Skipping Out Scoundrels - Bro Jeremy Howell 7-7-2024

Turned to me to Saint Matthew's Gospel Man, I direct her attention to the

twenty first chapter and versus number twelve three fourteen. It is so good to

see Sister pan Vatulia here tonight. She's just a regular, but I want

to acknowledge her because I love her so much. I've been wondering where she

was high now and that I was gonna go here our time and bring her

back. But I'm glad she's here. I'm glad all of y'all are here.

I guess everybody wants to be named. Okay, let me start.

It's gonna take me a while. I would like to name everybody, but

I'm so glad she's here. I'm glad you're here. And I'm glad with

this beautiful chandelier base that these brothers have fixed for us, because it was

not a service that I was in, not in time that I ever stood

in this poolpit that I was upset. I was always upset about that shandelier

being three eighths of an offset to the wind. But now it's that center.

They finally scratched that itch. Finally got that off my mind, So

maybe I can be a better preacher, maybe I can preach without distraction.

Also, this morning, like this past Wednesday night, while I was preaching,

I was searching for a handkerchief. Did y'all notice that? Probably didn't.

I was searching for a handkerchief. So this afternoon I told Sister Howell,

I said, if you don't mind, I know you always have them

stacked in there up to about ninety ten inches deep. I said, just

slip one in there. I know they refurbished the pool pit. It looks

great, but I need a snot rack, let's spit rack, whatever you

want to call it. Let's call it. Let's speak thingtily shall with a

hand kish chef. Okay, stop rat right, So I needed a spit

preson. So I've got it. I've got it. Everybody say, praise

the Lord. I've got it up here. And also if somebody has slipped

a bottle of water up here, I'm telling you, I thank God for

everything everybody's doing. You are just watching out for me. I need it.

I need you to watch out over me, okay. Brother Nathaniel's Second

Kings, chapter number two, versus number twenty three and twenty four. Brother

and Brother Jesse one Samuel chapter number two and verse number twenty nine. These

guys have been holding microphones and reading the codtext for years. Apparently preaching is

quite contagious. Anybody's aspiring to be a preacher, just raise your hand,

will slide a microphone in your hand and let you read cotext for the next

five years. Anybody preaching is contagious. I'm telling you. After brother Jesse

finished preaching a little while ago, it brought the preacher out of me.

I'm telling you, I feel like preacher. How many of you preachers feel

like preaching after that? Isn't that right? Oh? Yes, amen?

Brother Nathaniel's Second Kings chapter number two, versus number twenty three and twenty four.

Y On, listen carefully to this account. And he went up from

thence under Bethel. And as he was going up by the way, there

came forth little children out of the city and mocked him, and said on

to him, go up, thou loldhead, go up, thou vondhead.

And he turned back and looked on them and cursed them in the name of

the Lord. And there came forth two she bears out of the woods,

and tear forty and two children of them praise the Lord. I would line

to dedicate tonight's sermon the brother Richard Jacob. After this morning's message and ultr

service, I stepped off the platform and shook his hand, and he mentioned

this particular instance here to me, and immediately I felt a quickening of the

spirit of God in my soul. And him and I went up to raid

maybe five or six miles to cactus bags and had its tacos and breathos and

fatas together, and after about thirty five or forty minutes of eating, I

said, listen, brother, I've never done this to you, but I've

got to go. I've got something burning in my soul, burning a whole

three me. So it's been burning in my heart like fire ever since he

spoke of this particular biblical account reference to it, and he talked about how

these children must not have been raised properly. He said, what kind of

child would disrespect the Man of God at that level and all the awful consequence,

And that's been eaten on me. So I want to dedicate this to

brother Richard Jacob and give honored where honor is being. Brother Jesse, First

Samuel, chapter number two, Verse number twenty nine Wherefore, kiki at my

sacrifice and at mine offering, which I have commanded in my habitation, and

honor is thy sons, to make yourselves fat with the chiefs of all the

offerings of Israel, my people. That is speaking of Eli, the priest,

the high priest, the highly anointed man of God, who did not

properly discipline his children, specifically under priest or under shepherds, under preachers under

him named hop Nai and Finnianos. And God said, you honor them more

than you honor me. Those children were disrespect in the house of God,

disrespecting the people of God. It was ridiculous. And so let's see how

the Holy Goost would lead us here tonight. I want to preach a message

at the Holy Ghost titled as soon as Brother Richard Jacob gave me that text

earlier skipping out Scoundrels. Skipping out Scoundrels Matthew Champion number two one, reading

verses twelve through fourteen, the Bible says, and Jesus went into the Temple

of God and cast out all them that sold and bought in the temple,

and overthrew the tables of the money changers and the seats of them that sold

doves, and said unto them, it is written, my house shall be

called the house of prayer, but you have made it a den of thieves.

And the blind and the lame came to him in the temple, and

he healed them. May we pray, Heavenly Father, we thank you for

the opportunity to be in the house of the Lord. I thank you,

Lord, for these wonderful people of God that have gathered together tonight, some

seventy in number. They tell me. I pray that you would anoint them.

