Tag team preaching - 1-7-2024

Uh, so parable used to be in God's house tonight, appreciade of appreciate

that hole in his church, and of great shade of Mastor. And the

first lady, Hey, Uh, if you have your bibles tonight, I'll

be in the Book of uh, the Book of Acts, Uh chapter number

two and then uh Acts chapter number eight. I mean asks you act actually

acts N seventeen. Uh, yeah, asked chapter number two, verse number,

verse number one. And when the day of Pentecostal was fully come,

they were all with one accord in one place and song. There came a

sound from heaven as of a Russian minding wind, and it filled all the

house where they were sitting, and it appeared onto them clothing tongues like as

of a fire. And it set upon them, each of them, and

they were were all filled with the holy ghosts and began to speak with other

tongues. And as the spirit gave them others. There were Jowell at Jerusalem,

and the Jews and devout man out of every nation under the heavens.

And now when this was noticed abroad, the multitudes come came together. And

we're confound because that every man heard them speaking in his own language, and

that they were all amazed and marvels, and saying one to another, behold

or not all these which speeded and the dolls. Okay, And how here

with every man in your own tongue, where we're born. In verse number

and verse number fourteen, it says what Peters stay standing up with the eleven

and lifted up his voice, saying, unto them, you man of Judeah,

and all that to well at Jerusalem. Be this gone unto you,

and hearken to my my words. Where these are not drunken as ye oppose,

seeing it is but the third hour of the day. But this is

that which was spoken by the prophet Joe. And then and it shall come

to pass into last days. Save the saveth God. I will pour out

my spirit upon all flesh, and your sons and daughters shall PROPHISI and your

young man shall dream dreams, And on this servant and on the handmaids.

I will pour out those in those days my spirit, and they shall prophisey.

And I will swoo wonderings and of the heavens and signs, and the

earth beneath the blood and the fire, and the in the fib of smoke

and flip over to flip over tonight to ash chapter number nine and person number

sixty, Yeah, number seventeen and went an and Nice went into the way

into the house and put his hand on him, saying, brother Saul,

the Lord even Jesus that appeared unto thee the way as thou camest have has

sent me that thou might'st received. Why side and be filled with the Holy

Ghost. And that'll be all be reading tonight. If the Lord to help

me. Thank you. The title of this message is you can receive if

you want to want it. Yeah, yeah, And and the message is

called You're a glimpse of your miracle. And yeah, those that have been

filled with the Holy Ghost, you need a double portion of the Holy Ghost,

right. And those that don't have it you need a You need to

keep seeking for it. You need to whatever is hindering you deny. Don't

let nothing hinder you and hold you back from getting your blessing from God.

I know we're in this fast and pastors God us on this fast. But

if you're if you're worried about a steak, shame on you and you when

you should be seeking God, seeking for God God's approval. When you should

be seeking. The Bible says, examine yourself daily. But the Bible even

talks about Philip preaching about unclean spirits and the Book of Acts. He's preaching,

and he's preaching on the Kingdom of God, and he's also preaching the

Peter and John. He's also preaching on about receiving the Holy Ghost, about

receiving the Holy ghost. You may have the Holy Ghost, but you need

more of the Holy Ghost. You need more of the Holy Ghost than ever

before. You know, brother Philip needs a healing in his body. I've

been praying for blood of feeling. And the Bible speaks about Jesus in the

Book of Mark about all these healings taking place. If we and and uh

we read about in the Book of Acts, you know about Philip, Philip

being lad of God, and he's you know, he's preaching, and he's

preaching on possession. He's preaching on Bell's Causey and I begin to think on

this, What if God, God heals somebody in the service. What if

God heals somebody just because of your obedience, just because you got the Holy

ghost. Brother Philip gets healed, Sister Charity gets healed of what she's facing

in her body. What if God is telling you to be obedient to the

word of God. Amen. I didn't know. I didn't know Pastor was

gonna tell me to come up here tonight. But I felt the Holy Ghost

so strong, and I went down and I went out of that camper.

I went out that camper. I went into that car. Why nobody was

a man, and the Holy Ghost settle in that place. The Holy Ghost

set on that place. The Holy Ghost set on it, down on me,

and I begin again, and the Holy Ghost gave others in that vega.

Alright, I begin, I begin to seek God. I begin to

call out on call for this service tonight. I began to call upon God,

and I begin, I begin to say, you know, we don't

need a linger behind right, don't linger you need a pooring own what our

churches need. We don't need more entertainment in our churches. You don't need

no more We don't need no more people people carrying on and playing games with

God. We need to get people getting serious with God. So after God,

hunger and Thurston, after righteousness. It takes a daily, dailycation.

Paul Paul even said, I'm not ashamed of the Gospel, Thearrah for those

who believe. I begin to think on this about examining yourself daily. You

know, I begin to think on this, examine yourself. You may not

You may not make it tomorrow. You may not make it next weekend.

