They didn't make it and they can't take it - Bro Jeremy Howell 4-7-2024

Okay again, if you have your Bibles with you, and if you know

there should be one nearby, will you turn with me to the book of

Numbers. MAYD direct your attention to the twenty third chapter and the twentieth verse,

brother Nathaniel, which you read Matthew chapter number five and versus number forty

four through forty six. But I say, unne you love your enemies,

Bless them that curse you. Do good to them that hate you, and

pray for them which despitefully use you and persecute you. And you may be

the children of your Father, which is in heaven, for he making this

son to rise on the evil and on the good, and send the grain

on the just and on the unjust. Were if you love them which love

you, what reward have you do? Not? Even Republicans the same?

Amen? Praise the Lord? How many of you know that is stealed in

the Bible. It may not be in your copy of the King James translation,

but that is still in the Bible. What did it say, Brother

Nathaniel, to pray for them that despitefully use you? Could somebody type up

a memo and send it throughout the holiness and Pentecostal movements up today and let

them know that you still cannot fire with fire, and that two wrongs do

not make a right, and that we're not supposed to be trying to curse

people, but we're supposed to be trying to bless them by praying for them.

Would y'all serve notice to the independent Holiness people, the Pentecostal fire baptized

people, the Holiness Baptist people, the Pentecostal churches throughout the world. Would

y'all serve notice to them and let them know that you're still supposed to pray

for those that do you wrong. Would y'all let them know that that's still

in the Bible, And once you leave my name off that memo, so

that when persecution comes and the darks start flying, they don't target me.

It seems to me like the Church of today has forgot all about that.

Preachers, particularly preachers, are hurling arrows at one another like I have never

seen done before. And I do not believe God approves of it. Brother

Jesse, Acts chapter number five and verse number thirty nine. But if it

be of God, you cannot overthrow it. Let's happily you be found even

to fight against God. There are too many brothers and sisters squabbling and bussing

and fighting. There's too many spiritual skirmishes in the House of God today.

Not necessarily in that particular local assembly, but amongst the fellowship of the brethren,

there's too much divisiveness. And even the wisdom of the Pharisees, the

Saducees and the scribes, the religious leaders within Judaism, they would say,

hey, if God's in it, you better leave it alone. But this

generation has no problem whatsoever with touching God's anointed and doing harm to his prophets.

Let's stand for the reading of our text numbers chapter number twenty three and

verse number twenty. Behold, I have received commandment to bless and he hath

blessed, and I cannot reverse it. Look at your neighbor and say,

hey, neighbor, God has blessed them, and I cannot reverse it.

Let's pray, Heavenly Father, we love it, We praise you, We

thank you for the opportunity to be in your house. I thank you Lord

for this thy people. I pray that you would send a guard at their

ears and help them to hear only what the spirit of God would have them

to hear. I pray that you would have known this, thy servant,

God said a guard at my mouth, that help me if they own it

those things that you would have me to say nothing more less. I pray

God that these saints would go below the shoulders, that them saturate the spirit

the being of these individuals. I pray help them and not be hearers only,

but doers of the word. And may we depart this place jortly and

not sorrowly in Jesus' name. And the church said Amen again. As you're

being seated, look at your neighbor and say, hey, neighbor. God

has blessed them, and I cannot reverse it. Our text is found in

an Old Testament book of the Holy Bible, the Book of Numbers. How

many people in this building enjoy working with numbers? Besides myself, Brother Christian

Wood, Brother Aaron Wood, sister Gail Hammon, brother Thomas Start. Are

there any other people in this building that would say I enjoy working with numbers?

Mister Serena Wallace, brother Richard Jacob, brother Justin roadecap. Now,

how many of your people would raise your hand and say I despise working with

numbers? All right? There's some honest people in this building. They're honest

with us right now, and they're saying, I do not like arithmetic.

I do not like working with numbers. Let me tell you something. The

God that you serve loves to work with numbers. He is a number working

god. How many of you are good with numbers? You're working with numbers,

But how many of you are good with numbers? I know that Brother

Philip Howell didn't raise his hand a little while ago, but he is very

good with numbers. I've noticed that Brother Thomas Starrett is very good with numbers.

I've noticed that little Samuel Starrett could be good with numbers if he wanted

to be. We know that Brother Jeremiah likes to get an accurate account of

how many people are in the building each and every service. We know that

our church clerk, Brother Nathaniel Howell, he tallies the offerings and he lets

us know the total of the offerings each and every service. Aren't you thankful

that these gentlemen work with numbers? Now? I don't know if they're good

with numbers or not, but I know that sister Iris Wooten is when we

first came down here, her husband and I frequented some of the local establishments.

We both enjoyed eating good food at good restaurants. And I would listen

to her talk, and I realized that she was very good with numbers,

and she should have been, because she was the account's manager for her husband

there at the world famous wooting their boat tours and adventure. Now, I

want you to know. The very title of this book of the Old Testament

of the Holy Bible lets us know that God was interested in numbers. Now

wants you to know it did not take very long for the children of Israel

to travel if they would have obeyed the Lord from the land of Egypt unto

the Promised Lamb. But because they were rebellious and stubborn and disobedient, it

took them a lot longer to get to the Promised Lamb than it should have.

Brother Jesse. Some biblical scholars estimated exactly how they think it would have

took how long it would have took for God's people to have traveled from point

A unto point B. And I will tell you this, it took them

forty years. And that was way too long for God's people to be traveling

away from their captors unto the land of Promise. There's a lot of people

today they are professing to be saved, but when we look at their life

and we consider their testimony, we realize that they're continuing to wonder in the

wilderness of sin, and they have not reached God's desired destination for them.