Let them hear what the Spirit of God says unto the church tonight through

your word. I pray, Lord, that you would anoint this servants that

a guard at my mouth, and help me to say the things that you

would have me to say, nothing more than less. I pray helpless people

to hear and to heed, And may these words go below the shoulders that

ob saturate the soul and the spirit. We'll give you the praise the honor

of glory. Maybe depart this place joyfully and not sorryfully in Jesus' name,

And the church says amen. As you're being seated, Say hey, neighbor,

have you ever skipped out on someone. Amen. Our text is found

in a New Testament book of the Holy Bible. The title this book bears

the name of its author. The Book of Matthew is the first book of

the New Testament and the first Gospel of four I have read the Book of

Matthew numerous times myself, and sometimes I feel like skipping old the genealogy part.

Matthew did a great job tracing the genealogy of Jesus Christ. In Matthew's

Gospel we find the record of the birth and the record of the life of

Jesus Christ. I appreciate, brother Matthew. I'm looking forward to getting to

heaven one day and meeting the likes of these authors of the Word of God,

because I know these were instruments in the hands of God. There is

no doubt that these men spoke and wrote as the oracles of God. I

appreciate their prophetic and preaching ministries. How many of you are very thankful for

their written ministries. Oh, I'm thankful for this biblical record of the events

that took place in our Savior's life. It has been an encouragement to me

to read through the Gospel and to read of the numerous miracles that Jesus performed

while he was alive upon this earth. His thirty three and a half years

on this earth certainly had a significant impact on all of those that were living

during that time, and we know that he had a very positive impact on

Matthew. Most of you that are familiar with tax collecting the process of that,

you know that if you sign up for that job task and that becomes

your responsibility of collecting taxes from your fellow citizens of whatever country that you belonged

to, sometimes that will make you very unpopular. And so a very unpopular

man collided with a wildly popular man named Jesus Christ. So by appointment,

this unpopular Jewish man that was working for of the Roman government meant a wildly

popular man named Jesus. There was a lot of people going to see Jesus

and following Jesus because of the wonderful things that he did, but not too

many people were excited about looking upon Matthew. Not too many people would have

been excited about entering that Roman tax collector's office, knocking on the door,

sitting at the receipt of custom and turning loose some coinage and some paper bills.

How many of you know they didn't have paper bills in that day and

hour. But the church clerk here in this building tonight, he has told

me before that he can tell who has a problem turning loose of their paper

bills. The coinage does not tell the story, but the paper bills does,

because he can tell that you've had it clinched in that fist up until

the moment she placed it into the offered bag and didn't like God had deprived

all five fingers off of that one dollar meal. You've been giver. And

I thought about other people who fold their money, and then there's some that

want to deposit their money into the offertory bag. Brother Jesse's so crisp and

so clean. I'm sure Matthew saw many people hand him money in different manners,

Brother stared. I would believe that he would say, I saw people

throw it at me. How many have you heard about the man that owed

his wife a large sum of money. He had done something that he shouldn't

have done. He had got into a relationship and brought forth a child out

of wedlock, and he owed a lot of back child support. Well,

the judge that presided over that case ruled that he must her back for a

certain number of years of funds must have been given to her. And he

filled up the back of his pickup truck with pennies and unloaded them in her

front yard. And there was nothing at all that the legal system of the

justice system could do about that, because he in fact paid the money that

was due to his mama's baby, baby Mama. Right. So I want

you to know here tonight that I'm sure that Matthew was a rude man.

I'm confident that he had dealt with rude people. But there was something about

this man that when he collided with the Messiah, he recognized that not only

does this man speak differently than everyone else, but he radiates a power.

There is an authority about this man that I respected. I appreciate that he

abandoned his occupation and he began to go with Jesus as soon as Jesus commissioned

him to go. Right then and there, he got out of that high

backed chair, walked out of that office. I'm sure as co workers were

asking the question, where are you coding? And so it's true the early

on in his life, when he took this tax collecting job as a tax

collector, that he had skipped out on his Jewish brothers and sisters, and

they saw him as a betrayer or as a trader. He had skipped out

on him and was working for the Roman government. But now we find this

man, Matthew, skipping out on his employer. How many of you have

ever missed work? Have you ever been falsely accused of skipping out or ducking

or avoiding to go to work when you should have been there. I know

of a brother in this church that was recently thoughts accused of that by somebody

that worked with him, because that person was jealous of him and the good

job that he had been doing for the employer. Well, the truth was

told of itchally and their superior said, no, that brother that attends that

methyl hole in his church actually called me hours ahead and told me that he

would be there. He did not skip out. I know a lot of

people years ago used to skip out on school. How many of you would

admit with me that you skipped class. I'm telling you there's about a dozen

of us that have skipped class in our lifetime. Some of you were embarrassed

about that, and some of you are not at all embarrassed. I remember

my senior year in high school, I only had one class that I needed

to be there for, and me and a young man named Calvin, every

morning we would power up that elk Comino that he had. We would walk

right past the principal and the assistant principal and the teachers, and we would

