It Would Be A Shame To Starve To Death - Pastor J. D. Howell 1-14-2026

Amen, Brother Nathaniel, Would you turn with us to the

book of Amos. Man, direct your attention to chapter number

eight and verse number eleven, My brother, and brother Jesse's

Second Kings chapter number seven and verses number seventeen through twenty.

And beloved, could I direct your attention to Second Kings

chapter number seven and verse number two. If the Lord

has been good to you this week thus far, would

just say amen. If you're expecting him to continue to

be good to you this week, would just say praise

the Lord. Amen, Brother Nathaniel, Amos chapter number eight and

verse number eleven.

My brother, behold the days come.

Saith the Lord God, that I will send a famine

in the land, not a famine of bread nor thirst

for water, but of hearing the words of the Lord. Now,

Brother Nathaniel, did I just hear you correctly? As you

read the word of God, and the God of the universe,

the creator of the cosmos, would send upon this land

a spiritual famine, one where people wouldn't be able to

hear the word of God, which is the bread of life.

That the originator of such a famine, the creator of

the world, would create a situation that would bring forth

a famine for people here in the word of God.

How are they gonna hear without a preacher? And how

are they going to preach unless they be sent by

God to preach? What thus saith God, Brother Jesse, Second Kings,

Chapter number seven, Verses number seventeen through twenty.

And the King appointed the lord on whose hand he leaned,

to have the charge of the gate. And the people

trude upon him in the gate, and he died, as

the Man of God had said, who spake when the

king came down to him, and it came to pass,

says the Man of God had spoken to the king, saying,

two measures of marley for a shekel, and a measure

of fine flower for a shekel, shall be tomorrow about

this time in the Gate of Samaria. And that Lord

answered the Man of God and said, now, behold, if

the Lord should make windows in heaven, might such a

thing be? And he said, behold, thou shalt see it

with thine eyes, but thou shalt not eat thereof. And

so it fell out unto him, for the people trode

upon him in the.

Gate, and he died, And he died.

I want to preach a message the Holy Ghost titled

it would be a shame to starve to death. It

would be a shame to starve. Let's stand for the

reading of our golden text. Please Second Kings, chapter number seven,

reading verses number one through four. The Bible says that

Elisha said, hear ye the word of the Lord. Thus

saith the Lord tomorrow about this time, shall a measure

of fine flower be sold for a shekel, and two

measures of barley for a shekel in the Gate of Samaria.

Then a lord on whose hand the king leaned, answered

the Man of God. So the King of Israel, Jehoram,

had a pal, a friend, a confidant, a pal. Then

a lord on whose hand the king leaned, answered the

Man of God. You gotta be careful listening to what

your pals say. King Jehoram's pal, brother Caleb, he said, behold,

if the Lord would make windows in heaven, might this

thing be? And he said, behold, this is the prophet speaking.

The prophet responding, and he said, behold, thou shalt see

it with thine eyes, but thou shalt not eat thereof.

And there were four Letro's men at the entering end

of the gate. And they said, one to another, wise,

sit ye here until we die. If we say we

will enter into the city, then the famine is in

the city and we shall die there. And if we

sit still here we die also. Now therefore, come and

let us fall into the host of the Syrians. If

they save us alive, we shall live, and if they

kill us, we shall but die. I want to preach

a message the Holy Ghost title. It would be a

shame to starve to death. Let's pray, Heavenly Father, we

love and we praise you. We thank you for the

opportunity to be in the house of the Lord tonight.

I pray that you would bless this thy people, these

precious people. Let them hear what the Spirit of God

says unto the church tonight through the preach word and

of your words.

We pray.

And this thy service of a guard in my mouth,

and help me to say the things you would have

me to say, nothing more or less. I pray God

that the Spirit of God would be in this place.

Let these sayings go below the shoulders. Let them saturate

the soul and the spirit.

I pray. We're looking to you to help us here tonight.

God, as that servant's eyes upon the hand of its master.

Even so we look for a handful of purpose. From

thee to night.

We give you the praise and the honor and the

glory in Jesus's name. In the church said Amen, as

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

Don't sit still. Amen.

Our text is found in an Old Testament book of

the Holy Bible. In the first verse of the seventh

chapter of the Book of Sacred Kings, we see a

very familiar name, the name of the prophet Elisha, the

successor to the mighty Prophet of God Elijah. I know

that the names Elijah and Elisha are not strange names

to the.

People of the Holy Book.

People that take the Divine Library into their hands and

read of it, they know all too well about these

great prophets. Truly, they were remarkable and notable men of God.

The Bible readers and students among us tonight could tell

us so much about this particular man of God. I

thank God for that day that this man of God

put his hand upon the mantle of the great Man

of God Elisha, and smote the river Jordan, and asked

the question, where is the God of Elijah, And there

are people in this building.

You have been given so much.

You have grandparents and preachers and teachers in your life

and in your past that have been spiritually significant as

spiritual mentors to you. And when you think of a

person or a prophet, or a seer or an old

miracle of God, you think of that significant person in

the present or in the past.

I think the.

Lord that these children in this building tonight can be

assured that God is the same yesterday, today, and forever.

