Boasting Of What HE Has Done - Bro Jeremy Howell 8-11-2024

Crickets. I love to hear crickets break. How many of

you love a braggart? Does anybody know what a braggart is?

Someone that brags.

On themself incessantly all of the time. Every time you're

around them, they're bragging on themselves. I don't want to

preach a sermon that holding goes child boasting of what

he has done, boasting of what he has done. May

I direct your attention to Romans chapter number three, Verse

number twenty seven. Brother Nathaniel Luke, chapter number ten, Verses

number seventeen through twenty, and Brother Jesse Judges chapter number

seven and verse number two, And Brother Caleb wrotecap first Corinthians,

chapter number one and verse number thirty one.

Brother Nathaniel again Luke, Chapter.

Number ten, Verses number seventeen through twenty, Brother Jesse Judges,

Chapter number seven, verse number two, and Brother Caleb one

Corinthians one, Verse number thirty one. Brother Nathaniel, would you

read those verses of scripture tonight? And the seventy returned

again with joy, saying, Lord, even the devils are subject

unto us through thy name. And he said, unto them,

I beheld Satan's light and and fall from heaven. Behold,

I give under you power to tread on serpents and scorpions, and.

Over all the power of the enemy. And nothing shall

by any means hurt you. Notwithstanding in this rejoice not

that the spirits are subject unto you, but rather rejoiced because.

Your name is written in heaven a man. Seventy people

came back boasting. Seventy people came back boasting about things

that they were doing. But it was not of themselves,

It was of God. I'm gonna follow a mental outline tonight.

The first point of that outline will be don't boast

in man.

The second point will be to boast in God. So

you hold on to that as we move forward.

Brother Jesse Judges chapter number seven and verse number two.

Lord said, I'm the Gideon.

The people that are with thee are too many for

me to give the immedi and knots into their hands.

Lett Israel vault themselves that gives me, saying mine own

hand has saved me. Did y'all hear that preve the

latter part of that verse again, Brother Jesse, lets Israel

vault themselves against me, saying mine own hand had saved me.

God was concerned that Gideon and the troops would glory

in their military prowess and might, and so God downsized

the size of the army to make sure he got

the glory. He deserves the glory. I feel like giving

him praise and glory tonight. He's deserving of every bit

of it. Brother Caleb first corrected into chapter number one

and worse number thirty one that according as it has written,

he that gloriouth let him glory in the Lord. All right,

let's stand for the reading of our golden texts Romans

chapter number three and.

Verse number twenty seven.

May we do as brother Caleb just read of the

scriptures to us tonight, May we glory in all things

in our precious Lord, Romans three and twenty seven. It says,

where is boasting?

Then? Of what have we to boast?

On my end?

Of what have we to boast?

Where is boasting? Then it is excluded by what law

of works? Nay, but by the law of faith. May

we pray Heavenly Father, we love him, We praise thank you.

We thank you for the opportunity to come to your house.

I thank you for these wonderful people. As far as

I know, they're wonderful God. Their heart condemns them Your

greater than their heart.

And to bless them and help them.

I pray, and knowing this, thy servant said a God

at my mouth, and help me to do those things

that you would have me do, to say the things

that you would have me to say, Lord, And know

what the ears of this thy people, that they might

hear what it is the spirit that God says though

to the church. Tone not of my words, but if

your words.

I pray God, that the sayings will go below the shoulders.

Let them get in that heart, saturate the soul and

the spirit. I pray, Lord, it's not by our mind

or by our power, but by your spirit.

We need the Holy Ghost in this hour. I pray

that we.

Would depart this place joyfully and not sorrowfully. And Jesus'

name in the church says, Amen, look at your neighbors.

You're being seated, and say, a neighbor, what do you

have to brag about? Put one hand on that hippo say,

I'll let you know. I can brag on my Jesus.

That's right. How many of them.

Fill I bragging on Jesus here tonight praise the Lord

made you boast in the Lord.

Our text is found in a New Testament book of

the Holy Bible. The Book of Romans, is an epistle

of the beloved Apostle Paul.

At the time of this writing, Paul desired to visit

the saints in Rome. And for whatever reason, I'm sure

the scripture offers a reason, For whatever reason, he had

not got there yet, And even though he had not

got there yet, his body had not yet walked through

the streets and the corridors of this city of Rome,

for whatever reason was in his heart to be there,

even though he had not stepped a foot on the

soul of that country. How many tonight are desirous to

step into that heavenless city, New Jerusalem, you know, the

brand new city of Peace. This epistle is addressed to

all that be enrolled, be loved of God, called to

be saints. Is how the Apostle addressed them all in Rome,

called to be saints. If you turn to the sixteenth

chapter of this book, you will find the names of

some of these saints.

Some of these names are easy to pronounce, while other

names are almost impossible to pronounce correctly. Some names are

recognizable to the Bible student and the Bible reader, while

others are.

