Bro Jesse Howell 11-12-2025

Amen. Don't you appreciate the Lord tonight. Amen. I sure

have felt the Lord in this service.

I appreciate the messages amen, that we've heard so far,

don't you Amen.

I believe that God is right here with us. Amen.

He hadn't he hadn't forsaken us. Amen. He didn't forsake them. Amen.

They locked the self up, but he didn't forsake them.

He knew where they was. Amen. Bless God. I appreciate

the Lord.

Amen.

Missing our pastor again, Amen, has already been said. Second Samuel,

chapter number six, Second Samuel, chapter number six, Amen, I'm

looking forward to what God's gonna do.

Amen.

This is a very very familiar scripture here. Second Samuel,

chapter number three were six. I'm sorry verse number three.

Let's read two verses. And they set the Ark of

God upon a new cart and brought it out of

the house of a Benedab that was in Gibbia, and

Uzza in Ohio. The sons of a Benedab drave the cart,

and they brought it out of the house of Abinadab,

which was at gibbea accompanying the Ark of God, and

Ohio went before the ark. Look at verse number ten

with me ten and eleven. So David would not remove

the ark of the Lord unto him into the city

of David. But David carried it aside into the house

of obed Edom. The get tight and the ark of

the Lord continued in the house of obed Edom. The

get tight three months, and the Lord blessed obed Edom.

And all his household was your.

Raise your hands towards Heaven, and now's the Lord to

help us for just a few minutes tonight. God, we

thank you for your goodness and mercy. We thank you

for your spirit that we have been made to feel

thus far. God, we ask here for just a little

space of grace. God, that you would touch us. God,

that you would heal us, Lord and give us strength

and give us words and wisdom. I pray, God, would

you let the annoining of the power of God fall

in this place and help us tonight. God, We'll be

sure to give you the glory in the art of

the praise. And we pray in the wonderful, lovely name

of Jesus. Amen and Amen, Amen. This little thought came

to me, Amen, on the on the way home from

work this evening, and I wasn't really sure why, Amen,

But I just got excited about studying it. When I

got home, I had a few minutes extra, Amen, before

we come to church. So I sat down and I

started studying a little bit. And now on the way

to church tonight, it all made sense.

Amen.

Why I felt that way because I because Pastor had

the emergency and had to leave, so he texted us Amen,

to be ready for just a few minutes tonight.

So it all made sense. Amen.

In God's perfect plan, Amen, just diposals fell in in

place there the puzzle pieces, Amen, And I appreciate what

God has done. Our text here that we read tonight's

a very familiar portion of scripture.

We first we first.

Read of the ark of God being in the house

of a man named of Benadab that's found in the

first section of vers Is that we read there in

chapter number six, verse number three and four. This man

here is the same man that we read of in

the first chapter of Samuel, verse number sixteen. I mean

the first book of Samuel, chapter number sixteen and verse eight,

when the man of God, Samuel was looking for the

future king of Israel, and he goes to the house

of Jesse and he looks at all the brothers of David.

He's looking for King David, the chosen one of God.

And you read there that David has a brother named Benedab.

This is the same man. Amen. This is the brother

of David. This is the brother of the king.

This man of Benedab is the older brother of King David.

Amen. So the ark of.

God rested in the house of David's older brother.

Amen.

And we all know that the power of God, in

the Ark of God, the spirit of God blessed.

Amen.

Wherever it was, if they were in a battle, the

ark prevailed.

Amen.

If they were if it was in the house of someone,

that house would flourish and amen. And the Ark of

God just touched everything it was around, and it just

and it just helped everything and everyone.

That was around it. Amen.

So the Ark of God has been here in the

house of a Benedab for for us for between twenty

and forty years, Amen, depending on how you interpret scriptures.

Amen.

So, so the the the ark of God has been

here in the brother, in the the house of David's

brother for many years.

Amen.

In Verse number three of our texts were introduced to

the nephew of King David. We are introduced to two

of King David's nephews. The name of the one is

Ohio and the name of the second is us A.

Amen.

So what I what I realized here is, at some

point in the life of a Benedab he opened up

his house.

Amen. He he opened up his heart. Amen.

