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The despised dreamers - Bro Jesse Howell 3-24-2024

Bethel Holiness Church - Sunday Evening Services

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  1. Prayers. God, don't you appreciate this service? Tonight I was riding there

  2. on the Siana and uh as I was as I was playing Today's Palm Sunday.

  3. That's when Jesus came into the city and uh everyone you know he he

  4. was. He was worshiped greatly. They were singing. Everyone was happy and

  5. did arrived to Jerusalem there and uh many were happy. They believed palm branches

  6. in the in the way that he was going with that littan get Palm Sunday

  7. from because they would they had put the palm branches in there. And I

  8. begin to think, though, when Jesus wrote into Jerusalem, he was worshiped,

  9. he was welcomed, he was praised, and I hope when he wrote

  10. into my town today. I believe God important praise today. I believe they

  11. go. I was wanting to worship and glory and I prayed it, and

  12. he wrote into my town today. He looked up and down. My screams,

  13. he's on wall ranches in the way. Then he saw my coach and

  14. my worship and my praise in his path, and he fell welcome in my

  15. city. I thank God so much his great spirit that we have felt you

  16. can be turned into the Book of Nehemiah, the fourth chapter here this tonight,

  17. i'd rather I want to say quickly that I missed the pastor and pastor's

  18. wife the first of eighty. They are greatly missed. Hope they're doing well.

  19. We pray for them. They said to kill everyone. Hello. I

  20. talked to death this afternoon. He said, tell everyone. He said hello.

  21. And I want to say I'm very thankful for this opportunity to preach here

  22. tonight. I feel like God gave me a burden, and it was maybe

  23. a few weeks ago that God gave me. Actually I remember it was the

  24. Sunday before we started revival. I believe it was. Actually it was that

  25. that Saturday we get started in Bible. God gave me this burden. I

  26. haven't been able to shake it. Dearing revival. God had given me another

  27. another thing that I want to preach on one day, a title from a

  28. hopeless place to amazing grace. That's where I wanted to go today, but

  29. God wanted me to go here, so maybe I'll preach that later. But

  30. I do feel like that God wants us to go right here to the Book

  31. of Neabiah, chapter number four. I said, I said, I'm so

  32. thankful for this opportunity here tonight. I loved my pastor. I appreciate him.

  33. I appreciate his vision for this church, to his vision for this ministry.

  34. And this is kind of the direction that I feel like going here tonight

  35. about the vision of the Man of God. So mee and Biah chapter number

  36. four was starting the verse in the first verse, we'll read down to the

  37. sixth verse. But it came to pass that when Sandballet heard that we building

  38. the wall, he was wroth and took great indignation and marked the Jews.

  39. And when he's spake and he's faith before his brethren and the army of Samaria,

  40. and said, what do these feeble Jews? Will they four to five

  41. themselves? Will they sacrifice? Will they make an end in a day?

  42. Will they revive the stones out of the heaps of the rubbish which are burned?

  43. Now? Tobiah the m of night was by him, and he said,

  44. even that which they build, if a fox go up, he shall

  45. even break down their stone wall. Right here, old God, here,

  46. oh our God, For we are despised the a Biah speaking and turn their

  47. reproach upon their own head and give them for a prey in the land of

  48. captivity. Now is that away for a child of God to pray against their

  49. adversaries turn their reproach upon their own head. I believe it's all right.

  50. I believe it's okay, and the Amiah thinks it was okay. God thought

  51. it was okay, because the word of God is inspired by God. Right

  52. reading on verse over five, cover not their iniquity, am I didn't stop.

  53. Let not their sin be blotted out from before thee. God. Remember

  54. what they've done to your people, God, take notice of what they're doing

  55. over in your Let not their sin be blotted out from before thee, for

  56. they have provoked thee to anger. Before the builders so built we the wall,

  57. and all the wall was joined together unto the half thereof, for the

  58. people had a mind to work. I want to take a little thought out

  59. of that fourth verse right there here tonight, Neeliah said, here o our

  60. God, for we are despised, And if the Lord will help me here

  61. tonight for just a little while. I don't feel like I'll be that long

  62. unless God has other plans. I want to preach on the despised dreamers here

  63. tonight. Men of God have a vision, and there will always be devils,

  64. and there will always be people that despise the vision and despise the dreams

  65. of the man of God. Would you let your head here tonight, help

  66. us praise you God, be thank you for your work and heart biness.

