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Rejected Replicas - Bro Samuel Howell 5-13-2026

Bethel Holiness Church - Wednesday Night Services

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  1. A man certainly thankful to be in the house of

  2. the Lord. I agree with everything pastor has said, and

  3. I support him doing the Lord's work because we get

  4. to have him twelve months out of the year. I

  5. believe it's all right if somebody else receives help. It's

  6. a shame, though, that that somebody in that area couldn't.

  7. But God uses his people that are willing, and we're

  8. certainly thankful to have them home. I love my parents

  9. and my pastor first and foremost. He is my pastor,

  10. and I'm thankful for this opportunity. I respect him highly well,

  11. thank you for your giving. May the Lord richly bless

  12. you accordingly you can be. Turning to the Book of Matthew,

  13. chapter number seven, his pastor said, the Lord definitely has

  14. dealt with us, and I believe he's going to speak

  15. to somebody. I pray that he uses me. I've spent

  16. a lot of time in prayer about this. I've had

  17. it on my heart for several several days, several weeks probably,

  18. and when I got this study and this it just

  19. the Lord just helped us to him be the praise

  20. and the glory and the honor we give him. The

  21. praise for it. It's all for the benefit of his kingdom,

  22. all free him. I'm certainly thankful for this opportunity again.

  23. But let's look here in Matthew chapter seven and verse

  24. twenty one, we'll read here to Verse twenty three says,

  25. not everyone saith the Lord unto me, Lord Lord, even

  26. hang on, let's restart there. I want to make sure

  27. we get this across properly. Not everyone that saith unto me,

  28. Lord Lord, shall enter into the Kingdom of heaven. But

  29. he that doeth the will of my father will in heaven.

  30. Many will say to me in that day, Lord Lord,

  31. have we not prophesied in thy name, and in thy

  32. name have cast out devils, and in thy name done

  33. many wonderful works? Then will I profess unto them? This

  34. is Jesus speaking here, says, Then will I profess to

  35. unto them? I never knew ye depart from me, ye

  36. that work iniquity. Turn over to Luke chapter number thirteen,

  37. verse number twenty four. Strive to enter into that straight gate.

  38. Strive to enter in at the straight gate. For many,

  39. I say unto you will seek to enter in and

  40. shall not be able when the master. When the Master

  41. of the house has risen up and has shut to

  42. the door. And ye begin to stand without and knock

  43. at the door, saying, Lord Lord, open unto us, and

  44. he shall end certain say unto you, I know not

  45. whence ye are. Then shall ye begin to say, we

  46. have eaten and drank in thy presence, and now has

  47. taught in our streets. But he shall say, uh, He

  48. shall say, I tell you I know not, whence ye

  49. are depart from me? All ye workers of iniquity, would

  50. you lift your hands tonight and ask God to help

  51. us here? We ask him. We need this anointing. God, Almighty.

  52. We ask you right now in the name of Jesus, Lord,

  53. thank you God, to please Lord, touch us God in

  54. a special way.

  55. God. We plead Lord.

  56. God for the anointing from God, Almighty God. We need you,

  57. Lord God. It is within you Lord that we live

  58. and move God and have our being Lord and our strength.

  59. Lord God. Ask you to touch your soul God in

  60. the heart God, and let us leave here God change

  61. o Lord God in help Lord, by you God and

  62. through you, y'ad, Oh Mighty Lord, We'll be sure y'all

  63. to give you the praise and the honor and the

  64. glory Lord, and we thank you for it. God in

  65. the church said Amen. For a short little while tonight,

  66. I plan to be as quick as the Lord will

  67. allow me to be. We want the Lord to have

  68. his way.

  69. But I would like to.

  70. Preach on rejected replicas. Rejected replicas, and I think we're

  71. all pretty familiar with what a replica is. It is

  72. something that is made extremely close to another thing. So

  73. if you have an original, then you have a knockoff.

  74. But both of these passages the scripture that we just

  75. read here tonight, are found in the New Testament book

  76. of the Bible. Matthew seven is a conclusion of the

  77. Sermon on the Mount. And I'm sure when reading these

  78. passages of scriptures we all noted the similarities in these

  79. two scriptures that we just read depart from me ye

  80. that work iniquity, depart from me ye workers of iniquity,

  81. pretty much word for word. This is recorded by two

  82. different authors. So this lets me know that these two

  83. men did not just miraculously or somehow come up with

  84. the same wording. That these two men definitely recorded at

  85. the way it was said, there's no way around the Bible.

