Christ: Our Compass - Pastor J. D. Howell 6-10-2026

To you tonight. Amen, turn with me to the Book

of Jeremiah. May I direct your attention to the seventeenth

chapter and the ninth verse. Please Jeremiah Chapter number seventeen

and verse number nine. Brother Nathaniel, Proverbs Chapter number three

and verses number five and six, and Brother Jesse, Second

King's Chapter number five, verses number nine through twelve. Second

Kings Chapter number five, Verses number nine through twelve. I

want to say I appreciate the preaching that we heard

as we celebrated our nineteenth anniversary as Bethel Holiness Church.

We had some wonderful Homecoming Day celebrations to wonderful services

for preachers that preached with the anointing, heard the Holy

go speaking to my heart to preach a message chiitled

Christ our Compass, Christ colon our Compass. Brother Nathaniel, Proverbs

Chapter number three, Versus number one, five and six, My brother.

Trusting the Lord with all thine heart, and lean not

under thine own understanding in all thy ways, acknowledge Him

and He shall direct thy pass.

And Amen, how many of you want to put your

trust holy in the Lord. You'll be safe in doing so.

Brother Jesse's Second Kings Chapter number five, verses number nine

through twelve. Listen to this account and this narrative of

a man that had a problem putting his trust in

the Lord.

So Naming came with his horses and with his chariot,

and stood at the door of the house of Elisha.

And Elisha sent a messenger unto him, saying, go and

wash in Jordan seven times, and thy flesh shall come

again to thee, and thou shalt be clean. But Naming

was wroth and went away, and said, behold, I thought

he was surely come out to me and stand and

call on the name of the Lord his God, and

strike his hand over the place and recover the leopard.

Are not Abana and parfar rivers of Damascus better than

all the waders of Israel? May I not wash in

them and be clean? So he turned and went away

in a rage.

So Nayman said, I thought, because his heart and his

mind told him there was a better way to go

about it, I thought, Jeremiah, chapter number seventeen, verse number nine,

thank you for standing for the reading of our golden texts.

The Bible says the heart is deceitful above all things,

and desperately wicked who can know it? Could we pray,

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

you for the opportunity to be in your house tonight.

I thank you for the men of God that's in

this place, the women of God, the children whom are

children of God as well. We pray that you would

bless each one, set a guard at their ears and

help them to hear what the spirit of God he says.

And to the church tonight, Lord, we pray that you

would set a guard at my mouth and help me

to say the things you would have me to say,

nothing more or less. Oh God, we pray these sayings

would go below the shoulders. May they descend into the

heart of mine soul bodies, saturate our beings. We pray

not with my words, but with your words. Help us

not to hear only, but to heed. And may we

depart this place joyfully and not sorrowfully. In Jesus' name

in the church said amen, as you're being seated. Looking again.

In our golden texts, the Bible says, the heart is

deceitful above all things, and desperately wicked. Who can know it? I,

the Lord, search the heart. I try the reins even

to give every man according to his ways and according

to the fruit of his doings. Our text is found

in an Old Testament book of the Holy Bible, the

Book of Jeremiah. How many people among us tonight are

thankful for your copy of the King James translation of

the Word of God. I'm very thankful from my personal

copy of this Holy Bible. Amen. I am very blessed

to hold in my hand the Blessed Bible on a

daily basis. I open it and I read of these wonderful,

wonderful accounts of Biblical characters who found it to be

their cheapest desire to please the Lord, and they learn

that the ways of the Lord are easier kept than

what we would suppose them to be. But we are

emotional beings, and because we are emotional beings, sometimes our

heart deceives us, and our heart is desperately wicked. In fact,

our golden texts said, who can know it? I wonder

how many of you tonight really know just how wicked

that heart is, that heart that you put your trust in,

that heart that speaks to you sometimes even louder than

you allow the Word of God to speak to you.

I know this blessed Word of God for years has

had many attacks, and there's been so many haters that

have attacked the very words of Almighty God. Even though

the Bible itself is the gateway to glory. The apostle

Peter believe the Bible plays a critical and crucial role

in the conversion of all who come to Jesus. While

looking through his epistle today, I discovered this golden verse

one Peter, chapter number one and verse number twenty three.

