Dead Or Alive Unto Sin (Dead In Sin Or Dead To Sin)- Pastor J.D. Howell 3-4-2026

The Holy ghost title dead or Alive unto Sin, and

you'll understand what I mentioned a little while ago, the

chain breaker and why I mentioned it here in just

a little while Dead or Alive unto Sin? Brother Nathanielphesians,

chapter number two and verse number one, Brother Jesse, Colossians,

Chapter number two, verse number thirteen. I want to say

thank you to the men of the church. You all

have been doing a great job around here maintaining the facility.

Thank you for the installation of various things over the

week this past week. I appreciate it so much. We're

blessed to have such talented people sitting in a pewes

tonight to help the church family at save the church

a lot of money. So thank you for being you.

Thank you for doing that for your church family. Would

y all give them a handclap of appreciation. Their labors

of love are appreciated. What they did for you saved

us twenty five hundred dollars. I thank God for them.

That makes me want to make them a blueberry cobber.

So just how would you arrange that?

All right?

Brother Nathan, you Ephesians chapter number two, verse number one,

My brother and you hathy quickened, who were dead in

trespasses and sins? All I notice that phrase, who were

dead in trespasses and sins? Look at your neighbor and say, hey, neighbor,

aren't you thankful you're no longer dead in sin? Brother

Jesse Colossians chapter number two, verse number thirteen.

And you being dead in your sins and the uncircumcision

of your flesh, hathy quickened together with him having forgiven

you all trespasses.

Did y'all notice that phrase again, dead in sin? So

here in Ephesians chapter number two and verse number one,

as well as Klaws chapter number two, in verse number thirteen,

we find that phraser expression dead in sin. Now, if

we'll turn to the Book of Romans, turn to chapter

number six, we'll be reading verses number ten through eighteen.

The Bible said for end that he died, he died

unto sin once, but in that he liveth he liveth

unto God. Likewise, reckon ye also yourselves to be dead,

indeed unto sin, but alive unto God. Through Jesus Christ,

our Lord. Let not sin, therefore reign in your mortal body,

that ye should obey it in the lust thereof neither

yield ye your members as instruments of unrighteousness, unto sin,

But yield yourselves unto God, as those that are alive

from the dead, and your members as instruments of righteousness

unto God. For sin shall not have dominion over you.

For ye are not under the law, but under grace.

What then shall we sin? Because we are under the law,

but under grace God forbid? What then shall we sin?

Because we are not under the law, but under grace,

God forbid? Look at that God forbid. Know ye not

that to whom yield yourself servants to his servants, She

are to whom you obey, whether of sin unto death,

or of obedience unto righteousness. But God be thanked that

you were the servants of sin. But you have obeyed

from the heart that form of doctrine which was delivered you,

and being then made free from sin, you became the

servants of righteousness. May we pray heavenly fall. We thank

you for the opportunity to be in your house tonight.

I thank you for any and everything that you've done

for this people. We thank you for protecting brother Samuel Howell.

We thank you for sparing his life and putting up

a hedge of protection to shield him from that bullet

that passed by his head. Thank you for a praying

church that prayed in the service before this one. For

preservation and protection of the saints. We pray that you

would anoint this thy service. Let them hear with the

spirit of God, says unto the Church, and help meet God,

anoint my lips. Help me to say nothing more or

less than what you would have me to say. Say

to guard at my mouth. I pray we give you

praise and honor and glory. May we depart this place

joyfully and not sorrowfully. In Jesus' naming, The church said, Amen,

praise the Lord. Looking at verse number eleven again our

selected text tonight, the Bible says, likewise, make ye also

yourselves to be dead, indeed unto sin, but alive unto

God through Jesus Christ, our Lord. Our text has found

in a New Testament book of the Holy Bible. The

Book of Romans is a Pauline epistle. In this sacred writing,

the Great Apostle Paul had some things that he wanted

to convey to the Christians in Rome, and I believe

his purpose was this to strengthen them with his understanding

of the Gospel. There is no doubt whatsoever in my

mind or any Christian's mind, that Apostle Paul had a

great grip on understanding the Gospel. In fact, in this

Pauline epistle, around the sixteenth chapter and the twenty fifth verse,

we will see that Apostle Paul wanted to see these

saints of God established by the Lord, and he instructed

them to give heed to the preaching of Jesus Christ.