I know that the night I got savee. The scripture that goes like this,

if bitty man be in Christ, he is a new creature. Old

things that passed away to hold all things have become new ran true to everybody

in that building. In the month of October nineteen ninety two, they were

letting everybody know concerning the salvation of Cheerumy David Howell, that it did not

take six months for him to leave his sin, That it did not take

twelve March, eighteen months, or twenty four months for him to depart from

that spiritual land of Egypt under his spiritual promised land. We know that it

was just a short distance from Egypt to the Promised Land. And how many

in this building tonight know that it's not very far. It does not take

very much for you to reach the very trol room of God. In fact,

salvation is only about eighteen inches away from the soul of your feet unto

your knee. I put in a measure about eighteen inches. All you've got

to do is surrender yourself to Jesus and fall down about eighteen inches and find

yourself and an audience who is the king of Kaser and a loand of lords,

say you see us many people, they're underwomen to travel the distance of

eighteen inches downward in order to pray and to confess their sins to God.

They have a problem with their person, but Jesus sin even their sum have

had a problem understanding that eighteen inches. It's all It takes her along with

her repittan part has somebody with a broken heart and a contrast spirit finding with

pigeons all and take. It's just eighteen inches and not brokenness for somebody to

pray that the fact is every need of every person, of every nationality,

of every tender, of every three, of every creed, every need of

every person. Shout out, and there's tongues that refuse to lie. They

shout to dress him that Jesus Christ is keener of Jenser, the Lord of

Lord. I want you to know that the trend today. This for somebody

to say that I am God's shout, they can't prefer her to wondering you

the rederness rather than processing but mis promised to them. Listen, recall to

the received problem, the iron piers, the hand captors, and there is

a welcoming hand of call on the side of that game of the land and

their promise. And there is no reason whatsoever anybody to remain wondering in their

weirdedness. I'm pulling a somebody and eye, I'm proving in your soul.

They're asking me their faithful about this. There, Yes, sir, God's

to take you to the land their promise. It because of disobedient, stubbornness

and rebell them, and because of hardness of heart, these people learned the

ways of a nomadic people. These people, for over four hundred years,

had not been nomadic people. It is true that their forefathers had been wonderers.

It is true that Abraham was a known man. It's shrew the soul

much Isaaca and Jacob. But after they settled in the land of Goosan,

they should have learned how to be homesteaders. And they should have known that

those that wonder in the illness of sin or curse the people it with anybody?

The homestands and the promised land? Where's the land of Gushan and the

land candom? They are blessed people who know what to buy the sin they

set the Lord beild the house they labor in vain, the once a bel

or wasted their time. Their effort is from power and the ton fields.

There is still faults for the angelic, supernatural and natural that the peak that

scene or destroyer? Do you really want to try to do it your own

way? Who really want to be on that trailer? Pass on the ship

that said of the same bul of the realness? Or wants your rather trail

as a whole? Set right here the land of problems I'm preaching the night

or they didn't make it and they can't take it. The only girls spoke

that into my heart. They didn't make it and they can't take it.

Brother Gabriel A, Sister Candae Valentine. They did not assemble that family unit,

and they did not insert you into the family of God. Whoever that

represents and whoever they mean it, they did not do it. The Lord

is building that they did not establish the beth go holding the shirt cad.

They did not make it. There were certain men like the late Reverend O.

D. Coleman, the late Curtis Newbury, the late Johnny Platt,

and the late Stanley J. Wooton, and the late Robert Heaven that had

a hen in what God was doing. And they were literally puppets in the

hand of Cord doing what God had had commissioned him to do. And they've

handed me the batona, and they said, run on with my brother who

was on the death bed of Robert Heaven and Johnny Platt. That both of

them they did not die in the same day. They didn't die on the

same much, they did not die in the same year. And both of

those and no us here. They both told me, they said, we

can't stay to say, every man, we can't stay here to get your

bacca any longer. That is an unsettling feeling for a young man to hear

somebody in the church to say I've got to leave ale you have come on

now and not consolation has been this. So Chid is the beard the go,

I say, Chod is in this house, yess Gods. So every

church that prinches the truth, every church or seas are the truth me.

It is he, I said God, And upon that rock Jesus, this

church has been built in the gates of hands. Have no to n against

that. It does not matter how much they speak against it. It doesn't

matter the do doolical part or the sinister scheme. It does not matter how

many advangeless they try to intercept and how many people they try to buy off.

They did not make it, and they cannot just say it. I

said, because he is the worst it. That is what you know.

The mowing is the author and the tenising of your tak the nod say to

you that not nobody wants it. Wasn't like that, and he on the

I don't know. I have many people that I've caunseled over the years that

I've told me. I know God saved me, I know God dealt with

me. I know God troll me here. I know God spoke to me.

I know it was of the Lord's doing. I know the spirit of

God drew me. But then they find themselves discouraged, disheveled, and discrimle

because somebody walked up to them and said, you ain't got what you think

you got. You ain't got it. You ain't saying. Listen, I

can assure you that that devil there falsely accusing you's not there. The not

you pay true. But I'm telling you this Jesus was, and so the

damn. It does not matter whether Angela counting my piece till against true or

not. You know who reckon? So against true? Shall prosper take to

the s a report and take the sword that that record heaven. That that

simple way, I tell you, we will be a spirit of Ada and

lay brother to the walls of the city. Now, but I will be

in a pre I saw that and mel Frost from They didn't make it,

and they can't take it. The mourners of Yesteryre, Bishop Latimer and mestew

Ridley, and also that tretious bishop. He said, you can pierce me

through with a sword Polycarp, he said, but I'm not going to regret.