He opened up his his his where he's lived at

to the spirit of God. And he opened up his

house to the Ark of God. And the Ark of

God stayed there for many years, and one day David

decides to bring it back to Jerusalem. The Ark of God,

the Ark of God was tooken there.

Amen.

But by whenever it's Saul, before Saul was king, Amen.

And when David becomes king there and we all were

not gonna get into all the the the the the.

Woes of the of the palace there. Amen.

But whenever David becomes king, he gets excited and he says,

I'm gonna bring the art back. I'm gonna go back,

and I'm gonna go get the Ark of God, and

I'm gonna bring it back to Jerusalem.

Amen.

I'm gonna go to my big brother's house and I'm

gonna pick it up and we're gonna bring it there.

And along the way there.

We read in verse number six about the tragic death

of uz Them we read about the tragic death of

King David's nephew. Whenever the oxen was pulling the ark

of God on the new cart, the arc began to shake,

and Uza so foolishly reaches.

His hand up to steady the arc. Amen.

And when he did that, God took a fense to it. Amen,

and he smote him dead.

Amen.

So so what they did here in that in that

in that situation, Amen, we read there in verse number

number ten, David would not remove the ark of the

Lord into the.

City of David. Amen.

So David carries it aside to the house of Old

bed Edam. David here was a little bit displeased, and

he was a little bit upset with what had happened.

Amen the Bible. So the Bible said there that he

was afraid Amen, the Lord that day. Verse number eight

says David was displeased because the Lord had made a

breach upon us.

So David wasn't too happy.

About the fact that that of Uza had had a

had sacrificed his life.

Amen.

And so David turns aside, and he takes it to

the house of oh bed Adam there, and David leaves

the ark of God there, and O beed Eaden, with

arms wide open, welcomes the ark of God. You don't

want it, David, Well, I'll take it right here. I

kind of wonder if he had seen throughout the history,

throughout the years, if he had seen the blessings of

God upon the house of a Benadeb. He had heard

the stories about the great victories that they had won

when the Ark of God would enter into the camp Amen,

and their enemies would fall before them. So I wondered

if o beed Aedom really kind of understood the benefit

that this could have on.

Him and his family. Amen.

So oh beed Aedom just opens up his arms and

he says, I'll take it, hey, you can set it

right here. I'll make a place for it. I'll make

a place for the power of God. I'll make a

place for the spirit of God in my life and

in my house. Amen.

O bet Edam had the right out of it. Amen.

Some people don't want to make room for what God wants. Amen.

Some people don't want to make room for the spirit

of God. Some people don't want to make room.

For the power of God.

But oh, beed Adam said, I'll take you right here.

I'll take the power of God. I'll take the ark

of God. And I wanna be like obed Edom. Amen,

I want to make room in my heart. I want

to make room in my life for the spirit of God.

Amen.

I think it would all do us a lot of

good if we would take the attitude of obed Edom

there and say I'll make room. I don't know what

obed Edom had to move around, Amen, I don't know

what furniture he had to move around. I don't know

if he built a new structure for it or what.

But obed Adam said, I don't care what the cost is.

I don't care what I have to do. I'm gonna

get the power of.

God in my life. Amen.

There should be nothing in our lives worth more than

the power of God. There should be nothing in our

lives that we were sacrificed having the Spirit of God

in our lives and in our families. Amen, we must

make room for the spirit of God. We must make

room for the Ark of God.

Amen. You can read there in Scripture.

First number eleven that the ark of the Lord continued

in the house of obed Edom. The gets tight for

three months, and the Lord blessed obed Edom in all

of his household.

Amen. Obed Edom's whole house.

Amen was blessed, and they were benefited to cause Daddy

Amen made sure that he had room for the power

of God.

Amen.

They were blessed because Daddy felt like it was a

priority to bring the spirit of God into the life.

Amen. There's a lot of respons pssibility.

On us as parents, Amen, for these little ones that

are coming around us. Amen, to make sure that, no

matter what the cost is, no matter what it takes,

us to make room for God. Amen, to make room

for the spirit of God.

Amen.

Our children are blessed when we make a habitation for

the spirit of God.

Amen.

