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Somebody raise the standard - Bro Jeremy Howell 1-21-2024

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  1. Leviticus mayd director attention to the eighteenth chapter and the twenty fourth verse. Brother

  2. Nathaniel, First John Chapter number two, you'll be reading verses number fifteen through

  3. seventeen, and Brother Jesse Second Corinthians, Chapter number six, verses number seventeen

  4. and eighteen. Now, the Lord spoke this message into my heart when I

  5. was in the presence of the brether in around four and thirty pm. Those

  6. of you that were with me, you know what we were doing around that

  7. time. We were planning on leaving around that time. But we were divinely

  8. interrupted by another brother, an Hispanic brother that had been sent to that precise

  9. location to stand at that very street corner where we were at. And he

  10. arrived and immediately he went to shout from claiming the goodness of God. He

  11. said, now I see, now, I see why the Lord put it

  12. upon my heart to be right here at this very corner. A month ago.

  13. The Lord said, Brother Sam and Brother Caleb down there, and they

  14. asked me to go with them. We went down there and we prayed as

  15. we drove for about ten minutes, and I felt like the Lord had said,

  16. this will be the place where you preach. And they preached there and

  17. the Lord really helped the woman there. We looked for her today, we

  18. couldn't find her, but we did find her stuff. So that lets us

  19. know. Barbara still in the area of Brother Jesse. I'm sure you see

  20. her on a daily basis. If you speak to her, tell her.

  21. We said to Howdy. After some time today of passing out so many tracks,

  22. I don't know, Brother Star, they had to be hundreds and engaging

  23. people and having personal evangelism and tracked ministry going on. As we're just about

  24. to get into the vehicle, take a break and into the vehicle, here

  25. comes that precious brother jumps out of the van and just goes right to where

  26. we're all standing and just hollers the high phrases of God, glorifies the Lord,

  27. screams it just as loud as he can. And he said, I

  28. know that every day somebody is murdered, Earth dies right here of this block,

  29. just beyond where we were preaching at. And he said, every single

  30. day something terrible happens. We don't know you, but we're aware of that

  31. fact. At his third world status right here in this particular area that we're

  32. ministering in. He said, But I see it now, I see it

  33. so clearly. And he said, I know that God has a plan for

  34. a Marcoligue. This is a Hispanic brother that came from Mexico that was a

  35. drug dealer when he got here. A drug user. He smoked marijuana for

  36. two years, then went to the harder stuff and used came for five years.

  37. He said. When he got to the States, his brother said,

  38. there's no hope for you. You will never change. But he found the

  39. Lord. The Lord found him. They fell in love with one another.

  40. And as we preach and teach around here, it doesn't take God a year,

  41. two, three, four or five years. He said, within three

  42. months time he was born again, sanctify, holding yours field and preaching the

  43. gospel. His mama said, I would have never believed it. I would

  44. have never believed it unless I seen it. You have changed, You're a

  45. new man. So brother Raphael was greatly encouraged as well as the brethren.

  46. We were greatly encouraged as the Lord blessed. And I want y'all to know

  47. we had church. Just before we broke out your celebrating and just praising God

  48. at the block, a drunkard come out of the shadow it was his brother

  49. Philip, brother Caleb, and brother Samuel were preaching, and he come out

  50. of the shadows, out from under the old tree holding a starfoam cup that

  51. had been full of alcohol, come stumbling over there to where we were standing,

  52. and we would then administer to him, and he prayed to be saved.

  53. Brother Raphael encouraged him to go ahead and pulled out the rest of that

  54. beer that was in that cup. I'm telling the church and we just had

  55. camp meeting down there. So we had a baby dedication ceremony today. We

  56. had the formal ceremonial part of that message, the vows, and we just

  57. fellowshiped for a while. We're brother christ Is to Debbie and other saints in

  58. here. We got down there to KFC, had to wait for a while

  59. for our food, but God's time it is impeccable. We finally were able

  60. to preach for about an hour, counting Brother Raphael's visit and and preaching and

  61. witnessing with us. And so at five o'clock I told Brother Raphael, I

  62. said, we start church in an hour. I have to head north.

  63. That's unusual for me to say that. I had to think about it just

  64. then. I had to head north. Okay, so I had to head

  65. to north. And this is as far as I plan to go north this

  66. time of year. I don't like cold weather. I figured that out.

  67. I don't like it at all. Two or three days of it's nice,

  68. but I don't want to live in it. So we got here at five

  69. thirty two. Church started at six o'clock. Brother Nathaniel, make sure he

  70. started at six o'clock sharp. The Lord spoke this message into my heart at

  71. four thirty. If I blunder tonight, it's jeremy. How will blunder?

  72. God has nothing to do with it. But I just pray that I have

  73. studied to ship myself approved under God, a workman in ned. It is

  74. not to be ashamed, rightly divided the word of truth. I just prayed

  75. that this message will be a blessing to you all. I want to pull

  76. your focus on the testimony that you heard just before we changed the order of

  77. the service from our worship and our praising of our Master to the preaching.

  78. Brother Tyler stood up and in his testimony he spoke of sanctification. Brother Tyler,

  79. run up here real quick, don't take long doing it. Run up

  80. here, real quick. Is it in my notes or not? Sanctification?

  81. One of the biggest words on the first page of my notes is sanctification.

  82. I've known Old Tyler for about seventeen years. I've never heard him testify of

  83. sanctification that I know of. But I know that we met Brother Raphael by

  84. divine appointment. I know that tonight Brother Tyler hit the bull's eye in his

  85. testimony. So can God use a Tabitha? He's sure? Can Can God

  86. use a Tyler? He's sure? Can well happens When you get Tabatha Tyler

  87. together, you have tn T right. So I believe God's gonna help us

  88. right here in this service tonight, Brother Nathaniel first John Champion, number two,

  89. verses number fifteen through seventeen. Love not the world, neither the things

  90. that are in the world. If any man love the world, the love

  91. of the Father is not in him. For all that is in the world,

  92. the lust of the flesh, and the lust of the eyes, and

  93. the pride of life is not up the Father. But he's up the world.

  94. The world passedeth away, and the lust thereof. But he that doeth

  95. the will of God abideth forever. Read the first part of verse number fifteen,

  96. love not the world, neither the things that are in the world.

  97. Doctor T. D. Jakes, is that you going out the back door?

  98. Hain't tied right there? I know that's very offensive. Read the first

  99. part of that verse again, love not the world, neither the things that

  100. are in the world. Joe Olsting is at you, brother, going out

  101. to that back door. Come here, body, let me preach to you

  102. a little bit, all right, brother Jesse. Sec of Christians, chapter

  103. number six, Verse number seventeen and eighteen. And for that self righteous sucker

  104. that's listening to me, preach right now, and said Joel Oldstein at my

  105. brother, he ain't mine either. It need a sense of humor, all

  106. right, Go ahead, brother Jesse. Wherefore, come out from among them

  107. and be ye separate, Saith the Lord and touch not the unclean thing.

  108. And I will receive you and will be a father unto you, and you

  109. shall be my sons and daughters. Saith the Lord Almighty. Do y'all think

  110. the megachurch pastor would use those two scriptures as cotext and a servant. It's

  111. highly unlikely that they would do. So let's stand for the reading of our

  112. Golden Text. May this verse be lifted off of the pages of the sacred

  113. writ before you. Even now, as your eyes focused upon the twenty fourth

  114. verse of the eighteenth chapter, the Bible said, Defi'll not ye yourselves in

  115. any of these things, for in all these the nations are defiled, which

  116. I cast out before you. Wow. Wow. If you'll study this particular

  117. chapter of the Book of a Leviticus, well, if you'll just study this

  118. entire book of Leviticus, you will find that the theme of Leviticus is sanctification.

  119. And there is a particular scripture in this book of the Bible that God

  120. was speaking through his servant Moses, and was telling these people, don't you

  121. keep the ways that you've learned. Don't you be like the Egyptians, And

  122. don't you be like the Canaanites, in whose lands you're about to inhabit.