And God said he was the God of Abraham, Isaac

and Jacob. For a reason, he let everybody know he

would not only be the God of Abraham, he would

choose to be the God of the future generations. And

I look around in this place tonight and I see

people that have come from different areas, different geographic locations,

for whatever reason. And as the pastor here, I have

heard some of the reasons for why you showed up

on our doorsteps, slid in our pews, and decided to

hear the word of God here at the Bethel Holiness Church,

as preached and taught by the various ministers here. And

so I believe that we have people in this building

tonight that are hungry for the truth. I believe you

are hoping that your hungry soul will be fed. And

there's people testifying on a weekly basis saying, we are

like the well fed calves of the stall. We have

been blessed in order to feast here had to Bethel

Holiness Church. Can I tell you that God could send

a famine here. As long as you have a heart

to seek the Lord while he may be found, and

as long as you have a spirit of humility and

not one of haughtiness, God will continue to open the windows.

Of heaven and pour out of blessing.

And God will continue to bless the generations upon generations.

And so Elisha knew what it was to see his predecessor,

Elijah have a personal, intimate, real relationship with the Lord.

And so this man Elisha, though in his day and hour,

he matters to somebody. And I want to tell grandparents

and parents here tonight, you matter to somebody. Your little

children and your nieces and nephews. They're looking to you

to lead and to guide them. It is true that

they have the word of God, and it is true

that God has put special men like them Elisha and

Elijah in the path of some of us and other

people of God throughout the years. But Sister Howell, I

think of the generations that were blessed with great men

and women of God. But what about the upcoming generation?

What about your children? Will you see to it.

That they have a source of life and.

A source of substance and sustenance in the days of head.

Because it is true that we are living in times

like that is described by the prophet Amos. We're not

only living in the perilous times that's described by the

great Apostle Paul, but we are living in a time

of spiritual famine. There are churches on Airprick Corner, a

lot of Christian radio stations are broadcasting the Word of truth.

But I've never seen a more hungry people in my life,

spiritually speaking, than those people of this generation. They attempt

to feel this God's size void in their heart with any.

And everything besides the Word of God.

I remember the men of Martin Luther's generation, how they

admired him because he went against the grain of the

teachings of Catholicism. I remember reading about him and his biography,

how that he took that statement and knelted upon one

of the big cathedral's door and he let people know

that they did not have to repent at their sin

to a priest or a pope, but that they simply

needed to dip themselves in the ruby red blood of

Jesus and that they could find salvation through grace and faith.

And because of Martin Luther refusing to die of hunger,

and he was he was going through a spiritual crisis,

and he realized although he was religious, he was missing something.

And he realized that church, that Catholic church, that was

preventing the parishioners from having their own copies of the Bible,

was allowing those people to live on meager portions of

what the saith God. And so their poor sister Wood

and I see Martin Luther as somebody that liberated a

lot of people from spiritual captivity. And then I think

of the men like Charles John and Charles Wesley, how

they were natural and spiritual brethren who were raised by

God fearing parents. And these were men who together would

preach in the open air if they were not welcomed

to minister inside of the Orthodox churches. And what they had,

they were willing to preach inside of a church and

outside of a church. In fact, John Wesley one time said,

after some spiritual doors of some physical churches were closed

upon him, he said, with holy boldness, that the world

is open before me, and the world is my parish.

What about the prosperous William and Catherine Booth who would

look around and see that they needed to do more

than making a mark on this world, but rather they

chose to minister to the least and the lost and

the lonely. The founders of that holiness movement and the

organization called what the Salvation Army great generals, just like Elisha.

Was in his day.

I remember reading some time back they said that the

followers are those who loved. Catherine Booth falked over there

to London, and during her wake some two hundred thousand

people were counted as those who really and truly wanted

to pay their last respects to somebody they considered to

be their spiritual mother.

The undertaker said that when they went to.

Turn her body over before her burial, he said that

her garment was saturated with the tears of those that

were able to get to her casket and acknowledge the

loss of the spiritual mother. And the same thing was

said about Elijah and Elisa when they died, kings and

queens and royalty, they cried out and said, my father,

my father, the charits of Israel, and the horsemen thereof

You see, this man Elisha had been a spiritual father

to many people, and this book of Second Kings tells

us how much he meant to the people of his nation.

I'm gonna try to preach through this sickness here tonight

because I feel like God gave me a handful of

purpose of some sort of grain or primender for somebody that's.

Hungry here tonight.

I'm not talking about a natural hunger, and I'm talking

about a spiritual hunger. And you know, concerning this man Elisha,

people would have respected him. They would have respected him

because of the mantle that he held and the call

on his life as administered by Elijah. But they also

respected him because of the testimonies of others, the miracles

that God had performed through the hands and the mouth

of this man. He would have been one of the

most disgusted me in Israel, not one of the most

disgusting me in the of the United States.

Like we see so prevalent today.

But one of the most disgusted men of Israel.

You see, Sister.

Road Cap, wouldn't be one to suggest a compromise. And

I know that she's that way because of who her

pastor before me was, Brother William Strickler, was not one

to ben or the budge herd of bows.

Thank you, Brother Nathaniel.

First time I've had problems with my voice in probably

fifteen years, So I know the devil is attacking me

tonight because somebody, somebody this building, you need to admit

and acknowledge.

That you are perishing for hunger.

Since the road Cap, this man Elisha would not have compromised,

I'm telling you, because he was the successor of a

prophet of fire, and that prophet of fire would not

have made a sissy preacher out of this man of God.

