Preacher, Can You See? - Bro Jeremy Howell 5-28-2023

It's witzy. Will you turn with us to the book of habakk look at

your neighbor and say, hey, neighbor, can you say that? Brother

Chip Roy was down here several years ago, and him and I was talking

with brother Billy Brock AND's sister Jackie Brock, and we were trying to get

one another to pronounce this word hobackic. And a lot of us said it

the same. I think some of us had different variations of pronunciations of it.

But though every time I look at it and trying to get the proper

pronunciation of it, to me, it is ABACKI I heard the old timers

of yesteryear and also said he yeller. I heard him preaching many a servant

out of haback Up. And so I don't know where they got that from

hoback up. But you know what, I could preach out a book of

hoback Up, but Habakic. I do aiate this book of the Bible.

How many of you have noticed the brevity of this writing. It's only three

chapters. If you want to come to church the next service saying you read

an entire book of the Bible, this would be a good one. Some

of you didn't even know it was in there. You read so little.

I used to hear the preachers of yesteryear talk about we're going to give you

an opportunity to catch up on your Bible reading at the intro of the sermon

No Kid and Brother Buford, they used to read ten to fifteen verses before

they preached because they were given people opportunities to catch up on their weekly Bible

reading. I love being a pastor because we can provide people along a little

bit. But you can say that you've read an entire book of the Bible

in less than five minutes. If you really set your mind to reading this

Book of Hope Backing rather than Anne, would you turned to the Book of

Ezekiel. Chapter number eight and verse number six will be the scripture verse you're

reading tonight, Brother Jesse's Saint Matthew's Gospel, Chapter number fifteen and verse number

fourteen. Beloved Again Habaki chapter number one, versus number three and four.

I'm gonna trust that you did your Bible reading today and this past week,

so that I do not have to read the entire book of HABACKI for you

to catch up on your Bible reading and I've heard people say before I'm only

going to read a couple of verses because I do not want to bore you.

Brother Bill Houston got up behind the preacher one time and skinned him upside

from one side to the other. I flipped him upside down publicly, and

he said, reading the scripture is never boring to me. And that's right.

And I've heard him say before you, before us over the years,

I'm going to spare you lengthy reading what I do. I do not have

to read a lot of scripture at the all starter, at the beginning of

the sermon, because I do preach the content and the context of the sermon

as i'm preaching and try to clude you in. Now, if you're one

of those preachers that preach out of context, I'm sorry. And if you're

one of those preachers that preaches everything in the entire book of the Backet,

we are sorry. Okay. So, brother Nathaniel Ezekiel, chapter number eight

and verse number six, if you're saved and you know it, say a

man, praise the Lord. And he said, furthermore, unto me,

son of man, seest now what they do, even the greater abomination that

the House of Israel committeth here that I should go far from far off from

my sanctuary. But turn thee it again, and thou shalt see greater abominations.

Brother Nathaniel, did God Almighty, the Lord Jehovah, ask the prophet

Ezekiel, do you see what they're doing? I want to preach Sonata message

the Holy Ghost titled preacher, can you see? Brother Jesse Matthew, Chapter

number fifteen and verse number fourteen. Let them alone. They be blind leaders

of the blind. And if the blind lead the blind, both shall fall

into the ditt I sure don't want to follow a preacher that cannot see.

Let's stand for the reading of our golden texts tonight again. May I direct

your attention to back at chapter number one and versus number three and four.

The Bible said, why dost thou show me iniquity and cause me to the

whole grievance? For spawling and violence are before me, and there are that

raise of strife and contention. Therefore the law is slack to judgment doth never

go forth, for the wicked doth compass me about the righteous. Therefore wrong

judgment proceedeth, for the wicked doth compass about the righteous. Therefore wrong judgment

proceedeth. Man A point your attention to the first little part of verse number

three. Why dost thou show me iniquity? There's been a lot of times

that I've said, God, why did you show me that? I would

have been better off not having seen that? Let's pray, Heavenly Father,

we love it, We praise you. I pray Lord that you would have

known this. Thy serve and set a guard at the minds of this thy

people tonight, and help them Lord, not to be dangerously distracted, not

demon us. Help from Lord to have ears that can hear. I pray

that you would set a guard of my mouth and help me to say the

things that you would have me to say, nothing more or less. I

pray that we would not be hearers only of these things, but doers help

us to hear and heed. I pray for an anointing that comes only from

You, the Holy One, for we needed tonight desperately. I thank you

God for what you've been doing for us here. We praise you for that.

And they we depart this place joyfully, dear Lord, and not sorrowfully.

And the Church said Jesus name Amen, you may be seated. Looking

again at verse number three of a backed chapter number one, the Bible said,

why dost thou show me iniquity creature? Why do you point that out?

Our textas found in an Old Testament book of the Holy Bible. The

Book of Habacking is named after its author, The prophet Habacking was a man

who carried a burden for his people. Unlike King, he could be someone

that carried his brother's burdens. He was his brother's keeper. We believe that

this man of God communicated with the Lord. For in fact, if you

read these three chapters that comprised the Book of Habacking, you will find that

it is nothing more than a dialogue between a man of God and his God.

Again, this was a man that was not reluctant to communicate with his

God. Sister whom said tonight that whenever she walked through those glass doors tonight

she heard brother Jesse communicating with his God, she said, has been many

years since I heard a young man communicating with his God in that manner.

I appreciate people that are people that like to communicate. Brother Tyler, I'm

going to ask you to do the unthinkable and the unimaginable. I want you

to slip your shoes off, and after you slip your shoes off, I

want you to slip your socks off, because you are Bethel's barefooted. He'll

billy anybody that comes over here any time that he's working at the church.

He is barefoot. Now, I don't want anybody looking at them ugly feet

while I'm trying to preach, because you will be dangerously distracted, and if

you touch them stinking things, you will be infective and poison. But brother

Tyler, I'm gonna come over there if i'm made, and I'm gonna carefully

touch them socks, if you'll pull them out for me and try to get

them position where I don't have to grab the lower part of those socks.

