Don't Taint Your Testimony - Bro Jeremy Howell 8-6-2025

With you.

Will you turn with me to the Book of Philippians.

May I direct your attention to the fourth chapter and

the fifth verse.

I will say, it's wonderful to be in the house

of the Lord with you all tonight.

We're thankful for the wait the Lord is blessing and

health of the vest of Holderness Church and all of

our brothers and sisters that are part of our church family.

God is truly doing something wonderful amongst our friends and family.

I'm thankful for that. Praise the Lord.

I appreciate every testimony that was given tonight. I thank

you for the prayers you pray for Sister.

Howell and I throughout the years.

I'm thankful that you're burying your brother's burdens. We appreciate it.

My brother Jesse, John of chapter number three, Versus number

ten and chapter number four and verse number one, the

last verse of chapter number three and the first verse

of chapter number four. Brother Nathaniel Joe chapter number two

and verse number nine, And beloved, we will be looking

at Philippians chapter number four and verse number five. Oh, yes,

that wonderful chapter in the Book of Philippians, the fourth chapter. Youah,

brother Jesse, Joah Champion number three, verse number ten, and

first number one of chapter four.

Would you read that, brother.

If God saw their words, that they turned from their

evil way, and God repented of the evil that he

had said that he would do unto them, and he

did it not, but it displeased Jonah exceedingly, and.

He was very angry.

Amen, how many of you are thankful that the Lord

has never tainted his testimony? I want to preach a

message the Holy Ghost title, don't taint your testimony. Brother

Nathaniel Job, chapter number two and verse number nine.

Then said his wife unto him, dost thou still retain

that integrity? Curse God and die.

Job's wife was willing to allow her testimony to become tainted,

but Job refuse to allow his testimony to be attainted.

Let's stand Philippians, Chapter number four, verse number five. I

will try to bring this verse to your attention tonight

and preach on it as the Lord leads. I don't

know that I've ever heard anyone teach or preach on this.

Particular verse of the Bible.

So I need your prayers.

The Bible said, let your moderation be known unto all men.

The Lord is at hand. May we pray, Heavenly Father,

we love and we praise you. We thank you for

your goodness, We thank you for your mercy. I thank

you for the opportunity to be in your house tonight.

I prayed that.

You would help this thy servants, set a guard at

my mouth and help me to say the things that

you would have me to say, nothing more or less.

An DearS with this thy people, that they might hear

what the spare God says unto the church tonight, for

they have open years. I know they do, and they're

willing to listen to hearken into heed.

I thank you for that.

Lord.

I pray that you would help us to demark this place.

Joe Colin, not sorrowfully in Jesus' name in the church,

said Amen, as you're being seated, look at your neighbor

and say, hey, neighbor, don't tain't your testimony. Our text

is found in a New Testament book of the Holy Bible.

This book is a Pauline epistle. Most present tonight or

quite familiar with how this mighty work for the Lord

Jesus begin in that part of the world.

Those of you that read your.

Bible, you will remember that the Apostle Paul was visited

by a man particular, perhaps an angelic being or an

actual person in the region of Macedonia, and.

The Apostle Paul received a Macedonian call, and when he

went into this area, he found a group of wonderful,

god fearing, godly women that were having prayer meeting down

by the riverside. Down by the river side, a beautiful

thing began. God gave these precious sisters a wonderful man

of God to help guide them to that celestial city Heaven.

Could you imagine the feeling that they felt when they

realized none other than the Great Apostle Paul have been

chosen by God to come and help them specifically. Sister

Wooton approached this poolpit this past Sunday night spoke to

me for about seven minutes. I don't know how long

it's been since she has required that much of my

time after a service, but I enjoyed every second of it,

Brother Jesse, she said, with tears flowing down her face.

Face and a trembling voice.

She said, Pastor, to be honest with you, I do

not know where I would be tonight if it had.

Not been for you obeying the Lord eighteen years ago

and coming down here and preaching to me. I'm telling

you she spent at least six or seven minutes crying,

Sister Howell, seemingly uncontrollably, and praising the Lord for what

God did for her.

She said, I so.

Desperately needed a holiness church with holiness people and a

holiness pastor, and God hurting my prayer and granted that request.

Are y'all feeling what I'm a feeling right now?

Can you imagine with that Greek woman Lydia, who had

converted from Paganism to Judaism, realized that the Apostle Paul

was present to present salvation and Christianity to them and

lead and guide them into perfection. Oh brother, oh cap

I'm sure a lot of the saints of Philippi were

thankful for a God that could speak to old men and.

Young men through dreams and visions.

