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When The Clay Collapses, He'll Catch You - Bro Jeremy Howell 10-6-2024

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  1. And now will you turn with me to the Brook

  2. of Deuteronomy. May I direct your attention to the thirty

  3. first chapter and the sixth verse. Brother Nathaniel, Jeremiah chapter

  4. number eighteen, verses number one through six. Brother Jesse, Salm

  5. Chapter number one oh three, Verse number fourteen. How many

  6. of you visited the Holy Land Experience in Orlando, Florida

  7. back when it was open? Just to how and our

  8. family visited it. One of the owners appeared where we

  9. were at when we visited, And I'm telling you, I

  10. wanted to talk to jan Croups just for a little while.

  11. I said, Lord, if you'd send her right by here,

  12. I'd like to talk to her about sanctification and separation from.

  13. The spirit of the world, the.

  14. Orlando Holy Land, Biblical Bible Holy Land Experience. Brother Jesse,

  15. Well you know what for those Jens, thank you, SA

  16. came down too early. They're fixing the half the South

  17. Florida experience. Milton is fixing the.

  18. Shower them. Yes he is.

  19. They'll be able to say I've had the South Florida experience.

  20. Amen.

  21. Well, how many of you're thankful you've had the Bethel experience.

  22. How many of you're.

  23. Thankful you've had the Holy Ghost experience. You've had that

  24. experience where God spoke directly to you. That doesn't happen

  25. just anywhere. You know, hurricanes don't just pass through anywhere,

  26. just anywhere, and don't experience. Well, we're fixing experience here

  27. in South Florida and not just every church experience. Is

  28. what you all experienced tonight as you heard these elders

  29. weep and cry and testify, and let you know God's

  30. got your number.

  31. Brother Nathaniel.

  32. Jeremiah, chapter number eighteen, verses number one through six, listen, church,

  33. And the word which came to Jeremiah from the Lord, saying, arise.

  34. And go down to the Potter's house. And there what

  35. I cause thee to hear my words? Then I went

  36. down to the potter's house and beheld he wrought a

  37. work on the wheels, and the vessel that he made

  38. of clay was marred in the hand of the potter.

  39. So he made it again another vessel, asked single good

  40. to the potter to make it. Then the word of

  41. the Lord came to me, saying, old house of Israel,

  42. cannot I do with you as this potter saith?

  43. The Lord?

  44. Behold as the clay is in the potter's hands, So

  45. are ye in my hand, Old.

  46. House of Israel. Read that last verse again, Brother Nathaniel,

  47. Old House of Israel.

  48. Cannot I do with you as this potter saith the

  49. Lord behold at the clay is in the potter's hand,

  50. So are ye in my hand.

  51. Old House of Israel. Again, I want to preach a

  52. sermon to hold it goes titled when the.

  53. Clay collapses, he catches it.

  54. Brother Jesse sawm Chapter number one oh three, verse number fourteen.

  55. Or he knoweth our frame.

  56. He remembereth that we are done.

  57. Let's stand for the reading of our texts. Remembering what

  58. Brother Thomas Sterrett said under the power and the influence

  59. of the Holy ghosts, he cried out with a.

  60. Loud voice, Ah, but doust, Brother.

  61. Jesse just read Psalmn chapter number one three and verse

  62. number fourteen. He knoweth our frame, that we are but dust.

  63. Deuteronomy chapter number thirty one and verse number six. The

  64. Bible says, be strong and of a good courage. Fear

  65. not nor be afraid of them.

  66. For the Lord thy God, he.

  67. It is that doth go with thee. He will not fail.

  68. Thee nor for safety, did not sister weaknesses to him

  69. and say these fairy things. I'd like to ask you

  70. to stretch your hand toward Heaven, ask the Lord to

  71. be with us tonight and to anoy his serving heavenly

  72. Father with thank you.

  73. For the privilege to be in your house.

  74. I thank you, Lord for the.

  75. Annoughting to come from the holy world, the Holy Ghost.

  76. We pray that you would anoy this thy servant prive

  77. and nobody I am, but doest I pray that you

  78. would preach through me, Holy Ghost. I have nothing more

  79. than a toil in your hand, and I pray that

  80. you would see fit to annay it.

  81. God, Nor set a god in my mouth, and help

  82. me to say only those things that you would have

  83. me to say, nothing more or less. And nought the

  84. ears of this thy people, that they might hear what

  85. it is the Spirit of God says under the church

  86. tonight Here the preached word, not of my words, God,

  87. but of your words. But a year help them not

  88. to be hearers only, but to heed. Let the sayings

  89. go below the shoulders.

  90. Not in the mind only God in one ear and

  91. out the other.

  92. God, let them go below the shoulder saturating the spirit

  93. of the soul, the intermost part of that being. I prayed,

  94. and may we depart this place joint pull it and

  95. not sorroftly in Jesus's name. And Church said, hey, man,

  96. and I already had this semi notes, look at your

  97. neighbor and say, hey, neighbor, did you know you're but dust?

  98. Hey, neighbor, did you know he's the potter and you're

  99. the clay.

  100. Our text is found in an Old Testament book of

  101. the Holy Bible.

  102. This morning I.

  103. Mentioned the material called leather in the sermon that I preached.

  104. I said that I liked the smell of old and

  105. new leather. How many remember that statement? Several of y'all do?

  106. And great, Well, what are you holding in your hand

  107. right now? You're holding a sacred book in leather binders.

  108. I still like the smell of a new Bible. And

  109. the church said amen. As a pastor of a holiness church,

  110. holdiness people like Bibles, and.

  111. Holdiness people like by their.

  112. Past Bibles when they don't know what else to my

  113. hold my desk in that office there's about six brands

  114. speaking whatever that means new Bibles. That's a terminate expression

  115. of yester year. How many of you remember them, old

  116. timers saying his brand speaking new.

  117. Hold my desk.

  118. There are six brand spanking new Bibles.

  119. And I love to crack open the card oil.

  120. Cases, that in case or envelop.

  121. That leather Bible, for whenever I open it up, I.

  122. Get a whip of it.

  123. And that a role must smell so good. It is

  124. the smell of new.

  125. Leather that has never been broken, that has never been.

  126. Defiled by the oil of a man or.

  127. A woman's hands. Again, that secret book is found in leather.

  128. I still like the smell of a new Bible, And

  129. the church said, amen, I still like the smell.

  130. Of new leather shoes.

  131. I still like the smell of a new leather wallet,

  132. a new leather belt. And the children and the church said,

  133. oh me, Papa's got a new leather belt. Papa's got

  134. a new leather wallet. Well, you ought to rejoice over

  135. that new leather wallet. And it's okay to prowl over

  136. that new leather bell because I don't believe I won't

  137. ever use it, but you still should prown about the

  138. idea of me choosing to use it. I've raised my children,

  139. I've done what I needed a new concerning correction and discipline.

  140. And I'm leaving the raising and the rear of them

  141. grand babies up to Dad and Marmon. How many of

  142. you have confidence that Dad and marm will do a

  143. good job. They will mimic a parent the actions of

  144. the parents.

  145. And I want every person in this building to know,

  146. if you choose.

  147. To not discipline your child, you will find that your

  148. child has been.

  149. Spoiled in your very old hands.

  150. And so I want to talk a little bit more

  151. about that new leather Bible.

  152. It smells so good, but I still preferred the look

  153. of an.

  154. Old one, I said, I still prefer prefer the look

  155. of an old Bible.

  156. I thank God for that born out leather Bible.

  157. Of those saints of God that were in that church

  158. house when.

  159. I was a little boy.

  160. I'm telling you, inside of that Bible, how we're tiem

  161. what do you call them things? No notes, the little

  162. crazy looking notes, they're pastel colors.

  163. Memo notes.

  164. Yeah, I gotta rw memo notes right inside of that Bible.

  165. You fine memo notes denoting and no where God.

  166. Had spoke to them concerning a certain passage of scripture.

  167. And you could tell that that Bible meant so much

  168. to those people.