  67. God, we worship you. Give in this place and life. God.

  68. We want to give him Lord, and you want to give you. Where

  69. is God? Lets your Lord is like the fire, shut up with eye

  70. home go Why send you a ward and lame? And my why let him

  71. go up under your people by love? Understand what this hit. Shave it

  72. for the churches and take him God, for you are worthy of praise.

  73. God. Let us get. But you're half of us. God. If

  74. you'll give a glory, for you'll give him honor, we'll give him praise

  75. in the love the name of Jesus be praised. He's man and the math

  76. praise God. We all know the story of Nehemiah. Where he got to

  77. where he was at. He had heard the story of how the the walls,

  78. and that the city had been destroyed. The gates had been burned.

  79. Oh Jerusalem, liat Lord waves the gates thereof are burned with fire. And

  80. uh so we've all heard the story, and I won't go into all of

  81. it tonight. But the book of Nehemiah is a testimony of a man with

  82. a vision of accomplishing something for the Kingdom of God. He had he had,

  83. he had a great ambition to do something for God. Now, God

  84. didn't necessarily speak to Nehemiah to go build this wall, but he no doubt

  85. put it in his heart. You don't read where God spoke by a prophet

  86. to to to go, said, you know, go repair my walls,

  87. go repair my gates. None. But God had still put the burden,

  88. the vision, the tread, and the being of God's heart to repair the

  89. wall. And so he leave. He he has a dream of Jerusalem being

  90. restored. He has a dream of recruit, of Jerusalem returning to her former

  91. glory due to her being the bright, shining city on a hill that she

  92. once was. That was the man of God's playing, that was his dream,

  93. that was his vision. That's what he was working towards. Neil Mayel

  94. was sanctioned by a king on his ersys. He was sanctioned and the king

  95. gave him his blessing. He gave him papers, and the king said,

  96. sounds good, sounds familiar, don't it. We've been sanctioned by the king

  97. to go build. We've been sanctioned by the king to go repair. We've

  98. been sentioned by the King of kings. We have papers in our hands.

  99. Yet we will face the spisers. Yet he will face haters and people that

  100. come against the plant of God. Namiah had the papers of martasers. He's

  101. in his hand. Ernazers said, go to Jerusalem. His plan and his

  102. dream was approved by the king. Yet we read in verse number four me

  103. Amiah said, here, oh God, for we artists. But I thought

  104. Namiah was doing the King's bidding. But I thought Namiyah was was working towards

  105. the betterment of Jerusalem. Why did he face, said bat Tobiah. I

  106. thought he was doing what God had put in his heart. Yet he faced

  107. the spisers. He was working according to the plan of God, Yet he

  108. faced opposition. In our tex sind Ballad and to Baya resorted to a childish

  109. elementary mockery on the planet of God and the vision of the man of God.

  110. Sam Black said, what do these feeble Jews think they're gonna do?

  111. What do they think they're gonna accomplish on these walls, feeble Jews. These

  112. just little nobodies, these little little little people that had been conquered, they

  113. had been been been brought out with Tobiah. His friend jumps in and he

  114. says, yeah, if so, my times a little fox jumped on the

  115. wall and ran across the wall, the whole wall would crumble, right,

  116. Such mockery, such childish mockery of the plan of God and the vision of

  117. the Man of God. But me and i Ah reviews to let that detour

  118. his his his focus on the planet of God. And he refused to let

  119. mockery and hate to tore him from the vision that God had put in his

  120. heart or the city of Jerusalem. He refused to let it come between him

  121. and his plan to repair the law he had. Refused to let it come

  122. between his plan come beel the gates again that were burned. It matters not

  123. how much the dreamer or the dream is despised, because that God has offered

  124. the dream. He will finish the dream if God has put it in his

  125. heart. It mays not different what the world says. If God has shaked

  126. him to the dreamer. If God has given the Man of God invent her,

  127. he will cooling that has planned is accomplished no matter the opposition. The