Mysterious to us. Who are these people?

They must have been significant players within the early Church.

For them to have been named by the Great.

Apostle Paul, who had not yet met all of these individuals.

They must have been.

Significant people in the Church at Rome, even though their

life is a mystery to us. The Holy ghosts, for

some reason put special emphasis.

On their name. You remember a little while ago that

one of our brothers read.

A context that talked about us rejoicing that our name

is written in heaven.

There's about seventy people.

Here tonight, and I don't know that anybody can say that.

Your name, as in the name that represents.

You, the identifier name you share the name of some

biblical character, but.

Your name, which is their name, and because it's their name.

It's in the Bible.

Yesterday's sister Howell, she approached me and she looked at

me and with loving eyes, she said, I've been wanting

to tell you something for about thirty years.

She said, you have the coolest name.

I said, I thought that ever since I was a child,

the name Jeremy. It's just a cool name. I went

to Pigeonthorges about ten years ago, and there was this uh,

what do you call those lumber jack And when they

announced his name, they said Jeremy. And when they said that,

I thought, that's the coolest name. And then I realized,

wait a minute, that's my name. And I remember when

I was a young boy in the Church of God.

Sometimes we would walk outside and there was this boy

that was a big rebellious that did.

Not come to church very often.

But they would say, hey, Jeremy as he swung the

numb chucks around his limbs, around his legs, and around

his arms and around his head, and I thought, that

is the clost name.

Wait a minute, that's my name.

And so we're saying that the prophet Jeremiah are also

known as the prophet Jeremy, had a cool name. And

it's good to know that my name not because of

who I am, not because of my reputation in the

Horness movement, not because of my reputation as.

A believer in the year twenty twenty.

Four, not because of my reputation as a spouse, has a.

Father, has a grandfather.

But my name is found in the book and it's

wonderful to be able to say that our name may

not be written in the KJT the King James translation,

but that our names are written in.

Heaven somewhere, someplace.

I believe in a book somewhere, that the divine recorder

has recorded our name there as blood Bob Christians. And

one of our brothers read that context, and the text said,

you shouldn't reach us. He said, first, greatly, because your

name is written in heaven. And but let me prestat

you to count the names in that sixteenth chapter of

this book, and you'll probably find between twenty five or thirty.

I did not have the time to count all of

the names of people that were mentioned by the Apostle Paul.

Now he had not yet been there, but he named

some of these people that were there. Among those recognizable

names are the names of Priscilla and Aquila.

They weren't married.

Most of you will remain with them as fellow companions

in ministry travel partners with the Apostle Paul. They were

solved mates. They were married and bonded together through Jesus,

and they were all sub binded to God's men. These

soul mats had developed a friendship.

With the Great Apostle Paul.

And according to other scriptures and set at times they

worked together.

Meaning this married couple worked.

With the Apostle Paul as tip makers in order to

supplement their income because of the offerings in ministry they

would not suppossor. And then we find other times when

they were making converts, other times they were ministry with.

The Apostle Paul. They had a.

Togetherness with the Great Apostle. In that chapter we read

about saints who may administry evidently in obscurity against some

of these names are almost impossible for the country boy

and the country girl to pronounce. There's names of men

and there's names of women. You'll notice that the women

were not ignored. And I hear crickets among the free

Holiness movement and the Independent Holiness movement, these women were

not ignored. In fact, if we'll be honest, we'll notice

the most of the time when the names Priscilla and

Aquila were mitching, Priscilla's name was mintioned first.

This is clearly indiculatet that she.

Evidently had a greater measure of the spirit of God

in her life.

I'm sure she did not usurp authority in that household.

But this was a woman who apostle pop fed. It

important to mention her name of first.

Now you to know here tonight, Pa, wherever your name

is falling in the lineup has everything to do with

how quickly you signed up and how soon you sewed.

After thirty five years ago, let walked the steric, took

the name.

Of Starring behind the name of Wada.

They are celebrated thirty five years of marriage.

Thirty years ago, in this not charity.

Howell took the last name Howell and placed it behind charity.

She replaced the name Bassard with the name Howwell.

Thirty something years ago. Listen the natural in the spiritual.

Thirty five years ago, Iris Lynn.

Room went to.

Churchill lade her Burmans on the altar and walked out

with the last name Christ, Shaman the pride of Christ.

It does not shop there. It gets even better. Hey,

thirty years.

Ago, your pastor walked into a.

Revival service and wriggled into the back to you and

it's lifeless forever change and Jeremy Howell to call the

last name Christ. Now I'm asking somebody to know and question,

is your name or written it? Pity is you ought

to rejoice he into that. I want to correct and

chestise her a few people tonight through love.

I know that our names are written in heaven. I

know that we became new.

Creatures in Christ Jesus, and a radical transformation took place

in our life.