go out there, get in that elk Comino and literally ride across the highway

State Road sixty and sit down at a restaurant and eat breakfast. I'm telling

you we did that a lot. We had a good time, We ate

a good breakfast, and then we would take the el Camino right back to

the parking lot, brazingly, walk past everybody and go to those little classes

that were really did not to be participating in. Now, I'm telling you

there's a lot of people skipping out of church. There's a lot of people

skipping out of things that really do matter. Don't let me hear let grandma

right now. You see, this man has skipped out on his people and

had betrayed them. But when Matthew was approached by the Messiah Jesus Christ,

you know the rest of the story, he ended up putting pim de parchment

and given us this first gospel that we're preaching out of tonight. You see,

when this man saw a golden and a great opportunity, he embraced it

and refused to let it go. He skipped out on a lot of things

that he had enjoyed, tired of this encounter, that he might fulfill the

will of God. I wonder what was said in the tax collector's office the

next day. I wonder what the accusations were. We have been abandoned by

Matthew or the Levi. He skipped out on us. How many of you

know what the term skip out means is when someone chooses to skip out,

they leave a place or a person in a secret and improper way, you

know, like a pastor and Calvin leaving the mobarry hostile in a secret and

improper way. And sometimes it is for us to avoid doing something that we

know we should do again. Sometimes a person skips out or something because they

want to avoid doing what they should do. I don't want to get ahead

of myself right here. But the inspiration of tonight's message was by the Jacob's

words to me. Why did their parents not teach them their children any matter

than to feel comfortable disrespecting and dishonoring the man of God. Now I'm titled

this message because of the holiness whispered it in my heart as such a skipping

out scoundrels. A scoundrel is a dishonorable person. I believe you would agree

with me that the parents of their children would have been this honorable, So

we'll call them scoundrels or scouty wives. I believe he would agree with me

that Eli, the father of Hofdawn Penny Hass, had to have been a

scoundrel because he put off things that he knew he needed to do. The

Bible said he that know what to do good and do it did not to

him in his sin. I seen fathers before skip out here on their sons

that were working on a house for their ride. Now, I'm telling you,

when my sons had bought a house, I was there by their side.

I was not looking for an opportunity to avoid helping my children prepare for

their brides. Now, like two are three in this building tonight, I

would be willing to work all that road and do whatever it took in order

to get the job done. Now, you see, I would be just

as tired as anybody else. But dude, in Paul, I'm telling you

it is necessary for us to do some of the things that we do not

want to do. The truth is, we don't always like her taking the

disciplinary role. Now we don't always enjoy her for dissipating in disciplinary action.

I know that this is more of a pastoral message tonight, but I pray

that it will be a blessing to you in the days of he head.

I remember a out till twenty something years ago. Our pastor had declared that

it was time to have a workday and prepare the church so that it could

be repurposed and remodeled. I noticed and men that did not normally work on

Saturday has somehow told their boss that they needed to work the weekends. And

those that I taught would have shown up to help us up. They skipped

out, and that I noticed. After the workdays were over, I saw

their boats then pulled behind it that picked up trucks on Saturday. I realized

they were avoiding do and what they should do. But just seeing again it

is to avoid doing something that that person should do. Listen, man,

you're the one that should run the barbecue grill, not your wife. You're

the one that should take care of the yard, not your wife. And

the same thing goes for some of the women nowadays. They expect somebody else

to do what God has a sign for them to do within their prol Now

to my sister, how will you enjoy yard work? And I enjoy sharing

her the riding bower with her, and I enjoy sharing the yard worker with

her, but I do not enjoy sharing her her household choice with her.

So don't take what I'm saying out of context here tonight. But I want

you to know. When I was fifteen, sixteen and seventeen years of age,

my father looked at me and he said, it's time for you and

I and your uncle to build a house. I said, how long will

it take? He said, it'll take us as long as it will.

Will have to work every holiday, will have to work ever Saturday, have

to work at school, will have to work at every evening. Sometimes not

always, said very seldom. With my brothers, load up in that truck

and go with us to the construction side. After about thirty minutes to an

hour, I would hear them down there to Baco the property for playing in

the south prom the south branches of the Alipie. I could hear them,

I say, let go of the rope of that roach swing. I could

hear them bleeply see. I could hear them shout of jubile, shouts of

joy. I could just tell they were having a good time while work was

being done. They were avoiding. You would Dad, he won't them anew

when I could kill, because they probably would not have put all of their

mind and hard into it. My dad ay out of just to know long

rather than try to baby sit them and try to push them against their wheel,

my dad would say, would go against this nature. He would allow

them to go home, to skip out. Very few times do I ever

remember him hollering down there and saying, you boys, come back and to

cop a screw God, or pick up a hammer and help us. Listen.

You can shirk up your responsibility if you want to. The United States

of America's philitia and our government has a statement. It's like this, so

I sent without leaving. It means that a person has went to ain't wall.

I know a lot of preachers and pastors and church people that proceed that

we're in a conflict and we're not wrestling against lesson blood, and the devil

is taking victims and casualties on a daily basis. And by the toddler,

those that used to stand behind the sacred death and preach the treat and still

there. But there's no longer in the hide What I was saying a little

while ago, not that in simp because their heart is not in it.

My pastor said, becauser. The heart is not in a We're not going

to require them to participate. I don't want it to be said in Hiven

that there's a child of God. Anyone that professes to be God's child,

that's called a wall. And that's accent for that. Believe God did not

give you permission. Yes, you have the choice to leave an abandon the

family of God and the Kingdom of God, and to abandon God himself.

