Taste Of The Lord - Bro Timothy Grant 11-2-2025

He's talking about them carrotcake bites. It was the hugest

bite I ever saw in my life. It was the

hugest piece of carcakes. But I thoroughly enjoyed it. It's

one of my favorites. In the House of God is

one of my favorites. Y'all help us sing if you know.

I would like to say, I think the Lord also.

I think the Lord also for what he's done for

us since we've been here.

I feel like I would.

Be remiss and not praising him for the way that

he's helped us. We were here in July last year,

and since then my dad had a major stroke. We

were living in the home with them as caregivers, and

I ended up in the hospital in March. And it's

just been like a roller coaster, Brother Jeremy, up and down,

up and down. But God, in his mercy, has brought

us to this point. And I felt during that time

that I was spending so much time in the hospital

and now and back and all that I felt God

as close or closer than I ever remember feeling.

That.

I remember I've told this different times at different places

we've been, but it's part of it that stood out

to me.

One morning they.

Had taken me down to do a test, and I

was on the gurney that they took me down on,

just they had taken me into the room where the

test was to be done, and they had all walked out,

and just laying there, I began to just quietly talk

to the Lord. I don't even remember the words I said,

but it was.

Very few, and the holy ghosts settled with me right

there on that gurney.

I didn't know what the test was gonna be. I

didn't know what it was gonna show. That God showed me.

I'm still right here, and he's been there every step

of the way, and he's promised he'd never leave us.

So I know the past is a promise that I'll

have all I need for the future.

I am just too weary, but.

I haven't ever read I long with a word. That's harmer.

For me, that's farmer, army. It be believe me.

Saturdays that's hard.

For me.

When I'm stand in my very side of the.

And my hardest speak so and I so on.

I can't restos in honor with me. It's Saturday, Heaven,

and I never wasn't.

That's harmy.

For me. That's fallen.

For me. If you leave me through the valleys, take

inside the guy's all.

That's time.

For me.

When I'm growing old and people and my eyes are

getting me and I'm wearing on my jerk.

If I met my husband, you.

Know, God, my locking steps o, my trip, my son,

a child from my space.

That's far nic.

For me.

That's harn f the safe inside the guy.

It's a world that's hard.

Morm me.

When I'm standing in the chair and I'm a rays being, i.

Want have to beg from Matt prose for me, his

chack o.

My name is Red Yon, the blood.

Holly with you forever, the.

Lad all it's tarns. That's far now.

For me.

That's far no.

For me.

If you read me through the bout excite joy to

guy's burn.

That's fun.

That's far now.

For me. That's fine.

If can't believe me, than can study.

That's tomorrow.

That's hard.

For you're not standing in the judgment and.

My bads me.

I'll have the most passible mons sack.

But my name is Red and.

The blood shake from me and I'll live with the problem.

That's far now. Warning, that's farner.

Born, leading to the don's shot.

A bird that's harner.

W farner.

By, that's horn.

For it to me, the din cych the child, that's

the burn. That's fine.

Warning, appreciate the Lord.

Aye, I'm so glad to get to be back in

the house of God, right, says to God.

So glad for all that God has done, h every

time that he has moved. And UH thought, I've been

dealing with uh little heart issue, brother, howel I thought

about it just a little bit earlier, and uh, some

papitations or something. I'm not sure what all they are.

And uh, he explained it to me like this, said

your heart beats like thum thum thum dun and said

one part of your heart will beat and the other

one will be slow to beat. And it just like

flutters trying to catch up, trying to get into I thought,

we don't need nobody be trying to play catch up tonight.

We don't need anybody to be playing catch up tonight.

We need to all get on board. We need to

all get on board. I've been there when I hung back,

and when it was all said and done, I regretted it.

I regretted it do need the Lord to help us tonight.

