The Shining Star - Bro Jeremy Howell 12-22-2024

Your attention to Luke. Chapter number two.

We'll be reading verses number seventeen through twenty. Brother Nathaniel

saw Chapter number one nineteen, verse number one oh five.

Brother Jesse acts chapter number twenty six, verse number thirteen.

Y'all have probably noticed that I had been.

Stuck in the doctor's gospel, Doctor Luke.

Let's hear what the doctor had to say here momentary.

Brother Nathanael saw chapter number one nineteen and verse number

one oh five.

Please, my brother, my word is the lamp under my

feet and a light unto my path. How many of

you believe that that his.

Word is a lamp unto your feet and a light

in those paths that he leads you down, Brother Jesse

acts chapter number twenty six and verse number thirteen.

Please, my brother. At midday, o Keen, I saw in

the way alight from heaven above the brightness.

Of the sun shining round about me and them which

journeyed with me.

Amen, How many of you.

Heard the lyric of the song that the Young Adult

and Youth Choir was singing just moments ago talked about

that bright shining star. They had no idea what I

would be preaching on tonight. But I've come to preach

on the shining star. Phraise the lords of God's in

this house. He's a helples stand for the reading of

our golden texts Luke, Chapter number two, verses number seventeen

through twenty. The Bible says, and when they had seen it,

they made known abroad the saying which was told them concerning.

This child, and all they heard it.

Wondered at those things which were told them by the shepherds.

But Mary kept.

All of these things in her heart. She pondered them

in her heart.

She pondered them in her heart.

And the shepherd's returned, glorifying and praising God for all

the things that they had heard and seen, as it

was told unto them, all the things that they had

heard and see, all the things that they had heard

and see. They had saw that bright light. Let's pray,

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

you for the opportunity to come into your house tonight.

I thank you for this precious people.

I realized following this service will be the church family

Christmas party. Lord, I'm standing between them in some great

times and treats.

I pray, though that you would annoyed me.

To say the things you would have me to say,

nothing more less, said a God of my mouth, and

knowing their ears to hear what it is, the spirit

of God says unto the church tonight and play tom

Let these sayings go below the shoulders that I'm getting

that spirit of the soul. Don't let them go whether

or not the other I play. Let them go below

the shoulders. Help them to be hearers and doers. May

we receive this word in Jesus' name. May we depart

this place joyfully and not sorrowfully. In Jesus' name. In

the church said Amen, as you're being seated, look at

your neighbor and say, hey, neighbor, have you seen it?

Respond with us what you're talking about? You know, the

shining star or dot hay, neighbor, have you seen it?

There you go. Our text is found in a New

Testament book of the Holy Bible.

The Book of Luke has been our resource for the

selection of our golden and primary text in recent weeks.

The Bible readers and students present tonight could tell us

that Luke done a fantastic job shedding life upon the

man Jesus Christ.

And his ministry, the beloved position.

Luke believed Jesus to be the Son of God.

He had no doubt at all in his.

Mind, spirit or soul whether or not Jesus was the

son of God. And because of this resolved and this understanding,

he attempted to persuade men to embrace the deity of

Jesus Christ. He believed that Jesus was Emmanuel God. With us,

Luke shone a light on the earth of Jesus, the

life of Jesus, his ministry, and the blessed position. Luke,

unlike the other three gospel writers, he not had any

personal encounter with Jesus in his earthly form or in

his earthly body. As far as we know, Luke had

not even been an eyewitness to one wonderful.

Deed of Jesus's.

But we do know that he had a companionship and

a friendship with many other disciples that did. We know

that Luke never traveled with Jesus, but somehow he was converted.

There's not much said about Luke other than who he was,

how people loved him as a position, and about his companionship.

What a blessing this man was.

I have spent several years of my ministry trying to

shine a light upon the beloved position. Most people are

in agreement that he was a gentile, which is very

unlike God at that time to use a gentile to

put p in the parchment and write one of the

glorious gospel the other gospel writers. In other words, the

three out of the four, they were hebrew Men, most

of which traveled with the Lord. Men have spent a

lifetitle with three and a half years with an earshot

of Jesus. They spent three and a half years traveling

with him. I looked upon the Lord. One man put

it this way, he said, our hands have.

Handled the word of life.

John the Beloved, he could say, I laid on the

bullism of Jesus. Some have said that that meant that

he was a homosexual as well as Jesus.

That is untrue.

Simply stated, John was trying to catch every word that

Jesus spoke in that day and hour. They did not

have amplification like we do, and John was gravitating towards

the person of the Lord so that he can.

Hear every word he spoke.

But Luke, he interviewed some of these people that had

experiences with our Lord and Savior, and at some point

he fell on his knees, and through the avenue of godness,

sorrow and true repentance.

He finds himself.

A believer in this nude religion called Christianity. He not

only believes in the religion, he promotes it. Not only

does he believe in it and promote it, he has

a personal relationship with Jesus Christ, the leader of such

a movement and a religion, and he does everything he.

Can do to further the gospel.

Or the good news of the appearing of God in flesh.

And so Luke abandons his medical practice in.

Order to travel the world with men who the Great

Star has shown upon. We find that.

