Close The Door On All Distraction - Pastor J.D. Howell 11-19-2025

Me to the Book of Second Kings. May I direct

your attention to chapter number four. We'll be reading verses

number one through seven as our selected scriptures for tonight,

Brother Nathaniel Matthew chapter number twenty five, verses number seven

through twelve, and Brother Jesse Isaiah chapter number one through

verse number nineteen. I appreciated the testifying of everybody that

testified tonight. I appreciated Brother Caleb Brokecap and Sister Charity

Howell singing with such an anointing, Brother Nathaniel Matthew, chapter

number twenty five, verses number seven through twelve. Brother.

Then all those virgins arose and trimmed their lamps, and

the foolish set under the wives, give us of your

old fur lamps are going out. But the wise answered,

saying not so, lest there not be enough for us

and you. But gogie rather to them that sell and

buy for yourselves. And while they went to buy, the

bridegroom came, and they that were ready went in with

him to the marriage, and the door was shut. Afterward

came also the virgin, saying, Lord Lord, open to us.

Buddy answered and said barely, I said to you, I

know you not did y'all notice that phrase. And the

door was shut. And the door was shut, brother Jesse Isaiah,

chapter number one and verse number nineteen.

Brother, if ye be willing and obedient, you shall eat

the good of the land. I believe, if somebody will

be obedient to what the spirit of God says tonight,

you will eat of the good of the land. That's

what the woman in our golden text needed was a blessing,

a miracle. Let's stand for the reading of our golden texts.

Will read only verses number four, five, and six of

Second King's Chapter number four. The Bible says, and when

thou art come in, thou shalt shut the door upon

thee and upon thee sons, and shall pour out into

all those vessels, And thou shalt set aside that which

is full. So she went from him and shut the

door upon her and upon her sons, who brought the

vessels to her, and she poured out. And it came

to pass when the vessels were full, that she set

into the sun, Bring me yet a vessel. And he said,

unto her, there is not a vessel more. And the

oil stayed looking at verse number four. The words of

the Great prophet Elijah. And when thou art come in,

thou shalt shut the door upon thee and upon thy sons.

I want to preach a message the Holy Ghost titled hey,

you better close the door on distractions. May we pray,

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

you for the opportunity to be in your house. We

pray that you would anoint this thy people, set a

guard at their ears, and help them to hear what

the spirit of God says into the church tonight of

your word, not of my words. God, open unto us

the scriptures as you did for the husband and wife

on the road. A mais I pray God that you

would anoint this I servant, set a guard at my mouth,

and help me to say the things that you would

have me to say. Nothing more or less. I pray

that these sayings would saturate our soul and spirit. Let

them go below the shoulders, don't let them just be

in the head. Only God, help us to get what

it is you're saying. And may we depart this place

joyfully and not sorrowfully. In Jesus name. In the church

said Hey, man, as you're being seated again, we will

read verse number four of Second Kings, chapter number four.

And when thou art come in, thou shalt shut the

door upon thee and upon thy sons, and thou shalt

pour out into all those vessels, and thou shalt set

aside that which is full. Look at your neighbor and say, hey, neighbor,

you better close that door. Our text is found in

an Old Testament book of the Holy Bible. The Book

of Second Kings is another book of the Bible which

is chalk full of content for the minister who desires

to be a blessing to others by helping them build

their most holy faith. And you can build your most

holy faith by hearing the word of God preached and

by praying in the spirit. And I appreciate we have

seen both of those things accomplished. In tonight's service. We

witness Brother Nathaniel preaching as anointed by the Holy Ghost.

We witnessed him reading of the blessed Word of God.

I have seen the Saints of God pray in the

spirit of Sister Charity. How one Brother Caleb rodecap let

Us in song. And there is no doubt that God

kissed this service with his approval and manifested his blessings

upon this people. And I'm so thankful that you can

say you're such a peace that witnesses the manifestations of

the spirit of God. There's a lot of you in

this building who received the Holy Ghost in the last

three years. And I'll tell you one of the reasons

for the reception of the Holy Ghost was at some

point you managed to shut out many distractions in your life.

There is no doubt that the Apostle Paul lived in

perilous times. I feel like we as well live in

perilous times. I know that the Apostle Peter said that

we should save ourself from the perverted generation. He worded

it this way, save yourself, preserve yourself from the untoward generation.