As you probably already know, if the Lord don't help us,

we ain't gonna do much. But if the Lord will

help us, I want to go to clauss Amen, go

to classis a second chapter, and I need you to

pray for me tonight. I really do need you to

pray for me. I want to begin reading in the

twentieth verse Classians two and verse twenty. Wherefore, if ye

be dead with Christ from the rudiments of the world, why,

as though living in the world, ye are subject to ordinance? Ordinances? Said, touch,

not taste, not handle, not with all which which all

are to perish with the using after the commandments and

doctrines of men, which things have indeed a show of

wisdom in well worship and humility, and neglecting of the

not in any honor to the satisfying of the flesh.

Thank you for standing for the reading of the Word

of God. Now, he said, wherefore, if you be dead

with Christ from the rudiments of the world, the things

of the world, why as though living in the world,

are you subject to ordinances? Now we're talking about the

world here, Okay, he said, touch, not taste, not handle

not for all are to perish with the youth, Amen,

for all, or to perish with the using. I can

look around, and I can see we was at a

Holiness fellowship meeting some time ago, and there was a

young man there, brother Howl, that had touched the world

a little bit too much, had tasted too much, and

had handled too much. This young man, you could tell

war a nice cowboy at. I'm not against cowboy ats. Okay,

you'll understand what I'm done. But it had this big, old, big,

old round silver belt buckle. He had on those fancy

cowboy boots, and he was into horses, and he was

into things he didn't have no business touching. Mamma and

Daddy had let him touch too much, let him tasted

too much, let him handle too much of the world.

And you know the direction that that young man went.

He went the way of the world. Ah Man, But

I would like to watch myself. I wouldn't like to

be careful, Amen. I don't want to amen touch anything.

Amen.

Let me move on just a little bit before I

get ahead of myself. I want to go to Proverbs

six chapter ay Man, very familiar scripture to us.

All, Amen.

He told us. There these six things death, the Lord

I hate you ain't seven of aurbomination unto him.

A proud look, a lying tongue, hands that shed it

in us some blood, and the heart that devised that

wicked imagination feed that be swift in running to mischief,

a false witness, that speak of lies, and the that's

sort discord among the brother.

Man.

And we are commanded in the word of God, a

man touch not, taste, not.

Handle not. There are some things and we as a church.

As individuals, we have no business touch on. We have

no business tasting of handling.

Amen. It's easy to get that proud looking Amen. On

the very day of Javon's birthday, he was proud. He

was proud of that birthday. He told me the night before, said, Daddy,

tell everybody to call me birthday boy.

And so with.

In there doing his Bible, that's his first subject of

the day is Bible. Amen. After a while they brought

up the word proud, and uh, what was that other word? Son, arrogancy?

Proud and arrogancy. Amen, And we looked up the definitions.

I said something, You're gonna have to be careful today. Amen.

You can swell out your chest and you say birthday, boy,

he was proud of that birthday.

Hey, ma'am.

But Saints, we gotta be careful, ah ma'am. That pride,

it'll get you that errogan see, that'll get you. Amen,

We've got to be careful. God, I hate a proud look.

He hates a proud look, a lying tongue, hands that

shed innocent blood, heart that devisesth wicked imaginations. It's easy

to let that.

Mind, Amen, run away with you.

You will imagine people that's saying things about you that

they are not saying.

Amen.

And that'll breef things in yourd Amen. These are things

that God, we are not to touch them. Not Nord

I touch them, nor.

Do I know.

Them. Uh glory. Amen's feet that be swift and running

to mischief. They like confusion, they like stirring up trouble.

We don't need none of that among us. You better

not be touching it. A false witness that speaketh lies

and he that's sow a discord among the brother Amen,

there's that.

As a Christian, we have no business touching, no business tasting,

no business handling them things.

Amen, Uh glory. Amen. We could Amen, go over there,

and we could read is the Galatians the fifth chapter.

I'm on now the Bible Amen told us over there,

Immenlatians five. He began to talk to him. There Now

the works of the flesh are manifest, which are the Amen.

And I'm sure Pastor Howe could go through here and

probably cover these a lot more sufficiently than what I

could a man. But adultery for an occasion, uncleanness, lesciviousness, adultry,

witx craft, hatred, variance, emulation, wrath, strive, seditions, hair, sees, envians, murders, drunkenness, revelings,

ay man, and that goes on and says and such

a like, anything that's like them, anything that's God, anything.