I've got no regrets whatsoever. You know what those men were singing.

The power may be in your hen because of the free will of mankind,

for you to take my life, but you cannot take my soul. That's

what Jesus said. He said, don't you fear him that can take your

life. Let you fear him that can distroy your soul in hell. God

trust him death and the person it finally prays through until they understand that we

must all, as Christians, be willing to die as martyr. So as

soon as we realize they are powering the s when it comes to the distrust

of our soul, we will have her. That's a shack about that.

Listen. They might attempt to curse you, They might have tript to curse

your party, but time will not allow it. I set time. We

are not permitted. Don't think they don't try. Let that new convert through.

Y'all know what to do. Oh, you didn't get it, you

can't live it. But somebody that really got it, they don't care what

anybody said because they know the world didn't give it to it. Yeah,

you're figuring it out now, ah, And the world can't take it away,

our prince. It is serving the hold it was titled. They didn't

make it, and they could not take it. And can I tell you

they also cannot break it concerning your will and do it right and standing for

truth. If God had made it. Somebody said, what about this preacher,

what about this one? Nothing then no longer living it, they are

no longer preaching it. The Baptist minister Charles Person what time said concerning some

people that had been to his church and they had been frequenting the bar or

the prop off the road. Some critics and skeptics said, what do you

think, dispersion about these men? They leap out on Friday nights and their

truckers, and they come to you churchill on Sunday morning, a sitting a

few and professed salvation. He said, the answer is simple. They have

not yet not my gesp so they have not yet to there sitting. They're

not on what they progress. They're not not the compressor. And listen to

God, Dave, I tell you the only one that don't talk, they're

so we're doing. It's true, I said, through the only one that's

you're talking. That's comforting. That's comforting. They're all hells. Jesus will

not fail me. Missionaries travel and travers upon far and soul nomen locked the

men of old Hudson Taylor and other great men of God, that you are

indestructible until God is finished with you. I am not saying be foolish,

but I am saying, be fearless knowing that God is on your side.

I'm telling you people's gonna come against you. It was last month and this

year twenty twenty four, March of twenty twenty four, on a Sunday night,

my wife, when I was out of town after our busy day,

we two did to listen to a preacher that is part of this church family,

the Reverend Jesse Howell. He preached a sermon title the Despires Dreamers,

and he took his text time from the book of Neamyah. He read checkter

number four and rest number four, and he talked about it. This despised

dreamers and our sent black and took Ayus and others develop to scheme to try

to destroy the work of the Amyah. And Jesse said, sipping because the

Amyah like chosen, they had dreams. So you know what, people there

that dispised it, don't come on now? Can they have tell him him?

Come on now and sitney, this what God he's doing here? This

what God is doing over there. I conturnching another state. But I want

you to know that they cannot take a car betells her. They did that

bake just her the creation. He just deals right that ain't work, o

God, it is a feeling. Didn't be playing by the hand of a

natural spiritual conflent lively stole right that man placeto you place her perfect play what

after another in time deadly from That's why man like Datrey Bonhoffer can say,

what did you say? Hitler has persecuted the Jews in my country. Hitler

is persecuting the Christian in my native country, Germany. Yes I am in

the land of freedom. Yes I am in the land of the United States.

But I must go back to my people, and I must minister to

my people, and I must join the Secret Service, and I must do

what I can to rescue a few of my Christian brothers and a few of

the Jews. He was not the least bit fearful, knowing that he would

swing from the end of at off Hitmer's groupe. How many of you have

seen Christians that give up because of a little pure prayer. Sure, I've

seen people give up because of the little opposition that does not speak, or

something that the knowing has made. God is not a foolish funeral that beelds

upon her the sin meaning the pleasure God beilds upon the rock. And when

a child a toime, that's to body, and I've been down their head

upon the rock. It is gonna take more than a big back denvil.

It's gonna take more than a big bad rock and a papa and mylast down.

What they're trying to do. They'll try to destroy your will to do

right. I want to remind you of something. Only you can forfeit your

future. Only you can forfeit the plans that God has for you. Is

it not into your twenty nine and eleven where the Lord said, the Lord

who never has to think, he's amgnitient, he's an all knowing God.

But he says, I know the plans that I think concerning you. God

already knows whether or not you've got the real power and the determination to pass

the test, whether to finish the course. Whenever God handed you your rations

and he puts you on the tracker, and he said, listen, everybody

is going to race. God knew who would render on the sidelines rather than

Mason Uppa. They're running shoes. God knew who would go ahead and mount

to stop and starting block her and get ready to watch her out in this

race the Byle Stoker of summer running and only a for you finish a Passi

Paul said, a fault for all of these spiritual pacifists that no longer want

to rock to goat, they no longer meet to look and they can rooster

her heads feather and say, let me ask you a question. We does

it ever be sold to choose? Or so oh he's bear your passipers stuff.

Don't come on now. That's the problem that I have with a than

for honest steeple, that is they are pacifists. They do not believe that

they're fighting. But this is worth fighting. Tolling Apostle Paul said that fine

out her, not us run the pizza air, So find out are you

fighting far there for a peal? Come? You know what, car that's

work till I've seen people before that hasn't labored put forth an ounce of sweat

and the s and they said they want fight for it because they didn't make

it. If you dig it out, it's worth defending. If you pioneer

it your planet and your pastor, and you pour into it, then when

that young person starts struggling, you want to go fight the world. Four

don't you don't come on, said I keep preaching, or should they go

to the house. Let's have a loape. You gotta louder, gonna get

a big back right now, and my soul, these people answered, in

the land of their captivity, and they chose willingly themselves. They made a

personal choice, and their numerous personal choices collectively equal a corporate choice to wonder

rather than living in the city. Brothers and sisters. I don't understand why

a lot of people are not here tonight. I do know that God has

blessed him congregation. I'll be whether we've got a decent size congregation, especially

on a Sunday night, that my little churches probably have less than this.

