Forced to make a choice - Bro Jeremy Howell 6-18-2023

Your Bibles. Will you turn with me to the Book of Exodus. May

I direct your attention to the thirty second chapter and the twenty sixth verse.

Exodus Chapter number thirty two and verse number twenty six. Brother Nathaniel Ruth,

chapter number one and verses eight and nine. Brother Samuel Joshua, chapter number

twenty four and versus number fourteen and fifteen. Brother Gabriel Valentine, you look

so good with a suit code on my I saw him come whipping around as

the Holy Goose was moved, and I said, who is that? I

realized it was him. He looks so good in that tonight. Amen.

If you're still a pastor, say amen. If you disliked pastors, say

old me by very old three year old grand son has turned his back old

Papa. But brother Michael, I'll fix it for you after service. Right

here, this will make it all better. If you don't believe it watching,

He'll be eyeballing those hulk tough drops throughout this service tonight, Brother Nathaniel,

would you read Ruth one eight and nine? And Naomi said unto her

daughter in law. Girl returned each to her mother's house, and the Lord

deal kindly with you, as you have dealt with the dead and with me,

the Lord grant you that you may find rest, each of you in

the house of her husband. Then she kissed him, and they lifted up

their voice and wept. Forced to make a choice, I had a message

that I wanted to preach tonight, that I had been praying about food the

week end, all weekend long. I had been intended to preach along them

lines, And in about three hours before church tonight, the Lord spoke this

into my heart. I want to obey him. Forced to make a choice.

I do not understand this. I do not understand why the Lord is

having me preach this to this wonderful group of people. But perhaps during the

altar service tonight it will become evident that it was in fact intended for someone.

It was heaven sin Brother Samuel Joshua Chaptain number twenty four versus numbers fourteen

and fifteen. Now, therefore, fear the Lord and serve him in sincerity

and in truth, and put away the gods which your father served on the

other side of the flood and in Egypt, and serve you the Lord.

And if it seemed evil, want to you to serve the Lord choose you

this day whom you will serve, whether the gods which your father served were

on the other side of the flood, or the gods of the Mrites who

are in whose the land ye dwell. But as for me and my house,

we will serve the Lord. Thank you, Brother Samuel. May we

stand for the reading of our text tonight. How many of you all have

noticed I had not been needing my reading glasses. Yet again the Lord has

helped my vision. For that I am most thankful. Praise the Lord.

Then Moses stood in the gate of the camp and said, who is on

the Lord's side? Let him come unto me, And all the sons of

Levi gathered themselves together unto him. I want to preach to us a serving

the Holy ghost title forced to make a choice. Let's pray, Heavenly Father,

we love it, We praise you. We thank you for the opportunity

to be in your house. Thank you Lord, for the gathering of the

believers in accordance with thy word. They have not forsaken the opportunity together together

in a place that is called your house, where your spirit is moving.

I pray that you would annoint this thy servant, set a guard of my

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

say. Nothing more or less than annoint the ears of this thy people,

that they might hear. What is the spirit saith unto the churches? God

allowing these sings to go below the shoulders, then get in their heart my

soul body. I pray God, help us good to hear only but to

heed. We pray that we would depart this place joyfully and not sorrowfully.

In Jesus name. Amen, look at your neighbor and say, hey,

neighbor, have you ever been forced to make a choice? Our text has

found an Old Testament book of the Holy Bible. The title of this book

is thought provoking. When the Bible reader comes to this book of the Bible

and read the name of this book, they asked themself the question the exodus?

What or who were these people trying to get away from? What was

the cause of this departure? What brought on this mass exodus? As the

Bible reader continues reading this book of the Bible, they get a clear understanding

as to why these people were past ready to make their escape from the land

of their captivity and servitude. As we get to the thirty second chapter,

we again find these people in a sticky situation. Their spiritual leader, Moses,

their deliverer, had gone into the mountain to seek the face of God.

Their spiritual leader, their Moses, their deliverer, had gone into the

mountain to seek the face of God. Not only had their leader gone into

the mountain to seek the face of God, he had went alone. He

did not have but entourage with him. There's no doubt that demand Moses had

personal bodyguard. There's no doubt that he had generals that were willing to travel

with him. In every scenario and situation, they could be found by his

side. I believe that the mount Joshua would have gladly accompanied this leader,

Moses as he went up to the top of the mountain. But this was

a special mission that this man, Moses must do alone. We'll remember at

Saint Matthew's Gospel, the fourteenth chapter and twenty third verse, we read of

a time when Jesus looked for an opportunity to be with his father alone.

The Bible said it, when he had sent the multitude's away, he went

up into a mountain apart to pray, and when the evening was come,

and he was there alone. Look at your neighbor, say, hey,

neighbor, have you ever met with him alone? The answer to that question

is obvious. Any child of God that his present here tonight, has found

there to be times in your spiritual journey when you knew that God was calling

you to amount to the prayer. You knew that the Almighty was requiring consecration,

devotion, and commitment from you, and that He was in fact a

jealous God, one that was jealous for your attention, one that wanted your

undivided attention. And we see that this vant Moses was willing to give his

undivided attention to the Lord God Almighty, as was the second part of the

Godhead, Jesus Christ was willing to give his undivided attention to the Father.

And he departed and went and prayed alone. I have questioned the experiences that

some have had, as they have shared with me of encounters that they said

they have had alone with God. They have talked about visions of the night

and dreams as they slept during the night. Brother Rick Jacob, I watched

them after they had had their set encounter with the Lord. I questioned whether

or not it was a genuine experience with the Lord himself. I remember some

years ago a missionary from India came over, and he declared himself to be

a missionary and also professed to be a holiness man. Upon this profession,

he went on to say that he had had a vision and that the Lord

Jesus Christ himself had appeared to him in the night and had stood beside his

band and had told him to start a mission work title Jesus and Friends.