In other words, whatsoever had been said out of the

mouth of the Messiah should be worth hearing, and after

hearing whatever it was that Jesus had said, it would

be worth heeding. So some of the apostles that accompanied

Jesus during his earthly ministry were going around telling everybody

that would listen, and even some who did not want

to listen, about Jesus Christ. They were convinced that this

man and his message were straight sent of the portals

of glory unto mankind. So Apostle Paul, who had not

yet been to Rome, when he put pen to parchment

while in Corinth, he let Roman believers know that you

need to be anchored on bedrock concerning doctrine. There is

no doubt ninety five percent of the people in this

building tonight made the assumption that if Paul wrote a

book specifically addressed to the Romans, then he must have

been there. No, he had not been there yet, but

he intended to go because the spirit of God had

made it clear that this man was to go to Rome.

And during this particular time, the time of this writing,

Apostle Paul would have not heard anything bad really about

Nero because the city of Rome had not caught fire,

and the Christians had not been yet blamed for burning

the city of Rome.

In other words, the.

Great fires of Rome had not taken place. So Apostle

Paul is writing to Roman believers and letting them know,

you need to get founded in Jesus Christ, and you

need to get rooted and grounded and established in doctrine,

because there will come a time whenever Nero will rise

up and things will be as.

Clear as mud. You won't be able to have.

A clear understanding if you don't get what you need now.

So Apostle Paul preached Jesus Christ. And because he did that,

and because he shored up these believers in Rome, when

Nero blamed the city catching fire on the Christians. These

Christians were rooted and established. And I wonder how many

people in this building tonight are rooted in the Gospel

of Jesus Christ. We can tell that so many professors

of salvation are not possessors of salvation. I know that

we feel that so many people today are saved. It's

almost impossible to find a center now in these United

States of America. When you engage in evangelistic outreach and

you try to tell somebody about Jesus Christ. Everybody that

you speak to Almos says, I'm saved, I'm blood bought,

I'm a born again child up God. But I want

to ask this question tonight, then why are they still

tethered to sin? So the apostle Paul was letting these

believers in Rome know that you've got to be anchored

in the.

Words of Jesus Christ.

After reading through this writing over the last few days,

it's clear to see by this writing that he intended

to visit there. In fact, he had inquired concerning the

leadership of the church in that region, and throughout this

epistle he called a lot of them by name. I

don't know about you all. But when I was and

the Lord, I love to hear a preacher call out

my name. And the reason for that was I felt

like the Lord was mindful of me during that service.

So writing this epistle Apostle, Paul strategically used the name

of some very important, prominent people in a land that

he had not yet visited, but yet he had a

burden for those people, and Brother Nathaniel, he felt like

whatever it was they had was genuine and real, but

for whatever reason, it would not keep them because of

the things forthcoming. What it was that lied on the

horizon would have caused.

A lot of them to lose their faith.

And so when I read this particular Pauline epistle, I

see that Paul felt like Christians should go beyond salvation

and that they should walk into greater depths or for depths,

and advance into an experience called sanctification. My wife is

here tonight, and I remember the time that the Spirit

of God dealt with a woman that did not know

the details that I've shared with you all tonight about

this man Paul in this writing the Book of Romans.

But the Spirit of God dealt with her early on

in her Christian experience that she needed to read the

sixth and seventh and eighth chapter of the Book of Romans.

And then God told her to repeatedly read the eighth

chapter of the Book of Romans until He filled.

Her with the Holy Ghost.

And my wife went into a deeper experience in the Lord.

So there's no doubt that the believers that were everywhere

at the time of Apostle Paul understood that God grants

unto people unmerited favor, and through Godless our old most

will experience them a true repentance, and there will be

genuine marks of conversion. And by the ruby red blood

of Jesus, through faith, after confession of sin, by the

avenue of Godless Sorah, there will be a sincere changing

of the ways. If any man be in Christ, he

is a new creature. All things have passed away. Behold,

all things have become a new In other words, those

that practiced are participated in a sinful lifestyle. They no

longer live to a lifestyle of sinning.

We are converted from a sinner to a saint.

Paul taught that believers become new creatures and that we

receive rediption of salvation because of Christ the blood, and

it washing away our sin. But I want to put

an emphasis on something here tonight. Apostle Paul made it

cleariness epistle that we are to be sactified, and after

that we are sactified, there should.

Be a holy life.

And I wonder how many people in this building tonight

could say, after that I was converted, I found a

holy life to be desirable. When I lived a lifestyle

of sin, I found a holy life to be undesirable.

In fact, I shunned it as somebody would have. Years

ago the bluebonic plagued. But after I was a born again,

a child of God with a new creature, a holy.

Life was something that I desired.

And if you look at our Golden text again in Romance,

chapter number six and verse number eleven, it begins with

a word like wise, and behind that word are these

words reckon ye also yourselves to be dead, indeed unto sin,

but elib unto God through Jesus Christ, our Lord. Notice

the following verse verse number twelve. Let not sin, therefore

reign in your mortal body, that she should obey it

in the lust thereof Looking again at the.