Why because God is a god of addition. God is a god of multiplication.

God believes that preaching me on his tree, and that it soon remained,

there is no seat stealing going on around here. What's going on around

here? His seat and rescue me, I said, that's what's coming on

way around here. Should have been enough out in the wild wonder and they

are playing and they stop. Come by. Tell why about that? I

said, those seats stealing go lod around here, and the sheep rescue her.

We have not pushed, pulled, or pride for any person to become

part of this work. Providential pressure has pushed some, just as the children

of Israel were pushed out of Egypt because of Egyptian taskmasters berating them and beating

them down providential pressure. I love what I feel in my soul here than

I I need a praying church. And I know that some people may not

lie this kind of preaching. I don't like draw preaching. I like annoying

preaching. I am saying that I preach them with a knowing you. But

I will tell you this, anytime you piss that on fire, naturally or

spiritually, I'll come on now. There is evidence that the fire is burned

him your soul. When I was hurt with kidney stones, I wasn't bowing

or grown. The special said you need morephine. He said, you're a

stolic gentleman, You're and collected. But I want you to know when the

word of God gets her in the bossom. Ask the proper to your mine.

He said, it's still it's a power shut up in my pone.

And and I'm weary whip for mary Man, and I cannot standy her.

Do you remember how you felt her, the nots you got the Holy ghost?

Did you stay cool Comma and collected it that you get a little bit

excited? Did you get a little bit emotional? Did it come out?

I want you to know what true? And more to preaching, who kills

the same time of bath has to come back every time the nothing a com

gets hold me. We got to expressive because her we cannot make it.

And the problem he said, I cannot take it. I know I'm preaching

to the climber and all of your Pentecostal people, and you go to this

way. People are entitled to their opinion. Just like I don't like Bud

Wiser, I don't lock alcoholic beverages, but I sure do love what I

feel in my soul and I and I love knowing that no matter what people

say about you and your experience, no matter what people say about you and

your encounter, and no matter what people say about you and your family's decision

and the choices that you made as an American and also as a Christian,

as a citizen of these United States, and as a citizen of a celestial

city, you are no longer bond men and bond women. You are free

and you can make a choice, and God can give you the direction to

go into that land of a promise. How many today are wondering in a

spiritual wilderness? Wilfully? Two Milly. This book of the Bible serves as

fruit to any child of God that the Lord is good with numbers. He's

keeping a very accurate record. In mo chapter number fifteen, we read a

written record of a parable of a time when a shepherd tell it important to

leave the nineteen and nine in search of of one sheep. He did not

tell you you correctly. Something was missing. Let me recount him. No

one I did tell it correctly. Somebody or something or someone is missing.

Don't be surprised or moted a concern when your preacher seems to be built to

go on a mission to miss something or someone or somebody. Make me a

holy ghost that's trying to actuate or your person's say, your preacher, it's

child's dust to persuade the holy ghost to carry. We'll just stay out here

just one more year. Nothing never heard elize your face is sad, don'ts

a lame, don't destroy it, don't bowl them out. Oh, God,

what will be said about that you're trying to make what will be sad

about to me? Said that you're trying to be all if you're destroyed.

So that shepherd in the parable and look Captain number fifteen. He went on

a search and rescue mission. In that fifteenth chapter, you find if somebody

trying to find a lost coin, you find out somebody trying to recover a

lost lamb. You find out somebody trying to find a lost son. Moms

and dance. The Bible said, you train them up in the way they

should go, and when they grow old, they will not depart from him.

I want to encourage you, moms and dance. God knows their number.

You guys that are brave enough reach up here and grab a piece of

hair, give it a snatch. How how many of you were successful?

Did anybody get a hair? Nobody? Because you cowards wouldn't pull hard enough

out there somebody to reach in that nose and grab one to pull it out.

Hany of you know the very head of your head, your nose or

ears, and all of that is nothing. Did anybody get one? I

have no idea how many physical hairs by the feel of bosson. But he

said that night that God touched him and the glory came down. God let

him know he'd allow his hair to grow back, even though chemotherapy was killed,

killing and evacuating every cell in the body. Now y'all fixing to get

this, it's fixing. It makes sense to you. You know why God

can over power the chemotherapy that's killing the cellular life forms and organition in the

head of a ball the cancer patient, because God is the one that made

the body. Oh, come on now, the crowd said, let try

like there was light. The con says that therapy hair had put now here

be the hair had a bad head. He calls John p slot that I

say, call it. That's being a chance that say no, my child

or cold. Then the pebble'll come out, take you alive. Do I

matter to God? Yes, that one little hair matters, that little sparrow

on the barn loft ruth, that little sparrow matters, that one little baby

that's being slaughtered up the road, and what they call planned parenthood when that

parent plan to decrease. He's the family number. God said, I'll take

that, because you didn't make it. Jesus said, I have power to

take a life. I have power to destroy the soul. The hell I'm

telling you, if you're fearful and you've been struggling with anxiety or whatever it

is you're struggling with concerning death and the afterlife, or perhaps your own adventure

to do something God has a sign for you to do. If God is

in it, there is no force, what soul emperle, that can prevent

it from happening. So it looked. Chapter number fifteen reread of that shepherd

that had such a compassionate spirit and heart towards the one that was strained deliberately

and intentionally from the food, and the Bible said, and when he had

found it, he laid it upon his shoulders, rejoicing. And when he

brought it home, he called together his friends and his neighbors, saying to

them, rejoice for me, for I found my sheep that was lost.

