Are You Living In A Genuine Transparency-Pastor J. D. Howell 2-4-2026

Amen, if you have your Bibles with you, will you

turn with me to the Book of Second Chronicles. Second Chronicles,

Chapter number twenty five, Versus number eleven through sixteen. Brother

Nathaniel Matthew, Chapter number twenty three, Verses number twenty seven

and twenty eight, And Brother Jesse Salm, Chapter.

Number one oh one in verse number two.

All right, Second Chronicles, Chapter number twenty five, Verses number

eleven through sixteen. Brother Nathaniel Matthew, Chapter number twenty three,

Verses number twenty seven and twenty eight, My brother, Well,

unto you scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites, for you are like

under whited sepulchers, which indeed appear beautiful outward, but are

within full of dead men's bones and of all uncleanness.

Even so ye.

Also outwardly appear righteous unto men, but within ye are

full of hypocrisy and iniquity. Is it that sad that

Jesus would speak to the religious leaders of his day?

There's something wrong on the inside. I want to preach

a message the Holy Ghost titled living in a Genuine Transparency.

Brother Jesse saw him chapter number one oh one, in

verse number two.

I will behave myself wisely in a perfect way.

Oh, when wilt thou come unto me, I will walk

within mine house with a perfect heart. He was willing

to walk within his house, which means through various rooms

of that house and behind different closed doors, and have

a perfect heart inside of his own dwelling Second Chronicles,

Chapter number twenty five, verses number eleven through sixteen. The

Bible says, and Amaziah strengthened himself and led forth his people,

and went to the valley of Salt, and smote of

the children of Sea Air ten thousand and other ten

thousand left alive. Did the children of Judah carry away captive,

and brought them into the top of the rock, and

cast them down from the top of the rock, that

they all were broken in pieces. But the soldiers of

the army which Amazi sent back that they should not

go with him to battle, fell upon the cities of

Judah from Samaria even unto beth Horan, and smote three

thousand of them, and took much spoil. Now it came

to pass after the Amazi was come from the slaughter

of the Edomites, that he brought the gods of the

children of Sea Air and set them up to be

his gods, and bowed down himself before them, and burned

incense unto them. Wherefore the anger of the Lord was

kindled against Amaziah, and he sent unto him a prophet.

God sent brother Nathaniel to some of you last Wednesday night.

Wherefore the anger of the Lord was kindled against Amaziah,

and he sent unto him a prophet, which said unto him,

why hast thou sought after the gods of the people,

which could not deliver their own people out of their hand?

And it came to pass as he talked with him,

that the king said it to him. Art thou made

of the King's counsel for bear, Why shouldst thou be

smitten than the prophet for bear? And said, I know

that God hath determined to destroy thee, because thou hast

done this, and hast not hearkened unto my counsel. Wow,

let's 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 way your spirit

moved in this service as it was getting started. I

thank you for the obedience of the musicians and the singers.

I thank you for the way the preachers exhorted tonight.

It was wonderful. Thank you for putting your word in

their heart. I pray now that you would continue to

put your word in my heart. Said, of God, have

my mouth, and help me to say the things you

would have me to say, nothing more or less, and

nought the ears of this thy people, that they may

hear what the Spirit of God says unto the church. Tonight,

we pray God, let these sayings descend below them shoulders,

Let them receive these words joyfully. Let them be hearers

and doers of what you say to them.

Tonight.

We give you the praise and the honor and the glory.

And may the Church depart this place joyfully and not

sorrowly in Jesus's name. And the church said, Amen, as

you're being seated, look at your neighbor and say, hey, neighbor,

what does God know about you? Respond with this, what

does God see you doing? We know God knows and

sees all things. Praise the Lord. Our text is found

in an Old Testament book of the Holy Bible. The

Second Book of Chronicles is a biblical book. And I'm

thankful for the chronicles that we find in this particular

book of the Bible.

It's an exciting read.