We had theary live to do with that.

I cannot so who had nothing to do with it?

But Trump parter in that transformation? This minister all he

needed was a will in mind to let Jesus take

control of.

Your life and for you to take a new name

that by the.

Said that every believer receives a new name in heaven.

That name that is written.

It's not cheering me, Howell, It's not our lynn cheerity

hell Lynn Howell and trusting. The tin wrote tact I

don't know what they have named me over under. I

know Jesus say was training giveing people nicknames.

And whatever the name is, Kidne, whatever new neighbor he

is kill it is enough.

I thought it.

Somebody tonight who can have her her name change, and

when it takes place, you a glory upon God, just

as Apostle Paul did when his name was changed.

Her from Saul.

Don't call me sala anymore the references to my former life.

They call me Paul, and I want somebody to know.

Here the night they're up to me a new name

written down in glory, and it should be Roll. What's

keeping you from signing up? What's keeping you from saying?

This time next month, one month ago, in August of

twenty twenty four, I became part of the bride of Christ.

What is it that is keeping you from becoming part

of the family of God?

Why which you suffer at misery? Will you serve God

at a guilty distance? Why would you choose to go

to hell? And why would you choose misery over the

mercy of the Master?

You see, these people would minister together.

There was a togetheredness, and there was a like mindedness,

and they were willing to die for their muster, and

they were.

Willing to die for one another.

It appears to me that even though Paul had met

Oquila and Priscilla, and he could testify of their good

folks and their good deeds. He could speak their testimony

better than anybody.

And there's other women of significance and.

Other men of prominence in that same chector who brother Nathaniel.

Apparently their reputation had been their forerunner.

I'm telling somebody in this building tonight.

Your reputation. It's very important.

It's very important what.

The Cinnerman is saying when he had suns her ashens

on the tribe. It's very important what your lost family

thinks about it. You whatever you are to pay the reunion.

If your standard changes for the imput they know you're

a hypocritic, and they know you're not touch.

I'm telling somebody.

Here, right here in this building, your name is important.

And yes, your name it's written down, and glory that's

somebody answer in this building. I don't believe that their

name is written there, because the ghost thinks that should

not boast about. And some even gird a ghost in

their liberty to sin. Some even bosta in their liberty

to their direct to touch.

You need to to the word of the In one

particular instance, the apostle Paul received some airmail from a

little birdie that brought it to him.

Well, he was pitting some words to him the parchment

and penning some words.

Brother Jeremiah Apostle.

Paul noted that word has come from one of the

churches to me. And I've just interviewed somebody at my

desk and they say, some of the things that's going on.

In the church is not company.

It's unacceptable, it's not proper for Christians to be doing.

And Apostle Paul said, you're glorying in this situation is

not good. You boasted about this man being in his

sin and you being merciful as ministers, and.

You accepting this, and you acting like you're working with.

Him for six months to twelve months, and you being

permissible in this.

You remember another place in.

Scripture except for us not to be partakers of another

man's sin.

I am poor working for people, working with people.

Also that I know that after twelve months, they have

decided whether or not there be a Christian Yes, I

speaking of intelligent adults.

I know that you are enough. They learn and.

In time they decide whether or not they're gonna serve God.

But you bring somebody off that street and let them

hear a preacher prea.

Three times aneka, and let them read their Bible seven

days a week, multiple times a day.

Let him pray lock Dan you'll did three times a day.

Let him praying for their food.

Conviction with karma unless than six months time they will

be karma a new creature. Yes, Tom will work within

know that thing.

I don't learn.

Everything over night, but you can tell that they're calling

in the right direction. Man, I'm telling somebody man in

this fielding tonight, that there was a church.

That was probbing.

Yourself and allow an open sina to go along there

in the congregation in a post A pointed girl that

you allow would do that. He said, bishopal you want

a name that they hold man church discipline.

Man, you came in accent what.

Litania talked about this sunny that's communication.

Man.

The man was dismissed because Paul said, hey, you're going

you're boasting that.

In this cel.

It's not to it that you got nothing about about man.

That's what I wanted to title that this message tonight.

He got nothing about about. But the holy girl said,

man posted in what he has done, Man into tonight basting.

Of what he has done? Why do you stand.

There countless tidle, say, riding under miss Obenius.

Then how you're getting died? Brother christ on time left?

You just see it.

Oh, that's nothing up post about, that's nothing about direct

us on bet us to todd As, reproach me, reproach me.

I feel the holy ghosts pas.

Why it was spilled countless hours trying to justify Seas.

Why the professor Christians?

They're not possessors, they're professors.

So these people in.

That sixteenth chapter, twenty five to thirty people, brother before

I didn't have time to pinpoint. It counted some time

and let me murder. There's a lot of names written

in that chapter. And you notice an Apostle Paul for

those that don't like name calling in church, Apostle Paul

had no problem whatsoever calling names. I know your performer

pastor that had the backbone of a rentworm, And I

don't have anybody in.