  128. Amiah seal. The Emiah's trust in the plan of God forced out all death,

  129. It forced out all question, and a steady work toward the plan of

  130. God. He said, he worked toward that work that God had put in

  131. his heart, that God had instilled in his heart. And I heard the

  132. ive heard my my father, my pastor, tell the story time and time

  133. again about the person that came up to him when he was he was freshly

  134. starting to come down here at the old start of his ministry down here,

  135. and the man told him, I believe it was a preacher, told him,

  136. you'll never build a church down there in South Florida, in lavel You'll

  137. never do that. You'll never make something of that that that people down there,

  138. you never You'll never get above two or three. You'll never get above

  139. three or four. I've heard Pactor tell the story. But what that was

  140. was a despiser. But if that wasn't with somebody, that just God's the

  141. vision of the Man of God. That was somebody that tried to distorts the

  142. Man of God from his focus. But just like me Amiah, just like

  143. me am Iah in the Bible. Then our pastor, thankful Lord didn't let

  144. that that little discouragement hinder division that was getting the hill of the Holy Ghost,

  145. helping God bless a wall and a city with gates that we all have

  146. read into. Ain't Jerusalem that we've all found haven agressed at a place where

  147. we found shelter from the storms of life that Amiah set forward despite despisers,

  148. de fight, kery, mockery. We found rest We found restoration, we

  149. found salvation, we found sanctification, we found Holy Ghost in dwelling, we

  150. found healing, and we found promise pride. Here the weather man of God

  151. said forth to bill the wall, hear fur. The man of God said

  152. for the recid of said to repair the kings. I'm thankful for the vision.

  153. I'm thankful for the dream that was despised by some God, but absolutely

  154. adored and appreciate it. I sow many more, I saw many others.

  155. The vast majority will stand and have stood with the visionary prophet of me.

  156. If that in our pastor, I'm not preaching this mess is like he had

  157. a despiser on every hand because he don't but there have been a few throughout

  158. the year that have been thespisers, some close friends, some family. None

  159. to this he held through the vision, He held through the pros that God

  160. had given us. God. Those that once stood back, those that once

  161. bought and said, you'll never do it. Those that once told the Amiad,

  162. you'll never build a wall, those that once past talk pastor how you'll

  163. never build the church, those that told the man of God that he'll never

  164. repair the gates. Now they must sit back and see what God has done

  165. with the vision. They must step back and see the dream come into fruition

  166. in his hand of God. Because in God has a man, and God

  167. has a plan, it will not fail. Never doubt that you will be

  168. despised by some Never doubt that you will be despised for your willingness to submit

  169. to the plan of God. Never doubt that you will be despised by some

  170. people for the plan that God laid out for you, for your life,

  171. for your family earth. It could come from family. I'm sure she has

  172. come from family. It could come from from people that you considered close friends.

  173. It could even come from religious leaders that you once had confidence in,

  174. but when they realized that God was moving on your heart, that God was

  175. giving you a dream, that God was giving you a vision for your family,

  176. to not stand in the ashes of the past, but to move forward

  177. into a vision, to move forward toward a dream that they will come again,

  178. and they will be despised. While some despise, others touched the vision.

  179. While some despise, others believe in the dream. They believe in the

  180. possibility. They believed that with God, all things are possible. The Jews

  181. had already returned to Jerusalem before Neilmiah did. For what I've what I've studied,

  182. out what I've read, and for close to one hundred years somewhere around

  183. in there, these these children of Israel, had already returned to Jerusalem.