In this particular book of the Bible, we find a

lot about kings that did good in the sight of

the Lord, and we can read a lot concerning some

men that, for whatever reason, they chose to do evil

in the side of the Lord. We will be focusing

tonight on a certain biblical character name Amaziah. According to

verse number one of chapter number twenty five, this man

began to reign at twenty five years old. He took

over one of the greatest nations in the world at

the age of twenty five. Who in this building tonight

is at that age twenty five? Who's at the age

of twenty six, Sister Rachel. Could you imagine Sister Rachel

being the wife of a twenty five year old that

was holding the reins of great power to one of

the powerful nations on the face of the earth. So

there's no doubt at all that this man had the

right court, he had the right cabinet, There's no doubt

he had the right servants catering to his every whim,

There's no doubt he had the right counselors. Because of

the ancestors that had laid the foundation for government before him.

And so we know that there came a time in

his life when he was promoted from being a prince

to becoming king, and with this promotion came a lot

of responsibility and also authority. And the Bible indicates that

he was a man right in the eyes of the Lord.

And the Bible said, the eyes of the Lord are

in every place, beholding the evil and the good. Now

that's troubling to the evil doer, but to that one

that does good when people are watching and when people

are not watching, that is very comforting. Knowing that God

sees what you're doing at all times is most comforting

for the missionary that has fully committed himself to the

work of God, or for the stay of home mom

that is busy with a children on a day to

day basis, or the single mom that's doing her very

best to provide for her family. It's good to know

that the eyes of the Lord are upon each and

every one of us.

And Brother Jesse, there's no doubt that the.

Lord have been an eye of witness to the first

twenty five years of this young man's life, and every person.

In this building tonight.

You need to remember that one day you're gonna be

held accountable for every action you have taken, and for

everything that you have said, and even the idle words

that you are speaking of late. You're gonna give an

account for that. And the Church said Amen. And so

every aspect of this man's life and every action he

was taken without anybody else knowing, Jesus Christ.

Knew all about it.

Jesus knew about his imperfections inwardly and outwardly, Brother Jesse.

Jesus knew about his internal faults and failures. He knew

about his failures within the government of the nation of Israom. Evidently,

this young man had been raised up around the church

people of his age. There's no doubt he was familiar

with the House of God. He was familiar with a priest.

He knew all about their office, he knew all about

the ceremonial sacrifices that were required.

And he had a lot of.

Good and godly influences in his life before he was

promoted as king. And the Bible said that what he

had done up until.

This time was right in the eyes of the Lord.

The Lord could look upon with approval and say, without

a doubt that is right. But if you look at

the latter part of verse number two, there is a

comma after the word the Lord, and the Bible said,

but not with a perfect heart.

And he did that which was right in.

The sight of the Lord, but not with a perfect heart.

Oh come on, now, there's about three or four of

you in this building tonight. You know to do good,

and you choose to do it, while some choose to

not do so. But I want to preach to those

tonight who outwardly appear to be doing and saying all

of the right things. You have been trained in the

way that you should go, and according to the natural eye,

you have not deviated course. And for the most part

of everybody in harmony could say they have not departed

from this church into the present world. They're not like demons,

they're not like judas. They have not yet done what

was in their heart to do. I'm sure some of

the people in the life of Amaziah were great examples

of a godly person. And by the Caleb, he had

every reason in the world for why he should have

ended well and finished strong. But for some reason, even

though outwardly he did not appear to leave the course

or the path that they have set him on. There's

something going on, and inside I've seen something that totally

troubles me. It troubles my mind and spirits at times,

and it is this. The next generation does not always

choose to do the right thing. Not every person in

every church that I've ever attended has done the right

thing all ways. There's been some that have done the

right thing for a long time, and then after seemingly

doing the right thing for a long time, then they

take a hard turn and go and do the unthinkable

and the unimaginable, because it had been in their heart

to all along to do so. So. Not every person

raised in church has remained in the house of God.

We see this to be so in the days of

the King of Israel. We see them doing good, and

then we see them choosing to do bad. We see

some doing bad and others choosing to do good. Brother

rod Cap, you and Sister road Cap have learned better

than to assume your children will put their feet in

the footprints of their daddy and their precious sweet mommy.

They've got several children, and it has yet to be

seen if every one of them, road Cap children, We'll

finish strong and end up well, Sister how And I

can tell you of times when we saw our children

making decisions that would impact their lives in either a

positive or negative way. The only thing we could do

during those times was still away and enter our own

private prayer causets and ask the Lord to give us

the wisdom that we needed in order to provide guidance, instruction,

and direction to keep them from making shipwreck of their

Livesome with the row Cap family and the Howell family,

we can say without a doubt Jesus Christ has been

the centerpiece of our family's life. And the same thing

could be said about Amaziah and his father Joe Asham.