And the people of God are serving God in spirit

and in truth. They are that church has been founded

by God. I'm thankful for everything God is doing for

God's people. But you know, I've been a witness that

the devil is doing everything he can to wear out

the people of God. And one of the things he's

doing to wear out the people of God is getting

them busy watching of the things that are going on

in this world. There's so much going on, it's easy

to be dangerously distracted. And brother, would I believe that

if we will build up our most holy faith by

praying in the Holy Ghost and reading the Word of God,

we can keep ourselves from the distractions of the devil

without question. These Bible characters before us tonight were people

that were definitely focused upon what it is God would

have them to do. It was this morning, very early.

Sister faith Robe Cap was working for Sister Howel and

I and they're at our business. She began to clean

one of my offices, and she also cleaned Brother Samuel

Howell's barbershop. And at some point she sends us to

how text and said that in a recent service, God

convicted her of listening to contemporary music, and she said

she purged her playlist, and she said she didn't want

anything whatsoever, whatever it could be, and for her, she

felt like it would be just a few songs of

the contemporary music persuasion that would keep her distracted from

receiving whatever it was the Lord had for her in

the upcoming days. And as sence, that were her words,

I don't want to miss out on anything that God

has for me. By being distracted. And I remember a

particular camp meeting when a keynote speaker among the independent

holding this people was preaching, and most people felt like

he was really preaching good. In fact, a lot of

people were on their feet somewhere, putting their hands together

doing something with clapping. Others were smiling real big, Others

were nodding their heads and approval. Some were jumping up

and down, some were stomping their feet. He had the

cadence right, and he was preaching. The Holy Ghost atmosphere

seemingly was thick. But at some point he got dangerously

distracted as he was preaching, and he mocked the preachers

that preached against contemporary Christian music. For whatever reason, something

rose up in him. And I have heard the recording

of him doing that numerous times over the last fifteen years,

and every time I hear it, I cringe. First, I

get startled, and then I cringe because he mocks them

with a hill billy tone and with a country cracker voice.

He starts making fun of the way they would say

contemporary Christian music, and he starts saying something like this,

for those of you that preacher gifts to temporary music

he kind of stuck back in the days to temporary

music or however your country bumpkins say it, are you'll

listening to me here tonight. I knew right then that

some spirit had rose up in him that was sorely

displeasing the God. And I could tell that he had

lost some of his listeners in that moment. Maybe only

twenty five or thirty percent of the people disapproved of

his actions that night. But it was not long after

that his son came to him and he said, hey, Dad,

I'm not looking for a relationship with a woman. I

haven't called a name, but he said, I have discovered

my sexual orientation. And I made that discovery amongst the

independent Holiness people. I am a homosexual, and I hope

I find the lover of my life in another male.

And that young man walked out of the independent Holiness

churches and walked off of our great camp meeting platforms.

And he's had many male lovers. Men are the same sect?

Are y'all listening to people of the same section? And

there was some other scandalous thing that took place in

that particular minister's household. I'm not giving any names at all,

but what I want to tell you, is the devil

distracted that man somehow, right in the middle of a

wonderful message, while the Spirit of God was moving, he

felt it important to pick on some sincere people. But

I would like to ask such a minister tonight, how

did that work out for you choosing to listen to

contemporary Christian music? How did that work out for you

and your family choosing to use a camp meeting platform

and to preach against those who sincerely felt like God

had convicted them not to listen to that style of

Christian music. Oh, come on, now, we believe that the

characters before us here tonight are definitely God fearing people.

You have the great prophet Elisha named in our text,

and you also have the widow of a son of

a prophet. You've got somebody that knows exactly what it

is together with the people of God and to hear

what the Spirit of God is saying without distraction. I

believe that this woman went to the right person. She

went to somebody that was not a stranger to miracles

in his ministry. I want to ask you here tonight,

how many mentories have miracles in them? Today? I feel

like there are people in this building up, who have

experienced a miracle for yourself, or you have witnessed someone

else experience a miracle. If you're a Christian, a child

of God, you are a miracle. You are an embodied

a miracle right here tonight, Hey man, how many of

you remember the old song that Brian Free used to sing.

I believe it was titled the Greatest of All Miracles,

and the lyrics which something like this, the greatest of

all miracles were when of my Jesus has saved me.

You must admit tonight that if you are now a

child of God, you came to a place in your

life when you rid yourself from all distractions of every

degree and you focus on the Lord. That is how

you experienced that miracle. There is no doubt the natural

birth of a child is miraculous. The supernatural, spiritual burthen

of a child of God is even more so miraculous.

The great Pharisee Nicodemus would shout out in agreement with

a hearty hey man, and every child of God in

this place tonight up could shout out a hearty hey man.

It's a mystery to the world, but you know it

is a miracle. You, sir, and you ma'am, are a

product of an act of God. In verse number one

of Second King's Chapter number four, we find this man

of God and this woman of God's life seemingly coming

to a halt, becaulled of some creditors. How many of

you have ever had a creditor show up at your door?

