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I live to give - Bro Jeremy Howell 4-21-2024

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  1. Paid to the Book of Sacred Corinthians. May I direct your attention to the

  2. ninth chapter and the seventh verse. Oh, how I thank the Lord for

  3. the opportunity and the privilege to have participated in baby Ezra's dedication today, to

  4. have seen you be an ear and eye witness of these parents given their precious

  5. bundle of joy back to the Lord. How many of you feel like when

  6. they gave him back to the Lord, the Lord received him and didn't cast

  7. him back down. Now, Brother Jerebiah came to me immediately after that service

  8. and he said, Papa, there's something you need to know, And I

  9. said, what is that? Say on? He said, Papa, we

  10. were looking at one Bible name. That's what we were considering to use as

  11. the choice the name for Ezra before we came up with this name of Isra.

  12. And he said, exactly as you said. We kept reading of certain

  13. events and things that took place and times of backsliding in the life of this

  14. biblical character. And he said, we were reluctant and hesitant to name our

  15. baby that because of what this biblical character represented to his life. He said,

  16. but when we finally understood what our good God would have us to name

  17. our baby boy, our bundle of joy. He said, God brought my

  18. attention to the Book of Astra, and I began to read it and study

  19. it. Am I telling you right, Brother Jeremiah. And Brother Jeremiah said,

  20. my attention was drawn to the very verses that you selected as the golden

  21. text for this morning's baby dedication service as Rich chapter number seven versus numbers eight

  22. through ten. Now only our God can do that, Brother Jeremiah already has

  23. put that in writing. He sent me a text confirming that. Because he

  24. was so excited about them hitting the bull's eye smack, Dad brought the center

  25. of the bull's eye name and their son. That is certainly comforting, is

  26. it not, Brother Jeremiah, When the Holy Egos confirmed things like that to

  27. Dad Marman, also to the preacher. I mean, the Book of Ezra

  28. isn't exactly the longest book in the Bible, and Ezra was definitely quite the

  29. author and quite the writer. But only the Holy Egos could have penpointed those

  30. very verses. So God is mindful of Brother Azra. With that in mind,

  31. how many of you know God is mindful of somebody in this building tonight,

  32. I feel like he's mindful of all of us, my dear friend in

  33. Christ and brother in Christ. Brother Gabriel said the other day, he said,

  34. Pastor, as you say so many times, and it's so true what

  35. you say when you say that in every sermon there is something in it specifically

  36. for everybody. He said, I can't say that always with every minister and

  37. every message, but it has proven true that always and every sermon there's something

  38. in it for somebody. And he shared with me a wonderful thing that had

  39. happened this past Wednesday night. Who but God, only God. And so

  40. that's why I say it's very important that we have the Holy Ghost when we

  41. minister. Otherwise we would overlook things it should not be overlooked, and we

  42. would miss things it should not be missed. So I feel like the Holy

  43. Ghost has put something on my heart tonight, and I want to preach what

  44. the Holy ghosts would have me to preach. A servant titled I Live to

  45. Give, I Live to Give. Brother Nathaniel Matthew, chapter number ten,

  46. verse number eight. Brother Jesse Acts chapter number three, verse number six.

  47. You'll see that we have a lot of change up here, probably hundreds of

  48. pieces of money. Hundreds, not a handful, several handfuls of pieces of

  49. money. We also have an offering pot and an offering ball, because these

  50. offering bags just will not do for what God would have us to do tonight,

  51. Brother, the thing what you read Matthew chapter number ten and verse number

  52. eight Heal the sick, cleanse the lepers, raise the dead, shast out

  53. devils. Freely ye have received, freely give. Did y'all catch that freely?

  54. Ye have received? And freely give? Brother Jesse Acts chapter number three,

  55. verse number six. Then Peter said, silver and gold have I none

  56. but such as I have, Give I THEE in the name of Jesus of

  57. Nadras Nazareth. Rise up and walk such as I have, give I THEE.

  58. How many in this building feel like you have something to give? Well?

  59. I want to tell every person in this building, regardless of us raising

  60. our hand or not, everybody in this building has something to give. Again,

  61. I say you have something to give. I want to preach a message

  62. the Holy Ghost titled I Live to give. Let's stand for the reading of

  63. our golden text. Second Corinthians, chapter number nine and verse number seven,

  64. say these first two words with me, every man, Say it again,

  65. every man again? How many of you believe that each person in this building

  66. has something to give, every man according as he had purposed in his heart.

