A Tale Of Two Brothers - Bro Jeremy Howell 12-31-2023

All right, if you have your bibles, will you turn with me to

the Book of Genesis. Isn't that an awesome word? Genesis? Man,

direct your attention to the fourth chapter. We will be reading the third and

fourth versus Brother Nathaniel Romans, chapter number nine and verse number thirteen, Brother

Jesse Galatians, Chapter number five, Verses number sixteen and seventeen. Did y'all

have a good job at that progressive dinner last night? Thank you to all

the host families that hosted the beautiful Bethel hole in his churches. We went

from house to house fellowship, and one with another breaking bread. Thank you

you all did such a good job. Who came to church this morning tired?

After that? Y'all did a pretty good job going home in a decent

time. But the question is did you get in bed at a decent job?

We still had church this morning there with the Brother Nathaniel, which you

read our cotext Romans chapter number nine and verse number thirteen. Please, my

brother, as it is written, Jacob, have I loved? But Esau

have I hated? This is a powerful verse. It's a blood chilling verse

as it speaks of two brothers who were twins not identical twins, but two

brothers that shared so much. They had so much in common. And God

said, I have hated one and loved the author brother Jesse Galatians, chapter

number five, verses number sixteen and seventeen. This I say, then,

walk in the spirit, and you shall not fulfill the lust of the flesh.

For the flesh lusted against the spirit, and the spirit against the flesh.

And these are contrary, the one to the other, so that she

cannot do the things that she would. Let's stand for the reading of golden

texts. Tony Genesis, chapter number four, verses number three and four.

And in process of time, and came to pass that Cain brought of the

fruit of the ground and offering unto the Lord and Abel, he also brought

of the first things of his flock, and of the fat thereof. And

the Lord had respect unto Abel and to his offering, we'll read another fores

verse. But unto Cain and to his offering, he had not respect.

And Cain was very wroth, and his countenance fell. May we pray,

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

opportunity to be in your house. We pray that you would anoint this thy

servants and a guard in my mouth, and help me to say the things

that you would have me to say, nothing more or less anort the ears

of this thy people, that they might hear what the spirits saith under the

churches. Lord, I pray that these sayings would go below the shoulders to

get in that heart, in that spirit, in the soul. I pray

God that you would help us not to be here's only help us to heed.

I don't want anybody in this building, including myself, tonight, to

deceit ourselves. We need the sayings of this blessed but we need to keep

them. I pray Father that we would depart this place joyfully and not sorrowfully.

In Jesus's name. Amen, as you're being seated, say hey,

neighbor, do you have a brother and does he look like you? Is

there anybody in this building tonight that can say I have a brother that looks

like me? All right? Sister Lisha raised her hand. Anyone else raise

your hand, Sister Jackie Walker, Sister Teresa Wallace, Brother Christian Wood.

Ah, So, Sister Donna, I have a brother that looks like me.

I want to preach to you that the Holy Ghost. Titled a Tale

of Two Brothers, a Tale of two brothers. Our text is found in

an Old Testament book of the Holy Bible, the Book of Genesis. Isn't

that an awesome an amazing word? Genesis, the Book of Genesis or the

Book of Beginnings. This book details the origins of the heavens and earth.

It also details the origins of all life, in its smallest of forms or

in its greatest of forms. The origins of life can be found recorded in

this blessed book of the Bible. Again, this book details the origins of

the heavens and the earth. Not only does it detail that to us,

it also details the origins of the human race. In this particular book of

the Bible we also find the origin of the nation of Israel. The Lord

a named Abraham to be the father of the faithful. This man is also

known as the Friend of God. How many of you in this building tonight

would like to be known as a friend of God's In this blessed read back

Himnal, there is a song that contains the lyrics I'll be a friend to

Jesus. It goes on to say, if on earth while I'm living,

my Lord shall have a friend somehow. This man Abraham became the friend of

God. Because of this friendship between him and the Lord, he became the

father of the faith. This man received a promise from the Lord as a

result of his faithfulness. How many of you are involved in ministry of any

kind? I thank God for every person that is involved in a ministry.

We, as believers in the Lord Jesus Christ, have been commissioned to reach

the least, the lost, and the lordly, and to engage and interact

with this world in an effort or an attempt to convert souls through the power

of Jesus Christ and threw his ruby red blood. I appreciate every person that

has been found faithful by the Lord, and the result of that is the

Lord has put you into ministry of some kind. Please do not ever lose

your friendship or faithfulness with the Lord, for it goes a mighty long ways.

There has been times in my life that I knew it was because of

the closeness, that intimacy between me and the Lord that I knew I possessed

his favor. How many can say, by the showing of a hand that

divine favor is yours. Oh. Yes, if you're a child of God,

you enjoy the benefits of divine favor. That is something to be thankful

for. That is something to shout in this life about. It's also something

shout about in the afterlife that God has showed you such favor and such kindness

due to that friendship and faithfulness between you and your Father. We also know

that this man Abraham received the promise that of his seed would come forth a

very tiny nation, and that that nation would be separated from the other nations

of the world unto Jehovah, a nation that would be a light to the

gentiles, which was the rest of the world. God had a plan for

all of humanity. Before the very foundation of the world, the Holy Triune

God had had a counsel, and they determined that mankind would afford the mission,

and that they would make a tragic mistake because of the gift of free

will, and they would fall out of good graces with the Lord. And

the Lord crafted a beautiful plan that will call a redemptive plan. If you'll

look in this book of Genesis, you'll find not only the fall and the

failure of mankind, but you will see God's redemptive plan for all of humanity

in its infancy. You'll also find something that is very disheartening and very discouraging

for the child of God. You will find the embryo of sin. The

origin of sin is found in the book that we are reading out of tonight.

