

Webb was preaching in Lake Placid, Florida. And this is

no commercial for Lake Placid, because I hadn't been there

in probably twenty years. But I tell you that was

about thirty years ago. Brother Randy Webb was preaching and

he preached a message titled having a Pioneer Spirit. And

one preacher heard me telling about it, and he got

up and preached on having a pilgrim spirit and gave

my story. And so at the church he came to

me and he said, I want to tell you a story,

and I preached, don't have a pilgrim spirit. He didn't

still brother Randy's message. But I said, that ain't what

brother Randy preach. I said, Brother Randy, preach, have a

pioneer spirit. And Brother Jeremiah, when I got that sense

of obligation, it didn't matter if we had six or

sixty or six hundred, I had to be here for

that little lady right there that I love dearly. And

for that one, it's been over with her forehead on

the pew, cry praying in tongues. My sense of obligation

was real brother Jesse, before there were seventy or eighty

in this building, before the building had been remodeled. Twice,

I feel the Holy ghost in this place. God will

turn your heart for the better.

Tonight.

May a selfish spirit leaving, May a selfless spirit be

imparted through the power and from Jesus. It's the sense

of obligation that makes us excited to share with others.

And Second Corinthians around Worse Number twenty four, Paul gave

us a list of things he endured for the gospel's sake.

Five times beaten by the Jews, receiving thirty nine stripes,

per beaten, stoned and left for dead. Three times I

suffered shipwrecks, spent a full day and night in the

dark ocean waters.

He was in peril.

He was robbed by his own countrymen and heathens, and

brother Aaron Wood. From what I could determine, that was

about halfway through his ministry. So if he was to

start writing that list again, the list to go on

and on and on and on and on, and just

before I went to walk out of that office as

to how esther came to my then Mordecai commanded to

answer Esther.

Esther, he told.

Esther, think not thyself that thou shalt escape in the

King's house more than all the Jews. God may have

promoted you, pretty princess, to the palace, and you may

be holding the King of Astra's forearm when he's sitting

in the throne. But little lady, you got too big

for your gown. And he went on to say, if

you hold your peace at this time, then shall deliverance

arise for the Jewish people from a different place, from

a different source, from a different person.

Oh God, Hell told Jeremiah the prophet.

He said, I have decided not to mention him anymore,

But then the sense of obligation his word is in

my heart as a fire shut up in my bones.

And I'm weary with forbearing, and I cannot stay as

to how why could he not hold back? Because he

was obligated to be his oracle commission from a child.

And I want to tell every one of you children

of God, the day you were born again, you were

commissioned as a child.

And except she become.

As a little child, ye shall not enter into the kingdom.

Brother Jesse, when you come to the piano tonight, I

remember being around the age of twelve and hearing this

song for the first time. I'm sure it had been

sung many times, but I heard it for the first time.

Brother Philip.

The lyrics jumped out to me and I got a

hold of it. It talked about his house being full,

but his fields being empty, and Sister how it said,

who will go and work for me today? I'm fixing

the drag, Brother Jeremih of the mission field in the

next couple of months. And Sister how one thing it

will do. It will change your oldest baby boys heart.

They're all her baby boys. They're all her babies. When

I come into church, I'm not looking for anybody to

flash to smile at me. I'm not looking for a

handshake or a pat on the back. I feel since

obligation to come into his house and say thank you

for your blessings on me, thank you for saving me.

Tonight's message has been a pastoral message to the Bethel

Holiness Church, and I realize I'm preaching to seventy to

eighty and I realize over sixty five of you are

wonderfully blessed of the Lord because of your giving. Sister

Janet Hill, you have felt a sense of obligation to

support our barrels of blessing ministry. It has no greater

supporter than Sister Janet Hill. An eternity will show maybe

she'll never get to go here and there with Brother

Nathaniel and I. Maybe she will, But in eternity there'll

be somebody that will walk up and say, Sister Hell,

I had been praying for some new clothes. A precious

sister recently put some money in an envelope, and she

wrote a very nice, proper letter, and she said, Pastor,

you know where this needs to go. You know the

mission opportunities and outreach is more than I do.

What she didn't know.

To the penny that covered a need in the mission field.

Brother Jeremiah, it has been my honor, my privilege to

watch my kids be amazed when he paid bills, and

only he could pay because we were working in his fields.

Sister how it's been a beautiful joy of ours to

go through McDonald's and see that offering that Brother Platte

gave us be just enough to feed our family to

the penny. And because of this, I feel obligated to

preach until I die. Because of this, I feel obligated

to serve him until the last breath I take. Let's

stand tonight. This message can be life changing for some

in this building.

I appreciate you all so much.

This is a given church, it's a revival church, and

I commend you for that. But to four to five

of you, I feel like God wants to bless you

in a very special way tonight and give you the

sense of obligation. Once you get at that, you can

never shake it. Let's bow our heads and close our eyes.

If you're that one, Sister Hannah Howell Edwards, what makes you,

a week and a half after delivery, want to get

back to that primary class and teach like you did

this morning. A sense of obligation, a joy. Don't mistake me.

We don't do it begrudgingly. We don't do it with

murmuring and complaining. It's an honor and a privilege to

be obligated to be as oracle. If you are here

tonight and God has dealt with you as brother Stare,

it plows into this altar as as somebody else. I

want you to talk to the Lord. Don't look around

and see who's done praying. I want you to have

a life changing encounter and experience with the bird and

get tonight. Let him give you a bird and ask

him what he would have you to do. If you're

seeking the Holy Ghost, ask him what he would have

you to do.

Sing it Amen,