Nevertheless God - Bro Jamie Ellington 8-12-2026

Tight grip on God. But I'm here this evening because

He's got his grip in my life. I'm in the

grip one man said, of God's grace.

Thank God.

I'm glad there's a promise that he said that no

man can pluck us out of the Father's hand, and

no man can pluck us out of his hand. Thank God.

Amen.

Appreciate the Lord this evening, and again appreciate Pastor Howell

giving us this opportunity and trusting us to minister in

his absence. And appreciate the church and the fellowship we

always enjoy when we come, the good services, the good

music's wonderful, fellowship's wonderful. Appreciate it so much. And we'll

try not to be long tonight. I've been accused of

being a long winded preacher.

Amen.

Anyways, we just try to follow the Lord tonight.

But I don't feel like i'll be too long. Amen.

Good to see everybody, all the ministry here tonight. Amen,

appreciate you so much. The Book of Sack at Corinthians,

chapter number five or seven rather than chapter number seven,

y'all pray for me. I've been having a lot of

problems with my voice. Amen, But the Lord's able to

help us tonight. Amen, Sack at Corinthians, chapter number seven.

We're just gonna read verses five and six tonight for

our text and a little something I felt like the

Lord dealt with me about to share with you, Sack

at Corinthians chapter seven, verse five and six. From when

we were come into Macedonia, our flesh had no rest,

but we were troubled on every side. Without, we're fightings within,

we're fears. Nevertheless, God that comforted those that are cast

down comforted us by the coming of Titus.

Amen.

Notice what it says. Nevertheless, God, Amen, if you would

pray with us here tonight, Father, we thank you your love,

your mercy, your grace, your goodness, all that you've done, all.

That you're doing. Lord, we thank you.

Ask you to help us God and minister in touch

and bless that sure we will be accomplished in this service.

Tonight, O wad to God that you will be done.

God, speak to us and through us, Oh God, keep

us to be able to be a blessing to your people.

We'll give you.

Praise and honoring all that you do for us. In

the wonderful Holy name of Jesus. Amen, in these two

verses I read to you in life. There's a lot

of things being said here, And of course I believe

he's probably speaking to a specific situation.

In his life at that particular time. But I believe

that we could take these scriptures and we could apply

them to ourselves, and we can relate to what the

apostle Paul is saying here.

Amen.

Just a lot of things being said in these two

short verses. The first thing I want you to notice

in verse five, it starts off and it says, for

when we were come into Macedonia, our flesh had no rest.

In other words, they were saying, he was saying, we

were weary, we were tired, Amen, we were weak, so

to speak, Amen, our flesh had no rest. They were

singing that song before service start started. Take my hand,

precious Lord, and in part of that song, Lord, I'm tired.

Amen.

I think it says something along those lines, and I

think we could all relate to that. You know, whether

you're in ministry or not, there's times that we have

so much going on. I mean, we've got jobs men, folks,

you're paying you know, working to pay the bills, supply

and meet.

The need of your family.

You got the housewives that that has little.

Kids running around, children running around, and you're you're taking

care of that. You're you're cooking, you're preparing meals, and

you just you know, yard work, housework, honeydew list men, folks, anybody.

Know what that's about? Uh?

And uh you know, and not only that but church,

you know, your churching, your ministry. My daughter was telling

me about, you know, the churchmen involved in so different

ministries and I say, that's commendable. That's wonderful, Brother Samuel,

to see a church that has a vision and a

burden to make a difference in their community.

I think you have jail service, you have homeless service.

Or you know, pass out food to the homeless and

the hungry, and and and and whatever other ministries that

you're involved in. Amen, just a lot going on, and

sometimes we don't have enough hours in the day to

do it all. And you know, we're working, we're we're

you know, doing all those necessary things and then trying

to maintain our spiritual life, praying our Bibles, studying the

Word of God. You don't understand what I'm saying, and

I don't think I'm the only one that's been tied

up with work all day and kind of get you know,

just wrapped up and things to do. That when when

I'm fixing the go to bed, I realized I haven't

really prayed like I needed to today, or I haven't

spent as much time in the Word of God that

I needed to spend today. And so we'll we'll try

to make up the difference and fall asleep, amen, or

you know, get tired and you know, don't feel like

it's doing a bit of good because we're so tired

and we're and that's what I feel like Paul was

saying in this scripture.