But you will find also the origin of the offspring of God. The

messianic promise that Jesus Christ himself would come on a mission to hijack the devil's

plan and to save all of the human race. Those that would allow him

to save them Praise the Lord our Texas found in the fourth chapter of this

book called Genesis. And in this chapter we find Adam and Eve doing exactly

as the Lord had told them to do. As they were instructed. They

are busy, and they are being fruitful and pro creating. The earth is

being populated one child at a time. And their first child, or the

production of their own producing, is a bouncing baby boy named Cain. I

want you to remember the name of this man, Caine. I will give

you the meaning of his name here voluntarily. After a while, they have

another bouncing baby boy, and they name him Abel. I also want you

to remember the name of the meaning of this second child, Abel, and

the meaning of his name. Do not forget that you're gonna need it at

some point because of motherhood and because of the fulfillment of the promise. Eve

begins to feel satisfied because of her simple obedience to the mandate that they received

from the Lord against the bill. Satisfied. In fact, when she first

brings forth this first son came, she says, I have got a manchild

from the Lord. What she's saying is this in build will or machine,

This production facility that God called a womb work just exactly the way God said

it would. And I trusted the Lord, and I have produced a manchild.

We are now bringing forth alive. I'm so thankful that there was not

an abortion clinic nearby. We find that this woman took great pleasure in being

a mother. That is something that we do not hear of anymore. People

that were saying, above all things that I consider to be my greatest success

in life, motherhood is my greatest success. We can tell by her verbal

expression after this man child is that she is very excited. We've got a

mother that is experiencing labor and hopefully not deliver at some point tonight during this

service. And I feel like after this mother has labored and delivered her child,

brother Nathaniel, there will be an expression of joy upon her face.

In the first Lady and I are to go to the hospital later tonight or

early tomorrow morning. At three to four weeks from now, we will know

that it was very rewarding for this couple to produce a child. How many

of you know that there's a lot of churches today they are not satisfied because

of a lack of success in being fruitful and multiplying. We know that God

promised the believers that they would be able to populate heaven. We do not

have to plunder hell to populate heaven. You can bring up children, you

can train them up and the nurture and the admonition of the Lord, and

you can enjoy the eternal pleasures of heaven alongside of your children. We can

also enjoy the fact that God has used us or commissioned us to rescue the

least, the lass and the lones, and that Heaven as well can be

populated because of the fruits of our labor. It does not matter if it's

a natural birth or a spiritual birth. It is very fulfilling and satisfying for

any couple, especially the mother, when they bring forth some form of life.

Could the church say amen. Chapters number four and five offer a glimpse

of how quickly someone can fall and how quickly someone can tell. But also

we see that the Lord is quick to maintain the situation. We see that

the Lord is quick to fix or repair the problem that which is broken.

He wants to repair it fact that has been damned. He's not satisfied when

looking upon his creation and seeing that it has been harmed in any way by

any definition. You see, the Lord was terribly displeased when Adam and Eve

transgressed and did the very thing that he had prohibited and commanded them not to

do better. Nathaniel, humanity began to break down in that very moment.

It's true they knew things that they should not have ever known. It's true

that they tasted of a forbidden prood. But they also felt the poor reason

of it, the cursing through their veins that God set part his plan.

He had the activation button he pressed in the Calvary code, and he began

the redemptive plan, with a process of a procedure. It would take a

little time that he would restore his people, everybody that was willing up to

himself. The old human is used to sing a song in the state of

Kentucky. Our God is a fixing man. He's still fixing songs and bodies

all over the land. If you look at our text tonight, Genesis chapter

number four and a third and fourth versus your fire, that in the process

of time, those two people out of and evil witnessed their children trying to

go on to a worship service. Hell fire that came brought of the fruit

of the ground. And Abel brought and offering her to the Lord that was

of blood, offering of the first things of it his flock, and the

fact thereof, And the Bible said that the Lord had respective unto Abel and

unto his opering. Doesn't matter what kind of sacrifice it you bring to the

Lord. The Lord can tell when you bring something that is brimis. I

mentioned this morning how those people in the days say of Maraki, we're bringing

brimster offerings. And God said, would to take that kind of opering to

the governor of your county? Would you take that kind of opening to the

personality at the White House. Would it take that that was just enough to

get by, would it take that to me that's somewhat questionable, or would

you bring your very best? I'm preaching that message the Holy Ghost title a

Tale of Two Brothers. I need two brothers to come up here and stand

in front of this pool pit as soon as you can. What's going on

here. There's two brothers that are standing shoulder the shoulder and they're trying to

get level best to operate a sacrifice unto God. What fact that I've noticed

in the sacred riplessness? Ein't seen somewhat sorple and remorseful for what she done?