He become an oracle of the most high. He was

never found shirking his responsibilities, nor would have ever been

one that was hiding from the crowd or shirking tell

her somebody what the saith God. With that being said,

with all of these heroes of mine, I've named so

many in the last ten minutes, and they're standing amongst

us the great cloud of witnesses. Let me tell you

what the Lord gave to me for some of you

listening to me as I preached this message. If you

look at our golden text again in Second Kings, chapter

number seven and Burst number two, the Bible said, then

a lord on whose hand the king leaned, He answered

the Man of God and said, behold it.

The Lord would make windows in heaven. Might this thing be?

And he said, behold, thou shalt see it and with

thine eyes, but thou shalt.

Not eat thereof and Burst number one, it was the

recognizable voice and the recognizable person of Elisha, the credible

words and witness of the Man of God that were

speaking these words a promise, which were words of prosperity

and words of plenty.

And I want you to know there's seven million people

in the world, and the word of God.

The breath, the bread of life, has been put on

shelves in a lot of stores. It's awaiting somebody to handle,

it's awaiting somebody to pick it up, and somebody ingested.

But instead, to their shame, they choose to starve to

death and to die spiritually.

And then finally naturally. Let me say that this man.

Elisha surely had to be disappointed when Jehoram allowed his

pal to speak up. And this probably is the reason

why the kingdom is in the shape that it is in.

This is probably the reason why a lot of church

people are in of shape that they are in is

because somebody's heady and haughty and high minded. When it

comes to this preaching of the Word of God and

a true blue puvanilla grade, a minister of the Gospel

preaching the truth. There's always somebody next to that person,

let's call them the King's pal, that will say I

don't believe it.

I'm not so.

Sure that's necessary. I'm not so sure that that is

a requirement. I'm not so sure. I'm a little bit uncertain.

Oh the ugliness of unbelief right here in the courtroom.

Of the king.

Jaho Ram Listen, it wasn't just an ordinary preacher that

came that day with a message. It wasn't a pipsqueak

minister preaching a three point sermon that is super dull.

It's not somebody coming with three points, a poem.

And a song.

It is a man of God coming into the place

to tell the King, here is a rope of hope

for this nation that is in trouble. And the King's

pal he speaks up and interrupts the credible witness of

the man of God and says, sarcastically, if windows in

heaven were to be opened, could this thing be possible?

But I want you to know the Bible said.

That God is not mocked whatsoever mad, so that shall

he also reap them. Also, God said, after He's given

it to all efforts, all honest efforts, and he reaches

whenever people come up to knows and him and they

mock him, he said, when their calamity.

Comes, he will laugh at it.

And so the great incredible witnessing other notable Elisha, he said,

with just a smart likeness as Elijah with him mocked

the prophets of Jencel Bell. He said, big boy, you

just heard about it. Let you see it, but you

will not partake of it. And I kind of feel

like mister King's pal. His knees buckle. And at this

point it's kind of like Judas hearing the word of Jesus.

You just go ahead and do whatever you want to do,

big boy, because you've already made your plans with Cayphas

and his cronies. Come on, now, Jesus was not one

for politics. We don't find him whining and dining with pilots.

We don't find him in a fishing boat with Caiphas

or on the golf course with Anus. We find Jesus

telling people words of truth. And I'm telling you, when

God allows his man that is of credible report, incredible

witness who's got signs following, and God tells that man

to tell you there is a blessing coming, can I

tell you that's whatever a preacher of the Gospel has

been doing since Jesus gave his life, is putting their

life on the line to tell others that you don't

have to die for your sin. I want you to

know the great preacher Charles spurs and spoke along them lines.

And as I read what he wrote years ago, the

Holy Guess spoken to my heart and he said this.

He said, I died.

For their sin, but if they will not receive me,

I will let them die for their sin. And I

want to ask you the question here tonight. Will you

let Jesus die for your sin? Will you accept the atomac?

Will you dipple in the ruby red body. Oh Jesus,

because the truth is, you've seen it, but you better

partake of it. I said, you've seen it, but you

better partake of it. You think about these guys, they're

dealing with the spirit of haughtiness. We've heard the world's statement.

The bigger they are, the harder they fall. We're never

too tall to fall. King Saul could tell you about that.

I feel the Holy ghosta in this place, even preaching

over sickness.

I'm just like you.

I'm sick in body and the last thing I feel

like doing is pushing this hard.

But I've got a burden on my heart.

And I'm telling you this man that came in there,

he didn't need any explanation of his words. There was

no diviner or seer or prophetess or prophetess that would

come in on his wake and try to explain what

the man of God has said. I learned a long

time ago that God speaks in short, simple sentences, and

a lot of people want to play by playbook on

why they need to do what He would have.

Him to do.

But more Elisha just motors in there, any motives right

back out, and I'm telling you, there's probably somebody trying

to go behind and.

Say, well, King, this is what he means.

Let me say this to the King's pal that's more

than likely in a place he wishes he was not there.

Let me say this to the person or the person's.

Tonight who is starving to death and simply refusing to

eat at the King's buffet. I'm telling you, prosperity and

blessing is in your horizon and it's on your future.

