Ouch! Stop twisting my arm - Bro Jeremy Howell 9-10-2023

If you have that golden tax. Proverbs, chapter number twenty one, verse

number fifteen. Say a man, all right, brother Nathaniel, would you

read that verse of scripture First John, chapter number five and verse number three,

For this is the love of God that we keep his commandments, and

his commandments are not grievous. How many of you believe that that keeping the

Lord's commandments should not be grievous to the child of God, or to the

righteous person, or for the just person. Keeping the commandments of God should

be not a problem. Look at your neighbors, say, hey, neighbor,

there's no problem in old know I can keep it. It's just easy.

Oh, just easy to do, easy, easy, I could keep

the commandments of God. Brother Nathan, to read that one more time.

If you still have it, that's the word of God. Now if I

say anything here tonight that's not of God or of the Word of God,

then you could question it. But this is the word of God. Read

it, brother Nathaniel. First John, Chaptain number five, verse number three,

where this is the love of God that we keep his commandments, and

his commandments are not gruvious. So if you love the Lord, you will

keep his commandments, and it will not grieve you to keep his commandments.

Does everybody concur with that? Yes, we agree with the interpretation of what

brother Nathanael just read. It doesn't matter whether we believe it or agree with

it or not. It's true. God's word does not lie. It's a

pleasure of mine to keep his commandments, all right, Brother Jesse. First

Samuel, chapter number fifteen and verse number twenty two. Let's hear about a

man who got the place where he didn't want to keep God's commandments. And

Samuel said, after Lord, as great delight in burnt offerings and sacrifices,

as in obeying the voice of the Lord, behold. To obey is better

than sacrifice, and to hearkened than the fat of rams. So the Prophet,

if you will, the Preacher, the Prophet, if you will,

the pastor the nation of Israel is rebuking the King of Israel, namely King

Saul, the one specifically chosen by God when there was a change of form

of government. The man that was called by God to lead the nation of

Israel as king, is getting rebuked by the preacher. And that's what brother

Jesse just read to us. And the preachers said, you ought to known

to obey is better than the sacrifice and the hearken than the fat of realms.

As King Saul being rebuked by the preacher. All right, let's stand

for the reading of our golden text Proverbs, chapter number twenty one and verse

number fifteen. The Bible said, it is joy to the just to do

judgment, but destruction shall be to the workers of an iniquity. Is that

not what brother Samuel just preach afid to us about. Let's pray, Heavenly

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

to come to your house. I thank you for the way the Holy Ghost

has moved in this service tonight. I do thank you, Lord, that

you have blessed this thy people. I pray that you would anoint this thy

servants set of God and my mouth, and help me to say the things

that you would have me to say, nothing more or less. Anoint the

ears of this thy people, that they might hear what it is the Spirit

of God has said to this people tonight through this preach word, not through

my words, but by your words. God. I pray that these sayings

would go below the shoulders may they get into that heart and that spirit.

God, I pray let it be in this mind help of Lord, and

not be hearers only, but doers help of not to find it grievous to

keep your commandments. And may we depart this place joyfully and not so playing.

The church said Amen, as there being seated, Brother Tyler reach over

there, and grand brother Dilon by the wrist, say hey, neighbor,

would you mind if I twist your wrist or our brother Dilon. I want

you to say, of course, I'll mind. Stupid, say stop twisting

my arm. I want to preach a servant the Holy Girl's title, Ouch,

stop twisting my arm. I heard a little child tell his mother this

about three weeks ago. They were in a department store. The child was

being disorderly and unruly, and the mother, in order to literally take control

of the situation, she wrapped that strong hand around that little child's wrist and

begin to twist it, and that little child went out, mommy, stop

twisting my arm. And immediately this sermon was birthed in my musom. The

Holy ghost began to move on me and brought this scripture out to my attention.

As I was reading the Bible. Our text is found in an Old

Testament book of the Holy Bible. The Book of Proverbs is a very special

book of the Bible to me personally. I have tried to be a student

of this book for many years. I must admit that I am not a

master of this particular book of the Bible, because its author is the wisest

man outside of Jesus Christ to have ever lived upon God's planet, our earth.