  67. So let him give not grudgingly or of necessity, for God loveth a

  68. cheerful. I don't want to force anybody to give tonight. I do not

  69. want to force anyone to give anything to their God Tonight. I want to

  70. stand back and be an eyewitness and her witness of you, given back to

  71. your God of that which he has given to you, which you pray with

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

  73. you for the opportunity to come to your house. I thank you for the

  74. spirit of God. I thank you for the way you have helped these saints

  75. tonight, the way they have shouted and praised your holy name for so long.

  76. I know we've come in this time of preaching the word of God.

  77. I pray that you would have know this, thy servant, Send a guard

  78. at my mouth and help me to say the things that you would have me

  79. to say, nothing more or less. Anoint the hears of this thy people,

  80. that they might hear what is the spirit of God? Saith unto this

  81. church tonight through this preach word, through the word of God. God help

  82. them. I prayer, let these sayings go below the shoulders. Let them

  83. saturate the spirit the heart to find us. Oh, I pray God that

  84. we would not hear only, but that we would heave. Help us to

  85. be doers. Maybe we depart this place joyfully and not sorrowfully in Jesus' name.

  86. And the church says, hey, man, as your man seated,

  87. look at your neighbor, and saying, neighbor, I live to give.

  88. I believe that. Reading our text again, the Bible says every man according

  89. as he purposeth in his heart, So let him give, not grudgingly or

  90. of necessity, for God loveth a cheerful giver. Let me see those pearly

  91. whites, and for you young people that do not know what that means,

  92. that means smile at men. Let me see them buttering butters, all right,

  93. they don't look like butters to me, buttery fighters. Let's name it

  94. that pearly whites. It got quiet in here, didn't file at me?

  95. How many have you loved to give cheerfully? And the frowning and the morning

  96. continues our text is found in a New Testament book of the Holy Bible,

  97. the Book of Second Corinthians. If there's a First Corinthians, there must have

  98. been a Second Corinthians, and there was. We're looking in this particular book

  99. of the Bible tonight. The fact that we hold the Second and First Books

  100. of Corinthians in our hands. Tonight, let us know that God loves all

  101. people. People of all nationalities, people of diverse skin colors, people of

  102. different unique personalities. God loves each and every one. How many present tonight

  103. are thankful for the inclusivity of our Lord. How many if you are very

  104. grateful that you, as gentiles believers, have been brought into the family of

  105. God. You see, the prophets of old had propos out of a time

  106. forthcoming when the gentiles would be crafted into the family tree of Jehovah. I

  107. am glad that we were included in the numbering of those who are the children

  108. of God. I'm glad that we were not ignored, but that we were

  109. included. I'm thankful that we have not been ignored and that we are involved.

  110. How many of you feel like you are involved in service tonight? You

  111. feel like you are participating to your full potential. If not as the hole

  112. it goes to help you magnify him. And to magnify him is to just

  113. blow him up bigger. You cannot increase the size of God. But in

  114. your mind and in your heart, you can magnify the Lord. You can

  115. increase him in your own thoughts, in your own heart, in your own

  116. mind. When the sumner said, O magnify the Lord with me, he

  117. was not saying that we could blow up God any bigger. But what it

  118. was saying is we could put a right perspective on us, and we could

  119. get a better view on this and realize just how great our God is,

  120. and we can maximize our potential tonight. We all are givers as Christians,

  121. we all have potential. Every person in this building has potential. Why not

  122. listen to this message tonight and see if God can help you maximize your potential.

  123. We know that the Jews and the Gentiles, we're both created by God

  124. of people, were the master pieces of God. But for some reason,

  125. by the Jeerimia, throughout a certain period of time, the Gentiles were outcasts,

  126. They were shunned, they were overshadowed by the Jewish people. They were

  127. overlooked by the Jewish people and Jehovah. But there comes a time when God

  128. begins to move on the Jewish prophets, and the prophets began to speak of

  129. a time when gentiles would be acknowledge, and when gentiles would be brought into

  130. this family tree. And I'm glad to know that we have been grafted into

  131. the family tree of Jehovah. I'm glad that we were included in the numbering

  132. of those who are the children of God. Paul was quite mindful of this

  133. when he addressed the Corinthian believers when he first began to reached them through the

  134. written letter. I believe his beloved son in Christ, Timothy, was the

  135. male man, the man that brought the first letter to this group of Gentile

  136. believers at the Church of corinth After some time, Apostle Paul wrote another letter

  137. to these Corinthium believers. Unfortunately, we do not have in our hands that

  138. particular writing. It has been lost throughout history. It was not preserved.