But I just want to shake this and get this

off of me and go on the King's pal. He

did not need an explanation of this spiritual truth or revelation.

Elyceus track record is without blemish. The miracle is about

to happen, whether he particularly personally believes it or not.

And that's what I want to tell Bethel. The miracle

is about to happen. That's what God told me in

the bedroom last night as I was trying to sleep

and bridle sickness. God said, the miracle is about to happen.

Some will stand on the threshold as the windows are open,

and they will see it pour out, but they will

not get.

To partake of it.

Oh God, I remember coming to a place where I said,

I need.

More than knowing about it.

I need more than a testimony have I seen that

I need to be that, I need to be that

child of God. Now, y'all keep in mind, God gave

me this last night, and I'm preaching this in a

shirt that I'm gonna give to brother Philip come Sunday.

It's the first time I wore it. And when I

get fired up and start preaching, it's creeping up.

Hey man.

Literally, Elisha is saying, the blessings of God is just

outside of that gate.

And that's what I saw.

The blessings of God is just on the other side

of that gate. Some of you are getting it and

some of you aren't. The Apostle Paul put it this

way in First Corinth Tens, chapter number two and verse

number one fourteen, one of my favorite verses. He said,

but the natural man receiveth not the things of the

Spirit of God for their foolishness unto him. Neither can

he know them, because they are spiritually deserned. I remember

a time in my wife's life when she would look

at me as I was witnessing to her and telling

her about what the Bible said. She could acknowledge Jeremy's

got this great joy. She could acknowledge Jeremy has found

this great peace, she could acknowledge that the hand of

God was upon my life. But she said, I just

don't see it. I just don't understand it. This is

why we have to become a new creature in Christ Jesus.

Old things have to pass away, and behold, all things

will becoming new. Is that what the Bible said? If

that's a powerful word, is it not? If any man

be in Christ, he is, it's not. He might be,

He might be tomorrow, he might be next year, he

might be developmentally over a period of time. I don't

believe in progressive salvation. You can believe in progressive sactification

if you want to, but I don't believe in progressive salvation.

The night I got saved, I knew God has saved

me from my sin.

Now he didn't leave me in my sin.

So I was of praying about that, and I said, Lord,

you know, sometimes we look at that as though it's

just a sheep becoming a better sheep. And God spoke

to me and he said, no, that's not what I'm

talking about. I'm talking about a new creation. And I said,

say on, holy Ghos. He said, it's kind of like

a Siberian tiger becoming a limb. I said, I get

it now. New attitude es, new mindsets, new grazing. You

go from meat mushing, or come on, the grazing and

green pastures. You go from chewing up everything in anger

and being mad and crunching bones and throwing tempered tantrums.

You go from being a roaring, lying like your father

of the Devil to be in a meek lamb like Jesus,

taking a smile on one cheek and taking another on

the other cheek.

Come on, I'm preaching to you.

I say, when Jesus gets a hold of you, he'll

take the Bengal tiger or the Siberian tiger out of

you and make a sweet.

Little fluffy lamb out of you. Amen.

Well, I don't want to be a sweet, fluffy little

laugh exactly, Amen, exactly, but I want to be a

shape by blah blah blah. I feel like preaching to

you here tonight, through this sickness. I wish the devil

wouldn't fight my voice. You all know I never battle

with my voice.

Like this.

I guess it ain't too bad. Really, it's not squeaking

like a little boy's amen. But you know, people's visions

are cloudy, and Brother Jesse, it's a toxic attitude concerning food.

They feast on the wrong things. They feel like certain

things are gonna kill them, that will help them. They

feel like certain things are gonna help them that will

kill them. It sounds exactly like Apostle Paul's words. They

call good evil and they call evil good. They have

no moral compass, They have no sense of right and wrong.

Can I tell you to be in that situation? It's

to be on the borderline of reprobation. A reprobate mind

is somebody that has no moral compass, somebody has no

spiritual compass, that has.

No sense a sense of right and wrong.

I have never seen a generation, sister Jenny, that has

rallied together more preachers to tell us that's okay for

a Christian to commit habitual sin than this generation. In fact,

whenever their megachurch pastors get done preaching, everybody walks out

and they have a plan to get drunk tomorrow, and

they have a plan to commit fornication the next day

and they have a plan to commit adultry the next day.

I mean, they might as well rob a bank, because

there's nobody gonna condemn whatever it is they choose to do.

But a Christian has no desire to do that. A

pig life slop, not a sheepe.

Do you want to say, oh, kabah, the king's pals

destroying the kingdom. There's people that are destroying our lives

and our families, and they will destroy our kids. And

that's when Sister how and I decided we may have

been popular in that high school of six hundred. Her

and I ran for homecoming king and Queen. Our best

friends got it.

We didn't get it.

Our best friends got prime king and prime Queen. They

say we were near runner up of about six hundred

kids getting the popular vote.

Sister Grace, that's what it means.

We were wildly popular in a big public high school.

But you know, since we serving Jesus, since we started

serving Jesus, we may not be so wildly popular. But

I lost my love for being popular, and I lost

my love of politics and being everybody's friend. And I

learned to tell people the truth. Now, when that ugly

fat girl comes up and ask me and my beautiful

I no longer sit there with a cold, great grin

and say you're so beautiful, miss Piggy sister how leehn

Lloyd you know him. I'm about one of your best friends.