He wrote these words, being born again, not of corruptible seed,

but of incorruptible by the Word of God, which liveth

and abideth forever. This book is the Word of God,

and it changed my life the better. That is my

personal testimony. And there's several people in this building tonight

whom have testified in recent years that this book changed

their life for the better. This Holy book has helped

each one of us become a better version of ourself,

and it is helping us to become more christ Like

the weeping prophet, Jeremiah knew the power of the words

of the Lord. In fact, he declared that the word

of the Lord was in his heart as a burning

fire shut up in his bones. And because of this

he was unable to hold back, and he just had

to preach. His words were these words, and I could

not stay, I could not refrain from speaking what thus

saith God. So there is no doubt in my mind

whatsoever that the weeping prophet Jeremiah had a great heart

for the word of God, and he also had a

great heart as a human being, because he answered the

call to ministry that came upon him. He received the

commission of the Lord gladly, and he was willing to

do that work that no one else would be willing

to do. And he made the all inclusive sacrifice to

be despised of contemporaries, peers, rulers, pagans, god loving people,

because he would preach the truth and deliver unto them

the mind of the Lord, and teach them the precepts

and the whole counsel of God. This man, though, even

though he had such a big heart, that before he

would preach to people, he would be found being emotional,

and his emotions would move him to great peers periods

of weeping, and he would preach to people through tears,

dimmed eyes, and through swollen eye sockets and tell them

what thus saith the word of God. Brother Nathaniel, What

a heart this man had. He was an emotional being,

and I have no doubt whatsoever that there were times

that he thought about holding back because of his statement

that we just read together. I had decided to preach

no more. I had decided not to mention his name

or the author of the one that put these words

us in this book him my heart. But because it's

the word of God, I must speak his word, even

though I don't altogether feel like speaking it to him.

So we know this mighty prophet felt just like you do,

at times of saying nothing else to somebody that would

not pay attention to what was being said. He felt

like at times his words and were falling upon deaf ears.

And there's no time, no doubt that there were times

that he decided to preach them. Even though he did

not feel it was right in his own eyes to

preach him, he went ahead and done what God had

told him to do. You see, it was the Lord's

word that superseded any other word uttered by mortals or

spiritual beings. And for every child of God looking for

remedies and answers in their lifetime, they have learned to

go back on to the same Bible, and they used

when they were first to save them. And this man,

even though his emotions and caused his heart and his

mind the times to tell him not to preach things

that God had told him, the preaching because God had

told him to do it, and because God's words were

burning in his heart, he would go against to his

own feelings, and he would go against to his own emotions.

And I know my boy Mintioning recently while preaching them

that when I was raising my children, I taught him

a hard life of listen. And one time I noticed

that when this particular person visited our children, and during

one of my children's birthday celebration, she brought all of

my children a gift, and she told each one of them,

I did not want you to feel left out. And

I remember thinking right then and there, on the surface,

this scenes like the right thing to do. This woman

is being driven emotionally, and she's trying to consider the

feelings of all of these other little how children. But

I knew that was not the best thing for my

little children. And so just as soon as that woman

who supposedly meant well, so she felt like she did anywhere.

As soon as she left, I gethered them gifts that

my other five children had received, and I put them

in a closet and I told them, this is not

your special day, this is your sibling special day. Because

I knew how her life of girls. I know today

that life is untear, and I've taught to how we're

chialing her. And sometimes when you expect to get a

pay raising, a sibling gets a pay raise and a

promotion to go with it. I've told people before, when

you felt like your loved when was gonna be healed,

they died while somebody else's loved when received the healing.

And just a day or two actor the funeral of

the one that died, the one that was healed, came

into church and they cried, and they threw their hands

up and praised the Lord, and seemingly without her being

sensitive to the other family in the building, they lifted

up the name of the Lord God and declared that

there were healing in his wings. And I don't know

if you're gonna get this here tonight or not, but

I'm telling you you have to rely totally on the

word of God, and never rely on your feelings, and

you cannot trust your heart. When Jeremiah he did not

feel like preaching, he had to acknowledge the word of God.

And because he mused her on the word of God,

her Bible said concerning David, the fire burn. And in

the case of David and Jeremiah, it unctioned them Burthen

to go ahead and say what God would have them

to say. Has been times in my ministry that I

have not felt like mountain this proof of and preaching

what God had told me to preach her, because I

too have an emotional men. I'm a husband with feelings

for my wife. I am my daddy the strong feelings

for my children, and I'm your grandfather with dear feelings

towards my grandchildren. But no matter what I think or

how I feel, I know that they're gonna be judging

by what they say. It the word of God. I

want you to know right here to not I don't

care if your heart it's misleading you away from the

words of truth. That's what the Holy Ghost said a

little while ago, that you're not listening to the words

of the Master, that you're not heeding the words of

Jesus Christ, that you're not listening to the messages delivered

by them, your pastor why, oh why I would a

mere murder this regard the words of God. I'll tell

you why, because a lot of times we feel like her,

we know better, We feel like we know what's best

for lesson and will follow our heart. There's been times

that as a father, I have brought my children to

church and taking a heart copy of this King James

Translation Bible and just sit down even before the service started,

as I started reading the words of this blessed book,

and I'd feel the fire burning him my soul. I'd

experience reneweds ill and brother Nathaniel. Then I couldn't help

but testify and sometimes endelving in the world of God.