Luke he put the spot life on Jesus for other

gentiles that would have been considered outsiders. For other gentile believers. Luke,

who most believed was a gentile, gave us Luke's Gospel

for people like you and I, non Jewish people. He

shed a light upon the life, the man and the

ministry of Jesus Christ. In Luke's writings, we see the

spot life on the genealogy of Christ, that's the earthly

genealogy that you read throughout the week this time of year.

But I want you to know it began with the

father of mankind of humanity named len Adam. However, as

you begin to read the book of Luke better Jesse,

you see he gets away from the earthly genealogy of

our same here and he puts the spotlight on the

heavily genealogy of our Savior. He found that the great

Apostle Paul did likewise. One day he was with other disciples,

and Paul began to proclaim that Jesus Christ was.

The son of God.

Apostle Paul began the promoter the deity of Christ. Now,

these people that were in Damascus, they could not understand

why Paul was doing this.

You see, at that time they knew him as.

The imformission notorious persecutor of Thosa that were in that way.

He is at that time Christianity is the number one persecutor.

And they have failed him in.

Some synagogues, and he's going around and he's proclaiming that

Jesus said, is the son of God.

This man that perhaps a been a.

Member of the Sanhedrin, this man that perhaps a on

pristine real estate in Jerusalem her something that.

Had happened to him right when the little moles had

spread the news, and that this man was coming up.

Come on now, they.

Said, he's treadful, he's somebody to be feared, that he's

somebody to be shown that when it.

Was time for church to start, when the pause of the.

Sin of Gods were riding, he had Walter the great

apostol I cut down summer with a.

Whistling to their companion and said, do you see what

I see? Do you hear what I'm hear?

In the Notorious and the infamous soulah Thossa said, is

in the building?

What happened by the.

Jesse for this man to be proclaiming that without a doubt,

Jesus Christ is the Son of God.

People couldn't believe it.

The Christianity's greatest stuff persecutor. It's in the mascuson becoming

the greatest promoter of Christianity.

This fall will ever know, not a holy because.

He have a personal testimony. But he seems heaven been

to fulfill the great commission. And he's standing in the

City of God, standing.

Outside of the Senate of God, and it's.

Proclaiming that Jesus's keen of answer and Lord of Lord,

he's admitting and being honest, and we missed it.

We made a mistake. I went so hard to stop it.

But I want to put to.

The spot light on it.

I want to shine up life.

Oh Jesus, I'm telling you, every believer and that's an

experience like this, they won't.

There's not lot. Well, Jesus, So we find the.

Beloved possession who did not have the understanding that we

have today of electricity and light. You know, by the

Nathaniel Howell, Thomas Edison, and Hendry for Henry Ford, some

of the greatest adventures this world has ever known.

Had winter estates just about thirty seven miles from here,

just due west of here. You could go tour the homes,

the winter homes of some of the greatest minds this

world has ever known, some of the men that.

Had an understanding concerning electricity, tooling, manufacturing, and so many

other things. Brother Nathaniel, I want you to know in

this day an hour that we're speaking of, concerning the

time of the birtha Jesus, there would have been no light,

and after that there wouldn't have been any light.

As you know it.

People would have had to depend on some sort of.

Fuel, some sort of mining material, some sort of feed

for their fire. Kind of Jessey. I don't know if

they used all all the time of work.

They use food most of the time. I would say,

from time to time they use whatever was available. If

they knew the outcome of what they were doing would

result in light.

Oh, come on, I want to preach to you. I'm

in a hurry. I know, we gotta a Christmas party

to take party in, but there needed to.

Be a light and looking.

The Gentiles have been the oscarry of.

The earth for years.

They've been shot out, have reached for years. And you said,

I'm gonna kill him.

My gospel, he kill them.

Assurance that this man from Galilee, this baby burn in.

Docleahir was without her doubt.

The son girl.

Said, doctor Luke comes in.

He has no headlight, no headlamp, but it comes in

when he puts pen to parchment.

He begins to shed light on the.

Situation and spiritually alienated people and spiritually dark in mind.

So they become illuminated as they read about Jesus. Oh,

come on, Lord, you see Saul of Tarsusa. He was

not Paul, the beloved Apostle. At this time, he had

come to town on purpose of bringing somebody found to Jerusalem.

If they did not come willingly, they would.

Come against their wield after he killed them if necessary.

But now we find him in in a synagogue doing

everything he cared.

And even willing to put his life on the line.

Then he's standing there and he's took in some people

that had been.

Looking and looking in the wrong place, that this.

Man that just went to here for three and a

half years, he was the Christ, he was.

The Son of God.

I wonder if while they passed through Compass's Hall, and

when he passed through the Temple and some of the

local synagogues on the outskirts of Jerusalem, I wonder if

he bumped into Joseph of Arimathea. I'm talking about the

great Apostle Paul. I wonder if he bumped into Nicodemus,

and one day them two great minds they had a

discussion in the dark about the Jesus.

I know that Nicodemus had Jesus on the mind.

I wonder if Joseph form Vermesya and Nicodemus son had

put the light in the heart of heart, the great

Apostle Paul has come on.