  139. He many of you know it is very important that we preserve everything that God

  140. has given to us. Just before church started tonight, a young woman that

  141. used to attend service here faithfully because her family attended here. She texted Sister

  142. Howell and I, and she showed us a picture of a greeting card that

  143. Sister Plap had sent her many many many years prior today, and that young

  144. woman had preserved that card. And in her text message to Sister Hal and

  145. I, she said, I love the Bethleem holding this church, and I

  146. love sister Plap. I sure do miss her. Now. I don't want

  147. you to miss the point up tonight's message, and I don't want you to

  148. leave out of here, have it not preserved in your heart what the spirit

  149. of God is saying unto those that are gathered in this building. Because I

  150. like Timothy simply the mailman. You know, Timothy had been an apostle paulse

  151. mailman, and so at some point the apostle Paul said, you know,

  152. I've been hearing what is going on down there among the churches at Carith,

  153. and I need to go down and put an eye on the situation, my

  154. cell and he began to survey the situation, and he left. Because of

  155. his mindfulness of those people, he wrote some more letters to them. One

  156. of those letters that he wrote to them is this epistle of a Paul named

  157. Second Corinthians, and it appears to me that the beloved Apostle Paul stressed to

  158. them the importance of giving to others. Before we go any further, I

  159. want you to know, it is the purpose and the plan of God that

  160. Christians give to others. It's very important that you understand this. If you're

  161. going to proclaim yourself to be a child of God, you must live to

  162. give. The Apostle Paul, after his conversion, made it clear that he

  163. was willing to be spent for ministry for the sake of Jesus Christ. And

  164. he understand he stood at the importance of giving things and himself unto others.

  165. Before you will and before you can't give to others, you have to have

  166. a spirit to give. In our text to not the Bible said that every

  167. man should give as he purposes in his heart, to give, not drudgingly,

  168. but willingly, for God loveth a cheer for a giver. In the

  169. New Testament we read of a time that Paul pointed out that the Gentile believers

  170. of Macedonia were given to the Jewish believers. Now, wait a minute,

  171. should not have been the other way around that the Jewish believers who had been

  172. blessed with so much would have been a blessing and blessing the gentile believers.

  173. But the Apostle Paul commanded these gentile believers for sending support back to headquarters.

  174. And how they supported their Jewish firs and sisters. Isn't got something? How

  175. they can be pushed to the outskirts for so many years and not at yalledge

  176. to be overshadowed and overlook but after that they have been converted. They have

  177. such a forgiving spirit that they're willing to forgive. They're wrongdoers, no doubt

  178. they had the spirit of Christ to living inside of them. You see the

  179. impossi Paul understood that they're can and there should be an awesome support system within

  180. the Family of Come. There should be no better support group. And then

  181. those people that are part of the Family of Come. What Christians weren't givers

  182. historically and Christians will continue to be givers until the return of j Jesus Christ.

  183. And may I more emphatically say with great emphasis, Christians will always be

  184. givers. And Christians have something to give a faint rough wrong. Christians have

  185. something in part unto a bank rough society of bank rough society that has no

  186. more compass of faith, rough society that has nothing whatsoever spiritually. They are

  187. lacking and doing without. We see Christians, So we are givers and nothing

  188. less than that. Historically Christians have spent their lives giving to others. So

  189. not only the evangelists of the New Testament Church and the missionaries of yesteryear,

  190. but Christians of a whole and at large work givers. And Matthew chapter number

  191. ten and snumber agent Jesus speaking to his twelve disciples of that following him,

  192. he said these words, when you go kiv, I care friends there.

  193. But when you come kive, he comes on to say, he on the

  194. sick, and cleanse the leopards, raise the dead, cast out carols.

  195. Freely he have received and freely give. Sure. I feel like there's people

  196. in this neuding that God has giveted with certain her spiritual gifts, and they

  197. to kill unto their brother and sister a whole lot better than their ey.