But know where did I really fight? And offering being made by Adam

a true repenancel. We taught me sorrow. We know why King God what

he did? Could it be because he never detected true taught me sorrow in

the heart? Daddy, Adam, I said, Mom and Daddy, watch

these two young men that can read home production in the processor of worship.

If you were there in church and they're trying to have communion with God,

watch Operingness. It's not a civil eaner accepted by God while another's opering it's

noticeable rejected by God. How do you expect to let brother in the feel

how do you expect him to react? I want you to know I'm preaching

us some people in this beuning tonight. God takes noticer to the presentation.

I said, God takes notice to what's be an opering and the presentation of

that offering. Tank your brothers two brothers. Do y'all see the similarities in

these two brothers. Both of them in this case, are dark headed.

Both of them have brown eyes. Both of them have an olive tend to

their skin. Both of them appear to be handsome or appeasing or appealing to

the eye. What in the world is Kin and Abel trying to do?

Why are they offering sacrifice? What is the purpose? It is a form

of worship? Can I say that if your form of worship does not include

a sacrificial offering of self, if you do not come in to the presence

of God, want to tell you a basis incrusipy your self presshop every day.

It is questionable of your sincerity regarding that offering. The Great Apostle Paul

said, I beat my self of black head blue. If you study that

out, and if you look at it, you can say that he was

dying daily. He was feeding back the flesh. I want you to know

that one brother who represents the spirit, while another brother who represents the flesh.

For yes, the name Came, it means a vapor, I said.

The name Kan means a vapor. I'm sorry. The name the name

Came means acquire, acquire, or spear something. Through the name Abel,

it means vapor. It's just here for a moment and then it is gone.

This will make sense to you here in a moment. So these two

sons, Cain and Abel, they weren't required to bring an offering to the

Lord. I cannot find exactly what kind of producer, vegetables or fruit that

it was that came brought to the Lord. But obviously, even though his

daddy had been a tiller of the ground and had worked by the sweat of

his brower, obviously there was something disappointing about this fruit and the vegetable tree

that he had brought to the Lord. Who wasn't that it had been brimished

in some way? Who wasn't a last minute offering? Was it something that

he had in the fruit of a vegetable bowl on the table. After last

minute, he remembered his time for church, his time to worship Tom.

There's no time for anybody to come into the house of color. After last

minute. Tats had not been there. You are last start in mine.

Pat's had not been enough for a last time graft. I'm coming to you

using me breathed God. In the wording, you should breathe God. In

the email, you should breathe God. God sapt be on your life before

you get to church. Your offering up to be done outside of the church

walls. The silence said, I will enter his dates with thanksgiving. I

will enter his capture. We praise what operas can we pay? That won't

be acceptable? Praise thanksgiving? Those aren't offerads that won't be acceptable. But

we're required to bring an offer. A preacher, i'd brother just come to

church and sit down and take it easy. At some point, because of

maybe family pressure or a sense of duty, they felt that they must do

this, They must offer something sacrificially, and they had to decide what are

we going to bring and present to the Lord. Now, if you're not

crippled, don't present to God a crippled soul. If you're not struggling,

don't appear to somebody else that you're struggling for attention. I don't know what

kind of attention King was expecting from God, but he got the wrong kind

of reaction to his action. There was obviously something different about these two young

men. Their in de bad individuality is what stood out to me as I

sought the Lord this afternoon. But at tes See, their individuality was apparent

to me as I saw what each one brought to the Lord. These boys

had shared the same dad and mom. They had said the same home,

but perhaps they are sharing the same outthouse. There came from the same family.

There came here from the same dad. There came from the same bob.

They could share the same stories, They could share the same testimonies.

Came can tell it as good as able content. My father used to walk

through the God of Eden with God himself. One of you could save And

yeah, our brother entertained the dapple. They all have stories to tell her

that I want you to know. Your stories or shared by your siblings,

your stories or shave by your spiritual siblings. We can all save her.

We had a common denominator in Jesus. We can all save the church errors

walk with tod We can all say somebody was tipted, so only love the

devil that I want to ask you this question. Can you get personal with

little cyclopice? Can you get personal if you're worship to the cart, if

God will approved it? How about it? What if the Lord himself was

to descend from the totals of gold and lift off these towels like there's four

men dead never read about in the Gospels, and Jesus himself was to descend

through one of them towels, and brother, he said, take the microphone

out of my hand and begin to assess our offerings and to praise our offerings.

I do know that a lamb would have been worth a whole lot more

than a bowl of oranges. I'm not saying I know what it was,

but I do know that lamb chops a whole lot better to some people than

on orange ears. You've got testimonies and you got stories to tell. You

could say your daddy was in the presence of God. You could say your

daddy was the preacher. You could say that your mamma Wasn't all say of

God, you can share the stories that I want you to know. God

is looking at your individuality, I said, God, he's looking at you.

Come on now. He sees more than the difference in things hair color

than that of abe. He sees more than the difference in the tone of

their skin. I'm telling you. We come to and we think on this,

and we think on that, and those things really don't matter. The

Bible said that God, he tries to raige, He tries the operating room,

He tries to help, canis for the bid. He tries to line,

he tries the soul, He tries to spirit. He could see God

as a man. See if God looks on the heart, it doesn't matter.