You peep through the blinds and realized who it was

after reading their name tag and their badge. It made

you feel uncomfortable, did it not? If you owed a

debt that you were unwilling to pay or you did

not want to pay. When the creditors showed up at

your door, it made you feel terrible. You felt anxious,

very concerned, and very alarmed. Early this morning, somebody in

this building they messaged me and they said, Pastor, I

have received two phone calls from the CSI. What should

I do about it? They said, who is the CSI?

I said it could be a crime scene investigator. That

is not the answer that they wanted to hear. Immediately.

They were alarmed and concerned about why would a crime

scene investigator be calling me? And I said, you know what,

there's no reason at all for us to get anxious

or to worry about something that may not be nothing.

What you need to do is do your research and

find out who that is. If you have to place

a call, call them and find out what's going on,

there's no need to worry about it. Well, they picked

up their phone evidently, and they made a call and

found out that it came from Collection Services Incorporated. They

were very embarrassed. If they had been in my company,

I would say they would have been a red faced

And because they were admitting the creditors are after me, Yes,

you got it right. That is the inspiration for tonight's message.

I felt like God began to deal with my heart

about how we feel when the creditors come after us. Oh,

come on now, the greatest time in your life was

the time of your conversion for your salvation, when Jesus

stepped in in front of your creditor and pain of

bill that you were incapable of paying yourself. In this narrative,

the wife of a deceased man of God received word

that the creditor is in town, and in order to

settle the debt, her husband so graciously gifted and lefted

her wis her two sons, were chosen to satisfy the debt.

According to the creditor, these two young men would be

enough to satisfy the dead. If you know the story

of the elder brother and the younger brother, in the

narrative of the prodigal son, you would see that there

are a lot of things that two sons would be

capable of doing on the family farm or even on

a profet's estate. These young men must not have been

very old for brother Jesse, I feel like them if

they would have had any age at all about him,

they would have been working and making a living and

providing for their mother. But how many other brothers in

this building tonight to feel like you are a miracle?

How many of you brothers in this building tonight feel

like you're in need of a miracle. I feel like

there's somebody preaching to to night. I don't know the

name of your miracle, but one day you will give

it a name. I don't know if you need to

be cured of cancer, or you need God to meet

the need financially, or perhaps it's God to currenal failure

or the cured diabetes. I don't know the name of

your miracle, but you need a miracle, and the knocking

on the door by a creditor at one's house, and

is a run your finger through your hair kind of moment.

If you look at Bella Jacob here tonight, he doesn't

have a whole lot of hair on his head. It

seems to me like maybe that great Man of God

has had a few moments such as these, a few

of those run your fingers through the hair of your

head of moments when you don't know what you're gonna do.

If you'll notice, after the creditors come knock owner door,

she doesn't call a lone man. She doesn't call a lawyer.

She doesn't call Mama or daddy. She doesn't call an

actor or an uncle. She calls a man of God

for assistance. The wife of the sons of the Prophets

calls out to Elisha. You can't call out to just

any person. You can't call out on her just any

man of God. This woman was very familiar with the

prophets and the sons of the Prophets, but she wanted

a man like Elijah, and she reachs to his successor, Elisha.

Come on, now, the creditor. The creditor has come by

and plans to make some of your spiritual son slaves.

He plans to make her some of your spiritual sons

his property. What are you gonna do about it? How

does that sit with you? I've looked at some mammas

in this church and whose children are out them in

this world, and I can tell that they're not okay

with her child being the property of Satan. And I

want you all to know that this woman had a

problem with her sons, who are sons of a prophety,

becoming the property of Satan. And moms and dads we

would preach with the House of God more if we realize,

if we don't get them to the House of God,

to the Man of God and the people of God,

they will become the property Satan. A man, some moman

needs to tell the devil here tonight, you're not gonna

have my boy. Some moman needs to tell the devil,

you're not gonna have my children. Amen. So, after the

creditors walked away from her door with giving her the

information of what would satisfy the debt, she goes to

Elisha and she tells Elisha about her plight, her situation,

and brother Nathaniel Immediately, Elisha says, what shall I do

for thee, And then he goes on to say, tell

me what is in thine house? Sister Howell, her answer

was obvious. Her obvious answer would be I need one

of those miracles, and I need it now. I'm preaching

that somebody tonight. You haven't told me about your circumstances

and or your needs. Would I have felt it today?