I want to grab the uppymost part, the very top of those socks up.

They're on the band now, isn't that awesome? Brother Tyler is wearing

a maroon shirt and he's got on blue socks. This is definitely the socks

of a bachelor. I know that sometimes Sister Howell will pull my pants leg

up a little bit if I've picked out my own socks, and she'll start

laughing because they do not match my garment. I would not expect anything less

than this, Brother Tyler, for your socks not to match. Look at

that navy blue. Of course, there's gonna be a knucklehead after service.

Come over there to Brother Tyler, and they're gonna lie between their teeth and

say, I think that matches. And I know the way some of these

women in our Holdingness Church is dressed today would not have worked out. Whatever

I was being raised, and what ever I was their age. You just

didn't put polka dots with stripes and as some of these color matchions. And

I don't know what they're thinking, but I want to remind some of y'all

that I did preach who I did preach a sermon title come on the Bisha,

motor mouth I though another one at me, put a socket and throw

another one at me. Hey, you watch your mouth, and you better

watch your socks too. And so this was a man that communicated with God.

We're fixing to go to the fellowship, Paul in a minute, and

I want to remind you that I did preach a sermon titled motor Mouths.

And if for summer reason, you decide to disregard the fact that your pastor

preach episode sweetly but yet adnortingly that night to you, specifically regarding a motor

mouth. I'm going to ask Brother Tyler, our Bethel Barefoot hell Billy to

come over there and put them steaknsocks right in front of you. How many

of you went back and listen to that message. Some of you need to

go back and listen to that message. I'm telling you you got to learn

how to see things the way they ought to be seen, and to hear

things the way they ought to be heard. How many of you remember the

sermon tied on Hey, I need a hearing aid. And there's some of

us we need to see the seriousness of the situation when the pastor preaches on

motor mouths rather than preaching or the Holy ghost in dwelling. I don't want

you to disregard what I'm preaching. Our Sunday school teacher said this morning.

It does not matter what platform it is on. When our pastor preacher something,

I want to take it seriously. And I feel like the writings of

this man her backing. Although they are brief, they are short and sweet,

yes, but they're also very serious writings I've heard very few preachers over

the years preacher out of this book of her backing. But I know that

the Lord has recently directed my attention to this book of the Bible. And

I was amazed. And as I read the content of this dialogue between the

prophet of God and of God that he served, I was amazed of the

context up to not service. And I saw a man that was crippled if

you weren't in this ministry, because her people simply would not hear what the

Spirit said that of the church, and they would not be a vector.

Positively, we see that this man is writing with a great burden. He's

a great preacher. He's not as a mining prophet because of the previty of

this writing. He's one of the many matter propets of the Bible. He's

not considered to be a major profet like Chirmilah. And I say, because

of the brevity of this variety, Brother Nathaniel, could it have been that

the burden of his heart had broken it in trained there's a lot of people

that get desrobed about what they've seen and that's just not able to say anything

about it. If you study our text tonight, you will see. Early

on in this dialogue between a propert and his car and the man of cord

and car, we sees asking the question how wrong shall I cry? Look

at my snumber two that he's already heard the words that Samuel had heard.

We no more? He cried, no more? How wrong can you cry

over things? How wrong can you preachure about takes? I'm going at the

young timers. They used to say this, this sits? He cried,

And who spilled milk? First number three starts with the titles of my message.

What ha didst thou seest? Why this thou ShoWest to me these things?

Why do you show me how niquity pray for me? Chancha here tonight?

I WoT somebody in this morning, you know, with God speaks up

to your preacher. Yeah, the guys and times, Yes, he is

preaching something that job has sold him. I said, yes, the guys

and gods. Yes, so he is preaching something. He saw new corn

birds early on in my ministry. Whenever they decided it was time to backslide,

they would say things like he called names. They hadn't looked at the

Bible, they hadn't got the hart. He goes to brother Samuel God,

where they can see clearly that the apostle Paul called names and said that Alanxander

the copper Smith, has done me much. He raw my ministry has suffered

harm because of certain people. He named the demon so he didn't have to

name it. He put the name in a letter and marled the letter or

yes. Then we've got to see it when we goes three, when we

see our preacher take a text of we've got to take a personal and realize

that cod has talked to us. Huh. This man has a burden to

preach. His perception of the situation is that it's not going to end well

for this group of people, but he's communicating to the heavenly Father about it.

Habacca had witnessed a season of revival second to no other revival than has

ever taken place among the people of God, both pre CHRISTI and Actor CHRISTI.

He saw that wonderful things were taken place of but these people's hearts had

turned to Bacca to their sin and sa He knew that his people had forsaken

a wonderful opportunity. Hates her great things in higher places in God. I

believe it was Sister Tracy this past Friday night, said, when Brother Caleb

spoke about Pastor's previous servant title destined for higher ground, I searched to Pastor's

sermon library and then listen to that very servant is that day. Sister Tracy

did not say, I didn't see it. I don't understand that God was

speaking to her already. Some message me today and said, Preacher, I

know that you preached to me this morning. Can you see it? I

said, can't you see it? Plastor kill you. You're a lone bun.

When the pastor tells you you've got a battle, Hi, when the

pastor tells you you got a bad attitude. Came to see God put him

back. See this man, he realizes, Yes, we have shouted yes,

William hatt of A servants. Just because God patch us on the back

every now and then does not mean but God has stamped to prove for on

our accent. This is why we prove in grace and in the knowledge of

the Lord and safety and Jesus Christ. I'm not wanting to hear him that

nybody tonight, and I want to preach primarily to the preacher. But Preacher,

I see the media preacher, that person lose out with God her because

the God sued him. Something say like sense and hey, we're going to

play with a delightless head of the lad Do you know who they are?

Their devon truck can't ver the man of tuk the three book their demon truck,

the tithe fetter. Then anybody answered the ultimately her thin't good truck.