I'm telling you I would be a fool to stand before you tonight and

say that I have the mastery of this particular book of the Bible. But

there is no doubt there was a master mind that had been anointed and gifted

by God to put in the parchment and give us this precious book of the

Bible. After my conversion, when I was selling us an old Bible,

the Lord about I say, I still am. But one of the things

that the Holy Ghost instructed me to do was to read this Book of Proverbs

over and over again, because God had promised us in his word that if

any man lacks wisdom, let him ask of God that giveth to all men

liberally and the greatest nod. When Sister how and I were young converts,

new Christians. If you would, Sister Howard would pray a lot of times

for me, and she would say, God give him a wisdom beyond that

of Daniel of Old. I know that I have not surpassed Daniel of Old

and wisdom, and I know that I have not surpassed Solomon of Old in

wisdom. But I do consider myself to be a student of the Book of

Proverbs. There's a lot of wonderful verses in this Bible. I must admit,

though, that the Book of Proverbs has always been fascinating to me.

But Brother Tyler, in all of these years of reading, I've never really

spent paid any close attention to Proverbs chapter number twenty one, in verse number

fifteen. That is our golden texts. Tonight, will you look a little

closer at the first A half of that scripture went over a lot of people's

heads, just like you have mine. All of these years I've been a

student of the Book of Proverbs. If you're not careful, this sermon will

go right over your head. But I'm gonna try to preach it in such

a way that you will get the message that the Holy Ghost gain to me.

To give to you. So notice in that scripture, our gold and

text, Proverbs twenty one and fifteen, there are three words that begin with

the letter jay. Do you see them? They are as follows, joy,

just, and judgment. Now read that first part of that text.

Allowed with me. It is joy to the just to new judgment. Repeat

that again, it is joy to the just to new judgment. Now I

believe you can memorize that before the end of the service. If you had

a mind too. You're not getting this. I can tell you're thinking,

but you're not getting it. I pray that the Lord will help you.

As you look at me and ask this question, what do you mean,

pastor by this? What do you mean? What does that mean? Okay,

thank you for asking the just or the righteous person roll. They don't

need their arm twisted to do the right thing. As I begin to do

a word study on this word just, I saw that that means a righteous

person. As I did a word study on judgment, sister wrote, cap

it meant justice being for doing what is right. Then, everybody in this

building, I have to know the definition of the word of joy. You

don't need a word study to know the meaning of the word joy. Do

you know it's to delight or have pleasure in something. So the just or

the righteous person who do not have to have their arm twisted to do the

right thing. You see, the devil has to be forced to go to

hell. God is going to twist his arm and damn him into the eternal

lake of fire forever. There's some of you children. You know is good

as I do that your mother has to twist your art in order to get

you to do your school work. Unfortunately, there might be a person in

this building that is the employee of some employer somewhere in town or over the

neighboring town Fort Myers. And your employer knows as sure as he shows up

for work in the morning, he will have to twist your r to get

you to turn loose of that cup of copy and begin to work. And

so I want you to know that the devil cannot do the right thing.

Oh, come on down, the child of God. He should not have

to be forced to do the right thing. In fact, I could be

done with this servant right now if that was not somebody in this building whom

God has been trying to twist your r and that to get you to do

that which is right. You see that somebody like Sister Wounding that would say,

as opting as she does, it is my pleasure to do whatsoever my

Master bends me to do. There's ficionaries in this building that have went overseas

this year and preached it. It is my pleasure to do what God wants

me to do. And so the people of God they delight in doing what

is right. That come on now, you hold timers are familiar with that

phrase. Don't twist my arm to twist somebody's armies to use and direct personal

pressure in order to achieve a designer in now want to stare at when you

go stand out in front of plant parenthood, or in front of any society

as a whole, and you begin to preach, there is a class by

the contrast between life and darkness, cool and evil darkness. Please from the

light. And unbelievers and disobedient people feel are comfortable with preachers like you better

staring preachers of a righteousness when you begin to preach to them and turn the

light on if they do not prest the sin and go and send the more,

as Mother Nathaniel told by the Jority to do after he apologized to me,

and they're gonna Taniel better. Nathaniel said, that's good, but go

and sin there more. You see Bee staring at these people, do not

persae. They're sin and turning to God. Every time they feel their preacher

preaching, they feel like their preacher it's twisting their arm. That's father say

things like this to myself, don't judge, who are you the preacher?

To me? They feel like you are twisting their art. But we should

have never got to that place, at that point where that person were concerning

the things of God, the places of cold people in coming and the word

of Connessan never have to be a time where a preacher it's twisting somebody's already

service after service because oh, holding us is twisting somebody's arm time and idead

trying to get them to do what God told him to do. It's very

grievous for the church family to have to endure this. That little girl having

her arm twisted in that manner was very upsetting for some that were standing nearby.