  123. I want to preach on somebody, raise the standard. Let's pray. Heavenly

  124. Father, we love and we praise you. We thank you for the opportunity

  125. to be in the house of the Lord. I thank you Lord for this

  126. thy people being present even on Sunday night. I'm glad that the beth the

  127. hole in his church family has chosen to open the doors of this tabernacle for

  128. whosoever will so they can come. I thank you for the presence of God.

  129. I pray that you would anoint this thy servant said of God at my

  130. mouth, and help me to say those things that you would happy to say,

  131. nothing more or less anort the ears of this thy people, that they

  132. might hear what it is the spirit saith unto this church this very night.

  133. I pray God that we would not be hearers only, but that we would

  134. be doers. Help us to love this word of truth. Help us to

  135. hold on to every line of this precious book. I pray that we would

  136. depart this place joyfully and not sorrowfully. In Jesus' name. Amen. Now

  137. we read verse number twenty four as our golden texts. Now, if you

  138. will take a gander over there to verse number two, let's read that verse

  139. as well as the third and fourth verses. The Bible said, speak unto

  140. the children of Israel, and say unto them, I am the Lord your

  141. God. After the doings of the land of Egypt, wherein needs well shall

  142. ye not do. And after the doings of the land of Canaan. Whether

  143. I bring you, shall ye not do, neither shall ye walk in their

  144. ordinances. Ye shall do my judgments and keep my ordinances to walk therein.

  145. I am the Lord your God. And let me ask you a question.

  146. In fact, will you ask your neighbor this question, Hey, neighbor,

  147. who do you belong to? Now? I want you to look at them

  148. again and say, hey, neighbor, somebody needs to raise the standard.

  149. I hope that each one in this building tonight is willing to raise the standards.

  150. Sister how And I just spent some time in Miami, and certainly concerning

  151. the restaurants down there, they have raised the bar or raised the standard concerning

  152. food. Brother Tyler, you would feel like you were in the heaven concerning

  153. food if you were in certain parts of Miami, especially the parts that we

  154. were in. I've heard it said before that people have raised the standard in

  155. their restaurants, They've raised the standards at their local business establishments. When you

  156. say that you have a standard, that is a level of quality or attainment.

  157. Our text has found an Old Testament book of the Holy Bible, the

  158. Book of Leviticus. This book of the Bible is the third book of the

  159. Old Testament. We don't have a lot of time tonight, so I will

  160. keep this message short. To be honest with you. I don't have a

  161. lot of time because I don't have a lot of notes, because the Lord's

  162. served notice to me at four point thirty this evening to preach to you all

  163. from this twenty fourth verse that says, defile not yourselves in any of these

  164. things, where in all these things the nations are devolved, which I cast

  165. out before you. That's a very serious statement. You know, the person

  166. that is speaking there is not Moses. Right. You know that the person

  167. speaking there is not Pastor and Owl right. You understand who this authoritative voice

  168. is? Correct? It is the voice of God speaking to his people.

  169. And so because I have limited notes that I'm totally relying upon the power of

  170. the Holy Ghost tonight, this sermon might be briefed, but I want you

  171. to know that somebody in this building needs to raise the standard in their life.

  172. And as the pastor of the Bethel hol Iness Church, which is simply

  173. an ownor shepherd under the chief Shepherd, the Lord Jesus Christ, who presides

  174. over every affair of this holy place, I feel like I want to accept

  175. God's challenge in raising the standard of the Holiness Church, because I feel like

  176. the Lord is going to hold me personally accountable for how we conduct our lives,

  177. for how we conduct worship in this sacred place, for how we live.

  178. Like the Lord going to hold fathers and mothers and children accountable for how

  179. they lived in this life. After all, these were the people of God.

  180. These people claimed Abraham to be the visionary of their life. They were

  181. living out a vision and a dream that their great great great grandfather Abraham had

  182. had. They are totally relying on everything that the God of their forefathers,

  183. namely Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, had told them about their personal relationship

  184. and experiences with God. And then suddenly God himself makes himself known to them.

  185. He gets personal, He doesn't pack them on the back and know he

  186. challenges them to raise the bard, to raise the standard. Don't you think

  187. God were pre will? I disagree with those people that feel like God just

  188. split humanity down the middle and that according to the will of God, he

  189. predestined Son the Girl into an eternal lake of pire. It said, other

  190. people to go into eternal blins. I don't agree with that theology. I'm

  191. thankful that we have a rill tonight. Is there anybody in this mill and

  192. willing to raise the standard? Honestly, those people that own those businesses in

  193. Miami, Florida, they were willing to raise the standard in order to attract

  194. the celebrities that are in the area, to attract the government leaders that are

  195. in that area, and to attract the poor tourists like myself that were spending

  196. a little time down there in their area. And can I tell you that

  197. because of this increase of standard what I'm familiar with in most places, I

  198. was certainly enticed or a lord to partake of what they had to offer.

  199. I need not feel like the church needs to lower the standard in order for

  200. us to be effective weaknesses for God, We're not representing people that live on

  201. the trash heap. We're representing a God that lives in a beautiful heaven,

  202. a land of endless stay, a land of purity. And because it is

  203. a pure land, it is a place that I want to live in.

  204. It's not a place that I want to visit. I want to live there

  205. eternally. I want my life for children to live there. Eternally. I

  206. don't believe that it's God's plan that any man, woman, boy, or

  207. live in that hellhole called the Lake of Fire. I feel like there's a

  208. lot of people that are reaching you too, the hellhole, to choose their

  209. preachers, to choose their teachers, to choose their ambassadors and representatives for Christianity

  210. and of the Word, in order to evangelize the world. That's unnecessary and

  211. that will not work. The world is seeking tired of sin. There's an

  212. element of people in this world if they were only given the opportunity to hear

  213. somebody proclaim the words of truth, they would say, what this freedom that

  214. you're speaking of is for me? I mean, I do not have to

  215. live in habitual sin. You mean I do not have to feel deity and

  216. bury every bad in my life? You mean, preacher, I can go

  217. to bed at night with a crystal clear and a clean conscience. Yes,

  218. sir, I'm telling you. Preachers say you ought to pull your messages up

  219. and out of the cutter. They get those messages sat the pilot by a

  220. rushing her or a water on a world head that preached some sactiplication to a

  221. world that's looking for separation. That's what talked up when his son and said

  222. Abraham out or the early counties. He said, get up, they get

  223. out, get away from these people. Separates yourself from this world. Unto

  224. me, the message of sactiplication is not a message that was both up to

  225. Acosta. It is a messager that the patriots like Abraham and Jacob, that

  226. Israel caring me deal and brother Cheerma. They tossed it on down to the

  227. proference of the Old Testament. They passed that torture on down to the New

  228. Testament preachers, and they've handed it to us. The message a sanctification should

  229. not be outs in retail to the people. Head of distituation, Joe prezza,

  230. a message of sanctification, now a pizza, a message of satiplication.

  231. And we too, he must preacher that that man that comes stumming her up

  232. to us, and Holy care, we can tell he, Okay, you

  233. can be liberated from your truckingness. You can't be ship breed from your seal.

  234. You don't have to die in a truck and stupid l You can walk

  235. her, you know that, rest and sober, And that's what he did.

  236. He went on having a cuppull of alcohol to walking and the rest of

  237. her with a soft rick in his hand. I'm telling you God, to

  238. your red. I tell these preachers a lot of times, don't deed them

  239. sugar cookies, feed of manner from heaven. Notice to whom the Lord is

  240. speaking. He's not speaking to the papers. He's not speaking to the neighboring

  241. nations, Brother Nathaniel. He is speaking to people who should know better.