  184. They had already moved back into into that area. But no one had caught

  185. the vision to repair the wall. There were already Israelites living there. There

  186. were already people sitting in the ashes of the Birthday. But no one had

  187. dream. No one sol the walls being built, No one saw the gates

  188. being restored. No one soul the city being be reviled. They were content

  189. to live in the ashes of the burn gates. They were content to live

  190. in the rubble under the struggling walls. But they calls me Amiah had a

  191. vision. They calls Niamiah, called him dream from God. And God had

  192. put in his heart to knew something about it. See, these people fell

  193. right in behind him. You can read. You can read in chapter and

  194. in chapter four, verse six, which we read part of our text,

  195. the Amayah said, for the people had him on the work. When the

  196. man of God stepped out and said, I see what can be, I

  197. see what God wants it to be. The people rallied around here. The

  198. people had a god to work. The people began to work. It took

  199. one dreamer, it took one visionary. It took one man of God to

  200. set forward on a mission of restoration. And when it was all said and

  201. done, the Bible says there was about forty two different groups, not just

  202. one person in each group. There were groups, and they would work together

  203. at this portion of the wall. You can read it. This grew work

  204. from here to here, and this brew work from here to here, and

  205. this group work from here to here. They were working on different sections of

  206. the wall. That was forty two different groups of people that had caught the

  207. vision that he fought, the dream of a man of God, and then

  208. saying, what you bill, I'm a pill. What you fight for,

  209. I won't fight brose. On August twenty eighth, nineteen sixty three, a

  210. man by the name of Martin Luther King, Jr. From the steps of

  211. the Lincoln Memorial in Washington, d c. He declared that he had a

  212. dream. Let's go. He had a dream of freedom, he had a

  213. dream of equality. He had a dream of seeing the land of slavery a

  214. freed from slavery. He had a dream of seeing a land with no hate.

  215. And historian John mccam said, with one fray, Martin Luther King joined

  216. Jefferson and Lincoln in the ranks of men who shake modern America. With a

  217. single phrase, Martin Luther gained the many supporters. Many people believe in that

  218. tree. Many people caught the vision of Martin Luther when he's saying I have

  219. a dream. Many people caught the vision. Many people became supporters. Get

  220. all the supporters. He caught any aspisors he called the spisers of the tree.

  221. People that didn't agree with the tree, people that said I have a

  222. dream of it being just like it is people that I had a dream of.

  223. There be any changes people to have a dream of people, because right

  224. the way I am Martin Luther's that I have a dreamers have changed. I

  225. have a new way of looking at James. About four and four years and

  226. eight months later, if I didn't mind my dates correctly, they missed the

  227. upside might have but I believe it was far month. Four years and eight

  228. months later, on the balcony of his second floor hotel room in Memphis,

  229. Tennessee, he was fatally shot. He died about an hour later in Saint

  230. Joseph's Hospital. His assassinator was James Earl Ray. James Ray didn't test the

  231. vision. James Ray didn't see the benefit of Mary Luther's dream, and James

  232. Ray extinguished the dreamer, but he did not extinguish the dream. Martin Luther's

  233. dream still lives on today. His speech still lives on today. But people

  234. would try to discourage the dreamer. People would try to discourage what God is

  235. trying to do. It too be through mossmery, right, it could be

  236. through false spirituality or even false wisdom. People can come to you and say

  237. I heard from God the pla of God, this is the dream of God,

  238. this is the vision of God. But they really don't have the vision

  239. that God has given for your life. They really don't have the dream the

  240. hen result. But God has come for you. And I even watched you,

  241. and I'm sure most of us here today has gone about the most famous

  242. dreamer, probably in the Bible, the dreamer of dreams, the man who

  243. in the world dreamer, it said, are minds automatic to go to a

  244. young boy named Joseph Right Genesis, chapter number thirty seven and verse five.

  245. Joseph had a dream. He had a promise to hold you. But those

  246. that I'm sure he thought would be his biggest support, those that I'm sure

  247. thought, this would be great to see my brother prosper, This would be

  248. great to see my brother esell in life and do great, it thinks in

  249. life. But they turned out to be his biggest as fathers, his biggest

  250. haters. The biggest hate group he had was his own flesh and blood.