I would discover a truth that would help me escape

a lie of my emotions and heart. Again in Jeering,

my chapter number seventeen, in verse number nine, our going

in text says the heart it's deceitful above all things

and desperately wicked. Who can know it? How many people

present to not have heard someone use this expression follow

your heart? I have heard that expression so much lately.

That might be the reason for why God put this

message on my heart. Listen, there is nobody in this

world of seven billion people that has a heart so

after God that they should follow their heart. It was

set up Eavia that he had a heart after God.

At one point he said, my heart pina or pen

attacked to thee. Her long attached to thee God, also

heart death a water brook. What was he looking for?

And he was not looking for the person Jesus Christ.

He was listening for the word. The Bible said in

a New Testament that Jesus is the word. He was

listening for the voice of God. He was searching for him,

the word of God. Can I tell you we are

blessing and this generation that we do not have to

lay on our bed at night and swim in our

tears asking God to speak to us. We do not

have to be especially chosen and dedicated five year old

growing up in the tipple with the name God. Here

are so known as Samuel and somebody that could hear

the word of God. I'm telling you you got sixty

six love letters right here in your hand. Right now.

You can ask God to speak to you all you

want to, And in this day and hour He is

going to speak to you through his son. He's going

to speak to you through his word. He's gonna speak

to you through his messenger, and you cannot follow over

your heart. The prophet deer Mine would strongly disagree with

that expression, haunt follow your heart, And so would the

wise man who put in the parchment and rode in

Proverbs chapter number three, Versus number five and six. And

he's the trust to the Lord with all thine heart,

and lean not to thine owner, understanding, and in all

thy ways acknowledge him, and he shall direct thy past.

And I'll tell you who you are more complicials, And

I'll tell you who your complicles. It is Christ. I

will never follow you. I will follow Christ. Jesus never

told anybody to follow over. Oh, come on now a man.

If that man is not following Christ, I'm hair lipping

somebody right now. I feel it. Even Apostle Paul, that

great Apostolic preacher of the early Church, the one that

persecuted members within Christen even until death, the one that

ended up becoming the promoter that nobody would have ever suspected,

the one that becomes such a prince among preachers. Even

Apostle Paul said, you follow me, as long as I

follow Christ. There's a lot of men today that would

just say follow me, and they would not put that

ladder part behind that follow me as I followed Christ.

Come on now, this is a pastoral message here tonight,

and I can tell that some of you being miscutted, misled,

and misdirected, not by the charismatic preacher hof to road.

Come on now, it ain't that true, receiving them her

phony maloney message from somebody on the street corner. It's

your own heart. You're caring and the what you wanna hear.

I'm telling you Jesus said follow thou me. He never

said follow thou That doldright. He said follow thou me.

I'm preaching the message the Holy Ghost titled Holy Ghost,

titled Holy Ghost, titled Christ our compass. Listen, no matter

how good our heart is, we don't need to follow it.

No matter how good sister Howell's heart is towards her husband,

her children, and her grandchildren, she does not need to

follow it. No matter how sweet sister Ruton is and

how good her heart is. It might even be gold

and concerning brother Tyler, But Sister Rutting and Brother Tyler

do not need to follow Sister Ruton's heart. The Lord

Jesus did not tell you to trust your heart. He

didn't tell you to trust your dreams. He didn't tell

you to trust your feelings. He didn't tell you to

trust your visions. He did tell you to trust your emotions.

He did tell you to trust your appetites. He didn't

tell you to trust your thoughts. Know he gave you

his word, and his word is to serve as your compass.

And David said, thy word have I hid in my heart?

And I might not sin against thee, meaning that the

word was not praisent. He was sin against God, meaning

that the word was not prayer. Is that he'd lose

his way. I'm telling you, I'm preaching to somebody right now.

You feel like your world she proceeds the word of God.

You feel like what you feel his riding right in

your own eyes. But I'm telling you it is wrong.