  242. He's speaking of people who should recognize his voice. When he says the word

  243. sactification, that she should turn its head. They say, I recognize her

  244. the minister and the message of sactification. We're notsperson who professes to be a

  245. sheeper. They get up and welcome out of a church service where there is

  246. a special Implicis he put on sanctofication here? That dost not disappoint me so

  247. much as when I see somebody that's gonna raised her in church a hold and

  248. alive, and somebody puts it an impressens he sanctoflication. They squirreed in their

  249. food, they eased their way out. I want you know it's gonna be

  250. sanctofication or heal. It was that way for Abraham. He happy get out

  251. there and get out. If fact is gonna bless him, he with Isaaca

  252. be my supposed to raise the standard. I said that he was my supposal

  253. raised the standard. It will never be a propise. Somebody raised the stand.

  254. Somebody left that level of quality. If you're treating board again, you

  255. will come out squeaky clean. As our hispanic brother said today, un less

  256. than too much talent, ignorant boy who did not even acknowledge that God existed,

  257. knew that he that lived inside of him was real and knew that what

  258. was inside of him testify of the letter that was in this book. And

  259. he said, I had on top of it all alighting my lifstyle with the

  260. word of talk from old man to a really expect he talk to the light,

  261. consult to our lotst time. That's my abel. Help must come out.

  262. That's why Moses said there must be a tribal people nor as the reviser,

  263. there must be separated right here around these twelve tribes. We needed a

  264. rival that is separated. And cannot tell you those people were separated for service.

  265. And there were some people that could sing because they were not a levite.

  266. There were some people that could not preach because they were not Levite.

  267. There were some people not permitted to play instruments because they were not a Levite.

  268. You don't have to be a Hawlight, a Wallashite, a road Capite,

  269. or a wood Ane or an Edward's or a Harrisonite or a Sterodite or

  270. a Baladanite. You don't have to have the right last name or have the

  271. right pedigree to be used to cop And it does not matter what tribe you

  272. belonged to. The standing that God set for, God raises it. And

  273. what's good for a Glesa who could put it down there? I stood combody,

  274. it's took kaba. Let's good for her patient. It's good for the

  275. painting so let's good for the lever. It's good for the trauma tuba.

  276. Let's good for the trauma tuba. It's good for the trauma. That's a

  277. car. I want you to know, not to Somebody needs to raise the

  278. standard for bodys don't get to prove, and we need to raise the stand.

  279. If these restaurants in this worderful city of label we're not offering the quality

  280. of food that they offer. I could preach to them tonight, but I

  281. frequent these local establishments. Every day, Sister how and I eat lunch at

  282. one of these places of business right here in Label. Every time I bought

  283. Guess, with the Lord being my helper, I buy in Libel. If

  284. I'm down to fifteen miles until empty, I will go right through Alpha and

  285. push it all the way in Libel. That doesn't happen very often. For

  286. that sucker, that's being judgmental right now. I wish you'd pick your nose

  287. and eat that burger because you're a burger. I'm telling you, I wish

  288. God to pick his and eat you. Amen. I feel I kick back

  289. sometime, self righteous judgmental person, But I'm telling inconcerning the food by the

  290. people here in Label that prepare for their customers, they really have raised the

  291. bar. When God first summons me to come down here to Label, I

  292. was a little bit concerned until I realize I had found that these libelions flat

  293. out know how to cook. If they're church people or if they're not church

  294. people. This culture, it's a very culture area. You wouldn't think the

  295. red nex of the Bell could cook. But I'm telling you, Aunt Tebimah

  296. has to sit back and watch these crackers cook her, and I would say,

  297. even Aunt Tibama would say, I know that somebody cook Pixons right there.

  298. I can't preach this message to the restaurant tears of the bell because every

  299. timer I'll go you there, I'm not had a slight complaint about the price,

  300. but I've never had any problem and all of the food. And I

  301. want you to know her. It should not be setting when we go in

  302. the churches that call him something the house of worship, or should I have

  303. any problem and all with the spiritual archaser that are being served. Oh,

  304. my God in Heaven, I'm telling you somebody is the way, He's the

  305. standard. Somebody needs to go ahead, what blight, preacher. We need

  306. some credid for everybody, now right, take up, preach, preach,

  307. study, preacher. That's what God was gearing up the ministerial team in the

  308. wilderness. He said, any many miny moo, moo, leviticus bo lead

  309. rites mo, levitical priesthood mo. We need more with a holiness standard.

  310. We need more people with a holy standard. Because somebody saying, Amen,

  311. you see this entire book, it's nothing but a message of sactification. Better

  312. row capitalist Sunday school teacher. But Nothaniel Howard, you're a Sunday school teacher.

  313. Brother Chelsea, you're a Sunday school superintendent. You guys would know that

  314. the pity because issues are called to Holy Laddy from their fury first versa to

  315. the fary last. In fact, the first person on the first chapter of

  316. the Book of Limited, if I'm not mistaken, I'm not there. But

  317. it speaks of God speaking to Moses. But God did not stop there.

  318. You say, when it's okay from a how Live, it's okay that the

  319. first lady who raised the standard that I don't want to. I don't believe

  320. these creatures are right when they're saying you can remate however you want to.

  321. But the ministry his head to her a high standard. That's Old Testament theology.

  322. And even there that's untrue her and not entirely her correct, because whether

  323. or not you are vota, you are expected to keep them because man,

  324. that's a God, and you, as a child of comper, districts him.

  325. It's the bumper that keeps you inside of the poultry. Somebody lays the

  326. standard. This entire book, one of sixty six is dedicated to the theme

  327. of Sactification and Exodus chapter number twelve and verse number forty. It riches that

  328. the Israelites have spent over four hundred years in Egypt, and for those in

  329. life to debate things. Some say that they only spend two hundred and ten

  330. years in Ghoshen. Others say they spent four hundred years. Others say they

  331. spent some four hundred and thirty years. But if you look there Exodus chapter

  332. number twenty verst of forty, we'll just say that they spent some four hundred

  333. years between twenty and port me and Godsaip. Wherever you were at at any

  334. given time, I hope you did not learn the rays of the filthy leader

  335. and the righteous. That's what we need to summarize me. You should not

  336. learn the racer of the wicked. The Bible said in the Book of Pipers,

  337. to not learn the racer of the angry man, lest you get to

  338. the sturdy a soul. My God, if we're not supposed to learn that

  339. the rays of the angry man, surely we're not to learn the racer of

  340. the trucker. The stop man Dutch go think the trucker added till surely lock

  341. somebody raised us standard. They have come committed and consistently lowered the standard.

  342. Y'all know it's true, Sister Will whenever I think about how the standard was

  343. in the eighties and I compare it to the standard now, I'll tell you

  344. the inspiration for tonight's sermon. A friend of my name Bob Coop. He's

  345. a worldwide missionary and belongs to the Charismatic movement. For some reason, he

  346. has been listening to our sermons on the internet. He messaged me this past

  347. week and said, Pastor Howell, we need your kind of fire repreaching in

  348. Paris, France. He said, I'm telling you there is not a single

  349. church over here that would accept the preaching of the apostles or Pastor Howell.

  350. They do not want to accept the fact that God requires sat the god living

  351. of his holy people. I remember there used to be attract or hand out

  352. that the Church of God Cleveland, Tennessee, used to hand out to their

  353. people before bringing them to membership. And the track of the handbook that they

  354. were to read was this is a holy standard up living for God's people.

  355. And as you opened it up you could read of how they, as leaders

  356. of the Church of God, expected those who help membership to live while they

  357. had membership in the Church of God. But in my lifetime I watched before

  358. the end of the nineties and before the Why two came birth threatened us.

  359. In a year two thousand, that little handbook or pamphlet disappeared. And now

  360. when I'm making reappear, they don't want to see it, they don't want

  361. to read it. There a sense they started doing the way with it.