Everybody knew there was something special about this man Jesus.

From the time he was amazing in the manger for

the feeding troup.

Everybody knew. He's the talk of the town.

He is the headline. He is the Lord, the spot life.

We know and we know he is Christ.

So he had to bear in his body marks.

He talked about bearing his body marks of the Lord's Savior,

Jesus Christ.

One of them scars.

That people couldn't see was the scard of the mind

that one of the first men that Jesus himself empowered

to do good to the widow, to lift up those

that were bound, to set them free, to encourage the

down kist spirit. That man Stephen, he knew I had

an estrange encounter with him. He knew I was responsible

for what I did. He would think, he would imagine that,

he would say, I held the man's garments. I held

the garments of those that ston him. We knew it

was gonna get bloody. We knew it was gonna get nasty,

and we took off our outer garments to keep them from.

Being sawn with the blood. Of one of Christianity's first martyrs.

And what saw knew? He saw that shining star. It

illuminated the pay sign of Stephen.

As Stephen was being stolen the Bible shipped to own

bookers and the participants of the stoning of the murder Stephen,

they looked at his face and it seemed as though

it was as of an angel. You know what?

It was a sun. Stephen had looked to pass the milky.

Way in a solar heaven, in the global world. And

in that rim he saw the shining.

Star, I said, in that ring he show.

The sight of the star was standing there part set

for him.

He saw the shining star, the shotting star. What happens? All,

you were an upcoming star in the same hedred.

Possibly you were an upcoming star in the religion of

to days. You were by Lela, by nationality, you had

no citizenship.

Saul, you have such a promising future.

Saul.

You can be a member of Jerusalem's Haley Wood.

Saul, you could be a celebrity that everybody would listen to.

After all, you've been schooled after of the great Comil.

Saul, your upcoming star, I want you to know her

than any celebrity.

Brother ain't lest her being lester, any comfort star, or

any ministry.

It tells her, in comparison to the Siding Star, our

kids in Pentecostal and all of his churches are being

overtaken by superstars. The superstar throws one good power catches

the ball in the end zone, and they want to

give their life to worship of that superstar.

Don't tell me they aren't given their life. They're giving

their finances, they're giving their time. They're wearing that one's jersey.

They're giving their lives.

I'm telling you, if I.

Was to take your finances, they take your name and

then take everything. I mean. They don't even want to

promote their own name.

They want to put somebody else's name on their back

and pretend right. They're there, all their little boys and

little girls within the religion of Judaism. If they lived

in this day and hour, they sol Tarsius live in

this day and hour, they'd.

Be wearing Slce jersey. Sol Tarsus, he's our man. If

he can't catch them, nobody can. Right.

They sent their religious leaders like Saul and others to

go out and harvest them.

And to bring them back there.

They're superstars. Saul, Saul, he's our man. If he can't

catch them, nobody can. There's a lot said about the

driving of Jehu. There's a lot said about the antics

of Absolom. There's a lot said about the warrior luck

skills of David.

But I'm telling you it seemed not Saul of Tarsus

or had every bit of it.

Who racked up in one little top too tall body.

He was extremely gifted.

A lot of people are.

Real lives walk they all left behind them after he

saw that shoty star. What could change this man's course?

What could change his direction? What could do something like this?

He saw the shining star. I'm gonna prove it to

the Scripture League. There ain't no sermon.

Look, and there ain't no resource on loud that will

give you this sermon.

Sis.

The hal walked into my office and saw me hold

nothing but a Bible, had a notebook.

That's how I get my sermons. Hey, I don't even

console anymore with commentaries. I read it for years. Yes

I did, and that helped me. Allah, But I want

you to know this message comes straight from God. I

did not know what these are.

The young people would see me singing about him, the

shining Star, and I want, Sister Root, some of these

young people need to do. They need to have a

personal encounter win.

That shining Star. The ain't just say about it.

Brother Roy Danfter's mother used to tell him from time

to time, Roy, keep looking for the light. Do you

remember brother Roy talking about that?

He stand up and testify, and he says he was

growing up.

His famy would say, Roy, keep looking for the light,

keep looking for the light. He would tell a story

that one time when his grandmother was laying in bed,

that the room lit up and it was illuminated. She

was sitting in darkness spiritually, and because of certain situations

and predicaments, her mood was greatly dampened and darkened, and

she did not know anything at all, hardly.

About the Savior.

And while she's sat in there, so depressed and so

downcasting spirit whether Roy said that that room illuminated.

I said that room illuminated that. That woman asked a question,

what's going on? And then out of her came forward.

To Moise and said, who are you Lord?

She never saw Jesus the Bible said, no man can

see my face and leave, Oh, come on now. But

she said there was a light. There's some of you.

You didn't see it physically that you know the night

you not save you've felt the light.

I said that the night you God saved her. You

tell the light.

You saw things differently after that? Did you not hat

that you once loved you now hate? Think that you

once hated you now love. That's what happened to saw Tarsus.

The spiritual metaphor morphosis took place because of.

This spiritual star.

Apostle Paul described it this vest this way Luke the recorder,

he called it. And at midday, old King I saw

in the way a light from heaven, about the brightness

of the sun shining round about me and being which.