It is wrong. Ten thousand times you are wrong. You

are wrong. Let God be true, and let every man

be a liar. The heart is deceitl above all things,

desperately wicked, and who can know it? Jeremise the one

preaching that message. One that would weep and cry as

he preached to his fellow men, one that would preach

the under an unadulterated word of God, one that believed

truth mattered, and one that would tell the truth rather

than a lie. Listen, I'm telling somebody, your heart is

deceiving you. Your heart is deceiving you. I have heard

of serial killers whom have told people Jesus spoke to

me and told me to eliminate a life. I have

heard of people that committed mass murder who have said

they heard a voice and that voice declared its identity

as Jesus, and they did some atrocity against mankind. And

by the Aaron, they sit in there and they get investigated,

and they get interviewed, and that same boice that told

them it was okay to take a life, that same

boy that said I am Jesus, that same one that

gave him de tells her her instructions. He was an impostor.

I said he was an impostor, because anybody that knows

the words of God knows one of the first commandments

giving the mankind is this, thou shalt not kill her.

And I'm telling you a lot of the phony Maloney.

Gospel that is being preached today tells people to disregard

what is written in that blessed book, and I want

you to know her. I will hold to her what

proceeds out of the mouth of the Father, not after

of a prophet that is false. It's a pastoral message.

I've heard people before say, listen to what the spirit

is telling you. That woman was so convinced that all

of the Howl kids needed to celebrate their birthdays first

and foremost. That was a lie. It wasn't everybody else's

special day. And if I had to raise my sons

and daughter with that mindset and mentality, because somebody's heart

was telling them, this is what we need to do.

Somebody's heart was telling them walking to Brother Jeremy Howell's house,

who was in a long term period of praying, fasting,

and bring extra gifts, not for just the birthday boy,

not just for Brother Jeremiah, but for everybody. Then interrupt

Brother Jeremiah's birthday celebration and explain everybody why you're doing

what you're doing. And then tell them kids a lie,

say I know how you're feeling. I know how you're feeling.

She didn't know your heart. She looked at Jesse and said,

you're feeling left out, and Brother Jesse kind of shook

his head. No. This. She looked at brother Nathaniel, her said,

you're feeling left out, and Brother Datania said no. She

looked at sister Hannah and brother Samuel and brother Philip,

her said you're feeling left out, and he said, no,

we don't understand what you're talking about. She said, oh,

yes you do, Oh yes, you do. You know what

I'm talking about. Her, you're feeling nature. Hey, listen, just

because you're feeling something in your heart does not mean

everybody else is feeling the same thing. Just because you've

got heart problems solve, doesn't mean David it's got a

heart problem. Just because you've got hardest shoes and your

emotions are running ride her crazy. Contrary to the Word

of God, this not mean everybody else in the church

he's having heart is shoes. Concerning the Word of God,

I love the Lord's word. I love the Lord. I

love him deep down in my heart. And that woman

felt like she knew better than the parents. She felt

like she knew better than them kids, And I knew

her heart's deceiving her. And you know what, My children

grew up understanding that it rains on the just and unjust,

and that they were all born on different days, and

that they all have times of celebration and others they

have times of gain, while others experienced times of loss.

I have seen some get paid raises and promotions, while

some companies went out of business. And you know what's

never for me to question the minds or the ways

of God. This will help some of you right here

listen to the promises of God. Are yeah and amen?

He told you when you signed that covenant on the

dotted line and you become his child, he said, I'll

make you joint heirs over all of heaven with your

big brother Jesus Christ, and I will supply all of

their needs according to his riches and glory. I'll tell

you what your heart will tell you. Your heart will

tell you you need a promotion when your brother gets one.

Your heart will tell you you need a pay raise

when your brother gets one. Your heart will tell you

you deserve a Holy girls when your sister gets the

Holy girls. Right in the world, this wild where your heart.

It's a heart problem. You can't trust your feelings. You

can't trust your emotions. Where my brother's getting a naughty

while he preaches. You know what Jesus told Peter. He said,

if John tears until you lie, come again? What he

is that to you? Because Peter was worried about Roll,

what's happening with John? Will I'll tell you this on

the fliff side of that. On the day of Pentecost,

while John stood in the shadows of Peter, John could

have said, why, Ah, why here's ether preacher tonight? Wow?

Why his God using him to night? Trust in the

Lord with all thy heart and lean not into thine

own understanding Peter in all thy ways, acknowledge him, and

he shall direct thy path. I'm preaching a message Christ,

our compass. You can trust Christ. A person can't trust

their emotions. We as finite beings can't know foolly the

mind of God without having his word in our heart.