He was saying, first of all, hey man, as.

We were going about doing the will of God, trying

to follow the leadership of the Spirit of God, he said,

we were in our.

Flesh, we had no rest. You know.

Just give you a little a snippet of the life

of Paul a minute after he was saved, and we

can find in Acts chapter sixteen, verse six, they're preaching

the gospel. They're promoting the Kingdom of God, and the

Bible said they were going throughout the region of Galatia,

and they were ministering and preaching, and the Bible said

that apparently Paul had a desire to go into Asia,

but the Holy Ghost forbidd him. And then it goes

on to say, and they came to Missia, and they

endeavored to go to Bethnia, but the spirits suffered them not.

And of course they're going on and during the night,

Paul has a vision, and the Bible says in that

vision that there's a man from Macedonia saying, we need help.

Come down to Macedonia and help us.

And the Bible said that as he woke up or

either I don't know if it was a dream or

exactly how it was, but the Bible says, a vision,

hey men.

But the Bible says to us that.

When he immediately after having this vision, he said, we

endeavored to go into Macedonia, assuredly, gathering that the Lord

had called us for to preach the gospel under the

m Do you see how busy he is. He's not

sitting idle, hey man. He was practicing what he preached.

What did he say in Epheesis five and sixteen? He said,

redeeming the time because the days are evil. In other words,

he was saying the.

Time's running out.

Hey man, life is short, and we've got to occupy

till it comes.

There's a great work.

To do, and we don't have time to sit back

and take it easy and become idle. We must redeem

the time because the days are evil. And I wonder

here tonight and now I'm sure many of us, and

most of us, and probably all of the adults in

this place can relate to what Paul was saying.

I don't have the energy. I'm tired. There's so much

going on. Amen.

He said, Hey man, we had no rest in our flesh.

And I understand that our text doesn't mention this, but

I think it's worth bringing to your attention. In the

Book of Zachar Corinthians, chapter number two, verse number twelve

and thirteen, he says, furthermore, when I came to Troy

ass to preach Christ's gospel, and a door was open

unto me of the Lord. You see that, I mean

he's going wide open, working for the Kingdom of God.

And notice what he said in verse thirteen. And I

had no rest in my spirit.

Amen.

One commentator said he was literally saying, hey man, I

had no peace of mind. The burden of the ministry

weighed heavy on me, hey mad And I was trying

to work, and I was trying to labor, and I

was tired in my flesh, but also in my mind,

in my spirit, I was troubled. Aymen, my heart was heavy,

and I believe every one of us can relate to that.

How many times have we went to God in prayer

and it seemed like he was hard to focus in

because our minds were on troubles or lost love ones

or situations that were beyond our control. Amen, and there

was no rest in our spirit. And I know your

precious pastor and his wife can relate to this man

just trying to keep up with all the ordinary things

of life on top of the ministry and the burden

of the church, and there's that element of not being

able to rest. He said, I had no rest in

my spirit. And I believe that's what the Psalmist was

referring to in Psalm seventy seventh, verse one through For

I cried under God when my voice saving under God

with my voice, and He gave earing to me.

In the day of my trouble.

I sought the Lord, he said, My Sorrah ran in

the night. What that literally means was my hand was

stretched God him the night I was reaching God.

I gotta have you, God, I need you.

Life is hard, Amen, circumstances are difficult.

It's your help. He went on to.

Say, my soul refused to be comforted. In other words,

he wasn't say I didn't.

Want to be.

What he was saying was it felt like I couldn't be.

I remembered God and much troubled. I complained. Hain't none

of us ever done that before?

Have we?

Sometimes pastor's job is a lot more difficult because of that, Samen.

I complained, and he said, in my spirit was overwhelmed, Hayman.

What he was saying was I feel covered up. I

felt smothered. Heymen, I feel like the Lord is too heavy.