But God did not ask you to skip out. God did not com missing

anybody to ban a certain disappear with a hide out. How many of you

know somebody that does that. They worked harder at not working. They're watching

everybody else from behind the trees at the back of the property, and it's

like they're counting down the hours when everybody will be done working. I remember

sometimes some of those that would shirt their needle and shirt their responsibility would show

up when it was time to clean up. They were ready to get out

of there. They didn't want to be there in the first place. And

sometimes when we perceive that they're doing that, we'll go ahead and work there.

Oh night, if we have to, we'll go ahead and tell them,

don't put up my soul, don't put up my drivel. Yes you're

wanting to clean up and put up, but I'm telling you, I'm not

voting to steal out on my assignment to listen. So you falling that child

into this world and you had a bitch pleasure when you play, and you

matter be prepared to pray and to pay. Oh my god, I'm telling

somebody left here an God's catch you noting. He's handing it to be a

night and he wants me to make a chip there for everybody. Just see

that's her playing a game. But this is not play round. That's a

bilanty what I'm talking, and that's walk and that's walcome and let's do something

for God. We talk about Jesus being a heavy load Sarah and Jesus being

a heavy burden bearer. But what about fulfilling the law that is to bear

one another's burdens and so fulfill the law of Christ. If this shoe pits

tonight, no matter how big I make the mode or how small I make

it sitting around, I started a title this skipping out sissies, but I

wanted to be politically corrected, and I also wanted to obey the Holy ghost.

What about shirk and sissies or shirkings, cattiwags or circ and scoundrels.

Somebody said a child of God should not call anybody names. Let me talk

to my big brother about that. Right now? What's that garden you call

pilots? Some of them foxes? Okay, I'm telling you, Jesus called

it like it was. And that's the problem with a lot of ministers and

their ministries today that pretend like they don't see anything, just sallan until they

get to the place they do not see anything. You can ask them over

a period of five years, did you see it? Did you feel it?

Did you know something was wrong? And you say yes, but I

ain't ready to deal with it yet. Just like that, one preacher that

had a man in his church to grab another holiness young man by the throat

and pushed him up. It gets the wall and choked that young man that

would not fight back, and choked it till he was blue until he was

purple. In a prominent church in the state of Tennessee among the holiness people,

and that pastor was approached by another pastor, and the pastor that was

a busying minister, he said, let's talk to that member of your church

that aren't rudely, and let's try to deal with this problem that you've been

avoided. No names are called. But as I said, had to shoot

that stidy line. Well, but that preacher, he said, I can't

do it. I can't do it. My nerves just from hold up.

I can't address the situation. I can't verbally chastise a review that remember my

church for attempting to choke out another man's member. Whatever our visitors, that

man was shirky. He is respectability No or come on now, how did

him you feel like card that gave him a permission slipper to leave out of

the actual officer of a pastor. I can't got a pastor or church.

There are some things that you have to do. The apostle Paul said that

you ought to rebuke her. He yes, we're to be long suffering.

Yes we're to be merciful. Yes we're gonna be gentle, and we're gonna

be kind. But we're also to have a tunision. Now we're sinning,

we're supposed to metical hand on. We're supposed to take the woofer by the

challenge and destroy that rough that is in sheep bothing through the word of God.

I want you to look at our go in text here tonight again Matthew

twenty one and twelve, and the Bible says, and Jesus went into the

Temple of God and cast out all of them that sold had brought in the

temple, and overthrew the tables of the money changers and the seats of them.

The sundown Sir, No, the camero Jesus could abduct my son.

Many preachers today would do if they have to handle their sir. Jesus could

walk her right on by the temple. And if you'll know this, something

stood out to me today. It says her it was the temple of God.

Now I preaching my text down, Jesus whose assa it was, and

Jesus know by how people are the conduct them self and in behavior in the

house of God that's so overweight. Anyone, yes, sir, if your

house we could say we want handle it. I ain't got the letters to

be over there in God's house. Hat's put up and shut. Pastors,

if you ain't pastoring property and you aren't preaching property, you're nothing but an

eli. And I'm going to prove that scripturely. There's nothing that I preach

that cannot be backed up by scripture. In fact, for most of you,

you know only last Sunday that I tell a story about a rescue via

or via helicopter. Most of the time I go from one example in the

Bible to another. It's not that I couldn't pull out the stories that people

would love to hear. It's not that I could not tickle the ears or

pull on the emotions. Most preachers go to the pool pit with a text.

They go to the poopit with a story or an illustration that they got

out of a sermon illustration book, and they make people feel good and they

close out when it's high. But somebody likes somebody like Sister Neeley, somebody

like Sister Howell, somebody like sister Heel, somebody like sister Walker, and

some of these other folks. They're gonna recognize that route off and that is

a sermon that they took out of a textbook. They're gonna know rite offer.

I remember her young converb of Iois, went took with us to a

camp meeting and she heard some preacher's preacher. She was not being critical,

but she came back to the home church and she said, Pastor, I'm

not wanting to hurt your feelings, nor am I wanting to hurt the feelings

of the preachers up there. She said, but I'm glad to be whole,

and I'm glad to be being a modestor and exhorted to and preached tata.