The outlookers that were observing that situation, They did not appreciate the fact

that this girl could only be subdued by her mother getting a firm grip on

that young girl and motivating her and taking control and making that little girl act

appropriately. I'm looking at some of these young men over here on my ride,

and if you were to speak to these young men, they were admit

that you do not have to twist their arm when it comes up to taking

a trip to the bakery. My little grand baby Micah was writing with me

and his papa brother Daddy the other day, and after a while he said,

Papa, there's the dairy queen. I drove by the daddy queen.

That son liked me because I had heard his daddy's saying, Micah, you

were not good at such and such a time, and we're just gonna pass

you by. We're gonna say goodbye to dairy queen, and you're not gonna

get an ice cream. And then when his daddy said, we're all gonna

get born and you're not gonna get one because you're asking Papa so much.

When Grandpa rose up in me and I said, you know what, if

he can't have one, none of us can have an ice cream? Could

a church saying ma'am. And then we got closer to McDonald's and he said,

well, Papa, they served ice cream at McDonald's and I said,

not today, Papa's gotta get home, and we headed on to the house.

But when it comes to he's been over here's wives and their mother's cooking.

I'm telling you you don't have to twist their arm to get down to

belly up to the trial. Just a quick look. And Brother Samuel will

tell you this. He married a woman and knows how to bake with the

best of them. And Sister Megan, I doubt there's been a time when

you've had to walk in there and twist Brother Samuel's arm and say, come

on, bro man, let's go in there and eat what I have prepared

for you. I believe the Brother Samuel's favorite dish that Sister Megan prepares for

him, his pork chops, is that right there with all the fixings.

If you were to look over here and none of Christian Wood. He talked

about something called the Golden Rod. I have no idea in the world that

golden rod he is. And he briefly tried to explain it to me a

while backer, and he said, it's kind of an egg cream saucer that

you just spill over toast, and he said, this is the favorite thing

that my mother makes. He Brother Christian, I guess if I was to

make some golden rod, I probably would not have to twist your arm to

come to my house. If you were to look at mother Philip over here,

and you'd ask whether, Philipp, what is the favorite thing your mother

makes her? I know the answer. It's porn ros fits. Mother is

saturated in Hey, what is it? Mojo? Saucer mojo? Right,

Brother Philip loves that. He's smiling right now. Sister, how over the

years you've had to twist his arm to getting to take out the trasher.

But when it comes to that port moaster or he ain't gonna twister. He's

got my creatured to you. Look over here, Mother, can't you're looking

so innocent. When sister Rachel comes outside with that cold glass of ice tea's

been working on the church bower for the fifty time in the last month.

Because of the way some of you guys treat it, I'm sure she doesn't

have to twist whether Nathaniel's are to get here to treat of that ice cold

sweet tea. Once she brings you a Friday chicken leg with it in barbecue

sauce. That's probably the favorite thing she makes, right, your favorite things?

She makes this chicken legs that have been barbecue Tylaton, watch the hen

house. If we get a bunch of legless chickens and hens over there,

we got three hundred and fifty. There's a lot of a chicken. A

seven hundred chicken lead trumpsticks in that pend that Rachel could make her for brother

Nathaniel. What about Sister Iris. They'll never be a time when she's got

to twist Brother Tyler's arm and get Mother Tyler to come down there needs that

wonderful meal or sister who mass prepared for him? I thought about brother Chessie.

He also said his favorite meal that his wife makes him his pride a

part to chops. He lives only sit back and cheese mask fanteens Christian Rosa,

and then he talks it off with a cheesecake says to me like,

brother Chessie's got it Nade because his wife's serving up good things. Are you

starting to get what I'm talking about? Everything that goncerns up his cook to

order and the vin order. I'm telling you every word, how in this

vible is a card. Every sentence that with every word in its own car

every verse of every chapter, every chapter of every book, all scripture has

been given by car. It's profitable. I'm telling you it will be a

blessing. Tell your soul. Then, why in the world you have to

preach it repeatedly, over and over again and say this? It's like God

a servant. This is what God said, This is what Tod deens to

be good for you. But if you don't do what God tells you to

do, it won't be much longer. You'll be saying out, stop twisting

my heart, and pretty soon you hate the preacher. You hate the teacher,

you hate the parents, you dislike the elder, you dislike the husband

and the wife. Stop twisting my heart, preacher, Why are you preaching

to me? Peter could have said the same thing to Jesus. Are you

picking on me? Or come on now? I want to preach to somebody

in this building tonight. If you call yourself a just person, you will

be a fair person, chest person. You would do the right thing when

folk are watching her, and when nobody is watching. Just people. If

it's chosen, primp, it's Paul. Just people that delight in doing right.