And Amos checking number three. In verse number twelve, it says this,

Thus said the Lord, as the shepherd take out of the mouth of the

lion two lands, or a peace of an earth, so shall the children

of is will be taken out the twelve in Sabaria and the corners of Damascus

in eight Cats. The prophet Amos was a shepherd, the one who cultivated

the ground, at the same time a crowner of pigs. And it seems

to me that when I read through this first few chapters of the Book of

Amos, I saw that this man of God was a man that was continued

to labor among his people. But apparently when he would venture out to look

at the actions and the doings of his people, as he just conducted daily

business, perhaps he was selling figs. When he would go home, he

would be greeted in a spirit, and he said, I must admit that

my people, who confess to be the people of God, they have turned

their backs. Oh God, they weren't enjoying times of peace and prosperity.

But now it seems that God is unleashed a lion by the enemies of God's

people, and they are coming in judgment is pending. It's coming. How

many I can know that America is during your face judgment the powers of all

of these innocent babies. They are being slaughtered because of the homosexuality in the

land wealth. He turns to new is what's coming here? You know?

And Nasen up. Their kids told up shall turned into hell. Don't ask

me to be a pacifist. Don't ask me to be unconcerned. Don't ask

me out like this fucking road there, road Amos said, Judgment is coming,

the enemies of Israel. They're coming to destroy God's people and the cities.

As I'm a frightening time, Brother Nathaniel and Sister. When't given messages

in terms of interpretation, Brother Samuel Howld giving a message in tones of interpretation,

it is frightening. Whenever God is telling the young man, I'm about

to withdraw my spirit. That's what God was telling Aimless. You tell him

I'm about to withdraw my spirit from him. Now listen, you are indefixable

and indestructible when God is in it, when God has builded to when God

told the answer around about it with God as signs for the Angel of the

Lord to intemper around the doctor's city. Oh yes, sir, you can

in tell Pisa sweet rest and prosperity. But when God calls, the gods

speak, when God calls her your God's up you, sir, You know

are you trouble? As three and twelve gives us, then imagery of what

will be the result of such a withdrawal. When the shepherd finally pines the

sheep, all that will be there are two legs and a piece of an

air. Here we find again he's a number God. I looked, and

among the remnants and the remains, all I found was two legs and a

piece of an era of what used to be my people? What used to

be my preacher, what used to be my preacher's Why? What used to

be that holiness family? What used to be that eighteen year old boy that

was given so much? Oh yes, the soul belongs to God. Oh

yes, Tomighty belongs to God. It was supposed to be the temple,

but now oh it is. It's two legs and a piece of the ear.

I let you another. God's sees the asses that trip down in the

podom of the person don't put and the colt not so you can burn that

body, can cremate it to essence, from essence to essence you make.

But God ass it all enough time on his hand He built procust drop God

TLD made it. They couldn't take it. They try to destroy the body,

They try to annihilate it. They try to cremate it, think it,

and God won't be able to find every little particle. Are y'all with

me in this house? You can nod afford to willfully surrender your future.

It won't be that the devil took it from you. It won't be that

the pastor didn't treat you happy enough. It won't be at the Sunday school

teacher didn't teach you adequate enough. It won't be that brother Na thing they

didn't have a burden for you. I can look at them Sunday school lesson

out allowance, my sister Hannah, Brother Nathane, or Brother road Cap.

I can listen to these great preachers preach Brother King. The world can't preach

wonderfully. This past way stand out feeling out for me, beholding him that's

holding me. I'm telling you it ain't that you have not been provided for

her, but that you have not been said. It's not the Creed and

the Oreo cookie between some great people of God that are pulling for your soul.

But I'm telling you you can forget this thing if you want to.

This shepherd wanted to save the lamb. The shepherd wanted to save the lamb

and when he got there, he was too late. Your next service might

be too late. We used to sing a soul Neil, Church of God,

Cleveland. You came one day too late. You've been left behind.

You came one day too late. A border man is no match for a

lyon. Without the Lord and without divine assistance, you will be no match

that line that goeth about as a rolling line seeking whom he made of hour.

And if that hedge is not around you? What was it about a

week and a half ago at the end of service, I said, church

pray. I said, I've only done this three or four times over the

course of my ministry, almost twenty years. I said, there's something bad,

roll, something on the horizon, something about to happen. Literally,

about an hour later, I was pulling up in my driveway and a man

tried to abduct me. He tried to pull me out of my vehicle,

and two men in my neighborhood came to my rescue. They were on divine

assignment. You see that a Seilan had came to the neighbor's house to try

to abduct a woman and to hijack her car. Brother Titus was asking me

the next day after he'd heard me talk about it. He said, Papa,

why would they try to hijack your car in the neighbor's car, He

said, It just doesn't make any sense to me whatsoever that they would put

a jack under him and jacket high. I said, Buddy, hijack means

to steveling, he said, But I've just been thinking, why wouldn't they

try to jack it up where they taken it to the sky? He said,

Hi, Jack, they tried to hijack the neighbor's car and tried to

abduct that woman. Then he fled to another house. By that time he's

got two neighbors on their trail. And then he came to my house.

They said. He tried to churn in the front door open, and then

they said, when I pulled up in the driveway, God knew that that

man would be there. God had allowed my two neighbors to get a murdered

for that situation. And they followed that man, knowing that he had at

one time in his possession of what they thought was either a gun or a

knif it was some sizable object in his hand. But Brother Jeremiah, we

together kept that man at may until helped God there and they made the arrest.