  169. I believe that people of God still loved the Bible.

  170. I remember when.

  171. Hypocrite Church of God preacher came.

  172. Over to our church there in Lortona, and he scorned

  173. manager of mine from unreliing verses of Scripture and his Bible.

  174. And I thought, pact cat, hypocrite preacher, you ought to

  175. go back to the church that you're p history rather

  176. than pastoring and preach some of that Bible that you're

  177. over looking. Some of that stuff you used to pull

  178. out and pinpoint in your servants, now you're over looking.

  179. He was so concerned about the markings of a.

  180. Young man in his Bible.

  181. When I want you all to know that I have

  182. been encouraged at times by some of the notations that

  183. I I'd seen in my grandmother's Bible.

  184. A lot of times.

  185. During services of in that o their Church of God,

  186. I would sit between Papa and grinding. Sometimes I would

  187. crack open the Bible and begin to read some of

  188. the things that my grandmother had wrote about how God had.

  189. Stirred her soul in a time of prayer.

  190. I want you to know that the people that Moses

  191. was speaking to concerning our texts.

  192. Were people that had heard directly from God that they

  193. were people if you would, that had me may notations

  194. in the Bible of how God had spoken to Moses

  195. and given their specific commandments and instructions regarding their liveson

  196. and Mother Nathaniel and disport It's message. And a whole

  197. lot was said about their easy life's history, including the

  198. years of their captivity in Egypt.

  199. And this book of Deuterotomy is.

  200. Chuck fool of history.

  201. Concerning the nation of Israel as a nation, they.

  202. Had of a loving leader named Moses.

  203. So he was a pastor.

  204. If you wid a lot of people do not proceied

  205. Moses to have been a pastor to these people. But

  206. if we study the man, the minister, and the ministry,

  207. he will conclude that Israel's first pastor was.

  208. To make man Moses.

  209. In this Pastor Moses.

  210. He spent a lot of time reminding the people.

  211. Of God about the covenant that they had with God.

  212. They shared this covenant between them and the Lord. In

  213. this writing we find Pastor Moses preaching his heart.

  214. In this book of the Bible, we find that this

  215. man is.

  216. Giving gree specific summons or farewell addresses, But in the

  217. Daniel he seems somewhat.

  218. Disturbed in a spirit.

  219. This for one hundred a twenty year old, holy whiteheaded.

  220. That man has a few words to give the young

  221. rip of snappers.

  222. Before that possess the promise and before.

  223. He used to go home and be with the Lord.

  224. You see, he's preaching the nurse to a second tire

  225. of wondering.

  226. In the wilderness for forty years. I don't know about

  227. you all, but I would not.

  228. Be at all excited about a forty.

  229. Year camping trip experience in the wilderness.

  230. So the two week.

  231. Vacation just kind of navigating of charing tearturing.

  232. The girl from point out to poor.

  233. Me usually would have been okay than forty years of

  234. counter tripple in the guess. Even if you Sue has

  235. a right is instilling left to the tempso.

  236. Of the Tunisa, that is, speak down.

  237. Bother morockless palace and call that almighty. I will still

  238. not be a lesser in the wilderness expirital that the duration.

  239. There telling years.

  240. How many volunteers tonight.

  241. Would tailor into the frontier of Alaska with better than

  242. the thing.

  243. We had and commit to forty years not one.

  244. Person left read the hell enough they stood upper.

  245. They rast head.

  246. How many people in the stilling will commit to one

  247. week or two week expedition in the wildernesses of Alaska.

  248. I will you see about to the dirty handswer among

  249. seventy people that will commit to sexual that experience, you

  250. see mose To say is addressing people left the sick

  251. and tired that the parents.

  252. Are making bad choices.

  253. So I know that they're wching your colored desert.

  254. Babies that have been raised in the desert. And then

  255. there holding there the stories the land.

  256. Of Egypt, the hundred the stories.

  257. Of their parents are being in captivity, and I'm sure

  258. they want the the staies stories a pacic lesson whether

  259. or not they shp with somebody Elsewer there was nothing

  260. at all exciting about being a captivity in Egypt that

  261. they could tell the last story that say that, And

  262. there's nothing in the eye exciting that about testify about

  263. turn the mons, disobedience.

  264. In the wilderness and a too weak nature turning in

  265. to a forty year disaster.

  266. I that's some young person.

  267. The rest down in the mod you not do not

  268. got it. It can't out it ho a cher, but

  269. it will turn out into a lot go disaster.

  270. There's a lot of young people in a holiness in

  271. pecostal churches following the teachings of.

  272. The Ambush, and they're going out to soul LOLd oats.

  273. That rebellion is creeping into their hearts and stubbornness.

  274. It's beginning to manifest. And Brother Nathaniel, sometimes people watched

  275. as to hell an I did they begin to.

  276. Leap over the fact that the Dimple has his hands

  277. on their little babies.

  278. It doesn't matter the age of the person.

  279. If it's a fifty your old woman, that's fact slighting

  280. Oh God.

  281. And turning her heroes and going in a mother direction.

  282. It pout trouble the pastor and the first lady. It

  283. were trouble the iris to the church. If a standing Manza.

  284. Little Johnny and little Susie, it were trouble.

  285. Dads of Manse I'm missing.

  286. I'm telling you, Mama, she will loose sleeper at night

  287. wondering what distant land. Now that's the devil how her baby.

  288. I'm telling you the failty of that situation. He is, sir,

  289. And I'm telling somebody it's her reality. Here tonight you

  290. can be in service.

  291. You in good right now and be out of church.

  292. The two months up period of timor eximp.

  293. With the dolls.

  294. You don't understand come on now. You don't understand that

  295. the faulty of life. You don't understand your faulty of

  296. your temptation. You don't understand the.

  297. Frailty of your resistance. It's only die the grace of

  298. Todd that every person in this feeling tonight is saved.

  299. It's not on our own tenderness, it's not the whole body.

  300. It's only because of the turdness of God.

  301. You don't understand how easily you could fall. You're never

  302. too tall to fall. Ask King Saul about that. You

  303. see Moses giving this address Cilly handkerchiefs got a string

  304. on it. Moses was given this address to people and

  305. needed it. And I'm talking to somebody in this building

  306. tonight you needed. Your body is in this building, but

  307. your mind is elsewhere. I said, God talked to me today,

  308. and I want you to know. You don't realize how

  309. close you are to falling. You see, Moses gave this

  310. address in.

  311. Awe and women form, and we can read and learn

  312. so much from.

  313. These messages from each of to Canaan. There were two stones.

  314. There were places of burial for people that fully intended

  315. to make it. There were people that were exciting. They

  316. were very much excited. When the Red Sea.

  317. Parted by the hen of God.

  318. It was not to write in.

  319. Moses that party the sea.

  320. It was the hen of God. I'm telling you, when

  321. God to write it after the.

  322. Word, see the weirdest sampra from that chopper party the seeds,

  323. the ms con.

  324. Jail and wood silent, and on the other or come

  325. on now and tell us somebody be married together to.

  326. The tim the dancer.

  327. Then the summer si that we made the rochesses there

  328. the summer said to the season happily made.

  329. And I'm cooking up the ma the season with somehow

  330. to the retire good in two years.

  331. It's thinny two years and flandrising. We're telling you the

  332. Bible lift. They're pre running to them, sir, just line

  333. the toliber guy. Are you doing this?

  334. And we see they go out from their pal till

  335. the two relation.

  336. There was said of the wrestle, let's go the collecting

  337. mana come happen, Okay.

  338. You know where.

  339. Having received the price, haveing cried over to you. Haven't

  340. promised I'll be prepared. Haven't promised I'll be ready. Listen,

  341. you gotta be ready, whether you're tired or not. You

  342. gotta be ready, whether you go to work or not.

  343. You've got to be ready. You got to be packed

  344. up and ready to go with. Our human nature is

  345. to rock back and take it easy, rock back and

  346. take it easy.