  198. It's not all ways speaking of us giving monetarily. It's not always speaking of

  199. what we can throw in her to the offering pata, of what we can

  200. thrown into the offering man. Sometimes it is speaking out here what we can

  201. give spiritual rather than what we can give monetarily. I feel like there's some

  202. in this funy that's been asking the question, what can I do? How

  203. can I do that? How can I give? I have nothing to give,

  204. I have nothing to be thankful for. I don't have enough to myself.

  205. How can I give her to somebody else? And some are thinking,

  206. I don't know me. I sitgive it. I'm man that I've got something

  207. ever since God save myself. God put something in there that I feel,

  208. like her I need to give to others. I feel the necessity ascertitude,

  209. yes, sir, that I also feel the necessity I'm giving to That is

  210. the spirit of Christ. Because if you truly are upon a pie, true

  211. blue Christian, you will live to give. Those that seek their life,

  212. they lose it. Those that do everything they can to preserve it, they

  213. lose it. But those that lose their life, they came it. Willa

  214. Shakespeare is not preaching tonight. His title is not to give or not to

  215. give? Now, this is the question, without a question. You are

  216. to give. That's what Jesus told the twelve apostles. Do you not realize

  217. who you are walking with and who has gifted you? And according to how

  218. I have gifted you, I want you to give to others. It's always

  219. time for the child of God to give. It is past time for some

  220. of us to give our very investor and nothing less they are very investor.

  221. To come her rup now herm go tearing any older. It is time for

  222. you to give in the house of Come. Even when you feel like you

  223. give this insufficient and inadequate, and you deem it not enough, you still

  224. must give her sacrificially, whether you feel locked it was surpriser and not.

  225. It is always proper to give. And it's always a time to give against

  226. someone for asking a question, what I had to give? And rich?

  227. Should I give? You? A parent in your finding for not to be

  228. breathing of the heart place for God in their faith to give or not to

  229. give? To shakespeaience in the house of God. To give, that is

  230. the answer. To give or not to give is not the question? To

  231. give is the answer. In the tenth chapter of the Book of Matthew,

  232. we find a list of names of people who Christ chose to evangelize twelve names

  233. are there. Each person was gifted to the simple ability. Each person was

  234. in fact gifted with authority to rebuke and cast out unclean spirits. Each of

  235. the twelve were gifted to heal people of their diseases and afflictions. Different men

  236. who came from different walks of life, different men with different backgrounds, different

  237. men with different experiences, different men with different upbringing, some different men with

  238. different finances, different men with different monetary means. But they were to give,

  239. and the calling that they received it was the same man. The common

  240. denominator was death. Jesus was speaking to them regardless of their status and their

  241. situation, and he said her, when you follow me, you will have

  242. luck, but you will live to give. There's two many cleaning. That's

  243. of Xtins and Saftral and the church too that look after that teased the fall,

  244. pick them up in their messa. They clean them up. Then sit

  245. down there. And there are some coud camper would do it nothing. When

  246. they were called to leave, I said, you are balld to live.

  247. They have togeat where are the outs outrexed ministries and churches today? Where is

  248. the given of ourselves are to others? Where is the church that is given

  249. of themselves to those that are needed. Some of their people are afflicted,

  250. some of them are destitute. Some of them are legitimately suffering, not because

  251. of their own choices or the bad choices of others. Some of them have

  252. simply fallen upon hard times. Why, oh, why do so many people

  253. overlook these things. I know it's easy for somebody to site the modern conveniences

  254. of today, and they can say, well, everybody has a cell phone

  255. in their hand, and everybody can place a call, and people have family

  256. members not too far off that are pretty much pretty nearby. Ah, and

  257. brother, your mind. They just kind of explain away why they need to

  258. give when they see that widow stranded on the side of the highway, when

  259. they see that woman with a little baby out there trying to change the tire.

  260. I've told the Howl boys that when they see somebody in a condition such

  261. as that, of course, to pull over in a safe place and to

  262. exit the vehicle safely, and not to risk or jeopardize her own person because

  263. of somebody's poor planner and a peak of a place to park, and to

  264. be such a predicament as that. But I've told them to assess the situation

  265. and if they can access her the spare tire or the tire tool, and

  266. they can do this this tire change safely to do not hesitate to help those

  267. that are less tortunate. When the Howl Boys were in Pastor Howell's house,

  268. there were a lot of times that we would pull over owner International Highway seventy

  269. five or International Highway for a state road eighty, a state ground sixty,

  270. a state ground seventy and come up beside somebody and stay, Can I help

  271. you? Can I be an assistant? Can I offer you something to help

  272. you in your time of need? But now we burying lit the finger and

  273. we weave with those people are still help for surely beyond the way. Not

  274. everybody's been blessed her with the family unit that you have. Not everybody's taught

  275. her to support grouper that you have that took me that long. Now is

  276. listening Lito, now that he just recently buried her soul nat her life?