The man of God's eyes out Cantus said, your pastors annoyed it tonight,

can't you see it? In this three chapter book? The man Harmackic knows

We've had good kings and we've had bad kings. Anybody that went to the

Poland station could say we had a good candidate and we had a bad candidate.

Anybody within this kingdom of his room Judah, they could say he was

a good king. How did you know it? Because you saw it?

You were eye witness. Even the apostles they credited things that took place because

they witness that time. They interviewed, I who witness and some look of

a loved position? He said, I have interviewed many people that did not

have their eyes close to many people that had their eyes open. Somebody clutched

the pew the pew got a little uncomfortable in the pastor took come the texture

and they knew he sees it. Yes, you can bury your head in

the sand that act like nobody else I sees that time. Don't pretend.

Look we don't see that. I said, come preteen, the look we

don't see that. Silly all said her. We see you hiding. There's

no nobody sees that time. I'm telling you here, when you're rebellious,

when you're stomach and you can't come against the prinson, everybody sees it.

The man of God his burden. He has to intervene. He feels like

he has to interview. He is burdened because he sees a nation that was

climbing to the summits of revival. He sees that nation taken downward turn,

and it doesn't make a turn for the better. They begin to turn downward,

and they enter a downward spiral and things get out of control. You

see, Harbacic realizes that they are taking a turn for the worst. As

a nation. Israel has already been obliterated. June is just barely getting by

things that taken a bad turn. Because there are kings that are not pointing

people in the right direction. They have solve the commitments on a scroll somewhere

in the back of their chamber. But there were other kings there, say

what are the writings in these birds in these books? And they would pull

it out and they would kill the prophet or the seer. The seer,

tell me what the prophet shot? Tell me what the horney just feel me?

I wrote to say what moved? Going by the Holy ghost. Listen

now, listen, sir, don't come to this church expecting me not to

preach her from the sacred's cause I've got to ask her. I teach herself

to call him Paul, But I just trolls him because her no vice not

to follow a bride leader. The man of God is burden, and he

has to intervene. Apostle Paul said one unto me, if I preach not

the gospel. We preach things that we see with a natural eye, then

we preach things that we see with a spiritual eye. Brother Nathaniel mounted his

dad's pool picked and it appeared that the saddle fit his backside quite well.

And he preached very good to us this past Friday night about him having a

burden here for those that were dying and not trying. Son, I've got

to admit I wish God had given me that title. I want have loved

to have preach that message. Are wonderful the message, and that is what

broke up the heart of a Backetcame. People that have such a promising future,

they have now turned for the worst. The son of this building,

you have turned for the matter, while Simon may be turning for a little

person. I'm preaching more murder mouse here to not because I stopped my burden.

I'm telling you we can see it. We can see when you call

her that gets the word of God. We can see when you ripping up

with a pen knife and says put myself for me. Wait, wait just

a bit. It with a preacher gets a not to, but he says,

I'll see it. Jesus told Nathaniel, he said, I saw him

when you were under that tree. I saw you. I knew who you

were before you got here. And that's right. Sometimes the pastor he comes

to church and he knows you. He knows everything there needs to be known

about you, the things that matter and the things that do not matter.

Any matter called worth the salt to in his body. I'd say, Brother

Justin Roeappa could tell us the measure of the salt in the average sized to

human body. There's some of us in this feeling. We could feel up

a scare. Some of us could feel up a salt shaker. There's some

millions in here, and there's some little ones. But I want you to

know any preacher that is worth his salta that God is invested in him,

but intending for him to be the ska and the other to season the word

that taught me Crason. Yes, and he also ought to season that where

truth he's intervening, intervention is needed. Intervention is needed. That's what Brother

Nathaniel was saying. There's a deterioration taking place. There's a deterioration of demons.

I don't know why I'm getting on this. Then there's three times that

the man Demons is mentioned in the Bible. The first time he's Metching,

he's got a promising future. It's a bright future, you see it.

He is active in ministry, he's shouldered the shoulders with Apostle Paul. He's

the Tato of the long Ranger. But then the next time we see him

he's slightly disinterested him and slightly inactive. Then the third time he's mentioned he's

off in the horizon him, he's called, he's fash. Don't come all

now. You can't tell me that's somebody did not see the disinterest. I

did myself that that's somebody that I did not g that he must not at

all concerned about his soul. He might not be concerned about your soul.

But that preacher goes. So this preacher not better hold he gost in this

house. You might not be losing sleep because of your sin, but I

have got a little less shut eye because of your sin. When I see

the situation worsening, it is time to respond it. When there's a decline

in health, it is time to correct. It's time to find out what

has went wrong. You see things we're going well during the revival, but

when the revival stopped, we haven't had any visiting ministers here. It's been

preaching by the Holy Ghost and our wrocal preachers, and it's been just right.

And I'm not proper saying we're gonna have bad things as a whole,

but I am talking to some people here tonight that the situation was getting better.

It was improving, but now I can tell there's a worsening. Will

come home. Now the reprival stopped and problems are rosa as a consequence,

but as sin against Jehovah. This man of contac had winness things agreed to

the heart of content that he's said, I cannot hearn the critymore about it,

and you d a long contas speaker to your Samuel has say, non

mechanic, don't pay it any attention. You ver corrected. I'm trying to

prevent the situation from worsening. I've seen people before that have been diagnosed with

terminal cancer of the throat, and they have been told, you better cease

you're smoking, You better cease destroying that body that is supposed to be the

habitation of the Holy ghost. You better cease. But they disregard the surgeon

General's mornings on the pack, They dis regard the servant that was inspired by

the Holy Ghost that their pastor preached. And then when they get throat catcher

because of their nicotine addiction. Then when they get lung catcher, can somebody

bring for me? And had come home? Now we saw their cancer coming,

We saw that bad relationship to developing. When we saw it, and

some lucher enough to say something about it, somebody nut enough to ask the

chat regard to write it down and put it in the crew pitter that they'll

be backsley in a year they come home. Now, I'm talking to somebody

that God sees that tell I said, Tada sees it. It is no

discredit to the minister when God reveals it to the minister. That's what the

prophets were. They were seers, seers see r seers. They saw things

nobody else saw, lay found things nobody else pelt. I told precious people

over the years, this is something that nobody else would ever understand. That

they just don't have the ability to see that. God must to feel.