She didn't run for homecoming queen or a prime queen,

I'll tell you that.

But she carries us to Charity's dress. Amen.

She asked me one time, she said, Jeremy, am I beautiful?

And I said you ain't.

Beautiful, You're gorgeous. Back then, I just want to say,

whatever make everybody feel better. I'm preaching against my nature

right now. I'd like to look at little pigs that's

been slopping at the bar down there and say, look

at you, you little angel. I'd like to be a

charismatic church pastor and be loved by everybody. But that's

what happened here. Y'all think about Elijah's emotions and feelings.

When he walked out of the King's Palace and mister

smart alect the King's pal he said, we have God

opened the windows of heaven. Would God turn this famine around?

What I want you all to know is there were

two women that were bowling their babies in order to

satisfy their hunger. Two women were bowling their babies and

one of them decided, I'm not gonna do it, and

she entered a pack where the other mother said, I.

Tell you what we'll do.

We'll eat mine tonight and we'll eat yours tomorrow night.

But when it came time to eat hers, nobody knew

where her little baby was.

She didn't want to hold up her on her end

of the bargain.

But I suspect that man, the king's pal, who the

king liked to lean on his shoulder. I suspect he

was there when the king was riding out the city

gate that day, and then when he took a ride

up on the wall and them two women start hollering

at the king and saying, king was starving to death.

Why don't you do something about it? And he said,

what is this disputation among you too? And one of

them said, he she told me we would eat its baby.

She told me we would eat her baby. And you

know what, at least Jehoram said, who am I to

help you with this? I'm not God. After people bawling

their kids to survive, After mothers of Israel praying and

crying and asking God to turn the famine abrown. The

Man of God comes into the King's palace and offers

a promise of hope, and mister smart Elec sounds like

a lot of girlfriends with her boyfriends. I see what

God's dealing with you about. You really think it could

be that good for us?

I believe it.

I remember that night October nineteen ninety two. God got

to dealing with me. I was a backslider sitting in

the back of the church. Spirit of God was moving.

There was an evangelist that had never preached there before.

I don't think you ever preached after that there. God

got to dealing with me that night. I was miserable inside.

There was a God sized void inside of me. And

I remember my fiance sitting beside me. She's scratching my

back right in the middle of a good, annoyed sermon.

I'm a listening a man of this world. She's a

woman of this world. And God dealt with me. The

only way you're ever going to have true joy, and

true happiness and true peace is if you surrender to me.

And I remember I got up out of.

My pew and I made the walk it.

I remember ten thousand devils are more screaming, said, she'll

never stay with you if you serve God. Ten thousand

demons are more said, if you go to the altar,

she's going out the back door. And I got up.

I remember her fingertips, come here, brother Jesse, her fingertips

going like that, And I remember, are y'all listening tonight?

Do I have a pray in church? There's some things

that will never.

Be satisfied without Jesus. Only Jesus can satisfy your soul.

And jeho Ram. I wonder if he said to his

little buddy. I wonder if he said, you know who

that was you just talked to like that? Do you

know the dead has been raised under his ministry? Do

you know that the man he followed, whose mantle he's wearing.

When that man prayed, fire fell out of heaven and

consumed groups of fifty Do you know who that was

preaching to you? I imagine the king said, do you know

who that was? There was a reason I.

Was being quiet. I knew when not to speak, but

you spoke up.

I wonder if Joho Ram started realizing this is the

problem right here, the Bible said, evil communication corrupt good manners.

This is the problem right here, this King's pal. And

that's what I'm telling some of you. You got a

close buddy or a close pal. Oh, come on, now,

sometimes you think they mean well, but they mean bad.

Y'all.

Do know that Samson was convinced that the Lilah loved him,

but all along she had a plot and a poor,

a sinister scheme, and a diabolical plot to destroy the

liv of Samson.

And I feel like this king's pal was in the

court of.

Jehama as he impoored by the temple to destroy the

nation up he Israel. Well, that's just an old holiness

preacher down there. That's just a hole in this church,

just the Pentecostal church, just a group of people down there,

the King's pal.

Let's skip it. Some here. People's vision is cloudy for

whatever reason.

Listen, If they need to go to a spiritual pool

and wash the dust out of their eyes with holy

ghost water, they need to be on their way. Some

things are spiritually deserned. Can't you see what the Holy

ghost is trying to say? Can't you hear what the

Holy ghost is saying?

Tonight?

Can't you understand who's speaking these words? Just not the

words of Jeremy. It's the words of the Holy Ghost.

I'm preaching all of Betheil. They tell me there's about

eighty of you here tonight. Let's hear what the spirit

says under the church. But you know what, I'll try

to put some filler in here in just a minute.

Fast forwarding when it came time for this prophecy or

this promise of prosperity to be fulfilled, the King sent

his body down there, and the King said, why don't

you go stand there at the gate? You Bible readers

and Bible students know where I'm going. I want you

to go stand out there at that gate because you're

fixing to see what the Man of God said come

to pass, and to paraphrase, when they came in with

the blessings, it'd be a shamed start to death. But

what's greater than somebody starving to death, somebody that literally

had the blessings right before the very eyes being stomped

at death. And that's what I want you to know.