First word of that eleventh verse.

Like Wise, we as believers are to consider what was

true of Jesus Christ is to be true of us.

And the preceding verse to our golden text of verse

number ten tells us what was true of Jesus Christ.

The first thing it tells us is he died unto

sin wants. The second thing that it tells us is

now he liveth unto God. And then our gold the

text begins with them likewise meaning if it was true

in the case of Christ, and it should be true

in your case. My eldest son, brother Jeremiah Howell, is

in the building tonight. He is our sound technician here

after Beta Holiness Church. And each week we witnessed this

man new and his dead level best to offer spiritual

nourishment to people at home and abroad through Hope of Radio,

through our radio broadcast through podcasts after podcast this brother

tries to extend a handful of spiritual nourishment to sustain

spiritual life. In fact, some of you have moved to

Label Florida and made this your home church. And after

first hearing the preaching that this brother podcast and are

broadcast own Hope Radio, and so he does that with

a dignity of grace and a reference, and a lot

of people in this building respect him for what he

does for our church. But naturally and professionally, on a

daily basis, he does not support people that are children

of God always. Sometimes they are children of this world,

or to be more specific, they are children of their father,

the devil. He is an undertaker, so professionally on a

daily basis, he supports families with love and empathy during

their time of loss of life. Simply stating, he offers

a large funeral service to those that are dealing with

a dead so no wonder he welcomes and embraces an

opportunity to sustain spiritual life through spiritual nourishment through the

Avenue of Hope Radio. And truly he must get tired

of dealing with a deceased on a daily basis. And

I remember the first time he went to work for

wilbrit Funeral Services, and he was about ten years ago,

a decade ago, when my boy said, I'm gonna begin.

A career of dealing with the deceased.

And I remember him telling his mama to meet unknown

people because of the dirt and the ash on the

sole of his shoes. He was letting us know that

he had stomped over the top of some his grave,

or perhaps during a cremation somebody's ash had trickled down

and lighted upon his shoe. There is no doubt this

man deals with the deceased tenderly. Sister Wooding, I'm sure

that the people that are involved, especially the funeral directors

and the loving family members, notice just how careful he

is while dealing with the dead. For the jeermis responsible

for disposing her or depositing the remains of people, and

he's done that now for a decade. Before church tonight,

I asked him, I said, how many people do you

deal with on a monthly basis? Somebody take a guess

on a monthly basis, he said, sometimes as high as

a hundred, but on average I deal with a deceased

people on a monthly basis. Sometimes that numbers a little higher,

sometimes that numbers a little lower. For the mathematicians in

this building tonight, you could do some number crutching, and

in less than fifteen seconds you could tell us that

brother Nathaniel, brother Jesse, and brother jer Miles, brother Jonathan,

brother Buport, all of these men that are undertakers or

have been undertakers, have dealt with thousands of deceased people

throughout their career. But brother Jeer Miles dealt with more

deceased people than anybody in this building. Somewhere between eight

thousand and ten thousand bodies have been dealt with by

the man sitting in that samboo tonight. And I want

you to know, for half of his career there he

lived with his mother and I, and for the other

half he.

Lived with his bride Leah.

And I know his mother and I and as well

as sister Leah, we can say there has not been

a timer when Jeremiah come home from work where he

brought a dead person with him. I'm preaching now you're

getting it, hey mare, Come on, brother Jeremiah. Do you

recall a single incident we're a funeral director or a

family member of the deceased that called you and said, Jeremiah,

hurry up and come over here to such and such

a cemetery because either George or George Etta has dug

themself out. George or George Etta is crawling around. No

death is final. Are you a getting what I'm saying

here to night? The apostle all what's making her clear

to the Christian believers in Rome that Jesus died and

the sin wat's and he lived and the God wants

him And next way you're supposed to be with believers,

you're supposed to be dead to sin whats Oh thank God, I'm.

Telling you here to now.

When I look the people that claim to be born again,

new creatures, recipients of new life, and they tell me

they are a Christian, I don't understand why they're dragon.

The dead man around. And I don't.