  277. Lock he backing lifting your baker. This not ain't money out though that see

  278. that puts up in three numbers. The summit's happened. We'll go up in

  279. thirty minutes for an hour later morning before. Why don't we so locking puts

  280. things off for the ball on what he takes it or need it got to

  281. be died today? Why why things that are urgent will be like my son

  282. Philip who's been seeking medical treatment because of a doctor deeming the situation an inconvenient

  283. situation, and the timing and inconvenient time for him to work out my son

  284. Philip into the lay it. You can call it divine delay. You can

  285. say God warns you and told you the great horn lie behind that situation.

  286. And I do agree. I do not stop. And every person that has

  287. pulled over, and I do ask God to give me wisdom and to give

  288. me disern me regardless situation. And sometimes the best thing you can do is

  289. ask them, do you have a cell phone? Have you called for help?

  290. And by talking to them you can tell if you want to exit your

  291. vehicle or not. But I'm not so much concerned about that tonight as I

  292. am about these people that are in our church houses that are in need.

  293. They have been victimized by religious people, and it's taken good Samaritans to come

  294. by and acknowledge the fact that they have been the victims of course they're not

  295. victims right now because they have been overtaken by the death. How many,

  296. if you know, the Bible said, ye that are spiritual, restore such

  297. a one in the spirit of meekness. The Bible also went on in another

  298. place to say, you better consider how you treat others and how you judge

  299. them, lest you also get tempted in that same manner. And we'll see

  300. how you do when that tempter comes in your way. There's anybody in this

  301. building here tonight. I know we have not got to the exciting stuff yet,

  302. but I do know that every person in this building can give something.

  303. You can never come to the House of God and present God with nothing.

  304. You can pull it inside of your pockets out and say, see, Preacher,

  305. I have nothing whatsoever to give. I'm not talking about monetary things.

  306. He always sir, I'm not talking about her of your connects and say,

  307. oh, al way, sir, I'm talking about her. You casting in

  308. to that spiritual offering, contact something that people can tell you have given something.

  309. Where's lock who are getting a second? You see these men that were

  310. following Jesus, they were men who were armed with the knowledge the salvation and

  311. healing was for the gentile and the Jews. These men would spend a lot

  312. of time in a lot of years with the Jews. But eventually Peter began

  313. to realize, yes, Jesus had instructed us to minister to the Jews.

  314. There was even a time that Jesus told the Scipronian woman, he said,

  315. it's not me for me to cast the children's bread unto dollars. What Jesus

  316. was saying is for this time, as of right now, we are ministering

  317. to those inside of these four walls. But the spirit of the prophets was

  318. speaking the spirit and the desire of Jesus, and Jesus was working hard on

  319. getting the nebula of the nebulace of the church ready for the evangelism effort that

  320. was fixing the breakout of the New Testamy Churchill. And so it begins to

  321. tell, being like Peter, it's it's time to give her to others.

  322. And have any of you remember that sheet that had been lowered down into the

  323. prayersence of Peter as he teared her and thought of the Lord. And y'all

  324. remember the words of chastisement that the Lord came to Peter he said, don't

  325. you call her those things that are inside her? And this Florent sheeta of

  326. clean, and recalled Peter. He's going into her the house of her Cornelias.

  327. And the Bible said that whatever Peter he heard from the holy ghost that

  328. you've got to go now outside of them four walls and go to the house

  329. of Cornelius, which is a gentile. And God was saying, I've heard

  330. his shop. So they have come up before me, and here's a million.

  331. There's not something to be on there, and I'll take an opere give

  332. me now a little be a t behind. No you may not a t

  333. and a probly, but it's too tear. I hungry in the treaty.

  334. But it rolls till the ny til now let it t y to the really

  335. till the com be hal clicking and they're tight aout clear. I'm telling you

  336. that they're topping in the hand. They're shunning the rway said I'm coming.

  337. I'm raising of the hand. T stop them. No, that's a trick.

  338. There's a plainting man, there's a clucking hen, there's a creaking in

  339. their ears. They're done. They're doll is it? You know you teach

  340. tonelis the gentile believer, and while you're preaching to him, I'm gonna remember

  341. them offerings, those gifts that he gave. I'm gonna remember his desire to

  342. come into Judaism, and I'm gonna take him into the fullness of the spirit

  343. that won't bring him into Christianity. And I'm gonna fiel that entire house with

  344. a holy ghost. And so God gave gifts under men. He get to

  345. the church with pastors and teachers, prophets of angels. He get to the

  346. church with Peter and Paul, and they begin to go outside of their four

  347. whiles, so to speak, and they begin to minister to gentile believers.