Immediately, warning battles went off in my heart, and I knew that this

man had not had a personal experience or an encounter with a Lord. To

save here, Jesus Christ, you cannot have such an experience. In fact,

Moses would tell you that no man could see the face of God and

lived. And I don't believe that that Indian missionary or so said he was,

had had an experience like he said he had. But this man of

Moses, no doubt, had had a unique experience with God. And when

God did not permit him to look at him in the face, God said,

I will pass by you, and I will shield you from that day

that would destroy your natural body. And I will bless you in a manner

of spiritually, in a way that no other man has been ever blessed in.

I will put you in a cleft in the rock, and I will

pass by you, and you will behold by glory. And that's why Moses

learned how to pray. When he went prey along God, I wish seeched

you show me thy glory. Many times he would say, God, don't

carry us up from hints, and don't send us on up the road unless

you go with us. Because God, if you don't go with us,

I know we're gonna face uncertaintias. And if we don't have you with us

as we faced these trials and tribulations, we, without a doubt, would

be destroyed. I believe that this man, Moses, knew the value a

spending time alone with God. I look at this generation and I see something

like him, Since too, there was a generation before us that felt like

it was very important that they would seek solitude, and in that time of

solitude and separation, that would begin to speak to their Lord and Savior,

and you could tell that there was really a genuine relationship between them and their

Lord. Moses was a man that had had an encounter something we call the

burning must experience, and he was not satisfied with one experience. This was

a man that was willing to have multiple experiences with God. And so since

to how he goes to have another experience with God the same way that Jesus

had departed from the crowd, that multitude that had throned him, Moses could

say, likewise, Moses knew what it was like to be thrown. I

believe that Jesus knew what it was like to be thrown by the crowd.

And they would look for a time to be set apart unto God, away

from the crowd, away from the hustles and muscle, away from all of

the maids of society. They would go to a mountain to pray. The

Bible said, would ever evening was come that they were there alone, and

Moses and Jesus were used to the multitudes thrown in them, and they had

been miracle workers, miracles had been performed. Many wanted more out of these

men than they had given already. These ben had given so much, but

for the road cap. The crowd was demanding that they would give for more.

That's what Apostle Paul would say that I know that I could speak concerning

a financial term here, that I had been exhausted and spent for the ministry.

I have given my very best talents, energies, and abilities for the

church. As times I suffer in my body because of the care of the

church and their doubt. Moans Us felt the same kind of pressure also,

Jesus, the pressure of the trial that was before him to shoulder the sins

of this world and these men, even though the world was looking for more

out of them and for them to give more than they had already given.

You, ministers, know what I'm talking about. Sometimes after service on a

Sunday night or a Wednesday night, you go home and you say, let

me slide these shoes at my feet. I don't feel like I could give

any more than what I've heardy given. A lot of pastors desig name Monday

as a time to be spent with family and a time to rest and relax.

We see that these men were given everything that they could give. I'm

laying a foundation a rut here tonight. You hang with me. And the

more they gave, the more the people required. The more and they gave

the people, the more the people compended upon them, and Fite run time

jets were ocame to his son in law of Moses, and he said,

this thing that you do is arise. You sit up early in the morning

churching among these people that God has sent you to deliver from Egypt. And

you try in that churchment seat until nightcrawl and your body's not going to be

able to withstand this pressure. And after while you had break down because of

such pressure. We find that Moses did learn how to seek out opportunities of

isolation and solitude with God. We know that these men, no doubt could

have performed the more miracles than what they performed. And Wonders of Fitch after

Wonders of Fitch took place in the ministry of Moses and as one of the

ministry of Jesus Christ him. But they needed to get alone. They needed

to pray and to rest. And now I say right here tonight that if

you're going to have a development or relationship with the Lord, and you have

to seek opportunities to key with him alone. Anybody us in a mental relationship,

and you know that there are times that you must take the kids to

Papa and BEMI's house and lead them with Papa and Memi, and you need

to focus on that relationship and those relationship of goals. And no matter how

alone you have been married, you are committed to one another. And by

preaching right here that you've got to focus and on your relationship with one another.

And Moses, even though he's the spiritual leader that he is going to

Samuel, he must get alone with car In this narrative we find it in

the thirty second chapter of Exodus. We see him where Moses had been alone

with Causing for forty days, and he's in a place where Joshuaha is not.

Joshua had stopped a little bit shorter, and the journey and Moses had

traveled him a little bit further. Can I tell you tonight, it does

not matter what the neighbors sitting to you, that and the sitting beside you,

or that view is doing that. You do not need to look at

him to measure yourself and bind him or they're experiencing. Sometimes you've got to

go a little further of the mountain. They might not feel like climbing a

little higher, but you've got to climb all that a little higher. Oh

yes, Joshua is still Joshuwahha, and he will become the successor of Moses,

no doubt. He's a general of general. But at this time he

stops short, but Moses continues to go. But we see the cost of

Boses's commitment to a relationship with the Lord. You see it this time,

Boneses, he's for us to choose of what he would do when he would

remain with his Chosua, when he used that as a stopping place or a

stopping point in his ministry, when he could just say, you know what,

we've called cars along. We progressed a little bit. We're definitely curler

along than we were when we started out to on our attorney. I've heard

that so much. How my peers that are preaching, they said, charity,

we don't necessarily have to take it that part. We don't necessarily have

to climb the mountain that high. I don't care where you stop at.

I realize that. As for me, I've be impurshed to make a chance.