  86. It is the truth that is all the truth. But

  87. they recorded it word for word, and I remember a

  88. quote that this. I remember quoting these words with my

  89. dad as he preached as a little boy. I would

  90. say this is probably one of the most memorized scriptured

  91. passage of script from a young age. I remember quoting it,

  92. like I said, from my with my along my dad

  93. as he preached, or some other preach. They would begin

  94. to quote these and I would begin to say them

  95. with them, because I honestly it was a good feeling

  96. to feel like I knew a little bit of the

  97. Bible there. But I've always thought of how terrible it

  98. would be to hear these words, and with God's help,

  99. I don't plan on ever hearing these words spoken to me.

  100. I hope that I'm never in the presence of someone

  101. that I love as he gives them the final ruling

  102. to depart from me. Ye that work iniquity. I don't

  103. want to ever experience that. I've been in a place

  104. in my life. I'll be honest with you that if

  105. something were to happen to me where I would have

  106. lost my life, those probably more than likely would have

  107. been the very words that I heard. But thank God,

  108. I cried out unto the Lord, and he saved my soul.

  109. We asked for a praying church. Sadly, there will be

  110. many people in this world that here's depart from me,

  111. the that work iniquity, and they'll suffer because of their

  112. wicked ways. Something that has always stood out to me

  113. in these scriptures. He's talking to those that claim to

  114. have something. He's talking to church goers. He's talking to

  115. those that claim to be prophesying and casting out devils

  116. in his name. They're using his name as a seal

  117. of approval for their actions in order to have people

  118. believe them that they have something that they actually don't have,

  119. and to kind of give you a little bit of

  120. understanding here if you need it. I'm thankful we got

  121. a bunch of Bible believers and people that understand the

  122. word of the Lord. We're not living off of that

  123. new King, James. But it's like this, whenever you're a

  124. little kid, right, whoever done this? I know I was

  125. guilty of this, so I'll just blame it on myself.

  126. But you went to one of your siblings and you

  127. knew good and well that what you were about to

  128. tell them isn't what your Mama told you or your

  129. dad told them told you to tell them. So you

  130. went to them and said, hey, so and so you

  131. better do this. And they said no, I ain't gonna

  132. do that. And then you thought real quickly, you said, well,

  133. dad said so. Well Mom said so, because you knew

  134. that once they heard dad's name behind it or mom's

  135. name behind it, that you would say, Okay, wait a minute, Okay,

  136. I understand. Now I must do what I need to do.

  137. And there's a lot of people in the churches nowadays

  138. that are prophesying in God's name who were casting out devils.

  139. If you in them, maybe not, I don't think so,

  140. if they don't have the power of the Holy ghost.

  141. But they're gonna say I cast out devils in your name.

  142. I've done many works in your name. But the Lord

  143. is gonna say I never knew you. But the reason

  144. why they're doing this is because they are being a

  145. replica of what should be. They're saying there because they

  146. want people to come to their church because their money, huh,

  147. because they want a fatter wallet.

  148. But it's not what the Bible says. They're not doing

  149. it right.

  150. They're just a replica. They're just to rip off. They're

  151. just wanting to grow their church. They're just wanting bigger

  152. and better things. They're not thankful for the small things.

  153. They're wanting to go faster in life than they should.

  154. God help me, Lord. They say this for the benefit

  155. of themselves, not for the benefit of the kingdom. They

  156. say this for the amount of money. They say this

  157. because of the amount of money that you will probably give.

  158. There's a lot of preachers, so called preachers and TV

  159. evangelists here that say you have to give this amount

  160. of money now, or the Lord's gonna judge you if

  161. you don't. The Lord said, give this amount of money

  162. now so I can get a bigger and better plane.

  163. But God will never ever ever tell someone to do

  164. that that isn't a child of God, that isn't gonna

  165. use it for the benefit of the kingdom.

  166. He might lay something on your.

  167. Heart, yes that's a saying of God, but he isn't

  168. gonna tell you to do that to further the devil's kingdom.

  169. God help us, Lord. Because of their lives, there's gonna

  170. be a lot of people who get to judgment and

  171. they're gonna hear God say, I never knew you because

  172. of the lies of another preacher, because he made them

  173. believe that he had something that he had when in

  174. reality he really didn't. They will live their lives, their

  175. whole life as a replica of a child of God.

  176. But there are some things that you cannot have. A

  177. knockoff and sanctification true blood of God born again, a

  178. child of God is something that you cannot replicate. It

  179. is not something that you can just say I am

  180. one of them, and you'll be able to make it

  181. into Heaven's gate. God will meet you right there when

  182. you get there, and he will say, to part from me,

  183. you've a reconiquity. Depart from me. You are a replica.