  251. First number nineteen, the thirty seven chapter of Chances. Joseph's brethren resorted to

  252. insuls, as did sam Ballet and Tobia. Right when Joseph was coming to

  253. him, they said, Oh, here comes that dreamer. Here comes das

  254. favorab little boy, that dreamer, boy that has all them dreams mockery.

  255. Right, here comes out little seventeen year old boy with all those big plans.

  256. Here comes the one who aspires to make something out of his life.

  257. You try to make something out of your life, You try to make something

  258. out of your family. People will come out of the wood words to discourage

  259. the dream, to discourage your vision. People will come fromise around just to

  260. tell you that they're doing it wrong. People will come from old people that

  261. you didn't even know who you were, to tell you that's a crazy dream

  262. you got there, You might as well give it up. But Joseph's brethren

  263. failed to realize who was giving Joseph the dream, right. I think they

  264. just thought Joseph had something in his head. You know, he probably went

  265. to bess thinking about it. You know, went to bed thinking I'm gonna

  266. be the ruler of the world. I'm gonna take over. Right, you

  267. ever did that? Go to bed thinking about something and you and you have

  268. a dream about what you're thinking about, go to bed thinking about fast cars,

  269. and all of a sudden you're in a race. Right, You go

  270. to ben think about a tiger and anyone's chasing you through the woods. Hey,

  271. I think that's probably what they thought about old Joseph. I don't know,

  272. maybe they didn't. Maybe they didn't. Your guess as good as mine.

  273. I had all for as much as you do. From God didn't say

  274. he did or he didn't. So if you would, are you he didn't

  275. then or they didn't? That all? Are you? They did? But

  276. they failed to realize who the giver of the dream was. They didn't really

  277. think that God had given Joseph the dream. They didn't think that God had

  278. put it in the heart of that young man his future plans. They didn't

  279. think that God had really given Joseph a vision of the future for his life.

  280. He's too good to be true. He's too good to be true.

  281. That my little baby brother. In my case, this would be Samuel,

  282. my second from the youngest, That handsome guy over there. He ain't handome

  283. enough to run the world. He ain't handsome enough took to be the ruler

  284. of the known world, right, He just don't have it. But when

  285. God gives a dream, when God put the man forward, he'll see to

  286. the vision. You'll see to the dream God had given the man the dream

  287. God had given Joseph. God had given Joseph the vision. God had put

  288. it in the heart of Joseph. His brothers hated him. Yet the more

  289. they weren't happy about the dreamer's dreams. They didn't share the vision with Joseph.

  290. They could have said, yeah, let's work toward that, Joseph,

  291. I'll be your right head man. Yeah, I'll be I'll be the one

  292. that fights your battles. I'll be the one that makes sure that your tables

  293. are always said. But they didn't catch the vision. Too much hate,

  294. too much envy, too much jealousy going on in the heart of Joseph's brothers

  295. for that kind of servity, for that kind of willingness to get behind the

  296. vision. And there's people in this world they have too much in me,

  297. They have too much jealousy to get behind the men of God, to get

  298. behind the vision of God. But do what they want, God will see

  299. them. Musing through the dream of Joseph was no less God gives because of

  300. the despising and unbelieving brother just because they despise it, just because they wished

  301. it not to be. So, it didn't change a single thing. People

  302. can sit back and despise the dream, right, People can sit back and

  303. despise the vision even after they've seen it once. Joseph's brethren seeing the seeing

  304. the fruition of the vision, they didn't despise it no more. When they're

  305. hardheaded people in this world that they'll despise you in the dream. When you

  306. have the dream, and they'll despise you worse. When you get the dream.

  307. When the vision comes to life, they'll despise you. The more they'll

  308. despise you worse. God. Genesis thirty seven and seven is Ji Joseph's dream

  309. about the sheaves. Right said, we were in the field. Behold my

  310. sheaf rose up above y'all's and y'all made o piece to my sheep. I

  311. was the first dream. Genesys thirty seven and nine. Two months later,

  312. to Joseph said, hey, I got another dream. I had another one.