Journey with me.

I'm sad to report that of all those in Churney

with him, we only have record of.

One whose life had change. I'm telling somebody who left

to tonight.

If you're having an encounter with the store.

They communicator with the star, the superstar, the shining.

Start, the save the star, you will be tides.

But they get too caught up in the limelight of Lucifer.

They get too caught up in the lime line of.

Lucifer, they call those when they should be basking in

the brilliance of the Savior's light, when they should be

basking in the brilliantip the sacres the light, they get

caught up in the lime life of Lucifer. And that's

where the great Apostle Paul had been caught up at

in the lime lot of doing Lucifer's bidding. You can't

tell me it was a Lucifer's bedding that would have

him try to stamp out Christianity. And the harder they

tried to stamp out their wonderful wildfire, the.

More it spread. Come on, huh, I'm upeeling you right here.

We got to have a church family Christmas party. But

here's Paul standing in the face of Roman governors, Roman officials,

Roman administrators, and he's saying, at mid day. You've heard

me and Mother Nathaniel say over the years, the term

of the expression brider.

Than the noonday sun.

That's where if we get this from accept twenty six

and thirteen, he said, at midday, sister, how he saw

a light that was.

Broader than that sun. I can't even bear to take

a glance.

On knock that new day sun. How in the world,

or did.

It be any writer?

How did the brilli that slight to be any bright?

Did that of the need that sung?

How, oh, how right it must be on it?

Oh, the radiant beauty of that light, How beautiful that

city of life must be.

How beautiful that shining star must be.

That shining star, it's none other than the world, that

shining star, there's.

None other than God. And the second person, Come on now,

I said that shining star, that will illuminate that. So

let's just see it. You know, us new to Rusalem

is Jesus Christ.

Brother roy Dancers said his near kinsman, it was either

his mother or his grandmother, since she fell on her knees.

And she responded. And that's what Apostle Paul did. He

fell off that high horse, he fell off that high attitude.

He gave way to the spirit of God, the grace

of God. He yielded to the light.

He didn't fight the light.

The Bible said that men who sat in darkness during

the period of the lifetime of Jesus Christ, they sat

in darkness, and a great light appeared unto them. Men

who sat in darkness, they saw a great light. But

the Bible said they didn't yield to that light.

They called it.

Why the Bible offers an explanation because their deeds weren't evil.

This is why they turned the.

Lights out in the bar room and judges and attorneys

and what we think are respectable women of Laka. They

go into the back room and they go into that

dark place and they drink away the sorrows and they

trugle away.

There's sorrows.

But I want you to know at the end of that,

they are still darker in the spirit, and they are

still darker in.

Their minds, and they're still living up Inda.

So Paul, let me get this straight. You're traveling at

noonday and it's cloudy, no the sun was shining.

How do you know that because the Bible said it

a light Shongbrider.

It was more brilliant, more radiant, more beautiful than the

noonday sun.

And they say without a sign, there is no life.

Something wonderful took place, something beautiful took place. And I know, sister,

how God's been trying to do something beautiful in the

heart of somebody. And I preached this morning on a

charity Christmas December twenty second. Is not only with sister,

how and I our personal relationship evolved.

And developed and became official.

It's also sisters Virginia Simmons' birthday. It's also the time

that she married her sweetheart December twenty second. Isn't that amazing?

I'm telling you, young person, you wouldn't do it just

because of this. But what greater gift could you give

back to Jesus than to give.

Yourself to him this Christmas?

Because he gave himself as God's unspeakable guilty, when there

was nothing up in heaven more valuable to gift than himself.

He gave her himself for you. On that day, a

religious man bet Jesus. On that day, a religious man

touched the light.

On that day, a blinded man began to see. On

that day, the light of truth touched that man. Aren't

you thankful for the light of truth? I'm sure prior

to his conversion, Paul was enshrining them tuned in darkness?

How many of you remember living in miseries tomb? How

many of you remember being miserable?

One reason for this darkness in the mind of Apostle Paul.

Would have been the starling of Stephen.

Yes, but also the other victims, the expressions on them

women's faces, the expressions on their children's faces as they

executed the man of the house.

Oh come on, I'm telling you that I'll play the

miner of somebody for a lifetime.

That apostle paul He might have wrote to a lot

of the Pauline epistles from a damper dark touch, a

dungeon prison, but he did not allow her to spear

to be dunking. Go over, and I want to tell

somebody something.

God just falke to my heart. You can wallow in

pity all you.

Want to, and you can cite your unworthiness all you

want to, and re posibility.

You can refuse to praise Him the way you ought to.

But God is not deceived by that at all. I

will conclude with this, you have not yet seen the

silent star. Because anybody else seems.

The signing stock.

They can't help but praise. They can't come but worship me.

I'm hat make help, but say, how may You're not

fooling us.

You're not fooling us. With shepherds when they set him

dunk on a hearside in.

The little town of Bethlehem, with questions asked to why

the citsus?

Why are the Roman officials required?

Are people to come home once again? What's more, why

are they numbering our people? Why do they wanted an

accurate count of how many people belonged to Bethlehem.