  347. I'll be okay.

  348. I mean, our scouts have already surveyed Kana's land, and

  349. they've come back, and we concur that it's impossible for

  350. us to infiltrate and infest our promise land. And you

  351. know what, brothers Yese, rather than fighting, the good packed

  352. and rather than go into battle, they turn their heels

  353. at the threshold of the promised land and they wonder

  354. in circles in the wilderness.

  355. For forty years.

  356. I don't know about everybody.

  357. In miss feeling, when I'm sure Pastor Moses at times

  358. he was tempting to take Josua and Caleb and said,

  359. let's just go ahead, the three of us, just like

  360. one biblical man said.

  361. He said, the Lord can say, why many for my food?

  362. The bird yes, saying no, because for the goodness of God.

  363. We see Moses being patient, We see Aaron being patient,

  364. We see Josuah being patient. You see Caleb being patient

  365. calip but the part remains the.

  366. Same way that them burying them.

  367. He even know they're practicing patience even though they're top battles.

  368. Are they're seeing reader or without a cause?

  369. The s a practive because who did they say if only.

  370. Two years from now you're gonna die? Didn't learn because

  371. of of repair?

  372. That's stunning missing This is a nicketive, hon the couldn't

  373. miss it, and the mercy how tired.

  374. It tells us what he's had a sudden night.

  375. Even though you make mistakes?

  376. Did you are not give you up? I sat daughter,

  377. you are my off you.

  378. I feel hold to go say this place.

  379. A lot of our young people wouldn't they make mistakes, sister?

  380. Would they feel like God has given up for them?

  381. There's an expression from yesterdayear Old Thomas would say things

  382. like this you bone it or I've bonet? How many

  383. of y'allre familiar with that expression? They would make a mistake,

  384. sometimes tragic, sometimes fatal, sometimes for major or minimal consequences,

  385. And na would Deane and Tam have known it, brother, Jesse.

  386. I've heard your mama before say, oh kick me.

  387. There's a lot of times she has requested of her

  388. husband and her.

  389. Six children, five boys, and want girl to kick her.

  390. We know better than to kick her because she will.

  391. Probably kick back her.

  392. But one of her favorite.

  393. Expressions he is which she's bluid, or she's feeling.

  394. Mistake her she put the wrong top of flower.

  395. In the midst, or she used too much of.

  396. This or that.

  397. Her expression is, oh kick me if it ain't any rats,

  398. it's all kick me.

  399. Who's the only two expressions that she has.

  400. She's a woman of few.

  401. Words for which she speaks. She speaks words of wisdom.

  402. Most of you that know me know I've got a

  403. lot of catchy phrases. I've got a lot of sayings,

  404. and a lot of you will picked up on her.

  405. I convit some you know you'll probably be using, and

  406. a lot of them only I'm.

  407. Sure you will. You do every here it, sister.

  408. I've heard of savan.

  409. When they make a mistake, they say over it.

  410. I believe it.

  411. They're to know who live, You're gonna make a mistakes.

  412. The sols you reason, you're gonna fly it had your

  413. princer and recall the stift.

  414. You said, we cancer no, just the know to be.

  415. Then I call I shall an listen you're telling every

  416. means her heavy answer, you are a posa.

  417. Of your head. Then might talk part o your pacer.

  418. Then remember this, so the pet's a liar the precision

  419. you had out, Hey, yes you did, brother saying no

  420. was at my house recently and his little daughter Natalie

  421. was running by. About the time she went running by,

  422. he stuck his foot out and he told everybody. He said,

  423. I promise that was not on purpose. I had no

  424. idea whatsoever that she was going to run by at

  425. that moment. The timing was bad. And can I tell you,

  426. sometimes young men and young women make mistakes because the

  427. timing of the devil is perfect, and sometimes their timing

  428. is imperfect. Sometimes they make mistakes and do something.

  429. Not willingly but unwillingly.

  430. I'm not talking about people commending habitual sin, going down.

  431. There to make daters to play questionable.

  432. Games on their cell phone that needs the best why pile.

  433. Connection they can get, you know better than that, I said,

  434. if he winks ago what I was teaching Don Caesar.

  435. When you're over there tapping the why.

  436. Pie connection they're doing listen to my things. I don't

  437. know who in person was.

  438. If somebody text you today, they said they've been listening

  439. to the podcaster.

  440. They've been listening to the.

  441. Podcaster, and they said, Pastor.

  442. Howell, who beseech you to target the pornography industry.

  443. Who beseech you to attack you to pus, who's every

  444. time you got her? Somebody?

  445. So don't the preacher against it?

  446. Somebody got to speak up? And I guessed that this

  447. I try and say name without the smarta.

  448. So listen, our.

  449. Preacher, that's our fou to say us somebody.

  450. We're preach against it.

  451. But sometimes unwillingly, unintentionally, we trip up, and we fall.

  452. After we fall to and we tail. And I'm telling you,

  453. sister wouldn't said it tonight.

  454. I strive to behold because.

  455. He mandated mandated it to be. So I have committed

  456. to be perfect because he challenged me to be perfect.

  457. And his sister Howell said, I know what I was

  458. gonna preach all that. She said, I don't practice sinning.

  459. She said, I don't sin every day. I'll go most

  460. weeks without sinning.

  461. And she said.

  462. Sometimes maybe I'm a little impatient sometimes with their grandchildren.

  463. Maybe they fluster me because they're not as obedient as

  464. Fine was.

  465. So you know why that is because we ain't Daddy

  466. and we ain't.

  467. Mama, and they're not gonna.

  468. Listen to us the way they listen to.

  469. Dad and Mama.

  470. Your mama's nature is the fight that your mama's nature is.

  471. Don't know, you know my nature is. So I'm gonna

  472. let Daddy get it. Any Daddy don't get it, I'm

  473. gonna pray that.

  474. Daddy gets it. Oh, nod in this feeling.

  475. You're right here.

  476. I am not advocating promoting on Chester Piler will fully

  477. sin anymore.

  478. I am not saying absal sere he's a secret and

  479. that God's standing up there to catch you and to

  480. turn out.

  481. To you and then tell me Copper, I'm telling you there,

  482. whenever you make a mistake and you know it turns

  483. against the grain of who you are, you know, what

  484. tends against the nature and who you lie, just even

  485. become a.

  486. Chime of God.

  487. Ever to an open.

  488. Every feel terrible?

  489. Have we done a steaming in there?

  490. God's w you know?

  491. Yet?

  492. No?

  493. Yes, God, Well, I'm.

  494. Just gonna give up because I'm a failure. I'm just

  495. gonna give up because I got laid off. I'm just

  496. gonna give up because I didn't succeed. I'll tell you

  497. what Torradians do. We've got a lot of oranges down here.

  498. Ifn burs, you don't succeed, cut the orange in half,

  499. joke in it.

  500. If it burst, you don't succeeed, cut the orange in happy.

  501. I'm telling somebody in this feeling what you need to

  502. do is dust the there to offer if your need.

  503. Say, let off your elbows.

  504. Let's say, deah ba, you might be redressing good as

  505. a pastor. That's a persuador. He as a essing your

  506. pain and lets you want to.

  507. Say, get up, Get up?

  508. Here's a how did the present tonight? Are thankful that

  509. God is a god of second chances. There are people

  510. to spreading their time life beaten of.

  511. Suffer because of bad experiences and bad chosses, some of

  512. which they had nothing to do with. I want to

  513. ask it again, how many have tripped and fallen flat

  514. on your face that you've got saved?

  515. How many have.

  516. Hard to say God, I'm so sorry?

  517. When you know what God says, I knew it. I

  518. just knew it.

  519. I want you to be perfect. I want you to

  520. be holy.

  521. I want you to be sactified. I want you to

  522. be separated. I don't want you to have a cheat days.

  523. I don't want you having cheat days. I don't want

  524. you having cheat days. But where you make mistakes? Oh,

  525. come on now, I don't want you having cheat days.