  348. In Matthew twenty eight Birst number nineteen, we find a written record and where

  349. there was said that they were to make disciples of all nations. This was

  350. the opening of the door that you guys are not gonna sit there in your

  351. little selfish, self sinnered ways inside of your synagogus. Hey, s I

  352. end of gods. I'm telling you there were places of sin because they were

  353. so stingy and so greedy and so mean spirited religious. Yes, sir,

  354. the devil possessed and devil feel and Jesus sin, you're gonna go past her

  355. all of that. Not that everybody that attend worship on the Sabbath, or

  356. not everybody that attended the Citagogue. We're looking for a short cut on an

  357. easy way out. But there's certainly were some that did not be business when

  358. they went to the temple. And this is what Jesus said her. You're

  359. gonna go out here and you're gonna make disciples of old nation. You're gonna

  360. find those that are willing to live and to give her. I'm telling you

  361. there's people in this fury tonight. You better hear what the Holyness to say

  362. it. I'm going in Texas and take it. Corinthians kind of seven sent

  363. there, sir, every man according I see purposes in his heart. So

  364. let him give not crunchingly or butt as necessity for God. Not a cheerful

  365. jimp hon't give crunchingly. He give out of necessity to give chimpling. I

  366. do a lot of giving un Cornelia. It was cheerful to God. It

  367. wasn't a good attitude in a good strak. I just can't help. But

  368. damn, the Twelve Apostles were so different, each one was very unique.

  369. The pioblicle and here historical records prove this. This very thing is testified of

  370. through the word of God. And God wanted each and every one of the

  371. men to give, if it included giving of themself, if it included giving

  372. their life unto death. I'm sure in the Macedonian Church, in other churches,

  373. they were willing to give, because we have the biblical record of their

  374. willingness to give monetarity. I know that there were probably people in that same

  375. Macedonian congregation that could have gave a whole lot more than they did. I

  376. know that the Macedonian Church gave more than some of the other churches. And

  377. we all know the letter of Chastisement in the words of the apostle Paul when

  378. he spoke concerning these things. Now listen, you may say that you are

  379. not very involved in the things of God. You're not very involved in the

  380. House of God, You're not very involved in outreach ministry. You're not very

  381. involved in musical ministry, teaching ministry, preaching ministry, and preparing food for

  382. the homeless. You're not interested at all, and you're not involved in all

  383. in open outreach well, I can see you're disinterest even in the house of

  384. God. When you're disinterested and given praise, and this makes deserve to our

  385. God. Listen, you may see that there were many people in the Bible

  386. that were involved and invested into the House of God, into the worship of

  387. God. The woman that brought the alabaster box that was full of that precious

  388. ointment, she gave every bit of it, every drop. He said,

  389. well, I'm reserving some strength. I'm preserving a few ounces of strength so

  390. that I'm not so tired tomorrow morning. Why are you not willing to be

  391. spent? Why are you not willing to be invested fully? Why are you

  392. not willing to exhaust yourself to the fullest extent and degree. We see what

  393. Jesse that these people, they were selfless, They were not selfish. I

  394. feel like every person in this building tonight should do a self analysis and see

  395. just how invested we are, Teancy, just how involved we are with the

  396. things of God and the people of God. How invested are you and how

  397. involved are you? Right here? That's your whole church. God can open

  398. up an oil well in the front yards of every church throughout America in order

  399. to take care of each church's financial situation. But God is not doing that.

  400. He is relying upon the agency of mankind, you and I bringing in

  401. ten percent, you and I giving in the offerance, and seeing to it

  402. that we have appealing together together in to see that there is a meet in

  403. the house. If you will bread, that some people come murdering bread.

  404. Oh come on, now, I'm not trying to take steps out of context,

  405. but if you're gonna have revivers, you have to have the means to

  406. support those revibs. So that was one of the problems that the Apostle Paul

  407. had with some of the early churches was their lock her A desided to support

  408. her. He's a Postolic ministrytor and therefore he had to work her with his

  409. own hands. I'm telling you, isn't in a crying shame that Jesus would

  410. have to consider her in pulling the rocks in the church yall to get something

  411. with somebody there to pray her by? Why do we have to look for

  412. support and outside of our fair wall. Why do we have to look her

  413. for playing her outside of our fail wall. Our CEIs person in the He's

  414. building to all that his mole able body. Everybody's gonnavorcepots, everybody can speak,

  415. everybody knows a light. Everybody's gonna talk you with blass up the name

  416. the Lord. When you start talking about preaching and preaching about preaching, that

  417. that says right there becomes Barry love Pop. So God can support all of

  418. these houses of worship from doing all. Well, it's just bubb and osa

  419. if he wanted to. But he's using boys and girls and moms and dads.