Do you belong to Bethlehem? I do? Do you belong

to God's family? I do?

Don't you know their shepherds? They would have been some

of us stamping and out of the ground. Why do

the Romans want to know how many heads there are

connected to Bethlehem. But while they pondered on these things,

and while they wondered why, and while they conversated and

maybe just had good boy conversation, suddenly there appeared in

the sky.

A multitude of the home host, the multitude.

Of a heavenly host, A bunch of shining stars, a

bunch of shiny stars. I don't know the names of

all them angelic beings, but brother Jesse, they certainly had

some calls for celebration. They certainly had some reason to celebrate.

I want to remind you what the sacred scripture said,

the angels in heaven rejoice more over one sinner that

repents for at ninety.

Nine Just people that do not need to repeat to

you know why they were having can't meet no in

this time, because they knew what was about to happen.

They were about to celebrate the wonderful things that Messiah

was gonna go. Literally, somebody had.

Turned the lights on to the party. Y'all ain't getting it.

Somebody there turning them house lights off. Brother ask again,

it's turn them houselights off. Turn them off right there,

all but one men, that's seven darkness. It doesn't always

include those that have been doing evil. It doesn't always include.

Those that are slipping a shot of whiskey in the

r sea cola.

It doesn't always include those that are causing the rocks

to float, if you know what I mean. It doesn't

always include those that are an illicit activity.

It doesn't always include.

Sometimes ben are sitting in darkness because they're waiting on

the light.

That's what some of them have been doing.

That's what Zacharius and Elizabeth and Mary evident they have

been doing.

And brother Caleb, the light came on. The light came

I said to them, Ore, you know, kings, there were

more than three of them, I'm sure of it. They

begin to hand the gerusal and they won't following that

silent star. And you know what your shepherds can say

to him.

That star was keeping me the goadest in the star.

Love not.

All over the heavens, But I said, worst lit up.

Don ain't sell of beings singing p.

In a God, You're the highest home Earth, Peace, good

will to our men.

They knew the.

Parties about to begin. They're printing out a church family

Christmas party, Sweet Love of God. Somebody to let the

line out, sweet Loave of God. The line of the

tribal Judah has been unleashed, Sweet Love of God.

They might be rocking at a fiend trough.

His daddy, Joseph was a carter y'all know pastor's imagination.

I thank God for him giving it to me. That

pastor uses imagination. I would say he modified that manger

just a little bit. He was a carpenter by occupation.

Just to how I know how your nature. I know

how brother Nathaniel's nature. I know how brother Jesse's nature.

And when a baby's crying, oh my God, and Heaven

help me right now what I preach it. That's amazing

the extents of mom and Dad will go to to

help that.

Little baby be comfortable.

But sometimes a carpenter ain't got enough materials to build

a basonet or the build a crib.

They just modify. They come.

I'm telling you, you know that might have been dark

in that stable. The brother Philip who cows knew, the donkey.

Knew, they knew.

Somebody just turned the light over.

I can hear your Austen.

Saying that to the donkey.

You can see him pall of heaven up and he

learned it right.

He don't let being the trauba.

I'm telling you that's what comfort up suns after Susy.

He calls down out of heaven and he laughs in

all alter, I said, he laughs in all alter. He'll

be you there.

So cos talking there in the heart.

You know what this shigning Star said about Licid Prayer.

He was a talling star.

The signing Star set out the hell shot and fall

as locked in.

Hey, he's greater than the superstar. He's greater than the

falling Star. He's greater, I said, He's greater.

He's greater. He is the shining Story, the Holy Ghost.

Get this place?

He saw the lot?

Was it? Hey w with a church background? One night

pen the words, I saw the light.

I saw the light no more in darkness, no more

and night, Praise the Lord.

I saw the light. If I'm not mistaken, on a.

Highway in the outskirts of Nashville, he had got shot,

if I'm not mistaken?

Is that right? Didn't Hank Williams get shot? Didn't he die?

Was it him?

He?

What?

He died? Drunk? Brother Tyler.

I hope he saw the light once more. I hope

he didn't drown in his darkness. I hope he didn't

die into the depths of hell.

I hope. But one tain's for sure.

You can tell.

At some point God reads for him. You could tell

us some hard taking the light reach for him. I'm

telling somebody that's a song that the hip bangers seen this,

come running with a devil. And I tell you, Sister Howl,

today I said, I'm almost positive the inspiration of that

soul way wouldn't come out of Churchill where somebody with

a good haunted setting my pronacles out in seeing her.

And the running with a napol Listen, leaper seeing about

the light. But you bout to be up in the light,

not in the.

Custo light that shines careful ass, I go what stepper

all the time. It was a dark knight for Hank Williams,

and night he died, there was a dark knight for

Tupac when he died.

It's a dark night when Judas died.

The Bible said that Judas went out and it was

night and the light and we're standing right there. The

light was right there, the shining stars. Sister Howell, that

saved you and then transformed you into the beautiful woman

that you are today. Who was right there his sister

whooting as somebody slips out of these pews in the hell,

and then, unlike Judas, instead of spilling their bows out

and going headlong to death in this life, if they

slid headlong in the hell, one thing about it, irish

slip wooping a charity. Then Howell will say, I saw

it when the light appeared. I saw it when conviction

came in the house. I saw it when they were

offered heavenly hospitality. I saw it when angelic beings helped them.