He's right trum of me the morning forgot to our text her in his

joy for the just to do churchmen. Or come on now, a chest

person in joys her pure satisfaction after they appearing will be the low I said,

there's nothing, but I satisfied. That's going. You can let God

has told you to dona ghost. John chapter number five, verse number three

said, and this is the love of God that we keep his commandments,

and his commandments are not grievous. Can a person have true joy without being

obedient unto the Lord? Answer that question? Answer that question, Ask your

neighbor that question. Can a person have true joy without being obedient to the

Lord? Absolutely not. I remember, prior to my conversion, I was

miserable because I knew what the Bible has said. I knew what the Lad

wanted to require me that I was unwilling to be obedient. Hey, answer

this question. Can a person have perfect peace and paste all understanding while transgressing

the commandments of God? No? Can a person love God without doing the

things that God has told us to do? Well? Come on, I

remember being uneasy. Look, I remember being uncomfortable when the preacher preached toy,

but that was prior to Mark. The answered all these questions is a

resounding no. If the apostle child that knew the love better than anybody,

he didn apid loving Tod and keeping his commandments and has to be spurned,

he an't take heether and walking shot outside him in harmony. The apostle child

identifiment he loved me caught and they're keeping his commandments has been the same thing.

In other words, as Christians, we are expected to believe in Jesus

Christ, are we not? We are to love one another, are we

not? And we're expected to keep his commandments if we love him, keeping

his commandments should not be a problem. May I beg for an amen?

I love to hear crickets preach. You should not feel like somebody's twisting your

heart. But that's why trying to twist you all. This shall not ever

be a problem with any child of God. Unfortunately, there comes to be

a time in somebody's life when they have to make a choice, will I

obey God or will I be disobedient. It's unfortunate that King Saul, that

had been chosen by the Lord to lead the nation of Israel decided to meet

disobedient because the road captain is unfortunate that he decided that obedience to the Lord

was something that he did not find important to do. Did y'all catch that

it's unfortunate that the new reappointed by God, King of Israel has come to

a place where it feels like where God has taught him to do. It's

not something important to do, and that's why we find him. For Samuel,

chapter number fifteen and most number twenty two, the preacher of the pastor

the prophet Scheriel, came to Saul. He said, have the Lord has

strength, delights in offerings and sacrifices as in unpening the voice of the Lord.

You can send me a song that on spotify that bless us my soul.

Hey, but your sacrifice and your offering will not be nearly Hey,

how sweet as me know it, my children said the Lord the true don

gratjoy. Don't know that, my children who walk in truth. Come on

now, Beth. And Samuel goes on to say, and sacrifices as in

obeying the voice of the Lord. We know these are the words of God.

We know the preacher when he is preaching is preaching as the oracle of

God. And Samuel goes on to say, behold, boy, listen and

parapraise I. But he just says, behold, to obey is better than

the sacrifice, and the hearken than the pad of a rims. You know

what happened to soul. He bent up on the spirit of pride. And

when he bit up on the spirit of pride and set a hook in his

jaw and took control of him. And because of the spirit of pride that

had possessed King Saul, he thought he knew better that the letter, and

he knew Lord than God's prophets. So he thought. And there is a

reason for Samuel saying that to abrading is better than to sacrificer, because every

time Saul got repute to tastised off the preacher, he threw a spoke grenade.

I see it when you put that grenae into your mouth and pulled apart

and toss it into the church and create a snake screen. Saul I had

done with the same that the pod that because Samuel tempted number thirteen, the

Lord had told that they could offer sacrificer through the propert Samuel and mcbasa and

numbers three thousand soldiers there. This has come of the memory right now three

thousand soldiers said, are they watching the Philistine army? Crow bigger? It's

piling on. But I Jes said, by the day, and they get

more outnumbered. By the hour, that get more outnumbered. And the Bible

said the saulce army began to be depleted. And the minutes from three thousand

to six hundred, Samuel had said, God said, after seven days,

I will be beat you and kill gall. You know what Sung did on

the seventh day, when it appeared that God had made later and that Samuel

was running later, Saul put on the priestly garment. He left his keenly

shifter in his hand. He kept on his keenly crowd and don a chair.