You are in need of a miracle, no wonder the

Lord has been saying to you, seek me. I'm glad

some of you sought the Lord this past Sunday night

and again Monday. If your hatnah, we might have a

funeral this week, or two or three or four, you heard,

But the Philip say it was on Monday the next night,

after the Holy Girl spoken, after we did something about it,

after we sought the Lord the next night afterwards, and

they were almosty in a head on collision. This is

why we seek the Lord, and this is why we

gather in his house, and this is why we return

thanks when God has done something as good as this.

Sometimes we find ourselves in that calamit of situation. Sometimes

we find ourself in a time of great need. Look

at the next question, Elisha asked, So the first question

he asked was what shall I do for thee? He

realized this was not his moment to shine. This was

this woman's time of need. How many have you ever

seen them preachers that are so happy to be a

minister that when somebody goes through a tragedy it is

their moment to shine. All the preachers in this building

that have seen that, you know it makes you sick

to your stomach whenever they benefit from a tragedy intentionally.

I've heard people stand up behind the pool pit and

try to benefit from a tragic situation. This man of

God puts on her and he says, what can I

do for you? Then the next question is what hast

thou in the house? I'm sure peace look through the door.

He knows there's not a whole lot to in the house.

Tell me you've ever heard a preacher point this out?

He asked the question what is in nine house? If

you read the Nurtive, which is a true story, you

will see that there is nothing else in the house.

And she goes on to say, well, there's nothing in

the house save a part of her oil. She had

the right thing in the house and the road, things

that could be sold out of the house. And I

want you to know when you put something out on

the side of the road and you put a for

sale side on it and you get rid of it,

let it be gone now. Don't go to the neighbors

your tall and trying to buy it back. Ay man,

ay man. What's in nine house? Certainly not Netflix, Certainly

not Red Box. Certainly not a television. She is the

wi of a prophet. She's the widow of a prophet.

What is in nine house? You're asking God for a miracle?

Let me ask the question again while the crickets preach?

What is in nine house? What is on your playlist?

Oh my god? What is on your grocery list? What

is on your shopping list? What is on your things

to do list? What is it that's in your house?

Or what is it that you plan to bring into

your house? The Man of God said, I will walk

within my house with a perfect heart. I will set

no wicked thing before mine eyes. Oh thank God, Brother Thomas.

Character hearing this narrative, the true story does not given

a counter of her having the purds and her house

of wicked things. I'm telling somebody here tonight. If there's

a wicked thing in your house dangerously distracting you, then

you need to put it out of the house. So

cool you, Tella Maha. Let me get with something right

here for you, Amen, I need a Lord to help me.

Let me get with something right here for a minute.

Let me spin some wheels right here, right now, Brother

and sister, you need a miracle, correct absolutely, because God

has spoke to me that you do need a miracle.

You're in need of a miracle. What is it in

that house of yours? We're going to back up again.

What is it in that house of yours? He said?

Let us lay aside every weight and the sin that

does so easily beset us. Back to the narrative, the

true account of what took place. You can see it

right here. She didn't hesitate to tell the prophet what

was in the else. There's nothing in here save a

pot of all. She had got rid of everything else,

She had sold everything else, and still could not satisfy

the dent. That's it, it's all. I have a pot

of oil. That's it. That's all you need is a

pot of all. The greatest revival this church has had

took place a little over two and a half years ago.

And the theme of that spontaneous revival, which no outsider

or insider preacher, there was no traveling of angelis come by.

There was no in house preacher come by. The Holy

Ghost came by and we experienced a mighty out poured

of the Holy Ghost that changed the face of this

church and the theme mussa, I must have all. That's

what the Holy Ghost spoke to us that Sunday night.

And then the Holy Ghost moved then a mighty and

you know what happened Now, the sons of the prophet,

so the sons of the preachers, the sons of their

church people, the daughters of the church people, they went

home because we walked away with oil. I'm telling somebody

here tonight, you don't need what this world has got, Donah.

You don't need to be distracted by the daughters of

the land. Dinah. All you need is what's in the

house and of God and his most prized possession. He

is a pot of the boil. It's the good, sweet

spirit of God. Everything in the house, everyone in the house,

depended on what happened with the oil. Oh sweet Jesus,

the proper news. The miracle would need to be one

of multiplication. The miracle would need to be a miracle

a multiplication that the Lord was to multiply the oil,

she would need every canister and container she could find.

The more containers and canisters she had, the more jugs

she brought in, the more oil she would have the greatest,

the greater the measure of the miracle. The more oil,

the more money she would have to pay off her debts.

The most oil she could get in the house was

her number one priority. What about you? Do you need

more oil? And every single service when we gather Bethel,

I tell the Lord, what we need is more oil.