My spirit is overwhelmed. And there's times we come to church, Amen,

and the pastor encourages us we need to worship God.

And we knew we left our hands, but in our

minds we're saying, it's matter. How can I worship God

when I'm troubled like this?

Sir? How can I glorify God when I'm hurting like this? Sir?

Haymen, David said my spirit is overwhelmed. I wonder tonight

am I preaching anybody that would say, not only am

I weary in my flesh, but I'm weary in my spirit.

It's not that I wanna quit, It's not that I

want to give up. It's not that I want to backslide.

You may say, Brother Jamey, I've never felt like that. Well,

hold on, that's gonna come a time in your life.

That's your will. Amen, par amen.

Joy, I'm you'll help me here.

Job said man that it's more a woman has a

few days and full of trouble.

Jesus said, all that live godly upon it.

It shall how they live God in Christ, Jesus shall

suffer persecution. Jesus said, in the world, you're gonna have tribulations.

In other words, it's not gonna always be easy. It's

not gonna always be running and shouting and speaking in tongues.

There's gonna be some long, dark nights, Hey man, sleepless night.

Even though you're weary in your flesh, you can't sleep.

In fact, he said, in that same place, thou holdest

my eyes awaking. I am so troubled that I cannot speak.

Amen.

I mean, I try to pray, I try to call

on his name, and words leave me. I can't express

the way that I feel weary and flesh in spirit.

Amen.

Then he goes on and he says, he says, but

we were troubled on every side. Amen, we were troubled

on every side.

Amen.

Kind of sounds like what he said in Psach of

Corinthians four and eight. We are troubled on every side.

We are perplexed. We are and I'm gonna read the

rest of that later on. If I don't forget, Amen,

we are persecuted, we are cast down. Amen, Paul saying

we were troubled on every side. And then he says,

without amen, coming from the outside, Amen, for without we're fightings.

And that word fighting means conflict, It means a clash.

He means a struggle. Anybody relate to that. Tonight you

feel like you're in the fight of your life. Hay Man,

You feel like, hey man, will you win this battle?

You get through this trial, then another and then another,

hay Man, Paul said, without word fightings. I read over

in the Book of Second Corinthan, chapter eleven, verse twenty four. Amen,

this you think you got a bad man. You think

you think you got a reason to quit.

Let me read just a little bit of what he

said of the Jews.

Five times received down forty stripes save one. Thrice was

I beaten with rods, once was I stoned? Thrice I

suffered him wreck. Hey man, a night, and I've been

in the deep well. But Jamie, they've been saying this,

they've been doing that. You just don't understand what I'm

going through, what I'm facing. Let me keep on reading.

In journeyings often in pails of waters, in perils of robbers,

in perils by my own countrymen, in perils by the heathen,

in perils in the city, in perils in the wilderness,

in perils in the sea, in perils among false brethren.

Hey man, I tell you, brother, and it.

Keeps on going, in weariness and in painfulness, in watchings often,

in hunger and thirst, in fastings often, and he even said,

in cold head and nakedness. There's been times we didn't

have shelter over our head. There's been time we didn't

have enough clothes to keep us warm. Without we're fightings, amen,

without he said Psach of Corinthians, chapter one, verse eight nine,

or verse chapter eight or chapter one, verse eight, for

we would not, brethren, have you ignorant of our trouble

which came to us in Asia that we were pressed out?

We weren't pressed out above pressed out of measure above strength.

I want to read that again.

We were pressed out a measure above strength, and so

much that we despaired even of life when we thought

this is surely it. Hey man, this is all there

is to it. We're gonna die this. There's no way

we're gonna get out of this one. You ever felt

like that? I said, have you ever felt that way?

Without? We're fightings? Amen? Then he went on to say,

within within, we're fears.

I know sometimes we put on our happy face, and

I know sometimes we go to church and we act

like everything's good and we're not struggling.

And let me tell you this, I don't want to

be that.

Kind of person that when I show up, everybody knows

I'm in a hard place. There's a lot of people

that they just walk around that they act away because

that they want sympathy. They're not since you're amen, they

just want somebody to feel sorry for them.