You can sit still in the King's palets, or you

can be like them. For Leftro's men that we read

about that. We're sitting down there at tech gate and

you can sit still. And you know what them leftiss

men were making a decision. Do we go into the

city where Jaho Ram and everybody else is. We're gonna

be unclean. They're not gonna want to send there anyway.

And if we're in there, we're gonna starve to death.

Do we go to a church and become religious. We're

gonna starve to death anyway. Or do we just sit

here at the gate like Leffers and holler unclean every

time somebody walks by, and just sit here till we die.

Dwindle the weight of nothing. Sit there in the church.

There's nothing more than a halfway house that makes every

pig feel clean. Come on, now, why sit we here

until we die? It'd be a shame to sit in

a church, even if it's got the word holding us

on the marquee and dining inside.

I tell you this, it ain't looking good for that church.

He used to run fifty and now runs thirteen on

Wednesday night.

Things ain't looking good.

It sounds like the symptoms of the side of a

famine to me. Can I tell you again what the

word of God said, a famine comes from God. Sometimes

I set a famine comes from God. Sometimes it'd be

a same to sit there and starve to death. Huh.

I've seen him. I've seen him sit right there. I'm

gonna stick with a ship. I'm gonna stay with it.

An hour's too far to drive. I'm just gonna stay

rude and to stay grounded, stay planning right here. That's

all right. You don't want to leave a six digit salary,

do you? That's all right. God can take a little

boy from Mulberry, Florida, move him to the little bell,

and promise him in just a few years, I'll get

you there. Are y all listening to me here tonight?

I feel like some of you are as nervous as

a rooster struck through the parking lot of KFC tonight

for whatever reason. Huh, Sweet Lamb of God, I preach

it to you here tonight. The blessing is on the horizon.

The blessing is just outside the gate. And the king

told his body you go on out there and you

witness that what them leopards said is true. I'm gonna

cut along, sermon short, and while you're looking, and while

you're watching, you better be careful that you don't get

stalked to death. And the Bible said that mister smart

elech that stood out there, you know, he's nothing but

skin and bones. Ain't no more crickets on the sidewalk.

There ain't no locusts on the window seal. There ain't

no wine in the great vat. Oh, there ain't no

green skin in the wine press. There ain't no marley

her grain on the barn floor. And King's pal coming,

and he's standing at the gate, doud, and every thing

God said, and here comes the blessings of God. And

the Bible said, he gets trampled up under the feet

of those that are carrying the blessings of God. I

want to tell you we better stand up and give

with it a lord be trampled on.

Amen.

God speaks of a wine press being brought forth and

the grapes being cast in, and he literally speaks of

him getting in there and treading upon those that tread

upon the blood of his son. Squish, squash, splash. Your

soul belongs to him. We've been given a free will.

But I wonder, I wonder why we have this toxic attitude.

If I don't need what God's offering. I just had

to Holy just bring something on my mind. Back in

the early nineteen hundreds, there was this quack nut doctor

on the western coast, I believe in California, Washington.

Google it.

After the service checked me. I'm not afraid of that.

I just had to Holy Gus bring this to mind. So,

Sister Wood and I tell you to be pretty accurate.

A quack doctor in the early nineteen hundreds who convinced

the masses, the masses, a multitude of people that food

in itself was the root of all sickness. I know

the Bible said the love of money is what the

root of all evil. She convinced people that food itself,

food itself was the root of all sickness. And if

I remember correctly, she was treating anything and everything with starvation.

What you need to do is not eat. And sister

how under the tutelage of that witch doctor, that net

like a lot of preachers and teachers today, that I

used to sit under when I wanted to be popular

in high school, that I wanted to sit under when

I had that long flowing hair, and that rebellious spiritnesst

Us was just blazing inside of me, and every one

of them telling me, mister Jeremy, you're a reputable man.

You're a great guy.

I flicked that hair, but I knew me better than anybody.

There's a reason the Holy ghost just brought this to mine.

I need to pray in church, Sister Wood And I

forget how many died. It was more than a handful

of two or three. Now they get sick and say

I need to eat. I need to eat. And she said,

I'm trying to fix that organ failure with deprivation and starvation,

and people started getting black around the eyes. People say,

you can't live more than thirty days without food. That's

a lie. I've heard of people going over three hundred

days without any solid food.

It's that wicked witch starved.

Them, them, holding on to a threat of hope. I'm

telling you here tonight, God ain't serving up pancakes to

you tonight. God's telling you He'll give you a feast,

a bountiful blessings of the Lord, a feast to the

fool that we just feel you to capacity that will

satisfy you. And Brother Rocap, they said that that woman

would tell them just keep starving that what I'm this

is what I'm feeling, Sister Hell, that's what them charismatic preachers.

Even with the church having holdliness and Pentecost on the marquis,

I tell them people, God's still blessing, He's still feeding,

We're still the people of God. Lah lah lah lah

fla lah lahlah la lah. And the church goes from

running one hundred to eighty to seventy to six to

fifty to forwards. Hey, a toxic food attitude.

You know what it is.

There's too much dust in the eyes. You standing out

there at the city gate looked like a victim of

some holocaust. The King's paw every member of the youth

Group's backsliding brother Robbie Hicks has taking me outside fifteen

years ago and say, I don't understand.

Why we're losing our whole youth group.