You may may not even make it. The future. We might know with

the future holds. God holds the future in his hand. In the palm

of his hand, you have a palm of his hand that God, God

is coming soon. Even the Bible talks about for the permission of seeing his

death. I don't I didn't know who was gonna be here tonight. But

God told me somebody needs to somebody needs to walk a little father, nobody

needs to walk, walk a little Father. And God told me tonight that

that, oh, your walk can fall, your walk can fall. You

gotta keep you kind of get rid of the God, get rid of that

guilt, out of your out of your heart. You need you need a

You need a You need to come come to the knowledge of the truth.

Paul was speaking about we we we have an opportunity. It's time. It's

time to let the fan or high of holiness. The Bible says the fall

of peace with holiness. Without holiness, no man shall see the Lord and

the Book of Hebrews. It takes a daily, daily walk with God.

It takes a daily dedication. I begin to I begin to seek God and

pray about this service. I'm not here to boast upon myself or brag upon

myself. I'm not here to be seen. Amen. But I begin to

think holness. If it happened for the apostle, if it happened for the

Apostle, if it happened for John and Peter leaving on the day in the

ninth hour of prayer, how should it be more for the church house to

be to be leaving for joy? How should it be somebody should should obey

God. It shouldn't be Uh, it should be the It should be the

preacher and having a preacher every time and preaching out. God wants you to

launch out to the deep. I want you to launch out. Watch out.

Get a glimpse of what God's trying to tell you. God is looking

for someone to reach out, reach out and touch the Lord. He's not

too busy to hear your heart's crying. It's a matter of death situation that

we if we don't get a hold of God. We mast will we mass,

We'll not have church. It's a matter and death situation. It's a

matter of death situation. This, this word of God will stand true When

when when? When? When? When? When this world says it's no

good, this word will stand that all this word will stand with God.

It's where we'll stand with God. When when, well, when when people

say to give up and get in and throw in the towel. When people

say give in and throw in the towel, you should say, no,

I'm not gonna throw in the towel. I'm gonna keep living up a flag.

I'm gonna keep living up a flag of backle holness. Church. You

should be the one saying, I wanna, I wanna, I wanna leave

a legacy for the next generation. You should be the one saying I wanted

to give it by all in fact, the good fight of faith. You

know, I begin to say, God, if I if I ever get

out of line and step out of your will, correct me, correct me.

It's I've been there. I'm in there. I'm in there where.

God had to check myself. I had to say, God, is there

any way wave in my life that's not pleased to correct, and I begin

to seek God in my in my life. I begin to and to grow

stronger in God. Now I begin to say, God, it's not about

me. It's about the cause of Christ. It's why his strikes we are

healed that. The Bible even says, uh, to be doers of the

word, overcome the evil with the good. It's uh. It's a it's

a it's a it's a good. It's a good opportunity to seek God,

Seek God in his presence. You know, I'd rather, I'd rather jowell

in the dwell in the house, in the absence, in the Lord,

and to dwell in the tenths of the wicked. The Bible says, and

Pastor even said, why had sent here till we die? I sit here

till we die? I rather not be a bitch woman and sit there all

night. I ratter. I rather have what God has for me. I

read her. I read her. I rad he have a double portion.

I read her. I know what God has for me. Now why I

sit here? Do we die? I mean people can say, oh,

oh I have I have all I need? Oh you don't, friend,

Jesus is all that you need. Jesus is all that you need Jesus,

should be, should be, should be your UH, should be your friend.

The battle even says he stits closer than a brother. I begin to

see God and UH. I begin to begin to say, God, I

need, I need, I need you right now because I don't because I

know that this generation that it's not gonna last longer, and it's not gonna

last longer, because I see a great falling away. I begin to think

on this, what if it was to from your time right? Would you

be standing standing at God a God? Would you be standing with God and

being and beings? Hear him say thou good and faithful servant, enter in.

I want to be able to hear him say I want to be able

to hear him say thou good and faithful servant. Enter in the choice of

the Lord. I don't want to never hear the Lord say depart from me.

I never knew why why don't you just get to do what God said?

Due? Like Pastor said, why why why? I don't understand people?

Why why they? Why they why they worship God? Why? Why?

Why why don't we just why don't we just magnify his name? Why

he's passing by? Tasted the Book of Sobs talks about tastes and see that

the Lord is good. He is good, and he's good all the time.

I begin to think on this, what if two or three are gathering

my name there I may be also in the midst He talks about them,

and I begin to think on this. You know, he hasn't seen the

righteous or see the peggy bread. But the Bible even talks about that,

talks about you know about uh, the things that are in get seen.

It talks about that in God's word, the evidence, the things that are

hoped for, and the things that are hoped for. There's a brighter future

beyond the grave if we do what God says do, if we do the

will of God, God will do the impossible thing in your life. God

wants to work a miracle. God wants to work a miracle. And I

begin to I begin to think on this, you know, you know,

I begin to think on the song it talks about. It talks about two

codes word before me and the old and the news I could have either.