God had put the right men in the right places,

in the respective positions at the right time, Brother Jesah,

for such a time as them living and dwelling within

the kingdom. But they overlooked these golden opportunities to embrace

exactly what God was trying to do for them. So

let me say something to every prayerent in this building,

especially the ministers. Your children are to be your greatest

mission field. Your children are to be your greatest mission field.

The first part of this chapter seemingly describes some of

the young people in our Pentecostal and Holiness churches.

They are tender branches off the chute.

They are very humble, even meek souls, Brother Nathaniel, some

of them and our company den are very precious. But

some of the parents also in this building have been

that way as well. And to some of the kids

and some of the parents of late, we have been

preaching and telling them that there is a pride surfacing

for whatever reason, it is coming out on the exterior.

You can see their inability to really commit themselves and

their ways to the Lord.

You can see their inability.

To sacrifice theirself on the altar and to give everything

to God. You consists that there is something they are

holding on to. And pride does not always elevate somebody

to a prominent place or position. Pride does not always

bringing Amazi to the throne. Sometimes pride will take a

prodigal son to the pig pin. Do you know why

the prodigal son was able to escape dining with a swine?

It's because he humbled himself. And Brother Nathaniel, I feel

like there's a handful of people in this building. It's

some that listen regularly. You're about to have of fall.

We know that pride comes before destruction and a hearty

spirit before a fall. So we see at the age

of twenty five and Mazziah comes to power and brother

Jesse for twenty nine years, he reigns in Jerusalem according

to the word of God. Brother Nathanielitch seems like God

is with him. And at some point, though, Brother philipp

he gets in a bad situation, and he does, like

a lot of people in the Pentecostal and Holiness churches do,

including some in this building.

They look good on the outside.

They know how to put in their prayer request, They

know how to come forward to the altar, they know

how to say, please pray for me. They seemingly humble themselves,

but when they walk away, they're still sucking up in

the interior.

That is not God right.

Second Chronicles twenty five and verse number two again it says,

and he did that which was right in the sight

of the Lord, but not with a perfect heart.

And that can translate to.

Not wholeheartedly loyal, not with a wholeheartedly devotion, not wholeheartedly committed,

not folly totally, absolutely surrendered. Oh come on, now, how

could it appear to anybody that he's doing wrong? From

the outside, Nobody could put a finger on what this

man is doing wrong. In fact, at some point he

is in a crisis and he goes and he says,

we need to pray, we need to get a.

Hold of God.

And God sends him word that he can have the victory.

And brother Philip, he goes out to battle and he

wins the victory. And you know what happens. He takes

that victory and turns it into the worst cursor of

his life. For those of you that paid attention while

we were reading the scriptures during the reading of our

Golden Text, you will notice that they won the battle,

but they took the idols of their enemies, and they

brought them into their camp, and they set them up

and they worshiped them. I want to tell somebody in

this building, you are not living in a genuine transparency.

I heard the Holy Girl speaker that phrase and expression

into my heart today. For some reason, you want what

you can get from the Lord, but you don't really

want to focus on the Lord. Amaz I wanted to

be king amaz I wanted to be a affiliated and

associated with the people of God Amaz.

I wanted to be near where the preacher had a

hold of it. He wanted to be near.

Where the priest was offering the ceremonial sacrifice. He wanted

to put in his prayer request. He wanted to seem

to be praying. He wanted to laguer around the altar.

But there was something inside of his heart. He was

not loyal, he was not committed, he was not fully surrendered.

Once again, I will preach through this affliction. Once again,

I will preach through this sickness and try my best

to help somebody in this building tonight. There are people

in this building and in holiness of Pentecostal churches. They

are living in a genuine transparency. They are see through.

I have seen certain with my own eyes that are

so transparent that I could see their interls, I could

see their little organs working. I've looked at their digestive

track function. I've seen little tiny hearts beat looking through

those transparent fish and Brother Jesse, But there's some though

I've seen it through the years. They will cover their sin.