I'm gonna say it again, We as finite beings, cannot

fully know the mind of God without having his words

hidden in our heart. Child of God, hear me just

a little. While the prodigal son fall his heart into

a far country, his heart led him a great distance

from the safety of the Father's house. Will God use

this brother and he's not using me? What is that

to you? Well? I have to preach a pastoral message

tonight and not an evangelistic message. What is that to me? Hey?

I just have to do what God told me to do.

There's been times in camp meetings that there were those

that you could just tell they had determined in their

heart they were gonna preach everybody happy. You've heard them

say it before, preach everybody happy. But everybody could tell

when they got to that meeting that there were some

things that needed to be said in order to streak

them the church. There had to be something said that

would remind the people what does said the word of God?

That people were not willing to say it because their

hearts controlling their emotions, and their emotions was telling them,

you better back down, you better back away, and you

better leave that alone. Proca son God in his mind,

I deserve something better than this. I deserve something greater

than this. I'm not the older brother, so you give

me that that is mine. And right then and there,

the prodigal son got everything that was his. A lot

of people overlook this. There was nothing to come back

to and I pointed this out a couple of weeks ago.

When he came home, he was not looking for status.

You know why, because he knew when he left, I'm

taking everything that is mine, and he squandered his inheritance

and there was nothing to come back to. But because

he came back not desiring to be a son, I'm

telling the father I'm looking for a servants quarters. The

father restored him that that was not even his I'm

telling you, your heart will take you into a far country.

The same way, the daughter of Jacob Dinah allowed her

heart to deceive her, and it led her into following

into her the hands of the enemy. She found herself

in the strange arms of a strange man from a

strange land. Donna God defiled. The daughter of Jacob got distort,

so to speaker, because her of her emotions and because

her her heart let her into the wrong place. I'm

telling you you better be careful where that heart read you.

The strong man Sampson was led into the land of

the Philistines because of that deceitful heart. What about Judas

he said yes to men that sought to kill Jesus.

He paid no regard to the words of the Lord.

As the Lord spoke to the other eleven followers, those

that were following him, those that declared, we have no

one else to follow, no one else to go to.

You have the words of eternal life. But Judas's heart

was in another kingdom, Jesus heart. Judas's heart was in

another realm. Judas's heart had another plan. Judas had his way.

Judas had the way. He thought about it, and his

heart led him to the high Priest and to the

other priest. If he would, this is the way. The

Holy Ghost gave it to me to day, Judas's heart

and led him to another preacher. Judas's heart led him

away from the Prince of preachers Jesus Christen, and led

him into politics, and led him to another group of preachers.

Who do not feel like plagiarism is? Who do you

not feel like politics? He's a sin. Judas went to

another group of preachers. He looked him in the right

of the eyes, and even though he declared to be

doing the right thing, his heart was betraying Jesus. And

you can approach the platform, You can extend your hand,

you can shake the preacher's hand, you can look him

in the right of the eyes. And you can say

one thing and your heart means something. Answer. You can

say you're going one wave while your heart he's trying

you another ra What I'm telling you, Judas, look Jesus

in the writer or the eyes, and he had an

instrument of death in his hand. He looked Jesus in

the eyes, put those two lips on the cheek of Jesus,

kissed him and even uttered the word friend, while his

heart was screaming, look of ravenous beast wood. Enemy, enemy

of my thoughts, enemy and my plans. I thought you'd

set up a throne of David. I thought you destroy

the Roman Empire. I thought we'd have an earthly kingdom.

I thought I'd be your secretary of treasure. But he's

saying friend, but his heart screaming enemy. Oh come on now,

just smell the spirit of Absolom in this place among adies.

Oh God, you know you can look at Daddy David

and say you've got a right heart to watch David.

Let me doing the wrong thing on the fringes. You

can stand in the churchyard, you can stand by the

glass doors. You can whisper in the ears of people

and your heart to indicate to them it's in another sphere,

it's in another world, said another take. That's why the

man said to the man, that's recorded in the Word

of God. Is your heart right when my heart as

my heart is with thy heart? Is it? When the

word of God corrects you, do you try to conjure

up and concoct a plan to justify your sin? Do

you go around and say little things because you were

so condemned and you feel so bad or so ashamed

or so embarrassed, and you go around trying to justify

why you feel like you're okay, or why you're able

to do this, or why you can get bye with it,

or why you're the exception to the rule, rather than

just saying God's words. Says No, That's what I don't

understand about a lot of phony belonging doctrine nowadays, where

people seem to ignore the subject of purity and the

other subject of modesty. I know for sure that a

bathing suit and a bikini one or two, peace or whatever.