  362. I see the lover another standard. I want them to know some of their

  363. grandparents and possibly some of their parents would roll over and over in their grave

  364. if they knew what was doing on there and what they called church. And

  365. those A timers would say, that is not a church house, that is

  366. a hell house. We don't have to brea the power routine in our church

  367. to entertain the Satan or the center. We don't have to bream there lots

  368. and shows and come on mana her Trauma and my team say into the church

  369. up to entertain saints and sinners. Say what they're needing is hey, a

  370. sharp sword man, a shepherd than any two urchant sword man. It's told

  371. the Bible, somebody approach to me, Hey, somebody tell me that I

  372. can be set apart here from this wall there from the God. Missionary.

  373. Coop goes on to say, I've preached in many places all over the world,

  374. remote villages here and there, taiwand China. He guessed it writing he's

  375. of an Oriental background. This man travels every single day to some place new.

  376. He preaches in the mega churches, he preaches in village churches, he

  377. preaches in people's living rooms. I'm not his judge. I don't know how

  378. he stands with the Lord. That's not my point. Mister critical Christian,

  379. this listening right now, But I'm telling you he's been listening to some preaching.

  380. He's been tuning in to Brother Jeremiah Howell's podcast that I have nothing to

  381. do with. And he said this is the kind of preaching they need in

  382. Paris, Prince, and I said, well that's need. I thought about

  383. going over there for my thirtieth wedding anniversary. He said this place is perfect

  384. for that. I said, well, I'm planning on going at the Lord

  385. will be my helper, but I don't know about get over there. And

  386. he sent me about twenty different sites that I could visit, and about six

  387. or seven is exquisite hotels and restaurants that's near the Louver and near the Eiffel

  388. Tower and near all this. And he just showed me what was on the

  389. menu. He literally showed me how cozy the bends were. He showed me

  390. how nice the restaurant was. This guy went out of his way to get

  391. me to go over there to Paris, France, because he knows more than

  392. likely if I get over there and the hole it goes cuts me looser and

  393. it gets me in the saddle of one of them churches, I'm probably gonna

  394. accept that invitation and say a little bit of bonjour and parliavood from saying colon

  395. tamples too, and just try to connect with my people because y'all know my

  396. granddaddy's last name was Dan Pierre, right, they say that our people are

  397. of a French ancestry. I don't know if God's working in that or not.

  398. But whenever he got done sending me all of these wonderful places that he

  399. wanted me to consider to visit, what he called romantic getaways and romantic anniversary

  400. places, Brother Wallason, after he said that, he put and Pastor Howell

  401. to so you know all of this is by a worldly standard, and that's

  402. been burning in my soul ever since he offered that clarification for the Holiness Preacher.

  403. It's basically pre stating, this might not be good to your palette,

  404. this might not be pleasing to your eye. This not be a picture to

  405. you and your pri sister Howell, and today when we were talking that brother,

  406. he's such something that reminded me of what missionary Boy could have said.

  407. And I said, Bless God, we might be standing right here in the

  408. middle of a text chapel and not self conscious person listening. Who right,

  409. God back from the like we were through this. If we are seeing what

  410. tacked over to day, if we have seen God save the go truckle to

  411. day, if you have seen that brother can let us through her followed high

  412. pot you what not save her? That's poll that, sir. I said,

  413. no, not saying that's go. The whole Bible has a theme of

  414. sanctification, Sisters, when you walk through town, I am not a saved

  415. of God, that burner of sacofication. I noticed when we really missed of

  416. all them hooperes Adams truckers than people. Every now and then they're going a

  417. Hispanic man when the Bible tucked under his arm. I'm telling you, he

  418. looked like a preacher. He looked like a Christian. And I think to

  419. myself, there goes a holy person to lie a goal. Maybe a Haitian

  420. sister and a Hispanic sister walking somewhere through the neighborhood are down in the door

  421. to a house of worship. They were professor Christians. I'd see that long

  422. forward hair, I'd see them extended garments, And I realize that your father

  423. and your sister and your wife ain't the only one who raising the standard for

  424. each and Allison. I really, my sister Teresa ain't the only one who

  425. raising the standard. And I probably have a whole the cross of pride.

  426. He said, Pray for your sister. Let's see her in heaven. Pay

  427. for your brother, Let's see heaven in heaven. And I said, blessed

  428. Tom. There cause her some homely people. I set there and cause her

  429. something holding, holdingness that's not calling out, starting some more holding that's not

  430. calling home. Ah, don't stop. There will come a time that the

  431. jingle of the horses bridle will testify holiness will cometh this woman. They won't

  432. to drag themselves through the mud, puddles and the sewage in this world and

  433. then expect to go to God's heaven. God doesn't have a street sweeper.

  434. God doesn't have a janitor in heaven. How do you know that, brother

  435. Jacob, isn't that wonderful to know you'll be unemployed in heaven? Us to

  436. work in this man that I have ever seen, he works hard, It

  437. won't work. He works hard for me. He works for me on the

  438. side, probably makes abut as much money sometimes with me as he does Walmart.

  439. But when I'm going to Walmart, I don't see a man tattooed from

  440. him. To tell now, like that one brother said today, God saved

  441. him. And if God saves you and you got tattoos all over your body,

  442. that's between you and God. But as the temple of God, we

  443. should not be graffeeding our temple. We should not be tattooing our temple.

  444. This body belongs to God. I'm telling you, I don't need to Hell's

  445. angels coming in here and puts some muscles or rocking holy motors outside. I

  446. got the power of the Holy ghost, don't display here, And we got

  447. the power of the Holy Ghost thundering inside of this church house. I remember

  448. in the nineties watching Thesemblies of Gods and the Church of Gods and all the

  449. Pentecostal people and even liberal churches and charismatic churches. I watched them compromise,

  450. and they came to the pressure of bringing the Power Team in. Some of

  451. you don't even know what I'm speaking of, but I've seen the Power Team

  452. live. Those men would come in and they were bodybuilders, and they'd have

  453. them little skin he tank tops on, and they'd walk around and talk to

  454. everybody like ma'am, hey, guy, you know, and Sylvester Stallone jargon

  455. and verbiage, and they just tried to ghetto if you would, and bruh,

  456. you know the message, and you try to relate to the young men.

  457. Well of all of my peers that sit there and listen to them,

  458. try to tell us about Jesus, Brother Jesse. I don't know them,

  459. but just a couple that are saving and sanctified and Holy Ghost feeling. And

  460. the power team has coming on. And they may not be laying on beds

  461. and nails anymore. They may not be blowing up hot water bottles anymore.

  462. They would talk about how if they stopped blowing at any point, it would

  463. back poe into their lungs and their lungs would burst. Somebody give the drunk

  464. roll, and how poems are stuck switting, and we say, oh my

  465. this God, Hey, the circus had a better show than they did.

  466. What God wants us to do is fire the circus, and we need to

  467. get these circus performers out of the House of God that I'm come on,

  468. we don't need a mind teamer or a trauma team or a power teamer.

  469. He another color team to come in here. I'm telling you, the Holy

  470. Ghost has got it. The powerful word at tap that hand of the Somebody

  471. just needs to lift the standard, I said. Somebody only needs to raise

  472. the standard. The Word of God is the standard of living to God's people,

  473. not only this one book, but the sixty five other books of the

  474. Bible. Should I stop preaching or should I continue preaching? I'll see a

  475. temptation to compromise throughout DeLand amongst my generation and below below the age of fifty.

  476. Now, the reason why they're struggling with that temptation, it's because the

  477. generation before us lowered the standard a little bit, and the generation before them

  478. lowered the standard a little bit. Now, I want you to know that

  479. any time you decrease this thing, it's becoming less and less honing than it

  480. was when God said it. God sends the standard. We do not measure

  481. ourselves by one another. The Bible said, if you measure yourself or compare

  482. yourself by another standard, you're unwise in doing that. You can say that

  483. I'm better than the Hell's angels representatives teaching in church. You can say I'm

  484. better. There's somebody wears some shorty shorts and are take top ministered in church.

  485. But God says, put the mirror right there in your face, put

  486. the word of God, and measure you yourself. To Jesus, we are

  487. to imitate the Manual. We are to emulate God's only son. That's why

  488. it came on this latter time to show us up. It can't be done.