If you refuse to advance it, and you refuse the client, man,

I've got to cloud one anyway. I've got to enjoy that time alone

with my God. And that's what Jesus was doing that when he departed from

the moultitude that thronged him, and he told that the disciples, you might

stop short. You might not show up and prayer me. You might not

find it important to pray that before church, But there the altar service,

that I cannot get caught up in your complacency. I'm first to make a

chance that I'm gonna go ahead and go into the garden. Even if I

got to go alone, I might have to go to the mountain called all

of it alone. I might have to go to the garden that of the

cimity alone. That could be indicative of change that are coming up the road

that Jesus was forced to make the choice. He did not stop her for

the errand at the Simone's carding. No, he would go down to her

and be a della rossa alone. He would be hung on the cross,

not alone. The those that were cases to him and not went with him.

I wanted to know here to knife that you can receive her south racing

sak the forcasing and holding those factis of her. If he'll be willing to

receive it alone, you try to get it too. Here in the revival.

You try to wild ride the wind and the wave of the Bible.

That if you would departure in the solituam, if you seek out and I

contune the team to get alone with your God, you can get the holy

gustum fucking damn in fire forest. That damn her, I'm on that side.

That you've got to do is developing post a personal relationship with your God.

Yes, Jesus had prepored miracles. Yes Moses have been used to preporm

miracles, but they steal needing that a long pilot with a God. Amen.

That's very unpopular preaching. Nobody wants to hear this anymore. That we

could be better off, and it would be beneficial if we would sometimes drive

off and get away from our coworkers and stay away from the break room sometimes

and walk around to the back side of the shop. We'll go park somewhere

on the back side of the park and get alone with God. Some of

the greatest experiences that I've had in my spiritual journey was when I felt lived

to take a walk and my wife has known not to trail me, not

to follow me, not to be on my heels. I feel like to

utible men, Joshua, Noon, this is going to be between Moses and

it's Card. And that's why the Great General stoctor and he looked at the

spiritual Leader and said, I see her a dogged determination in mind. Leader

Moses that he's gonna go up to the mountain. There's nobody can turning to

the writer, there's nobody can persuade him to do differently. We can see

it when somebody gets that look in their eyes. We can see it when

they come don decides she's gonna marry that boy. We can see it when

that young boys continence changes, and Philip says, Dad, I'm gonna marry

Elizabeth. Come home now for the Holy gonna stay in this household, gonna

Philip was cast her to make a choice, and I came up like not

sure. While I'm preaching, like I am denied when there's their time,

saying, when it gets right down to you, when you are Card,

you got decision naked process. No, what is fast, Danny don't know

what is faster? And I'm sorry to say, pastor down as they that

is faster. We've got to have the personal relationship with the Lord. Three

mental points. I want you to remember as I'm preaching. The first point

is this, people make assumptions when we're trying to make choices. They make

assumptions about our motives. They assume to know why we're doing what we're doing.

They have offend us sometimes because of their assumptions. They hurt us sometimes

because of their assumptions. You will remember that one of the women and the

God of God the Able said, after a creature had accused her ever being

drunken, she said, don't consider me. That's one of those women of

Blila. Hey, I want the pastor the prostitute's quarter to get to the

church house at least I'm short and having a relationship with God. I want

the pastor those of words seriously about chatre that I'm coming to the altar,

that I've prayed. Don't make folks a such about me about my bodings and

my intent. Say, don't tell me that I'm not praying about this,

So don't tell me that I'm not taking this seriously. I've been in a

spirit elive, whether you would realize that or not, be I got a

personal relationship with our Lord. I'm telling you they will make us such about

your commitment choices. They've said things like this, you just want to marry

him because he's got money. You just want to be with her because she's

beautiful. You just want to do this because you've been pressured to the point.

On the one in this mental outline, I want you to hold while

I'm preach it is a sumptance, the assumpstance people make when we make our

commitment choices. Secondly, I want you to notice that when we're making a

choice, we have to take action, and sometimes our actions are questioned,

and people don't always understand why Moses needs to depart the crowd and go and

be with his mord alone. I don't fully understand why Jesus toward his disciples.

You better set yourself apart from the crowd, and the miracle working better

sees. Oh, come on, now, everybody wants to see a blind

man he wanted it, But everybody wants to see the lame man made home.

But Jesus could have done some more that. But brother Christian, even

though he was one hundred percent card and one hundred percent man, God incarnate

God. In the plessure, he taught us that this flesh family, you

must get a whole record. I'm gonna say it again. Sometimes I walked

out of my house and my wife knows not to write on my back because

there had been times I've walked up to the basin. I'm an old tree.

It didn't made its separate to an altar. I'm telling you, Jacob's

water was there. God met with me and I met recD. There's some

of you that can and dire forrest and you have said ester, God have

met me there. I was forced to make a choice, say about my

worst situation. I was forced to make a choice about my relationship situation.

Come on down, you had to taker. I want you to know.

The third point I'm following as a preachmentally is this assurance when you have been

with caught, it does stop matter what the assustions and others are, It

does stop matter what they think of have your actions, you will have it

and assurance that you're doing what you know, what you want to do.

And there are people that question my motives, that question my move but whenever

called first, they to make a choice of But here I am, and

I contain that I live. I understand that better. I'm not leading to

the buying line that he's understand it. I will see the shirts talking this

morning with God and my such preach stuck off fall. Never let anybody question

You're an encounter and experiences with God. Hannah just wouldn't have it. I

don't know how long I'm preaching that, but I really have him learned to

preach. They will buck your decisions, and you'll had to know in your

own spirit. I was forced to make a decision. Moses was forced to

go on. Jesus was pressed of the spirit to go on. The Bible

said that Jesus was led of the spirit to go into the willingness. It

was not the result of temptation. It was not the coaching and the coercing

of the devil to come into the wilderness. Jesus was led of the Holy

Ghost to golden to the wilderness to withstand the temptation that the nevil withdrew his

way. You wouldn't remember that the devil assumed that Jesus was a sell out.