Mind right now. That's just something I felt like saying.

They have taught you that it's not politically correct or

appropriate to call names now, Apostle Paul said, Alexander, unless

you get confused with what I'm saying and what I'm

putting in writing, he said, yeah, you know him.

The copper smith.

Well, at that point everybody knows who's handling the copper

and who is smithing the copper, and I want you

to know he know who is handling.

He the word of talk de sepre left. We named

him by name.

We know things that practice aint the works of their

own hands. Lest I shut on the bear, dona try.

It's not at all to cry about it. Why can'ts

he boast?

Oh, my goodness, I.

Will I have limerity to smoke a joint every now

and then? Know you know, know ye not?

That your body is the temple of the holy ghosts?

Will I have liberty? The FDA kate know you don't?

You need to look at the sixth chapter of the

Book of First Corinthians. Apostle Paul, the head of the

New Testament Church of his day.

He's telling the bishop put it out.

The bishops of today would say to Aaron words of

Moses would not have said. They would say, put them

golden calves in a display case in the vestibule, in

a remind us of our past, in a remind us

of our stumbling. It a remind us of our faults.

It all remind us of our failures. It'll postle, Ah,

it's not something to boast amountain. This should be nobody

building a memorial for failure. I've heard people before saying

I had more passive and more power when.

I was taxing with a dample than I do now.

There ain't something something wrong. There's something not right up about.

Pata grew up. I have more passable now see, and

more power now that he chains.

For They say, look at this calf I built. Look

at this calf then air it allowed and permitted. You'll

see that the apostle, Paul for bade boasting. It was

not going to be tolerated. It was not going to

be accepted. It's totally unacceptable behavior.

Brother nathanuel them to boast in themself. But there is

a good boasting.

Also, there's a bad boasting, and there is a good boasting.

Paul made it clear that these believers should not boast

about themselves. What about the preacher that goes over there,

It stands really closer to some visiting preacher, or stands

close to some visitor, her new member, just.

Leaning her on a path on the back, leaning.

On approval, applause and affirmation. They feel so good when

somebody says that with great preaching, they just.

Want to hear it.

They feel better when they hear her somebody say something

about them. I will say that the Bible did say

it's better for somebody else to say it that for

you to say it yourself. One time Paul asked her

to be excused. He said, I need a boaster a

little bit. I was a parsne now concerning the load

of her, I was famelesser.

He felt bad about his own horn. He felt bad.

About talking about the implacability off his life within the

religion head or.

To their listen and life.

You do not feel bad about talking about today left

and about the disons.

How do you say?

That's an opsone?

He let go see him.

I'd be too ashamed to boast that I had a

social drinker. I'd be too a sham to us touch.

I'm trying to church kids up the smoke her trying

to man, Are you Tracy?

I said?

Are you crazy? Again? Plead to yourself and the devil

in church?

Are you man?

Are you insane? Apostle? Paul said, self promotion.

Is forbidden because that its root is pride, arrogance.

Nobody likes a bragrant.

Again, our mental outline point number one, don't boast in man,

secondly to boast in God. And so Paul made it

clear that these believers should not boast about themselves. Look

at your neighbor and say, hey, neighbor, don't boast on yourself,

hey man. In Judges, chapter number seven and verse number

two one of our context, our dear brother read that

to us tonight.

In the seventh chapter of.

Judges, we see that God selected chosen men. Gideon needs

to assembol an army, and he gets a lot of volunteers.

He gets a lot of people that would be willing

to walk around with old medals around their nets. I've

heard that the United States has won more medals than

any other country.

That's a good thing, is it not.

They say that the Olympic Games have always historically been

indicative of the power of one street as a nation,

meaning that apparently our military and our economics and our

society would be stronger than those that have been posted

up against us. I'm glad that we brought home more

ton medals and overall more medals than the neighboring country.

I think the country next to us was China.

And there was some thirty or forty medals shorter, and

the United States have brought nearly one hundred medals home

to the shore.

So do you know there's a lot of boasting going over.

There's a lot of widen the glone and in the

sea over the ground chips are going on.

But how many reports here have you seen her to.

Read at When somebody said he I learned the Bible

sin that beauty is vain. The Bible syndic get much

glory to the street of a man's lets, it also

said her, they body exercises properly is little.

Oh no, they're doing the opposite. They're boasting and what

they need.

They put their medals to and they're pictures and pages

of social media. They're self promoted. Theoking contracts her. They're

getting out the cosmics. I'm telling you, they're boasting her about.

What they've done. The church should be different than that.

When we come to churchill in are head to down

that we ought to PreTect him heads.

Upper and saying her.