And I'm glad to hear somebody preaching from the heart and preaching from the

Bible and not preaching from sermon books. And I think about this every day

of my life. As she dug her femails in on one another, and

then sheepishly looked at this sister Hall and now she said, I know I've

only been seen just for a few months, but I can tell all the

difference in the preaching her where they're not a man count retirer r incount from

some old line resource who contne this did not not red from any the long

line just came from the deeper well in this church that made reference to something.

How can young people give to the place where they donot respect the elder

people? I'll tell you why left my rocks and cancer checking their respectability.

How can your people, the mess of the church, get to the place

where they're comfortable they're sitting in the house of Hey. I'll tell you how

what aposta is to a place, the preacher, the pread, the prince

to ma. Tell me what does that dog. If I were a motivational

speaker, I'd listen to somebody else. If I was looking for a positive

message that would change my life, I'd read behind somebody else. But when

it comes to my soul, and it comes to church, and it comes

to my family, and when it comes to eternity, brothers and sisters,

ain't got no time for any extracurriculum, material or resources. I want you

to look at that golden text again. Brother's just saying how let's demonstrate Brother

Jesse is the door to your office and locked, if you will unlock it

real quick, Brother Samuel, I want you to slow me walk around the

church and then come back around, and then come down the center all and

make your way to brother Jesse's door. Now, if you'll get with me

the imagery and the visual of this gee, Jesus is the son of God.

The temple itself is a type of Christ. The instrumentation inside of the

temple are tops of Christ. And Mesiah that Matthew fell in love with and

did not skip out on, is traveling with Jesus. The other disciples at

times are traveling with Jesus. But one day, Jesus here's some rucus,

and Jesus here's some commotion. Now I'm not preaching something that's not in the

Bible. If you look, the Bible said, and Jesus went into the

temple of God, what was the temple of God is about to become?

Not the temple of God. God had left the place before, and in

your God had been written over the door. God himself come in, and

there's nobody worshiping him. This business as useful. They don't want to hear

him reading the scripture. They don't want to hear him tell the story of

creation. They don't want to hear him. By God, I feel the

holy Ghostyle who went into the temple, I'm telling you, And when he

went into the temple, come back out fell the Samuel. When it came

in enough, he saw something that disappointed him. He looked and he saw

people in there conductive business, sayings that they should not have been doing.

I'm telling you, it have been easy to hit the backpast button. It

had been easy to not preach that sermon. It had been easy not to

show up that day. It had been easy to skip out on that divine

appointment. Or y'all do what I'm saying. He could have avoided the confortation.

He could have abandoned the contract. He could have abord the picts happen

in that situation. And some of you only years have been met by time

to reput them and to resist the happen and to tell people that is not

about time. I want your way to come, you talent of your sacre.

You can walk into the temple left the time. Everybody overturned the table

like communing changes been the props here and the seat I turn and do kill

myself. Gres the stutt be there. What tell you today? Cras are

doing what God can't do. Today? Great and yet stance agent skipping our

scoundrels. Look, tell myself. They could say whatever they want to say

about the Son of God, but it was decent and it was in order.

Such discipline and review done with love. Disciplinary action from an order to

a compromising order is in order. I'm a feeling the Holy ghost in this

place. Jesus could have bypassed the temple of God, but he just couldn't.

And if they tried to set them tables up again, what stood out

to me today was huh and seats and seats. The tables are the money

changers, and the seats of them the soul doves. Now it's the seat

of them, the soul doves that means to somebody in them seats. I'm

telling you that changes the scenario altogether, doesn't a sister be are It ain't

just empty seats. It's going to be people, a mostly affected and whose

little cretens are going to be hurt. Because when Jesus comes in, he

has to throw the man out of the soup. So far he can throw

over the soup, and I'm telling you, and so can the trail they

want, said sheep cold and thoughts to Paul, toldles how they do?

What does the house my house? And I was sad the seal of the

house eat me up? What they want to preach her? To hide out?

They wanted to hide out how the eco boid. They wanted to hide

out behind the pitcher, the horses and the patient and n him a hide

out, skimp out, skip out, ducky. Now listen, I can

understand someone skipping out hold a blind day, but this was no blind date.

His son of God walked in there, got their power appointment, and

he knew exactly that he was toomid and yes, sir, yes sir,

step out character. Jesus was reacting to what he saw. He was reacting

to what he saw. And one saying you're only preaching that because he saw

me do it. He wal mother, yes sir, he is no you

say you des o pray good temper. God God ain't got the preachers now

backed up in a point and then skip out and they get to an opportunity

to preach something and bypass it. I've thought before, sister, wouldn't Okay,

big boy, come on, you've been preaching good he tax some other

day and I'll holler out nail it and they'll skirt right around her and that

lock. There nothing going on, I'm telling you. By the time Jesus

was born, that little baby couldn't grow up faster than liough. I'm sure

of One time, baby Mary said, did you hear that that John the

Badgers? How the Holy goes? Don't you take that baby? Jesus had

the Holy good? Mary said, what's that? Huh? I'm telling you

right now, I'm about the age of twelve. It was all he could

take, he told Mary when she found him out to a three days sirch

of rescue. He said, wish you not that I should be about my

father's business. At the age of twelve he was a business preaching. That

tells me. All the way up to the age of twelve he'd done preaching.