What we need is more spirit of God. Isaiah, chapter

number one and verse number nineteen says, if you be

willing and obedient, and shall you shall eat of the

good of the land. If you be willing, and if

you be obedient, ye shall eat of the good of

the land. Don't you think, sister faith rope Cap is

going to farewell because of purging her playlist? But not

everybody felt impressed to purge their playlists of contemporary music.

But what is it that God has asked you to

put out of your house, know ye not that your

body is the temple of the Holy Ghost. We often

come over here to purge God's house of snotty napkins

that people have used and left around the altar. Most Wednesdays,

Sister how and I'm make an appearance over here around

three point thirty, and we walk around in order to

purge God's house of things that would be somewhat offense

of things like snotty rags or just things that were

just laying around that were uncomely for visitors or for

church people to see. Nothing holy, no idolatry going on

around here. But we feel the need to clean up

the house of God. But you know what, not everybody

feels the need to be obedient to the things that

God has required of them to do. You go on

down to reverse number twenty of Isaiah, chapter number one.

They said, but if you refuse them and rebel, ye

shall be devoured with the sword. For the mouth of

the Lord has spoken at to him. What would have

happened if this woman had not have obeyed elcious mandate?

What if she had not of listened and obeyed the

words of the Man of God, Sister Howell, Verse number

twenty of the Book of Isaiah would be applicable. Somebody

would have devoured her two sons. They would have been

slaves or worse, perhaps the sword would have been trusting

to them and they would have been killed if she

rebel and didn't do what God had told her to do.

The truth is her greatest possessions were at stake. And

some of you don't seem to understand this. For some

of you that are still refusing to seek the Lord,

you don't seem to understand it. Young person, your greatest

possessions are at stake. Now we can fold up the

Bible right there and go to the house and just

let each choose what they want to do, obey or rebel.

But if you go tomorrow and just have no desire

whatsoever to seek the Lord, and you spend more time

on YouTube, I hope to God you ain't spending time

on TV or netflex movies, on YouTube, all this stuff,

and you go home and choose rather than listen to

some preaching or some gospel music, or to pray and

seek the Lord to read your Bible, you willingly choose

to refuse to obey the Lord. Your greatest possessions are

at stake. What's your greatest possessions of saund mind, your health,

your soul. If you gain the whole world lose your

own soul, what are your profited besides the oil in

the house. She's got two sons who probably in their

future will be hard working men. But she's got to

get them to their future. She's got to figure out

the way to sustain them till they get to their future,

until they're able to become hard working young men. The

Devil's got a plan for your children as much as

you do. You need the all of the holy ghost

in your house for your greatest possession's sake. If I

gain the whole world and lose my own soul, If

I gain the whole world and lose my own sons

and lose my own daughter, what am I profited? If

the creditor knocks on the door of my house, and

he will, you owe it that you can't pay. And

the only way you're gonna save your greatest possessions is

by having all in your lamp. Give me all in

my lamp, keep it burning, Give me all in my lamp,

I pray, give me all in my lap, keep it burning, burning, burning,

keep it burning till the break of day. Oh, sweet Jesus,

you're starting to get it. Your greatest possessions. That little

baby you're bouncing on your knee, That little girl that

wraps her arms around your neck, gives you a kiss

on the cheek Daddy before bed. That little boy, brother Jesse,

that can stand flat footed and jump up on the

coffee table. The devil's peeking in your window, and he

sees he got more than a pot of all. He

sees you got two sons that he can use. Sister

haw I Phil. It's sinking in. They're starting to get it. Now.

You must have all. You must have oil. Unlock the

foolest virgins. In Matthew twenty five, this woman would see

to it that she had more than enough oil, I said,

Unlock the foolish versins. In Matthew twenty five. This woman

would see to it that she had more than enough oil.

In Matthew twenty five and nine, I said. But the

wise virgins answered the fool ist, saying, not so lest

there be not enough for us and you. But go

ye rather to them that sell and buy for yourselves.

These wise virgins were willing to pay the price. And

these wise women were willing to not be distracted. They

needed oil, and the window in our text knew where

to get it because the prophet had told her, you

need to have plenty, and he told her how to

get it. All you need is an empty vessel, and

the vessel itself had to be purge of anything else

if you're gonna pour all lit it, and you know

how to get your miracle. You heard when God has said,

worshiped me in spirit, had in truth? You heard it

when God has said, be about in your religion, be

devoted and committed to the cause of Christ and to

worship him. You know when God has spoke to you

and said, lift up your boss like a trumpet, and

praise me greatly. You know when God has told you

to purge out that vessel and make room for the

earl of God. Too many people are dragon full containers

into the House of God. Every person that went into

the upper room was an empty vessel. Every person, whether

large or small, that walked up the steps and ended

up in the upper room on the day of Pentecost

was a hungry soul, had an empty vessel. How about

the container you brought in the building tonight. Sister Wooden

says it all the time. I quote, I'm a holy

ghost hog. If you don't want your puss, I will

have it. Are there any containers in the house? I wonder,

are there any containers in the house. I wonder if

somebody could produce some containers in the house. Oh better, Philip.