Understand why they're tethered or attached her to their own

simple lostyle. I don't understand why they're tethered or attached

her to old friends. I don't understand why they did

not get to a new playlist. I don't know why

they didn't die us in. But I'm looking at people

in this building the night that could say the night

I got saved, sain die, Jesus lived. Un to me, amen,

I'm a feeling of preaching now. Recently, Sister Hawill said

goodbye to her big brother, Charlie Lee Bath, and she

said goodbye for the last time. It was one of

the saddest things that I've ever experienced. We walked into

that intensive care unit, and Brother Jesse, when we saw

him lying there on the bed, we knew that was

not a get well soon bed. We knew that was

not thou shalt recover bed. We knew it was the

death bed. And I remember after about an hour and

a half long visit, for no visit would have been

long enough. I remember seeing my bride up over thirty years,

walk over there and look at her big brother, and

her heart broke and big teardrops begin to roll down

them pretty.

Cheeks, and Brother Jesse.

I walked up behind Jamma and put my hand on

her shoulder, and I said, it's okay, go ahead talk

to him, tell him you love him, tell him you're

gonna miss him. Go ahead, speak your final words to him.

And Sister Wounding it was her final address to her brother.

And when we walked away from his death bed, we

knew we would never see him again alive. Are y'all

listening to me? We would never see him again alive

in this life? And a golden text again Romans six

and eleven. Likewise, and reckon ye also yourself to be dead,

indeed unto sin did you catch it up likewise, reckon

you yourself to be dead indeed unto sin. The first

time I heard the expression dead as a door knell,

I was a young kid, probably in middle school, brother Jesse,

maybe around the age of a junior high student, and

somebody said, we're gonna have the Christmas play written by

Charles Dickens. I said, what is the title of this

Christmas play, this poet playright wrote?

And they said, A Christmas Carol. And as we.

Held that little pamphlet or leaflet in our hands and

we thumbed through it, saw something that stood out to

me then, just the same way that praise.

Stood out to me the last night, during a time

of prayer. Dead as a door naill.

Now I'm in the eighteen hundreds when Charles Dickens, who

was alive. Everybody that knew anything about fasteners and knew

that if you used a certain type of fastiener and

hit the building, that that fastener and those fashioners was

holding together was to be destroyed or damaged.

Or even burnt to the ground.

A lot of times people could go and they could

gather the nails or the fasteners and repurposed them specifically

reuse them as fasteners again. But when it come to carpentry,

specifically setting a doorway and setting a door, they would

have to install that fastener or that door door nail

in such a way that it would manipulate the integrity.

And just come on, are y'all getting what I'm talking about?

Of that pastor, than when the carpinger set the nail,

he knew it says, good as dead. I give it

my final pounding, I give it my final address. Because

now that has been set in the gem. Come on, now,

it is as dead as a doornail. Are y'all getting it?

It's not gonna be picked up, It's not gonna be repurposed,

It's not gonna be reused.

He says, dead as a door nail.

Now, when Apostle Paul was talking to the Church and

Emphasis and the Church of Colossie, he said, when you

were sinners, you were dead in your sin. You were

lost in your trespassesm you were dead in your sin.

In other words, spiritually you had no life. You had

already been sentenced a damnation in hell fire. But once

Jesus saved your soul, you became alive, eternal life. It's

yours instead of eternal death. And I want you to

know our preaching to some people here the night, proud

of your conversion. You are dead in sin as long

as sin dominate your life. But as long as you

figure out a way to repurpose it, along as you

figure out a way to use it over and over

and over again, you are not dead to it. You're

dead in it. You're dead in it. You're dead in it.

But when the carpenter set that now it was the

last time it would be used. What remained of your past, sinner?

What remains of your past? Christian?

Are y'all with me?

What remains in your house? What remains in your temple?

Know ye not that your body is the temple of

the Holy Ghost. Are y'all listening to me? God said,

a man cannot have two masters. You cannot be alive

unto the spirit of this world and alive unto the

Spirit of God.

Come on, now, somebody ain't getting it.

You need to let God fasten you tonight as a

nail in a short place, so that no weapon formed

agets you can stand, so that when the enemy comes

in like a flood, the spirit of God can raise

up a standard against it.

And if God.

Before you are what can be against you, and no

weapon formed.

Against you specifically to.

Your demise of or destruction will be successful. Come on now,

if you are dead to sin, but if you are

dead in sin, you are all ready a recipient of

a death, sentence of eternal death.

Come on now.

I remember years ago looking at a national geographic magazine,

and in that magazine even some of the tribal people

in remote places could understand that the power of being

tethered to something, the power of being tethered to something.

So I'm gonna say.

Again, I have not seen a dead man crawling up

and out of a grave yet, I have not seen

one tale brother Jeremiah the way from a cemetery to

his house. Because once it's dead, it's dead. What's that door?

Nails been set, it's dead. That's how you should be.

With the lust of the flesh and the pride of life,

you gotta be dead to sin. I don't want to

be tethered in my old ways. I don't want to

be tethered to my own way of thinking. I don't

want to be attached to my own way of life.