I saw it when my pastor got annointed.

I saw it, I said, I saw it when.

The ministers them pastors ministered as flames of fire. They

illuminated miles through the sweet conviction of the power of God.

I saw the.

Brother Samuel. How many could say.

I passed through the marketplace that day, and something told

me to visit Calvary, but I didn't.

I passed through the sea that day. Something told me

to drop my boot make my way to Calvary, but

I didn't. I passed through.

Betha Holdness church when I was twenty years old. Something

told me to make my way to the altar, but

I didn't. The shepherds and the wise men, when they

came into the stable on that day of christ Birth,

they could say the same thing. It was dark that

night for some reason, the two and eight said, and

there were in the same country shepherds abide it in

the field, keep a watch over their.

Flocked by night.

In Matthew's Gospel, the former tax collector recorded this in

a second chapter of his Ride, and he said, the

wise men came from the east to Jerusalem, and they

asked the question to Herod. They asked, where is he?

I saw a star, and we've come to town to

worship him.

I was praying this afternoon, and I was just like you,

all pressed for tyrant and brother Jean Butler. I was

praying about that, and God said, Jeremy, because he don't

have to call me brother, Jeremy, God said Jeremy.

I said, yes, Lord, I don't believe God calls names Samuel. Samuel.

Samuel speak Lord for thy servant. Listen who hears, God

said Jeremy. He said the Roman government knew who he was.

I said, say on, Lord, you won't find us in

a commentary, and you won't find this being preached by

the servants, stealing thieves, pnecostal movements. I said, say on Lord,

he said, Herod knew it. The Oriental kings came and

they said, we've seen the Chinese star and we've come

to worship the King of the Jesus.

Herod knew it, and.

Says the house said, say on God, because nobody can

preach like the Holy Ghost. Give me something to give

this people, And he said, Jeremy. Even Pilot knew it.

When Pilot said, put this inscription.

Over his head.

This is Jesus, the King of the Jesus. Every Roman

official they knew who he was.

They knew what he.

Could have done for his people.

One of them looked him in the light of the

eyes and said are you he and Jesus's response was

sat and there was no argument by that Roman official

that said.

No, you're not. And with a little dainty, little.

Effeminate Jewish priest coming there to say, take down.

That inscription, he wasn't our King pilot would have lowered

his reading lesses and looked at him that he would have.

Said, what I have written, I have written.

You are the one that proposition me to try and

knock out the shiny Star.

But I want you to know I can sid he

with a ringa and to luck with that, I said,

cut him up.

Look who are they?

They crucified him and put him in a tone.

But the tomb, come hold it.

They sealed it, They found it, they seal.

It out top. Good look that.

It wasn't the.

Roman officials trying to give out hush money. You'll know

who was trying to give out hush money. The Jews,

the Scribes, the Pharisees, the Sartrecees.

Were saying, don't tell what you know.

The Roman officials nw who he was. But I'm telling

you you make daughter. You may not want an experiencer,

but I know who he is.

Call you who he was, They saying this morning, I

glad that I know who Jesus he is.

I'm glad that I know who Jesus he is. You

can sit there and not for a royal priest. You

can sit there, no not to and I'll tell you

the sacrifica can I know? Here's my shilent start the

Jews alive on it.

They're superstar, They're shining star, the greatest thing they ever

had in their possession to go by. And that's why

Luke he said, hold on a minute, we're gonna shed

some light on who this man was. And once Paul

saw that shining star, he said, hold on a minute,

we're gonna put some light on this. We're gonna put

him in the spotlight. There's nothing in the world like

the Sabers spotlight. It will certainly overpower Lucifer's livelight. You

know what's the secular news media that's doing every atrocity,

every horrible thing that's going on, all them school massacres.

All the rap, all of the murder, all of the thievery,

all of that. You know, the secular news media they.

Highlighted, I said, they highlighted, right, they leave Lucifer in

the livelight.

Why don't they started putting painting? I'm a sacred writ

Should we go have a church family Christmas party and

eat goodies and snacks? Or should I finish this up?

The decision is yours. The wise men? What did I

tell y'all? Couple of years ago? They're called huh the magile.

It's not magie. When you spell magic, it's m h

G I c magic. Magi it's not magic. But I

preached a message titled say it, brother justin the Magile

meets the Messiah, Brother Jesse. You know what Herodage said,

when you find him? Because we all know he exists,

because our astronomers and our astrologers are saying he's nearby,

all right.

And when you're Oriental astrology and astronomy.

Proved superior to the Roman astrology an astronomy.

When you locate him, just come tell me where he's at.

And magi.

They consulted one another after walking out of a stable

and dusting off their kingly garments, their wives man hats,

and said one another, you smelled like a pig, you

smell like a donkey, you smelled like a cow. When

they collected their composure and restored their dignity. One of

them said, you're going back by there to look at

that Roman and tell him where this little man's at.