How he done the unthinkable and the art imagine the boy and he offered

a sacrifice. You'll talk about that. You're talking about how get that feel

to be? Went just said out of field, and I had a pressure

and people he did the unthink, come on, the army is getting down

to six hundred. I gotta do something. I gotta do something. No,

you don't have to do the wrong thing. Well, I did the

wrong thing because I had to do something. No, when you find yourself

about to hit the panic, but like Saul was doing, you cannot do

like pagan kings do. They say, I am going to oper and offering

unworthily saw us Dutch your place. It's Dutch your position. It's done in

your power to do so. And as soon as Saul did that, he's

in the middle of opering the sacrifice. You tell me Samuel was late.

He's in the middle of opering the sacrifice. And Samuel shows up. Who

right in the middle of that? Seeing who right in that midweek service when

you thought you could do wrong and get by sending the preacher shows up used

play at church? You to offer a sacer pasture. He'll come home now

that Salt gets caught redheaded, I said, Salt Dot called who don't had

it and saved us? Said Saul, he knew better than this, and

pat to seven or seven. He played the fool who should have never gone.

Yes, say Saul, your two pigs from your preachers. Saulve w

you feel like you can do save those job. I know we got the

victory over some of this this morning, but it is a spirit of pride,

and there are a mean excuses that somebody like Samuel Saul can give.

Samuel Saul was selfish. Saul desire to do things his way, and so

he decided to just toss out the Lord's plans in the Lord's words. And

I'm telling you that as a parallel to what is going on in the church

world today. Pastors and parishioners in these bothered churches are deciding to toss the

Lord's words out, and they're still offering sacrifices on Sunday morning, Sunday night,

and getting week. But there's scripture here that they're ignoring. I come

on to. At some point his life, Saul decided I can be disobedient.

It was his choice to do so. But then we see that it

was a horrible choice that brought with it difficult consequences for Keing Saul and his

family. Simply put, King Saul was a rebel. He was not a

just man anymore. It is joy for the just to do judgment Brother stirred.

So Keith Saul is no longer that lonely hurt boy that's chasing after his

father's mules and his donkeys and the one that's hiding in the baggage. This

is not the one that Samuels we put over and praying over and pouring the

hot hole over and saying, praise the Lord. He's got a new heart.

He's turned into another man. This is no longer a just fan than

everybody said. Is he not among the prophets? Oh? Yes, they

will see enough Saul last week. But God sami enough say that. He's

said, you're a rebel. And that's what God says to every professor Christian

claims to be a child at cod and tosses out the words of God.

I want to preach to you tonight, simple put King Saul, who had

been just as now a rebel, he wasn't a just man anymore, Brother

j Something had happened to him. After the prophet saying you're made the declaration

regarding obedience. He followed with exposing what was within the heart of this rebel

with these blood chilling words he said, for rebellion is as to see it

a witchcraft, as stubbornness, as a niclty in idelatry. Because now has

rejected the Lord, the Lord, he had to also rejected deed for be

to king because King Saw rechected the word of the Lord, his large ham

not previous. It is the child to trust the new judgment. Because King

Saul rejected the Lord of the Lord, because given by the preacher that was

sent to him, he was ejected from the earthly and spiritual kingdoms where he

had previously had residency. Because he rejected the word of God, he was

ejected bill holdcast in his place. King Saw had developed a bad attitude.

And that's what we've been dealing with. Attitude problems within our holiness of Pentecostal

movements. People that feel like they can do role to get by. They

feel like because they get blessed every now and then then a parent that God

has stamped his approval on their disso Bean, that's I'm feeling a really strong

anawning upon me right now. You see solved and a bad attitude. He's

no longer that one hiding in the baggage. He's no longer that when this

middler than everybody. Now he's thinking too highly of himself and he finds himself

ejected out of the wind of God. In the same way a fighter pilot

that is in distress, he is he checked it from the cockpit of an

aircraft that is firaling downward. Just just certainly has that pilot wasn't checked that