The devil assumed that Jesus would forfeit his opportunity to save the entire human

race. The devil assumed wrong, but a Jessie, he was not for

sale. I've heard of welt to business being empowering other men to manipulate people

out of the will of God. There are ministries that have not existent today

because of some financing ear got in the ear of a preacher has said offer

them a child, offer them a position, and they lost outer with God.

I'm telling you you better understand that this night will be of course,

to make the choice. Who's doing the forcing Goddess certainly not us, certainly

not us. That's right by the road cap. We're reminded of that servant,

a priest promidential pressure. So Moses and Jesus were used to multitudes throwing

them. Their popularity level is off the chart. People are bringing the little

babies to them and saying heal him. But Jesus was saying it I need

to go and be alone. Forced to make a choice to I pray for

this person, or do I go and be alone. I know what ministry

was offered to me. I told the Lord, I said, God,

you said that we should not suck the blossa our family. You know you

know it? For what is it property the man to be gained the whole

world and lose his own soul? I said God, I will go for

you, and I will preach for you as long as I do not lose

my family. And you know what he said a preacher down here, and

one night we were praying, and that preacher told him just a howling nine

He said that he and God said he would not give the children's bread to

someone else. And I saw you should this morning that we had made the

right new season. Hold. Yes, some people made that a subsided.

Yes they did. They made a substance more than you can imagine, but

they weren't wrong. Just because somebody assumed something that and just because they're fullishenough

to speaking, that does not mean that it came from God. And just

because they label it has a direct sent from God does not mean it was

sent from God. They'll come to you and they're saved. That cannot be

gods we are. There is no way that has caused me up. I

heard that and if I hadn't listened to them, but there is no way

my sons can be saved tonight, much less preaching that toust let's lest be

a saved that's saved the pilot, but holding us still after a while,

they weren't testified. Yes, said with a shirt you did the right thing.

Choice to make a choice. Wondrous events are taking place here. Wonderful

things are happening. You're our youth pastor, you're our sole leader. She's

our song teacher. Come here, brother EJ. You're our church pianist.

You're our sunnay school teacher. Hey, come on now, there ain't no

way that's the little of God for you to reside in post and most positious.

Wonderful things are happening. Moses. You put us post up and put

a praises serpent in the world. And am I preaching to the Hey,

come on now, the rest see party. As long as you're preaching,

as long as you're interacting with us, because Lego told me, I took

your about. As long as I'm with us, wonderful things are happening.

The hold on all this is happening. They're taking place because of me being

a landish on the side unless with my tart and I gave that I will

not be alassel unless I continue I push it that release us hip. What

happened to him, what happened to her? I don't know. I guess

they broke off their relationship with the Master. I guess they quit praying.

I guess they quit going to be alone with God. You pray, and

then you rest, You trust, and you are made, and then you

rest. No matter who is rocking the boat, you lay in the stern

of that boat, fast asleep, knowing that they might be blowing, and

they might be hopping, and they might be trying to blow your word with

a part. And you just lay right there on your little pillow, and

you sleep good at night, knowing you were forced to make a choice,

and you made the righteous Come. When I tell our picture to you here

tonight, may I say that you're gonna have to develop a relationship with the

Lord and seek opportunities to be with him alone. In this narrative, we're

finding this thirty second chapter where Moses had been on the top of the mount

signed off for forty days. You said what I didn't pray one day about

it. I prayed multiple days about it. I've been praying for a good

while about Tessa, and I know that what I've received I received from the

Lord. For some reason, these followers of Moses assumed the worst regarding the

spiritual leader. I mean, he's the spiritual leader. He got annoyed it

did he not contune him what to do? Cut down the tree, let

it fall up in the bit of waters, and the bit of runners become

sweeter. He told me to spend some time with dealing in teams. We

get better for dealing. What about it? This very Moses to say,

he's heard from God, but now he's missing it. I know that's a

good man down there. I know that's a good man up there. He's

up in the mountain now, but he must be missing it. Do you

know what I'm saying? That they assume the worst of regarding the condition that

brother they're leaders as substance? What are a substance? It's a thing that

is accepted, that's true or certain to happen without proofer. There's a lot

of people making a substance about things that they have no proof about. Somebody

made a substance about a dear man are called about ten years and cold.

I said, how do you know that about him? They said, because

I'm believe it to me true? I said that God said, They said

no. I said, well, how do you know it? They said,

because I think about it. I said, listen, if you're gonna

tend my church, you're gonna bring good proofer and you're gonna for damn it

you before you make let us suck. Come home. Now these people are

suits as their leader was dead. They dost fide. They are sis sis.

If we grew down here that God saved Sacrifier, Holy Ghost feeling,

I was standing right here, Holy Goo spoke to me, said, up,

it's to take him through. I said, that's all that matters right

now. It's just me and one of my sheep. I got right there

and it was as a woman in trobl And you know, the Bible talked

about Zion coming to a time of birth and not having the strength to Trabel.

But Brother Gabriel, I told God, I said, I don't will

buy your help and your grace. I will push this one through the spiritual

work. And now Brother just there was just something that I knew that he's

going through. And this morning he said that people could just get what I

got to hold off, they would know why I'm so determined. As I

am determined. Now, I want you to know you can go to Elizabeth

and try to talk her out of marrying Philip. And I believe the old

Saint of the Old Timer would be true you're just wasting your breath trying to

convince Elizabeth not to marry Philip. I dare said this point, sister,

Tracy, your words would just be like watering off the ducks back because they

got that look in their eyes. Sister, when you know what I'm saying,

it's going to happen just as sure as God is spitting the world on

the tip of his finger. It doesn't matter what a substance of people make

it. Oh, come on now. Many assumed the old time pentecost on

holding the singing and preaching and church said it's a thing of the pastor.