  526. I don't want you having a social drinker every six months.

  527. I don't want you view to tell long ready hever

  528. talk gets. I don't want you having cheat days. Don't

  529. you make a mistake. I want you to know mistake

  530. for you to you talker.

  531. Saga is kicker that nasty Peter. I have no labor.

  532. The sailor. I cannot put here. I said, I do

  533. not come here.

  534. It's anybody else besides me to a holy good. I

  535. don't see today having any problem with my whim.

  536. Or my voice, having not teach too much over the

  537. last couple of weeks. That's miraculous because God is speaking

  538. to somebody tonight in a nutshell. Pastor Moses is telling

  539. this second generation the desert babies, to remember God says

  540. what he means, and he means what he says, that's

  541. another expression.

  542. Come yesterday here, how many of you believe that that

  543. God says what he means, that means what he says.

  544. God was letting these people know, if you are to

  545. be blessed, you are to obey the Lord's commands, since.

  546. To whom some of them are getting the holy ghosts.

  547. Because of what they're doing every day of the week.

  548. It's not a mishant. It's not a mistake.

  549. Oh, come on, now, there is a defiant.

  550. Response to God's commands.

  551. Seek God in far forest.

  552. I ain't gonna commit to that.

  553. Fast and pray.

  554. I'm not gonna commit to that hoping myself out of

  555. the body hand of God.

  556. No, I'm disinterested in that path.

  557. When God says I don't know who you are, and

  558. I'm disinterested in granting access to you to Heaven, you

  559. gonna wish that you hadn't have made that stuff your priority.

  560. Shall I keep preaching or ship when go to the house.

  561. I ain't gonna volunteer for a forty year wonder in

  562. the wilderness.

  563. I'm telling you what they're wondering while wandering, Brother Gifford,

  564. forty years, you'd have thought somebody had prayed something through.

  565. By that time, you'd have thought the leaders over their

  566. twelve tribes of Israel with have repented of their ways

  567. and said.

  568. God, but you please have mercy on me what it was.

  569. Somehow they didn't believe it would make a difference in

  570. their life. God could have shortened that forty year period.

  571. The same way if Judas, when he fell, If Judas

  572. had a went to Calfrey and he had all and

  573. on that pavement so to speak on them rocks and

  574. asked the Son of God, just as the other thief did,

  575. have mercy on my despicable, filthy, disgusting, defalled soul, you

  576. know would have happened. Jesus would have forgave him system

  577. how and i as passed their first lady.

  578. A lot of times we.

  579. Look to see how people gonna react when they fall.

  580. What is their response gonna be. Are they gonna just

  581. lay there and sulk? Are they gonna just lay there

  582. in power? Are they gonna just lay there and die

  583. and give up? I remember one time, reading many many

  584. many years ago. It was an exploit of one of

  585. the frontiers when while they were on one of their

  586. expeditions trying to take hides a greeously bear came out

  587. of the woods and attacked one of those men that

  588. was in that hunting party, and brother Caleb.

  589. Those men decided that there was no way that man.

  590. Would live or survive such an attack, and after three

  591. or four days of watching him wither away. Now I

  592. need I need to check this tonight after church, so

  593. you don't hold me to all the specifics in the details,

  594. but I'll give you the gist of what happened. And

  595. brother saying, if I remember correctly, they left that man

  596. for dead because they were afraid of some native Indians

  597. of that area coming to take their lives, and so

  598. some had already left, and those that were standing watch,

  599. maybe it was five or six men, they decided, this

  600. man's gonna die, we might as well cover him up.

  601. We might as well leave him for dead. I think

  602. it goes something like.

  603. This, maybe three to four months later, well.

  604. They were one of them trained in post trading hides.

  605. Out came that man that they had left for dead.

  606. Now I'm telling you right now, Brother Jesse. They were

  607. certain that that man had been left in that state

  608. and that cond and that he had died, and he

  609. had been food for the foxes. The wolves and for

  610. that very grizly bear that had attacked him. Could you

  611. imagine living with the guilt and the shame.

  612. Of knowing you left your frind in such a condition.

  613. I know a lot of holiness.

  614. Pentecostal people just like the priest and those other people

  615. that passed by that man that was on the wayside

  616. left for dead.

  617. I know a lot of people that have left young

  618. people that have.

  619. Become bitter and hurt and offended in the house of God.

  620. And they supposed him to be dead, or they left

  621. him for dead, and they just said their worthless God

  622. has done with it.

  623. But I want you to know the spirit of a.

  624. Father as somebody that has not had the clearest mentality.

  625. They're gonna get up from there and they're gonna approach

  626. somebody after a while.

  627. They're gonna say, you may have drucked me up for dead,

  628. but I am not dead.

  629. I know I even extra I'm make wearing my body's cars.

  630. A man, I put some monselt my cut their cups

  631. come in, I put some monts, turn my pair headed.

  632. But I should not be turning out.

  633. I should not.

  634. Took them back prepared it turning ropersent I'm not gonna need.

  635. To prepare the God said he in this touchdown.

  636. Moses to the God will not forsake you. God room

  637. not paying who God will not leave you.

  638. Forty years is a long.

  639. Time, Moses, for you to have to keep putting up

  640. with their mast.

  641. Forty years is a long.

  642. Time for pastor Moses to keep changing dirty diapers. I

  643. don't like going in circles in the woods in a

  644. boat on a hunt trip. I don't even like going

  645. in circles on an airplane. When they start circling back,

  646. I'll say, what's wrong?

  647. What's wrong?

  648. A commercial airliner is not supposed to turn like this?

  649. What's wrong? When he missed his path. I don't know

  650. how many of you have missed your path to taken

  651. some wrong turns, but I know I'm preaching to somebody

  652. here tonight, and I want to tell you.

  653. When the clay collapses, God catches it.

  654. Whenever Adam and Eve were formed in fashion of the

  655. dust of the ground the Holy Trium, Godhead, Brother Jesse,

  656. they knew that mankind would falter and fail.

  657. They knew that they would not pass the test.

  658. They knew that Lucifer himself would be too much for

  659. them to handle.

  660. And you know what happened, Brother Nathaniel, when that woman

  661. faltered and fell, they activated the Calvary code.

  662. And I want every person in this building and know them.

  663. Before the very foundations.

  664. Of this world was formed, God had a plan to

  665. catch the clay when it collapses.

  666. I'm telling somebody in this building tonight, you don't have

  667. to give up.

  668. You don't have to give out, you don't have to

  669. give you. God's coming to pick you up.

  670. So we find here in this book of the Bible, many, many,

  671. many examples of when Moses is reminding them of how

  672. God helped them. And so the one twenty year old preacher,

  673. he is trying to help people since the route. He's

  674. telling them, I'm telling you, if you obey God, you're

  675. gonna have blessings. If you disobey God, you're gonna be cursed.

  676. If they are to be blessed by the Lord, you

  677. have to obey God's commandments.

  678. Is he's what he's thinking?

  679. And how many know that that covenant was conditional? How

  680. many of you know that there were stipulations in that covenant.

  681. They had to hear and they had to heed, They.

  682. Had to observe, and they had to keep. They had

  683. to have, and they had to hold, They had to trust,

  684. and they had to obey. Moses literally sets before them

  685. the choice.

  686. Of life and death.

  687. It is yours tonight. You will choose to either die

  688. or live. You will choose the life the words or

  689. lose your life, or you will choose.

  690. To get up your model, your pastor first lady or

  691. the eldest do you will remember whatever Stephen was stolen,

  692. he died, but you will remember when Paul was stolen

  693. that made the mistake of the leaven him to dead.

  694. You know your Paul down, he got on part of that.

  695. He be stones her.

  696. He trusted himself up.

  697. Had he not turned down that the world that somebody

  698. made the holding stones that trust.

  699. That's a something there. Knock you down, as stupid parish.

  700. You should not let her keep it out.

  701. I'll tell us somebody's not looking about. I'll tell you,

  702. oh that again, I said, tell you ry locks.