What must I do? The Lord cove was earthly and tattering to them,

But the Lord brought me this new call that ever have them worn and I

begin to think on that song. You know, many of times I go,

I go, I go, and sometimes I feel like running when that

song comes on. I begin to think on that when when people used to

say, you know, God say say about the song run On, run

On, and I begin to think on you know about you know, wrought

of you Houston. It's Dad and gone. He used to sing the song

can't no party to me like Jesus, because he's my dearest friend. It's

my dearest friend. I know, I know he is my friend. When

you won't me I read or give it to God that have anything else,

I appreciate God raise a hand for So do you thank the Lord, the

Lord for that word a glimpse that your miracle. If we could get ahold

of that. Let me actually be talking a little good saying to here tonight,

thank the Lord for our pastor for the opportunity for the confidence to be

honest. I kind of felt like it might be asked, but I told

my dad, I said, I feel like those instant potatoes that you know

we've been eating, and I'm just in the box. We've got to be

putting some hot water and we'll see if we come out from palling. But

as I've began to pray, as we're goin to pray, there's something that

I've been praying about a lot. The Lord showed me that directed me that

way. If you be looking at exod, this verse chapter thirty three very

familiar. It's not a new thought. But the Lord has let me a

little differently than we've heard this before. Chapter thirty three. We're looking at

verses seventeen and eighteen. It says that the Lord said, um to Moses,

I will do this thing. Also that thou hast spoken for thou hast

fout grace in my sight, and I know THEE by day. And he

said, I beseech THEE show me thy Glory's proven God, now real quick.

Right here. I wanted to know some people that are satisfied that God

heard their prayer and that God knows who they are. But here Moses is

saying, God, show me your glory. He wants more of God,

and like Paul, had such a mighty experience in his conversion. But yet

he will later that I may know him, Oh, that we may know

him more. And here I'm at the beginning of this chapter chapter thirty three,

God is telling Moses that it's time for the children of Visual to resume

their journey. They had stopped and God. Moses had been on the mountain

commune with God, and he received the ten commandments. And then the children

of Visual fell into the sin when they crafted the Golden Calf and they worshiped

him, they committed idolatry. But now the Lord is dealing with Moses that

it's time to go up. But he's he's still pretty upset with the children

of Visual. And they begin to because there are stiff necked people. They

haven't been doing what God has told him to do. But they he tells

them that he's he's upset with them. He speaks for Moses and the people

that begin to mourn. They begin to repent. They begin to lay off

some things because God told him, he said, lay off your jewelry,

lay off rings, and we'll see how I deal with you. They begin

to morn and they begin to pray, and then in Verse set and Moses

takes the tabernacle and he pitches it without the camp. He takes it outside

of the camp. And I'm so thankful that we have a place to come

to that's outside of this world that we can come apart and we push force

some effort. They had come apart to come to this place where God's presence

is, and it says they made an effort, and they led the comfort

of their own dwell, and they had to come apart. They to make

an effort, and it says that there was those that sought him, and

there that came out. They put forth the effort, and they sought him.

And verses nine and ten, it says, and it came to pass

as Moses entered into the tabernacle, the cloudy pillar descended and stood at the

door of the tabernacle, and the Lord talked with Moses. And all the

people saw the cloudy pillar stand at the tabernacle door, and all the people

rose up and worshiped every man at his tent door. We're gonna come back

to that, but for the next few verses, it's Moses and it's God

communion, communion back and forth, and verse eleven says that it was as

a man speaking to his friend. And then we come to where we just

read, where God tells him that he's found grace in his sight, that

he knows Moses by name. But yet Moses says, show me that glory.

God. I want to know more of you. God, I want

to see more of you. And here's where my burden is for this servant,

is for this fast and for this year. It has been my prayer,

God, show me that glory. It's a prairer that many of us

have prayed, and it's a pair that many of us have heard prayed.

But God, truly show us your glllery. Moses, he'd heard thanks from

God. He'd seen the fiery bush, he'd seen the pillar. He's seen

so many things, and we at this church we've heard so many things before,

servant after startance, servant after servant, God speaking specifically to us.

We've seen the Holy Ghost poople of people and touch people. We've seen people

be ill before. But God, we need another touch of glory. God.

We need more of you. We been on witness the modern day miracles.

Moses and the people had said it. At first, they all saw

the cloud. They all witness the cloud. Moses heard God speak to him

face to face. But yet there was more. They't we want more of

the glory. I love when the Holy Ghost falls on me. I love

when people get in but I want to see more baptized. I love hearing

the accounts of testimonies and the heelings that I've been done. I've felt healing

before, but God, we need more hands. We need another touch of

glower now. And there are three words for a consideration that I already had

written down, and one of them was glimpse. We got a gaze,

a glance, or a glimpse. A gaze is defined as steadily intently looking,

especially in admiration, surprise, or thought. A glance is when you

choose to look at something, but then you look away. A glimpse implies

that something has obstructed the view, or that the object that you were clipsing

at has moved out aside. It's just a glimpse. And can I tell

you that in this earth, the glory, it's just a glimpse. Until

we can get to Heaven and we can gaze upon His glory. The healings

is just a glimpse. I tell the glory that we gaze upon in our

new bodies, the Holy does experience. It's powerful. He's in the Mother,

but it's just a glimpse, I tell him. With the letter in

heaven, we only get glimpses until we reach heaven and then we can gaze.

Well, let me tell you, if you choose the only glances at

what you see, you will never gaze. If you choose the luck,

what surface and look away the next When you choose the luck, I'll just

cut they and lind said, but then crowd the rest of the week talk

away. You'll never gaze upon his money. That sord guy has better enough.