Whenever them sons and this woman went out of the

house in order to procure and secure containers that they

would bring in behind clothes and doors. And there is

no doubt they ran in to nosy neighbors. I'm sure

nosy Nelly was present, as well as Gossipe Gwyn and

dramatic Debra and problematic Peter and compromise a Camella. There

would have been a lot of people say, why do

you need this a vessall? And why do you need

that messhaw? Let me help you with your effort, Let

me help you with your labor. I noticed Elisha came by.

It seems like you're obeying him. It seems like you're

doing what he and God told you to do. That

brother Jesse in the midst of that conversation, in the

middle of that communication, they would have been distracted, and

that's what I'm telling you. You may have good intentions.

God may have gave you the order for the week.

God may have told you what you needed to do

for your miracle. But you make a phone call instead,

and you're ask an elder of another church what you

should do. Preacher, you call another a bandos or another

pastor and ask them what they should do, or you

ask them what they would do. Oh, come on, now,

I know you're tired of idah when I'm telling you,

even when you're doing the work of God and the

will of Kaida, if you're not careful, that communication and

that conversation will distract you from the will and the

word of God. And this brings us to our title

and our text. You close the door. I want you

to see this demonstrated, Brother Jesse. Brother Nathaniel's coming to

get a container. I need somebody to distract him from

getting that container. Meanwhile, Brother Philip is coming to get

a jug, and I need somebody to distract brother Philip

the second son. Did you notice the horizon. It's a

little bit gray. We're expecting a storm today. It's no

time to be out there in the streets collecting jugs.

My God in heaven. Well, I'm just gonna text this

person for a little while. One text turns into a

hundred I'm just gonna call this person for a minute.

One minute turns into two hundred minutes, or it turns

into ten phone calls. And then you didn't pray. Then

you didn't seek the Lord. You didn't get enough containers

in the house. I'm telling you, every time them boys

would show up with a container, Mama would say, you

need to get something else, because if we don't get enough,

holl at least one of you is gonna go. If

we don't get enough, at least one of you will

satisfy the debt. We ain't got one we need to lose.

We don't be need to be so distracted that we

miss one. We don't need to be so distracted as

a Holiness people that we lose one Holiness church. We

don't need to be so distracted as a Holiness family

that we lose one family member. Are you all with

me right now? Where's your mind at Dinnah? Are you

dangerously distracted by the daughters of this world? Where's your

mind that demus? Are you dangerously distracted by the young

men of this world? Well, look what's going on in

brother Samuel's barbershop. You better not look at what's going

on in brother Samuel's barbershop. He ain't none of your

business to start with. But secondly, if you don't get

them containers holding the mama, and if mama don't get

them behind closed doors, you're gonna be working for the creditor.

Some have you still haven't sought the Lord. Some of

you still haven't been getting this much. All as you can.

My preacher preaches with your knowing, and you say, oh,

how God moves, Oh have God bless us, Oh have

God restores? Oh how God feel? He raises the dead,

he cures catcher. But what about your miracle? What about

your experience? I'm telling you, the creditors come in? I said,

God said today the creditor is coming to collect. The

creditor is coming to collect. And you need every vessel

you can get in the house. And Elisha said, for

a reason, you better shut the door. Don't you let

the observers come in. Don't you let the commentators come in.

Don't you let the critics come in. Don't you let

the skeptics come in. Don't you let the watchers come in.

Nobody needs to watch you work. Nobody needs to criticize

your work. Nobody needs to judge your work. You don't

need no running by nobody else. Just bring the chugs

in the house and pour out the bottle into every juggle.

And you better find every jug you can because as

much oil as you get, it's as much money as

you get. You'll be able to pay the debt offer.

If you get enough oil, you'll have enough money. There's

a few people in this building tonight. They need to

learn how to close the door. You set out the

fast and then somebody calls and says, let's go out

for steak, and you know what you do. You're of

that persuasion. I'm gonna go out for steak and start

with fast tomorrow. You're running out all and you're running

out of time. I love that when we ask for

containers and canisters and jugs and bowls and jars. I

loved that Brother Samuel went and got the biggest barrel.