  703. Up, lots me.

  704. Well, I get up. Now. Listen to what the Lord

  705. laid upon my heart.

  706. For those that are listening to this message right now,

  707. towards the end of this address, and due to lorn

  708. of me, thirty one and six. We hear Moses telling

  709. them what the Lord has said, be strong and of

  710. a good courage. For you nothing will be afraid of them.

  711. Don't you be afraid of the death. Don't you be

  712. afraid of his imps. Don't you be afraid of the

  713. hounds of hell that's dipurniture, heals. Don't you be afraid

  714. of the enemies, all them ie tides out there?

  715. For the Lord thy God, he it is that doth

  716. go before thee, and you will not fall thee nor

  717. for safety.

  718. The Bible rulers in this field and word, we'll remember

  719. the history of the people. They have witnessed the entire

  720. generation before.

  721. They'll make bad choices, and as a result of their

  722. bad choices, they lost forty years of their life. Has

  723. that not calls for bitterness? I mean, if you've had

  724. to have been spending your will's dad, Mob, I'd be

  725. forty years in the promised land.

  726. Now forty years old.

  727. Just get started. Half my life's gone. They told us

  728. there in Saint Augustine that the average life span of

  729. the people that lived between the fifteen hundreds and the

  730. seventeen hundreds was I believe the age of forty eight.

  731. Huh up here in crickets right now, why would I

  732. even bother living? Somebody just said I can't live a.

  733. Very full life and only a half of a century.

  734. Yes you can, Oh, yes you can. Well, preacher, you

  735. don't know what I'm going through. You don't know what

  736. our forefathers went through in this country. You don't know

  737. what our spiritual forefathers went through Reder Wilderness. You don't

  738. know what Uncle Abraham went through.

  739. A lot.

  740. I'm telling a lot right now.

  741. You better quit looking out there at the well wading plans.

  742. Oh my Jesus, Oh you ought.

  743. To think about Uncle Abraham. I'll just hit a stump

  744. right there. And I want to tell something that I

  745. have told the Howell Boys for years. I told him,

  746. I said, if you ever faltered, you ever fell, make sure.

  747. You get up.

  748. I told him, brother, just so many times, if you

  749. ever fail being God, I want you to know I

  750. love you unconditionally. But I also want you to know

  751. he loves your more thing I do. I'm told the

  752. Howell Boys in handed to I said, no matter what

  753. sins you may end up being because of bad choices,

  754. there's always gonna be a handshake from Dad and a

  755. bear h from Dad, readily available when you need it.

  756. I may not approve of your lifestyle, I may not

  757. approve of your choices that I'm always gonna be willing

  758. to lift you up out of that stinky says you much.

  759. My question for somebody here tonight is are you gonna

  760. lay there and die? Are you gonna get up and

  761. go with us? And I feel that in my soul

  762. the choice is yours.

  763. You're gonna lay there and.

  764. Die, You're gonna wither away in the sandy dunes? Are

  765. you gonna get up or go with us?

  766. They send in frontiers, but sometimes.

  767. Would be enduring the same thing that others were enduring.

  768. But something would just say you don't want I just

  769. can't do it anymore. I just can't go another mile

  770. through this desert. I just can't push another whek this wilderness.

  771. I just can't struggle like this for another day. He'll

  772. help you if you'll let him. When it clay collapses,

  773. he'll catch him. When Adam and Eve fell in the garden,

  774. he called it. When Jerremaine Howell fell at sixteen years

  775. of inspiracy, he called me. Conviction set in God is sorrow.

  776. There's been times that I've review Brother Caley brokecat. One

  777. of the things that I always admired about Brother Caleb.

  778. Couldn't my brother Cayn was by the time I got home,

  779. he was like Brother Johnny Platt. Before I got home,

  780. he had already wrote me a book and said, Pastor,

  781. I want you to know I appreciated what you did,

  782. and I want you to know I'm remorseful, and I'm sorryful,

  783. and I apologize. Come to her brother Jesse. Brother Jesse

  784. as well as the rest of my sons, would do

  785. the same thing. These men didn't wanna die spiritcy. They

  786. would say, Pastor, thank you for rebuking me.

  787. Right.

  788. One time I had to rebuke an elder in this church.

  789. And pastors don't let if silly elders hold that over

  790. your head. Where the Bible said rebuke, not an elder,

  791. because the pastor is the chief order that.

  792. No matter what his age is.

  793. But he was speaking very harshly for his precious bride

  794. of what sixty something years, and in her honor. I

  795. wanna show y'all something to like her a little bit.

  796. Look what I had on while I was preparing to preach.

  797. She gave him to me, and I knew what I

  798. was gonna be preaching on it, and I said, in

  799. my office writing a few notes more wearing these things.

  800. She gave in to me as a gag gift because

  801. one time I said, pray for me. I'm getting old.

  802. I'm forty and I can barely see my Bible as

  803. I read my texts. She showed up with that smirk

  804. that on his sister Plattue could give, with that index

  805. finger kind.

  806. Of wiping across the.

  807. Top of her lip, and she said, I've got something

  808. for your brother Jeremy and y'all. Now she would do

  809. her head cock it and then look out the side

  810. of her eyes, and I said, what is it? She said,

  811. open the bag, and in there with six pair of

  812. sunglasses that looked like this, but also a pair of

  813. red glasses. I slipped them on when I got to

  814. this illustration, and I said, you know what, I'm gonna

  815. honor you, Barbarick. But he will speaking and harshly to her,

  816. and I need the Holy Ghost to help me right here.

  817. And I went to him and I said, I'll rebuke

  818. you right now in the name of Jesus. And how

  819. many of y'all witnessed that I wasn't saying it politely.

  820. Everybody that witnessed that come to the front. He was

  821. probably in his late seventies, by the insister Cheryl.

  822. And I went to him. Y'all know how kind I am.

  823. Y'all know how respectful I am to my elders, but

  824. I also am I gonna disobey God.

  825. In the spirit of God moves on me.

  826. About a week and a half ago, somebody started messing

  827. with my vehicle over there late at night, and I said,

  828. I need a couple brothers to come over here and

  829. check the exterior of this building for me, because if

  830. I go out there, I'm going out there if y'all

  831. know what I'm saying, and it's not gonna be good.

  832. At the headlines and the Wink news tomorrow morning says

  833. local pastor blows some homeless man into eternity.

  834. I said it'd be best for.

  835. Y'all just to drive up on him and show them

  836. off them to me to walk out. Well, the next

  837. morning at nine thirty am, they've done it again, and

  838. Brother Ethan roadecap and I found the tracks and we

  839. saw the suspicious vehicle go by, and Brother Jesse. That

  840. night they did it again.

  841. There was no phone calls being made to any members

  842. of this church saying I.

  843. Don't want it to get nasty or uply. There was

  844. no phone calls being made. Could you come help me

  845. out please? I reached under that bed and pulled out

  846. my helper, and I walked right out that door just

  847. as fast as I could, fully intentioned, fully intending to say,

  848. may I help you?

  849. Right?

  850. Huh.

  851. There was no trembling, there was no shaking.

  852. There was no I'm gonna throw up after I killed

  853. a man if they're gonna mess around my house where

  854. my precious wife sat. You know what Brother Aaron will

  855. had said the second time him and Brother Tyler had

  856. checked outside for me. He said, they don't even know

  857. who they're messing with. The Spirit of God moved on me.

  858. That night. Brother Johnny Platt spoke very harsh to his wife,

  859. and I said, I rebut you right now in the

  860. name of Jesus. And I wasn't speak it into msne

  861. thank you Lord. And he didn't say anything at all

  862. to me. But I knew in that moment it's gonna

  863. be a make or break Johnny Platt. He can lay

  864. right there and die, or he can get up. I've

  865. slowed this down on purpose because somebody needs to hear this,

  866. or somebodies need to hear of this. And I said,

  867. she's a child of God. And I leaned into that

  868. window and I said, I repeat you right now, in

  869. the name of Jesus, that's a child of God. And

  870. she said, getting pastor you're telling the truth. Amen, that's

  871. the only ad field of the fire. But I didn't

  872. back down. I said, that's.