The Bible said they that cover their sin shall not prosper,

but whosover confesseth and forsake them shall find mercy. It's

been a few months ago since I preached that message,

not covered but cleanse And what you need to do

is come to the altar and ask God to create

in you a clean heart. God, would you renew in

that person I'm preaching to tonight a right spirit. You're

so busy do it like King Saul did when he

snuck off to see the witch.

You're living your life under a covering.

I want you to know a lot of people have

covered themselves with holiness attire. They built around themselves families

they're seeming the families of God. They've wit to churches.

We're greater knowing men of God preached. But somehow, some way,

they went through service after service and never got that

heart fixed. The Sima said of my heart is fixed,

O God, my heart is fixed. We're about to go

into a season her revival. Why don't you get it

fixed with God? Tonight? Not wholeheartedly, loyal brother Jesse, my

heart broke today as God reached for him one more

time before I destroy them. And when you read the

context of our text, it ends with destruction. The only

thing that amazon had going for him was he had

an appearance that he was doing good, and people followed

him because of the exterior and because of the position

in the placement where he had himself at Sister, Howell,

I feel this. I can tell you know. I got

a hold of it here tonight. Let me say something

to every person.

In this building.

If you get nervous in any Holiness or Pentecostal church

when a preacher takes the text, you have heart issues.

The Bible said that a wicked fleeth when no man pursues.

I've seen people before start sweating profusely and their hearts

start racing because the lawman pulled up behind them, And

everybody wondered, what is the cause of this panic? Why

is this person so upset? Why are they so alarmed?

And then you inquire and say why are you so troubled?

And they say, well, my registration's expired by tag is

out of date, and I have no automobile insurance. That

is every reason for why somebody should get a little

uneasy in a situation like that. And I'm asking you

a question here tonight, why oh why do you go

through service after service hearing.

The Holy girst? Ask that holy.

Police officer right outsideations and all but hand them to

you as you in there and say amen, and she

sit there and nod your head up and down. I'm

telling you Amasiah did not have the outward appearance of

a pagan king. He was not a king of a

pagan Nason. You don't look like the drunker tonight. You

don't look like her the thief tonight. You don't look

like him, the sinner tonight. But tomorrow could be different,

I said, tomorrow could be different if you don't get

that heart fixed. Amen, I don't plan to hold you

along here tonight, Brother Nathaniel. When I think about Amazon's

father who had served as king of Israel before him,

Brother Roquet, there was a time a sister Hell and

I considered naming one of our boys joe Ash and

after some of the things that he did to that

man that had caused his life to be spared. I

believe it was around the age of seven whenever Joe

Ash was protected by Jehoiadah, and Jehoah did what he

could do to secure the kingdom and the kingship for

joe Ash and brother Jesse.

Jehoah was right there with the young seven.

Year old as he became a man, The young seven

year old was mentored and guided by such a wonderful

man of God. It's looking familiar, isn't it. You're starting

to get what I'm preaching here tonight. Some of you

have had some great pastors, You've had some great parents,

You've pad some great mentors, and they have literally trained

you up in the way that you should go. And

you know just enough about religion to begous, as deadly

and as dangerous as the Pharisees whom Jesus addressed. It's

called her hypocrisy. The hypocrisy in your life must be

blinding to Jesus, the one that Caesar all things well.

As Joe Asher got older and for whatever reason, he

decided to kill the children of Jehoada, he decided to

kill the children of his mentor, the priest, the good

man of God, his instructor, the one that secured the

very kingdom for him. I'm telling you about a good

man that whip bad And I refused to name one

of my boys after that good man that done such

an atrocity to a good man, I said, I refused

to name my son after that bad man that did

such a bad thing to that dead man. You're still

gonna pretend to play church though, You're still gonna go

through the mechanics and the emotions. Joe Ash, you taught

Amazi some bad things, you dirty dog. Your son's in

the shape he's in right now because of some of

the things you done. Are you all listening to me?

In the back of Amazi's mind is my daddy. Joe

Ash was murdered because of what he did to Jehoahah's sons,

because of what he did to that good man's family.

Hey, if you would.

The vigilantes got a crowd together and they executed Joe Ash.