A young man with little holding ghost and they called himself a preacher, and

they get in his face and try to provoke him to anger, and they

try to push his buttons. That happened recently since he got the Holy Ghost.

But he stood there, saved that Satobie and Holy Ghost feel. All

the other employees said, you could have gotten man's child, but taken away

from him. He should have been terminated. And Jesse said, I know,

I see it for what it is. He's a compromising preacher. He

ain't really says that I want to test somebody to buy we see it,

we see it. Yes, you can't do wrong and get by. The

truth is not everybody sees it. I was going down your book of ground

and these Northers come down here and say forth the rod is for it to

know said, And they said, Boka grunn day. We always said boke

of Graund. They say all kind of crazy things, just like we do

when we go up to the north. You know what I was saying right

now. So we've got to be careful feeding too much humble pie, because

there's stuff about ten in our faces if we ever go too far up north.

And I don't have a plan to do that. When you're living in

Paradise, wine world, would you live, leave Paradise and live elsewhere.

But we were going to do some mullet fishing, and I was riding with

a man who is now a holiness preacher. He was a holiness man at

that time, but he was no holiness preacher. And he was doing at

least a speed limit on I seventy five southbound coming from the sub city centered

Florida area. The Rusk in Florida area, you know where they grow them

wonderful tomatoes, the ruskin bine rock tomatoes that you can buy for five or

ten dollars a bucket. I've picked a many of them and filled up a

community of a bucket, and so have y'all as kids. I don't know

if y'all eight more than I put in the bucket or not. They snuck

around and got a bunch of them. I'm sure they threw some of them

to one another, because when they're real and red and vine ripe, and

they come out of Rusk in Florida, that's some good eat. When we

left out of there to go mullet fishing all night long, and he's doing

the speed limit, plus he's asking for grace, you know what I'm saying.

And every time we passed one of the big billboards that they intend for

you to see a quarter mile away, he'd asked me, he said,

what didn't that say? I didn't think anything about it. I thought he

just wouldn't paying attention to relying on me as navigator. After about ten of

that questions being asked him of those questions being asked, I said, wait

a minute, are you not looking at the sign? Are you not paying

attention? And answer lotly? Doing above the speed, living a little bit?

He said, No, I can't see it. Something relying for you

to tell me when we get to the right eggit to listen, sir and

ma'am. Don't expect me to parker my fanny and a holiness churcher and to

sit there while blind preacher that cannot see anything that drives the churchill. Oh

and I broke that face. That's not they want us to do. They

want us just sit there. You her sister room saying, as long as

the truth comes is preaching truth, righteousness and holiness, she will be there.

But because they ever comes, he it ain't preaching like that, see

God, And the same thing goes up from brother Highway. He ever comes

up to the place where you don't want to see it. He' honey,

enough my day, mate, SI said that your day ain't the lillah.

You ain't gonna put my eyes out. I'm not talking. You'll, sir,

master, you'll say their own duty say, I said. He reminded

me that I was on the I preached like this because as a hymn situation

is worse sening. You better get a hold of yourself seriously, situation steriat.

You know mother thing that they has hours in prayer for our sorts.

Your pastor has hours turned in in prayer for yourselves. How many presents to

night to know that the preacher is a real person, and the preacher can

see things if he has been anointed of God, then nobody else can see

the average preacher. The average person might not be able to see it.

But you're not gonna pull the wool over brother Howard, brother Samuel Howell's eyes,

and very long you're gonna know. When I went to this miss this

morning's service, I felt like God told me to tell somebody you got to

love Jesus more than you love cheesecake. Now I've got a little to a

little dignification about me. I like to be, you know, kind of

cool, common collected. That was my nature prying and prayer to preaching.

I don't like to rough the boat and rocked the boat too to the occuputs

of the boat. But I knew that God had told me to say that.

Even no it seemed so silly, I saw it clearly. Tell them

they got to love the Holy Ghost more than they dow cheesecake. Come.

Do you say, come on? That's gotta be silly. That is silly

to somebody that can't see what's going on rhythm. But Brother Samuel message me

at the church and he said, Hey, Pops or Papa, he cost

me popsa. He said, Hey, POPSA, I am amazing stuff.

He said this morning when I opened my eyes, he said, the Holy

Ghost beginning to deal with me. There's somebody in our church between the sixty

and the eighty that are here faithfully where I had to, he said.

Somebody in this building has got to love. We walked the Holy Ghost more

than cheesecake. Come, he said. In the entire time, Megan's picking

out our clothes. Megan's out of my clothes. The entire time we're getting

ready put church. When I put my hands out from the steering rill,

I'm hearing you've got to walk down, Holy go more than you walk cheesecake.

Come. They can lie in us, they can talk about us,

but we see what God is doing that PF. But I'm gonna tell you

that God cares Hobod. What's coming out here. That's Lord, did you

care for cheesecake. It's hard to believe that we'd have to ask somebody in

this building, do you want the Holy Ghost? Morning? You desire a

piece of cheesecake? And Brother Aaron, according to the Holy ghost, because

I see it, according to the Holy Ghost, there's somebody in this building

would rather just quit seeking the Holy Ghost and go out there in the Pelsia

Paul and sit down to a piece of cheesecake. No matter what you're saying,

he isn't gonna how good you are, whether you see it or lie.

Herbo could just saying, God, why did you show men cling?

It tills me to behold this creecrop. Preacher say cheesecake. Oh God,

some foolist preacher listened to this. I say, really, you're gonna preach

on cheesecaking that hard? Yes? Really, I'm sorry that you can't see

it amongst your own people, how they pave them. They're gone from yourself.

Sometimes it's the littlest of things that districts us, that begins this downward

spiral. We call it deterioration. Can't you see it? I just don't

see it. My blood pressure hasn't elevated. I don't feel like sounding alarm.