  420. That's what Jesus also witnessed was his father using people. That time that

  421. Jesus came to the treasury and he leaned up against the treasury, and Brother

  422. Jeremiah says that while he was set up over against the treasury, he began

  423. to watch as people gave, and he studied the way that they were given.

  424. He saw those that were paying time of a niece meant he saw those

  425. that were casting into the operatory into the offering puts out of their abundance.

  426. You could hear the sound of those big money men as they came in and

  427. was wanted. Did not offering sound louder than the man before the offer.

  428. They can all tell how much how you give by how much noise. Hey,

  429. I'm telling you, sir, Jesus was studying you all. Picture me,

  430. Jesus leap up over there by the door of the treasury and watching each

  431. and every person. And as they gave. I could see the expression now

  432. of disappointment and even disbelief as he looked at the way they gave and the

  433. spirited witcher they gave. There's some people giving up merging me. There's some

  434. people giving out of necessity. I guess I praise God. If you want

  435. me up to praise God, I guess I'll give that U dollar if you

  436. walk me to gave without a hole, show the church to receive as of

  437. an offer. I just know that I proved high so that one you get

  438. back. I can't what the who kills goods, who carols the fool,

  439. go and take out of necessity. I told my God, the man of

  440. God, Jesus through why they get, Brother Jesus, they won't can hold

  441. down, don't That's up Jesus through who were doing the talk through the raw

  442. spirit. Jesus Christ, the Son of God was laid up against you.

  443. That's right sure, And he's watching, and I can hear the Holy capsul

  444. was hit the bust of the Jesus said them, they boys didn't give nothing.

  445. They don't have love in their heart. I can hear it Jesus now

  446. as he said, that's like a sounding brass. That's like the sound of

  447. a brass on the teah, And se I can almost hear Jesus, our

  448. son to the father? Did that will take you? Did that? Ill

  449. take to everybody? Answer to get all, say did you hear how much

  450. noise that made? That's your must have been a lot of cots. That

  451. was a lot on the pieces of money, and then carrying in the widow.

  452. She only had two months, two pieces of copper, that's all she

  453. had, and the bible. Somebody up as this which he is a parting.

  454. Oh, she had less of farthing for the father. It made very

  455. little noise. A child prefer mama ever crime ever a thought they were prosing,

  456. there's father. The sentencing in the from in tons that the two only

  457. gave two to the last, but cheese, I say three longside. Probably

  458. get on the back to tell the loves give a bard to anybody else the

  459. hose. Yeah, oh yeah, yeah, we'll stand to night. Hid

  460. we have something that we could give in. As long as it's our best,

  461. it is enough. And I feel like the Holy Goes has forbidden me

  462. from preaching anymore. I would say, though, Sister Howell, there was

  463. something on her face that he saw it, and he said she gave caref

  464. the now, y'all think of the devil she had to fight off a She's

  465. thought that far thing from the voll y'all listen that said in that building there

  466. would have been thirteen offered boxes. We're brazen trumpets on top, specifically desired

  467. to make noise everybody hear what was being given? Can nobody fake that they

  468. gave? Was it to be obvious that they threw hearing that box? I

  469. was dealing with somebody right down. The Holy Ghost has forbid me from God

  470. much further then twelve apostles. They gave up a lot and followed Jesus?

  471. Did they not? I hadn't even got to the other half of my message.

  472. After three and a half years with that man, they realized we lived

  473. to give. He didn't have anywhere to lay his head, he didn't have

  474. a place to call home. After three and a half years of being with

  475. that man, they figured out we lived and give it all to God.

  476. And so when they approached that man, as they went into the temple,

  477. there was laying at the gate. Here's what they said, I no longer

  478. have a successful commercial fishing. Is this Peter and John both have been very

  479. extremely successful as commercial watermen fishermen. At this point, Brother Jeremiah, they

  480. gave everything they had. Peter could say, Hey, I don't have anything

  481. to give what you think I have. I don't have what's in Pharisees and

  482. described as adducies have they do have what you think they possessed. They do,

  483. But Peter said, silver and gold have I none but such as I

  484. have. Give idea in the name of Jesus Christ, Rise up and walk.

  485. You have something to give. The very reason I live is to give.

  486. Before I got saved, it was how much could a horde? Of?

  487. How much could a storm? And I'm not telling anybody to be I'm

  488. wives with their finances or to give the babies milk money. The babies die

  489. for money. I'm not telling anybody to catch it. You for one cave

  490. and give it to the missionary. But I am telling you you can give.