Through Sarah the same less nave. Howem, God is concerned of my

children's the vidality. Huh, Well, wise, God blessing this one and

not this one? Why is God blessing this one and not m We have

all taught them things. We have all said those things under our breath.

We have said those things to ourself. Will I go to church too?

I have perfect attendance too. I sing in the choir too, IW lead

the singing to I pray in the holder too. We share the same altar

for the crowd out loud, one praise on one side, one praise on

the other side. In the world, it is the deal. But we

all know that that flesh and that spirit, he said, a conflict,

and if you don't do something about and the flesh is going to win.

A tale of two loves. What mother represents the pressor and anothernther represents the

spirit. You will remember that Jesus toll the phariseical scholar Nicodemus up the spirit

thing. He said, you need to be born a spirit if you're gonna

understand these things, I paya praise. Basically, Jesus was saved. The

plesson gives birtual to the pressa and the spirital dis bertal to the spirit.

I tell you what angels her ychoprosmas accepond because her he had chose to be

something wonderful for his God. Ephesians Chapternumber two, verses number eight and nine.

It says, for my grace, are ye say through faith, and

that not of yourselves. It is the gift of God. It is not

of works, lest any man should boast. One other biblical writer said,

but I will show you my faith by my words. If you are truly

blood, ought and orn again, and the spirit is operating in you because

you are in doubt, without a doubt, a new creature all things have

passed away, creative and restored to power, has taken place in your life,

and the call of the origin of new beginnings has done something in you.

That was the plea of King David. After he had sinned, he

said, God create in me a queen hearnt don't time, and renewed a

rope spirit within me. I know that there is some disagreement we part in

our salvation. I know that there's some Let's say, we don't have to

do anything that is true. We cannot earn it to old marriage. We

cannot work for salvation. That when we become for his child and he serns

us the spirit of adoption, we crime. I am a proverb can like

Jesus. That we could say I must be adopt. My father's pissed.

That's how can I kill you? His marter? That is my best.

I can't stand up for tonight and say that I got to where I'm at

today of my own ability. I can't say that I thought this into existence.

I can't say that this is of my own doings. That's what Caine

was trying to do. He was trying to force something to happen. He

was trying to First, God, look at me. I'm just like daddy.

I'm just like the flesh. I'm a tumor of the ground. But

Abel he doesn't look at it that way. He's like a vapor, you

know, and didn't have a very low life. Sometimes you've got to lose

your life in order to find it and say, here comes a helpless able.

It's just like some of you. When you come to church. You

say, I will not be able to read seeing unless you're helping hold a

gust, I will not be able to praise her the Lord Jesus the way

he deserves to be praised for. Unless you're healthy, let someone you need

to do is you need to stop trying, and you need to let God

have his day in your life. It's the Lord that works in us goth

to will and to do his good pleasure. Somebody said, well where does

that leave me? Do you believe in election? Do you believe God splits

the church govern the middle or the world down the middle every generation and say

these are to go to hell, and these are to go to heaven.

I do not believe that I believe in the free will life preachure because Paul

told Titus in the second Chapter and three verses No. Eleven through fourteen,

he labeled the works of the pleasure they come on now. But also he

prefaced it with this, for the grace of God that bring us salvation.

Have top peered to all men, teaching us that denying onekindness and plessly lust

grace the work of unto salvation that appeared to all fell possel. Paul was

knock incompetent. He had been stold. I the peak of Comega to Ahiding

has a cadan in that patrol, And he said, salvations crazer hasn't appeared

to every the bedrol. At some point. We may not have witnessed the

moment it happened, but it happened that nown syndrome boy after road. God

is his God. God created that life. That how about help to good

that is in his likeness? I said, God knows the heart of that

nown syndrome boy. God knows the heart of that baby. It's gonna be

aborted this week. I'll feel about how it goes he in this house.

Y'all pray for me here tonight. I don't want to hold it too long

unless you ask me to keep preaching. I know that these people had come

to some sort of worship service, as they were not at the Honkey Talk,

They were not down at the club, they were not in the downtown,

they were not in the court room, they were not in the lawyer's

officer, they were not in the doctor's officer. They were in the presence

of the Lord. And because they did not take it seriously when Kane Wall

was her first because of cons me action to his uncom the careless action,

God sit him away from his presence. Do you know that that was ut

thousand mind of Kaine his doctor. I've been si aut away from the presents

of God. Why is the presence of Tod not detective on her in most

churches? Well, we could ask Kane's daddy, Hang, we could ask

out him her. God sit them out of the presidents of God. God

send them away from the count. We don't want God to react to our

actions, do we? We want to act without any consequences. We know

that the sins of omission are just as bad if not worse as the sins

of commission. So many people worried about the sins are gonna commit or they

may not commit, but they never think about the sins of doing nothing,

not doing what God told them to do. I know the Bible said,

we present our bodies unto God, a living sacrifice, holy acceptable, unto

God. Which is your reasonable service gonna stare at? I like to think

of my little mind that can't brought some moldy fruit or some moldy vegetables up

there to God and said, well, you know, it's just gonna be

turned away anyway. It's just gonna be burnt by fire anyway. It's just

gonna be dumping to brown anyway. But God didn't want to appear upon that

altaring. He did not work in that opera. There's somewhere just over here.