I don't want to be tethered to the pub. I

don't want to be tethered to the club. I'm telling

you here to not you're not getting it. But even

though tribal people are supposed to be ignorant and unlearned,

they knew the value.

Of tethering something the something.

And I remember coming through that National Geographic magazine.

And looking at what seemed to be small frame tribal

young people.

But brother, they were controlling or manipulating very large elephants,

and I wondered, how are they doing that? And those

very large elephants would have the smallest of vines wrapped

around their big the feet, and that small vine on

the other end would be tied to the smallest of trees,

a banana tree or something. And I thought, if that

old elephant just knew all he had to do was

pick up that foot, he wouldn't have to worry about

ripping the banana tree out. I mean, this thing could

rip out a cypress tree, or a bay tree, or

an old tree.

But he just.

Snapped that little green vine like it was nothing at all,

like it was a matchstick. But that elephant wouldn't even

a tempt to be free from it. Wouldn't even attempt

to shake loose from it. Y'all getting it now, ain't you?

And I wondered, why is this? Why is this the

nature this beast?

Why is it not fighting? Why is it no longer struggling?

Why is it not yet resisting? What's going on with

this elephant? And then the article of the journalists describe

this process said that whenever that elephant is very young,

the tribal leaders and the hunters of them tribes, they

go on a hunt and they find a little orphan elephant,

or they kill mama elephant or a bull elephant, if

needs be, and they harvest one or two or three

of them little elephants, and bring that cute little trunk,

swing and beast them into their village, and they tie

it with a decent sized rope, a sizeable rope, in fact,

and they anchor it to a sizeable tree, and that

little elephant will pull on it, and with that trunk,

it'll blow what sounds like a trumpet, and it will

let mama that is deceased, and the bull ell that

in no, I'm being held captive against my will. I'm

being held here against my will, with somebody come to

my rescue. And they said they'll pool against it, and

sister how they'll strug go for freedom. But then one

day their spirit dies and they no longer have the

fight for freedom, They no longer have the desire to

run with the elephant herd. And that's where somebody's act tonight.

You can stay tethered the Jim Beam and Jack Daniels.

And the Club Hoh in the pub, or come on

now and the ways of this world all you want to.

But I'm sayingful for every person there's still got some

fight in them that are still putting up an active

resistance against the devil. Somebody in this bed in the

night needs to tell Lucifer, I'm done being on your lease.

I'm tired of you jerking my chain. Do you not

realize you are a slave to Satan when you don't

have control over yourself, when you can't seize from sin?

Do you not realize you're being held captain? You say, well,

I'm as big Ha's that elephant.

I'm strong, my will is great. I ain't on heroin,

I ain't on crack cocaine. I give you that, but

you're bound. I said, I give you that. What you're bound.

You're still tethered to the old nature. You're still attached

to the old man. Some of you are getting it.

I remember being dead to sind.

When I got up from the altar, I realized I'm

no longer dead in sin.

I'm dead to sin.

There's former drug users and drug pushers in this building

that could say, I remember the difference. Years I spent

in vanity and pride, years I spent being dead in sin.

But when I knelt, the blood felt so good, so refreshing,

and it soothed my doubts, and it calmed my fears,

had dried up my tears. It's given me strength to

defeat the enemy. It's given me strength, Brother Nathaniel, I

don't understand what is the fascination of this world to

so many? Why are so many not sinsick, yet they're

so sin soiled and sin soaked. Why is it the

young people at the Bethelholeness Church tonight amongst eighty could

be struggling with things they've been struggling with for five

to ten years. Why is it, Sister Howell, that they

will walk out of this church tonight, Not everybody, but

four or five of us it's here tonight, we'll walk

right back into the same situation, into the same scenario,

and I'm gonna make this.

Real clear for you.

You'll go right out there with your big bad self,

and you'll tie a little vine around your ankle, and

you'll say, the big bad devil told me I can't

go to church. The big bad devil told me I

couldn't serve Jesus.

The big bad devil.

Elephant just had enough desire to rear up on its

hind legs and just thrust its weight forward. It would

snap the little gourd vine. They ain't getting it.

Son.

Thirty two years ago, I finally got tired of things

grace that separated me from God. Thirty two years ago,

like Brother Gabriel said, I wasn't having any problems. I

didn't have an enemy in this world that I knew of.