  873. Wrong to treat the woman that brought four ten children

  874. for you like that. I said, Papa, that's wrong.

  875. But it was God that has stirned my spirit because

  876. enough was enough now when it gets by nature, that's

  877. not who Jeremy Howell is. But you know what, the

  878. old man didn't have a cell phone, he wouldn't have one.

  879. But by the time he got to Ava, I was

  880. over at McDonald's celebrating with the church people, just having

  881. a good time, celebrating a wonderful service.

  882. No, I wasn't feeling bad about old man God, not

  883. at all. But when I checked my cell phone and

  884. looked at the time that he had left that message.

  885. In that ten or twelve minute drive home, within thirteen

  886. minutes off here pulling out his.

  887. Tamway was not the love of pstor.

  888. Relative in the howl. I want you to know I

  889. told about.

  890. What you said. I was going to talk about it

  891. like that.

  892. I asked God to forgive it. I ask you to

  893. forgive it, and I'll see you next time.

  894. And you know that one of the last times I

  895. saw that two together, they were looking at each other's eyes.

  896. They made me so uncomfortable.

  897. When I'm saying your death bed, I said, do I

  898. need to leave?

  899. This? Looks my car the rain making situation. I'll tell

  900. you God.

  901. Can help you get up.

  902. Give you are too.

  903. What's a harm by yourself hand of the mighty hand

  904. of Dad that he fly taunts you in your time?

  905. Just tell her yourself. Don't start said to night, harm

  906. by yourself?

  907. Doe.

  908. Oh Jesus, you say I bought it. I messed up.

  909. How many you remember the story of.

  910. Conscious Pilot, Thank you Bethel. That was about twenty five

  911. of you that remember that encounter and experience. How many

  912. of you remember the story of Punchius Pilate washing his

  913. hands seemingly of the blood of an innocent man called.

  914. Jesus of nasterals.

  915. His story and say he was unable to wash his

  916. hands of that invisible blood.

  917. He thought he had got it off, but it was there.

  918. The physical blood of Jesus had never touched him.

  919. But sister, how he knew.

  920. The blood of that innocent man was all his hands. Bros.

  921. Hands were stained with invisible blood. They said that he

  922. would walk around.

  923. Like a madman at times.

  924. Thinking upon his failure when he did not deliver that

  925. righteous just man that he's found the fault with from.

  926. The handswer of his opposers, and from his hands from

  927. his persecutors. Say, how many of you know you cannot

  928. rush her? Who are handswer upon guilt and shame?

  929. No matter how many times he scrubbed and.

  930. Washed his hands, the guilt and of shame was still there.

  931. Did you notice something special and significant about our golden text?

  932. God won't wash his hands of you? I shouted over

  933. this today, Praise the Lord. How to louse?

  934. God wouldn't wash his hands of these people that are

  935. turning circles. God let them just keep on going in circles,

  936. just giving him an opportunity after opportunity after opportunity to

  937. humble himself into repent. Moses made it clear that even

  938. though their parents had made mistakes, their good Master was

  939. still mindful of them.

  940. Moses came in his shirts.

  941. He's gonna go with you. He's going before you.

  942. He will not forsake you, he will not fail you.

  943. Our brother read our context at Jeremiah eighteen.

  944. And he brought out that verse number four.

  945. The Bible said in the vessel that.

  946. He made a claar was marred in the hand of

  947. the potter, So he made.

  948. It again another vessel, as seemed good to the potter

  949. to make it.

  950. To listen, the potter wasn't like powder.

  951. To He wasn't ready to be finished with it. He

  952. didn't wash his hands of the matter. He didn't lost

  953. his hands of the clay. Now, who are mist broken?

  954. Who went this smard?

  955. We had this? Now porn? Who that collapsed?

  956. He caught it to run rapper his shirt sleeve, and

  957. who turned a little worker?

  958. And he returned to make something better. The song writer

  959. pending the lyrics over and over. He moulds me and

  960. makes me into his likeness. He passions the clay. How

  961. I feel the Holy ghost in this place tonight? I

  962. believe God is looking for sorrow Godness, Savo, I'm sorry

  963. God that I made a mistake. You remember what the

  964. Holy Girl sits Some months ago, the Holy girls said,

  965. if you don't follow me rock.

  966. And be broken, the rock will follow you and grind

  967. you to power.

  968. Get the imagery of the great prophets here of my

  969. getting up from a time of prayer, and sister how

  970. literally dusting off his knees and his elbows.

  971. And doing us the Lord had instructed him to do.

  972. And he walked to the Potter's house. The Lord God

  973. had nudged him.

  974. You go down to the Potter's house.

  975. If you don't look when he got there, the Lord showed,

  976. you're a man of the prophet. That the clay can

  977. be moted, or it can be marred in the handsome

  978. of the preacher, in the handsome of the Messiah, in

  979. the handsome for the potter, in a handsome on a master,

  980. it can be mourned.

  981. Hold on.

  982. Won half a brother, Johnny Platte, Where you be moted

  983. or will you be marred? Brother Caleb, I didn't receive

  984. only one text message like that, I received a dozen.

  985. Sister Wouldton hadn't only told me one time? If I

  986. need to be corrected, correct to me. She's told me

  987. a dozen times, Sister Howl said to night, I thank

  988. God for every time I received spiritual discipline. What is

  989. it gonna be? You're gonna be motive? Are you gonna

  990. mar might?

  991. I say?

  992. When the clay collapses, he doesn't give up on it.

  993. He catches it.

  994. He doesn't cast it away. He catches it, and he

  995. holds to it, and he clings to it, intending to

  996. bring forth the vessel for the fire. Sister, you didn't

  997. know what I was fixing to say just thirty minutes

  998. later from your testimony. It's right here in my notes.

  999. God never gives up on his children. So I'm one

  1000. O three and verse number fourteen. Except for he know

  1001. with our frame.

  1002. He remembers that we are dust. Look at your neighbor

  1003. and say, hey, neighbor. God knows me.

  1004. He knows exactly what I'm made of. He put me together,

  1005. he knows why I'm on this earth. He made me

  1006. from the dust of the ground.

  1007. I am dust. That's the very words, brother Stare, it said,

  1008. I am dust.

  1009. So I know God speaking of somebody tonight. But what

  1010. I'm afraid of? You're not being broken? And what you

  1011. don't realize God knows that the choice is yours. Y'all

  1012. know what happened when David sinned. The difference in David

  1013. and Saul was simply this. David had God this sorrow,

  1014. and David said, created me a clean heart. O, God,

  1015. renew a right spirit within me. David was basically saying

  1016. us that creative power, that formative power, and make a

  1017. new spirit in me. The saints of God right now

  1018. weeping in this building. There's some right now feeling God

  1019. the sorrow. This, some saying Lord, I'm sorry that my

  1020. sin cost you hurt pain. Do you know every time

  1021. you act out of rebellion, God sees of warlock or

  1022. god' sees which to.

  1023. Obey is better than.

  1024. The sacrifice and the hearken than the fat of realms,

  1025. rebellion and stunnornnesses as the sin of bleached craft. When

  1026. you square your shoulders and say I will not be broken, listen,

  1027. child into God. We're all children. Listen, child, God will

  1028. break you. The Bible said, for he knoweth our frame,

  1029. He remembereth that we are dust.

  1030. In Genesis two and.

  1031. Seven we find the account of the Lord framemen or

  1032. fashion and mankind of dust or dirt. It was God

  1033. who collected a few particles of earth and fashion to man.