Kane picked up his head. What was it he heard? What was

it he saw? I'm not sure that's the fire running too, your carcass

on a little lamp. That's a smarker, I'm told Almighty coming out for

that get away. There was a mortal samir a septence. But that cycle

passa that I want you to know. But if he's stacking writer, God

will press it. If you cycle PASSI right, God will bless it.

Let's raise our hands and love on Jesus. I saw daddy dude, I

saw Mama do it. I saw them get annoyed. I saw them praying

the spirit. I saw them love the Bible. I saw them teach Sunday's

girl. I saw them break out in the shell. I saw them get

excited and clapped your hands. I saw them beat on the tambourine. I

saw a sad play on the house, sell the symbols. I saw brother

field play or a house sold and symbols. Listen, Katie, does not

do you a bit of dood to parent? Let somebody wants us do it.

It's got to come from your individuality. Well, it's got to come

from your heart. It's got to come from your life. It's got to

come from your soul. When you got to put the answer strength that's you

got into it. It's that not what it's said. You love him with

all your bit, with all of your strength. You throw your heart at

it, You throw your heart across the penis line, and then you chase

after your heart. I said you your pride You're all and all God.

Should I pay unless a sacrifice when Jesus has paid it all. Take up

your cross and follow me. I heard the Blessed Savior say, take up

your cross and follow me. I heard the Blessed Savior say, there's gonna

be times you have to put the xbox away. There's gotta be times you

disconnect from the social media. I choose not to have social media because I

know it can be a damnable distraction of any child of God. And before

you know it, like a parasite or a tickle a dog, it will

sap the very lock her out of you. See anybody in this house,

I love to hear crickets preacher. They're preaching a whole lot better than I

am tonight, And come on there. I want you to know that there

was something about these men's character that was different. But it just see something

about their individuality. What is the quality or the character of Cain that distinguishes

him from Abel. They are the same kind of human pleasure. Let's go

deeper than the person analoity traits or the lights of their talent. Let's go

deeper than their dislikeser and their lights. So Let's go deeper Beer Yathanuel than

the color of their hair or their stature. Let's go dip deeper there their

heart. What was behind them these two men? What was in the spirit?

What was in the heart? You know, the Bible said that God

look like the heart of David. He said, I of not looking on

the outward appearance, but I am looking on the inside, out of looking

at all the heart. I want you to know, we cannot point to

an Abel that has already people eyes, so that has already died to himself

and went on in the spirit. You can't point at him and said,

why is he getting bessed? You mean the point of that sort of self

and say why, oh why I want being blath? Why so I keep

preaching the said we go to burn care? What motivated these two men?

What was the difference in these two brothers. Some of these two brothers that

I'm gonna mention, did have different statues, different hair color. One had

harry arms, one did. Let's talk about two more brothers. Speaking of

harry arms, one that had Harry arms and one that didn't. Let's talk

about the tale of two more brothers, two brothers. Biblical characters Jacob and

Esau. They shared a lot of the same things. They weren't identical twins.

What would cause the New Testament to know these words? Which are words

anoid found in Romans sign number nine and verse number thirteen. It said,

as it's written me, it's had been said before in the Word of God.

Jacob, have I loved? But Esau have I hated? My blood

has been chilled at times over the years as I read this and I thought

about this. This isn't God saying I'm gonna damn Esau to Hell forever because

it's my choice. This is not God said I'm gonna send Jacob into Heaven

on a free ride. That would not be a just God. Our God

is fair. Our God just knows the dolts and the intentions of the heart.

I God knew what was wrong with Issau before Esau was ever born,

and that's why God permitted Jacob to grab a hold of the heal of Esau

when Esau was being born. We remember these men's mother, Rebecca. She

had been barren. She could not feel the satisfaction of motherhood. But God

took away that barrenness and he allowed Rebecca to produce chill or offspring all because

of his providential plan of redemption. Out of her womb came two sons who

shared womb space. It appears to me the brother to your mind, sister

Leah have left. Is that true? They have left and headed to the

hospital being and would probably have a baby after While Jacob and Esau shared womb

space. That is not something that Cain and Abel did. We are the

womb of God, if you would. The church is the bride of Christ

and that is where the fruit of the church is populated pro created. Are

y'all getting this? And brother Jesse, Sometimes we wonder where did we go

wrong? Sister Woot and yourself? What I raised this one and I raised

that one? Where, oh where did I go wrong? I'll tell you.

Abraham could ask her the same question about her two more brothers and their

names Ours and Ismiel. There's still problems in the rare today, becaus her

that disagreements. Difference of teen brothers pretres saying the home it does terror are

two brothers. And when we get to head and that's God gonna look at

her. That seems to be too seper and he's gonna say nothing. That's

a coat, I said, stop gonna supplement her the sheeper from the count.

God knows Tonka he is a sheepert is he? They share a lot

of things. They look very similar. They have a lot of common things.

They can share the same pastor, they can cohabitate. You can even

call them brothers sisters. He not to a money. These brothers had a

choice. If you're sorry, it's your choice. If your diligent business,

it's your choice. If you're lazy and slopful, that's your choice. If

you're a hard worker and a go get her, that's your choice. Come

on now. If you read your Bible, that's your choice to do so.