I had never had a drop of alcohol, I had

never used any drugs, had never battled with nicotine, didn't

struggle with fornication, walked out of the locker room when

people viewed pornography. But there was a god's size void

and a hold in my heart. And I remember thinking, God,

I'm so miserable I'm so unhappy. It's not that I

have an enemy in the world. What in the world

is going on? And I realized, Brotherhood, I was dead

in sin. And if the spirit of God can move

upon a valley of dead, dry bones tonight in our

mitst like it did a fifty four year old in

North Alabama, a backslider running from the will and the

planet of God, that the spirit of God could blow

over a dead soul tonight, Ezekiel was told to preach

into a valley that was full of dry bones, very

dry bones. And I'm sure he wondered, what will that

preach and accomplish? And the Holy Good? Said Prophesy, son

of Man, Prophesy. And that's my only hope is why

a fifty year old preachers preaching one more time? You

grew up as a kid watching me do this. That's

my only hope. That this is not falling on deaf ears,

that this is not falling on dead bodies. My only

hope is there's some spirit behind it tonight. I love

it when sons become brothers. I love it when daughters

become sisters. I love it when wives become sisters. I

was thankful that night my fiance had become my sister

into faith. Well, Preacher, I still struggle with the things

that I've struggle with for years. Can I ask you? Why?

Can I ask you why you're allowing that what is

supposed to be dead to dig its way out and

to crawl out of the cemetery and knock on the

front door of your house and say, I'm temptation, I'm

here for you.

Why do you allow.

That zombie of yourself in the past to crawl out

of that grave and crawl through that cemetery where you

tried to bury it and come to your house and

knock on your heart's door.

Why do you keep opening the door?

I saw God begin to deal with a young man

about twenty years ago, and I knew he was dead

in his sin because I saw what his sin was

doing to him. It was sapping every bit of life

out of him. It was destroying him. And I stood

in a parking lot and I talked to him for

two and a half hours. I took him through the Bible.

But but in the back of his mind, he had

the way he wanted to do it already planned out.

And here's what he said.

He said, I'm gonna go talk to the Baptist minister,

and I'm gonna ask him what does he think about it?

He said, I'm disclose to kneeling down in this parking

lot praying with you. He said, I feel almost electrified.

I feel the Holy Ghost anointing. I feel conviction haul

over me right now. I feel a need to pray.

But I was raised Baptist, and I need to know

what Baptist minister said. I said, when's the last time

you've been to church? He said, oh, probably nine ten years.

I said, so you need to go talk to him.

I'm standing out here and love to your soul. Just

spent two and a half hours. This was before everybody

had a cell phone. My wife thought my guts were

smeared on the highway. She didn't know what was going on.

She was calling people saying, my husband didn't make it

home with y'all go find him. And when they found me,

I was out there pouring my life out, my energy

after working a ten hour shift, talking to that man

in the dark, swatting mosquitoes and trying to tell him

you don't have to keep living a lifestyle of sin.

He said, I'm gonna go talk to another minister. I said,

you are He said, yeah, I'm a member of that church.

They baptized me when I was five. I said, listen,

I got saved. And when I got saved, I quit

going here, here, and here and here with you. And

I said that minister ain't checked on you in about

a decade. I'm your friend. I'm telling you can kneel

down right here and get it right now. He went

and talked to his pastor and a minister, an adult

class Sunday school teacher at the Baptist church. He said,

when he walked in, he said, hey, you want to

go down on the bulls. I in, you want to

go have a beer. Well, I'll come talk to you

about Jesus. Well he's thinking about going to the bulls.

I in, have beer, so we'll talk about it. And

so they sit down on a barstool and started talking

about the Savior and that Baptist adn't class Sunday school

teacher told him, Hey, you ain't got to listen to

anything about what that man saying. You've got to die

to sin, You've got to die to selfish desire, sinful lust.

You ain't got to listen to that preacher. He said,

we're all sinners. We're all sinners. I believe that we

are saved by faith through grace is to get to God.

I also believe in Jesus requiring godly sorrow, and when

He forgives us so greatly in such a one for manner,

and go in to sin and no more. But that

man came to work the next day and he said, well,

I went and talked to the adult class, a Sunday

school teacher at the Baptist church that I was somewhat

affiliated with. I said, ain't that the guy you used

to drink beer with a little bit? Yeah, I said, wow,

So you went and talked to him about your soul.

Wrong spirit? You know, that's what they call that stuff, spirits?

I said, wrong spirit. He said, yeah, I did. He said,

I don't have to go to church to be saved.

He said, I don't have to change. I don't have

to become a new creature. This whole message is proven tonight.

We got to die of selfish desires, sinful lust. We

got a dire to the die of the flesh, and

we had to live into the spirit of God. Well,

I could give you names right now, and both of

them men would allow you to call them because they

know it's the truth, and they know Brother Jeremy Howe

preaches the truth.