To do with it.

You've got no business to child, You've got no business

a man dabbling with them. You've got no business supply, you.

Have no business have do anything.

With any of these.

There's a lot there. It covers a lot in the

Bible went through enlisted several things. Paul, did you drunker

the tree? Murder? And he said, in such like were

some of you h some of us have been there before.

But we are redeemed, we've been saved, we've been sanctified.

We've been filled with the Holy Ghost. Amen.

Any Holy ghost filled individual Amen. Lorder Amen. The mind

the dealer of the Holy Ghost, because he is a leader,

he is a guide. He will lead us away from

these things if we will obey the Holy Ghost.

Even those that woudraw themselves. Brother, I may have told

you before I appreciate people that draws near to God.

But you when you start going the other way and

you begin to take on things that the people of

God has given up. Hema, come on now, hey man,

we get confused when it comes to sin.

Hey maen im personal conviction. Brother, Amen, you cannot label

that sin. That's personal convictions and it will take you

to hell. Has no excuse for it. But the Bible said, touch,

not taste.

Not no not. I'm wanting to cover it thoroughly, if

that's all right, Amen. But the Bible talk to us

and first John, Amen. First John. The second chapter, very

very familiar scripture. Or okay mm hmm. He said, love

not the world, neither the things of the world. If

any man love the world, the love of the Father

is not in him. For all that is in the world,

the lust of the flesh, the lust of the Aye.

The pride of life is not of the Father, but

of the world. And the world pass it away, and

the luster any he that doeth the will of.

God abide it forever.

Amen.

Love not the world, neither the fashions of the world,

neither the dress of the world.

Amen.

The our God he is the ho land had a dress.

Holy Amen, Sam be.

Holy, even as I.

Hey, Holy Pastor, this is just the tip of the

iceberg when it comes to dealing with the things of

the world. And we've got no business touching. Well, is

the Bible just a bunch of.

Do's and don't? Is that all we got to deal with?

A man?

No, it's not, hey, man, because there are things that's

Christians that we can touch and we can handle, and.

We can taste.

Amen.

Oh, the Bible said a man.

He beared out that there wasn't a man things that

we could not touch.

Her man, there were not some things that we could

not taste, and there were things that we can handle.

Amen. Amen, Uh Glory Amen. He told us in Matthew Amen,

the ninth chapter, Uh Glory to God, Amen. Matthew nine

and over there around verse twenty, and behold a woman

which was diseased with an issue.

Of blood twelve years came behind him and touched him

of this garment, and she said within hersell.

If I made my touch his garment, the sheall being,

may I shall be old.

Amen.

There are some things that we need to touch, Amen,

the power of God, the spirit of God. Amen. And

when you get to touch on the things of God,

you'll not want to touch the things out the world.

I couldn't help but feel tonight that there's still somebody

the hell. You may be testing the waters, you may

be seeing how far you can go and still hold

on to the spirit of God. I believe I'd get

away from it. I believe I believe I would run

from it. The Bible told us over there and acts hemen,

very familiar Scripture acts along about the seventeenth chapter and

the twenty seventh verse. Hemen. He told us over there, Amen.

The Church of Athens, Amen, was worshiping gods that they

didn't even know who they was, and Paul was trying

to demonish them. Amen, you're trying to touch the wrong thing.

You're going in the wrong direction.

Amen.

As he begin to try to teach them, twenty seventh

verse said that they should seek the Lord.

Amen.

Is that what they brought out a Friday night about

seeking the Lord? Amen, that they should seek the Lord

if happily they might. I feel after him and find him,

though he be not.

Far from Amen, far from every one of us.

Amen. What are you trying to do?

Why don't you want to feel?

Amen?

Tired away from the.

World, ride to God or something as the people of God.

We areny tuck touch.

But in the same sentence, there are things you don't

need to touch. Help us God, oh loords. Amen, Amen,

let me move on. I want to go over to

Psalms thirty four, Hen lor rid of the lamb of God. Amen.