Amazon descended to the throne, but it wasn't without heartship

up and without consequence, and the damage had been done.

And the damage had been done.

I've seen moms and fathers, Oh come on now, preachers

and ministers, song leaders, Sunday school teachers. They come to

church and they act one way, but when they go

home they act in a different way. And Joe Ashen,

it doesn't take but a few years for everybody to

realize you weren't exactly who you said you were, You murderer, Oh, come.

On, now, you thief, you were not who you said

you were. Sama's eye. He's gonna play the part.

He's gonna be churchy, he's gonna do everything right, and

God Almighty is gonna say that's right, buddy. On the surface,

on the surface, it's standards and it's gospel music when

everybody's talking about Southern gospel music. On the surface, it's

praise the Lord. I believe, I feel the Holy Ghost.

And in the middle of Pentecostal worship, you're jumping and

you're running around in the.

Midst of the excitement.

But I want to ask you who you are whenever

God only is watching? Who are you when only God

is watching? And I want you to know He is watching.

And Brother Nathaniel, I'd already got eighty percent through with

my study when I realize just how hand in g love.

This connects with the message you preached last Wednesday night

that I was not here to listen to. But Sister

weove God yet again is speaking to somebody and telling them,

be sure your sin will find you out. What you

do in darkness shall be brought to light. What you

whisper to your son, He will take the action in

the street the words you whisper the family.

It will come out. I said it.

We we're without a shadow with doubt it will come out.

Parents struggle with country music. Somehow the son knows the

lyrics to every song. Parents that justify listening to love

songs by country music artists in moderation in front of

their family, because sin has a way of creeping out,

sometimes in the unexpected of moments, sometimes just s in

a fellowship, Paul, when a pastor sitting with a church

and somebody gets a little bit off kilter, and somebody

gets a little bit carnal, and they talk about a

song that Jelly roll sang. Are y'all listening? And I

look at them and say, who in the world is

Jelly Roll? I remember loving jelly Rolls in high school.

I remember getting them as a snack in this cafeteria.

But who is jelly And pastor realizes this is a

parent of one of the people in our church, And

somehow he knows the lyrics of a song that's seeminglyss

religious that Jelly Role has sang somewhere. And then you realize,

wait a minute, this man habitually listens to country music. Oh,

come on now, or are you listening to me here tonight?

I'm telling you it shouldn't meet. At every revival there's

somebody it's the same somebody praying through carnal things. They're

still fighting the same things. They're still struggling in the

same way. I'm here to tell you tonight. If they're

frequent in this altar, every time something has preached they

have a heart issue. I said, they are a monster internally.

I said they are a monster internally. It's always been

the case. You can choose not to prepare your heart

for revival, but it's evident we're going to revival, and

I'm attempting to take you there with us.

Every time over a.

Period of three, four and five years, when the preaching

gets taught and right like it is tonight, like it

was last Wednesday night when Brother Nathaniel was preaching. If

they're the first one in the altar and they teary

and they don't pray through, and they keep doing that habitually, invertedly, repeatedly,

there is something bad on the inside. I said, there's

something bad wrong on the inside. I wish I wasn't sick,

where I could really have the air I need to

preach it the way I feel it. I have a

burden to tell you here tonight. You don't stop that

you're gonna lose your son. One of you has already

done it, because I have taught you people that body

language speaks louder than words. And you can google that

and see seventy percent of communication is body language. Some

people say, possibly even more than that. You don't have

to let anybody hear your prayer. But whenever you come

to church and repeatedly in your righteous attire, in your

holy attire, Amazi, and you pray and say, God, I

need this victory. I need to pay raise. I need

to be able to provide for my family. I need

God to save my children. I need God to save

my wife. I need God to save my family. And

repeatedly you do that, and your body language speaks I'm

not holy loyal, I'm not wholeheartedly committed, I'm not devoted.

I'm not sold out. Hey, I'm not asking you to

be sold out to Jeremy Howell. Your problem is not

with a Bethel Holiness church. Your problem is God. Your

problem is a rebellion of God's word. Your problem is self.

And I will prove that in this message here tonight.