And then for eighteen years he goes to the subject to dead Mom that

I'm served dad. Mom got the brother of the preaching, little mister motormouth

Passiah over there. You think it's rough living with a preacher, living with

a pastor, live with a messiah? God, My God, sweet Lamb

of God that knows everything, let us dand he knows every move as Mama's

gonna make the butter. Ain't in there. I'm a feeling the preacher in

there. The cow's out, swig, Lamb of God. I'm telling you.

The Bible said that Jesus he dealt with that situation. Everybody could see

what was going on on the inside of God's temple, and somebody was wondering,

Who's going to do something about it. Let me ask you a question,

what's going on in your temple? Now you got the true body.

It's the temple of the Holy girls. Let me ask the preacher missionary,

miss, what's going on in your church on This ain't nothing new. This

is an old thing being shaking their responsibility. Listen, remember what was doing

on there in the last Temple in the days of Eli, while on his

watch, his sons hawked out and pene hawser did not really know the Lord.

They did not respect God or the man of God. Eli under his

sons more than God. Eli honored his sons more than God. And the

Bible said, when Eli finally tried to remove them, because his family has

become the talk of the town that they just disregarded him, brother Jacob,

because they waited too long. When they finally heard that speak of he didn't

take them seriously. That's why I'm gonna keep speaking of that. I'm gonna

keep preaching while your babies are small. Because I walked him up to take

this on preaching man they called Papa. That wasn't in my heart what I

thought. Eli, You're supposed to be the hot priest, the holly annoying

man of God, and your own sons aren't even taking church serious. It's

bad. It's bad when you go to certain meetings, and it's the trying

them that even Sister House tempted the trim or figuernails. It's bad. We

all said, we all said, we know what's going on. You know

what, Sister wo The Bible said that these men hawked down Finney House were

fornicating with the women that helped at the temple, and everybody that was coming

in going knew what was happening. And they were telling the person that did

the offering and took the meat and bolted, they were telling them, give

us the best part of that leg, give us the best part of the

meat, and they were growing fat on it. They were benefiting themselves on

the offerings of the people of God. And Brother Gable, I'm sure the

spell of spoke coming from their polluted offerings must have made God recourage and take

That's why Jesus acted the way he did so many years later. And I'll

get what I'm saying. They had been building up. They had been building

up, and since Jesus went back, don't you think it's still building up.

Jesus sees the things that are going on. Before his first appearance,

he had saw these things go on, and he had found them repulsive.

How many of you know that's a real stitcher in the nostrils of God when

you live one way on Sunday, one way on Wednesday, and they're different

than any other day of the week. What's going on in your temple,

what's going on in your mouth, what's going on in your line, what's

going on in your church? Let's remember what was going on in the days

of Elisha, little children mocking a seat and second King's checking number two verses

number twenty three and twenty four. The Bible said, and he went up

from fix unto Bethel, and as he was going up by the way.

There the little children came forward out of the city and then knocked him and

said to him, go up that baldhead. And he turned back, and

he looked on your brother, Sam, you would do demonstrate that looking over

here at these group of near walking that way. Turned back and he looked

at them. It does not stop there, the Bible said. And he

cursed them. It does not mean he cussed them out. He cursed the

appointed them forcefully. He did not shirk his responsibility. He dealt with a

situation and he refuked it. I want you to know. The parents are

not now to tell me, but the mid time had a tougher kid hit

him up, and he delt with it. I'm tell him you, if

you don't deal with the God will be aware that the post poss lets her

up, willing the pain. The pair of lives like your own babies.

The Bible said them two she bears. Apparently in two female bears was the

thought they the ones that killed her babies. Because a bear robbed of his

whelps pretty furious, and the anger of the bear will be worse than the

anger of the Messiah. The anger of the bear will be more severe than

the anger of the parents and the anger of the pastor. The Bible said,

to have anger and sin not. We are not to get so mad

that we booze control of our tongue. The Tangle taught the youth group today.

Death and life are in the power of the tongue. And the Bible

said, those two sheep bears tore forty and two children up. You'll tear

them up now. The devil won't tear them up later. Friendship, you'll

disappeared now, the devil won't tear them up later. You see, Elisa

did not skip out, they said. He turned back and looked on them.

Sister woot and I believe he was perceiving that it wasn't one or two,

because God would have had mercy. What God showed me today and my

prayer calls that was it was unanimous all forty two since to heal. This

was not just one unruly child that closed everybody else to get in trouble.

This was a teenage bob. And for any of us that have been on

a mission field, my brother Nathaniel, Sister Catherine, and brother Caleb,

we know that the teenage bobs are the worst. And so what you have

here is not a solitary victim that caused other people. Will be honest,

what you have here is a militant mob taking on a solitary prophet. And

I've been telling you all here lately that God is with us, and God

was with Elysha. I feel like they intended to harm him, and the

Bible said he cursed them in the name of the Lord. This was not

him throwing cuss words at them, young people, because Christians and believers in

God they do not cuss. And can I say I said this years ago,

by God's last name, it's not the same as something that stops the

pole on the river. I'm gonna say again, by God's my name,

it's not the same as the name of something that stuffs the poe. I'm

a love that's not my golf last name. When God save me, he

took the cusser out. There ain't no holy Gospel Christian cussing ever. I

said it. Wednesday night, I got knocked down forcefully by my best friend

for refusing to compromise. He compromised. He knocked me down forcefully, And

when I used to would have cussed him out, picked up an angle iron

and try to knock his head off. I humbling him sheepishly and meekly said

why did you do that? Brother? And he said, you're a change

man. What we got to do is stop shirking our responsibility to feel an

altar and to commit again, and to start pressing, and to start in

humility. And said, God, I'm not the man I need to me,

but I mean the pray through. I mean it this sane. I

don't be born again. I need the real, genuine experience, the print

of the Higher that's talking about. I'm sorry I had to hit cussin for

a minute too. Elisa addressed the attitude of these wicked children are teenagers.