Psalms thirty four. The Word of God talked to us there. Amen.

I could read a lot more than what I have. Mark.

I shouldn't worry about preaching too.

Long, Amen, seeing your pastor Amen, glory, that's all right,

ain't it? Amen? But the Bible Amen told us in

verse A old taste and see that the Lord is good.

Blessed is the.

Man that's rest o year him. He's a beckon that

somebody taste the Lord tonight. Just get your little taste,

get a little feel, not the glory of God, of

the power of God.

I know you already fool. Well, everybody may not be.

It's a good taste when the power of God comes.

But will you said idly by and let the power

of God move and you not get in there with it? Hemen,

don't find yourself just a step behind, Amen, and find

yourself back there just a flutter and trying to get

caught up.

Amen. But if you stay amen with that, Amen, God

will help you.

Amen.

Leave the world alone. Don't touch chad, don't taste that.

Don't end on the world all.

Then I get you in trouble and I'll drive you

out of.

God heym Amen, Uh, Praise God, Praise God. Isaiah. Amen.

Seventh chapter Isaiah, seventh chapter. Hell. Just stay away from

the world. Hell do I'm not desire the world? Seventh

chapter long about Amen. The fourteenth verse, the Bible told us,

Therefore the Lord himself shall give you a sign. Behold,

a virgin shall conceive and bear a son, and shall

call his name e Manuel God with us butter and

the honey.

Shall he eat, that he may know to refuse the

evil and to choose the good.

For before the child shall know to refuse evil.

And choose the good.

The lamb that shall that thou horse shall be for saken,

got a boat her kings.

Aymen, how do we do it? Aymen? Need the butter

and need the.

Honey, and you won't want it, you won't desire. Ay man,

The Lord is good, the Lord, I laughed.

You get old.

Of God?

Yet a taste of the Lord. Oh, taste and see.

That the Lord is good. But you know, it's a

lot harder to touch an individual that has tasted it

and is moving away then somebody that has never tasted

it and come towards God. I got a lot of

places in our travels through the years, and I have

gone places. Brother, how that was true? Holiness people no jewelry,

long dresses on the ladies. You know, you could just

go down through the list. But they have moved. They

have moved away from holiness.

They ain't changed their name.

They still got the title. But when you step in

chice side the church, they have lost it. They have

lost it.

Taste, not handle, not.

A But if you're hungry and you're thirsty.

There are things that you can taste, and.

You can get older and you can feel after Amen,

and he will.

Work is good.

It is.

Good.

Amen, handle it. You can touch it if you want to.

You can touch it if you want to. Uh huh,

come on, now, I've seen them, brother, when they got

serious enough, When they got serious enough, I mean they

had made the statement over and over, I'm doing everything

I know to do. I'm doing everything I know to do.

But when they got serious enough, they come out of there.

With the power of God all over army.

It was like the man that they asked Hell a

long they just seek for the Holy Ghost?

He said, about fifteen minutes. They're going to ever camp meeting.

He could think of across the country trying to get

the Holy Ghost, and he finally got it. They said,

how long? Did about fifteen minutes? Wouldn't that be good?

Wouldn't that be good? She hit that altar in about

fifteen minutes. There's some people can't seek God five minutes.

But it's the taste, it's the touch. Man. Did you

know that touch goes both ways. I feel that when

God touches you. Amen. But you can touch God.

There's a way. Amen.

It's good to the taste.

Oh but the Bible, Amen, talk to us and first John, Amen,

First John. Back there, he on the in the amen.

First chapter, Oh Glory, Amen, Amen. First John, the first

chapter Emen, and he told us Amen. There in the

first verse, Oh to God, he said, that which was

from the which we have I heard, which we have

seen with our eyes, we have looked upon. In our hands,

I have a handle own the word of life. For

the light was manifested, and we have seen it.

And we bear wetness and show unto you that eternal

life which was with the Father was manifested.

Unto you, that which we have seen and heard. Declare

we unto you that.

Ye also may have fellowship with us. And truly our

fellowship is with the Father and with it Son Jesus Christ.