I don't feel like shouting. I don't feel our preacher, that's okay.

But I see a spiritual freight train coming. It is loaded, it

is headed for you. Y all heard about what happened not long ago,

right to only weeks ago, right up here in Avon Park, Florida.

I used to drive over this railroad track cup every time I came to South

Florida. And when I went home, there was a young man or girl

that had just got let off the school bus and they walked across to that

track. Come and brother Jesse got plowed over fine am track. They said

they had ear bunch in their ears and had passed that track many times.

I saw that it, saw the end track train come and saw her come.

They had stopped. Two things were going good, things were for the

better. But I'm talking about right now. Can you see it, that

preacher, Can you see it? Your sacrificer, U Pusson Club, your

cycrificer, your a cogrenication, your soccrifice. People. I've seen people before

to remember, they hope you put back and hold people up and cost them

their soul for selfish reasons. I've seen them talking about people that try to

do the will of God and talk about them as though they don't love holiness,

as though they don't love truths, or as though they ain't doing anything

for God or for the kingdom. I would speak less of big name televangelists

than they speak of holiness preachers. Can't you see it? Oh? Yes,

I will preach against some of the big name televangelists when they're taking advantage

of people and making merchandise of people. But we're supposed to be brothers and

sisters, can't you see it? I was one of our sisters in the

church recently said, do you realize that certain ministers within our movement or being

target and becalled? So it is nothing more than the spirit of jealousy and

the same spirit that God Apostle ain't come on of who wasn't for some them

deem us, the same one that also got your keen, Saul, that

spirit of jealousy? What was it to upset these men to the place they

just loved the world. They didn't care anything about God's wheel anymore. They

just walked away from it. Time. What are you gonna do? Just

walk away from this wonderful thing that God is trying to do. If you

do, you're gonna break the heart of back and listener, baw. The

large's gonna destroy us, a serious gonna destroy us. The devil's gonna destroy

us. So you're not gonna build a family. You're not gonna build a

house. It cannot be destroyed. I do what you're doing now, I

just felt it. A little bit of kid back, a little bit of

kick back. Yes, the Preacher can see how many's present tonight. He

can see who's here and who's night here. He knows who's here for a

good reason and who's here not for a good reason. He knows who's here

out of pure motives and who's here out of olterior motives. He knows who's

got a good reason not to be here because of a visit of friends and

family, because of the holidays, while others are looking for an opportunity not

in the house of the Lord. Now, if you look at our text

again, back in chapter number one versus number three and four, you can

see there are reasons for why he is upset. Do y'all see that?

Do y'all see the things that he has saw? He has saw spoiling and

violence. He said, there's strife and there's contention. Oh yes, you

know why you want to talk more than everybody else because you want to be

heard and you don't want to let anybody else as a spirit of strife.

I'm going to strive with them until I get heard. Now, come on,

do you know why you want to preach more than anybody else? Because

you want to preach more than anybody else? Exactly, you don't want to

wait your turner and wait until your heart's right for God to cut you loosener.

I know I got a little kick back there about five minutes ago.

But that preacher knows if you can handle it or not. He that preacher

knows if you're gonna be lifted up in pride and the devil sets you up

for the church to come on down. Oh honey, you say when he's

preaching that because other things he's seen. I just showed you some things that

a baker got seen her and he was preaching about her. But honey,

if you only knew the things that he's seen that you don't know, but

he's seen, you say, my God, he is a muscle a pastor.

They leave churches because he named something he knows. I was doing when

the truth is he doesn't even know what you were doing. And if he

does know, it's because you came to him at the church and said I

was doing it, and now he knows. But yes, there are times

he sees it and he knows it and he never says nothing about it,

but he takes it to the Lord in prayer. But it is their dishonored

thea his credit for a preacher to point out that there's a man that is

coming to the church. That's what they did. They took the news to

Apostle Paul, and they said he said it in his words. These little

voices have come to me and told me that there is a man in that

church that local was sibling, that is sleeping with somebody, and he I

want to be sleeping with us. And some of you are patting him on

the back, and some of you were saying, how are you doing,

brother and sister. An Apostle Paul, he's saying, hey, it ain't

nothing to shout about her. You're glorying. It is not good. Oh

God said I stopped preaching or what or he gets tells us of a specific

things details and her back it pinned down. He put pen the parchment,

and he pinned on brother Nathaniel. All of you young preachers, raise your

hand. There's so many of you. All of you young preachers. Don't

ever feel intimidated by that silly person that comes up to you, act to

church and says you preached against this because you saw something big deal. You

better just thank god he didn't preach all the things that he saw that he

ain't telling nobody about. Come on now, he said, why Lord do

you show me iniquity? Why Lord do you cause me to see grievance?

Where are the preachers today? Let's see things. I used to go to

camp meeting and I could tell that our pastors that were preaching the morning services.

So when in them camp meetings, that see some things. And so

when the holiness people rallied at camp meeting, all of the pastors and preachers

that traveled to the campground to have camp meeting, was encouraged because these guys

preached her about the little foxes that weren't coming in. Look, they preached

her about the sudden breed of paper that was coming in. They preached her

about the chance with a new sorts. But Gods, he's chilling preachers.

They standing up pre eloquently saying, we've got to use wisdom. But and

I know this morning, preacher, the standards our very seldom preacher standards because

of the church that our pastor. We've already pinned there and turned that.

Let's preacher, if you've never penned there and turned that, stop pretending me.

Let's king. My products say. They want us to come in,

and they want them gorge our eyes out. They want to stroke us and

tell us, ah am I preaching, tell you here to night. They

want to knock our vision at they want to make us sightless. And that's

what the Bible said. Without a vision, the people perish. They have

no idea what direction to set tomorrow's church him because they're afraid to preach holin

us, or they don't want to live it probably, or they simply just

for too steered to preach it all. Come on, and said The Lord

had also spoken to Ezekiel, and he said, hey, Furthermore, he

said, unto me, said the man, see us now what they do.

God had grabbed the preacher by the nap of the neck figure to be

speaking, and he had said him, look, they come here brother Ethan.