Your problem is your selfishness. I've seen people before so

full of pride, and you look at them and say,

what do you have to be prideful over? The Bible

said you did run? Well, who did hinder you? What

happened you took to turn that song on to see

what Jelly Roll saying, just because somebody want a Grammy

doesn't mean you need to know the lyrics of the

song since the how And I was sitting in a

restaurant about a year ago and there was this most

depressing song and so discouraging, and Brother Jesse, to be

honest with you, it almost seemed like he was just

telling people to give up.

And the lyrics went something like this.

I don't really know, but it said something like I

smoke to find consolation and comfort. I drank to find

my peace, don't judge me. And then basically he saved

me or something. And I've never heard my wife say

anything like this in thirty something years of marriage. She

looked at me, she said, Jeremy, ever since I got saved,

I don't hear these lyrics. I don't pay any attention

to these songs, she said, but what is that. There's

a demonic, depressive spirit behind that. And when that song

went off, they said, that's the new featured artist Jelly

Roll and Brother Jesse. I realized he had just enough truth,

an element of truth in them lyrics to relate to

the hypocrite, to give somebody that's looking for an opportunity

to connect with the world. Oh come on now, Amazon,

you praying and asking God and pretending like you need victory,

pretending like you.

Need a blessing from God. You can even quote it

my help coming from the Lord.

But when God gives you a blessing, you turn it

into a cursing. When God blesses you, when God delivers

you from your enemies, you bring your enemies idols into

the house of Kaida into your house. That is the

spirit of Acan, I said, that is the spirit of Acan.

They talk about them Babylonian garments being good garments. There

was nothing in the world good about a witch of

gold or garment to come from the world spirit. In

the sight of God. It was right in the sight

of God. But not with a perfect heart. You know

why some preachers preaching you never to take the anointing

because they're not preaching through right heart. They can quote

the Bible, they can quote chapter and verse, and it's

absence of the anointing. I've seen men before pray for

a wife, and they get a wife and they lead

them to the world. I've seen women pray for a husband,

and they get a husband, they let him lead her

to the world.

My Jesus, you're not getting it, are you.

Some watch in life, and some in this building of

seventy five to eighty two, or three in this building

of seventy five to eighty In three.

Years, you won't be here.

Joe ash got murdered because people disapproved of his actions.

God had nothing to do with that. His own actions

got him in trouble. His own wrongdoings got him in trouble.

You're wrongdoings are gonna come back to haunt you. I

remember being a young dad, and I remember thinking, man,

I better pray some of these things through. Because there's

a smart little Jeremiah sitting there watching me and sister him,

and Jeremiah knew if Daddy's needing to go pray, I'm

glad I went to go pray. I'm glad you come

to pray. Three to five times is enough thirty to fifty.

Somebody's got a major monster in there. Somewhere, there's some

kind of major heart issue. Pray it through. Now, let's

go over there and pray for somebody else. I am

for humbling yourself with saying God forgive me. That's what

David did. That's what others did in the Bible. And

you know what the Bible said. David had a heart

after the Lord. David said, I will walk within my

house with a perfect heart. I will set no wicked

thing before mine eyes. What he's saying is, I can

do whatever I walk to behind closed door, within the

walls of my house, whether it be a little shack

in the fields of Bethlehem or whether it be in

the back room of the palace. I can't continue to

do wrong in my house. You don't have to struggle

with the same sin week after week, year after year.

You can fast and pray. Some of these things will

never go away until you figure out you have to

fast and pray. Does nobody fast anymore. That's how attitudes

were changed, that's how spirits were altered through much faster

than prayer. In fact, Jesus was about to go up

to as sind unto his father. And this is not

in my notes, and I need a holy ghost to

help me. But he took three men with him, Peter,

James and John and those other ones. Stay down there

at the foot of the mountain. And down there at

the foot of the mountain, the disciples, who once had

power to cast out devils, pray for the afflicted, and

pray for the sick, and then be healed and delivered.

They are powerless. They're unable to cast out the devil.

And that father that brought that child to them disciples

at the foot of the mountain got frustrated and walked

away from them and went found Jesus and them disciples

the sighted to trail Jesus and that father on up

the mountain. And Jesus looked at him, and he said,

if you had just had faith, has the grain of

a mustard seed, you could speak to the mountain.

It's coming to me right now.