And another one say, what do you think we're getting

out of here? And the Bible said, with that Roman

official's heard.

When he found out that the Mangi had strutted out

of town on their camels.

Now now son, he got furious, and they.

Went around knocking out every mother's little light, because there's

nothing like the heart of a mother like that of

a blessed little bundle of baby.

And Hero went knocking everybody's light out.

Ripping them babies from the age of two years up,

killing them. But you know what, brother, hysteric, the little

shining star just drifted from Nashath and Breathleheim over into

where Egypt.

Isn't that something? How you can be looking for Jesus

in the wrong place.

That for a long time and.

Destroying everything else in your search.

That's what a lot of people are doing, brother, The

thing that they say they're searching for the light, they

say they're looking for the light man, they're destroying.

Their family trying to search for truth.

Spotlight was on Jesus everywhere he went because humanity needed

help code them with difficulties. When sister we lost her

husband to death, and in early morning, it's true, the

sun was just coming up that morning. The sun, so

to speaking, just had its cup of coffee and was

rising in its greatness. But it got very dark, very quick.

When Sister Walker called me and she said, Gene, Jean, Gene.

I said, what's wrong.

Stop crying, stop screaming, and stop shouting. What's wrong?

And finally I could hear her, she said, and understand her.

She said, is Gene, I'm dead? Dark times, difficult days.

Seemingly the sun doesn't stand still, the earth doesn't stand still.

It's eclipsed. He never been there yet, but it's coming.

But you know, I saw something in the building that

I walked by almost daily as a widow kissed her

husband in the mouth about thirty times, telling him goodbye repeatedly,

when my ear up against her ear, and she kissed

him and cried and kissed him, and cried and kissed him.

She said, Geane, I hope he was ready. I whispered

to her, and I said, Sister Wood, he is ready.

He rode the altar lasted out for an hour and

a half, and he cried out and asked God to

help them right of her. Remember I remember that, brother

Waldo Buter, I said, God do.

His physical light was about to be turned out, his

eyelids were about to be closed by the undertaker. But

there was a line in Jean that night, right, Me

and brother Jean sat outside of the storefront.

You young guys will remember it.

Me, him and brother Platte fellowship and having a great time.

And suddenly Brother Jean said, well, brothers, I hate to

break up a good time. It's about eleven o'clock. We

need to go pastor you need to dry up little ways.

I said, okay, I will never forget it for as

long as I live. We have taken chairs outside of

the storefront. We were sitting out there watching these young

men have a good time and mess with brother the

roof car. I think they wrapped it with saran wrapped

or something. Don't you young guys come in along and

do that. And me and brother Jean and brother Platt

we laughed and we laughed and we laughed about that.

But Sister Weop, God loved me enough to draw my

attention to brother Jean. He walked past our fellowship haul door,

and then he dyed on back towards where he liked

to park that band in that grassy area over there.

And it seemed like sister.

How everything faded but Brother Jean, and I saw Brother

Jean silhouette illuminated, and I I will never forget it

for as.

Long as I live.

I watched him as he walked, and I saw him

put his hand in his pocket to retrieve his car keys.

And I saw him stop like he would do when

he was walking, think about something. And then he continued

walking and he got that man. Little did I know

that would be the last time that I ever saw

him alive. But I know what I saw.

I saw a light ring around Jean. And y'all know

there's a light ring around the drone. It's called a rainbow.

It's a perfect.

Round foe around the throne.

The spotlight was on Brother Jean that night. The spot

light had been on Brother Paul one night. The spotlight

had been upon you all the night you got saved.

Now my question is.

Is the spotlight on you tonight? Are you within view

of the shiny star?

I remember Brother F. T.

Mason and brother wald O Butler telling me the story

of when brother Jean Butler got saved. I believe he

was a prodigal out and said, right, Brother F. T.

Mason and Brother wald O Butler and brother Mason's son

had prayed for brother Jean. Brother Jean got miserable. Is

this right, Brother Jean, you went to brother Mason's house,

the Lord draw, The Lord drew Brother Jean Butler, the

brother e F. T. Mason's house son. Huh, the son

his son, This son, brother Larry was.

Trying, was praying to God to send somebody to save.

And I come knocking on the door. That's where I

got saved.

They were praying for God to save something. And Brother

Jean Butler coming up to the house. I'll slaying the door.

Is that I'm here to pray, Thank God, Thank God?

And you know what he's been doing like I've been

doing ever since he got saved, saved, sanctified, hold a

good field and the fire baptized. Got changes on my side,

and I'm running from my life. I'm running for my life.

Why are you so fanatical because I'm.

Running from my life?

Why are you so serious about the Bible? Because our

context is God would hiss.

A lamp but to my and a lot to my.

Thank God in the world of God, let's stay.

Somebody just said, in your spirit, but it's dark out.

Their spiritually, the light says, we're sitting at the mound

Christ stuck much more bound.

But this season brings me some pain because I've lost lovenge.

I've had relationships breaking up. I've got bad memories of things.

So dear soul, so dead soul.

But the day spraying from Oma, Oh God, Jesus, Sister howell.

I've been in a lot of dead churches. I've seen

people get saved to dead churches. It's gonna be a

horrible thing for somebody to go to Hell.