The parents had skipped out on teaching their children how to respect their parents.

Well, my parents didn't teach me how to be a man, or my

parents didn't teach me. Well, that's all the more reason why you want

to buy Homer's Hindsight Home Depot. Managers, I'm preaching right here and do

something because we can't repeat the process of stupidity and neiglace drance is not an

excuse in this age. Are Google, Oh, come on, my preachers

and us not preaching? Or should we go to the house. I'm telling

you you can shirt the responsibility if you want to, just like a lot

of pastors and preachers shirt their responsibility. These parents had skill doubt on teaching

those children how to respect the parents and other people. I remember a friend

of my name, Jeremy Chonton. He was living with uncontrollable anger because his

father skiffed out on him and his mother and his five siblings. He was

left to raise her a family. For one thing to be said about that

thirteen year old boy, he became the man of the household. In my

fifteen years of angel look out that daddy. He was working for his family.

I can'tn't move here to life. There's no reason. What's all right?

Happy for you to skip out. My granddaddy m and Alvin daf from

Point of Gordon and North Fort Myers. He told me that he only had

an eighth grade education because his daddy, it was an alcoholic and was skiffed

out on his mother. My other grandfather, Willard Howell, said that he

got an eighth grade education because his daddy was skipped out on his mother.

And then men would not come home to their wives for many months, and

those men begin to learn how to work, work to survive. I'm telling

you I've been coming up popular church, come up now like old Matthew,

unpopularly. I'm trying to collect some spiritual tax around here, and I'm trying

to get you to buy into them. So the pain of the family,

God and invest them some blood swept tears into the family. That God just

throw a hit risky for a biscuit. Huh. These weren't innocent little children.

These weren't innocent little children that had climbed up in the arms of Jesus.

These were unruly children. Oh, by Jesus, I tell them,

hole that goes to burn and right down like fire. They changes my heart,

the changes my physical strength, the changes my own side. When it

gets to burning like this, I'm telling you I must feel under the fire.

It ain't no mollified. And I want to tell you something. And

when you come to speaking in tongues, if it ain't burning like a fire

inside of you and changing you inside and the spirit and given the utterance,

all you're doing is speaking as a battle of a fool you don't know proper

finds you be better off singing a Christmas carol sing with me like dis charismatic.

There's being Christian, but someone I feel the hole it ghost. When

brother Samuel feels the holy ghost, when Sister He'll feels the Holy ghost,

with Sister Tracy Erwards feels the Holy ghost, that's like old brother Tremia.

Somebody said, preacher, how can you preach like that? It ain't very

good. But I do know this. When you get his word in your

heart, shut up and it becomes as a power, shut up in your

bones. You cannot be silent, You cannot me steal, you can't help.

But do something about it. Somebody's gotta say something about it. It's

gonna do something about it. And if they don't, goodbye. That's what

brother Michael Joseph from Roof saying about that world the church. They said,

man, I ain't gonna do nothing about it. I gave a man the

time to change, and they didn't. So he came here his first service,

Brother Harrison, he said, he walked through the door and the hole

Lego said, this is home? Is that right, Brother Joseph from up

there from the sum boot, that's right, rache n is that right?

He ma'am, that's right, this is home one place was home for many

years, right, brother LaRue, many many, many many years, through

different pastorates. But when they decided to compromise that allow sin in the church,

that's what Eli had done. That's what the parents of these unruly children

had done. And when Jesus came to town, it was a whole lot

worse and singing to come into town. I need to send you to covers.

I can tell the parents should have dealt with some things at home,

so may not have Moses, good brother, Moses, good pastor Moses.

I can hear it. Now, elders, no smile with me, because

we're gonna be going at about forty five fifty years, and there's gonna be

somebody standing in here say I'm Moses, old brother. How well he told

us my dearess. But Moses, in Venicus twenty six and twenty two,

he said, the words of the Lord go like this, I will sin

wild beast among you, which shall rob you of your children, and destroy

your cattle, and make you few in numbers. Moses had already told the

children of Israel, and they had passed it down from one generation to another.

If you don't keep his statues, if you despise his commandments and his

judgment. I want you to know God's warnings always come before his judgments.

I feel that in my soul, God's one is always time perform his judgments.

In our text we find warn and after warning had come, warning after

warning had come. Eli had been told, Jeremiah had told some, Isaiah

had told some, Malachi had told some, Obadiah had told some. And

then came Jesus. Then came the message. And I'm telling somebody here tonight,

Jesus is coming and he will overturn your tables and your seats. Praise

the Lord. You know what Jesus said, I perceive them to be thieves,

and that's what he said. He said, all that ever came before

me are thieves and robberts. Brother Jesse, would you come to the piano.