I hear him saying, we used to just seem like that. We used

to preach her like that. What do you mean you used to we haxpirencing

around here just about every service I had have to open the Church of God

like him to have seen he an't kempt meeting days every bimber with Christias member

and said, I liked you don't kept me days. So I like the

old time preacher sing it in a shout place. I hear it every service,

I said, I hear it every service. They might assued that the

church is dead. They might assued Loo that the fire is cold. They

might assumed Bo that God's not still save it. But they're around used to

be. Gabriel could tell you used to be. He's still doing it.

He's still doing it. Those that seek him actively, not passively, they

find him. Oh yes, I like the old time preaching, praying seeing

in a shout. Well, I assumed they've gone liberal. I assued Moses

is dead. I assumed Brother e J went down her the backslide. Hey,

you can look at Serena tell there assumptions are wrong. I assumed me

nothing's working out for Chrystal Wood. And you can look and know that they

took the right action. Can you know where the shirts that they made the

right decision. But I assumed her and Lauren was mooving that somebody would pay

her mortgage payment. I've never paid the Lauren mortgage payment. She's paid her

own way, she's paid her own rent. There's people have made her assumptance

about various people getting this turn Come on down, they assumed over us about

the spiritual leader. Just because he accepting, he does not mean it's happening.

Come on, I feel a creature in this ho we dost take held

house. Because of this a sension they fought Michael. They needed a new

leader, they needed a new verse of style, They needed to make it

a just victor. And because of this they transition to into our dartry.

As soon as they accepted the factor that comes not moving, as soon as

they accepted the factors you can't happen, don't talk for the coastal creature at

a regular basis. As soon as the accepta the fact that you don't have

to receive the head acustor with the initial every discre are speaking and the tongues,

the demons of hell begin the passion an idol. They come on or

you're getting this. This is a little bit deeper. What hapen? Amaza?

So what happened in the church services of yester year? When you accepted,

can you say what happened? You will find yoursel sucking another half Mossa.

We were transistent into our dollar tread practice up a dollar tree. It's

born sending me because nobody knows where Moses is. Where's Moses, Where's Boses?

Where's Boses? Where's Boses? Where's the forty days? Where's Boses?

Sending a little runner up there to Joshua, asked josh if he's come halfway

and went back up? Where's Moses? Where's Bunses? Where's the preaching?

Her brother L. D. Moore? Where's the preaching? Her brother down

Richard, where's the freaching? Her brother Ralph Cox, where's the preaching?

Brother Ralph Hordon? I don't know where. We gotta have something. We

gotta have something moving. We gotta have something to lead us. We gotta

touch something because we can't get what we had in Moses. We can't get

what we had. Come on, we're Gonta fashioned a little gold hooden calf.

And they asked Aaron to pick something that was not broke. They asked

Aaron to pick something that was not broke. The last time I checked him.

The leader of this church has not died. That God is not dead.

I can claiming the ram about the title for that movie and just said

God is dead. God is not dead. He's there ahead of the church

of his church has been belted. But Colin Rockla and that can't sat held

himself, cannot for bet against that. Preacher, preacher, fix it,

preacher, preacher, fix it. Get some blue lights, get some lavender

lights. Get some teal lights, get some purple lights. Get us folks

free. Preacher, preacher, pitch it. That's what I told to Howard.

Boys. Brother Nathan has been preaching eight years. The other ones have

been picking three or four months. I told Brother Nathan when he started preaching

eight years ago. I said, don't ever allow anybody to assume you're called

the pastoral ministry. I have told you preachers throughout the years, don't touch

pastoral ministry if it's not yours the handle. Oh yes, Aaron was a

priest, but he was not a pastor Roses. He was not a leader.

And he's a priest. He knows the word of God better than anybody.

He's qualified for ceremony in worship, he's qualified to lead. In fact,

his eye springs and leads. You know, they're just wonderful people,

Brother Nathaniel. They're churchy people. They're religious people. But you can just

see on week kneeds fineless pay air and say hey, hey, if you're

saying Roses is dead, I accepted. I don't know what to do.

You know what he's doing, he's buckling the peer pressure. When you've got

a pastor that is a politician, and he buckles the peer presser, and

he changes his standard. He everywhere the knocktor the standard that comes by.

You're kind of Moses. We've got an error. He's got a prempature.

He got me the best He called even knows that said man not tether er.

Tain't nobody preach like him. He can't. Nobody called like, Hey,

what you need is a spiritual leader. So Aaron got the football any

I don't care how they try to fix it. We can't have old camp

meeting days anymore. We can't have old time rel You can let a little

Aaron get up there with his services. Has got so many points in their

daughter than they've ever been. And I sit there and gone to the service

and try to give them the minute put of the doubt that they are so

lead by that their daddy had it and your grandpa had it, but the

preachers had it. They'll send their blood life. But I love the wire

you team in the compromise, did ain't broke? Don't fix it? Oh

Aaron wants to fix it. Where's Moses. If we ain't got Moses,

we ain't got God. If you're going up about yourself, if Moses dead,

drop dead, If Mosis isn't found again, And there came a time

when God proved to them he won't come down. Huh. I'm preaching deep

right here tonight. The pressure to fix something that's not broken. And you

know what, prematurely they fixed it. They should not have touched it.