After boost in my tongue, I'm telling you that, yes,

there's a lot to an Olympic crater. After leads her. Oh,

the United States set they are more than conquerors. But

Gideon God told him, Doc told Edion her we're got

a down sousand and we're gonna damn there because everybody

knows that when a constant Israel, god Head and Hand

were equal persons, her Israel's gonna win.

I want you to know her. Sometimes God, jitza, your

let's not proving Yell. They get sit down to show

you who ain't in up.

Hold here, hold your hen't killing somebody were militant.

Don't got about a long way, y'all pray for him.

He's been about three weeks as a preach. I need

to ward.

I'll feel they are going to the spirits with him

and put a little bit weak. It don't seem like

I'm struggling, but I need them.

Will I need to win?

A ask God every time I work out of that service,

breathe on the ho Negotia. I said, ain't they were

facing thirty two thousand many night soldiers something like that.

There's just thousands of people that they're facing. And God

begins to thremble the size of the army down. And

I don't have time to preach on how he did it,

but he did it. And I believe the military size

of that group got The size of that military group

got down to was it three hundred men? Three hundred

against tens of thousands of people. You know why God

downsize that Israel army to a number of three hundred

force to troops. I'm telling the three hundred troops and

get in to acknowledge him. They wanted God's attention and

God wanted their attention. I'm trying to tell somebody here tonight.

Sometimes God will cause you to be handicapped or crippled

because you have not given him the praise that he deserved.

You're crippled. Now you're disabled.

Now what are you gonna wait till you get handy

tip every there? Or you're gonna link till you get

don't cripple? Sometimes caught down size and up and down

trains us to get us to recognize our victory comes.

Thank God.

I'll tell us somebody in this dude, you're letting get

high up the praiser if you don't.

Get lowered up to praises, I'll tell somebody you come

in in this church and you tun to us.

We speak with the tongues of angels, and that they

approve it. The approvation in the pos and some people.

But the next service you're don and the death couldn't

be a don't touching down. You know you wants you

to praise it when you've been downsized. We want to

be upsizing, brother sadel If you're listening to this, you

may be flat on your back, but you throw them

hands up and you change the world. And they may

think we're outwitted, out manned, and out uh, but we

ain't help God.

Don't tell you that I.

Love what I feel in my soul right here tonight,

God was shrinking the size of the army.

What if God starts shrinking the size of your praise.

I used to can praise him with two orange and

two hands, but elim only got one arm in one hand.

What if God allows you to lose outside one eye?

What if God allows you to lose hearing in one ear?

I can hardly hear it in my right here anymore.

Some of you know that, some of you don't. I'm

telling somebody right here in this building here the natural

handicap this no excuse.

Not so whippo, you said, turning that excuse into an example. Now,

I don't pizza an excuse or an example.

I'm telling us. Somebody tell you. I'm tell us saying, well, now,

tell it's not the willer tied. The I may take

hand in that.

That's exactly right, exactly right. I said that in his

book Come he.

Set us not that power, but not my stare say it.

The Lord Gods always here's the little things, I said,

Todd has all like to be up here. The letter.

Jeremiah the prophet in his day he was preaching and

telling people, stop boasting and what you've become in God.

Stop boasting and what you possess.

The Bible said, a man's life consisted not in the

abundance of things that he possess. Stop acting preacher like

you got what you got because you deserved it. It

is the gift of God. If my brother preaches good, great.

If my son preaches good, great, If all of my

son's preach good, great. If whatever preaches good, what's a

both and the others preach good three times a month.

That's great.

Just get anerten a hold kind and forget about being little.

Ask the little man with a lunch spots. Can God

do something else with a little? I said, God, talk some.

He said, keep solvent. When you were little, I could

do something great.

But when you said that, busting from your sapa.

And sat promoting.

I had a problem with it.

The bottle said, before honor is humility.

Humble people are honorable people, and before they become honorable people,

they will be humble people. I feel like I could

preach two hourish to it. I'm telling somebody in this building,

it is not of your mc Jeremiah had told him

the same thing that the Apostle Paul told the believers

in the New Testament Church. They had all said the

same thing. You've gotten to stop boasting on yourself. You've

got to stop tooting that own what persecution was coming.

Apostle Paul desired to go to Rome, and he wouldn't

go to Rome. But when he pinned the words of

this epistle and he sent out, Nero had been empowered

to loan. And if I remember correctly, it was several

years after the recipients of this epistle had read it

and put the doctrine of this epistle in the practice

and in the plane, before Nero started persecuting the church,

Apostle Paul gave them this Book of Romans, the Epistle

to Romans, because he knew what was coming.

We talked this morning about structure in the church. That

a road cap told me out to church.

He texted me, said, Pastor, as you were instructing us,

I realized that the words structure is in instruction. And

he said, your instructions structure in the church. And I

put a lot of emphasis on structure. And that's what

we appreciate about the writings of the Apostle Paul that

gave structure has turned doctor to the infratucture incorrect. In

one place, Tad Paul told that the Church of correct

you should not be busting her. And here he is

telling the believer's involvement, you should not be busting that

he knows he is.