up, can't save punched himself. He checked it out of the grid a

cock I want you to know when the spirit of God fullsa tattoo from your

lover, and he checks you from his garby, and he checks you from

his grates, and he checks you from his wheel, it is the befall

removed from the annoting solve. If you continue to see it, grace,

we'll not always belt. I feel holy because his attitude got him ejected out

of the will of God. There was a time in King Saul's eyes he

was small. There was a time in King Saul's life when his attitude was

right because his heart was right. There was a time that his heart had

been transformed. There was a time that his spirit had been renewed. But

now something has changed. And Brother Samuel, you did not know what was

in my notes. But as for Saul, the scripture that says destruction shall

be to the workers of iniquity has suddenly become true and prophetic. In the

life of Saul. Destructions shall be to the workers of iniquity because it is

no longer toy for dismand to new judgment. Why why not? Because he

is not just anymore. A rebel has own desire to obey anyone. A

rebel has no desire or whatsoever to unbeil the Lord. A rebel has been

desired to obey the comparison demands of an authority. As Christians said, we

must reject the attitude and the spirit of keep Saul. As Christians said,

we should not have to have some preach or twister our iron coach tempt he

earned a MODI day, I saw comperfectly, and I don't pay the Lord.

It ought to be a joy to do what concept do. I said.

It ought to be a choy to do what card has told us today.

Ever since I got saved, I've had no problem at all going to

church. I've never been tempted to lay out of church. I've never been

tempted to mis church. I've never been tempted to see. I mean,

I've been tempted to sin, But I've never took pleasure in sitting. Are

y'all said the pastor for the Christian and his joy for the justice A new

judgment? What is wrong with these People's sister Tracy asked me recently, what

is wrong with these people? Do they need a here name? What is

wrong with these people? Why do they have to be repeatedly told the same

thing over and over again? Because they love God? The Bible said,

if we love God, we'll keep his commandments. Well, preacher, they

love God? Do you really want to have that deep into their life?

About a six hour experience? Was the person we're thinking of right now that

professes to be a Christian will prove to you they do not love God,

they don't love his commandments. I guarantee you the one you're thinking of right

now that professes to be a Christian words like the devil. You cannot live

like the devils six days a week and shout like an angel on Sunday?

Brothers, every moile, are you praying for me? Back there? And

the New test Tom and we find the apostle Paul that have been greatly converted.

We find him righting to those that be in wrong, beloved of God,

called to be saints, not sinners. It's not an honor for all

these Christians to be going around saying I'm a sinner now we're called to be

saints. We're calling to be different. I know you've been lied to,

and that's why, Apostle Paul asked the group back then, who hath bewitched

you? Who's lied to you? Who's deceived you? Apostle Paul, writing

to the Roman Church, said to those that are belonging to God, are

calling you to be saints. In Roman seven to twenty two, he said,

for I delight in the law of God after the inward of man.

For I delight in the law of God after the inward of man. The

chest mans, if we put in joye, oh be, and the Lord

keep so no longer in joy o, being the Lord who has Samuel saying

it, it's better Howl saying it. If it's God's word, then it's

God's saying yeah, I'm better. How they'll say it, that's him.

It's not Mother road Cat's words. And he teachers that he is God's words.

But at one time, brother Jesse, he just couldn't wait to obey

the Lord. I just can't wait to do what the spirit of God has

been bidding me to do. Brother road Cat taught recently on a Sunday morning

that Christians have a mind to work, and I want you to know that

is true. But Christians also have a mind and a heart that is ready

to obey God. They have a heart and a mind that is ready to

obey God. It is true that most of us at some point did not

know everything we know today about God and about the Scripture. But when we

ran across it. I will be honest with you. I pulled out a

highlighter and highlighted that, and I underlined it, and I said, you

know what, that is the word of God, and I need to keep

his commandments that I need to make these changes in my life in order to

align myself with the will of God. His word will allign us with his

will. I know we shouted for about an hour, real strong before I

preach, so I can't expect you to get shouting happy tonight. Tonight we

listen. The Lord's words are to be heeded. They're not to be heard

only. We're not to be hearers of the word only, but we are

to be doers. We hear the word and we heed it. We don't

do it begrudgingly. It's not grievous, but the tyler it might be grievous

for your grandmother, said Tyler, take out the trash. But it ought

to be as joyous of an occasion for you to take out the trash for

your grandmother. This is profound right here, y'all, y'all, and I'm

trying to be funny, but brother Tyler, you ought to be just as

the joyous of an occasion for you to take the trash out for your grandmother

as it is the belly up to pancakes with homemade blueberry topping. And that's

how we Christians are. We all praise the Lord. I've got that problem

with that limit clapped my hands out, or anybody else in the church pause

shouting of God with the voice of trial, pancakes and woodman and tumping.