They should not have touched God's norton. I'm telling you right now, how

many remember the actions of Aaron. Why did he take such action because of

their improper response to what was going on with their spiritual leader? And he

took improper action because of his improper response to pear fresh Shore Brother Nathaniel asked,

he has them bring their jewelry. The women begin to pull the ear

rings out of their ears, and the men's pull their ear rings out of

their ears. They take the anklets and they're bracelets off. There's a destrin

they're literally delivering they're delivering the spawls that they took from the Egyptians when they're

leaving the land of Egypt. They're literally delivering the oil into the hand of

Aaron. And Aaron and them begin to put this in a melting pot and

they heat up the fire and they begin to melt this gold and these precious

metals, and they make this golden cap. It's not a plastic calf.

It's not something that's been printed with a three D printer. Personally, I

believe because the anointing of God that come upon men like Solomon and Besilil and

other great men of God that was not present. The anointing of God was

not present at this time to fashion and idol. I feel like it's just

an ugly thing that appears to be a calf. And when I go to

what they call churches and they expect me to sit there reverently and act like

it's a beautiful thing. I don't care how much that Oedipus cost to I

don't care how much you've invested in it. And you could have sold the

inheritance of your grandmother. You could have took the spoil and made whatever it

is you made. But I'm not gonna bow and me anything because the cure

pressure. It doesn't matter how beautiful the cathedral, or how beautiful the altar,

or how beautiful to place. Some mercies, I would say that God

would have said that I will not annoint him as I will annoyt Basilio.

I will not annoint him as I annointed Solomon, and Eut's gonna come the

ugliest Donden caple you. I've ever seen this. Nothing that's beautiful. That's

the perfect plan of God. And if you have somebody make a substance and

alter your actions, you will never have the assurance that you're never in the

fullness and a plan of God. You will remember have the assurance that it

has come to perfect the filming and perission. I need a current church in

this building here to night. If you passionate it with your own hands,

you will make a mess. If you're trying to pick something, let us

not past. You will preakt in that process. You will in that process,

I know the annointing of God could not have been present. There's no

way, Brother Nathaniel, that the spirit of God was anointing them to blatantly

break the sacred Commandment. It's about to come out of the mountain. Huh.

The young man this morning mentioned the fifth Commandment. Do y'all remember what

they said that was? Did y'all pay attention? Under thy Father and thy

mother, they are blatantly breaking a commandment, is literally coming out of the

portals of glory, right now. So when you're forced to make a decision

and they make them assumptions and say, oh, I have God sin,

I know what you need to do. I feel what you need to do.

I'm not even halfway through this message. Right here. You could tell

God dealt with me three hours before this service. Force to make a choice,

forced to make a choice. What you're gonna do, Eric, what

you're gonna do. It's gonna make this gold chaff. I'm gonna break the

commandment. It's coming out of a mount of answers, coming out of mountain

right now. I know what I need to do. I feel what I

need to do. And you, oh my God, and you offer a

compromise other than doing what God wants you to do, You're gonna end up

with a counterfeit experience, a counterfeit relationship of counterfeit and counter a counterfeits,

something that is totally worthless. How do you know it will be worthless?

Because when Moses comes down and Joshua thinks, so it's the sound of battle,

the general himself is thinking it's the sound of battle, and Moses,

the spiritual leader says no, oh no, no, no, no,

no no no, that is the sound of music, that is the sound

of a spiritual orgy going on down there. That are just worshiping anything that

comes by, but they're just following or anything that that says it's a God.

Come on now, Moses, that spiritual leader descends and from the side

of Mount side Eye with two tables of stone in his hand, and on

these stones with the very words written there by the Lord caught himself becaus it

their assumptions and actions. They get a serious reaction from the servant and the

Lord, their leader of Moses. They get a serious reaction. It's the

same reaction that the merchants count when Jesus walked into the House of Prayer and

he saw things that were knocked up, going older and should have been done

and older, and he saw things going older and should not have been going

on. Come on now, whenever you get out of the will of God.

Everybody knows it. Everybody sees that what's taling all. Everybody knows that

stake. Let us turn up, Moses, lets them know, you guys

and girls have made a terrible mistake. And righteous indignation of flares up.

Oh they thought they had saw their pastor get angry before Bible said be angry

and sin not. They thought they had saw Moses turn read it before.

Now they see him get so mad that he throws his copy of the Bible

down. If you would, I wouldn't do that. He threw down the

commandments. He had carried two tables of stone up there, and the finger

of God who wrote them. How serious is the word of God when Jesus

says it is written? Hey, it is written. And when God writes

out a plan for your life, it does not matter if an angel from

heaven or anybody try come on, tries to be every there's something different to

you that what you got. I am not saying disrespect spiritual authority in your

life. If they've been fasted and praying for you. I know there were

people that I had confidence in, but Brother Jesse, I realized they were

not to praying and fast for me. They were just saying what was convenient

for them. But there were others that gave me godly counsel. But at

the end of the day, you better get this for yourself. I'm not

saying don't respect your parents. I'm not saying don't respect your pastor. I

am saying, no, don't break in you of God's commandments in the process.

Come on, this generation is doing exactly what this generation did. They

are just fashioning their own religion. They have their own religious worship service once

a week. They gather together when it's convenient, and they break every commandment

during the week. They break the commandments of God during the week. Man,

we need people of this generation to deal with the real issues. And

Moses come down out of that mountain, and he was not going to tiptoe

through the tools. He wasn't gonna try to be careful with people's feelings.

Say, oh yes, for the jessing. He dealt with the issue.

And I'm telling you, when God tells you want to deal with, you

better deal with the sin problem. Of Samuel. The prophets show that saw

how you deal with disobedience, rebellion and starting up. He slashed a down

vample and took him down to the proof because it would be messy, and

the Bible send the simular profits and mute him or hated him in the pieces.