This was in my nottory as well. Heaven is the gold. When

we talk about heaven, we talk about glory, and heaven is the gold.

And the last few weeks, something that's been serve me is the reality

of heaven. When that really sinks him that after this life there is something

that every man is going to die, every woman is going to die,

no matter how old, no matter how young, and there is something afterwards.

When that sinks in the reality, you will make heaven your goal and

you will do everything you can to gaze upon glory one day. Are you

hungry to let days? What are you hungry for? As we as we

begin this fast, I told the kids, I said, this will tell

you what kind of person you are. What are you hungry for? The

two of them. They were very honest. They said, sugar me,

I've been craving something spicy. I want buffalo chicken. That's what I've been

hungry for. Moses, though he was hungry for more of God. It

amazes me. It doesn't really, but it does. All the things that

are recorded that he saw that these men have goought, they saw, they

witnessed, but yet they wanted more because there was more available, and God

allowed him. He said, you can't see my face, for no man

shall see my face to live. Oh, but we're paying Lord. We

shall see his face. When shall we owe him? But he did because

that was Moses' true desire, and it was out of a pure heart,

and it was his honest what he wanted from God. And God allow him.

And he passed by, and he allowed Moses to see his hunderparts and

witness the glory. And in closing the the Boble says, going back to

this where they all saw it, says, they all worshiped. And I

got to think that that with some of us as we begin to as we

begin to witness this, if we were those who weren't the forefront of that

stiff necked bunch, would we go with shame. Would we look on with

maybe anger and resentment, and you know, we just take a glance and

we look away because we see God meeting with people who've been seeking, and

people who have humbled himself with God, and people who lay aside those things

like God said. But then we look on, maybe in disinterest or maybe

indifference, but all maybe we may we be those who yearned for more of

God, for more of his glory, and in return give him more of

us. We must give him all of us. We must have that amble

offering and not a cane offer like that talked about, because the glory and

that was able, the glory came down on his sacrifice. Oh, that

God and the glory of God would be with us, a greater grip on

glory. That's what I've wanted to give to you all tonight. Just mentioned

the greater grip on glory. Oh, that we could get every glimpse we

can, That we would hunger from every touch of God, every move with

God we can, that we would just I'll tell you where this has been

is pastors talked about seeing the glory cloud, and there's others that I've witnessed

that and now I want to say being more in the position to experience something

like that, that has been my prayer. But my prayer was when you

come down God, the power the glory cloud, when that glory cloud that

sins it's not just here for me to see, like brothers said, it's

not just here for my entertainment, but there's power in that glorious cloud.

And I believe that when we pray, when we see God, when that

glory thought does come down, when the chit kind of glory of God come

down to kids, there will be baptisms and the Holy ghosts currently healings,

there will be body of manifestations, body little, if good, it is

attainable. I'm sick of hearing God doesn't heal. He just want to heal

your heart. God still heals your body. I seek of hearing that these

things recorded are for today. I've seen it for today. I've experienced for

today. I'm glad that we thought about God. He is on the deficit.

He has all the power, and I'm saying thankful that His Lord is

available for us, and I just want more for him. And I pray

that that your parare desired. This guy says you drunk closer and you'll see

more if you gosh. I'm thankful from the spirit of the Lord we feel

tonight. When I started getting all my diagnosis of the deal's going on,

I prayed one time and I said I was praying the Lord, and I

said, Lord, I know I'm not gonna die because I don't believe you're

done with me. I've got plans. But then I got to thinking,

and the part I prayed the most was, Lord, I have plans for

you, and I hope everyone has from as plans for the Lord in their

life. And the long Jetty, I want to share this. I don't

I don't think anybody in here doubts our Pastor. I do not believe that

at all. But something Brother Jonathan, he's aware of this. I haven't

spoke the pastor on it yet, but last Sunday night. Most of y'all

know Beuford. He hadn't been here for about three months or so, and

so he come over Sunday afternoon, and so we were listening to preaching.

We're just gone through people. We'd name somebody and if we both knew me

or Jonathan us to doing, we'd play him. And so we ran across

a capitist preacher. I turned him home and then he preached a little bit.

And then I told youord, I said, let me show you a

clip where a lot of people say, say you fell. And so I

turned that clip on YouTube on Its only like three seconds and immediately just he

went off on vulgarities. And so after that clip happened, Beuford told me,

he said, I just don't understand how someone that knows that much of

the Bible this man could I've never seen it that way, told me.

He said, I don't know how someone that knows the Bible that good could

backflot. I said, the only thing I can say is he stopped praying

right. And so we come to church Sunday night. The pastor knew nothing

about it, got up and it was the same man. I'm not gonna

call his name, same man. It's after church. I told Youchford,

I said, you called that. He said, yeah, And I know

the Lord pulls from Beauford a lock and the same thing and my message,

I'll get to it a minute. The same thing happened to convention. We

were all in the hotel reading and praying before or not before the morning service,

and Youford looked at me, brother Caleb and Jonathan and said, what

a sanctification? I said, if you for the only thing I know to

say is it's separation and coming to the point where you don't care what people

think, or separate from the world friends. And so I said, give

you a minute. So I know the Bible when I'm no scholars. So

I went back to my concordance and I went to the sanctification section, and

I got about four scriptures and I gave them to Buford. That very next

night, Pastor got out and talked about sanctification the same scriptures, and so

I'll be doing a little different way. I've had this on my heart for

about two weeks and then I woke up with this title going over and over

in my head when I woke up this morning. If you have your Bibles,

we're reading first Samuel, chapter fifteen and verse thirty five, EPI.