Bathing suit is not the attire of a modest woman

or man of God. I mean, they just seem to

overlook all these other scriptures about purity and modesty. They

seem to overlook for Jesus Christ in the glory world

where they're neither giving him marriage or well, you know

what I'm saying here, Hey, Jesus is clothed down to

the foot. I'm trying to be careful right now because

of my emotions what I say. But I tell you this,

why is Jesus clothed down to the foot in heaven?

And then people try to get us to believe that

he's okay with him walking around her? Seventy five percent

of clothe Jesus is not okay with it. The word

of God does not permitted, The word of God does

not validated. The word of God does not excuse us,

no matter what the heart of their mother says, no

matter what the heart of that preacher says. And it

is not okay, my God. But they'll tell you, I

feel like I'm being modest when I state sister how

when she was in the worldly living Church, she felt

immodest wearing the white piece. When Athleene Harris, who had

been a woman of this world God saved, the Word

of God and the Spirit of God were in agreement

that she needed to be a modest woman that when

that lion preacher told her to put on the bathy's suit,

that they had been too hard, that they had preached

it too tight, that they shouldn't have paid any attention

what this appeared of God in the Word of God

had said that Tolene, she fell for it for a

little while, and she put on the bathing suit, and

she walked across the beach with her tower. She threw

the towel down and got out there, leading up to

her neck, and then was so embarrassed that she had

to wade back out and run to get her towel.

While that perverted lying prophet sit there has snickered and

locked while her shame and nothing disappeared. That precious saying

of God, who had been a woman in this world,

told me there was a day and the hour that

would not have bothered her. But after she got saved,

after she met Jesus, after a true conversion, after reading

the Bible, it bothered her. And it ought to bother

every child of God. Im modesty ought to bother every

child of God. Amen, I ain't preached on dress code

in a long time, but I'm telling you the word

of God puts a high value on a virtuous person

man or a woman. The values beyond that that can

be found in the mineral deposits of this world. It's

priceless to be pure. Your purity is precious. It's priceless all.

Thank God for modesty. Where is people's moral compass compass today?

I know in my lifetime, in the last fifty years,

I've watched people's moral compass get broke. I have watched

them throw their moral compasses away. And you know what,

when they threw their moral compasses away, they lost their way.

That's what a compass is used for. It is to

help you stay on course. It's to help you know

one direction from another. It's to help you know when

you got off course. It's to help you know you

need to turn ninety degrees or five degrees. Oh, come

on now, three hundred and fifty nine point five degrees.

It'll help you. You need accompassing. This word of God

will tell us about the ministerial ethics. It will tell

us about ethics concerning lay it in. It will tell

us about attitudes. It would tell us about mannerisms. It

speaks to us about behaviors. It speaks to us about

that to become a Christian. It speaks to us. It

don't matter what your emotions tell you. It doesn't matter

the culture that you were raised in or the society

that has shaped you. The Word of God is designed

to reshape you. It is designed to break you, and

it is to mold you, just as Jeremiah set about

Israel needing to go back to the Potter's will. Jeremi,

I knew. You may claim to be the people of God.

You may claim to be this and Nata. You may

claim to be the son of a pastor or a

preacher or an evangelist. You may claim to know what

you know and to feel what you feel. But jeremies

looking know at vessels that are marred. What jeremies looking

at vessels and need to be put back on the

Potter's wheel, Those people that are messed up and need

to find themselves back in the Master's handle. And I'm

telling you what, You're heart, we will mess you up,

I said, your heart, we will mess you up. We

don't mess your life, Upper, we don't mess your family. Upper.

Who cannot trust your heart? Christ is our compass. I've

been praying about all these great preachers. I think somebody

told me there was twelve of them lined up around

here this past Sunday representing Bethel Hole in his church

and ministry team. And that wasn't all of them. And

I was thanking God for him. Just yesterday and I

was in the dunkin doughnut line waiting on a refresher,

and I heard the Spirit of God say, tell them

that I love them, tell them I'll use them, but

tell them they better always follow me. And then I

thought the Lord was done speaking, and he said, tell

them they better always follow my word and not their heart.

It is true the direction of your heart will determine

your steps. If your heart is in the right place,

you will reach the right place. But if your heart

is in the wrong place, you will reach the wrong destination.

Jesus Christ himself declared, for where your treasure is, there

will your heart be. Also. If your mind and heart

or stayed on the Lord, you can't help but pursue righteousness, obedience,

and peace. That's what I'm saying. If you love the

Word of God and you keep his commandments, you can't

help but pursue righteousness, obedience, and peace. But ask Judas

if your heart is in the wrong place. You will

pursue pleasure, pride, and self will as the prodigal Dinah

and Judas did. Who cares about our emotions anyway? When

it comes to truth, no matter how we feel, the

truth will liberate. The truth will set free those that

are bound. And let God's word be true. And let

every man be a liar when they start compromising and

they tell you why, I know what the Spirit told me.