But when God says, put it off, When God says, God touches

put God said, leave it alone. Hey it all of it? Siscola

towards occasion? Could God says cold husband, God says direct, I was

obedient to the heaven of colon the apostle, Paul said, you know what

happened, brother Gabriel. Oh Samuel came to Saul and he said, boy,

you heard me, but you didn't heed every person in this building,

every person that's ever sent under a pastor, preacher, a teacher, they

have heard the word of God preach. Some of have heard more the word

of God preach than others. But Saul lost his peace of mind when he

no longer enjoyed keeping the Lord's commandments, when he found keeping them grievous and

burdensome. He lost his joy. It's a true joy for me to be

here tonight, Saul. You no longer have a new heart? Why,

Saul, why is that heart no longer ten? Why does the preacher have

to preeps like he does? Why do they have to pull like they're pulling?

Why do they have to push? Why is it not your to might

to do the will of God? What happens, Saul? Friend? What

happened to cause you not to be excited about rolling out of bed in the

morning and prayer? Friend? What caused you to lose your prayers are in

your joy of weeping in your living room until your tears fall into a puddles?

What the young preacher said tonight? What caused you to lose your joy

in that? Let's stand tonight, Saul? What happened a postle Paul said,

the things that I used to love, I now hate. The things

I used to hate I now love. Brother Jesse, I've seen that come

to be true in your life. And the sad thing about it is,

Saul, there will come a time when Samuel will stop twisting your arms.

First King's chapter number thirteen, Samuel showed up and said, saw, you

know you shouldn't have done this. In First Samuel, chapter number fifteen,

the Bible said, Samuel showed up, said, saw you should have done

this. I hear the bleeding of the sheep, bring a gag the King

of Amulet to me. And the Bible said that Samuel took him down.

And it doesn't say this, but in my mind's eye, I could almost

see Samuel want to twist Saul's arm and take his own sword, Saul's own

sword out of the Scamford. Give me your sword, boy. This is

a sword, It is the sword of the Lord. It is by this

book we win victories. It is by this book we are victors and not

victims. And brothers stared. I can't find it in the Bible, but

when I get to Heaven, I'm going to ask the prophet sam And I've

leaved. God will allow me to ask him. I'm gonna say, did

you take Saul's sword out of the scampering and say I show you what you

knew? But they gave the king of em and he yewed a gang to

pieces. What sad is Saul stood there and let him do it. I

found in the Bible where another prophet said, if you'd took them arrows and

just kept shot, I feel like Gosh wrote to me in my prayer closet,

it'd been a lot better for us to read the sauce said, hold

on, Sam, hold on, give me that sword. Samuel might have

got one blow in, it might have got two. But it speaks volumes

to me. When the Bible says Sam, when you do into pieces,

that means every swan that was taken was by the preacher, Every effort was

by the preacher. All of the force was by the preacher. I'm telling

you, I'm a feeling the hold it ghost in this place. It is

God for us to fight your battles or to cure your devils. Now,

I'm telling you, young person, you ought to be in this altar right

now, destroying some things. Like brother Samuel said with that liberty that has

been in this building today, with the power of God that has been in

this building today, you should have took the sulord out of the preacher's head

and say, Preacher, you don't have to twist my arm anymore to pray,

Preacher, the Holy Gost. Don't I have to speak in this fielding

anymore to say seek me? I said, love to buy somebody to come

to touch pacefully. I said, I could twist somebody's old You're more to

pinnable at the breakfast table than you are tops table. Oh, I feel

the horder ghost in this place. It ought to be our pleasure to please

the Lord. He does I try for the chest to the judgments. Oh

God, I can the Holy Ghost see in this place. Preacher, you

don't have to twist my arm to get me to praise the Lord. Preacher,

you don't have to twist my art to get me a seat cut there

in the week, Preacher, when they start seeing this power in the blood,

you don't I have to twist card. We don't have to have a

drama team. We don't have to have a mod team. We don't have

to have lights, we don't have to be entertained, we don't have to

have our arms twisted. We don't have to have the pancake breakfast, We

don't have to have a press pride to get people to come to church.

Not people who love God, I said, not people who want cod.