If it's Bible before breakfist, that's your choice. If it's I don't

like the Bible and I don't want to read it. I said. We

can share the same space. We can occupy the same planet. We can

live in the same neighborhood. We can beat two brothers. I'm telling you,

I don't want to get of the after life and stand upore. The

church would see the on the lamb of call it and hear him say they,

Papa, you want a cheaper but your God, what kind of offering

are you bringing the Lord is your all on the altar of sacrifice, flayed

your heart? Does the spirit control you? Will only be satisfied, find

peace of sweet breast as you yield him your body and soul. Cain bringing

to God a whole lot more than soured fruit or spoil fruit of moldy fruit.

He was bringing a corrupt heart. He was bringing his old way.

He was bringing his old will of Connor. And the Lord responded to their

worship and their offerings in a very different manner, did he not. Abel

was a shepherd, and he brought forth a substitutionary sacrifice. And that's what

happened thirty years ago, in the month of October, in the year of

nineteen ninety three. I stood right there in a different church without in that

position, and I said, God, I'm sick and tired. I'm being

religious, sir, I'm sick and tired of a former and I'm fasim,

I'm sicking tired, I'm being misiable. I needed a relationship with you.

I need to know your mind. And Jesus sent me out of the way.

And that's what Abel in essence was saying, I need a substitutionary SACRIFICEA

I need something else that canplet better than I can. I need something that

will pet on her. But I'm trying to compay that to all. I'm

telling somebody from this building, God, no, you won't bring the money

food. I feel like I preach it to a young person to night under

the edge of twenty five. God, Gods, what you're doing the Bible

shill remember your creator in the days of thine youth. Remember him before the

teeth grinding gets on your nurse. Remember him before your wife bunching almonds in

the bed gets on your nurse. Can the men say, even my daughter

hand and now has got them perfect teeth her Mama's God. And now I

says, waiting, Oh my God, there's another mule over there chewing on

barns. Man, they got perfect strung te grind him Alms says sweet my

God. I'd hate to have been their sibling and them biting them on them.

I'm trying to preach to you here tonight, not to hurt you,

but I want you to know God knows what you're doing. We can all

say we're bringing the sacrifice of praise unto the Lord. And we can say

and I offer up to you the sacrifices of praise. But God knows what's

going on Monday through Saturday. You can't come into churchill sunder or midweek service

and shout lack an angel, who are living like a devil every other day

mother week? Could the church say, ain't mad? Caine was a farmer.

What's dishonorable about that? And nothing God had told his daddy he tend

of the garden. You tell the ground, you work it. But he

brought something from the field that was horrible. That family that we were trying

to help, Brother John, you locked this. I thank God for Brother

John. I'm telling you what that's a brother. If I've ever felt that

there's a dog. That family, we were helping them, and they'd come

to church and act lock. They didn't have two Nichols to rub together,

Sister having all were young pastors, pastor and this church pioneer, and they

glad to have anybody here, and our sister woot and we've got to bind

them stuff and bind them clothes and helping them. And when we'd have a

church fellowship, they bring them generic doritos. How many of you know that's

a no note and them generic oreo cookies. I like the real thing now

I like good diet coke. I mean I used to like Bubba Cola before

I could afford diet coke. But they bring those generic Doritos to the church

fellowship, act like they couldn't afford the real thing. But Sister Wood,

one day I jumped in their German roach in festive vehicle because they wrote down.

We jumped it off and back. There was open bag after open bag

after open bag of cool Ranch say of women, the retos, not your

cheese, the Reno's chili cheese, the ritos. And I said, Jeremy,

you have been played before. But I did know that those people,

for some reason could not get caughtuity with God, and they could not get

a divine connection with God. I said, God knows when you're coming to

touch up, and you're so change of God. God knows when you're using

heal. You may come from the same environment, you might dwell in the

same atmosphere. You might feel the savor fat that somebody else's fill. But

I want you to know that God knows what's being offered. You might be

a brophet, You're might be a sister. I treat your own a call

her two brothers my sisters. They go the same way for you. We're

gonna actists. And there's so much alike that could be identical twins. But

yet the spirits benifferent helps God. What was it, Sister One that king

brought that made God so mad? What was it Brother Nathaniel that upset God?

Sweet Lamb of God? I wonder if an angel didn't flip the basket

over because Cain knew he had been rejected. There was some kind of manifestation,

there was something that happened. The truth is, one sacrificial offering was

rejected and ones was accepted. Why would we find fault with the Lord's different

reactions while ignoring the different actions? Why would we find fault with Jacob have

I loved? And Esau have I hated? Ishmael has a cursed in Isaac's

the seed of the frogs. Why would I find fault with Abel's been blessed,

He's been vaporized, He's dyed to his self. He's a spiritual man.

Do y'all see that? I was so excited as the Holy goes tied

this together from me today, I've never heard anybody preaching on these lives.

The Holy Goes just brought this to my attention. We cannot live after the

flesh. If we walk after the flesh, we will do fleshly things.

We must walk in the spirit, walk in the spirit. I'm preaching to

some young people tonight under the age of twenty five, and that's why the

crickets are preaching better than I'm preaching. And that's why it's getting quiet.