  489. As these young preachers were preaching today. I said, God, you

  490. took what really weren't ignorant people concerning Juday is you took ignorant and unlearned fishermen.

  491. They definitely knew the Jewish law. They definitely knew the toraph They knew

  492. the ins and outs of Judaism. They knew a lot of things about the

  493. all Moses and the law of God. That's why they were chosen, just

  494. like a fossil taw. They were not totally ignorant, just scriptures. But

  495. I said, God, the way you took those men and transformed them and

  496. made them into miny messengers. And this morning I mentioned Tabitha, that sweet

  497. saying of God being left in their wake. Hey, it will not destroy

  498. you if you're made of the right metal. I've seen people come and go.

  499. The reason why they left is because they could not take the heat or

  500. the pressure of the word of God. My personality of itself will not pressure

  501. somebody to leave the church. But the pressure in the pressure cooking or the

  502. word of God will challenge people and touch people. It will drag them by

  503. the neck of their knuckle to the standard and say, ah, you meursuring

  504. up or a preacher that takes the rule of or the measuring stick of the

  505. Lord, or come on, this ain't no yard stick. I'm telling you.

  506. This is the nasural God that every child of God, within Christianity and

  507. humanity, the past pressure and to care will be touched by when it says

  508. will be touched by the bucks, it's just that will be judged by the

  509. books. What do y'all think Boll's got another library auf there somewhere that we're

  510. ignorant to the teachings therein. We're gonna be judged by the book. They're

  511. gonna search the book over and over again at the request of someone who said,

  512. I know Jesus was there, and little old feeble sister Tabitha's gonna come

  513. over there and say, you know what, I was a fighter. I

  514. refused the waller. I'm a warrior, and I was a fighter, and

  515. I took lemons and made lemonade. I knew what it was like to have

  516. the little tattered garments of windhood. Y'all remember what I preached this morning about

  517. the scent and the stench of widowhood. Oh sweet Lamb of God. But

  518. that sweetness, preacher, I do believe there are times we have with shouting

  519. services, and we pour in the old and we pour in the wine.

  520. But then there's times of unintentioned me or maybe perhaps intensely for some of you

  521. preachers, that sword gets pulled out and it cuts somebody and you see them

  522. hit the altar and they hold that gaping wound and they say, that hit

  523. me right where it needed to. That spiritual cancerous growth, that spiritual canker

  524. was severed from my soul. Today I saw Brother Christian would melt like a

  525. piece of cotton candy in front of the sun today when the power God God

  526. on him. And I was thinking, as every brother cheer of mine was

  527. being influenced by the Holy Ghost of boy as you do not realize how close

  528. they are, do their brother Gabriel? I thought that very point. Right

  529. then, you guys were literally three or five seconds from being lost in the

  530. presence of the whole Holy Ghost. I remember myself coming to that place,

  531. coming to that place, I said, God, if I ever get there

  532. again, I won't forget to about everybody else in the building. And I'm

  533. just going to get lost in your prayersence. If I have to find the

  534. through tears, Oh come, if you won't be the first not to experience

  535. that, that's what weary to stupid? Where how you leaving you? Where

  536. have you put it? If I have to fighting to you unspeakable joy,

  537. I don't let how you discover him, but I want to just go ahead

  538. and left the standard her prayer and raise the standard or sactiplication, and that

  539. praise her and just can't ahead her and be filled with God, holding nothing

  540. back, holding nothing back. The word of Vinicus is similar to the word

  541. and levine, is it not? It is because it's speaking to a sanctified

  542. or separated people, people that had been set aside for service. Know ye

  543. not that your body's a temple the hold it goes, Know you not?

  544. Also that you're a royal, a chosen generation, that every single bell in

  545. this building is the royal priest over your home. That you are walking in

  546. the priesthood of Christianity drinkings. You're preaching a lot louder than our preaching,

  547. says the lit And I lost something right there. Hey, have you ever

  548. lost the anchor outside of a boat? Been riding hit a wave and their

  549. goods anchor and you just see the rope peeling off, Sister Walker, I

  550. used to take six kid's fission just to hold hunker down right beside me and

  551. grab a hold of me, because she knew if I threw us out of

  552. the boat, she was gonna have a hold of me. And I tell

  553. them kids, you better sit down because when you're in a bass boat,

  554. your cruising forty miles an hour, haling the fast we is going, and

  555. you hit one ripple of grow, it will joy your backbone. And if

  556. your name was Samuel hamwell, when it does and it slightly pinches your spinal

  557. cord through story, you will go just like this, it'll hurt. It's

  558. just let somebody drop in your tailbone on a rock. I hotly don't say

  559. that's how some of you all have been tonight, will I'll breaching on something

  560. to percasions. But we need some any many of my mole levites. We

  561. need some mob over hill, right, we need some more levits. We

  562. don't need any more hid tights, high bytes, eat themtes, amber rights

  563. mites, And can I say this, Holy rollers, we don't need any

  564. types in the House of God. If we're gonna have tights around here,

  565. it's gonna be for me tie it down so tight on you. We'll say

  566. that's too tight. Uh. But brother Starre, when we're riding that boat

  567. up and down it would go. Then there'd be this wave out of sink.

  568. We weren't expecting it, and that old anchored bounce brother ej right out

  569. of the floor of that boat, right over the board, and I'd see

  570. that old lion peeling out. I said, everyone to anchor, and I'd

  571. say, it's the sister. How don't let that road get around one of

  572. them little ankles. All kinds of things that happen bad things can happen to

  573. good people. Things can go work. I went to the first grade of

  574. evangel Christian School in Lake Clubs, but Doctor Colonel Straders is Christian School.

  575. We started school with a pupil. It was in a class next door to

  576. hours. I was in first grade, he was in first grade. There

  577. was second I think it was first grade, and brother Jesse he started school

  578. with two letgers. About a month or two later we noticed he wasn't coming

  579. to school for a few weeks. Finally, back then, people didn't talk

  580. about things like they do today. Somebody raised the stand. People didn't gossip,

  581. they didn't talk. They kept their business to themselves. Anyhow, they

  582. said, we've got a special visitor. I can't remember his name. I'm

  583. old enough now that I forgot it. But they brought him in on just

  584. a little board with some castors underneath. The cast at each corner and they

  585. drug him in and it's like slid, makeshift slid, and he was bits

  586. of both legs and one of us asked him, said what happened? He

  587. said, I was off for dad, mom, and I fell out of

  588. the boat and the boat somehow twisted. Just a freak accident, cut both

  589. of my legs off. Mom's and dads, you better be careful who's feeding

  590. your kids. Y'all heard about that little girl that came from one of them

  591. immigration to camps came to the United States. Her mother just got tired,

  592. so tired of her children barely barely surviving from one of them migrant camps from

  593. overseas. Brothers stared, I don't want to say, like ethio bear a

  594. hat to some camp where they all lived lived on just green cracked corn with

  595. some water in it. She got tired and brought a little baby to the

  596. United States with her and rented an apartment from a greedy man that knew that

  597. there was something wrong on that front porch concerning the paint. After about two

  598. months of staying there, that little Haitian girl took a speller and they took

  599. her to the doctor and after a few hours she died. They buried her,

  600. but they noticed that the toxology reports that she had enormous high, enormously

  601. high levels of lead in her blood, like your sister had been dealing with.