Small You have to save man, it says, and Samuel come no more

to see Saul until the day of his death. Nevertheless, Samuel mourned for

Saul, and the Lord repented that he had made Saul king over Israel.

You afraid enough all would be helpless God. This is a story most of

us are very familiar with. Saul. I mean Samuel, the prophet come

to Saul and was telling him the things that the Lord wanted to do.

Is says in verse three. This is the Lord speaking to Saul through his

servant Samuel, and it says, now, go smite the Amlakites and utterly

destroy all that they have, and spare them not but Slabo's men and woman,

infant and suckling aughts, sheep camel and asks, then if we go

on. In verse seven, it says, and Saul smote the amler Kites

from henlong until until thou comest to sure that is over against Egypt, he

says, and he In verse eight, it says, and he took a

gag the king of the amla Kites alive and utterly destroyed all the people.

Now, if you read that just five verses prior, I believe in his

Samuel's telling Saul to slay everyone needs nothing to live and then all in uh

verse eight he takes it says, and he took ain't gad the king right

there and says, alive and utterly destroyed all the people. This is the

king. He should have been the one that God first, it says,

and then in verse ten, I will be going through. I want to

get through the end. Then came the word of the Lord under saying or

saying, it repents me that I have made that I have set up Saul

to be king, for he is turned back from following me, and hath

not performed my commandments. Hat Lujah verse eleven. And so right there Saul

just begins to do it his way on back and said, God just said,

man, I repent and repent it to me that I made Saul king

over Israel. My title. I already miss it. I think the title

is when God moves on that. When I woke up with that come on

over in my head, I had this scripture for weeks, and so let

me come read thirteen and fourteen. Help us, Lord said, and it

says, Samuel come to Saul. And Saul said, unto him, blessed

be thou of the Lord. I have performed the commandments of the Lord.

And Samuel said, what meaneth the bleeding of the sheep in mine ears?

And the lulling of the oxen which I hear? And Saul said, they

have brought them from the Amlicites for the people's spare the best of the sheep

and of the oxen to sacrifice unto the Lord thy God, and the rest

we have utterly destroyed. Right there, Saul saw lies to Samuel plain as

day says, I've done what the Lord hath commanded. And then immediately Samuel,

the Lord showed him. And that's the thing. We can't let anything

get past our. Samuel are brought that. He immediately knew they can tell

when you're not actually doing what God said to you. Help us, Lord,

So let me jump down right here. Help me. Holy goes right

here. Sister how actually said this scripture after I had read it this morning

she or spoke about it here in Sunday school, And it said, and

Samuel said, where thou when thou werst literal in thine own sight? What'st

thou not made the head of the tribe of Israel and the Lord and nort

to be king? Right there? That was when Saul was humble. At

some point, Saul got too big for his britches, as old timers would

say, something the Lord I feel like gave to me was know it all

Saul. Saul wanted to do it his own way. There's something I want

to jump right here to verse thirty, and we'll read through the rest of

this. Then he said, I have sinned At this point, Saul against

the confess it, he says. Then then he said, I have sin.

Yeah, ortter me, now I pray before the errors of my people

and before Israel, and turn again with me that I may worship the Lord.

So Samuel turned again after Saul and worship the Lord. Then then said

Samuel, bring me hither to me a gag and the king of the Amakots.

And ain't God come to him deceechly? And Agad said, surely the

bitterness of death has passed. I got a think right there. Let me

reread that. It says, try to find I'm great to pray anyway right

here. So Samuel turned again after Saul and saw worship the Lord right then

and there. Samuel knew that Saul didn't mean business, because that Saul should

have got done praying and worshiping God, and said, bring me Agag,

I'll got stuff. He should have been the one that you and the piece

is gonna, said Samuel. When he got done worshiping, he stood back

if your dad, and said, Saul didn't call for a gag. Call

a gag. You him into pieces before the Lord right here, and said,

and Samuel said, hey, Goad said, surely the bitterness of death

has passed. And Samuel said, as thy sword have made women childless,

so shall thy mother be childless among women? And sam were hughed a gag

into pieces before the Lord in Gilgal. And Samuel went to Rama, and

Saul went up to his house to Assaul, and Samuel came no more to

see Saul until the day of his death. Nevertheless, Samuel more for Saul,

and the Lord repented that he had made Saul king over Israel. I

want to read now in chapter sixteen and verse one, And the Lord said,

unto Samuel, how long wilt thou more for Saul? Seeing I have

rejected him from reigning over Israel, fell like horn with oil, and go.