They're gonna be in the House of God. Whether we're have the pantcake breakfast

or a nice free social or not. Oh my God, I feel negotiating

this place. Brother twisted comes to the panel place. What if you're Samuel,

stop speaking to you. The tragedy of this narrative is sam You're kept

pleading, and Sam You're kept praying. Even after after Saul was ejected,

Say you're kept prayed, sister. In other words, they kept having the

same kind of service as we've been having for three weeks. Then came forth

the message from God preacher Samuel, weep no more for Saul. In other

words, God said, I heard you say, Alice, it should have

never got to the place where I was twisting your arm. But if you

want to say als every time we have the same message, preach, the

same tongues and interpretation, the same moving of God, the same spirit,

and you keep saying ouch at the while God says, you know you'll never

swing your sword of victory again. This sermon right here is very critical for

two young men in this building. God has delayed it for two and a

half weeks, and I've known what he's done. This is going to be

the nail and your spiritual confide. I knew it when he first gave it

to me. You're saying, couch, stop twisting my arm. We've had

to beg you to seek the Lord. It didn't matter if your brother got

a mass it didn't move you. It didn't matter if your pastor was suffering

his body, didn't matter if one of the elder sisters was afflicted. It

didn't move you. That's what happens when you get a bad attitude solved.

That's what happens when you become selfish. It's all about you. You're not

your brother's keeper anymore. If I will said bear you want another's burden,

it's a self all across out. That was hurtful. Brother Thomas Scarrett left

me the most beautiful messages today, Just a sweet attitude, the sweet spirit.

You standing back and saying, that's brother Starrett, that's such a great

man of God's so honorable. You need to be that way. There's two

young men in this building. This sermon will be the noun in your cond

or. It will be the catalyst that turns your life around. You're thinking

right now, well, there'll be a preacher up the road. It might

even be you pastor that will pay something more palatable, something more pleasurable,

something more entertaining for me, something more exciting. God's letting me know that

will never come. It hasn't came yet. It's not gonna come. You

have to get to the place where you say it is a joy to practice

simple obedience. Obedience, sister Whoop, do you remember the Holy Ghost gave

him a hint last Sunday night. She didn't know what I was going to

preach, all obedience to obey. I want to ask us to bow our

heads tonight. You've already went too far stall. You went past the shower,

you went past the dynamics, you went past the Holy Ghost moving mightily

earlier. Now we've cultured mid sacrifice. God wants to help you. It

is a true joy to keep his communiens. Is a true joy to keep

his communiens. I'm gonna say this. You have learned to let Samuel fight

your battles. That displeases the Lord. M brother, yes you brother Nathan,

You'll sing whatever's on your heart. God change me, Lord can change

me. Lord, don't let me stay the same. I really do want

to be more like your search me. Let it be my delight, Let

it be my pleasure to do what is right. Times said I couldn't play

out. I really start twisting my arm, and I recall the times you've

took me. Do you mind there's one thing that I couldn't do. Shot.

You see, we should have to twist it. We should have to

twist draws. We should have to bake it. We should have to make

it a different. We should have to speak the word or body. Oh

Jesus, if you should speak it, I'll do it. You see in

your word, I'll do it. Speak your word not to do day.

So I know what you've told me to do. Aboard, I know where

you sit there. See, how know what you expect to your heart?

How told what you told me to give up? Here? I have a

desire to obey. Look in some authority to speak to and you serve host

goes. Tell us all Jesus speak, help us at all help a soft

Jesus, help us hold you to speak. I com old young man,

ers two of you in your techno, we want to strong you have.

We just want to ask you why is it it's your pleasure you save?

Oh go. Now there's been times that I've complained as I CROs against the

grain. Then I recall the times you took me to my deans. But

the one pain so I just distanks you, for it was you, Lord.

Keep my cross to caw boy speak the word, my lord boy speak

door ear long my party to so set. I'll be one. You have

me ust me the world long and you servive will Yeah, you speak the

fall tattle field where far me bin no, and that's where I lod the

be oh in the desert without a three god some more she about the scene.

Allow your just stream sweep the word low, my longing sweet word low

my sweep me the low. I'll be one. You have me down,

you stir down in time, said I complained, I like rooms against the

greeting. I recalled the times you to be to mine. But there's one

thing I so I saw these things to read, for it was you,

Lord, answer my crawl to cowl read speak the word lord on my long

good hear you mean the world long? My m e wordlone. How one

he had streak the word lowe. Sturvin streak the world lowe. My ears

came streak the word lowe. I speak the word lowe. How be you

have me street the world you serve