  602. And so the mother she wept and she cried and said, where did

  603. this child come into contact with this lead? They checked that house from front

  604. to back, every wall, every bed, every piece of front nature no

  605. sign of lead. Then, over the course of time, somebody thought,

  606. wait a minute, and this brother's testimony, she said the child boved to

  607. be outside on the porch. The investigator ran to the house and went up

  608. on the porch and took a paint sample. And then that paint sample they

  609. found high levels popping that. Now there are high levels of lead and a

  610. lot of preaching, toxins, pollutants, and poisons. I brother, air

  611. on the side of just pure water. I'm telling you, you set your

  612. child down in front of that television set, you'd be better off hooking them

  613. up to a popline of sewage garbage you in or a bit child. And

  614. then parents wonder what happened, what happened to my little child? Because that

  615. preacher Clarence Sexton, in his book said that somebody that commits suicide going to

  616. happen. I know there's been a few instances where somebody may have had a

  617. brain tumor and weren't in their right mind, had a seizure and maybe accidentally

  618. killed themselves. I used to get on this topic a lot when I evangelized,

  619. and I didn't know why. But I want you to know you cannot

  620. be preaching that stuff the children and expect them not to kill themselves. I

  621. had some Doctor Clarence sext of books in my office and I threw them in

  622. file thirteen. Does anybody didn't know what file thirteen is? That is the

  623. trash can I'm telling you what we need to do with some of the sermons

  624. of some of these preachers of yesteryear and today, and some of the doctors

  625. of the devils that will be preaching in the future. We need to wipe

  626. them up, just like we would any piece of trash, and we need

  627. to throw it in the garbage town. Is there anybody in this house right

  628. now I'm telling you that wonder why they're losing their children, why they're not

  629. raising up holy men of God, why they're not groovemen. I'm talking about

  630. wonderful people of God preparing people for ministry. That's what happens when you're stuffing

  631. them for spiritual land. That mother come to find out, the investigators proved,

  632. after pulling the l lords of files, that he had forged her name,

  633. and he had said that she had been served on paper that told her

  634. that there was a risk of lead poisoning owned that porch. That was not

  635. in her handwriting. He had forged that he had wrote that and calls that

  636. child's death because he didn't want to spit whatever it was sixty dollars of olsome

  637. painter to repaint the porture. How do you know what's in that spirit of

  638. that cuture that's coming up paints, that's messing things. Oh, come on,

  639. now, we are little lots of babies. The balls and runs are

  640. nostalsis being come love? Oh no, I love somebody? Food be bad

  641. from heaven? Her not leading her from hell? Said I keep preaching the

  642. ship we roll out. You see in our texts we find that these people

  643. have spent too much time in Egypt. There's people spending too many times in

  644. these worldly churches. Notice I did not say worldly class like churches. They're

  645. no different than the Hindu temples. They're no different than the Pagan shines.

  646. They're just simply coming places for worldly people, a ceremony impostor Jesus. And

  647. that's what Moses had been told by the Lord. You tell these people they

  648. spent way too much time in Egypt when it was two hundred and ten years.

  649. You need to go spending so much time on the Internet trying to figure

  650. out this and that. There's somebody in this building. It's not a new

  651. brother, it's not Brother John, but there's somebody in this building. You

  652. overthink everything. I'm telling you. The food of the rafer man shall not

  653. err in the ways of God. If they would bleed this fireable. Literally,

  654. they believe every chapter, every purse, and praise God. They wait

  655. at Heaven living clean life. You overthink everything. You spend way too much

  656. time on Google and not enough pople. You can find fault for some of

  657. these in this build of worshiping God and speared in the truth emotionally. But

  658. I do want you to understand they might be limited intellectually, but whether you're

  659. worshiping God intellectually, writing the paper, writing a thesis, write in the

  660. Gospel book, writing a sermon outline, whether you're worshiping him intellectually through apologetics

  661. or come on reputation of doctor Ohresies, or whether you're worshiping him immersly.

  662. You like to deal with all of your heart, no soul wighty. If

  663. you all loss somebody to call off with him for worshiping him, what coruspy

  664. or why you're preaching. Don't call out with anybody that's worshiping Him with every

  665. power for her gain in no city. In fact, some of us powerful

  666. people ain't God I ever knew, were not intellectuals. Because the Bible said

  667. God that's chosen the polish thing, it goes on the sea. The people

  668. that preach that in itself would be considered folis. But it was no poolishness.

  669. Today somebody might think that we needed some dogs and cats and parakeets doing

  670. some tricks down there at the block to get people to take tracks. Brother

  671. Steric basically said, this is a honeyhole. I said, I'm casting the

  672. gospel debt. There goes another school of fish, there goes another school of

  673. pish. We didn't I could put on our third year. We didn't.

  674. I could put on our life grims. We didn't like to take get to

  675. the side. We didn't have to hate that child. Turn on nothing,

  676. stood on turk and preach, run worn on co on rook. Why preach?

  677. I say, somebody raised my stock. I said, somebody to raise

  678. her? This all Lord, look my sick well. His panted brother got

  679. out there. He jumped out of an old born out van. I'm telling

  680. you it wasn't much to look at. It was beautiful to any of any

  681. beholder. It was a terrible sight. It looked like a work van.

  682. He come out of there, looked like Rebecca Howell, the daughter brother Nathaniel

  683. on Christmas. I'm telling you that girl has got more of her daddy and

  684. her than any grandson I got's got of their daddy in them. She'll do

  685. that holy jig and get excited and get excited emostly thankful for what she's got.

  686. And that's what that hispanic brother did. He come out of that man

  687. and he just got the screaming him and he got a holler. Then he

  688. said, this is here. This is why God suit me here. I

  689. went two hours away. This is there now I see it, now I

  690. understand it. Heck, oh yes, he was up in an Acosta and

  691. I to kill him. But when he switched her front turn us up to

  692. speaking about one of the language, I said that I took tell that the

  693. sage was preaching. He turned him on. He said, I'll hurrhi when

  694. the holy got stock for a serging they understanding any language, but he knew

  695. when he switched over to that language. Now let's be a stoken all that

  696. so or the hole of yours. Somebody not the stated me. Somebody praised

  697. him wonderfully. Somebody knocked the time grass him. The Baba said, the

  698. margins place I could be praised God. I want to say it again.

  699. We did not have to put on our thug guitarre to persuade a drunkard the

  700. tank and five. I'm convinced he would have said, I don't want any

  701. of that. And I'm convinced he just said, here's a beer. Moses

  702. said, God's concerned about how much time you spent in Egypt. You're being

  703. transformed slowly, but surely. And do you know what would have happened if

  704. they had not made their exodus or their exit when God said, they would

  705. not have been known any longer. As Hebrews this some of them expanded people

  706. down there in Mexican specifically said we're second third generation, we know English,

  707. and they said we ain't Mexican anymore, We're Americans. Come on, I'm

  708. telling you them. People were giving the benefit of the doubt, saying they're

  709. coming. We've been down here saying that for seventeen years. Where are they.

  710. I'm not gonna lower the standard for them the time. I'm not gonna

  711. lower the standard. Parasta the increase the population are the chucks. I'm not

  712. calling the lower the standard cross to get more than names in the road book.

  713. But this standard is not enough for them. Then an't even gonna preach

  714. anything at all. Less was saying, if we want to remain the people

  715. of God, forget about the ways of Egypt. He's called I find to

  716. say that, is he not? He repeused to be called the son of

  717. Prero's daughter. Moses realized you are not my mother man. I finally told

  718. them, charismatic preacher, sir, you are not a pastor. Sir.

  719. You think you're a preacher, but you're a schoolboy. You think you're holy,

  720. but your righteousness is self righteousness, and it's a filthy rights to God.

  721. But when God starts living in the truck dealer this fresh from Mexico.

  722. Three months later, he's a holiness preacher, a paracosta preacher. We love

  723. your all to drugs. He's to tectase there to sell some lorw to have

  724. big money. No, he came in a warn ow cooker van. He

  725. said, when I was a drug dealer, I had big money. He

  726. said, I had no stakes, just but I know it, and out

  727. of joy that I solved, turning out his being. I'm telling you I'm

  728. not a lord. This standard for no summer money. It's like that woman

  729. that came to me that time when we were dismissing service, a big money

  730. woman rolling into the church parking lot. We had been down here very long.

  731. God was blessing. The church boomed and blew up. About fifty cent

  732. of people started living right, having revival, praying, seeking the Lord.