He literally got a fifty five gallon barrel and brought

it in this church house. While others brought little containers

that hold a few fluid ounces, Brother Samuel brought a

container that would hold a lot of fluid ounces. I

liked that I could hear Mama as she said, that's right, Faith,

get some personal convictions of you on and let them

be big enough. I guarantee you that little widow lady

had a small pot of oil, and some of those

vessels she poured into were small and had just what

be of little value. Don't bring me any more of them.

I need something bigger, because I got to pay for

your height. If this is all we got in this neighborhood,

we're in trouble. And that's what I want to ask

in this holiness movement. Have we got to the place

where all we have is little vessels? Somebody better close

the door of the prayer closet because God said, whenever

you go behind closed doors in that prayer closet and

you do what you need to do, God will reward

you openly. And that's what God was telling Elisha to

tell this woman. You close the door on doubton, Debbie,

you close the door on compromising Camella, are y'all with me?

And you need to have revival. You need to have

a person of revival. There's some of you I dare

to say, who don't have the holy ghosts have never

fasted three days? And when you do it, you have

to do it through humility and sincerity and honesty. God,

if I don't have a when the creditor comes again,

I'm gonna be found lacking. And according to Matthew twenty five,

brother chif Froy, when the bride groom came, I don't

want to be a bridesmaid. I want to be the bride.

Them five wives and five foolish were bridesmaids. But the

truth is they got to go in there. The wise did.

The foolish didn't. Why because they didn't have enough hold

in their vessels and they were out. I want to

tell you off something right now. If you ain't got

all on that great getting up morning and that was

going to secure your greatest possessions. And I haven't struggled

preaching in that, and I haven't missed it. But I

asked sister how recently, I said, you can see out

of the seventy to eighty. That's a best way every

service there's about sixty five. I'm telling you they just

soaring and riding on jet fuel, and you can tell

they have old in their vessel and old in the lamp.

And since the how when they get low they come

to service and they get their vessel in their lamp refilled.

But there's some running on empty. I have seen more

preachers in the Holiness movement Pentecostal movements nowadays preaching without

all in their vessel than I've ever seen before. It

is why they have been found guilty of plagiarism. It

is why they would waste precious people's time at a

youth camp and compare our preachers to nominal preachers. I'm

not interested in being unwise and comparing myself to others.

I need to compare myself to the bridegroom. And I

want to say something again, I don't want to be

a bride'smaid. I want to be the bride. But Brother Nathaniel,

we come to church and we say I brought a vessel,

and sister, how they didn't take the time to dump

out the worthless content of that vessel? Sister faith, But

what you told me your conviction is that contemporary music

isn't doing any good for you. I do know a

lot of them. Contemporary artists of contemporary music struggle with homosexuality.

I can understand why somebody would be convicted of contemporary

Christian music, But since the how some of them come

up to the altar with little vessels and they say,

fail me, Lord, and they barely pour out the contents

of what's in that vessel. Pride Preacher, if you spend

your time listening to oneness preachers and admire them so

much that you want to be like them and preach

like them, they have become your spiritual hero. When you

deem their material to be more fitting for trinitarian holiness people,

there's no doubt they are an idol and a hero

under you, preacher, And any holiness preacher that would plage

your eyes a oneness preacher while persecuting a oneness person

is a hypocrite. I can't trust. But the reason why

you had to plage your eyes another sermon material is

because you have no oil. Somebody's not going behind closed

doors and talking to Jehovah because we get the content

for our messages while on our knees he pours oil

and vessels. And I felt like closing with this. Brother

Nathaniel Jesus said, I am the door, and on one

side of that door that you need to close that Jesus,

and on the other side is the world. It was

the same thing with the arc. God closed that door

and knowing his family of eight was unable to be

distracted by what was going on outside. And I gonna

admit to you, you're living in perilous times. But we

haven't heard in our day and now of a holiness

preacher having to be let down a wall in a

basket in these United States. In these United States, we're

yet to hear of a holiness pasture being stoned and

left for dead by physical stones, by verbal stones of

other holiness preachers that love the truth. No lovers of

the truth want stone their brother in Christ. Sister, I've

been praying for you, grandson. He just turned thirty two.

That's what he told us tonight. Right today, God reminded

me of when I had that minor heart attack, that

issue with my heart, when it stopped beating and I

went out of this world and laid lifeless in the

bed after Sister, how my family prayed. After about thirty

five minutes, the ambulance came and I revived without them

putting any equipment on me. At some point I revived.

I remember way waking up, reviving to my family and

sister how praying over me as I laid into bed immediately.

My heart rate was normal, my blood pressure was normal.

But they took me onto the hospital trying to find

out why did his heart stop beating. I remember when

it started getting real slow, Brother Nathaniel. We were sitting

in a restaurant in Sun City Center or in Ellington, Florida.