  491. You can give up your finances until it hurts. You can give up

  492. your body until it hurts. You can spend yourself until it hurts. You

  493. can praise God until it hurts your pride, and until Jesus says I took

  494. notice of that. That's all this healing in this building tonight for somebody.

  495. Our codtext was you go ahead and heal the sick you've cast out to my

  496. unclean spirits. You've cast out them devils freely you ever seen freely given?

  497. We're either children of God or we're not. I want us to bow our

  498. heads in this building tonight. If you know this message was preached to you

  499. for you, would you slip your hand up right quickly? One, two,

  500. three, four five sens. Okay. For those of you that are

  501. thinking I'm speaking of monetary given, I'm not speaking of that only. But

  502. for those of you that hold back with pride, that's who I preach to

  503. you. When you know God has told you to give him, phrase to

  504. use the excuse and I don't worthy, and I don't have to give.

  505. My brothers and sisters have been blessed, but I'm lacking and I don't have

  506. to give. When you use the excuse that I'm backwards at shy, why

  507. don't you bring him your two months. Your excuse is no more as of

  508. tonight, It's opposite. Leave because I'm going to tell you what God said.

  509. Your little Trayse is just as real and just as special and just as

  510. sweet. But it wasn't private. This woman got up front with everybody,

  511. and she offered when she put in like everybody else, even when she knew

  512. she had less, even when she knew it would ring as loud as everybody

  513. else's gift, Even when she knew it would be as loud as Brother Roucats

  514. come old Trais and r goal with even when she knew it would be as

  515. loud as Sister Wooton's victory shall she came forward and gave him her best.

  516. I want to open the platform up to whomever didn't raise your hand and holds

  517. back from God that that is right in his I want to give you an

  518. opportunity to come pick up two points and cast him into the offered pop and

  519. praise him promptly in the right spirit. Because I lived to give, and

  520. so does all of his children. There's healing in this house that I Why

  521. don't we use the power that God has giveness? Why don't we use what

  522. we have. I'm no longer preaching. I'm conducting an altar service. She

  523. didn't let her pride keep her from moving forward to anybody. All I have

  524. is says who say it may not make news in the Jerusalem past, but

  525. it will make news in heaven. Is there somebody else right here tonight that

  526. wants to obey the Lord? Your pride? This had fleeing and foreseeing friend

  527. of you, you chief man, Jesus Jesus. Oh h h h h.

  528. When you're giving the honor he deserves, the glory and the praise,

  529. you will sound like artificial intelligence speaking. You will sound like a robot creator

  530. by the tech few user today. You won't sound mechanical. That's sound the

  531. Pharisees and sada sas and scribes and the precinkay m hm. You won't just

  532. do this, Jesus Jesus. Design of necessity. I say, praise the

  533. Lord. Girls away was asking everybody to worship Jesus. I feel like that

  534. woman had been clutching those two bites and she couldn't wait to give to that

  535. austing box. Will you take your turn? But I don't have as much

  536. to give. God's going to do something special in this service, whether you

  537. get anything special out of it at all, because you're gonna get out of

  538. it what you taken to. That's what the balls showed you before. Sat

  539. say little not to Jesus. And is it to me that she gave out

  540. of her PopEd tongue and laughed. She had no mask of piety in her

  541. status, and Jesus concluded that she could have Bullian did all. Yeah,

  542. that shady shout you know who. I won't give it my bustle Jesus,

  543. that's the man all to give it to them. That's why I'm here.

  544. It's because of him. There is something powerful taking place of this. Servants

  545. to know, and he cannot be balked with large sons of money. The

  546. hole that goes out for it cannot be balked with lord sons of money.

  547. That's signs and the socials there people that will give everything. That's what Peter

  548. said, I'll give it all houses lives gives this shock kisnesses what the Bible

  549. say would be done for such a bad that gave it up such as I

  550. have gear by opinion, some of your sisters, you have the holy ghost,

  551. don't you? The blood of Jesus. Is play said right, you

  552. have head and power because the coward Jesus. The sides of the ranks,

  553. Sister, how the the begil brothers laying your hand on your brother freely?

  554. We have to say free again. He'll a sick, he is sick.

  555. You want to see. That's something we do have done is the blood of

  556. Jesus and powers the Jesus to heal the sick, to cleanse the rod,

  557. to raise the tail that passed out publes and training. We never seen the

  558. free. We give to her, we guilt to him. We deal about

  559. the we have we seen tonight. Size