  1034. As sophisticated as the human body is, it's still dust.

  1035. And when its system ceases to operate and function, God

  1036. returns it back to its original form and state, which

  1037. simply is unmolded dust. Unmolded dust. Do I need to

  1038. repeat that? As sophisticated as the human body is, it's

  1039. still dust, and when its operational system ceases to operate

  1040. and function properly, it returns to its original form and state,

  1041. simply put, unmolded dust. Brother Jeremiah has to retort to

  1042. two crematories, and he can tell you it is true

  1043. that sometimes when they open body backs where they have

  1044. found a body that is laid in the forest floor

  1045. for thirty days or more, that it is already returning

  1046. to dust. But you know what, when the saint of

  1047. God collapses, just to hand, then the Bible said to

  1048. be absent in body is to be present with the

  1049. low word when the clay collapses, Sister Walker, when the

  1050. clay collapses, Sister Woot. For those of you that are widows,

  1051. those of you that are living at home alone, Lena

  1052. venture Jacob for a man whose wife left him years

  1053. ago because he wanted to serve God. Brother Laru, for

  1054. a young man that lives at home because his wife

  1055. left him because he wanted to serve God. Sister Simmons,

  1056. for a woman that for many years lived at home

  1057. alone because a husband didn't want to serve God. When

  1058. the clay collapses, God catches it. I was training last

  1059. week about these that lived at home alone, and I said, God,

  1060. I know they don't want to die alone.

  1061. And some of you, you're so busy wanting.

  1062. To buy cars, want to find spouses, want to find companions,

  1063. won't start a new life. You're not mindful of things

  1064. like that. But that's why I'm the pastor, and that's

  1065. why you're a Parisian.

  1066. So I was praying.

  1067. I said, God, what about the concern that some of

  1068. these that live alone have of breaking the hip and

  1069. lying in the floor and dying after a day or two?

  1070. I said, would you strengthen them and help them and

  1071. give them peace if that's bothering any of them?

  1072. Lord?

  1073. And that was the first time he spoke to me

  1074. about what I'm preaching on tonight, and Brother Jesseid I

  1075. cried in the spirit I laughed in the spirit, cause

  1076. he said, the moment they draw their last breath, there

  1077. were me, and I heard the Holy ghost recite that

  1078. scripture that says to be absent in body is to

  1079. be present with the more. When the clay collapses, he

  1080. catches it. When that man that had set by the

  1081. wayside begging in the courtyard of the rich king, with

  1082. dogs coming by and locking the swords on his body,

  1083. says the howell, the Bible said that the process of tide,

  1084. the rich man died, and in hell he opened his eyes,

  1085. being tormented into flames of fire. But concerning that beggar,

  1086. that poor man, the Bible said, and I paraphrase, when

  1087. he died, God called him, said the angels carried him

  1088. into Abraham's bosom. When the clay collapses, he catches it.

  1089. Brother Jeremia, somebody in this building came to.

  1090. Me last week.

  1091. They said I have I won't give the name, but

  1092. they said I had a dream that brother Jeremiah had

  1093. a terrible accident, and they said that it was so

  1094. bad that when I woke up, I was trembling and shaken,

  1095. and said, the rest of that dream is he didn't

  1096. make it. He said somebody called me and said, Jeremiah's

  1097. been in a terrible accident and the body is so

  1098. badly torn up to trying to figure out what to

  1099. do with it, Brother Jeremiah. They came to me sincerely concerned,

  1100. and I said, you don't want to I won't pray

  1101. about that, and I have them praying about that. You

  1102. won't be the first one the devil was ever trying

  1103. to destroy. Now you could call it the mind this

  1104. morning's message and know that there's no cause for fear

  1105. concern and rm that we should be prayed, and we

  1106. shouldn't be texting and driving and be distracted, and you

  1107. probably should get your situation checked. And I asked that person,

  1108. I said, do you know anything about his health condition?

  1109. You know anything about it about that time we had

  1110. that dream he was having that serious attack. They said,

  1111. I don't wanna let you talk about I said.

  1112. Yeah, well, I mean he told me one morning on

  1113. the way to work.

  1114. He told he's having a.

  1115. Nice of heart attack or throve. It was all he

  1116. could do.

  1117. And you called your wife and said, live you don't

  1118. hear from me, it's because I've been taken to the hospital.

  1119. In the neighborboods.

  1120. So s sister, who I wonder if the Holy ghost said,

  1121. already run the high jack, and because somebody in this

  1122. building would be obedient to the Lord and pray if

  1123. divine intervention had to take a place, so ready, I'm saying,

  1124. when the clay collapses, he catches it. I said, d

  1125. do you you know about But as he went through,

  1126. just no, I don't know nothing about that. Come, my brother, Philip,

  1127. this is a specimen of a young man right here.

  1128. And I feel a sweet spirit of God in this building.

  1129. I remember it was it a Sunday afternoon, and he said,

  1130. I gotta tell you something that I don't wanna put

  1131. on you, and I don't wanna tell you about. He

  1132. said that you need to know, and I don't wanna

  1133. put any more on you. He said, but I think

  1134. I had cancer. That was cause for concern and calls

  1135. to pray. Brother Stereo. We could give up and just

  1136. cast him off for dead, or we could get into

  1137. fight and pray. Brother Jeremiah, you, sister Leah, could get

  1138. in the fight and pray. You elder sisters and brothers

  1139. that are living alone. You could get in the fight

  1140. and pray you young people are slipping up and tripping

  1141. up and fall the fat on your face. You can say,

  1142. I refuse to die. You could give me this want.

  1143. You did not cry and pray. I've told you young

  1144. men to be strong, but I'm not afraid to cry.

  1145. In God's house or another presence of God spirit. I'm

  1146. not afraid to cry. I've done my share of it today.

  1147. Brother Ethan almost called cut his finger off.

  1148. The other day.

  1149. He messaged me and he said, Pastor, I'm in bad shape.

  1150. If you don't hear back from me, I've collapsed.

  1151. I'm going to handy.

  1152. If you don't hear back from him, you must be called.

  1153. I've collapsed. I'm about to pass out because I cut

  1154. my finger off. I'm getting sick, I'm blacking out. I

  1155. called his parents. I said, I'm up here in Saint Augustine.

  1156. Somebody needs to get to him right now. Brother Ethan,

  1157. that slip of a knife could have easily been in

  1158. an artery and it could have been fatal. But when

  1159. the clay collapses, he catches it. He called Brother Philip

  1160. it at tears. He's caught. Brother Jeremiah. We're gonna continue

  1161. praying for both of these brothers. He helped a brother

  1162. Ethan sister Hannah. I remember it was been about three

  1163. to four years ago. I first had a dream of

  1164. you being abducted, and then about a year later. And

  1165. I'm not one that lives in fear, and I'm not

  1166. one to watch his movies or documentaries or anything like that,

  1167. but I am one to hear from God and us

  1168. beak as a fool. But every time I had a

  1169. spiritual dream of that nature, I would tell her. I

  1170. pull her to the side and tell her.

  1171. And then it was about a.

  1172. Week and a half ago, I said, don't go to

  1173. the office, stay away. One of the boys came to

  1174. me and said, do you remember you had a dream

  1175. of that nature about a year ago and you told

  1176. us that hand it had been abducted and that law

  1177. enforcement couldn't find her, that God led you to her

  1178. body and you found her lifeless on the side of

  1179. the road out Portla Belt. I said, yeah, I remember that,

  1180. And I said, the Holy Ghost has been preparing us

  1181. for a long time. Or what almost happened a week

  1182. and a half ago. But I'll tell you what's worse

  1183. than a physical abduction is a spiritual abduction. When somebody's

  1184. saved and sanctified and holy goes fulled, but a bad

  1185. spirit gets in that heart, it gets to work and

  1186. and it causes that clay to become bread on it,

  1187. and that clay begins to be marred, and it it

  1188. ain't pliable in the hand of the Lord. This is

  1189. a very sober ending to this message, and I intend

  1190. for it to be, for it's how God led me.

  1191. To end it. Sister.

  1192. And I could look at these young men and say

  1193. every one of them are worth their weight in gold.