I will send thee to Jesse the beth for him like this, for

I have provided me a king among his sons. I got a thing that

pastor preached on puppet Pharaoh. So at this point what it is is Saul

got done. He didn't want to be a puppet no more right he got

done doing what God wanted him to do, he said, I'll just keep

doing it my way. He kept at God's kind of like an apeing situation.

Right here, you gotta realize, God tell me right the so and

the Lord said Uno, saying along without mourning for Saw. That's a scary

thought. Right here, are sayingel most of us know that it's our prophet.

What will you do if God tells this man to stop mourning for you?

If I'm telling you right there, thank you. He goes, I

can find it. He before we go somewhere in there, God will grant

somebody God flowing to turn away. And Samuel grab his garment and rent it

and said, God hath rent the kingdom from you and given it to your

neighbor. He said, who is better than thou? If you want to

be a hardhead deep before you want to cause the man of God move and

sleep, said Samuel mourned all night long prior to God. God will remove

you and replace you with a with a homeless man. Before right there,

it says the Somewhere in the in the sixteenth chapter, it says the spirit

of God departed from Saul, and an evil spirit from God, God give

me an evil spirit. Before I got to thinking about that, the fact

that it says better than thou. I know, it's a hard thing to

think that God could bring a wholeless man in that causes him less problems.

God can bring I druk her to and causes less brothers. The last thing

we need to do God, There it says, now the evil spirit from

God. Come on Saul, God put that evil spirit on him. You

know who is the one that comforted so Saul's replacement, David. It could

be the very person you want to call brother Allan Loia. It could be

if somebody God brings in is the one having to preach to you. I

want having to bring for you right out of the fire. All because you

calls them inn on God problem all he calls them man on God lost sleep.

I want to read that again. And the Lord said into Samuel,

how long wilt thou more for Saul. I've been thinking about that for weeks.

If the Man of God starts stops morning, we are in a scary

place. That that's a beautiful thing. I don't I don't want to ever

cause the Man of God to lose sleep. Hey, we're easy to replace.

Saul was the king. Everybody loves Saul there for a time and if

he rent his garment, said, God, given it to thy neighbor,

a better man than thou. You God, I know there's better men than

us. But I just want to be a blessing the pastor. I don't

want to be a herd had I want to be obedient. I want to

be like I want to be David, that guy that just stuck with me.

When I realized that David Saul being the hard headed Samuel Wait annointed David

to be king and that evil spirit with old soul, and they said his

certain thought about heat is somebody that could play the horror, something calming down.

And Saul's very replacement that was that. That was really good to me.

I got to thinking about about got happy. Maybe I shouldn't. I

know what Sister Waving the pastor talked about. We don't want to get happy

about. We ain't happy to anybody's gonna go to hell at all. But

a man God will replace you with so more. And that that's a blessing

to the man of God. If you don't heed and listen, I thank

you Lord that got appreciate the Lord here tonight, the pastor the church.

I appreciate pastors so much for his confidence and asking us to preach here this

evening, looking forward to what the Lord has for the rest of the service.

Appreciate what these brothers have said. I really feel like that. Y'all

gonna think some of us was on a group text comparing notes and stuff.

But I promised you that was not the case. We were in a group

text, but that was just Pastor telling us to be ready. We said,

every one of us, yes, Sir Pastor. That was the end

of it. The rest of the time we was on our knees and on

our faces in the Word of God. Like I said, I appreciate God

for this. I appreciate the Lord. I appreciate my pastor for this opportunity.

You could be turning to the Book of Acts, chapter number four Acts,

the fourth chapter. I told God I want to preach him, Happy

God. I had about a half of pages a note. I don't know

if you thought I was Maybe I was out of the will of God,

but I was trying. First time I've ever written notes out of my book.

Threw them in the trash can. I said, God, I have

tears on my faces of God. I submit to your will because I couldn't

get away from it, I said God, I wanted to preach a whippy

I told my wife. When I was walking out, I said, man,

I wanted to preach. Something happened, I really did, I promise

you I did, ripped it out and said my trash can at the house

without a half a page Acts chapter number four would start reading in verse number

thirty three, And with great power gave the apostles witness of the resurrection of

the Lord Jesus. And great grace was upon them all. Neither was there

any among them that lacked, for as many were possessors of land or houses,

sold them and brought the prices of the things that was so, and

laid them down at the apostles feed and distribution was made up unto every man

according as he had need. These early believers they gave one hundred percent.

They gave their all. They gave their everything, everything their hand they had,

down to their houses and to their land. They gave everything to God.

And I want to preach for just a little while here tonight. I

ain't gonna hold you along on gaining by giving, gaining, by giving what

you that your hand, and a God to help with you tonight. Gord,

we asked right now that you would come into this place, God,

that you would annoy these people. That's a place God, this people minded,

Thank God, that you would be left to God, that you would

help me and say only the things that you would have me to say,

nothing more, nothing left, bringing glory honoring to you. We give you

thanks, and I rend this place for you are worthy of all glory,

of all honor and all praise, and Jesus wonderful name, we praise and

give you glory. Amen and Amen. I don't plan on preaching anything new

to you tonight, but how many This is an old well right here.