He was climbing a mountain, and he uses the faith

as the grain of a mustard seed. I mean, if

you just obey God with a little bit of faith

as the grain of a mustard seed, you talking about

a bowling alley, One little grain of a mustard seed

can knock your mountains down.

Faith has the grain.

Of a mustard seed would knock your mountains down. These

kinds go not forth but by prayer and fasting. Well,

I have anger issues. You fast and pray, and you

say no to little Debbie, and you say no to

King little Caesar, and you tell hungry howay kidee behind me,

and you take long horn by the horn, and you

push that steak out of the way, you push that

plate back, and you overcome. I said, you can roll

over mountains with a little crane.

Of mustard seed. I just heard it.

Sounded like a spiritual bowling alley, Brother Jesse, some God

in them disciples heart where they weren't.

Looking at Jesus to do it.

Apparently they were trying to do it.

Just a few chapters prayer.

They were able to cast out deaths, they were able

to raise the dead, they were able to heal the sea.

What's going on now? Their faith is waping. You know

what happens when you beat this altar up? Service at

their service, at the service, your little child's faith is waping.

Mulling over mountains with mustard seeds, moving mountains with mustard seeds,

Jesus standing on a mountain, Sister Wotna, I'm their struggles

and their addictions and their habits. Whatever's making God say

their heart is not right. Whatever's making God say, on

the outward, you are flawless.

On the outward, On.

The exterior, you're impeccable, mister Pharisee, mister member of the

Pentecostal Church, mister member of the Holiness Church. On the exterior,

you're impeccable. But Jesus said, inwardly you are full of

dead men's bones. What's going on? Why can't we pray

it through? Ask an analysis the fire? About that they

had the nerve to come into a Holy roller meeting

in the middle of a revival where the Holy Fire

is falling down out of the glory world, and they

come in there and offer something to Peter. And Peter said,

is this your offering? And they say, yes, this is

the offering.

This is the.

Offering you from that land transaction, that land deal, this

is all of it.

Oh, yes, this is all of it.

And Peter said, he didn't say, how is it that

you to have agreed to lie to me?

He said, you too have lied to the Holy Ghost.

You realize your lying to God. I felt that you realize.

You're lying to God when you come to this altar

and say, I will never listen.

To that trash again.

I haven't had to preach on these lines for a

long time, but you know what it is. I figured

out why you're a moobsterpoking.

To my heart. Told me what you're doing. Pray for

me church.

It's true, after a great victory, when he should have

been praising God in spirit and in truth and in

prayer and so on, he should have been worshiping the

Lord's sister wooting, we find him confiscating the idols of

his enemies and setting them up and choosing to worship

them instead. Last night, God said, there'll be somebody listening

to you that will commit suicide if they don't pray

through not maybe will. I told some of you that's

surfing that internet and just watching what other churches are

doing is going to kill you spiritually, because you'll develop

a mentality where they're doing it, they're getting by with it.

It must be okay. It might take three to five

years to get an elder in a church. But I

remember a few years ago when that woman from a

holiness church not too far from here. She showed up

and she come running in that night. And when she

come running in, I said, where have you been? I said,

three days ago? The Holy Ghost fell on me and

I started praying for you, and God said you were

in trouble. She no, sooner got right here. We praised

this to how you remember, she shouted all over the place.

I said, my troubles are rolled away. This is what

I needed. I come all this way to get help.

But she turned and went back from whence she came.

Two or three years later, she showed up again, this

time without me being notified of the Holy ghost. She

sat on the back pew, come out of a Holiness

church in this part of the country. And one night

one of our preachers was preaching against homosexuality. And she

went to dinner with my wife and I and she

told me personally. She said, I didn't like him labeling sinners.

I said, well, I know where you came from, they

may not do that, but here we're not afraid to

name sin. And then she piped up and she said, well,

I like to hear this one and this one sing

as much as this one, and this one and Sister Hannah.

They was just as world as they could be. And

that woman come to church here and one particular morning,

I will never forget it. We had three rows of

pews at that time, about right here in the same

spot she had shouted before she broke, and she prayed,

and the spirit of God spoke to me and said,

that spirit that's been on her while she's attending, that

of the church has left, and she now has the

right spirit. She had a different countenance, she had a

different appearance. She did not have a different exterior, because

in the exterior she'd looked good. She looked like a

holiness woman, but nobody knew the interior issues or the

interior struggles. And then she got on the phone with

some of her former church people and Sister Kathy. She

started going back and visiting and trying to find somewhere

where she was comfortable. And they told me, now she

despises holiness, and that woman lived holiness.