There was a ruby Tuesday. They had just served us

our food, and I remember feeling weak, and I told sister,

how sad my body's shutting down. I went out laid

in a vehicle, Brother Jesse. When they took me to

the hospital, in walked Jean Wooton. He said, Pastor, I've

drove nearly three hours as soon as I heard I

want to come to you. I find it no surprise

that Brother Tyler would have been telling his grandmother last

night that the two greatest influencers in his life has

been his grandpa and his pastor, because I have felt

that so strongly today. But Brother Tyler, if something doesn't

happen to you radically spiritually, you will live the rest

of your life just as you are now. You'll be

a great guy. You'll be a great friend, you'll be

a good church worker. But you'll live your life, but

just a little oil in the vessel. And this is

what I want to tell you all. If what you

got can't keep you from spending countless hours on YouTube,

and if what you got can't keep you from living

in condemnation, and if what you got does it convict you,

you're in trouble. Because when the bride cometh and the

archangel says, behold the bridegroom cometh, it's gonna be too

late to buy oil. When we bury Sister Whooting, it's

gonna be too late for Brother Tyler to say, Grandma,

lay your hands on me and breathe the holy breath

of God in them my soul, and say, receive you

the Holy ghost. But you can do that all you

want to, as long as you bring vessels that are full,

and you'll leave with nothing. But when you get hungry

and you get sick of the things of this world,

and you get tired of the things of this world,

and you get empty, and you close a hotel door,

and brother Caleb says me, and my daddy is going

to be ministering the lost people, and my Daddy can't

carry this burden alone. We got to hear from Heaven.

He closed that door, Sister Faith. He knelt on the

other side of that bed. He testified tonight today or yesterday,

last week, three years ago, he received the Holy Ghost.

If you listen to what Brother Kayla Brocap says was

when Sister Simmons was having a good time having a vacation,

there's no sin in that she has the Holy Ghost.

She wasn't thinking like he was thinking. But for brother Caleb,

he had to drown out to distractions and says to

how he said when he got frustrated at the distractions,

he cried out to God. God helped me to focus

on my need. Help me to focus on what I

need right now. And God gloriously filled him with a

holy ghost. And Brother Jesse, I've got both hands. If

you could see me spiritually, I've got both hands up

in the air. And I have asked repeatedly God in

the last two weeks, what else can I do? What

else can be done? Because the environment here is great,

the atmosphere here's service at the service is saturated. For

some of you that have refused to lift up your

voice and praise the Lord. As Isaiah one in twenty said,

is it rebellion? Because if it is, the devourer is coming.

And that's what I want to tell you. Forget about

when the cops come for you. Forget about when the

earthly creditors come for you. Be concerned about when the

spiritual creditors come to collect on your debt. When you've

played with the piper, you're gonna pay the piper. I'd

rather do this. This is what has haunted me in

a good way, but it should trouble you. God has

spoken into my heart repeatedly in the last two weeks.

They that sow to the wind shall reap the whirlwind.

May we stand right now on the other side of

the door of the ark. There are many distractions. In fact,

some people in this building tonight better closed the door

have distractions immediately, and they're gonna come at you from

every angle if you don't. Sister faith Ropcap can tell

you she dealt with a distraction today contemporary Christian music.

I can tell you again that big name holiness preacher

in the middle of a good message got distracted by

the devil and mocked good sincere holy people and talked

in the He'll billy a country to a temporary However,

you simpletons bumping and say it, sister Walker, in that moment,

there was a bad spirit in that man, and his

son is now an open homosexual. How are those distractions

working out for you? Here's what I had happened to

me in that office, brother Samuel. I was seeking the Lord,

and I saw a church and in it was God's people,

and a lot of them are in this building tonight,

and they had their eyes closed and squinting right now,

and they were praying and trying to get the mind

of the Lord and seeking God like they're doing right now.

And outside was a bunch of clowns circling the church,

and they formed a parade. And there was some people

inside of this building that was so focused on the

clown's parade they missed what was going on. And God said, Jeremy,

that's what's happened into three people at and that's also

happening to people that are listening to this message tonight,

and knows that will be listening to this message in

the upcoming days. They are dangerously distracted by surfing this

and that on the internet, looking at what this and

that church is doing compromising judging, comparing themselves, but not

having an experience for themselves. They should be dragging themselves

to a place that is a house of oil. They

should be seeing to it that their limps are full

of oil and that their light is shining. They're comparing

themselves by others. Sister, how as the Holy Ghost moves

on you, even now as you feel the desperation this

woman was desperate. Her greatest possessions are about to be

sold on an auction block.