The God as an old well that stood the tenth of time. And there's

still fresh water in an old well. And that's what I want to do

tonight. I want to pull a little in a fresh water out of an

old well. This is a very familiar scripture, and this lines up with

a king Saul holding back. He thought, he held back the good stuff.

He thought, I'll keep the good stuff for sacrifice, and I'll keep

the best of the lambs, and I'll keep the best of the flocks.

Well, in our text it tells about the other church and their devotion to

their savior, church family, and the needy. We read that those that

had possessions sold the lands of the houses they broke, the proceeds to the

apostles. They laid them at their feet, and the apostles would distribute throughout

the church and throughout the community as they needed. As the poor needed,

hell, they would distribute. This was not a mandatory sacrifice that I can

read in the Book of Acts. It was not a mandatory. It was

completely voluntary, but many were participating. There was many that caught the vision

and said, I feel like I should do that. I feel like I

should catch their burden and I should get on with them, and I should

do what they're doing. Right. Well, this led to a snare to

a man and a woman, a great snare because everyone else was doing it

and they wanted to fit in. They wanted to do they didn't They didn't

want to get left behind. So anonis is a fire. They devise a

uh a plane, right. They wanted to fit in, but they didn't

want to completely pay the price. Their heart wasn't completely surrendered to God's will

or his plan for their life. But and they didn't want to be honest

with themselves and everyone else. They devise a plan, and they plotted the

sept of scheme to sell a possession of their own. I don't the Bible

don't really tell us what it is. I don't know. Most people were

selling their houses and their lands. So maybe it was a piece of land

they had, maybe it was their house. I don't know, maybe it

was another house they had, but they had a possession, and they devised

this scheme to to fit in. They devised this scheme to not draw attention

to themselves and just do what everyone else is doing. So they sell this

possession, they keep a porcing for themselves, and the remaining balance they give

to the apostles. And the problem they got in is that they said it

was one hundred percent. So if they would have said, look, we've

got this we want to do, and this we want to do, so

we've kept a little bit back, but we do feel like giving this to

the work of God. We do feel like giving it out to the work

of God. I really believe they would have been fined. They said,

God, bless you. They probably wouldn't have made it on the on the

scripture. They probably would have never made it into the Book of Acts if

they just if they just gave up that that portion, but they wouldn't have

been in the shape that they were in. They wanted to give enough to

the church to not raise suspicion. And many people will come to church and

they'll clap their hands and they'll sing the backup creature just enough that they don't

bring attention to that to the fact that they aren't wouldn't hundred percent worshiping God

to the fullest extent the way we were called to do, the way we

were called to give our everything to God through in their own holding the part

for them, and they found their part to be demolished in the house of

God. You can walk the talk, right, you can walk the walk

and talk the talk and act you can look the part, but something can

be missing on the inside. I'm sure Antonize, it's a fire that said,

well, we sold it for this bunch, and everyone knows it was

worth this amount. You know, if I look at most people's cars,

I can get a pretty good guestiment or roughly what it's worth. If I

look at people's houses. I can get a rough estimate of what it's worth.

So whatever they sold their turp members, they knew roughly what it was

worth. So I'm sure antonize is the fire had a little conversation, Well,

if we give this bunch, it'll look like it they'll know we didn't

give enough. If we give this much, it'll raise suspicion, like,

did you really only sell it for that amount? Right? So they come

up with the perfect amount of what they feel like is the perfect amount of

giving. What they feel like is just enough to get a mine. What

they feel like is just enough to get through to the next service. What

they feel like just enough to give through to next year. You might think

that you have everyone food, and I want you to listen to what I'm

saying here tonight. I ain't up here to be in the air because there's

some people in this house and need you get a hold of God, or

you're gonna find to myself God of God. I ain't mad, and I

ain't me. I told you I wanted to preach you happy. You think

you have everyone food, Maybe your church family don't really lies. Just how

much you are withholding from a complete surrender to God and one hundred percent sell

out. If you want to gain the gifts of God, if you want

to gain the gifts of eternal life, it will cost you everything. It

cost my sweet Jesus everything, and it'll cost you the same. You're not

sir in your all, then a lie. It's fool Peter. You think

you're fooling this man of God. You think you're fooling your pastor. Peter

Saul right through him, Peter Saul, right through the man. Peter said,

why has Satan feeled my heart to you, the Holy Dove? And

to keep back part of the price of the land. Need a sault right

through their foolishness. I believe it's in the book of Mark. I don't

have it wrote down, but I believe it's in the book of life Mark.

God said, they armed me with their lips. Their heart's far from

me. Right. You talk the talk, but your daily life shows different.

You ain't constant that devil. You ought to appreciate everyone else, but

you ain't talking child devils. I feel the power of God in this house.

Your heart's far from it, your mind is right there. Matthew twenty

three and twenty seven Jesus said, wanted to use cribs and pharisees hypocrites.

You are like on the whitewashed suppulchers, which indeed up here beautiful outward,

but are within full of dead men, bones and of all uncleanness. You

think you've got it all figured out, then no one really knows where you

are. You have a form of godliness. You got the form down.