I want you to know, brother came the broke cap as some mother

said. They heeded what the pastor had said and said when they got home,

they fell down on being the knees onto us about eighteen inches and brother

Caleb said, the hold it does there, And I began to pray and

intercene on behalf of whatever his mysterious need was. And I want you to

know, because there was a head around about your sister Howell, God stirred

adapa and the life of our neighbors. Don't come on now. That woman

said she had the physically beat that man back, but I want you to

know I de not have the physically beat that man back by the vile appointment

and the vile assignment. When that man went to pull my door open,

there were two number meaning eye did not even know. They said, Pastor

Hower, we've heard about you, he urson, the things about you.

And we saw him headed to your house up and we said, no,

he ain't gonna have the pastor. You know why they put out because God

wasn't front of not just try. Oh, thank God for divine favor on

his people wherever they are at the shepherd wanted to save the lion, Sister

Walker, the bird it was there, but all he found was two legs

and a piece of an earth. Sister Wooton, You and I have done

that over the years, some of you elders, you listen, you know

we've done his, Sister Harrison, You other elders know there's been some we

wanted to help them. We pull them for him, Sister Howell, we

prayed over them. This is not as the old Thomers would say. Our

first rodeo. We are familiar with the way the Holy Ghost tries to help

young people and young men. You spoiling your hands together an acting respectful,

you shake in your head. I guess, sir, you're preaching to me

that stuff gonna be enough to save you. I'm telling you you're going to

need the goodness and the grace of God to follow you, Oh double l

all the days of your life, all the days of your life. I'm

proven to you scriptural there right here, that it is possible for God to

withdraw. And that's what Amos was telling them. I'm just trying to sell

some figs over here, but I perceived we've got a problem for coming and

that's what brother Nathaniel has done. Hearing service his sister with Brother Samuel.

I think Brother Gabriel Onenot, the Holy Goost, has just tried to tell

you you better cut it out. You better cut it out. I don't

want to have a spiritual death in this church or any other church anywhere.

When it's time to start playing games with God, it's time to get on

God's side, God's team. These people experience total laws. And you know

what, Brother Jeremiah, they acted like they never saw it coming. While

they said it ease and zie, they acted like we're rich and increase with

goods. Were the children of God? Where God's and I never saw it

coming. The numbers chapter number twenty three and verse number twenty is our text.

It said, behold, I have received commandment to bless and half blessed,

and I cannot reverse it. These are the words of babilm the prophet

and speaking to Baman. There is another time, though, within the national

history of Israel, where Amos is saying, oh, the curse is coming.

Because of their own choice, of their own choose and decisions that they

have made, the curse is coming. I'm preaching to encourage you tonight.

The world cannot curse you. Your enemy cannot curse you. Other preachers cannot

curse you. They cannot curse what you're doing for God. They cannot curse

what God is doing. No weapon for him against you will prosper. But

you can assemble a device. There it is, brother Nathaniel as Hman.

That's what you told on this morning. You can assemble your own cattle.

I need a pray in church. Some of you are thinking about Culver's.

It ain't built yet. They're working on. So there's two examples here.

One example within the national history of Israel, when God said you can't touch

him balem Blik and the land of Mowab can't touch him. The armies of

Moabits can't touch them. Then there's another time God said, get them boys.

It's all determined by your spirit and your will and your choice. Do

you want to be saved? I heard a gospel quartet singing the songs say,

do you really want to be healed? Do you really want to take

up your bed and walk? Do you really want to carry that cross?

Do you really want to be healed? Baylik, the king of Moab hired

a prophet named Balem then hopes that the prophet would curse the children of Israel.

That's what a lot of preachers are doing. Don't touch that dollar,

preacher, I want to free to you. That's what they're doing when they're

telling evangelists, let me tell you something about this preacher up the road,

and they're manipulating, deceiving that young prophet, that evangelist, that preacher,

and they're making sure they've pat his pockets and give him a really good offering

to keep him from going down there and helping that young pastor or that young

church family. I know we're not the young church family newly established, but

there's a lot of preachers that are going to have hell to pay for the

fire that they discourage somebody from going and help somebody else. But I want

you to know, no matter how they try to curse God's people, and

how they try to take these falsities and these lies, and we're conjured up

to the pits of hell, from church to church to church, no weapon

form that gets those people shall prosper serve. That's what Bayle tried to do.

He tried to hire Baylim to get them to curse the people of God.

You come back and preach a revival for me, and I'll give you

two thousand dollars offered. But don't you go down there and preach for brother

Aaron Wood. Don't you go down there in Miami and preach for brother Philip

Howell. I'll make sure you get three thousand dollars in offering. And I

know lady's looking at me right now, like what are you talking about.

Don't act like you don't know. This stuff goes on. That preacher was

coming by and doing good, and you received him a twenty five hundred dollars

offering for one night, and that he hasn't showed back up after he went

by a certain preacher's place. That's what Baylor tries to do, says to

have He tries to get Baylim to curse the children of Israel. You Bible

readers, the Bible teachers and students know where I'm going. But the Lord

told Balem, don't you do it. Numbers check the number twenty two,

verse number twelve, and thou shalt not curse the people, for they are

blessed. They didn't make it, they can't take it. And there are

certain preachers that cannot be bought. They're like Nabath. They are not for

sale. Neither is what they have for sale, and they will not sell

out in order to curse their brothers and sisters. There's something for You would

think for sure they would get on that bandwagon and curse that preacher up the

road. But there's no way they'll do it, because when they pray,

they say, this might have might have been a while since I saw that

last that preacher, It might have been a loss since I last seen you.