Y'all want to know the end of that story.

That man that I stood out there witnessing to and

swat mosquitoes that that night, decided not to pray and

do it the Bible way, that adult Sunday school teacher.

After about five years, he took his wife. Now, you

can play church all you want to, but I've seen

sin take people to suicide. I've seen sin split marriages.

I've seen sin bust up families. I've seen sin pull

daughters out of mother's loving arms and make them addicts.

We have a jail ministry. We go in there and

see the results of people that are dead in sin.

But the good news is we can tell them they

don't have to die an addict. They don't have to

die victim to suicide. They don't have to die miserable,

they don't have to die lost and undone without God.

The Bible said whom the Son makes free is free. Indeed,

I've never heard any captives say I'm experiencing freedom without

measure or freedom in abundance. You know when you're held

captive by your captor. You know when you're a slave.

Come on, we read it here tonight. We know who

we're bound to. We know who we're enslave to. We

know who jerks our chain. Oh come on, are you

dad is Sin? Or dad to Sin? I want to

call for an altar here in just a minute. But

it's time we have a wake up call. I want

to ask you here tonight, what's calling you already? Who's

jerking your chain already? His nicotine calling on you already?

His alcohol is I'm jerking your chain already, his drug addiction.

I've seen him right out of church instead of running

the altar and hide behind cars.

In the parking lot and hit it.

Come on now, because their master called them. Amen, Oh

that I had a pray in church tonight as I

pulled for their prodigals, you prayed over Oh that I

headed alive church tonight there was on fire to pray

victory in this house. I'm not gonna lock out a

crack addict whose eyes are recessed in their color, who

are skinning bulls and tell them you have abundant life,

because what they will say is I am captive.

So I've learned to speak truth to them. You need deliberates.

You need deliberates, And I've seen people man particularly that

would drink I believe a dozen beers a day.

He came to that altar.

Right there, knelt down and prayed we didn't have to

send him the alcoholic anonymous publicly he said, I was

a truck card, but.

I am no longer. Dad Is said, I am dead

to sin. How about you to night? Are you dead

in sin or dead to sin?

Because when you get truly born again, he washes away

the guilt and of shame. I'm gonna say it again.

That young man's sister, how that I witnessed to while

you wondered, was your husband dead?

On the highway?

He went and talked to the Baptist church adopt sonny

school of class teacher, and he used all kind of Bible.

But that young man stole the adult Sunday school classes.

Teacher's wife. They were two of my best friends when

I was in sin. When I was dead in sin,

I partied with them when I was dead in sin.

They enticed me. They said, it's just a wine cooler,

It ain't huh, sister, waiting to finally I have felt liberty.

We got through to somebody just now, Brother Nathaniel, I

remember that night I became dead to sin. I went

there dead in sin, and I came out of there

dead to sin. If any man being Christ, he is

a new creature. If you look at that. Literally, a

new creation means you go in there looking like a

mangled up menace and monstrous society, and you stand up

blood born again. It means the Paul Lane Epistle, Arthur

the Apostle, Paul himself can say I was once Christianity's

greatest persecutor, but now I'm her greatest promoter, Brother Philip.

That's why I believe the prodigals are coming. This church

ain't gonna stop growing at eighty. You're gonna see people come.

You know what I want to see them come with

tattoos from head to toe.

You know what I want to see.

I want to see them that are dead in the

sin of homosexuality praying this altar and come clean of

that death style. I'd be just fine for a murderer

or an illegal to pray right here. I'd be fine

with an adulter, an adulterous, a prostitute, a thief, because

that's what Apostle Paul told the print in church. He said,

in a list, very long list, he said, in fact,

all of you I'm preaching to right now, such were

some of you fornicators, idolatrs sister Wood and I wonder

who who he had in print to ses huh oh idolatre.

I wonder if he was to put a caption over

all of our heads tonight, what it would say when

we were dead in Sin.

I tell you because he can take it.

My adult sony school class teacher is a sweet man,

one of the finest Christian men you ever meet. But

the caption that nobody knows about that Jesus knew said, Well,

the night he saved you was rebel drug user, raised

in the home of people that what made meth drugs,

sold drugs, raided your house, took your daddy to prison.

You mother, come here. That was when you and your

family were dead in Sin. But I'll show you the difference.

Somebody get his Sunday school podium. We're in overtime tonight.

We won't be this long Sunday morning and Sunday night.

I don't want anybody to get discouraged and leaving. I'm

not trying to wear you out. I'm trying to help

some people in here that need help, that are sick

of sin. This is a far cry from being in

a wife beater getting body slammed.