That's why we're sensing a little bit of tenseness in this atmosphere. But even

though you're tense, I want to have the tenacity of a bulldog that chased

in a real hawk. I want to hunt this out till I've caught you

and drug you to the altar. That's what Abraham did. He drugged to

the altar. Ishmael was never drunk to the altar. Ishmael would have never

laid down on the altar. I'm feeling the power of God in this place.

That's the problem. Ishmael wants to be a wild man. Esau wants

to be a wild man. Oh don't see that. That's the spiritual significance

of twins in the womb of Rebecca brother Beauford, the world's gonna pull for

you. Come here, brother Beffer, standing in front of this church.

Brother Philip, you're gonna represent the Holy Ghost. Brother Tyler, you're gonna

represent the devil. I said. The spirit and the flesh do not agree.

They are inmity one with another. They are in a battle. Now,

God knows which way we're leaning. If we're favoring the flesh, we're

gonna fall to the flesh. If we're favoring this spirit, right, we're

gonna fall to the side of the spirit. Her cunning rays for the cold

they locked in your situation. Better Bee, for yielded to the spirit and

not to the pless came yielded to the press. Ain't gonna yield it to

the spirit? God, an't we gonna do tat? Say, Holy don'na

do what the rest? How don't learn them and yield to the pressure.

How we're gonna yel to the spirit? You know, came as a tiller

of the ground. He stir up that flesh. He stir up that illicit

passion, He stir up that competeousness. He stir up that flesh for the

flesh lust that that gets the spirit, and the spirit that gets the flesh.

And these are contrary the one to the other, so that she cannot

do the things that she would. But if he be led of the spirit,

ye are not under the law. I want you to get this,

as we get ready to close the spirit and the flesh for a time,

occupy the same being. The old timers used to say, two dogs are

pulling at your soul, one the spirit, one the flesh. They said,

which one do you think is gonna win? The one you feed the

most. And I want you to know this. You can slay the flesh.

It's called sanctification, it's called holy ghost baptism. You can crucify that

flesh. You can sacrifice that flesh. Our enemy number one is i flesh.

Caine wanted to produce this on himself. He wanted to make this happen

himself. And there's some of you you need to die to self. I

remember when I finally got out of myself in prayer, I started making headway

with the Lord, brother Jesse. When you come to the piano tonight,

I knew that this would be a shop message, because this is a challenging

and stretching message. Abel offered a prophetic substitutionary sacrifice at that very moment when

Abel said I must slay this little lamb right then and there, Jesus said,

yep, that's part of my plan. You can't do it, but

I can. Sometimes you just have to let him do it. Sometimes you

just have to go to the altar and say, Lord, I can't do

this. I can't save myself. I can't wash away my own sin.

I can't get victory over guilt, condemnation, shame. I can't get rid

of this regret. I can't release it. And that's what Jesus is for.

As we stand tonight, our Lord's sacrifice was a blood sacrifice. Abel's

sacrifice was a blood sacrifice. His trust was not in himself. It was

entirely in the Lord. For the grace of God that bringeth salvation. Hath

appeared to all men, teaching us that brother Samuel, as a pastor's son.

You've seen this God has led people, young people. Not long ago,

on a Sunday night, I preached a sermon titled monkey See, Monkey

Dow. The gist of that message was children will do exactly as their parents

have done. They will parent them. I be kept. I knew that

afternoon that the Lord had pieced that together, put that puzzle together. I

didn't understand why I would be preaching out to the Bethel Horness Church of sixty

five people that were present. I didn't understand it. My mind couldn't figure

it out. But God knew through those glass doors walked in a backslider from

out of this church with her child on her hip. That message was so

custom for her. You would have thought that somehow I knew she was coming.

I had knocked the slightest idea that she would be here that night.

But when all was said and done, even though the sweet spirit of Jesus

was here, and even though the goodness and the grace of God appeared under

that individual, and you witnessed it in her case, she took that child,

even though in her spirit she wants to do good for that child.

In her spirit, there's an element of hope for her child, and a

couple times of years she'll come in under conviction and she knows there's a better

life for her child, and she knows that life that she's leading before child.

She don't want her child to live that life. But Brother Philip,

because that spirit is so strong, but she doesn't realize the greater, the

destroyed man is here. But she simply refuses to come to the altar and

pray and say, Lord, I'm gonna lay my all, including my child,

my life, my dreams, my ambitions, my sin. I'm gonna

give it all to you Lord. She walks out the door. Now,

let me tell you something. The wisdom speaks even now. That could be

somebody, say, ten years from now. Well, they didn't stand a

chance because of where they've been raised, the environment they've been raised, that

wound that they were brought up in, that situation of being raised around alcohol

and drugs. They didn't have an opportunity. Oh yes, they did.

Street preachers, when you're out there preaching, when you're heralding the holiness of

God and preaching the truth, you'd be surprised how many hundreds, if not

thousands, of people have had an opportunity as a street preacher of myself,

I have seen tears flow down those eyes. I have seen it. In

dollars stores Chinese produced Keaton James version Bibles, readily available to just about every

person within the United States. The word of God beckoning them picked me up.

For years, We've heard it said the Bible has been the number one

seller in the United States. Bibles have been smuggled all over the world.

A couple of years ago, a friend of mine, somebody that I met

at a convention, he invited me to go to Ethiopia. The mission was

to smuggle Bibles in the Ethiopia and take it to the tribal villages. Brother

Beufort, the grace of God has appeared to every person, all men.