And I've made three points here at the end that I wanted to cover,

if I can remember them as a walk around, Some would have thought

that the commerce was thank you too. Some would have thought that it was

cute. Some would have thought it was commerce, and some would have thought

it was just business. It just makes more sense to be able to buy

the doves here and to exchange the money here. But Jesus he saw beyond

the service. And here's what he said. It's not cute, and it's

not funny, and it's not convenient. It's sin. And you have made

my house, my father's house, which is supposed to be the house of

prayer, you have converted it into a den of thugs. He's not going

around giving hugs to thugs. You have made my house, it was supposed

to be a house of prayer, a den of thieves. And I want

y'all to know, Jesus is not going to be going around Heaven given hugs

to thugs. Even I'm sure after the confrontation and the conflict, he was

exhausted. Just the how is the only one that's really an eye witness to

the toll that preaching takes on you. But my lungs are very strong and

my body is very strong. But most of the time, around midnight on

Sunday night Monday morning, I crash and I feel the fruits of the labor.

If you will, the fruit is definitely on your true snap, crackle,

pop, really able. The soreness sets in the reality is you preached

her preacher. I hope to listen. I inspired you to preach. And

I want to point something out as we stand tonight. So when Jesus got

done just flaying strong emotion, let's just call it what it is, anger

because of the way they retreat the House of God, because of the attitudes

of his spirits there. Sister the Bible said after that, I've never seen

this. I've heard preachers preacher's text. I've never heard this brought out.

Now. I'm not looking for something new to bring to you, but i

will tell you this stood out to me. I noticed in that fourteenth verse.

Listen to this, and after this, the blind and the lane came

to him in the temple and he healed them. Now I wept and I

cried like a baby in my office as I realized he had to first clean

the house before there would be a healing. And mister faith preacher, a

prosperity preacher, let me tell you something, friend and brother in Christ and

fellow laborer, faith faith, faith, faith, faith, faith faith,

this. But before the healing, there has to be as it according to

scripture, Jesus came in and had to clean house. He had to deal

with the issue. It's like Mama when she comes home from running an air

and then she goes to pumpus because she forgot the birthday cake and the birthday

campbells, and the kids had turned the house upside down. Well, whenever

Mama comes in the door, they want the cake. But I've seen Sister

Howard before say no, we're going to clean up this mess before we get

the cake. But what's sad is in the midst of this circus selling does

an exchange of money outside. This will break your heart, Brother Tyler,

brother Philip, but don't go to that glass door. And I need one

of you to be blind, and I need one of you to be lame.

I need a lame one to leave the bride women. So Jesus gets

done. The preaching's over. He got fiery, he got loud, he

got angry, he got zealous, passionate, and he sweated. He's exhausted

people's upset. In fact, if you'll study this from what I saw,

says to how he looked for respit and retreat. He looked for a solitary

place after this expense, this experience. But before he could leave the temple,

when the dust had settled, Brother Nathaniel, when the dust had settled,

after the rebuke and after the correction, now we could have church.

The church was too busy, they were too foolish. The clown showed making

money that they were overlooking, and so they broke the lane and the blind

inside of the temple. Aren't y'all thankful for every time God knows the preacher,

Let's cast sin out, say that the lame or the blind can be

prayed over and be killed. I don't want to play church. I want

to have church. I don't want to preach fad. I want to demonstrate

faith. This young man was cured of a very rare aggressive form of cancer,

cured. His hair began to grow back during aggressive treatment. Because one

night, the true Holy goes again, not the one that makes you go

follow other life, the true genuine fire, the Holy goes fined in here

and he was cured of cancer. And he's a daddy tonight. I who

was suffering in my back for four solid weeks. I finally told sister Hell

last week, I said, listen, if I don't wake up and I'm

unconscious, silk's doing on going old. I want you to know where that

here he is, so you'll know how to number tree. But brother e

j. One night when I was annoyed to the same God another night when

I was adoring to took that growth off my idea. In a moment while

I was preaching, the growth was there, it was gone. I told

Sister how I said, I feel that God's gonna help me, Brother Jacob,

And he did. When I was preaching last Sunday night, remembering to

rescue, he was mindful of me. Now I love what I feel right

now. Yeah, now we can pray for the land. Now, we

can pray for the blind if we could, could we all just find a

place to pray right now and say, Lord, I definitely feel your presence,

and I want you to know that I'm serious about my relationship with you,

and I'm not gonna shirk my responsibility, and I'm not afraid of the

altar Eli, the high priest at that time. Then Eli skipped out of

Disciplemary action. Let's clean some house first and then watch Faith take winds in

flight, skipping out skelters to so many people that go skipping out all things

that is first important. Jesus, there's he was in this house tonight.

There's somebody. Let's start with kins and let's start with kins and Jesus kinds,

Jesus friends, the field, terry, the altar, to be here

the day of Jesus, sirrintle lord back. There's a work I must and

father, may you find me painful, truicet ony day and ah, sir,

no other mess. And my mom, sir, it's the mom can

bay, it's not my only he's bad reform. Or there's a wo paribus

and water. May you find me faithful chars stem only take me and its

is as the Master and the sun a song words in the bad, as

the drinks with bad. Three