Amen.

And don't get me wrong, there's many times I wanted

somebody to feel well, Amen, But most of us aren't

that way. In fact, I don't come a whole lot.

I've come a whole lot more for could I promise you, Amy,

I got some things to draw me down this way.

You understand what I'm saying. But I don't get to

come as much as I want. But the times that

I knew get to come. Hey Man, I don't see

you coming to church with a long face. I don't

see you, hey man, when the service opens up, sitting back,

not trying to get in, not trying to press, not

trying to push. I see folks trying to get in

in half. I move a God and have church. I

see folks that are not just spectators but participators.

Amen.

But be honest, how many times when you're lifting up

that hand on the inside, the devils are working the

Haymen that Ne was trying to put fear and down

and under.

I wouldn't praise God ifire you.

I wouldn't worship God, if I I wasn't going to church.

If fire you hay Man with then worth fears.

And we're talking about the apostle, Paul. Here, we're not

talking about a coward. We're not talking about a weak need, amen,

yellow back, Amen, We're talking about a man of God.

That's right.

We're talking about a man that got stoned and they

carried him out of the city, lefting for dead. But

he got right back up, hey man. Whether he was

wasn't there, or or God raised him from the dead,

I don't know, but he got right back up. Had

he kept on preaching, We're not talking about a coward.

But even the apostle Paul said that we're tied that

I was afraid. There were times that the devil trying

to sol down in my heart. You remember when he

was saw the Lord over that thought in the flesh,

the messenger of Satan to buffet him. The hey man,

what was the devil saying? A lot of what he

tells us. If God really loves you, Mark, you was

really in the will of God herf you was really

serving God like y'all to this wasn't happen and that

wasn't happen. And Paul said with him, the war fears.

Questions. You ain't never had questions before, have you? Wise?

And what is and winds? Oh glory to God.

I don't think I'm the only one here tonight. Within

we're fears. You know what the word fear means alarm?

Right now, I'm not gonna get into it the details,

but I'm gonna tell you him. In the other night,

I'm concerning, I'm worried about some of mine and I

can't sleep. And the devil was trying to make me

believe there is no hope and there is no help

for them, hey man, And they'll never be saved, and

hey man, it's only gonna get it.

It's only gonna get worse from here.

And what I'm trying to preach and minister and do

my little part, hey man. Then never was trying to

make me believe, hey man, that God's now gonna answer

my prayer and God's not gonna move it in the situations.

And did I see some of my family? And you

understand what I'm saying. And I cannot even sleep for

worry and fear. I understand me within worth fears in fact,

and that same part of Scripture when he talked about

stononings and meetings and ship recked dangers, hey man, he's

head beside those things that are without that much coming

upon me daily. The cares of all the churches, the

burdens and the worries of all the churches.

Who is weak? And I am not weak?

He says, when there's a weak brother or a weak sister,

or there's a situation, hey man, that let's be on hope.

Hey man, there's a struggle there. I feel the load

of it. I feel the burden of it. Who is wicked?

I am not? Wake? Amen? Who is offended? You want

the word offending?

Me?

Two calls? Or to make to stumble? Who he's?

Who is that person that stumbles that I'm ministered and

poured into trying to help them save the from a

lot of trouble. And they still fall and they stumbling,

They're offended, They're made to sin, They're falling the sin.

Who is offended? And I burned?

Not that literally means I burned with indignation. That's an

anger there, that's a righteous I'm not an unholy anger,

you understand me. There is a righteous indignation when I

see what the devils are doing the ham and the people.

I believe I was demonstrated when when Paul was there

in Philip Hie and the Bible said that young damsel

came and said, these are servants of the Most High God,

And the Bible said Paul being grieved. Hey, man in

his spirit turned and rebuked that devil, that damon. That's

what he's talking about. Who is offended, who is being

caused to stumbling? Made the sin and it doesn't anger me? Preacher,

why you always saw mad? I tell you, because the

damos destroying lives, the damas causing folks the mess. Have

I in spite of everything that God has done the

same preach right, get for rough when you're preaching, you hell,

you like you're angry. Let me ask you something this evening.