I'm sure they were thankful that there was a spiritual

man whose heartbeat was beating because of God, and it

was beating for them, Brother Nathaniel. Apostle Paul received that

vision while he was in the city of True ass

and over the years, I'm sure there were a lot

of testimonies given about that particular moment in his life.

I preached a whole lot about this god fearing woman,

Lydia over the years. In fact, Lisa Byrd approached me

one time and she said, Pastor, you ought to write

a book on the woman of Lydia and the church

at Philippie. Truly, this woman was a blessing to the

people of her area, and she's also.

Been a blessing to me over the years.

I had found it to be a blessing to study

behind the life of this wonderful woman of God. And

the Apostle Paul and his fellow laborer's brother Samuel Howell,

they too were blessed by this precious saint of God.

You will remember one particular time when Lydia and the

saints at the Church of philip Pie wrapped a special

offering up and sent it by the hand of Eperditis

to Apostle Paul while he was in prison and a

Roman prison and sister Howell ed returned.

The Apostle Paul.

Gave the Philippian church this Pauline epistle. Again, this is

a Pauline epistle written from a Roman prison after they

sent a gift or a love opera to the Apostle Paul.

He recippocated with this wonderful Pauline epistle four chapters. You're

looking at him right now, some of you are flipping

through the pages of this book of the Bible, and

this is Apostle Paul's gift.

To the Church at Philippi. The affection that Paul had

for the saints of Philippi was no secret then, nor

is it now.

For this afternoon, and reading through these four chapters, I

found numerous evidences of his affection for these people in

this area.

The feelings were mutual. They loved Paul, and Paul loved

with him.

The Church of Philippi supported Paul in many different ways,

most importantly prayerfully and financially. They gave to him through

their courier brother Epidotus, and Paul reciprocated affectionately with this

Pauline epistle.

Or a letter.

One of the favorite chapters in this Bible of many

people in this building.

Tonight is the fourth chapter of Philippians. There's several scriptures

in this chapter that many present.

Tonight can recite. Since the how as a.

Young man I begin to memorize the most of this

fourth chapter of this book.

We could talk about the fourth chapter in the fourth.

Verse of this book, where it says, rejoice in the

Lord alway, and again.

I say rejoice. A lot of you could quote.

The Philympians chapter number four, verse number eight, and chapter

number four and verse number thirteen.

Say it with me. I could do all things true Christ.

Which strengtheneth me, Not who strengtheneth me, but which strengtheneth me. Philympians,

chapter number four, Verse number nineteen is a scripture that

many people can quote. And there's many others in this

particular chapter. But let's add one to that list of favorites.

Tonight shall with this fifth verse of very many people

over looks, mister Howell, you were the first lady here

at the Bethel Holiness Church, and I dare say that

you have. I have no idea whatsoever that particular verse means.

If you look at that fifth verse, it says, let

your moderation be known unto all men.

The Lord is at hand.

How many of you know the definition of that word

of moderation.

Before you raise your hand and before you answer me,

you need to hold off.

I looked at the definition of that word. It is

one of the most debated words in all of the

Sacred rip and sixty six books in the Bible. That

particular word is one of the most debated words.

Concerned its definition.

I believe the Lord has helped me understand a little

bit about that particular word. It can mean a witness,

it can mean testimony. Let your moderation be known before all.

Let your gentleness be known before all. Let your forgiveness

be known before all. Let your patience, though undeserving.

Be known before all.

Let your gentleness be known to all men. The Lord

is at hand this versus telling the church people to

fill the power the Pentecostal and Holiness people of many

different generations and those.

That are members of the Fiftal Holiness.

Church to allow the spirit to be gentle to all people,

no matter what you're going through. Come on now, It's

telling us to be gentle to all people at all times,

no matter what we as individuals are going through.

Paul is telling every believer that the Holy.

Garst will require a Christian to possess a characteristic that

is gentle.

And fair to and one.

Because the Lord is literally standing beside the Christian, notice

the latter part of that fifth versa, the Lord is

at hand. This is not speaking concerning the coming of

the Lord. No, it is speaking that the Lord is

literally right beside you at all times, in the same.

Way that he is standing.

Or sitting next to the right hand of the Father.

You, as a Christian, you can testify that.

The Lord is with you all way. He said he

would go with you all way, and that's reason enough

to rejoice. Oh way, let me ask us a question

here tonight, when circumstances.

Change and what flows out of.

Your character or you like a coat father, all shook up.

And ready to spew.

Out, and whenever something doesn't go your way. When you

notice the author of this epistle, you have to kind of.

Repel back and think a little bit.