With the Holy Goose in this place, King Foul, We're okay,

We're okay, y'all aren't getting this. I'm gonna say it again.

There wasn't a grape skin on the wine vat, There

wasn't a locus on the window sill. I guarantee if

one locust crossed the sidewalk somebody was fighting over it.

You take a wing and I take a wing.

It's a crying shame that you hear report after report

like this. Dear brother that just moved here from Alabama,

him and his wife doing good financially, high powered salesman,

former business owner. She works at the bank, lend an agent,

big money, high rollers, and sister Neatly. It broke my

heart when he told me where it's so hungry spiritually.

We're Baptists. We drive to Bethel about once or twice

a year to be fed. I never told them to

move down here. I never pulled for them all the

years they'd come down here to get a handful of

on purpose take it back with him to live another

six months. But then he found out about Spreaker, and

he told us the other night, running up and down

and shouting in these altars. He said, me and my

wife used to sitting a McDonald's parking lot in northern Alabama.

I'm telling it right in McDonald's parking lot.

And what listen? Why'd you listen?

Somebody give a man a microphone? Why are you in

north Alabama listening to a little church in LaBelle, Florida.

We was hungry.

Brother, there was nothing there.

We would drive.

When we did find a halfway decent church, we would

drive hour plus to get fed. Brotherren And I told

you other night why somebody could come in this church.

And I'm not trying to get out of the way here, brother,

That's what I feel in my heart and not eat

from reaching every service.

It just it.

I don't have words for it.

Brother, We was hungry. God spoke to us to come here.

What a joy it was on the way over the

church this night.

I worked hard.

Today was and when Fort Myers I come home, I

was tired, took a little. Now I was excited to

come be in God's house to praise him and worship

him in spirit and truth. I'm not gonna sit here

on a pew and not worship God.

He's not gonna sit there and die. And there's people

that's saying, you know what, I have been fed on spreaker.

Take that to sister Lauren. I have been fed on spreaker.

I have lived on handfuls of purpose. I have, but

I couldn't sit there at the gate. I could not

sit there at the gate. I have slowed down drastically.

I feel the need to Sister would And I just

keep having a vision repeatedly of the King's pow standing

there at the gate, disoriented Sister Howell as they began

to run inside with the blessings that the Leftar's men

had told him about. I'm sure he got dust in

his eyes. And you know what happens when you sit

there long enough, and you stand there long enough, you

get misty eyed, and you get dust in your eyes

and you can't see clearly. And you know what happens

when you start to go without food too long and

starvation sets in. You don't think right. You start thinking

things you shouldn't be thinking. You start contemplating, considering doing

things you would never do prior to being so hungry.

And I'm gonna say, two mothers right here with two babies.

Could you imagine being so hungry that you would even

consider Sister Rachel eating Nathan, Sister Hannah? Could you imagine

being so hungry that you would even consider eating Judah.

I'll tell you why them youth, of them youth groups

are running out there indulging on the things of the

world because what was in the church wasn't satisfying.

My beef has.

Never been with a prodigal and the one that got

out of them hellholes. My beef has always been with

the ministers that refused to feed the people. What does

saith the word of God? I want you to know

when Elisha came in Jehoram, he probably scratched his head

and said, the man of hope.

Just came in with a word of hope. Sister Lauren, testify, please.

I was I was desperate and I was hungry, and

it was just me and my son, and I would

travel to different churches an hour, two hours, even three hours,

and there was nothing, and I was the only young

person left. And Sister Hannah, she would send me the

links here and I would listen, and I would just

want to be here so bad do I finally got

the chance to come, and it's just I've never There's

no church like it at all. There's just nothing like it.

I'm just so thankful, Amen.

Something just occurred to me. A toxic attitude concerning food.

I don't know who the gentleman is. Some of the

young people in this building may or may not know

of a man named mister Beast. I believe he's a

YouTube influencer, a content generator. This just came to mind.

I remember some years ago hearing that this young man,

whatever his real name is, I know not, but they

said he decided to do a thirty day fast as

the forty day Fast. I can't remember the details, but

it's probably on the internet. And I remember reading an

article that said a celebrity chef came to him. I

believe it was mister Gordon Ramsey and he said, you

need to eat something. Here's a sandwich, and he turned

that sandwich away in order to finish his mission of

going without food. Take it to Sister Teresa. And I'm

going to tell you there's a lot of people I

wouldn't think of turning a good sandwich away. But there's

a greater than Gordon Ramsey here tonight. And it ain't

Jeremy Howell. I feel the Holy Ghost. I can't imagine

somebody living within an hour's drive of where there is

bread enough and despair and them perishing with hunger.

I don't know.

How far the prodigal son went to the far country,

but he came to himself. And when he came to himself,

y'all hear the Holy Goost's fixed my voice right when

he came to himself, he said, I know of mom

and Dad's there's bread enough and despair. There's some knuckle

prints in Mama's biscuits. There's bread enough and de spare.

And I want to tell the Bethel hole in his church,

we haven't seen nothing yet.

I heard the Holy Ghost say the best is yet

to come.

And brother Jesse, I want to encourage Bethel just to

step outside of the gate. The Bible said that israel

lights went into the camp of the Syrians and they

got so much how the spoilage of the Syrian So

they brought it back in and they went from a

piece of derves dunge being weighed on the scale and

soul for a xubert amount of money for having so

much morley, so much flour, so much grain that they

were just selling it for Peter.