For probably thirty years.

That woman lived holiness in the midst of struggles. So

she went back, she went back to where I don't know.

I didn't give her any grief about it. She sent

a text and said I'm going back, and I said, okay, great,

it was goodwhilee lasted. We loved having you part of

our church family. People were looking at her exterior and

they had no idea what was going on on the inside.

But here at Bethel, God had dealt with Pastor that

she was struggling awfully internally, and I knew if she

don't park it, and she don't humble herself, and she

don't tarry, she's.

Going to lose out.

And I'm talking to somebody that will listen to this

in the days ahead, and somebody in this building. Joe

ash went from being a good young man to killing

the very one that secured the kingdom.

Brother Jesse.

Wouldn't it be an awful thing to see Brother Caleb

start hating Brother Roquat with a passion. When them little

things get in your heart, you better kill them little things.

When them little foxes starting nipping at the vine, husbands

and wives, your children start struggling and straying, you better

such your house in order. And dads and moms, the

only thing you can do is walk up brightly before

your Lord and be honest and humble, and say, God,

we need your mercy. Thou blind Pharisee, cleanse first that

which is within the cup and the flatter, that the

outside may be clean. Also, woe and do you scribes

and Pharisees hypocrites for year like white a suffolchers, which

indeed appear beautiful outward, but are within full of dead

men's bones and of all uncleanness. King Amazi of the

Old Testament was just like these Pharisees of the New Estimate.

There was internal issues. The eyes of Jesus saw how

they appeared a perfect to everyone else, but underneath there

was not a perfect heart. And I want to close

with this, both Amazon and the Pharisees they meet the

description of some of Paul's writings about certain men. He

warned young Timothy of it. He said, for men.

Shall be lovers of their own selves. Is that you.

Covetous boasters, proud blasphemers, disobedient to parents?

Is that you.

Unthankful, unholy without natural affection? Is that you false accusers,

incontinent fears, despisers of those that are good traders, heady,

high minded, lovers of pleasure more than lovers of God.

Notice this, having a form of God in but denying

the power thereof.

They go to church.

They get their little families together and they go to church,

and some of them teach Sunday school, and some of

them young people go into the youth class and they

sing in the youth group. But nobody detects there's something

wrong internally. It's true. Jesus looks on the heart. And

that's why brother Nathaniel preached like he did last Wednesday night.

And that's why the Holy Ghost interrupted the direction I

was going in and put me on this path tonight.

Samuel told Jesse and the brothers of David. He said,

the Lord don't look on the stature. The Lord didn't

taken a measuring tape and measuring the length of the

garment and the link to that man, and the heights

and the height of that lady. God already knows their measurements.

God already knows what's too short, what's too long, what's

too immodest. God knows all that. But what God sees

that nobody else sees is what's in here. And I

want to ask you a question, are you really about

to go through another revival which potentially will be our

greatest revival? Because you all know what we have felt

tonight up until this sober message. Are you really gonna

miss your opportunity to really become stable and rooted and grounded.

If anybody loved people, it was Jesus, and Jesus the

Bible say, for God so loved the world that he

gave his only begotten son, Jesus loved Judas. But Judas

had his own agenda, and you have your own agenda,

and Amazi had his own agenda. I don't care what

God said about idolatry. God gave you the victory. Amazi.

You ought to destroy them idols. No, I got a blessing.

Just because God kisses this service with his approval doesn't

mean he kissed you on the cheek. Judas, are y'all

with me? If you're not loyal to your church family

and loyal to the ministers in this church that are

giving up hours on end to preach to you, I

doubt you're loyal to the Lord. I doubt you're walking

through your house with a perfect heart and behaving yourself wisely.

Brother Nathaniel, I wish I had more strength. It's your temple.

I understand that it's your heart. I get it your house,

You're right, and God knows all about what's going on

inside God's eye, see what nobody else has sees.

Mm hmm