And I'm telling you Jesus is walking up and down

in our alls. I'm telling you there's healings taking place.

I'm telling you God is just showing himself mighty in

our mists. You better hold on to the word of God,

because the Spirit of God and the Word of God

are always in agreement. Jesus never said follow your emotions,

brother Beufford, He said, following me. My emotions told me

tonight to preach something else. But the Word of God

told me. I better listen to God, do what God

told me to do, or I'm gonna find myself a transgressor.

And the way the transgressor is hard to be like

plowing a row with fallow ground. Tonight, if I had

to win against what God would have me to preach.

I told sister how I said, God is changing it

all together here to last minute, I said, I'm struggling.

I need you to pray for me. I believe she did.

I trust that she did. But whether she did or not,

I know. My helper told me to preach this message

to some of you here tonight, because you'll get to

the place where you will confront the messenger. You'll confront

somebody like Brother Jessey that obeyed God. Tonight, you'll confront

a teacher and a Sunday school teacher, and you'll say, well,

I know what my heart's telling me. You better go

back to what the word of God is telling you.

Why are we not teaching members of the Brewster bands,

which means the members of our little primary Sunday school

classes anymore? The words of the song to be I

b a Lee. Yes, that's the book for me, because

a lot of people now are standing on their emotions

and theirs and their heart and not on the word

of God. Should I keep preaching us? Should we go

to the chicken house? It's a pastoral message Christ and

his word will never change. His word is unchanging. His

word is steadfast, it's unmovable. And then Brother Nathaniel read

our cotext tonight and he talked about naming the Syrian

general a war lord that came to the land of

the Prophet, because the little maid had said, Oh that

my master would go into the land of the Prophet,

into the land of his God, into the land of

my God, into the land of my people. Were Jehovah

is our God, Oh that he would go. And if

he would go, God through his man would recover him

of his leprosy. And of course, because leprosy was naming

the general alive, naming finally went. But since the how

he went with the wrong motives in mind, he went

with the wrong heart. He came to the right place

and to the right man, within pure motives, with his

mind preset, his mind made up. I've seen people move

from one church to another and says, you know what,

I'm gonna stay, and I'm gonna be a happy camper,

and I'm gonna be a participant as long as when

it really comes down to it, I get my way.

As long as whenever push comes to shove, I'm the

one doing the pushing, and I'm the one doing the shoving.

As long as I get to climb up on the

platform and sing, as long as I get to teach,

as long as I get to preach, as long as

I get to drive the church bus, as long as

I get to take over the service, Everything's gonna be okay.

So naming, he came the stere it already with his

mind made up. I'm gonna get my healing, but he's

gonna use the strong arm of the flesh. He's gonna

bring his caravan. He's gonna bring his royal steeds. He's

gonna bring his great words of flattery, his great gifts.

He's gonna go to the house of the prophet. He's

gonna expect the prophet to come out and maybe throw

a little glitter and gold dust on him, or maybe

some dandelion dust. He expects him to kind of do

some spectacle of something. And the prophet doesn't even care

to go look him in the eyes. The prophet sends

the servant to him. The prophet doesn't roll out the

red carpet. The prophet doesn't even sweep the front port.

Sister Grace, it'd be like somebody coming to see our

sales manager and brother Jeremiah telling Ethan go out there

and tell them, fine one, who does he think he is?

But the prophet told the servant go tell it all

goes through the servant. I know how you look at

a servant, But I've been trying to tell you to

be humble. I've been trying to tell you to be

a servant. I've been trying to tell you the value

and honor servitude. You know, I use a little maid,

a little servant girl, a little captive girl, to telling you.

You know you're trying to save pace and act like

she didn't preach your message, but that you came up

your own accord and came up your own choosing. But

I've gonna remind you about the servant. So when you

come to the front door of the prophet, another little

servant's gonna walk out there and say the mess. You know,

the one you're burging to get ahold of God, to

get you healed, the one you know you've got admit

you need him to speak a word from the throne

river of God. You know the Lord has got a

prayer life. You know the Lord has got the power.

A servant boy's gonna say the prophet the seer, the

one you've heard about, the one that controls our military,

the one that hears has God's harcle he speaks. He

said to tell you go to the river Jordan and

the deep seven times and naming, because it was in

his heart to do it a different way. He gets furious,

and he goes to leave, and his old servants again.