We read there in verse number three and four that

ben Adab. I don't think he wanted to get rid

of the arc. I don't think that he was calling David.

Amen.

I know it would have been a messager on horseback,

I know, Amen, but I don't think he was messaging

David and saying, hey, you want to come get this thing.

I'm about tired of it being here taking up place

of ben Adab. I really don't think that he was

just looking for an opportunity to push the Ark of

God on someone else.

Amen.

But the truth is, baby brother, the king said, I'm

coming to get the ark.

I'm coming to get the power of God. Amen. I've

come in to get the ark of the Covenant. Amen.

So David there goes and gets it.

And I was, I was, I was gonna bewildered, and

I was amazed here.

Amen.

I really don't think it was a Benadab's desire to

lose the power of God.

I don't think it was. What a ben Adab really

wanted to do was to usher the spirit of God

out of his life.

But I was really just just taken back whenever I

realized that as soon as a Bitadab lost.

The ark of God.

Us I had grew up around the ark of God

and had never fell to that trap. As a grew

up around the spirit of God, and he had never

laid his hand on it. But as soon as a

Benadab loses the ark of God, as soon as the

ark of God exits the life of a Benadath, then

tragedy struck a Benadaf family.

A Benadaf's son was struck dead. That tells me.

We can't afford to lose the power of God in

our lives. Our children can't afford for daddy and Mama

to let the spirit of God leave their house. I

wonder what would have happened if a ben Adad would

have said, if you're taking the York, then I'm going

with it. Amen, I'm gonna keep it in my house.

Amen.

We cannot afford to let anything. We can't afford to

let anything take the place of the spirit of God

in our lives. Our children, Amen, are depending on us.

Oh.

Ben Eden was blessed when he received the power of

God when he made room for the spirit of God.

And a ben Adev's family, they faced tragedy when they.

Lost the power of God. Amen.

We cannot afford Amen, nothing. Nothing is worth losing the

power of God. Nothing is worth Jesus being in the midst.

Amen. Nothing in our life.

We should let nothing come between us and the power

of God.

Amen. At all costs, let us make sure we've made

a place like o bed eten. Amen. I want to

say this for a while. There For three.

Months, Dyvid went back to the king's palace there, and

he acted like he just forgot about it, and he

put it in the back of his mind, and he said,

I'm just I'm gonna leave it right there.

Hey, it was at a.

Been the Dav's house for these many years, so I'm

just gonna leave it over there, though, obed edams and

and I'll just leave it over there. David didn't want

the art after the breach was made upon hussle. But

after three months, somebody came to David and said, Hey,

have you heard what's.

Going on down there?

Have you seen the power of God that's moving around

a'm atting in the family of obed Edom.

And David said, are you serious?

All that happened because obed Edom made root for the

power of God. All of that happened because somebody felt

like it was necessary to do whatever it could to

make sure the power of God found a place in

their lives life.

Amen.

Whenever David saw the blessing, he realized he realized the

importance of having the spirit of God. Amen, of having

the power of God. You know, the Ark of the

Covenant represents the spirit of God.

Amen. At Wreck represented the power of Almighty God. Amen.

Oh Bet Edam felt like whatever he needed to do

to make room for the art was necessary.

Amen. And I hope we have some parents in this

house tonight. Amen.

That would say, I recognize the necessity of having the

power of God, and I recognize the necessity of the

power of God being available for my children to be blessed.

Amen. I can't afford to be like a bit of down. Amen.

Let's stand this evening. I can't afford my children us.

I can't afford for the power.

Of God to leave.

Them little babies. They can't afford for Daddy and Mama

to lose the power.

Amen. The responsibility is on us in a lot of ways,

especially when they're young. Amen.

Once they get older, Amen, then God would deal with them.

But it's still mama and Daddy's responsibility that they have

access Amen to the power of God. And I want

to make sure that all costs, no matter what it

would take, Amen, that I make sure that my children.

Find room for the power of God in their lives. Amen.

Let's pray the Sebring if you feel like pray him. Amen.

Let's just make sure that we've made room. Amen. Let's

just make sure that those little ones around us.

Amen, will have access to the power Amen in the

spirit of God.