Just in the distributure, there is a Nero's chop loot

coming to serpents.

Just in the immediate future, there is a solar coming

to view. There's about to be persecution in the church.

They're about to cut hands off. In fact, Apostle Paul,

those let nobody else knows.

I'm going to Rome to die.

Now.

You may be living to treat her in the life

right now in Rome, but I know toosday is coming now.

I said, I none to selling my god Nero, that's.

Just on the horizon. You better the sound ns, then

let's stop busting.

Would you wake up and see that you're lost.

Would you wake up and see that the headhunters have

always come for Christians, cowards and the service they would

find no place? So Apostle Paul writes this beautiful epistol.

If you study it, brother Caleb, you will see that

he's basically stating the change is inevitable. Change is coming.

I said it this morning. Change is not coinage that

you put in your pocket. Change is something that you embrace.

That changes you.

These believers needed structure, they needed sound doctrine. Paul hadn't

even met her an end of the mailbox, by courier

comes a letter and they open it up, and Paul

wants to make it clearer. I recognize that wonderful things

are happening here at the Church of Romeme.

But I gotta tell you the same thing Jerman told Jerusalem.

I gotta tell you the same thing I Paul told

the Church of corint I gotta tell you better stuff

that braggon.

You better stuff, thinking.

You're better than everybody else, are bigger, and then everybody

else are better than everybody else.

They say, the bigger they are the heart of the fall.

You see, Paul wanted to make it clear to these

saints that they were justified by faith through Jesus Christ.

Paul instructed these people, and there was structure in that

letter or that epistle. Paul talked to.

Roman believers that the Lord Jesus miraculously changed life. As

I perused through the Book of Romans this afternoon, I

saw that he was a proponent of transformation, and a

proponent of the Liberates, and a proponent Oprah.

And come on down miracles.

In example, Imprah life changing experiences took the trucker and

sobered them instantaneously, and took.

The attic and made them a brand new man instantaneously.

You see, Apostle Paul knew firsthand about such a change

he experiences on the road to Damascus.

Paul would toss out silindocers of the modern churches of

today quickly. He would toss out this lopsided faith healing garbage.

He would toss out this lopsided charismatic movement garbage.

He would talk out, toss out all of this stuff.

He would preach divine heathen, but he wouldn't preach it lopsidedly.

He would preach, I'm telling you prosperity for the soul,

and then he would say, I wish that you would

prosper as your soul prospers.

But he made no promises.

You find that he was a proponent that the church

should expect and anticipate persons.

You should at any time it's eminent, it's about to happen.

Just assures the coming of the Lord. It's about to

happen at any time, at any moment.

The nation descends against God, the nation that turns her

back on God, the nation shap me turned into mail.

Paul taught that a Christian, after that they.

Are converted, and after they become a member of the

Bride of Christ, the part of the family of God,

that they do not cease to grow in grace and

in the knowledge of the Lord.

Say to Jesus Christ.

Paul taught that people continue to pursue God. Now this

is going to resonate with some of you. When I

married Sister Howell, just shout thirty years ago, I didn't

cease pursue in charity. Here it is thirty years later,

and we're stronger in our relationship than we've ever been.

Here it is thirty years later. She's still looking for

opportunity to please me. He is thirty years later and.

She's still looking for opportunity to improve herself.

So why is it different with the Church and Christ

Why is it that people feel like after they've been married,

after they've experienced salvation, then they just seize or terminate

pursuing God. When I'm talking her brother Thomas there at

whoever Thomas there, yesterday he said, I've taken my wife

out and to celebrate thirty five years of marriage. Isn't

that a wonderful accomplishment? And you know what I could

tell he is still in pursuit of her love. He

is still in pursuit of her affection. He's still in

pursuit of her passion, or he would not have been

desirous to take her out.

And why is it that the Christian.

Up today, the Christian and the modern churches of America,

after supposedly they're praying when they were eight years old

and get baptizing the little baptism and pulling the back

by the way peel like they don't have to pursue

rxiousness and sake the potation and holiness. In this book

of moments, I fell an apostt Park who's killing these

by beis getting out. But good lad, now you need

to present sake the portation, which is holy living.

I thought it all was taken care of. About the crawl.

I thought it was all taken care of by the

blood bath.

I thought I'll prayed when I was hating, it was

all taken care of. Okay, marry your wife. Don't come

back to see her, and seventy five years later, expect

her to know you. Here's what she's gonna say to

part from me, You worker of iniquity. I never knew you,

you us her, your abuser. Oh my God, I tell

the Holy Ghost. Here is how I'm about finished.