You got the getting here at five point thirty on Sunday evening to hit the

leon down. You got the clap in your hands down home. You got

the amen pastor preaching down home. You got the form down because you was

raised in it, because you're seeing it. You see what everyone else is

doing. Just like internist. There's a fire again. You got it down.

But it takes more than coming to church. When the doors are open

and tearing that I'm where I need to be. The clock will soon strike

midnight. Time will come to a screeching hole. The eternity will run up

behind it, grab of the torn He'll run out to the endless angels.

I said. Time will come to a screeching hall, The eternity will run

up behind it rather than a hard and it will run on for eternity,

and you'll chance to sail out. Really time, the James will be over,

the chance to make a complete surrender will be no more. Saul had

his chance. Saul had a chance to do what Nott present, what God

said, but he held back what what he thought was good for him.

He held back what I thought was good for the people. What about that

man Udicus? That boy wasn't he in the building? Wasn't he listened to

a Paul apossel? Paul sat in a window, not really in tune with

with with the service. He wasn't really paying attention to what the man of

God was saying. He didn't have a grasp on it. And he falls

asleep. The Bible says he falls down from the third law. He costs

him his life. You read the rest of that. God has mercy holding

thanks to apostle Paul and raises him back. But that does not change the

fact, change the fact that he lost his life a right, His lack

of interest, his lack of one hundred percent participation, costs him his life.

What about demons? Do you think they're pastor Paul ever thought deep they

ever called demons? Did he dreaming a little bit. They're in the church.

They're in the church, and Demons is standing right there. Just let's

go here. His God is suiting his tie on. His God is flesh.

It's fresh, shined up, Floyd shines on. He's standing right there.

Hey, man, Apostle Paul, we're at your church. Paul also

to your says, what's on your mind? Demus, what are you thinking

about? What's going on in there. I'm sure Paul pulled and reached for

the man. I'm sure Paul gave one hundred percent. I'm sure Paul came

everything he had because that was at work for with him. Jesus soon decided

me, what Pastor's given one hundred percent to some of us. He's giving

his own all to us. He's giving every waking moment of his life to

us. But if we choose to walk out, if we choose to not

surrender, if we choose to be like Dens and hold on to their love

for the present world, no matter what Apostle Paul does, no matter what

Pastor Howell does, you will be left. Eternity will dragging mend. I

want to say this. I go to church because I love going to church,

and days of death mark dragging me to church, our owner. The

days of death, Ma'm dragging. I tell him forget to bed and give

me death for church are over. I go to turk, but talk my

love. I leave this way tall all love it. I read my Bible

because I love it, and I pray to talk a love prayer. One

sell out to God. If you've sold out, you will love it.

If you've given home, you will love it. Don't play games with eternity.

It's too close. Eternity is too close. We're not promised tomorrow.

I got tired of doing just enough to feed in. I got tired of

having the form but no power. Send the Bible. Read it right the

way you get power with God. He's a complete surrender. Sohul story would

have been all so different if he would have if he would have surrendered all

to God and he would have gave one percent everything to God, he would

have been so different. And a Nis as a fire would have been so

different. They obviously didn't have no memorial service for d a Nis because in

three hours the man was buried. His wife didn't even know it. You

ain't thought about that, have you? God will give you power if you

surrender completely and a Nius was only a shell of what he could have been

in the in that in that early shirt day, He's only a memory.

He's only a testimony of what not to do. Or are you going to

be a testimony of what not to do? Or are you going to be

a testimony that your what's it going? And your complete failure? I'm done.

I felt the power of the Lord today. All it takes is we

was hundred percent? Is that that much to offer when he came off for

us? I know I'm young, and I don't know nothing. I'm only

twenty six. When I'm telling you, I used to be where some of

you are at. I used to do just enough to get by. I

used to do just enough to fit in. I used to raise my hands

just enough to not raise this pish. What's your story gonna be? What's

your appetat? The want to read? I'm reminding of a story just now

twenty fourteen. I believe it was a man by the name of Robert Vick

escaped from a penitiary and the dead winter of north Worth's cold brother Jacob said

it was below zero he was he escaping. I think he was on the

run for twelve or thirteen hours. Said there was a store clerk in the

town working late that night. Oh and a man brushes through the door says,

hey, can I borrow your phone? The store clerk says yes,

sure. They asked the store clerk later on. They said they have been

looking for this man for about thirteen or fourteen hours. They said that the

store clerk remembered a man said, come borrow your phone. Store clerk said,

yeah, sure, just stand right here, don't go nowhere. He

said, okay, I'll WoT he said and died a number. He said

he remembers a man saying, hello, Yeah, my name is Robert vic.

I'm the one y'all looking for. I'm the one that's been on the

run. Come get me because I'm tired of being where I'm at. I'm

tired of not being where i was supposed to be. I'm tired of being

cold out here. He got tired of the run. He got tired of

the fight. He got tired of fighting d will and kicking against the pricks.

And he finally said, I surrender. What's he gonna be? Are

you gonna tie it up? Say God, I surrender. I'm tired of

running, I'm tired of fighting against your will. I surrender all this night.

Why get it off? The altars are open. Is there someone that

will move quick or the altar mm hm. The the case of complaining,

some hope, that hope, by and