If one of your children was playing out in the road, would.

You say, baby, baby, come here, I don't want to

hurt their feelings, sweetheart.

Oh no, sir. You would run after that road and

you'd scream and holler water you're doing. I've warned you

over and.

Over again, and you would just kind of jem. You'd

grabbing and you jerk them. I'm not saying that's what

we're supposed to do. You understand when we're ministering the people.

But what I'm saying is we understand the danger. We

understand the hazard, we understand the intentions of I'm saying,

and it makes us saying gray.

And that's what Paul was saying.

Who was offended, eye burn, not within worth, fears.

Within, we're fears. How many times?

How many times, preachers, have you still behind this poolpit

and you preach faith.

And it was hard for you to believe, preacher, you

a hypocrite? No, I'm not.

I'm just being real tonight. How I was preaching faith

and I was struggling to believe I was preaching trust, Amen,

and I was struggling with it. You'll understand what's I mean?

Not to the point of you, Yeah, okay, I wonder

I'm just preaching what God's laying on my heart tonight.

Hey man, he said with THEE And Paul said, with

THEE and the world fears.

I was struggling.

That was a battle on men, that was that was

a storm raging on the outside. How was the storm

raging on the inside? And I felt like I was

man literally a part Amen. I'm almost finished, Amen, Within

were fears. But I like the fact that in the

midst of everything that he was saying, and I'm almost

finished tonight. For when we were coming to Macedonia, our

flesh had no rest. We were in trouble. On every side.

Without we'd fightings. Within was fear, and the devil was saying,

you're not gonna make it. Why even try? Has a

devilivery said that said that to you?

Why even?

But I just kind of feel like, as he's writing

this stuff down, he's a feeling the touch of God.

Well I know he is, because the Mama said, these

men wrote these words down as there was moved on

by the Holy Ghost. He's right, Paul, that's exactly where

I am. I feel exactly the way you do. But

the message ain't over yet. I said, the message ain't

over yet. After all of that trouble he mentioned, after

all the negativity, after all the struggles, he was mentioning nothing.

He went on the sayd verse number.

Six, nevertheless God, Nevertheless God. You know what that word

nevertheless means. However, in spite of how be it nevertheless God,

And I feel like preaching to somebody tonight. I don't

know what you're facing. I don't know what the devil says.

I don't know what you're going through. It may seem

like there is no hope and there is no help,

but I want you to get this tonight. Nevertheless, it's fine.

Of whatever's going on, He's still God. He's still the

same yesterday, today, forever, and he does not change, nevertheless, God.

Up to that point. But when he mentions God, it

changes everything. I'm gonna tell you, I'm closing. I'm closing. Nevertheless, God,

which or that comforteth? We know what comfort means. It

means to encourage, by Samuel, but it also means to

call near. Nevertheless, God that comforteth, or God that calls

us near.

And when I look that word up when the Lord.

First laid this message on my heart some years ago,

hey man, I didn't realize that's what it meant.

It meant to call near.

Not only is he trying to encourage, but he say, hey,

bring it to me, give it to me, don't carry

it alone. You don't have to handle that problem by yourself.

I thought about the words of Jesus and many times

when we reference these when we're talking to the lost.

But I want to tell your church it's for us

to She just said.

Come unto me, Oh you that labor and her heavy laden,

and I will give you.

Rest.

I'm tired and flesher. I'm tired of spirit. I'm troubled

on every side without fighters, with the affairs coming to me.

Are you that labor and her heavy laden? And I'll

give you rest. Take my yoka panya and learn of me,

for I'm making lowly and heart, and ye shall find rest.

So one of my favorite, one of my favorites.

If somebody gets us so, yeah.

I always get y'all brother's brother Jesse. Right, you think

I know by now? Sometimes I get my grandbabies mixed up.

I know who they are, but I get the name

Praise God.

David said in Psalms chapter three, Lord, how are they

increased that trouble me? Many are they that rise up

against me? Many there be, would say of my soul

there is no help for him, And God be honest tonight.