Oh yes, say, are you gonna act like her? What's holding

you back up from a personal relationship with God? From being possessor by the

Holy Pastor? Has not a real issue. It is a real issue.

Mother, You better deal with it. I said, you're gonna be faster,

come asion you. Moses cast down the calf from its base. He

cast down the calf from its pedestal. What do you have on a pedestal?

Pedicures, manicures, mabel cosmetics? What do you have on a pedestal

snipping and clipping and flipping and dying? When I was a younger preacher,

I turned sideways right and preaching, holding us about thirty minutes. Baby,

I should shorten it up and dropping down and tighten it up and loosen it

enough. What are you dealing with? Moses came down and dealt with Aaron

would not eron allowed these people to play and then worship, to play and

then worship. But Moses cast the calf down from his pedestal. He burned

it, he pulled over right, He tossed it into water, and then

he made him get down on their hands and knees and drink it and pass

it out through their system. To show them that cap was nothing. I

said that cap was nothing. And sometimes people's opinion and sometimes that pure pressure

should be nothing. I said, it should be nothing. It should not

alter your decision. I could don't forget I have this. Huh. We

need people in this generation to deal with the real issue. M If you

don't deal with it, you'll lose your children. If you don't make the

right decision, you'll never even have a family. Moses cast it down,

casting down every imagination and high thought that exalteth itself against the knowledge of God.

Well, I know what God wants me to do. I know what

God's told me to do. I know hei that know it to do good

and knew it it not to him and his sin. I look at the

evidence of the decision that sister Elizabeth's made a year and a half ago,

have a lot less pit. I did not pressure her or persuade her in

any way, but I could tell by her response in that altar that morning

as I preach to her a message and I don't even remember, but she

can tell you the title of that minished message. But brother came up.

She had that look in her eye. The only thing that matters is that

I do what God wants me to do. Not only did she help save

her family, her brother preached this morning, and now she's married to a

holiness man of a holiness preacher. That would not have happened had she not

obeyed God. Somebody said, well, if it's God's will and will play

out. Oh, really, there's something called the will of a man,

and it has to work in recipocation with the will of God. It has

to work on both ends. There has to be a will in vessels.

Somebody said, I want to obey God. I need none may God.

Somebody says, well, why don't you and may God when you're gonna do

what God told you to do? Right? Does anybody in this house?

Why don't you know what God told you to do? Whether lde Moore used

to see so our text shows and Moses came to that place for the Jeremiah

where he kind of felt like Elijah, but until later he said, how

long are you gonna halt? Between two opinions in our text and actually the

thirty two and verse number twenty six, he said, who is gonna stand

on the large side? He walked outside the gate of the camp and he

said, who is on the large side? There was times that I wondered

as that as we were playing competition sports, I wondered whose side was my

teammate? All sometimes somebody doing awesome play, and they say, man,

that's great. Enough said whose side of you want? Come on? Sometimes

when I see you is trembling the way you're strumbling. I see the stipping

and clipping and Diana and short enough things is struggling the way you are and

not rushiping. God, I know you've been down. There was the doing,

and I realized shouldn't get along with dopen not pointing over the day,

I'll talk. It's time to take pfort action and make their decision. Course

has told them I'm gonna deal with this issue many years later, after Moses

had said, who's on the Lord's side? From what I could see,

there's a lot of people that were forced to make a choice that have made

up the best of Holess Church. I hate some things. Give me some

more to kick, Give me some more, somebody will I appreciate. Give

me some more. I hate that coke, I hate all that stuff.

You know, right, Give me some more. Y'all think I'm playing.

I'm trying to get some people's attention to day, and it was playing around.

Can anybody move in this place? I gotta do something to get some

attention or some of them daydreaming because I'm bumping up on what they live or

what they're how they're living. Right, a man, you know what I'm

saying. Pay attention right here. This shouldn't be vacation Bible school. Huh

right, this shouldn't be a vacation Bobby school. Pay attention. I'm preaching

to your mamma. You two visy looking at picterest and looking things that don't

matter and looking at Bible. I'm telling you, I don't know where this

is coming from, but you need to quit pattern in your life after the

things of this world and a list celebrities and whatever's going on in your mind.

And I'm buffled up right now because you will fashion a strange God for

your sons and your brothers, and they will see that look in your eyes.

And I'm asking you whose side or you want. You're being forced tonight

to make a choice. Moses stood at the gate of the camp and said,

you know what, You'll been misbehaving and acting up and you're not taking

this serious. So Moses stands at the gate of the camp and he says,

who is on the last side? And then later on Joshua will use

the same text. It's a co text tonight, O brother read it.

He said, Hey, you're gonna serve the God. So we're on the

other side of the flood. You're gonna do he said, it asked for

me of my house. We've been forced to make a choice, because obviously

some of you are choosing difference than we are. But as for me and

my house, we're not a served of the Lord. He made it a

season and a commitment to me. When the Lord that choose you this day,

whom you will serve, Chuesday this day and make up your mind.