But I know he's a child of God, and I know the hand

that God has hold him. And they know what the Bible said, touch

bout might anointed, and do my prophets no harm. So Valem is trying

to pray about this situation, and it said, here, don't you do

it. Don't you curse these people for their blessed So in the days of

Amos, the people had been cursed and there was nothing their allies could do

about it. I want you to make a note of that that came to

me today in my prayer clause. In the days of Amos, the people

had been cursed and there was nothing their allies could do about it. In

the time of Balm. The people are plessed, and there was nothing their

enemies could do about it. Y'all get that? So it all hinges on

whether or not God is on your side. A young man and young woman,

I can assure you you do not need to come to the understanding that

God is no longer with you. I cannot imagine how ill it would feel

if I sense the evacuation of his presence. Right now, you feel like

you're your own person and you got the world by the tail. But you

don't realize just how close you are. That scripture that said mercy endarth forever.

That's true, and it dures to the extent of one life of one

generation, to the extent of another life of that generation. But when God

is done, he's done. I believe the Lord has blessed his people.

How many of you believe that? According to the words found in this chapter,

Bailek sent several different groups of messengers to Balem to try to get him

to curse these people of God. Hey, listen, I need you to

tell your preacher friend up the road, don't you go to that camp meeting.

Hey, I need you to tell that preacher up the road, don't

you go to that camp meeting. Either, don't you fellowship them people.

I'll be sure that I've had your pockets. What I want you to do,

Bayleb would tell them ambasadors, He said, you'd go to that prophet

Balem and you try to persuade him, and you use position, and you

use me, you use finances to get him to curse the people of God.

And you know what, Balem, just like a lot of preachers that

I don't care much for. Balem began to pray about it because Bunny was

owned the table. That spirit of Ghesi that brother Philip preached about was there.

It was present. And you know what, if God had allowed him

to curse his brothers and sisters, he would have cursed them simply to be

paid by the Moabites. The spirit of Judas was present, the spirit of

Haesi, the spirit of Judas, and the spirit of Balem has been present.

And many a church unfortunately, and said many a poop. And I'll

tell you who suffers the people in the pew. They suffer because they don't

know their pastor has been vowed off and has been befriended by somebody that is

keeping them from being bad. Proper. The preacher that could come by and

bless them has been forbidden to come by. They tried to pay him royally,

brother Thomas there, to get him to curse God's people, but he

wouldn't do it. So Baalum was offered money, and I'm going to take

it to the Lord and pray about it again. And the Lord got angry

or wrath with Fylik because Baylok was trying to get Balem to do such a

thing. And the Lord repeatedly rebinded Balem that his people were blessed at this

time and they could not be cursed. Now that's comforting that shouting material,

brother Philip, to know that his hand is holding you, and to know

that his watchful eye is upon you, sister Cheryl, how comforting that is.

And no numbers. Chapter number twenty three, verse number eight. Balem

told Maylack, how shall I curse whom God hath not cursed? Number twenty

four to nine. Baalam prophesied and said, blessed is he that blesses THEE,

and cursed is he that curses thee? Really upset Bailie. Whenever Balem

got the prophesied and said, you know what, it's only gonna get better

for the people of God. Sister. They can't stand it. That spirit

of Song comes alive and they try to hurl every times than they can.

And that spirit of David, but the spirit of Prophecy comes home, and

that's Saul. He starts weak, but it says David, bo I know

it doesn't do better than anybody else. That's what I love about the spirit

of God. The heart of the king is in the hand of God.

That's what I love about the spirit of God, Brother Tyler. God can

make the banker saying yes, when the baker bitness saying moon. That's what

I love about the spirit of God. Brother Jesse. Whenever somebody's supposed to

be cursing you, they can proclaim a blessing. I love it. I

love it. Are y'all getting so? Why are we walking with a tuck

kid? Why are we kicking up dirt and our new Sunday shoes? Why

are we acting like we're defeated when we have been blessed. Listen to Church.

They didn't save me, meaning the world, and they can't destroy me.

They didn't deliver me from my sins, and they cannot enslave me again.

The wicked men of this world, the wicked men, the wicked women

of this world. They cannot remove the blessings that are upon the church.

Let's stand Israel, Oh Israel, you could have it if you want it.

Why would you choose to lose out? Why would you choose to be

cursed when you could be blessed? Disobedience, stubborness, unbelief of heart,

who calls us to miss out on wonderful things the Lord has played for our

lives, Brother Jesse, when you come to the piano, and I say

this carefully, I'm for Pentecostal churches. I'm for holding this movements. I'm

for God's people. I love the Holdingness people. I'm one of them.

I appreciate them. But I noticed the trend about twenty years ago of men

so in discord among brethren, and I want you all to know something.

They are playing with fire. There were some men at one point that were

part of our fellowship, and I started feeling troubled in my spirit, and

I started praying, and I said, God, why do I feel troubled?

Why do I feel the spirit of betrayal? And I found out,

Sister Wooton that these men had been asked to join a check group. And

I'm not attacking these men. I'm not giving their identities. I'm not describing

them where they could be recognized. But these men started spending time on a

chat group rather than chating with God, and they became great friends. But

in time, because of too much conversation, they got to being critical of

their brothers and sisters, and they got to talking about this one done this,

and this one done that, and they got bitter. And rather than

praying for those that despitefully used them, and rather than restoring people in the

spirit of meekness, they decided that they would form this affiliation in this group

and that they would do something great. I was told by a couple of

these men. We realized that we've got to do something great in our area.