God had got to Ezekiel by the chin and said, had him look,

do not see her what they're doing now. I'd like to get her

some of these parents and fampsy preachers from the chiller just like them to do.

Because he was talking about hair and let it parent out say don't two

child, we're losing out. Katches said, preach out. Katches said,

see us down what they do. If you don't want to point it out,

you shouldn't be a preacher at all. Somebody told me that a young

woman that used to attend this church is preaching now, and they said,

and she's throwing down. I'm gonna leave it for you guys the debate and

fellowship hall whether they should preach or not. But they said, you can

tell she was raised up under the year, even though she ain't going in

the same direction you're going in. They said, she got the screaming and

hundred you'll go to a ball game and pay five hundred dollars for a ticket

and said, day people don't care nothing in the world about you, whether

she's preaching truth or not. Brother Jesse, there's one thing. The little

girl's got a backbone. I'm telling you because she come up under pastor.

How I don't want any of y'all to ever compromise or go another direction.

But when I get done with you, you're not gonna have nothing but empty

high I saw his son. You're gonna see things, and when you see

it, you're gonna preach it. Listen to me now, I wish I

could stick some spiritual pastor glasses on some people and let them see the way

or pastor is supposed to see. You need to realize when Samuel and come

up, the Bible said there was no open reason. Samuel was able to

see things. What about the property Elijah and Aliza, they were able to

see things, But what about sex? And that he was no longer leader

and he was the longer victorious. Say for God's people when he lost his

sight. Preach. When you've got pasty able to see, when you sightless,

you are leader. Even the great abominations that were being committed. That's

what God is telling to his equel. Look at it, Look at it,

preacher, can't you see? Preacher? Can you see? Look at

the Oboma nations in the House of Israel, Look at the Bomber nations in

the church, they're committing it here, Eli, look at what your sons

are doing. And God said, you know what I've gone for off from

my sanctuary. But turned thee yet again, brother Nathana, he said,

turning yet again cover brother Ethan. So as Echel said, well, Lord,

I've seen enough. That's a lot of preacher. But here that's a

lot of funner right there to feed on. And that's gonna get me in

deep water enough. In fact, my brother, my contemporary as the jeremized,

I've been thrown in the pit. And as Echel said, that's enough,

Lord, I got that. I'll preach. As the son said,

you forehead like a flann, I got more to show you. It said.

Right here, you're gonna see greater embominations. Sometimes we preach what's on

the surface, and some of you you need, start knocking and you start

trembling, and you think you pulled the wool over eyes. And then God

says, brother, how I just look into this situation a little deeper.

Preacher, I'm telling you, you better look at that congregation again. You

better look at that youth group again. You better look at that tree again.

Because God knows how imputs an old tree. Hey, come on now,

if you call it another tree and it's like cherries, hold the preachers,

it is not old tree. And I'm telling you, if you've been

pastoring that for six years and you can't find a letter of truth came,

it is not at a church. Matthew fifteen and fourteen. Jesus, speaking

in the middle of a bunch of great text, Jesus said, let them

alone, lead their preachers alone, Leave them televangelists alone. Lead those a

twist the truth and the scripture. Leave it alone, don't touch it.

He said. In fact, these spiritual leaders are blind leaders that apply,

leaders of applying it, to apply and lead the plying and post shall fall

into the ditch. And what I want you want to notice he did not

say that a blind man cannot lead the blind people. Of course, a

blind man can need the blind people. I'm sure there's been people that have

tried it. But the facts whendn't they try it to bella start, somebody

is going to end up innediction. Who are those people? Those of people,

the spiritual leaders and the followers that are blind. Do you know why

you don't need a sackless leader because of the pit balls they're on the wayside.

They have too many pit balls for my children, then you grandchildren for

us to call the reply leader? Brother, how can't we overlook this?

Really? Can't we change this? Can't we loosen up on this? No,

we need to live in accordance with the word of God. And if

we're too loose, we need to Tightenentie, somebody grabbed the dollars in front

of you. Reach out there. Is it loose? Tightened it up?

Tightened it up? Do you know why brother Samuel hasn't been able to strum

his electric amplified acoustic guitar Because there's one little little nut right here that goes

behind this transmitter. Is that what it's called, Brother Nathaniel, what's this

thing called? It's actually in the back. There's a little nut that's mission

like that on the guitar itself. Just one little thing that got loose,

and it has put him from playing an instrument into the choir for two or

three weeks now. I said to night to sas Son before homecoming. Fine

that night, find it, he says, We've looked for it all over

and it's gone. I just hoping at in the belly of one of these

babies. But if somebody sees it, they're not gonna walk around it.

They're going to point it out. Whatever that a skin doctor the dermatologists looked

at Brother Roadcap's eyes while I was on vacation. She said, right there,

just and right there, there's a skin cancer. And she began to

just grind away at it. And Brother Roadcap Junior, he said, when

she thought she was done, she looked at it again and said, I

am not done. And she focused again and grinding on it a little more.

And I come back from vacation, and because I am a pastor that

can see, one of the first things I said is it's my RC.

It's my RC. Okay, why have they been chiseled away? That's your

face. Hey, don't ask me not to see you, don't ask me

not to know you. But hey, Jesus said, he knows that his

chief. Come on now, I'm preaching to somebody in this building. You

better kid behind somebody and following somebody who's got kis. They know where the

high way they're holding to see us, They know where they can't take tweens

on its hands us and that can't stay his Jeesus said, you better.

Can't in that straight time and the way because you can't see it. I

said, kid, Look, can't fight it? Come? Why can't they

got fight it? Because they can't, I said, preacher, can you

see it? What's wrong? We're letting up a little bit. What's up?

What's what's wrong? We're loosening up a little bit. Now. When

I was a younger preacher, I would have really gotten a lot of trouble

about naming things in a business like this. I've got a little bit older.