I just felt a release of the Holy Ghost. If

we're gonna get anything out of this here or not,

we better narrow right in here and get focused.

Paul taught that the Roman believers should expect miraculous changes

in their lives.

Let's read our text again. Where is boasted?

Then?

Where is boasted? It is excluded by what law of verts? Nay,

but by the law of faith. It's in him we

live and move and have our being. It's only by

the grace of God we are what we are. Apostle

Paul said it wasn't because I paraphrase he was not saying.

It was because of his excellent speech, his oratorical abilities,

his talents, his reputation.

He said, I came in demonstration, and he said, I

am what I am by the grace of God.

I am what I am today only because thirty years

ago love lifted me.

I am what I am today only.

Because he loved me when I was at my worst.

That's what Apostle Paul said. Where is the boasting them

for the jesse when you come to the piano?

Is that it worked?

No, it's by the law of faith. In the Book

of Ephesians, in the fourth chapter, the twenty seventh verse,

we find the words of the apostle Paul. He said,

either give place to the devil. And then in our text,

brother Philip, he makes it clear, don't you give place

to boast it. Don't you act like the Pharisees.

Do that you're better. You will remember they found fault.

With Jesus because he ate with publicans like Levi and Zachis.

They found fault with Jesus because he ate with republicans

and sinners. Now he didn't party with them, he didn't

spoke at stoke, He or joint with them. He didn't

partake of a social drink for them, he didn't put

on his bikini to go with him. He ministered to them.

And whenever you could look me in the eye and

tell me that you laid out of church on Sunday

so you could go down to the beach party where

you're coworkers. And when you could tell me you were

holy attired and took a holy spirit of a holy

God with you, and you left, and you cried, and

you called out their sin for what it was, and

you loved them enough to tell them the truth, then

I'll believe you're a Christian.

Don't boast in your sin.

The preacher when he preaches against sin, he's not shaming you.

You are ashamed of your sin. You were condemned because

of your sin. But somebody put the spotlight on your sin.

That person isn't trying to shame you or embarrass you.

Let's stand.

I pull the Holy Good to this special way tonight.

This is for somebody particularly.

So when it comes to our salvation, sister, when I

can't boast of my salvation, the Bible said in Ephesians

two eight nine for by grace or ye saved through faith,

and that not of yourselves. It is the gift of God,

not of words. Does that he manhold boast I'm preaching on.

What do you have to brag about?

To brag is a pumptuous, boastful statement, to speak with

pride about something you have done. Picture with the men

get the imagery of seventy seemingly well meaning, innocent minded

disciples of Jesus.

Approach of Jesus, and the Bible said, with great joy.

They said, Pastor, Master, Pastor Jesus, Messiah Reba n I,

we've been casting out devils in your name. Here incited

the Bible said, with joy, we've been doing something. We've

been doing something the demon possessed or delivered because we

have been doing something. And they said, even the devils

are something under year name. They should have realized there's

power in the name of Jesus.

It wasn't in their name. It wasn't in their nights.

He wasn't in the number seventy.

Who was in the name.

It wasn't in the number. It was in the knave.

Now for the Holy gs, we got seventy disciples in

the night thank God for the number. But it's not

in the number. But this said a name. I'm post

because of him.

I'm saved because of him, I'm delivered because of him.

How no longer back because of him. If you want

to talk to lesa tonight, he would cart the multitudes

of the masses and say, it's because.

Of that man.

He loved me at my words, Brother Jeremiah, Oh you know,

is dad the hoes preacher?

Brother feeling there may be a slot blind on my life.

If I've ever failed you one time, it was probably

just that one time.

God shows you my humanity so that you can't worship me,

you worship fail. That's what God did to John the Badness.

John the Badness said, why for sue me? Are you

the one that came? You know he came?

John?

You had the holy ghost in your mother's wound. You

were ordering heavenly words. You were speaking of heavenly language

six months conceived, speaking.

Of heavenly language the name of Jesus.

There's something about today, But Jesus allows him to go

into a prison house.

John to John, John, what's wrong with John? I don't

even know anymore? Wasn't it fab.

Apostle Paul said, less when I preached the authors have

found myself a casta.

The post proposed said, take not your grist from man,

take not your goodness from may. Listen to the bars,

and the prison asked John, saying, has it wrong the

mice here is he?

They couldn't sing the song with soul anymore? And God

saw to it that they could sing the song of David.

David fell.

Because there's watch of missing brother Beauffred. He loved you enough.

They haven't. Preacher preached last Sunday morning, very words, the

very words.

And told to be in private, because he loved Coy

beauft It doesn't matter what you've done, It doesn't matter

how far have you called him.

He loved you, let your worst, and you want your

mother not he loves you anymore.

And he picked you up when you're and your God

he picked you up when he was stewing in iniquity.

Apostle Paul said, there was some homosexuals, There was some intimident.