And that's good. I remember telling one of those brothers, do that

to the glory of God. Be blessed, don't be cursed. I bit

you, oh God's feet, do something wonderful for God, for the Pentecostal

holdingess people in that region. Be blessed, and we'll stay here and we'll

do what God has assigned for us to do. Well. The head honcho

or one of the head hanchos of that affiliation of that chat group that larned

a lot of them men over in Cluton. I'm gonna help you go over

here. I'm gonna help you preach over here. I'm gonna make this phone

call. And with this buddy system and this political system, you're gonna prosper.

You're gonna be blessed. Well, after about eighteen months or two years

of that, that head hancho decided, I don't need to be pastor of

this church. I'm gonna go off the road and take it moother church or

attend another church for a year and a half two years. Well, after

a year and a half or two years of that, he didn't get the

pastor there. Maybe did didn't tend too, but he moves states away.

So these guys that got caught in, we're gonna do something for God.

We're gonna have youth round it. We're gonna have camp meeting, We're gonna

have an end time revival and reformation. We're gonna see God do spectacular things

in our lives and in our families and in our churches. And I didn't

curse them. I said, God, bless you and keep you and may

it be so well tonight. They don't have a strong fellowship four or five

years later, they don't have a strong friendship. They don't have great camp

beans. But they convinced themselves they would have because if God is in it,

it will happen. And so we deduce that they were just good guys.

We assume, I guess, and that they had good intentions and good

plans, even if that meant that daggering somebody else in the back and pulling

from somebody else, that's great. But Brother Jeremiah, at some point we

as hold as a Pentecostal people, we have to admit when we're wrong.

There's a lot of preachers that need to admit. I was not called to

evangelize. This is deep tonight, and I want all of our preachers that

are affiliated with Bethley listening to this. Those of you that are overseas,

the missionaries, the pastors oversea, I want you to listen to this.

The preachers in this building tonight, I want you to listen to this.

If God sends you and you're God called, and you're an apostle, if

you would and you're in a missionary and you've been assigned to do something for

God, and you're not Mama called Daddy said. You may have to go

through hell and how water to get it done, and you may have blood,

sweat and tears invested in that ministry. But if you endure and you

fight, you will see it come to fruissue. But there are many preachers

that are bad mouth and pastors, and they're talking about pastors preacher revovals instead

of using evangelist. That's because pastors are sick and tired of evangelists coming by

and trying to get members to pad their pockets outside. And they're tired of

evangelists stirring up trouble out in the church yard and creating problems for the church.

And when it's all said and done, the pastor and the church members

are left with or without one thousand dollars, two thousand dollars, three thousand

dollars. However generous the church is a lot of money was poured into that

a lot of time, a lot of bloods and tears, only to have

trouble, only to hear a few preachers preach their top ten messages. They

preached the same message and this church fifteen miles up through I know that God

has the same message for all of his people at times. This right here

is the same message for all of his people at times. But there needs

to be in time that those servants are servants specific. And I want to

tell you something, evangelists, you will never succeed going from church to church

to church talking bad about that pastor that no longer uses you because he's tired

of you running your mouth. Whatever happened to praying and whatever happened to going

to the brother and saying listen, I admit I did wrong. I believe

it. Spent almost a year ago we had a preacher come through here again,

no identity giving, no names being called, but he's spent almost an

hour were talking about gummies. I think it was CBD gummies, wasn't not

or something like that. Dear brother gave them. Sister Candas have been saved,

you know for a few years, but sister Candas especially as new to

this. Brother Luther is new to this, and there was just things setting

that message that troubled them and troubled their spirit. There was way too much

emphasis on gummies popping up on the phone. Some of the elder men in

his church, said, they ain't popping up on my phone. I haven't

been talking about it. I haven't been searching it. I'm not researching it.

And I think it was Sister Candas. She said, he just knew

the names of them. He just knew the numbers of them, do the

abbreviations, and just just knew too much about it. Listen, lote come

to know too much about Sodom and goabar. Well. I love that brother.

I prayed for that brother. I prayed for all of God's feetpul.

I try to be an easy and very considerate pastor. In fact, I'd

like to follow my face ton and just pray for all of the ministers.

I want to pray for those that are compromising, although I do not welcome

the spirit of compromise to possess me. I want to pray for all the

boys and girls that will the process and backslide, although I don't want the

spirit of demons to get a hold of me. I wonder if we could

practice what we preach tonight and just come into this altar, and if we

could pray and say God, I do thank you Lord for blessing me.

And I want to ask you to bless them. And if for some reason

they're hurting or they're struggling in any way, which you help them, because

God, you know they're going to need protection of God. You know they're

gonna need the by p Sho. Famous's heart was broken into peace when he

realized that edge had been removed. And again I want to say, what

the Lord did for you. They are unable to undo it. What the

Lord did for you. That aren't able to undo it. Lord, and

be in Jesus, pray for yourself free for your told them that spot for

the usual, that usual had to spare in Christ, and all things be

thought about it be for your sister. Pray for those that talk about So

let's pray for him right now, could we do that? That's God to

hope them. Walking in the shi he's a walking up side. He's a

friend that goes. He's money and he's my God. He's the lasting worlds.

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me hes the bast's me joining its me. I'm alonking the shide all.

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I'm walking in the shide for always, always by my side, on the

path to let Sechester. Wucky walking in the shad. He gives me big

just the head. I'm a walking shad. He's walking by my he's a

friend. Nd movie, he's my lad. Heason. He least be bashed

in wood. He gives me call. He gives me. Walking in the

shad, he's a walking by us. He decided being a gold. Don't

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