  1194. I can look at.

  1195. These young women, brother would and say they are all

  1196. turbles of great price. But when the play messes up,

  1197. the devil will say they're all worthless. And I speak

  1198. as a fool here, and I'm not boasting, but a

  1199. lot of youth groups have busted up, and a lot

  1200. of our young people have fallen by the wayside, because

  1201. when kids messed up, nobody believed in them. And I

  1202. want to tell our young people, I believe in you,

  1203. but if you're gonna make it, we're gonna have to

  1204. see your truly sorry from messing out. And I want

  1205. to say something to brother Jesse. You would concur with

  1206. this it's not hard to move dust. Blow it and

  1207. it's gold, life as a vapor. It's here today and

  1208. gone tomorrow. When you blow it. The devil says, that's it.

  1209. God's done with you. God's finished with you. But I

  1210. want to tell you one more time, No, he isn't.

  1211. The devil was a liar and he's the father of

  1212. all liars. God is a finish with you. It's not over.

  1213. God's got you. I want everybody to look at you

  1214. on hands. Would you pick up your brother with those hands?

  1215. Would you help your brother with those hands if he

  1216. was left for dead on the wayside, would you use

  1217. those two hands to pull your brother up and out

  1218. of that ditch? And let me ask you something. When

  1219. Jesus looks at his nails guard hands, don't you think

  1220. he's just waiting on the opportunity for you to invite

  1221. him to pick you up? And that's what Dave had said,

  1222. I've been a mess. He lifted me up out of

  1223. that mess, first to acknowledge I'm in a mess. But

  1224. then the second verse is he's dipped me up out

  1225. of that mess, out of that hole, humble pit of claim,

  1226. set my feet upon a solid rocks, just to Wolden,

  1227. You're not the only one feeling this.

  1228. I feel a world one in I's old.

  1229. This is a make or break situation, a make or

  1230. break sermon for somebody in this building tonight. And I

  1231. want to tell you that God has not done with you.

  1232. If you've made a mistake and have fallen flat on

  1233. your face, let Jesus pick you up. If he has

  1234. to reach way down, Jesus will pick you up. Brother Jesse,

  1235. would you come to the pien and tonight.

  1236. Let's stand.

  1237. I'm not gonna have a general altar call tonight. Uh

  1238. how the lords didn't us give this alter call? I know,

  1239. as sure as I breathe and live it that there's

  1240. five people in this building that I have to come

  1241. to this after. I don't want anyone else to move

  1242. unless you know that, you know that, you know you

  1243. need Jesus to kick you up. These altars are open.

  1244. May we bow our heads and close our eyes. I

  1245. need a train in church right now. When the clay collapses,

  1246. he catches the.

  1247. Preacher.

  1248. I've slipped, I've fallen, I've got mixed up. I've got

  1249. messed up. I've made some mistakes. So all the guys

  1250. I guess we got fire precious young men over here.

  1251. Definitely the Holy Ghost do. But I also believe there's

  1252. a young woman. Mom and dad don't know it, but

  1253. you've followed it wouldn't take much for them to see

  1254. if they did just a little closer. But I don't

  1255. want to point it out, and I don't want you

  1256. to point out. I just want to see you pray.

  1257. That's it, brothers, which y'all.

  1258. Sing some of that right here as well.

  1259. But this week, presence of God who through this build tonight.

  1260. Maybe there's a dad and a mom that would say,

  1261. I haven't been sented, but I haven't been who I

  1262. need to be, and I know that I haven't been

  1263. as strong as I need to be. The clay has collapsed.

  1264. Maybe there's an elder that it's been troubled about, dying

  1265. at home alone, whatever a category situation you're in, I

  1266. want you to know God's got you.

  1267. God's got you.

  1268. If you die and fall a flat on your face,

  1269. God's got you. It's your young person and you make

  1270. a bad choice, make a horrible mistake.

  1271. God's got you.

  1272. He's ready to forget, who's.

  1273. Ready to pardon, and he's ready to clean a slate.

  1274. He's ready. I feel like if you don't let your

  1275. heart break that I and so my brother k a

  1276. bow cap.

  1277. I said so many times, I'm sorry.

  1278. Tell Jesus, I'm sorry.

  1279. And I'm gonna get a that's it. That's how about

  1280. time of trayer?

  1281. Shall we? I'm sorry. I told the Lord a couple.

  1282. Of nights ago.

  1283. I said, God, there's nothing in the world like your preasents.

  1284. There's nothing in the world like your treasence.

  1285. Just being in your presence is so beautiful. The silver

  1286. ward it is so time the spression.

  1287. I'm sorry, Lord, start with the city wood jeezy. Sometimes

  1288. I'm gonna fall.

  1289. Although he's there to catch me.

  1290. There's two times I have with at long and I

  1291. knows he.

  1292. Sees my failures.

  1293. He still lost me.

  1294. When I get to week on my journey, he gives mister.

  1295. Say, I'm down and I'm not out. I've heard, but

  1296. have no movie.

  1297. I've et up for me.

  1298. You may see my mascar.

  1299. My mom Dada broke in hard.

  1300. But it is not the end down.

  1301. I'm going out the ball the ball.

  1302. I know that I'm not.

  1303. I've heard, but I know.

  1304. I'm for me going to get up mob see one

  1305. at the star.

  1306. The boy hard, but.

  1307. It's not.

  1308. I'm gonna rise the the ball.

  1309. I've been looking bad as a strong wine. I've carried

  1310. the way so long. I've covered all the bliverish sheds,

  1311. which if you there was nothing wrong.

  1312. I've been hoping for all of me recalled play for the.

  1313. Change so I won't get the winning.

  1314. It's time pasting air up is on the.

  1315. I'm down and I'm not.

  1316. I'm hurting me.

  1317. Have no fee y up from.

  1318. Me, gonna get up from him? You may see my

  1319. bata stor. I'm gonna then about in a hard but

  1320. it is nothing now.

  1321. Where I'm goings a ball the fall. I now that

  1322. I'm not I'm hard to have nophee log up for me.

  1323. Don't get up, bob held.

  1324. You don't see my batter star.

  1325. I'm losing a broad in her hard and it's nothing

  1326. in that all.

  1327. All w at the ball the ball yet I've known that.

  1328. I'm done now, but I have no fear up for me.

  1329. Where may see my scars. I wouldn't there working hard,

  1330. but if not the end and.

  1331. I'm going out the bar the ball.

  1332. Oh he never said it would be easy.

  1333. Sometimes I'm going to fall.

  1334. Although he's there that capts me.

  1335. There's two times I feel a long and I know

  1336. who he sees my failures.

  1337. He still last me any but he eats. We met.

  1338. Don't get weak on my.

  1339. Journeys the street to say, I'm yelling out, I'm hoping

  1340. to have Nope, ut up for me, going.

  1341. To get up from me in the way.

  1342. Let see my man's gone. Whom the working hard and sting.

  1343. I'm going.

  1344. The fall, I'm not.

  1345. I'm loving have healthy love me.

  1346. He from me, moing up for me, saying, see mastor.

  1347. Who the working hard and is naughty in that.

  1348. I'm going the lad.

  1349. Look, God has a strong mind.

  1350. I can't do it so long I kept putting up

  1351. all the blemouss, pretended there there's nothing wrong.

  1352. I mean hold compative musical play badang so.

  1353. Tail. He said that he's had anything l for me.

  1354. There are probably.

  1355. He's seen a battlestar.

  1356. I then a boking hard and.

  1357. He's spy.

  1358. The ride the bars.

  1359. I've been up for me.

  1360. He may see my man is.

  1361. Gone along.

  1362. You God, he is happy in.

  1363. I'm go ride the bad the bar.

  1364. You never said it would be easy.

  1365. So towns haven't the ball, although these days that catch me.

  1366. There's two towns.

  1367. I'm feeling alone, and I know he sees my failures.

  1368. He's still to.

  1369. Make me anyway. You haven't leave called majority. He can

  1370. use me the street to say nothing on