I don't think you've got them any wiser, but I think there's some

of you. You're well learned in the scriptures, and you know what I

wanted to say. But if I was in the company of people that didn't

know, I'd name it if I had to. But I know that among

Pentecostal churches, nominal churches, independent churches holding as churches, the preachers better

look at the Word of God again. They better go back and look at

first Brithia's chapter number six again, and they better look at them things.

I think there's at least ten of them that are named specifically that people commit.

They are not going to heaven, I'm telling you. But how tell

me of a church that would hardly preach from that as a text. You

tell me a church that he would even take them to the place to say

you were like that as such worth some of you, but now you are

washed. They don't even want to take them to the blood bath. They

don't even want to take them to the baptism or poll. It's just like,

hey, we're all saved. There's no need of repentance of preacher.

Can't you see what the word of God says? The preacher, Will you

leave them into the power righteousness for your sake? Silly? But them here,

say, preacher, can you see it? Preacher? Can you see

daddy? Can you see that if you don't get the Holy Ghost, the

devil's going to have a better chance of getting your kids. There's been a

lot of times that if I did not have the spiritual insight or vision that

I have, I would have lost my kids. You won't look at them

today for who they are. But you don't know the times that God said

get up and go pray outside their door. You don't know the times that

I had to get up and go into the living room and pray for Samuel.

How the man that is now being led to the Lord to pray for

other people. Preacher, can you see that I'm learning a necktie this night,

Preacher, can you see I'm not wearing a that tie. So I'm

saying this night, who I want to know? What is on the inside?

For God looketh not only outward like man does, but God looks on

the heart. This generation is not even concerned pray for my sister, Walker,

sister would and pray for me. I'm about to get in trouble.

This generation is not even concerned about the appearance of evil. They're not even

concerned about their good being evil spoken of. I remember when it was a

disgrace to have a teenage pregnancy out of wetlock. I remember when they disappeared

for nine months period in a my lifetime. Come on now and now,

enominal churches, the Grandmas that are on the platform preaching, teaching and singing,

they got one child after another, having showed in my foreignunication, they

can't wait to have a baby shower. I'm not saying we shouldn't show the

love of God to them or have a baby shower. That I'm telling you

it should not become the norm, that it should not become for me.

Say whatever, I'm not worried about it. It must not matter, but

yes a thousand times it does matter. Fordication should not be named, but

the people of God, I feel holy goest in this place. Teenage pregnancies

due to foreign ucation. They don't see anything wrong with it. They don't

see anything wrong or world in us. They don't see anything wrong with having

evil communications are corrupt good manners. They don't see anything in the world wrong

with having friends that teach them to do wrong. They don't think nothing of

getting in the trunk with somebody that says they're a Christian but don't act like

it, and they don't. Rid takes them up the road about three miles

and they die lost while Garth Brooks is singing, I got friends in load

places. And then the church comes to the funeral, had the funeral.

Everybody gathers together and they send that young man up to heaven, and they

act like they didn't see the fact that there was Jack Daniel's bottles on the

roadside. Come on a royal crown, the whiskey liquor bottles ain't come on.

I happened to one of my friends when they try to console me and

tell me he was all writer and he was in the arms of Jesus.

I was not where I'm at today. Who there was one tanker Daddy never

has been and that's a hypocrypt And I told him, I said, don't

ride again. But he wasn't critter, and I'm not right, he said,

hell. And if then stop for the place I called, I'd been

right there live him. Preacher, that you die to me, that preacher,

that right, Everything's okay. Let us die all day. Preacher,

search the book again, Preacher, read the Bible again. Preacher, can't

you see it? Can't you see it? You will never pull the wool

over the preacher's eyes. Why is it to so many parents and preachers just

simply pretend like there's nothing going on. There's been a lot of times that

have been easy for me to just act like when these had well boys,

I don't see it all. I'd wait months, sometimes years, when the

time was right, and just slip in there and say, hey, buddy,

hell's a hot place. That's all. I'd say, Hell's a hot

place. Their eyes would fill up with tears, and I say, you

just can't do that. You just can't keep I feel the Holy ghost in

this house. Do you know why you're not getting sanctified or why you're not

getting holy ghost field? We know what we can see it. You're not

fooling anybody, Preacher, Can you see yes, I conceive, Yes,

Sister Wood conceive, yes, Brother Thing will consider yes. Sister Howard conceived,

yes, Sister Wood conceived yes, Sister Walker conceived yes. Brother Jesse

conceived yes, Brother Wood consider, we conceive it. We need to get

down the business with God. When your pastor says there's a need to come

to church early and praying because you need the holy ghosts, you come slide

in early that you don't pray? Are you don't gonna get nothing? But

can't you see we're living in the day of the footman. But can't you

see, preacher, that the horsemen or how to being toward us? Can't

you here the World Health Organization saying there's a worse pandemic to come. Don't

you remember how many good of Christian Pentecostal holding US people died because of their

virus. God has not given us a spirit of fear, of the power

of love and a sound mind. Can't you see how many people close the

doors of their churches. Can't you see how many fainted in the day of

adversity because their strength was small? Preacher, can't you see it that you

made a mistake when you closed your church doors and you nobody who could afford

your mortgage, and now your congregation is scattered. Can't you see that you

would fooled? But there were some churches that grew here in the pandemic.

This is one of them because there were people that could see what was happening.

My question is for you, preacher and parent, why can't you see

your child's disobedient? Why can't you see that your child is mischievous? Why

can't you see that they're bent towards doing bad? You better train them up?

Hobackic if he was here tonight, he would preach and say, Lord,

why Didst. Thou showed me an equity? I can see it when

you don't want to mix and mingle and fellowship with people are like precious faith.

I can see when you brother take yourself phone out and text people outside

of these four walls. When we're at our fellowship. Paul and you have

been blessed with a beautiful family I can see it when your mind's elsewhere.

I can see it how you're one during in your mind. Even with this

kind of message to night, I will never ever pretend that I don't see

it. I will pointed out when a preacher is blind himself, he cannot

possibly correctly lead others. And according to the Sacred Rich, the same thing

you read in Matthew chapter number twelve and eleven concerning livestock, cheap and oxen.