  313. They were bulling my den. Joseph said, behold I dream to dream

  314. more. Yeah, I got it, guys, it gets better. I

  315. didn't just have one dream, I got two dreams. God just do one

  316. thing they want to do two. You got the fourth, Wana tell you

  317. so. God done for me, I gotta dream more. Praise God.

  318. Jenesis thirty seven and nine. The sun and moon and stars to me,

  319. the sun, moon and the and eleven stars. That's his mother, of

  320. his dad is eleven brethren. Let me tell you something that was good to

  321. me while I was well, I was studying. I jumped up from the

  322. dining room table when I read it. There in a while she was in

  323. the largery room. The boys were already bids. She was full to close.

  324. I said, I ain't never noticed this before. This is crazy.

  325. Look right there. Genesis forty six, forty two and six, they bowed

  326. their faces to the earth. That was the first time. That was the

  327. first time them on them old boys went into to Egypt to bike horn to

  328. the earth. That was the first time they went home. Genesis forty three

  329. and twenty six. Yet again they bowed itself to the ground to two dreams,

  330. two visions. Two times. They did it without even knowing who the

  331. man was. That was good to me. Twice Joseph dream and twice they

  332. did just that. Don't gave him a dream, don't tell him a plan.

  333. Don't show he just gave you a dream. He can give you a

  334. plan that something the God's put in your heart. He will see it through.

  335. They could even me him and hate him all day on him, but

  336. the plain of God stood. People can scorn thinking mob, they can rid

  337. it you. They can even despise the dream and the dreamer. But he

  338. will be to know a hell because God will win that fail. Strengthen the

  339. hands of the man of God or the word that he's told for God,

  340. look give you strength. The sad we are a pippies, whither the bodies

  341. is gone, the whole the finger time, second Samuel six to sixteen.

  342. Joe David is worship than God. He's giving it always God. He's dancing

  343. before the Lord mightily. He's giving God everything he had. Kind of like

  344. they were doing on Palm Sunday, the argum of the Lord was coming back.

  345. They were coming into the town and they're David out in front of the

  346. key, just a cutting the rug. And there's a little old woman sitting

  347. up in the in the in the house, and she's looking now and she's

  348. despising baby for all he's worth. Right, every move he makes, she

  349. just fine. Every step he takes, she despises him. How that work

  350. out for her? Didn't work out too good. Let me tell you.

  351. Let the despisers do what they want to do. Lett the despisers say what

  352. they want to say. I planned to catch the vision of the Man of

  353. God. I plan to catch the dream the Man of God. Herod and

  354. Herd on the mountain in exs Exitus seventeen. They caught the vision of the

  355. Man of God. They call what Moses was doing up there. They seen

  356. the good that it was doing. They've seen Moses is planning for the children

  357. of Israel. He's seen where God was leading them. They seen Moses laboring.

  358. He's holding his hands up. Moses is fighting for the vision. He's

  359. fighting for the dream of what he believes can't be. He's fighting for what

  360. God has put in his heart. He's fighting for the battle. He's up

  361. there with his arms up. And as long as he held his arms up,

  362. they would prevail. But when his arm would get tired, he's like

  363. man, they would start losing the battle. Well, there was two men

  364. that called the vision of Moses. They called the plan of Moses. They

  365. see what the Man of God needed. He needed some people to come up

  366. aside him and catch the vision. He needed some people to come up inside

  367. him and grab his arms and to lift him up. You can catch the

  368. vision in your prayer, falls on your knees. You can test the vision

  369. and praying these altars for your pastor. You can test a vision and praise

  370. in the heart and the choir for your church family. You can test the

  371. vision in the pew and fight for your neighbor. You can test the vision

  372. of the Man of God. You can catch the plane of God that the

  373. pastor and the preacher the prophet is laying out. Give yourself through the dream

  374. of the Amilah. Give yourself to the vision of the Man of God.