The issue is the individuality. I'm not talking about your characteristics or your personality

traits, or your likes or your dislikes. I'm talking about what's in here.

You gotta love Jesus more than you love marijuana. You gotta love Jesus

more than you love moonshine. And I know I'm not supposed to name sin.

Oh God forbid that a preacher sin anymore. So will be politically correct?

Know it won't. You gotta love God more than you love homosexuality.

You gotta love God more than you love worldly friends. You gotta love of

the Church. I don't know what I would do without Jesus. I don't

know what I do if I came, I had to say, God,

where's your presence? Was it King that God sent into the land of Nod?

Was it a came What if God sent you into the land of Nod

without God? Since the wood and there's been people that's been in Pentecostal churches

holding His churches churches it upheld the truth. They preached it, they taught

it, they sang it, they shouted power. God moved. They were

in the same sheltered wound, but sister service. At the service they pay

a lesser sacrifice than the brother. God looked and said. They looked the

same. They say, a man the same with the same tone of voice.

They kind of looked the same as an ill and altar. But in

ten years from now, one of them's down there in Key West, one

of them's in a homosexual marriage. What happened because God was looking when they

offered a lesser sacrifice. I do feel a deep conviction in this service tonight.

And perhaps I have preached to some elder people in some Middle ages,

but I feel that God has sent me to preach to some people under the

age of twenty five tonight. Jacob, have I loved and Esau have I

hated? My name is Jeremy. Everybody say that women Jeremy so I'll make

it personal. What if he said, Jacob I have loved, but Jeremy

have I hated? Oh God, it's that he said, Jeremy's carrying an

extra fifty pounds. It's not that he said, Jacob's getting aged while Jeremy's

getting seized in your spirit tonight, are you giving him your all? I

remember one time I saw a wealthy businessman when he started feeling what you're feeling

tonight. The singer started singing during the uldar service, as these folks are

doing even now, And they started singing the old him, as you're all

on the altar of the sacrifice lad, And that wealthy businessman reached back in

his back pocket and took out his billfold, and with a trembling hand,

he laid his billfold on the altar. It was seventeen years ago. I

was managing an engineering department for one of the largest steel fabricators in the United

States of America, definitely in the Southeast, one of five executive manatures with

about two to three hundred employees. I guess by then, I don't know,

it's been so long. God spoke to me and said, leave,

resign, go to little of Belle Florida and preach. I didn't understand it.

By Abraham, all I could do is say, Lord, I'm leaving

a law. But you know what, Brother, we had to make the

all inclusive sacrifice, Brother Samuel. I didn't know that one day we'd have

the beautiful church family that we have now. I didn't know that we'd be

buying five acres across the street planning to be a new sanctuary one day.

I didn't know all of that, Brother Brokeuat. None of that mattered.

The only thing that mattered was I want my all on the altar. If

God wants me to go to La bell for three or four saints of God

and need help and support, then I'll resigne and I'll leave. I've been

there, I forget nearly twenty years. I guess I don't want Brother jesseeing

a forfeited health insurance and had to figure out how to make them living in

a land that I knew nothing about. Now. I love what I feel

tonight, Brother Danny. When you have a heart just right, Brother Danny,

you'll leave fidget Forge, Tennessee at seven pm after visiting family members and

friends or sick there that you might not see again, and you'll say I'm

gonna drive all not long, just so i could be a Sunday school of

worn and worship. That's when your heart's wrong. I want us to bow

our heads here tonight. It's time that we stop making excuses. Cain.

Stop making excuses, because Cain is going to lead to a lifestyle of pain.

If you're in this building tonight, young person, and you will acknowledge

that God has dealt with you in some way, that you raise your hand

right now, one, two, three, four, five, six,

seven eight, let's all just find a place to kneel and pray. There's

room up here around the platform, around the altars along the side of the

building. Will you yield to him your body and soul? Sing it brother

until the two brothers. You're going to be listening to somebody praying next to

you for my grace? Are you saved through faith? And that not of

yourself? It is the gift of God. Just say, Jesus, I

need you to take me. Jesus, I need you to take me.

Jesus, I needs you. Please please take me, bold me, shape

me, make me. God's done everything he could do for you. Cain

can tell you that the Lord did everything he could do to help me.

Esaul could tell you that Israel can tell you that Abraham was my father.

Esaul can say Rebecca was my mother. Cain could say Abel was my brother.

Somebody just building by what day? Say pastor Jeremy howd was my pastor?

And was my brother? This woman was my sister. I feel that

so strong about Oh God. There were two sons, the elder and the

younger. The younger said, Father, give me that that is by I'll

go into that far coun truth. He devoured that, he wasted it,

disquad it. Please, please, please give your heart to Jesus, to

God's mercy and his grace has been tender and sweet. Please, I plead

with you, let him change that heart of stone and replaced it with a

heart. Tonight can be the origin and return alive. Ton can be the

day of your spiritual purge at the beginning. Your gals, you cannot be

blessen that pa fend a your taking up beast, happy brother, who body

and so would you walk with the Lord the lot of geez well and happy

save content all day. Well you muster to meet with to be free for

all you and all the ol, the last nay o ease your own only

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