They fall into a pit on the saddest day. If you go and

pull them out, it's a dish that's a pit. And these people that

are following preachers that cannot see, people that are blind, they are falling

into many pits. There's many pitfalls, there's many snares of Lucifer. And

I want to tell our young people something. We still have to live by

the old black white and read the other road kept. Most of the time

when I'm preaching, he's going from scripture, the scripture. During all the

service until he praised, he's doing from scripture scripture. There is a song

that goes like this, an award song. You all testified about them saints

of yesteryear. Tonight, Brother jes to come to the piano. You all

sing songs from yesteryear tonight, but there's one of my favorite songs that we

have not yet sang. Please search the book again. I thought my name

was there. I went to church on Sunday, but I never nailed in

prayer. Search the book again. But it's too late now I know.

Search the book again before you made again. The author of that song wrote

them lyrics saying, would you please look to see is my name? And

anybody that truly loves God. And I want to clarify that anybody, anybody,

anyone that truly loves God will do like sister the brother Plat has done

so many times. They will say, if needs be, step on my

toes. There has never been a seasoned, veteran child of God that has

ever left the preaching of a back or reading the writings of a backt or

any minister that loved them and said he did it a hateful spirit. We're

not easily offended. In fact, the Bible said concerning those that are easily

offended, they're harder to be won. And that's what I'm saying. We

couldn't win them because they're easily offended. So it's no dishonor discredit to us

that they left because we did it in the wrong spirit. That's the easiest

excuse, that's the easiest way out the door I could use that. I

wouldn't allowed here six months as their pastor if I hadn't been offended by how

many times they'd rather do this. Let me ask you something. Would you

expect me to be their pastor and allow them to sing on the platform on

Sunday morning and not see them on Sunday night Wednesday night? Would you expect

me to be their pastor and act like I don't see the fact that they

don't feel like tithing is necessary? Would you be okay with me to be

the pastor and act like it's okay for two of the young people the church

to be back to the church property fornicating. But that's what they're doing.

Let's say it. Don't say nothing about it. Don't say nothing about it.

Let's stand here tonight. I ask for a prey and church I preached.

They say that the average min and I've heard this for thirty plus years,

They said, the one is starchy and dignified, that preaches just a

little bit with passion said when he preaches a thirty minute serving, that it's

equivalent to eight hours of labor. Sister Howell told me today she said,

Honey, do you realize if that's true? She said, you put in

thirty two hours of hard labor every Sunday. What's no wonder? I'm so

worre out on Monday. Brother William Strickler used to say that. Do you

remember that, Brother rodcap He used to say that a thirty minute serving is

equal to eight hours of labor. Do you think it's not easy? It's

hard? It is hard work. Her backing is simply saying, Lord,

I just can't cry anymore. Why are you showing me these things? Is

don't cause me to hurt, because when I pointed out and tell them,

I said, it's going to hurt me. It hurts me to think that

I've got somebody in this church that would brother have us lives that cheesecake and

the Holy Goest. The old explanation I have for that brother day it was

is they've just never tasted of it. Because I do remember Brother Samuel saying

about a year ago he said, what I got a taste of tonight has

changed me. And he's holy goes Field tonight because he got a taste of

it. And so when the preacher begins to talk to you, and he's

been searching the book and it's evidence this man has got my mild in his

hand. And what we have to do is be responsive. I wonder if

we could bow our heads and close our eyes tonight. Is there anybody in

this building right now? And you say, preacher, there's something in my

life and you see it, and you've been kind and you've been gracious,

Preacher, can you see, Preacher? Can you see Pastor? I know,

I admit you're not in a sightless condition. I want to say this

in closing. I know this man well. He never got serious in church.

Once in a while he would show up every couple of months, he'd

run around the church, shout a little bit, and disappeared. He spoke

to Grins. He come to that Church of God every few months, run

around and shout do what I call seemingly the holy ghost hunk a bunk brother

rod Cap. I could see through it because I went to school with his

daughter and she told about what they did during the week. That young man

stuck out of the house one night he met up with some of his young

friends, and he went over to their house. He stuck out behind the

barn and he pulled out some marvelous He pulled one out and began to smoke.

He tried to master the smell. Hide it, brother Nathan. And

when he came to the house, his daddy was standing right there. He

opened the door and got startled, and his dad he said, son,

he smoked your first cigarette tonight. The man cried yes, because daddy had

saw it in prayer. But he didn't change. We have got to experience

a change. I have looked back at our archives of our sermon librarian,

I have been amazed of later how many sermons have spoken of change. Brother

Platt used to say, you've got to stop sneaking and start seeking. Yes,

we see it. If this somebody that would like to come to these

altars and pray tonight, would you do that? This is not a general

altar call, you say, Preacher, I admit it's me. Some brothers

made room for the sisters on this side. Are there any young women,

any elder women. I want you to know something shacking up, whether you're

doing anything or not, looks wrong here. People see that. People see

them, preacher, Do they sit? Preacher? Is it offensive to my

Jesus? Yes, it's offensive to my Jesus. And I'm going to tell

you unless you admit that it's wrong, as long as you try to make

excuses, until you learn how to walk to this altar and say, I'm

not an offstrich hiding my head in the sand. I admit something ain't right,

Preacher. You're seeing it right, Preacher, you're tone of because if

you are living right, your name is not there. And the most terrifying

thing, and I close with this, brother Caleb, this is a sovereign

thought to think that Jesus is going to look at the archangel and he's going

to say, is their name though? And when they say, I don't

see it in heaven, it's going to be bad for Let's find somebody to

pray with tonight. Could we do that? Could we help them pray these

things through tonight? Just a handful of people just be gracious, probably innocent

hearted, wonderful people come forward to mine and we just want miss God to

help the one that loves cheesecakes when he loves to to help the one that

loves whatever ward Chief loves chess. You can see it. It's a really

that leads to destruction. You're on a collision course. You're on a collision

course. Turn and be blessed. You can't be saved phrase, please save

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