  184. What should be to part from me?

  185. Should you may?

  186. You may speak in my name?

  187. You might have used my name in vain.

  188. If you say you're a child of God, the that

  189. you is the devil, you are basically using the Lord's

  190. name in vain.

  191. You will say, I am a child of God. I

  192. believe in the Word of God. But that you don't

  193. rent to the standards. You don't rent to its believes.

  194. You told aly like the Bible.

  195. Says, help us, Holy God. They still get to those

  196. that that preacher a replica religion. They preaching their people

  197. it's okay to do certain things. It's okay to go

  198. to it's okay to go to the movie house, it's

  199. okay to put a little bit of parents underneath the skirt.

  200. That is a replica of the world, not of our

  201. religion and holiness, true blooded, bald holiness way. That is

  202. a replica, that is a knockoff, that is identifying with

  203. the world, not identifying with the Word of God.

  204. Oh hallelujah.

  205. They get.

  206. They say, you can partake in things that's you alt,

  207. that's you ought not to, but that is a replica.

  208. Yelp us God. And this goes for so many churches

  209. in the modern day holiness movement. They are now a

  210. replica of what was something that was once genuine and true.

  211. It is a replica.

  212. And making a replicacause of something is to making as

  213. close to the real thing as possible, to leave as

  214. much as little doubt and as little questioning about it

  215. as possible. And they run that when making a replica,

  216. they try to make it to the finest extent, so

  217. that the person that is buying that religion is food

  218. and the person that.

  219. Is buying that item is deceived. That way, they can.

  220. Say, Lord Lord has said, Lord Lord said us all right,

  221. you better be careful put in the Lord's name behind

  222. your religion, behind something. Let does not sound upturn that

  223. is not biblical. You can say, child, Lord Lord.

  224. Said, it's okay. You better not lie to your children.

  225. And say, Lord Lord, say the.

  226. Thought right to it. That way, Lord Lord, say the

  227. thing right.

  228. That I sit here quiet, Lord Lord, say the so

  229. right that I said.

  230. At a.

  231. Replica, you are not genuine. But those that create a replica,

  232. in order to not get in trouble and to experience

  233. some type of lawsuit, they have to leave some minor

  234. detail out. The holiness movement started with minor details. They

  235. started with small things, a lettle snip snip, put your

  236. hair up.

  237. They won't know thise my God, and we've.

  238. Watched him all the time, as they had let her

  239. be more and more knowliceable that hey, we are a ripoff.

  240. Come as you are, be accepted as you are. Speak

  241. with the same tongues.

  242. But that is a knockoff.

  243. That is not your brow gleat through rivera my God,

  244. genuine holy little sanctification. This modern on, this movement y'all

  245. bear with me. I got a lot to get to here.

  246. This modern holness movement hasn't let up in small details.

  247. They've made it obvious of their change.

  248. They've let the world know.

  249. And this sad thing is they identify more with the

  250. world and they're so blind that they don't even realize

  251. and they see their own selves that they are deify

  252. mill of the world. Then they're dealing with the holiness way.

  253. They do it to grow at church. But the world

  254. sees the Hey, you're just like me. What doesn't matter.

  255. Why do I need to go to another part of sermons? Well,

  256. sit there. I know it's gonna be.

  257. An hour long service.

  258. This, many people's gonna sing this, many people's gonna do this,

  259. The creature's gonna preach are turning in a sermon there.

  260. I'm so thankful that we got breath to hor this

  261. church for our services, our time.

  262. We don't know how long we're gonna be here.

  263. That us what a genuine experience as a replacus, something.

  264. That you have a format to follow. Sure we not

  265. following a little bit, but we never know what time

  266. are gonna leave.

  267. We never know when the whole little coast is gonna fall.

  268. We just stay until it does. We stay until God

  269. speaks help us God.

  270. They rush it.

  271. I think there's some in here that kind of knows

  272. what I'm talking about. Won't call any names. And I've

  273. heard stories. You've been to churches where you knew church

  274. starts at seven thirty. We'll be out by eight thirty

  275. on the dot. That's a replica. That's a routine. That

  276. is a dangerous routine to fall into. Some of That'sel's

  277. most powerful services are nearing the closing time. Because we

  278. have a pastor that stage tune and says, speak, Lord,

  279. what more would you like to say?

  280. Lord? I want to make sure you sell everything that

  281. you wanted to say. I don't want to touch you

  282. short Lord, Lord. That might preach somebody.

  283. Else that might knew the hirprind of different area, My God,

  284. when to reach the Lord, there's somebody that got left behind.

  285. That's something there with.

  286. A gay friend word saying, my God, I wish we

  287. running in a rotat my God.