  375. We must be willing workers. We must have a mind to work. We

  376. must be behind the Man of God. A dreamer or a visionary always forces

  377. a decision to be made. Some will despise the dream, like Joseph's brethren.

  378. Some will hate the dream and do all they can to destroy the dream.

  379. While others put their hearts and their lives into the vision of the Man

  380. of God, and they unfold the hands of their Moses in prayer and singing

  381. in song in worship. Moses meant freedom for the children of Israel. Moses

  382. been freedom for all those little Israeli kids. All the is are likes running

  383. around there. What does the Man of God mean for our families? I've

  384. got a family. Now, What does the Man of God mean for my

  385. friend? What does the Man of God's vision mean for my family? What

  386. does the dream of Bethel hole in his church mean for my family? I

  387. must get behind it. I must be a catcher of the dream. What

  388. would have happened if Moses didn't submit to the planet of God. You say,

  389. well, God would have raised up enough. Maybe God wouldn't have raised

  390. up Juntion. Maybe he would have, maybe he wouldn't have. He probably

  391. wouldn't have, or he would have would have would have provided for them some

  392. way, because that is his chosen nation. But nonetheless, Erin in her

  393. said, that's by Moses. That's my man of God. That's the man

  394. that that risked it, risked it all for me. That's the one that

  395. was obedient to the Heavin they called it, and brought freedom to my sons

  396. than my daughters. That's the one that prayed for my family whenever I was

  397. in those safe to praying all God, and they lifted up in the hands

  398. of the Man of God. What about it? Have you caught the vision

  399. tonight. I believe most of us have. I hear it's just a bying.

  400. I hear, I hear people that's behind the man of God, that's

  401. behind the church. God, God, are you with the bienh are you

  402. so? Are you with the with the crowd that says, let's build the

  403. wall, let's build the gates? Or do you side with sand Bat and

  404. Tobio? Which side do you fall on? All We've got enough despisers of

  405. the dream. We've got enough haters of the vision. We've got enough people

  406. that despise those that are good. What we need is some more workers.

  407. Joseph's brothers were blinded by envy. Said Violet was wroth, and he mocked

  408. the Amiah because what he because because of what he wanted to do. Michael

  409. despised David for his manner of worship. Jesus came in at the squirrel with

  410. the Plan of salvation in his hands. Then he despised him. Pilot said,

  411. I know it's for envy that you brought him. You've delivered him to

  412. me because you're envious, because you're envious of the plan he has. You're

  413. envious because of the influence. You're in this because of the spirit of God

  414. that is on his life. When you're in this because of the miracles that

  415. are around him. You're envious because of what he's done up and down our

  416. streets. They ended him without a cause, for no good reason. They

  417. in the savior that came to save. They're very soul, the one that

  418. gave his life for their soul. They envy him. I heard it say

  419. that envy is rotteness to the poem, and it SAPs the happiness right out

  420. of your life. Because when you're in this, all you do is you

  421. live to see the dreamer phil When you're in this, you live to see

  422. the vision perish. David refused to let Michael change his manner of worship.

  423. Joseph's dreams came to fool fruition despite severe persecution from his brothers. Namah refused

  424. to let the naysayers discourage or toward him from his vision for the restoration of

  425. the Wall, the Gate, and the city of Jerusalem. And I thank

  426. God here tonight for the vision. I thank God for the dreaming tho despised

  427. by some right love by so many. I'm thankful for the vision of our

  428. pastor right here at Perthuin wait on. Saul was once a despiser of the

  429. dream of the early church. Saul was once a despiser of the dream of

  430. the early Church. But he had a change of heart. The man caught

  431. the vision. The man seen the potential. He's seen what God was wanting

  432. to do and what he wants hated, he now made his life for it.