Alvedly, I've seen a lot of people get saved in

dark places. Brother Jim Gillis is a friend of mine.

I ain't seen him in several years. I guess he

would remember me. We used to know each other really well,

he said. He got saved in a head band rock

and roll concert. Sister Walker, he said, but he realized

how filmed in, how vile the men were.

He was high as a.

Cot, he said, had a bottle of Jack Daniels in

his hand, and he said he was playing the air guitar,

high trunk. All of the above, he said, but in

a moment, conviction came to his rescue.

He said, I looked around and realized I was in

the presence of kid.

He doesn't even have a church background. At this time,

I realized I was in the presence of wickedness. And

he said, right there, you're right there. I think it

was like Eddie van Halen concert, something like that, one

of them threats, one of their concerts.

He said. He fellll on his knees in the middle

of that darkness, well of.

Every word, and he saw the shiny star that light

there living out of his sad and he got side.

Prett. You said, when I have to live in this world,

Jesus has that figured out. I don't know if I

can live in this world. Jesus has that figured out.

Jesus said it, And I said, Jesus said, And you

don't have to go out in that world. You don't

have to work in the world place. You have unsaved

friends that I save loves at times. But be not

fearful concerning God. I have overcome.

You will be the suck and you be.

The live but I can't take peer pressure.

I'm backslide in the workplace. If you'll get saved like

Paul did, you won't worry about.

Going back to the sand hue ring and harping out

in a conface.

I'm telling you, I'm telling you God wants to save

somebody in must feel and come to the old time day.

The neighborhood was dark in Bethlehem by a road cap,

but a light dropped out of this guy that Jesus

brought lively into a dark world. Let's spell our heads here,

if you would please, sir, ma'am, I want to ask

you a question.

Do you want to have an experience tonight that will

change your life forever? Alright? Said? A lot will shine.

Brightly for you, and every experience you've had in the

past will pale in comparison. At twelve years of age,

Jesus was ready to be about his father's business. At

twelve years of age, brother Rick Jacob Jesus told his mama,

stepped to the side and let me.

Do what I'm going to did he was ready to

crawl up on that cross.

At twelve years of age, I must be about my

father's business. And Mary, she talked to him, and for

eighteen years he worked in a car for the shop,

waiting patiently.

To come back.

At the thirty year age marking the eighteen silent years.

Y'all know what he was doing.

He was feeling himself full the carnal man, feeling that

carnal man, and that mind.

Full of the word of God. If you're here tonight,

if you bow your heads and close your eyes and you.

Need light in your lives, you know you're in a

vacuum and you're being pulled to darkness.

That darkness, that tunnel of darkness, would lead her to

eternal darkness in the hour darkness of hell.

If you know you need salvation and need the marvelous

light in your life, would you raise your hand? There's one.

I feel like there's probably two more.

I want to say something, young people, moms and dads, listen,

when you truly get converted, you won't struggle with sin,

you will cease, You will love Jesus for them to

this woman. So among seventy five that's prays that right now,

there's one that needs Jesus to be the light of

their life. Before we have a church family Christmas party,

I would like to just encourage everybody to kneel in

the sun's light. We'll even give the musicians a break

unless they just really got something burning.

Let's pray, and I want that one that God has

dealing with to to ask the light to shine, and

everyth work the three of your heart.

Everything that is hidden, may it be revealed. Everything that's

mass must be manifested. Just repent and say God, I'm.

Sorry, Say change me, change me.

Some in this building have gathered little ones into the

family riot. And you've set out to go look at

Christmas lights. You know what you would tell me, Pastor,

the neighborhood was dark and when we did that, but

they caused them. Lights were there. They made it a

pleasant experience.

I don't know why service is so precious. It's dark

out there in that world.

Become to church and there's beautiful little lights. It's about

seventy five little Christmas lights right in here. The skies

may not be lit up with angelic bens tonight, that

it will be again one day, said He's coming again,

that advent. That appearance will bring with it a bunch

of other shining stars.

But Jesus will be Lord of all and jar the Kiefs.

Thank you, brother Luke the beloved position. You shouldn't a

lie on the life of Jesus in the purpose of

his ministry. Thank you, Apostle Paul, even though you were

in the dark den roll in jail.

Thank you for giving us He's epistols.

But most of all, thank you Jesus for when I

was in a time of darkness, you shine the light

of the glorious Gospel in my heart.

That's what somebody needs to thank you for.

I thank you for the light.

I thank you for the life like.

Lord. We pray for that one now. It feels the

thing he liked.

God, you said in your words, and him was light,

and in him was no darkness at all.

God, I pray that you would come into this heart

that does darkened. Would you come in and bring the

light with you, and you don't.

Live a name in the situation, hoping her understanding. Open

our eyes, health of Jesus, Health of Jesus, Health of Jesus,

Open the eyes of our heart.

Lord, we wanna see Jesus. Lord, help 'em see beyond

the little Star of bethely Ham. Let 'em see it's

the star of the Messiah.

It's bigger than Bethlehem.

It's bigger than that

We have seen his star, his star, that very star

that illuminates heaven.