Out of the mouths of servants, hank, they know the

mind of God, they know the words of God. They

know the works of God. You will never do it

to ray and be healed. You will never do it

to ray and be successful. He's being hunted again by servants.

Do it the Muster's way, the little maid said. They

come on the servant, and the prophet said, do it

the Muster's way. And then his own servants are saying name.

And if you don't do it to way he told

you to do it, you're not gonna be healed. The

name he could say all he wanted to are not

the mighty rivers of Abana and far apart way greater

than this old money Jordan. No, ten thousand times. No,

you're rais or not his rasor your tortsul are not

his tutsul. His razor. Are past finding out to do

it his way or lose your soul? Do it his

way or lose your compass, or do it his way,

or lose your sensel her direction, do it his way

or God. He rides to the river Jordan, and against

his will, he wades into muddy Jordan. I don't know

if he was cursing and cussing or what he was doing,

but I know how some people are in church. He's

probably saying this is stupid. Not everybody's an Irish wooting.

I can see that little Holiness woman just plunging out there,

whoo glory. And there's some of you that are saved

Sanctify and Holy ghost Field because of the pride of

the unowned heart. Even though I love and I appreciate you,

and some of you might be family to save faith,

you'd be giving a disclaimer right now. I'm not so

sure this is really what God would have me to do.

I'm not so really sure that that man was speaking

the words of the God that heals leoprosy. You just

be giving you a disclaimer the whole time. I'm telling

you some of your good people with good hearts, but

you would speak what's going on in your mind and

your emotion? How do I know? How do I know?

Because I hear you sometimes do it? I see our

sweep right now. I see old brother Nathaniel right now,

nothing but legs and a cotton top. I could hear

brother Nathaniel servants saying, Master, Master. He didn't say die,

he said dip. Huh, you can die. When he said

dip and die, he said dip. You walk out there,

and you take a while yourself, can't I just do

it once and get it fixed. No, you so late

up with pride. We're gonna dimp. How that feel? I

love it? When God starts sowing out humble pie, he says,

one slice ain't enough? Nay man, all right, Syria in general,

real Lord, you've been distreet, destroying them Jews. Huh.

We'll take a dimp and dip again, and for again,

and this again. He dip again.

By this time, the beard is sagging. By this time,

the royal garments are staying. By this time, it don't

matter what nobody's saying, what nobody's taking a bath. A'mad

we'll ain't come up clean. We'll ain't come up clean.

I'll tell you if you do it God's way, you'll

come up clean. I said, if you'll do it God's way,

you'll come off clean. Bless up be the name ho

the Lord. Do it God's way. Let's stand and throw

those hands up to what heavened and let old Jesus,

even though his heart had his feelings by command of

his emotions were screaming leave and do it your way.

His servants were saying, do it God's way. His pride

may have told him not to take a bath him

money Jordan. But as Jesus said, take a bath him

money Jordan, I'm telling you, humble yourself, honey, the mighty

hand of God, do it God's way, and what's God

restore you alive. I feel impressed with the Holy Ghost.

To end with this, he could have went back to

Syria and called the king and the counselors and said,

I was told to do this. Isn't that crazy? And

I have a feeling that that Syrian king, who knew

something about the ways of our God, would have said down.

For Therefore, if I was you, I'd pack my bags,

turn around and go do it right. And I'm telling

some of you in this building, all you gotta do.

Turn around, come to the altar. Un Let's do it right. Well,

I know my heart. Stop playing that game. We don't

know our heart, but I know what to lone of

God's head. If I humble myself handed a mighty hand

of God, He'll lift me up. He'll lift me up,

He'll lift me up. All the altars open. Anybody want

to be healed tonight? I said, does anybody want to

be here tonight? I won a God said, it'll go first,

and you will be healed. I said, He'll send us

word and you will be healed. Praised me to Jesus.

Let's just gather around the front here. Hey man, there's

gotta be more than two or three. Amen, hallelujah, Amen naming.

Use Christ and his word as your compass. Callica son,

Use Christ and his word has your compass. Hey Dinah.

Maybe you have been in the far land. Maybe you

did wake up in a strange land, in the arms

of a stranger. Use Christ has your compass to get

back in the center of God's will. Ask the Lord

right now to help you surrender your will. The lyrics said, Jesus, Jesus,

not my will, help my will to crumble. Help my

will to crumble, help my will to crumble. H he's

so cool. Yeah yeah, you're so cool. Yeah a nabaha

he is so cool yeah baah yeah he's