And these things right we under you, Amen, that your

joy may be fool. What has what was heard, seen

and touched?

Amen?

Get old of God, Get hold of that world.

You can experience the same things the apostles had.

You can experience the same thing that.

All of our churches I have had, the brow a

miracles and wonders and blessings.

I'm not gonna lie to you. There's things you better

stay away from. You better not have anything to do

with them, because the Bible said touch, not taste not

and a hand or not. But that's not the end

of it. Saints. There are so much more that we

can have and we can obtain from God. King Saul

had been slain, Jonathan and his brothers have been slain.

Word got back to David. Was he thrilled, was he rejoicing?

He was burdened, and he was troubled. He was a

weeping And it sounds to me like while he was

a weeping, and while he was a crime and.

A prayer, he bade Judah to teach them the use

of the boat, teach them. I thought, God, help me

to teach my son.

The power of this word right here, the power that

is in it.

Able to save a man to turn a black heart white. Amen,

a man of God or woman of God that can get.

Hold of the Lord and cause the Lord.

To move and deal with their sons and their daughters,

that they could come to the gospel Lord him and

feed him the butter, and they that he would know

to do God.

And not evil. Times we feel like we're fighting and

losing battle. But I know that there's power. There's power

in prayer, there's power in worship. The Word of God

is sharper than any two edged sword. Javon asked me

some time ago, said, Daddy is a sored of two edges,

sword sharp on both sides. I said, yes, sir, it'll

cut going and it'll cut coming.

Man.

But the word of God is powerful sharper than any

two edged sword. Amen to the discerning of the heart

in the mind. Amen, old turn over there and read it. Amen.

But I know God he is able to do. One

needs to be die. Amen.

You may look like you're testing some waters, but I'm

gonna tell you tonight, putting the under your testing the water, and.

Just all by God live holding us, do right, heed

the butter.

He died, taste.

Got my spirit, had a power of God, and I'll

do you a world of good.

It'll do you a world of good. It tears my

heart to see people turn and run from God when

they need to be draw closer to God. The only

way to Christ is through the Cross, not that cross,

but the Cross of Salvation. That load can be laid down,

that battle mind can be fixed. Oh to know how

to handle that word of God. I please did the

blood before because of things that we have dealt with.

I beg God, and I beg the Son of God

not only to help me, but to help my wife

and to help my son. The devil wants nothing better

than to snare you. It don't matter how many excuses

you come up with. It don't matter how many excuses

you can, you know, write down on piece of paper.

My wife really likes to play the little game. You

write down a word, You see how many words you

can get out of that word. We ain't looking to

see how many excuses we can come up with, Saints.

That is not where we're at. Our heart ought to

be longing and woning to obey God. If it's wrong God,

I'm ready to get rid of it.

If it's a hold of me back God, and that's

why we got me back there in the shadows.

I am ready and willing.

To come out.

I've been carrying this message for a while and God

knows I hell, but I'm telling you to night. You

can a man touch the spirit of God. You call

days and.

You can I hand all that word and that power.

The spirit of God, God is able. I need a song, tony,

ay man, I need a song. It's not amen, It's

not all about what you can't do. That's not what

it's all about. People's got it confused. I work with

them on a job and they look at me, and

that tell me I can't live the way you live.

You ever haven't tell you that I can't live with you.

Then I told him I couldn't do it either. But

when I went to the altar and the Lord saved

my soul, I didn't want to cuss no more. I

didn't want no more dope. I throw my cigarettes out

the window and my tobacco along with it. I didn't

want it no more. I had already been touched. I

had already been touched. I had already got a taste. Brother, Tim,

you didn't have no battle. I was sure I had

a battle. I wasn't about two weeks empty and ash

trays and burning trash in my house because I had

a daddy that was lost. What about two weeks avoiding

a television because my daddy was lost and had one

in the house. But along with about that second week

in the house of God, the power of God failed

and the Lord sanctified me Holy, I didn't have tempty

no more ass trays didn't bother me. Brother, I didn't

want nothing. It made me sick. I just walked right.