  433. Right. What he once hated, he now loved. What he wants

  434. to despise, he now promoted. I've heard it say he was the church's

  435. number one persecutor. And after he caught the vision, after he had was

  436. saved, he became the number one promoter. Because Paul caught the vision,

  437. because he caught the dream of what God wanted to do, he became the

  438. great apostle Paul that we all know and appreciate, and many are so happy

  439. about meeting. After they meet Jesus and spend about a million years, many

  440. people can't wait to see the church's promoter that once despised. Proverbs twenty nine

  441. of eighteen said, where there is no vision, the people perish. Why

  442. would you despise something that people's salvation depend on, right, Why would you

  443. despise something that if if the vision really does die, if what you want

  444. to happen or really happens, so many will perish. If there is no

  445. vision, people will perish. If the Man of God loses vision, the

  446. church perish. If the Man of God losing his grasp on his dream,

  447. the church wants windle away to nothing. I've seen it, Dad evangelized for

  448. a few years before we came down here, and I was old enough to

  449. remember going in some of them churches and seeing a church with no vision,

  450. seeing a church with no dream, no ambition to do anything but sit there

  451. and just have what they have, they need, what they need, not

  452. fight for what they need, not fight for a vision, not fight for

  453. a dream. What can be but to sit there and dwindle away to nothing.

  454. But I believe I've joined the ranks with the Man of God. I

  455. believe I'll joined the ranks of the man with the vision for the future.

  456. And I believe I'll join the ranks of the church for the dream. Get

  457. it to them, my Almighty God. Let the stumpers say what they will,

  458. Let the mockers wont kill they're blue in the face. I'll stand with

  459. the man of God. I stand with them, and I'll build I stand

  460. with them his planning to repair the gate. I'll grab a sword and I'll

  461. stack it right with the men of God. Because I realized that this gate

  462. and this wall means protection for my school. It means protection from my family,

  463. for my little ones coming up. This wall is another defense against the

  464. enim. You say, I don't see the vision. I don't see the

  465. dream. Well, we read it in Sunday school this morning Revelation at three

  466. eighteen. John the Revelator wrote it down. God spoke it. He wrote

  467. it down, and he wrote near the end of that verse in number eighteen,

  468. he said, annoyed eyes, I say that, vow may it see.

  469. I believe we've got some people that has caught the vision here to that.

  470. I believe we got some people that has thigh save on their eyes,

  471. and they're seeing. I'm reminding of the Prophet and the Young Prophet and in

  472. the mountain right, and he told the old Prophet. I wish we read

  473. it, and but God gave it to me just now, so I believe

  474. he'll help me remember it. The old the young Prophet was in distress.

  475. If I'm not mistaken, over surrounded. There's nowhere for us to go.

  476. The old man pray, they said, open his eyes. Lord, God,

  477. let him see what's actually happening. God, let him see what actually

  478. is around him. God, let him see that those that are for us,

  479. I'm more than those that be against us. Wouldn't you stand here this

  480. morning tonight? Rather, I thank God for the vision of the Man of

  481. God. Thank God for this church, or the plan of God, the

  482. vision of God and the dream of the dreamer. I see God has accomplished

  483. so much in so many lives. In my life, I've seen God do

  484. things I never thought that I would ever see. Because the men of God

  485. a vision. I've seen walls repaired, I've seen breaches repaired because a man

  486. of God. A vision. You feel like praying here tonight finds you a

  487. place to pray. If you've got the vision, what's I believe you do?

  488. Spend some time thanking God for that vision. If you've got the vision,

  489. spend some time telling God you're thankful for the man of God. If

  490. you don't have the vision, say God, give me the vision. God,

  491. let me see it the way that I need to see it. God,

  492. let me see your plan let me see the will of God for my

  493. life really good at last to go for surely the game. Then it's as

  494. bad down do you all the weirdness? If you will buy him bad weakness?

  495. I don't, I not knowing. But but had they the c upon

  496. the cross of Calvary, the Lord let me the sermon. O, yes,

  497. doescuse me the door? Don refuse me, for surely the forgain Let

  498. me do this hopball your lively to crumbble, nor cross me away? How

  499. work I'll stand for the dear Jesus. The day be come by. I'll

  500. swear the guy's falted about baby be me that will love the gold cross shee

  501. olet be willing to say, O, g so sheet steed and a load

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