  288. I wished to pish you again. Hold of God, my God,

  289. I'm hurrying.

  290. And those that sell old replica, they try to make

  291. this replica as close as possible in order to get

  292. the same price that's the original.

  293. They want the same experience.

  294. They want those that are walking around where this item

  295. that those that are looking at him saying, Hey, you're.

  296. Wearing so and so. You must have money. Hey, I

  297. see you got to sign it on. You must have money.

  298. But that is something that you wish.

  299. We should want.

  300. We should run a replica of a real Dell. We

  301. shouldn't run. We shouldn't be satisfied running knock on.

  302. We could say, Lord, I want the little Dell.

  303. God, I want the genuine all.

  304. The girls, Jesus. Let me tell you.

  305. There's some people that get food and they buy that

  306. junk food price at the value of something that is

  307. worth way less. But God is the creator of the rule,

  308. and he will reject every replica that walks through those

  309. doors on judgment day. Why because he knows the ends

  310. in the outs, just like one that created that genuine,

  311. authentic item. As soon as they said, they can say

  312. that's not right. There's a little detail out there, you

  313. see the way that there is soula that's not how

  314. it should be. My God can tell it the same way.

  315. He may speak in a tongue, and he may say

  316. this and say that the Lord from my God can

  317. tell the moment you walk in the door that you

  318. are not saying llyd Lord, that you're saying his name

  319. in vain. You can say Lord d but it's in vain.

  320. He knows his people, he knows his.

  321. Children what he's saying there.

  322. Whenever he says, they gonna say, the Lord be prophesied

  323. in your He's gonna say, but I don't recognize your voice.

  324. My people, I hear. I hear when my children are

  325. in need. I hear when my kids call on my name.

  326. I can tell and it's one of mine because I

  327. feel a draw, I feel an urgency. You wonder why

  328. God isn't moving in your life. It's because you say

  329. a Lord, Lord, but it's not actually your Lord. You're

  330. living a replica life.

  331. God. I need you God.

  332. There are those that spend their whole life trying to

  333. make a name for themselves by recreating someone else's painting,

  334. when if they would have just dedicated that time and

  335. that energy that they spend on reak. You're eating someone

  336. else's if you will just delegate that time and that energy.

  337. Oh replicating Mama, Oh replicating Daddy. You've seen the way

  338. they do it, and you copying them.

  339. But if you spend that.

  340. Time replicating God, you would, how God says, you would

  341. have a genuine experience authored take of your own. Oh

  342. God help us Lord, if they would have just spent

  343. and if you spend that time and energy, I'm doing

  344. it your way or God's way, doing it God's way

  345. instead of recreating something you saw great Grandma do that.

  346. Our pastor has taught us it doesn't work. Time and

  347. time again. He said, reset your mindset, do it differently.

  348. It hasn't worked.

  349. You come down here in.

  350. The same attitude, and you get down at the same spot,

  351. and you praying, and.

  352. You say, Lord Lord, when.

  353. All along you ain't praying to your heart, Well, God

  354. lays sorrow.

  355. You're just simply replicating.

  356. What you do.

  357. Each and every servant as to walk in and he say,

  358. I'm don't pray again. I want to make him think

  359. again that I really got a hold of it. I'm

  360. gonna let them on again.

  361. I want to recreate what I've done last Sunday. I'm

  362. wanna recreating Ridnsday.

  363. Help us God, I'm so glad for the moves of

  364. God that we have around here that aren't replicas of

  365. what happened yesteryear. We heard it all our life. People

  366. come to sometimes at our church and I'll just sit

  367. back and I'll laugh inside, and they say, we don't.

  368. Have moves of God like we used to have.

  369. That's because you're stuck in the past. You're doing the

  370. same thing. What's the definition of a sandy is doing

  371. the same thing over expecting different results. If you've been

  372. churching the same way for twenty years, you gotta show

  373. God you want to grow. Just like an employer, they

  374. see somebody that's just happy to be doing one thing

  375. day in and day out.

  376. They have no intention on growing them. Why would they

  377. give them more responsibility? They want to see initiative.

  378. God is the same way you replicating over and no,

  379. you're again, you don't shown initiative. But let you say,

  380. Lord Lord, Lord Lord, when it's my turn, Lord Lord,

  381. where am I gonna grow?

  382. When you get them.

  383. Replicating the same thing that you're done five or six

  384. years ago, Wow, when you sit, you're replicating. When you

  385. sit to recreating that same.

  386. Lie what your wants live in your mind, the way.

  387. Grandma done it, the way Dad done it, Papa done it,

  388. whoever done.

  389. It, If they were the same when they died, it

  390. ain't gonna work for you.