I don't buy that tail. It didn't bother me no more. Why. Yeah,

I was raised in the House of God all my life,

as a child, you know, as a baby, about two

years old. Maybe Mama was going before I was born.

I can't remember for it, sure it seemed like that's

the way it was.

All my life.

But I would taste.

The world.

I would handle the world, and every time I did,

I got snared. But God help me to learn. You

don't give into it. You still away from it. You

don't get the devil no chance if you have tried

it before. I've had them to tell me. I've walked

in in prisons, behind death's door, and I visited with

those git people in jails sail to sell, and I've

had don't tell me over and over it don't work.

I told him, I said, look at me. I said,

you really get a hold of God and you really

get saved and it works. Look at this church. Look

at this church, brother, it works, don't it. Brother? Would

you like to get a feel of God tonight and

your heart and life? You say, well, brother, I him before,

would you like to get a real good feel, a

little taste goes a long way, but when you get

a little taste, you're gonna want a big taste. That's

just the way God works. And once you get a taste,

you get a hold of that word of God, and

you handle that word. You read that word, and you

let God deal with your heart. Stand with us tonight.

I was hoping we'll be shouting by this time, but

I feel like God is wanting to deal with a heart.

He is wanting to draw a heart tonight. You may

be someone that's been here for several years, and you

may be someone that's not been here very long. But

God laid this message on my heart for somebody. We

walked in features and brother House say can you smell it?

He said, won't be long, we'll be tasting it. It

was good, but it's nothing compared to what we have

in thes of God. What about you tonight? What about you?

Is there something better than you tonight that you'd just

like to get a little taste or a little feetable creature.

You may want a big taste or God's got whatever

you're needing tonight. But I'm very concerned about those that

have done better and now they're letting things slip in

on them. I'm real concerned. You've got no business taste

another world, nothing whatsoever. You got no business touch in

the world. But would you let God draw you tonight

saying yeah, he would you like to come?

You're fine, it's not.

Would you like to come?

And just.

Another chance.

He's be.

You, y'all, another opportunity.

Soon to draw your hard real.

And just lors she.

When you like to come to that.

Reach and touch the loves.

Where you are, who you are, you find.

Jozy no withke do the hole. He's to let God

draw all.

That you need and.

You interests by.

Reach inter the.

Goos.

You'll find it's not too busy.

To cry, he said. He's bas by each moment.

You need.

Read and touched as by.

One dark and stormy nine on the Sea of Calle.

Get a sidepos We're so fearful at a few of see.

They're in a fall, rushing waters.

In the blackness of the nine warp the blade the

Lord of Glorory he made as he to pass.

Them by, reach and touch the Lord.

As he.

Goes by, you find he's not too busy to eat

your arge crowd.

He's facing By this moment.

You need.

So read the interest the Lord.

As he.

Goes by.

Asy wall, the dusty wasta on as weed reaes the day.

Mighty was the corrall that wronged him. Hungry for the

leave bread.

I must search him, cry a woman, I must toucham

I die.

So she reads and touched his gar.

There's hesba.

Oh Chi and Tutasy.

Goose by.

You find, and not too busy do he art, cry

he's passed by this moment.

You need so reader in turt the Lord.

As he.

Goes by.

Manth you said, in a worldly honor, taking taxes from

those who came by to you.

One day the Lord passed by him, and he called

him by his name, Come and fall you'll be, he whispered,

Do not wait or question why.

So you rose and followed Jesus as he.

Passed by.

Oo reach her and touched the Lord.

As he.

Goes by.

You find he is not too busy.

To he your heart cry, he's passed by this moment

your need.

Supply read out and touch the load.

As he.

Goes by.

One dark and stormy night on the sea, You Galili,

the deside peoples were so fearful at the fear of

the see win upon the Russian waters, in the blackness

of the night walk the blasted Lord of glory.

He made us.

He two pass by.

Ooh, reach and touched the Lord. Ancy goes by.

You find Heed not too be busy to the heart cry.

He's passed.

And by this moment you need.

Supply.

Reach and touch the.

Load as she

Goes by.