I've made the right choice. This is what I've got to do. But

I know this is what I got to do. I cannot be pulled away

problems. I know this is what I Some years after this passed forward with

me. This this precious woman, nail Me that's forced to make a choice

because her husband of Limelc had made a stupid choice and had left the House

of Bread because it was going through a temple of famine. And so he

leaves what is literally named in the land of the House of Bread and goes

into the land of the Mobites because of a spiritual because of a natural family

and lack of bread he goes over there to land the bobbies, and he

loses Melon and Chill and his two sons, and he's got he loses his

own life. And now now on Me. She's standing there and one of

our co text is naw on Me talking to her two daughter in laws,

Ruth and Nail Me, Ruth and Orpah, and she's saying, you need

to make a decision for commitment. If you don't get committed mentally, you're

not gonna follow through. And if you don't get committed mentally, you're not

gonna follow through. And come on now, Ruth. Chapter number one of

verse number eight, Nail only takes him two beautiful girls. Come here,

Elizabeth, come here, Hannah. They come here. Uh. Jesse's wife's

just to Hannah, come here. I want you to just come over here

and come over Hannah. Woh, god head. But I'm gonna kick some

morning, right, y'all paying attention in here tonight, man. I've worked

up the sweat. I'm something in my shoes. So Sister Hannah Faith represents

Sister Hannah, Sister Naomi and Sister Hannah how Will represent sister Orpha, and

Sister Elizabeth represents Sister Ruth, and it's just as real at this time in

history as it is right now for somebody and this behind forced to make a

choice. And dear sister Nahomi looks at Orpa and she begins to say something,

and then Ruth walks over there, and Ruth walks over there, and

Ruth walks over there, and she listens, and Naomi says, so,

hey, daughters in law, I want you to go return to your mother's

house and and may the Lord bless you, and may the Lord deal kindly

with you. And she speaks in tones a little bit in this fear of

God's theirs, and she takes out her hankey and she washes the tears,

and they all cry. The Bible said, and may God deal with the

dead as it end done with me. And may God deal with you and

bless you, and get the Donna grant you that you might find rested,

each one in the house of your mother's husband, and other words, go

home to your dad and mama. And you know, they said, they've

wept all y'all give a big gonna hug one another. And they wept and

they cried, and they boo hooed and slopped all over one another and just

suddenly or a percent you don't watch it. You just forced me to make

a choicer, and you gave me an opportunity. That's right Handah, thank

god, that girl's good. Now. You forced me to make a choicer.

And if given the opportunity to go back to DA's house, that's where

I'm gonna go. Get an opportunity to go back to Mama's house, That's

where I'm gonna go. They only I will not leave her without a kisser

that I will not leave her without crying. And my handkerchief cut on your

shoulder. Hey, don't said. Initially we walked over and Ruth, she

said, I'm gonna go all the way I said, ic to say,

but all then come to the carp and the sunite on the Si Jesus went

all the way to the garden alone. Oh come on, now, one

minute one didn't happen. Did not mean to tell that, Ruth? Did?

Did you really mean what you said that time? Want tell the the

time little plea you got the start hark but a staring at I preach the

lo ca that kind of ruce opportunity and see is no longer Ruth, I

said, see this is no longer rude. Let's stand. I received phone

calls from people. They said, I'm listened to that message Ruce Opportunity.

Who is Ruth? Who did you preach to? They said, my God,

if God had a pool from me like that, oh, I would

have loved it. How have loved it? I would have loved it,

and I would have responded. And I just felt a special annointing from heaven

and a kiss of grace on this service. Yet boy head Moses was committed

to this choice. Moses was looking for dedication and loyalty from others as he

had been dedicated in loyal Joshua was looking for something to make good decisions and

not bad decisions. Naomi had two daughter in laws, and one of them

made a bad decision and one of them made good decision. Both of them

were making an important I feel un annoyed for the Holy Ghost. How many

ministries were aborted and abandoned because of some false prophet. Maybe they were even

and a woman of God, and they said, I just don't feel like

that's the will of God. And they knew in their own heart that they

have blood on their hands now because those people were not in the will of

God, and they backs that they hindered them. People leave churches because they

were not committed. Ruth stood on the right side that night. Ruth stood

on the right side that night. Who is on the Lord's side? Are

we standing on the Lord's side? Are we standing on the wrong side?

Let's bow our heads. There's some people in this building tonight dis messages for

you've been forced to make a decision. I'm not doing the forcing. Your

parents are doing the forcing. You're forced to make a choice today, regardless

of the assumptions of others. What action will you take? And three to

five years from now will you say I've got assurance that that was my message?

Brother Rode caps on his face, Brother Sammy Howells on his face.

Brother E. J. Wallace is on his face, because there's somebody else

who would say, Pastor, I'm not even gonna give you a chance to

give an all recall. I'm going to pray because I know you preach to

me. Brother, how will you preach to me. I've ad a time

of decision. I know it's God. I know it's him. I know

you do. I respect you, I believe you, I have confidence in

you. You have received a challenge for commitment. You have been forced to

make a choice. There's people way beyond the age of accountability, within an

hour's drive of a good holiness church, and they act like God understands them,

suffering, end them going without spiritual man and food, No man,

no, sir. God has provided transportation. You're within an hour or two

of the Rock Sidide Homes Church. You could do it if you wanted to.

God's been trying to force you to make a choice, to do what's

needful for you, to do what's right. One day God will take boss.

One day God will take those parents. God will take those excuses.

We'll see who was on the Lord's side. After all, he shouldn't have

to be back to do God's will. I just say, God, if

this is your will, Yes, Lord to your Yes, Lord to your

way. Could we take a moment to pray tonight? Is he leading you?

Is he speaking to you? I can hear him coling, I can

hear him coming other how I hear him calling me by name. You speaking

to God doesn't have to bank you to come out of that worldly church.

God doesn't have to beg you to come under the compromise in church God doesn't

have to bank you to get him as your God sue. You should willing

to say, Lord, I'm going forced to make a choice, I'm gonna

do what's right. God bless your church. Forced to make a choice where,

how to show shoes? Where the eye follow him hold? As they

continue to sing, I want to ask some folks in this building, are

you willing to go alone? Jesus went alone, Bosis went alone, Ruth

traveled with their own alone alone. I see I can't say home, weary,

be well, follow, warys me follow where I'm boy. Breath O

albow M. I will him the hard the I will weave him him, ve him