  391. You gotta do something.

  392. Different, My God. I don't know if y'all remember this

  393. particular service we had one time. I know some of

  394. y'all would. Pastor got up and he said, I believe

  395. we need to do something different. Tonight we were having

  396. a move of God. All the women prayed on this side,

  397. all the gods prayed over here. Why because we were

  398. showing God. Lord, I can worship you no matter of

  399. the situation. Lord, If I need to change the way

  400. I'm doing things, if that's the result that it takes,

  401. the things that it takes for different results, then Lord,

  402. let me change my spot. Because we gotta get out

  403. of a what. We gotta stop coffee cadding ourselves. We

  404. gotta stop parenting something that we saw somebody else. Do

  405. you have mastered the art of coffee catting? He realize, Hey,

  406. the Saint to God, if begetting to feel a shift,

  407. I better come over here. Hey, the Saints to God

  408. is starting to run.

  409. Let me blend in.

  410. He will never experience something on your.

  411. Own when you just counsul the repricat something that you say,

  412. somebody else do, what are you gonna do?

  413. Let yourself?

  414. Oh, God help Jesus, my God, I'm afraid in here tonight.

  415. There's a few living a replicated life. God help us. Lord.

  416. You've learned to say amen when the preacher is preaching.

  417. You learn how to close your eyes when he says,

  418. bowl your head, let's pray. You know how to look

  419. like you're really praying. Just shake your head just right. Hey,

  420. you can fake cry all you want. You can fake cry.

  421. I've seen some people that can fight out, fake cry,

  422. turn it on half a second. I missed around. I

  423. haven't recently, but I have missed around before, maybe sometimes

  424. by myself, just to do it. You know, when you're alone,

  425. you kind of go crazy, you start doing things. But

  426. I wanted to see yourself fast. I can make myself cry.

  427. It wasn't thirty seconds later on I had a storm.

  428. I had a tear rolling down my Eh. You can

  429. do that over and over and over and over and

  430. over again. Service at your service. You will never experience change.

  431. You are just replicating the same thing over and over

  432. and over again. Don't let me tell you what I've

  433. came to preach about. God, we reject you. God will

  434. reject your replica.

  435. You coming there.

  436. We will fake goddee saying Lord.

  437. Lord, I am God.

  438. I'm made.

  439. Ah. God's gonna say you liar, you liar, you liar

  440. where you prayed, so you re that you service Lord, Lord,

  441. Lord Lord, but not get you.

  442. Repair you will not make it up.

  443. Because you shut you.

  444. Yeah.

  445. I said it my word that if a man finds

  446. a woman, he finds a good thing.

  447. That man knows a virtuous woman is a pearl.

  448. Of great priss or, you know, to be my bride,

  449. the pearl of great price, a value.

  450. Yeah, I know mine.

  451. You're not mine.

  452. My servant has spoke to you. You know it's a

  453. cheap imitation. You know it's your own version. You know

  454. it's a twisted version. It's not the truth. It's not

  455. the real you.

  456. I say, look, look, my people, Look under the clothing.

  457. You'll see the pains of the wolf.

  458. Watch out put the wolfs.

  459. I say.

  460. To all, I say, used to be a pearl of

  461. great price. I'm looking for a brow a virtue.

  462. Yeah, I say, humble thyself tonight under my mighty hand,

  463. and I will lift thee up and look upon thee

  464. as that pearl of great value.

  465. But if you turn not unto me from this world,

  466. I say soon, and very soon.

  467. I will judge.

  468. The Holy Ghost sitting there. You are a cheap imitation.

  469. In my notes, I had wrote there are some things.

  470. That can never be recreated.

  471. There are some things that can never taste like the original.

  472. Now they're trying to be cardinal, but crab meat is

  473. one of them. The moment you buit into it, you

  474. know it is not genuine. By the texture.

  475. And the moment.

  476. If God was to put you in his mouth before

  477. he choose you up and spits you out, he will know.

  478. The texture is not right. He will know I was

  479. right all alone.

  480. There's people in this world that pay millions, or not millions,

  481. but hundreds of dollars for a fake idea to partake

  482. in something well, to get into a certain place that

  483. is identification required. You can't do that for Heaven. There

  484. is no identification that you can buy to fool God.

  485. Let's all stand the Holy Ghost, my God. Somebody better

  486. come and pray. Somebody better fall on their knees and

  487. ask God. Not a replicated prayer, but a genuine, genuine

  488. can't be recreated. You will know when you will praying

  489. genuinely because it will be a prayer that you never

  490. prayed before, and God will meet you. Let's all come

  491. and pray. Let's find a place to pray.