So I'm telling.

You the Holy Ghost is more than a commodity here,

the Holy Ghost he is plentiful here.

Praise the Lord. Let's keep it that way.

It's not that we're deserving of it, but is that

he wants to prepare for somebody. That's why I created

the world, That's why I started the Guard of Eating.

He wants to prepare heath pch you.

You're talking about the enemy of the children of God

had laid siege on their the storehouses, the Syrians had

done to the Israelites. What the devil's doing the church

people and the people of this world. Somebody hands Sister

Teresa Wallace the microphone. I've never done this in my

preaching that I know of, but I want to say

one more thing. Some of you weren't brave when you

showed up here. You were desperate.

Amen, Amen, testify, Sister Wallace. Thank you for waiting.

I thank the Lord for bringing us here. I thank

you for saving us. We were desperate, we were dying,

We were losing our family, our daughter, everything was falling apart.

There was a prophecy giving out and said that if

we stayed where we were at, we would die and

we would lose our family. And if we stayed there

it would be bad. When that church closed or fell apart,

we would be a part of it. And thank you

for bringing us here. I remember coming the first time

in twenty eighteen to the convention, and I cried when

we left, and I said, God, this is exactly what

our family needs. We need Bethel.

We need pastors, our pastor, our family is desperate. Then

I'm thankful that he brought us here. Nineteenth of this

month will be a year ago that I died and

the Lord brought me back. All never indebted to my pastor,

first lady in Bethel.

Family, and to God. He's been so good to me.

Not only that.

Pastor's been telling us for a while and preaching his

saying that the prodigal is gonna come home. And I'm

thankful for what he's doing for Dylan and Molly. He

called and he said that God's dealing with him, and

he done some things in his past and he knows

that he's wrong, and God's forgiving me.

And he said that if he'd.

Go to any church now, the only place he feels

like he could be his under pastor and a Bethel.

I know God is gonna work. I was sorry till.

The day I die.

He put us here for a reason. I won't go

back to where I came from. If I had to do.

It on my own, I will, Oh.

God help me this night, Thank you Lord, thank you.

And I just this when this family showed up, their

daughter was having tremors and shaken. They drive thirteen fourteen

hours from one service and drive home and work.

Did that for a little while after they moved down here.

I remember them telling me that the legendary oracle of God,

brother George Polecat, years ago, I had no knowledge of this.

The prophecy she spoke of was not the prophecy of

Jeremy Howell years ago, a man of God just like

Elisha when he came into the courtroom of Jehoram, George

Polecat told him there's going to be trouble up the road.

I didn't prophesy of the dissembling of that church. Another

prophet did, not that I'm a prophet, but another oracle

other than Elisha prophesied that. And today where they had

been the church for brother ej. Twenty five years or better,

probably how long since two thousand and eight, they would

inevitably that church would close its doors. They moved, and

not long after, not because of their move, Not long

after that church closed their doors. You know why, because

God knew they would. And God told Brother George Polcat,

what year would that have been, do you know? Just

after the church formed. Now we haven't named the name

of the church, nor the name of the former pastors

or whatever, that's neither here nor there. We as individuals

and as families, we must survive. And I set at

the beginning this message, our children must survive. My children

and my grandchildren need to know what I know, and

I need to share with them where the bread is at.

And the Bible doesn't say, But the Bible did say

that the prodigal son had devoured his living with harlots.

And you know what, if there were any illegitimate children

that had happened during that time, I kind of believe

I'm not adding to the Bible. I ain't preached anything,

and I just been added to the Bible. But I believe, sister,

he didn't come home a little pigs in his arms.

Said he came to a census, He got out of

the hog pen and came to the father's house. He

didn't come a little pigs, But sister, how the Bible

didn't tell us.

But he may have had.

Some little sons come and some little daughters come. Come

with me to the father's house. Let me show you

a place where Grandma and Grandpa has got plenty of bread.

Let's stand night. I told you about this little kitten.

That's Sister how and I picked up it's a little

orphan kitten.

We let it out.

It comes into where we stay sometimes and Sister Wood,

and already it knows its boundary, already, it knows where

the lines are drawn. And sometimes Sister holl being there

preparing something in the kitchen, and that little thing will

stand right there on the edge. And Sister Hell, here's

the keyword. It's nosy. It'll stand right there on the edge,

and it'll watch your mama, Brother Jesse, It'll watch him

ingredients go in.

It'll watch that spoon go in.

It'll watch that concoction go in the oven and come out.

It's nosy.

And I want to tell the nosy Nellies that listen

from time to time, not the ones that are hungry,

not those that end up where God sends them, Not

those that are being fed, not those that are receiving

of the goodness of the Lord and the blessing. May

all of us continue to feed on the ministry of

Brother Jeremiah How and all of his online sermon libraries

and podcasts. I'm not speaking to you, don't stop listening,

But to all the nosy nellies. That's listening just to

catch a little word of something I'm gonna.

Tell you you're gonna die.

To get if you read our text tonight, the King's Pal.

You can peer into church's services. You can peek into

their live streams, you can peek into their facebooks. I'm

not talking about true hungry souls. You can peer in

through the cracks of the windows and watch what's going on.

But if you don't, come on in and partake