  733. She came to me, and for the audio listeners, I want you to

  734. know she pulled three thousand dollars out of an improper place to pull it out

  735. of it at the front of the church, and she said, preacher,

  736. if you will come over to our side, you will never have a problem

  737. doing anything you want to do for God or for your family. I sat

  738. there, knowing I had six kids and a wife, and knowing that I

  739. had to have a major career change, and knowing that we needed to build

  740. a church, and that we needed to do something for God. And I

  741. sit there and I said, ma'am, with all due respect, I appreciate

  742. your kind words. She said, Jeremy, everybody loves you. This community

  743. loves you. She said, but for the rest of us that are out

  744. here, we need you to swing over here, because we're way over here

  745. and you're way over there. She said, can't we meet in the middle.

  746. I said, ma'am, I already feel like I'm in the middle.

  747. I already feel like there's some people way out there in right field, and

  748. there's some people way out there in the left field. I said. If

  749. I leave the middle, I'm gonna feel like I'm bent the wrong way.

  750. And if I leave the left field, I'm gonna feel like I'm gonna swing

  751. the pendleum. It's gonna swing all the way to the other side and knock

  752. the spiritual walls out. For my family, I said, I cannot do

  753. it. For the less words to me pool the three thousand dollars out of

  754. my head and shut you in a place where the sun don't shine, so

  755. to speak of. And she said, well, we will allow to have

  756. had her as our community pastor, but it's no deal. It's no business,

  757. sir. And I real shut his church down. I said, honey,

  758. whatever you'll have to do, I'm not for sal I'm playing raising us

  759. stand there ill, I said her, praying her, raising her stand on

  760. her prayer. No, sir, no, now we're roping on me.

  761. Snap na take that up. Moses realized that in this generation of people there

  762. is a pool for Egypt. They did not hear him say, moseses in

  763. the willerness, let us die. We had it better off in Egypt.

  764. Are you kidding me? You had it better off in captivity. You had

  765. it better off in bondage. Are you kidding me? Second Cristians, chapter

  766. number six, verses number seventeen to eighteen. It's at wordport come out from

  767. among them, and being a separate, said the Lord, and touched doctor

  768. untween things, and I will receive you. Sounds just fucking echo to something

  769. God told Moss brot Us. There Old Testament, New Testament, Apostle Paul

  770. speaking to carnal people that were trying to be part of the Corinthian Church.

  771. You see, the Israelites knew too much about paint and deities. They knew

  772. too much about the Egyptian deities. There were two thousand Egyptian deities at this

  773. time. How did they know so much about Isis Raw, Horus and thefth

  774. They know so much. Our children have learned the wrong things in the public

  775. school system. Our children have learned the wrong things in these worlds innominal churches.

  776. Couldn't the church please pray for me. I'm waiting out in the deep

  777. water of those crocodiles everywhere who are out here, and the Holy Ghost just

  778. brought sucked into my mind, and this is further confirmation that I'm on target.

  779. Two and a half weeks ago, I had a dream. I don't

  780. know that it was a dream so much as a vision in that dream.

  781. Sweeten A, my God, thank you for the Holy goos. This is

  782. why you need the Holy Ghost brothers before you pastor and teach them preach at

  783. the locals. Semny. This just came to mind. I've thought about it

  784. every day. I didn't think about it today. I've been too busy.

  785. I guess this is also probably a reason why I'm preaching what I'm preaching or

  786. not. I had a vision. It was sometime during the night, and

  787. Sister WoT, I saw a mighty big wave come in and it slapped the

  788. side of what appeared to be a high rise. And as I looked around,

  789. level after level after level of tidal waves came in. The depth of

  790. the water passed the first story, it went past the fifth story, past

  791. the tenth story, past the fifteenth story. It looked like this building was

  792. thirty stories hid. And I know how tall a thirty story building is?

  793. This to how and I just stayed in the twenties story tall building, Brother

  794. Jesse, that's way going up there. I watched those tidal waves and those

  795. two ritual currents devour houses. I watched to take out buildings. Businesses were

  796. swallowed up and washed up to the sea, and I just noticed it just

  797. kept coming, and it just kept coming. And there was my and my

  798. children, and there was the bath of holness, church parishioners walking around,

  799. and some of these other precious things of God that we know. My brother

  800. Sister Douglasson and the woe Sister Debbie Burnett, others walking around up there,

  801. and the waves just keep coming in, and I hear the Master, save

  802. my son. Do you not realize that I'm lifting the standard? Then I

  803. said what he said? Do you not realize that it cannot reach you and

  804. your people? And man as Samuel Bears, who ain't I've ever seen,

  805. come rolling in? And I sat be along road. I saw the fortress

  806. of Crow even taller, I said, I grew and taller. And then

  807. I heard the Holy to say, when the Internet come up in like a

  808. fried a Lord, raise up. I stand there. I gets that time.

  809. I said God, Well, it's God, the real couper the stand

  810. there. Look, we were all over here, certain friend, brother of

  811. system in France and Germany and Russia, in Ukraine, in these United States

  812. of America. If you have membership in what they call where only church,

  813. where your preacher never pulls anything from the depths of the scripture, the Bible

  814. saidness is to earn search of our rich as of Jesus. Search the scriptures,

  815. preacher, for in them you think you have eternal life. What you

  816. will find when you search is sactification. Paul said to those Christians that wanted

  817. to be cornval with some such thing as a coronal Christian. I thought to

  818. be currently minded is to be enmity as the spirit. Is there really supposed

  819. to be that level of spiritual warfare in your life? Every day? Will

  820. Why are you feeding the cardinal dog? Why aren't you feeding the spiritual godly

  821. dog? What Moses knew? Pastor Moses knew? The Israelites knew wait too

  822. much about things. They shouldn't know anything about your person. If you never

  823. went looking for it, you wouldn't be struggling with it. These Israelites have

  824. been tainted by the Egyptian culture. The painting lifestyles had vexed them. The

  825. Bible said that righteous luck vexed his righteous law with what by watching what was

  826. going on? Well, what was taking place. You can sit at the

  827. gate of side of a nomar all you want to and expect to not have

  828. personal contamination. But that's a foolish expectation. As a parent, God wants

  829. them to forget about the things that are behind. Is that that what Moses

  830. is telling them. Here's what the great Apostle Paul said. I'm forgetting about

  831. those things that are behind, and I'm reaching for under those things that are

  832. before at our text. He said, you better not defollow yourself. And

  833. that's what Peter said, preserve yourself from this untoward generation. You better save

  834. yourself. You know how I saved myself. I drove two hours to church.

  835. You better be careful playing with them churches. They may have Holiness of

  836. the Sign, they may have Pecosta, they may have Lutheran. They may

  837. claim John Wesley as their leader, they may claim Moses as their pastor.

  838. But I'm telling you, if they're no longer separated people, if they're not

  839. holding sanctify, there's something wrong. There's a baron loose somewhere. He wants

  840. these people to meditate on their miraculous deliverances from Egypt. You've been delivered from

  841. Egypt, he would say. They should remember that there was no true joy

  842. living in bondage. Have you guys really for God? That goshen And was

  843. a paradise in the days of Joseph? Is the thing in the past that

  844. Joseph's dead And now there's a pair that don't care who Joseph is. I

  845. can preach the Night on the Devil said, I don't care who Joseph is.

  846. The devil doesn't care who your protector is. He doesn't care who your

  847. parent is. He doesn't care who stands between you and the pastor. Tyler

  848. Woop Powell, are you now thirty? When you turned eighteen, I square

  849. it off with you one night because I knew the devil was picking on you

  850. and what you were doing. You were using your precious grandmother to stand between

  851. me and you, because you knew my respect for her. And I told

  852. you one night, I said, you're eighteen now, Powell. Back thenifily

  853. said, Paula, you're eighteen now, I said, sister Iris, with

  854. all dear respect, I consider your mother of is isuel here. I'm his

  855. pastor. He's a wrong man now. He's responsible for his actions. He

  856. answers to me, dealing, What tell you? We had a birthday party

  857. for dealing away, tod We had a birthday party for you last Sunday night

  858. you turned eighteen. It's time to put the big boy paying his sad.