There are some porticatus, the us, the nos, but the lost,

the lost, all the lot of Jesus, all a lot.

Of Jesus, and Jesus told in disciples, He said, don't

rejoice in that power of my nighbor.

Don't rejoice only to the power of my name.

And please don't rejoice in the power of your name

and earth. But one thing you can't rejoice in that

is that your name's written in heaven. Rejoice in this

fact that your name is written in heaven. Going on down,

I don't have my Bible.

And that's in front of me. But going on down

I saw today have my Bible. The next verse, Jesus said, Father,

I rejoice, And.

Everybody said, I'm glad that you reveal it to the simple.

I'm glad you reveal it to the weak.

I'm glad you're reveal it to those of ill reputation.

I'm glad you picked up Mary because if you.

Pick up Mary Magdalene, you know the one.

Maybe wonder if seventy testing them all, she's not a

less app better because he's never forgetting her match.

The Holy ghosts here in this place, this power hid

the name. How Jesus.

Paul said, stop boasting and your said and start praising

the Lord.

Rejoice in this that your name is written in heaven.

Our salvation is an amazing work of the Lord Jesus.

Is it not? Is it not?

I have several pages of notes, but I feel a

release yet again of the Holy Ghost. To call for

an alter.

As tears are streaming down faces, and as our hearts

are breaking, and as our heart is melting, luck Ice

just slide into the altar and just telling God. I

didn't come with a complaint box full of complaints.

I didn't even come.

With a prayer request box full of prayer request I

came to that just to say thank you for saving.

Me when I didn't even know I was lost. Thank

you for coming to look for me.

Thank you for suing my soul.

Think it's a lot of my name on the roads.

Thank you just saving my slings. Thank you for safety

for me, Thank you for filling me where the Holy

Ghost a.

Footh Mom and dad, brother and sister, and you strive

to be perfect in Jesus.

You strive to be holy. You're doing a great job, sister,

how and I have strived to perfect holdiness.

We are tried to grow with grace and in the

knowledge of the won't say for Jesus Christ.

We tried to remain in his lockness. And our children

may say there's a lot here.

There's a lot there. Every time that happens. Sister Howard

and said.

Let me go to lacking and let me pray. No,

it ain't great sin, No it ain't grow sin.

But there's somebody in this building. You look at others

and say, look at this, look at that.

What I want you to do is look at yourself.

Let's take their bob with use it as a means.

You say, Jesus, I see myself. I share my shot

through the first time tonight, I've seen how the we being.

I'll be on the looking about the ship.

I'm real study brag because I'm saying I told people

mocking body.

I tell people your ocasion. I'll talk you for your

out nows, not.

You.

That's what I put this ship. Thank you, Jesus accurs

to me. The meal see to have it's do more

of a time win, Jesus.

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Shoot did fir Jesus bather to side.

It's the noise who drugged your shirt of cow for

you know who tells a ship to the frost? You

know who came to shift at the you matter to

Oh Jesus is still you know who terms fist spirit Jesus.

Still you know who rolls forth and stood ancient Christ.

Jesus, still where were supposed to them? Hop posting the lords?

I feel like brackington Jesus. You know, she say that's

how it's hurts get.

To you what these dies?

You give me.

The upstruction and gave me. I know Sir could not say,

come on and grace burst. We know we're away. I

know he desiders the grades of this people, so leads.

Thakurs you all cheese, put it bright on your Jesus,

make your most of the Lord tonight comfortable sheep South.

You didn't have to knowledge it to the Lord of

us in the Lord of for saying that it's about

the lode. But since the hospital skill the street, Jesus

is sad of Jesus. She didn't go out of the

play with Schos turned out, take the bone and say hello,

this race as nurse.

To found me to be the man.

I know he desires the breeds out people, So let

it's take hearts re jees.

When I think of what I could have been, it's

there's a joy and no one.

Can't say go away to.

Me.

I can see all day and Retroye song bay head

to let us speak quiet raising his sail, will can

soon alone A man go on bink still less hey turns.

Yeah, I get on sheeese and stop me the first toy.

About me back from the edge of shining.

I don't deserve to take the bone to tell.

What he start.

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of his people, So.

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from the bitch up stretching.

It gave me a life. And I don't just sirs

take the mod it says disgrace.

How his mercy found me in iron away.

I know he desighers step race out his people, So

let's taste turns dragging on jeese.

So somebody go ahead and tell if you love people,

who's a lovable in yours? That the dream to have

excuse to save from years of the time me esesus

hell holds choice child towice.

See, now we gathered here to silence the noise of

the other.

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gave me that I don't desert. Take the bolim to

tell his race. How is mercy me? When I don't,

I'll be people. Let's take for dragging a cheese. So

let's stay turns for dragging on cheese, so I'll be

the first to tell what He even off.

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a lot rustles the question.

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have been if say there's a joy? No one kids

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