As the devil ever told you that there's no help

for you, there's no help for you. There is no

help for him, and God no help, no help.

Man.

Maybe Paul was saying, when he was pressed out above measure,

above strength, that he even despaired under life. Amen, that's

what he was saying. I felt like there was no help.

Amen.

But the Psalm has kept on right, and he says,

but thou, o Lord, ord to shield from me my

glory and to lift her up.

In mine head. And he went from not being able

to rest and not being able.

To sleep, struggling and troubling turmoil, to saying, I cried.

I cried into the Lord of my voice, and he

heard me out of his holy hell.

I give it to him. I give it to him.

Do you need to give it to God?

To night? He said.

I laid me down and slept him, and he said,

before I went to sleep today, well says you'll never

wake up. But he said, I'll wait, and the Lord

sustained me. I made it. I made it.

I will not be afraid.

I will not be afraid of ten thousands of people

that have set themselves against me. Roundabout arise, O Lord,

save me, oh my God, for thy smelling all mine enemies.

Upon the cheek bone that's broken, the teeth of.

The ungodly salvation be longer under the Lord. Thy blessings

is upon thy people. What I'm saying tonight, church is,

hey man, when life is overwhelminga hey maden heavy and

you can't only hardly lift your hands and lift your head,

hey man, Never the last God, I said, never the

last God. I tell you that's illustrated in Genesis one.

The earth was without form and void, and darkness was

upon the face of the deep.

Has that ever been your situation? Without form?

Chaos, void, darkness upon the face of the deep. But

the Bible said, and the spirit of God mood. We

can say like this, the earth was without form and void.

He was a bleak situation, darkness upon the face of

the deep. Nevertheless, God Amen. And when God began to move,

he transformed.

Oh, brother Kurt Phillips, y'all, remember, brother Curtis Phillips, did

he ever preach for y'all?

He's gone to meet his reward. Wonderful man.

He preached from hey man, from chaos to cosmos. He

brought perfect order into the darkest, bleakest situation this world

has ever in known. And if he can do that

for this world in the beginning of creation, what can

he do with your situation? As another place? There's another place?

Mark Chapter six. Jesus sends his disciples to the other

side of the sea, and they're in the midst of

the sea alone. He's over there, sending the molt to

the way and praying, and the Bible said, they got

caught in a storm. In one place, the Bible said,

not only had the waves it might not have been

the same situation, but in one of them, not only

had the waves beat against the outside of the ship

without fightings, but the waves got on the inside of

the ship. The ship was now full in one place.

Within were fears, and they begin to become afraid, and

they was tolling in there, rowing. But the Bible said,

Jesus solving the fourth watch of the night, and he

came to where they was. Hey man, Nevertheless, God, Paul

and Silace in the Philippian jail, I'm closing tonight. I

wish I could have done better for you, heymen, In

that Philippian jail, because God sent them there a man

locked up feet fasting stalks. Hey man, the devil's no

telling what he was saying to him. But the Bible said,

but at midnight Paul and Silace prayed and same praises.

And the Bible said, the prisoners hurt them, and suddenly

there was a great earthquake.

Nevertheless, y God, amen, I know, heymen, I.

Know I'm struggling here tonight, but I feel like telling

you I don't know where you're at and what you're facing,

but don't forget God's in your life.

Don't leave God out of the equation. Amen.

They always tell me that what's on one side of

the equation, it's going to be on the other side.

Amen.

I believe God's on this side of the equation, and

I believe when we get on the other side of it,

He's going to be there.

Praise God, He's going to be there. He'll never leave us,

no forsake us. Will is standing tonight a general awler

called tonight, which you like to come and praise seek

the Lord everyone that can. Heymen, if you're here tonight

and you need help, you got good brothers and sisters

that are pray with you tonight.

They'll bear your burdens with you. You're not in this alone.

You got a pastor and a pastor's wife, and you

got a church. You got ministers, lay ministers, and amen,

other preachers in this church. Amen, they're here to help

you bear that burden. Why won't you come, Let's pray

together and let the Lord help us here in this service.