  859. I love to hear crickets, preacher, preacher pretty out over here in this

  860. a man going to it's pretty out over here. But you answer to me

  861. now, brother Dylan, I heard you disrespect your dad. You might have

  862. a little counsel with him to night. I ain't never respected you, disrespect

  863. of you. I've heard them, I saw it, so you ought to

  864. wait as the standard. Christian ain't set the standard for you, Dylan.

  865. He set the standard for himself. He received the challenge, just wanting to

  866. raise it for Tabitha. I'm gonna feel a little bit arm to day.

  867. Just right now, brother John, you got my back back there? If

  868. I run, get my back were running too? Your van? That thing's

  869. big enough for me to live in for three months. We like you owing

  870. a man on the road. Does everybody love a pastor? Deal? It

  871. is time to raise the standard. What's he doing at eight o'clock getting ready

  872. to go to work? We are choking on holdly fit right now. I'm

  873. struggling up here. I'm tired. I wore out, sister Woot, and

  874. I'm glad that night I took control of Tyler's hide. Tyler, surprisingly against

  875. what I thought was possible, you've turned into a respectable young man. I

  876. honestly don't know why any single woman is church is available for marriage. A

  877. snapped you're high up. Let me get a refocused so they are in Canaan

  878. now, and it's part of God's plan all along that they'd be in cana

  879. God's given them the promise. They knew very well what God wanted. It

  880. was what Abraham had told them. He had told that their forefathers. It

  881. was passed right old Din. And when they got to Canaan, guess what

  882. the news was. Guess what, guys, when you get to Canaan,

  883. don't learn their ways either. That's what it said. Go home and read

  884. this eighteenth chapter of the Book of Leviticus. Tonight. I'm gonna bring you

  885. from over there. And when I bring you into this land, there's gonna

  886. be pagans there. And can I tell you? I come from Ulburry,

  887. Florida, and there was heathens up there, and unfortunately there's heathens in Label.

  888. And wouldn't it be terrible to have moved away from all them heathens,

  889. sister Cheryl, and come down here and sell my soul to the devil in

  890. lovel wouldn't it be terrible to go to Hell from Lebel? Now that's the

  891. Serman title. Never hurt one, let's stand. So we'll cut this short.

  892. They were not to live as Egyptians or Canaanites. These people were to

  893. live by a different standard. Dealing wood, you are to live by a

  894. different standard, right, the dealing standard. Christians, we are to live

  895. by a different standard. Not the world is standard. God's were demanded that

  896. they call the Law of Moses their standard. How many people do you know

  897. live by worldly standard? Does anybody know nobody lives by worldly standard? That

  898. they're going to churches and don't priest the truth? Anybody like me? Real

  899. bold and not afraid to admit it. Right, But on Judgment's Day,

  900. Brother Gable and Brother Gave it was great to see you shout worship God intellectually

  901. and emotionally the night that was a wonderful You get that much holy ghost,

  902. you get that much motor in the hot rod is going back. But I

  903. was coming back and I'm tired right now. If y'all can't tell I've gave

  904. out of gas, everybody goes that's me. I just ran out of gas.

  905. Didn't make it a little bell break down now, But I was coming

  906. back from Ilakley. Now I wish how to sense up to God showed me

  907. that Brother Gable's bout me. So whatever I just happened to crack my eyes

  908. open and say, well, glory, there it goes system. Well,

  909. thank you, Lord. I'm so glad that you have lifted our worship standard.

  910. I'm glad we're no longer doing this. The Lord is great and to

  911. be praised greatly. The pattern that their lives were to be patterned after is

  912. right here. First John, chapter number two, verse number fifteen said love

  913. not the world, neither the things that are in the world. Can I

  914. tell y'all he wasn't talking about more beer trees and blueberry bushes. As brother

  915. Jesse comes to the piano. As I run to lick my wounds, I'm

  916. preaching on. Somebody raised the standard. You young preachers. Get them hair

  917. cuts. Brother Philip, you said you're losing your hair as of this woman.

  918. It's falling out by the handfuls. Can't even brush it. Woke up

  919. from a nap there it is all over the pillar. You're going home to

  920. shave your head ball. There are some brothers in this building that's told me,

  921. as soon as you do it, they're doing it and support My friend

  922. Michael Curtain, and I ran into him and flew as if you see,

  923. don't mention this. He listened to YouTube anyhow, he listens to the messages.

  924. I'll here. He ran me down and I stopped talking to him.

  925. He said, how's Philip doing. I says, doing all right. I

  926. said, man, he's a trooper. God's just to help him. He

  927. said, is he gonna pull through it? I said yeah. He said

  928. he needs a very good I said yea. He said, I'm gonna pray

  929. for it as good as I know how. I said, right here,

  930. bublah, right up, that's good enough. I said, please do.

  931. And I said, you're not gonna believe this. Some of the brothers in

  932. the church said that if he loses his hair and they're gonna shave their heads

  933. or brother Gabel is a man of faith. He he he took care of

  934. that three years ago. And my curtain, here's what he said, Brother

  935. Howell, all you had to do is of the orders. Let me know,

  936. shoot me a text and as good as thee is, is that all

  937. the guy who's tell me to do it? I thought, Now that's how

  938. church people should be. You're wondering how I can plug that into the sermon.

  939. It fits quite nicely. If God says thou shalt you should, If

  940. God says thou shalt not. You shouldn't. Now. Last Sunday night we

  941. were fired the prophets. But tonight we're not firing the prophets. Tonight we're

  942. going to raise the standard. How about it? Mom? You come under

  943. pressure so many times to lessen the standard, to lower the standard. I'm

  944. gonna talk to omamas just for a minute. Do you really want to do

  945. that? Because so if you give the devil inch, he'll be your ruler.

  946. He one only take a mile, he'll be your ruler. Let's bow

  947. our heads tonight. Could we close our eyes ever so tightly? Could somebody

  948. say, pastor, I would like to lift the standard in my life and

  949. be a better example of what a Christian is. It looks to me like

  950. there's thirteen or fourteen hand. It's like there's about thirty minutes. Now.

  951. While you keep your eyes closed and those heads found, I want you to

  952. know I'm raising my hand. I don't want to loosen the standard. I

  953. don't want to let up. I don't want to lower it. Could everybody

  954. just come to the altars, find a place to pray. Would y'all ask

  955. the Lord to help you in an age of compromise? Somebody raised the stunner.

  956. Come from the world jock, be called to be servant, call for

  957. a purpose called to raise the stander, call to leave the banner called out

  958. to show for game. Best called to be with his card from this tworm

  959. job to be called out, be called to be serving, called for a

  960. burbs called to raise standard car to leave the vander called to show for games.

  961. Call to being das. Call from this world. Child, you've been

  962. called out to the bank. Call the shouber. Game is called realing.

  963. His call from this world child, you been called out, called to be

  964. serving, Call for copdays call. He's just a call in the ban call

  965. the supers to be for this home child in call mar my dear day.

  966. Others there nobody in pace, none pay the others. There nobody in that.

  967. He is the king on the line. He's a place in my mind

  968. that has no my name be call dise jip call who is called to lay

  969. the same call who the bands call. The show for game is called to

  970. bes call bis job to be called wi to be time call clver is called

  971. Today's the same call the band the show for game is call for meals All

  972. job in the laws on that day being the mountain, Taphy street down,

  973. the calling lead where they were all down. Men call again the break silently

  974. sorry his name again, lest big car who call call for the purpose,

  975. call the lad Sander, call the show begin. That's called out to be

  976. all you so called for far mis holl great Sandy's tall so is for me

  977. as all til it go nine chap o, There are no nine nags.

  978. Things I don't know my name done loures in thy name, even by s

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