Somebody's feeling it.

They barged into your daddy house, right, they pushed your

daddy to the floor.

Was a swat team.

Swat team come in unexpected like that when your family

was dead in sin. But now, Sister Woodin, I don't

hold it against brother Justin. I sit in that sound

booth and I hear him teach Sister Cindy, and I

never think about him being a drug addict. I never

think about his daddy being in prison. All I see

is an upstanding Christian dead to sin because of the power.

I see that tear flowing down your face because you're

his mother in law. Let me wipe it for you.

When he got saved, he started liking your daughter. He

came into the church a sinner and started liking your daughter,

and you knew he's no longer who he used to be.

He can have my daughter, and I'm not worried about

him slipping Our youth pastor and our youth group illicit substances,

because if he was still dead in sin, I'd be

scared to death, and I'd be checking the video surveillance.

But I believe he's dead to that sin. Are y'all

with me right now? Are y'all feeling this old? That

Heaven's white team would barge in this place right now,

and that Heaven's high Sheriff would arrest every soul and

bring them into Holy ghost captivity and make them his

love slave. As the spirit moves, these altars are open

as there's somebody in this building. Perhaps you've been in

church for a long time. You've been dead in sin

too long, Preacher. I've been fighting against it. I've been

struggling it. It just keeps coming. I'm giving you an opportunity.

Come on quickly, everybody, bay your head, close your eyes.

It's just like a thin vine.

You've just been bound so long you don't realize how

easy it is to be liberated. If I had a

measure and tape tonight, I could pull it from your

pew to the altar, and I could tell you just

how close you are to being free.

You're so close. Is there somebody? Maybe a howl?

Maybe one of my grandkids, maybe one of brother rode

caps kids.

Is there somebody right now? You will move? Come on?

Come on, I remember moving thirty two years ago. Come on,

I'm not against anybody. I'm for you. I'm for us

getting past this young person who's jerking your chain right now?

Brother Nathaniel, do you have a chain in your office?

You do?

I had no idea of that. We've got one in

the altar right now. Is there another? Don't act like

your chain to it, Admit it and say God, I'm

chained to it. He's a chain breaker, drug addiction and

has got control of me. Alcoholism has taken its toll

on me. Sin reigns in my mortal body. I can't

cease from Sin. I can't stop with the attitude problem.

Perhaps there's somebody that's so explosive. Anger is your master?

Is there somebody else? Come on, come on, service is

almost over. Let's give you an opportunity. Here's another. Any sisters,

any young women, anybody want to come clean with Jesus tonight?

Here's another. There's three? Is there another? Are you dead

in or dead to you?

Sin?

Jesus, Jesus, I'm gonna lay this chain on this altar

as a testimony that there's two more that need to

be in the altar because God has showed me who

they are. Here's one, is there another? There's four in

the altar.

Listen.

I will use plainness of speech. Most preachers wouldn't dare

go this far. But if pornography's calling you right now,

your chain to sin is displeasing to God. If alcohol

is calling you right now, you're chained to sin. That

is displeasing the God. If hatred and malice and jealousy, bitterness, unforgiveness,

there's one. Those are sins that are displeasing the God.

Pray for me, brother Nathaniel, unforgiveness. Let's just bring it

right on into the loving Church family, unforgiveness and anger?

Where yet? Where yet? Come on?

So we got five? Anybody else? Brother Jesse? I guess

I'll have to read it. And what concord hath Christ

with Beliah all? Or what part hath he that believeth

with an infidel? And what agreement hath the temple of

God with idols? For ye are the temple the Living God,

as God hath said? I will dwell in them and

walk in them, and I will be their God, and

they shall be my people. Wherefore, come out from among

them and be separate, Saith the Lord, and touch not

the unclean thing. And I will receive you, and I

will be a father unto you, and ye shall be

my sons and daughters. Saith the Lord God Almighty. Let's

continue to pray with heads bowed and eyes closed one

more time.

Before we pray with these? Is there one or two

more that would come?

Come on.

You can't be dead in and dead too at the

same time. Okay, this is it.

May Heaven's record or record that I tried this night

in the year twenty twenty six, in the month of

March to pull and made heavens recorder record that I

wash my hands of the matter, and that I commit

what only God can do to his care, because only

he can forgive sins and only he can save souls.

And I want to ask praying people together around with

these if you would and specifically pray for them. I

don't know what bias, I don't know what it is

going on inside their head. I don't know what's going

on inside their spirit, their soul, but I'd love to

see them set free tonight whom the Lord has made

free is free. Indeed, freedom is yours if you want it.

It was here, it is here.