About who it is that is putting pen in department

and sending this message out. This is a man that

practices what he preaches. Sister Howell, you'll notice who wrote

to let your moderation be known unto all men of.

God figured it out yet, Paul said.

Paul wrote that by the Jesse, and it's our golden

text here tonight. When you back up to that post

just before go in text and said rejoice in the

Lord all way.

And again I say rejoice.

So these people knew who it was that had heard

from God, and.

Who it was that had showed up on.

Their front doorsteps, so to speak, and who it was

that preached to them and helped them plant that church

and get things started there concerning.

Their church family.

Since the who he was no strange or whatsoever to

these people. And they knew who wrote the letter? Do

you know those of labor among you? The Bible said

that you ought to know those individuals and intimate of

a special way before you get to intertwired when they get.

Too involved with you.

These people knew that Paul knew them. They knew paula

as good as Ruth and the love of position knew him.

They knew Paul is good a Silas knew him. He said,

what does this happen to do with me? What in

the word are you preaching about tonight?

Listen?

They knew that when Paul came to fill Upie, that

it was Paul that had been in.

Prisoned for obeying the Lord.

There's a lot of people they would have regretted answering

the Macedonian Carter, they would have regretted developing a princeship

with Lydia and the other believers. Apostle Paul poured back

the sweat and tears into this church family, into these individuals,

and they knew he was currently in prison in Rome.

They are sitting there, prodde us with a care package,

if you would, and they're looking at the letter and

they realize this fam was not only imprison in Rome,

he was in prison.

Right here in our land.

And pack of miny a sermon he has been preached about.

Child that's been preached about Paul insidea at the midnight hour,

having prayer, meeting and singing songs. You wont where they

being bad and fill the pie. They did it after preaching.

They did it after pie in the church, after trying

to hit somebody like an Irish Newton, they went to

hell and hell the hell they'll.

Come on now. I'm trying to preach to you here tonight.

I'm asking you why in the world when you see

all their people and they are pushing on and they

are preserving her, They're all salvation. Look here and trembling there,

They're preserving hem. They're on salvation to the power of

the Holy Girls.

How can you come to church and tain't you a testimony?

How can you stand outside with a sign in your head,

with a frown on your pace, walk in the herd?

He's going on in your life to cause you.

To take your testimony and run to the.

Last the dying Lord. You ain't been to be blacking

blue to day for their meeting.

It at mean, not hour, I'm telling you, Apostle Paul.

He said, records don't Then he.

Said, doty a line that test the moon it to be.

It's amazing to me how people can rejoice when all

the bills are paid, when they're getting new houses, when

they're getting new investment properties.

When they're getting paid raises, when their bank account is climbing.

On a daily basis, when they get a good report

from the family position, when Luke is saying to Paul, hey,

you're in good health, Apostle Paul's praying for everybody.

That they would be in good health and that they

would prosper even as their soul prosperous.

But if silence is looking at you, Paul, Lord and saying,

why or why would they beat the.

Man of God like that? Why or why.

Would they shut him up in the innermost part of

the prison. The Paul can say, rejoice, rejoice, What about

you right now?

If you lost your pastor to death?

What about you right now? If you lost your pastor

to the will of God we wing him somewhere else?

What about you right now? If your fouse drop dead?

What about you right now? If you're truk tad tomorrow?

What would your spouse food? What would your children do?

If you lost your job tomorrow? Would your moderation be

at head, which your check the spirit still be at head,

which a forgiven spirit still be at head?

Which your town spirit still be at hand?

Let me no wrong in in all day, get out

a situation. If you won't be contentment, it's not gonna

do a bit of good. If I preach a message

like this and we don't change, it's not gonna do

a bit of good.

If I preach a message like this and you don't answer.

We can condemn Eath.

And Rotate all we want to, after he's been rebooked

by the Lord. We can condemn Jordy Wallace all we

want to, after he's been repeeted by Lord.

But there have been other people in this building.

That have been repeats repeated that have you went back

and listened to the message?

Sleep proceeds? Are you still sitting in that pupil asleep?

Are you still not running around the church? Are you

still not praising God right there? Are you still not

looking up your mess rock a trumpet? Are you still

coming in the church and.

Everybody else in the head and wondering if your cat died,

wondering if you lost your job. Even when you're pasting,

it's supposed to be undisoldble and unrecognizable, even.

At for seeking God. There should be nobody knowing. It's

telling on me. I'll tell you so if I've been

notnosed with cancer today, who wouldn't have known it? How

to preach him? Black God preaching?

Now?

Listen, repeating party, it's not let Paul, what's an immercas too?

Then I'm telling you hear not? What's your moderation? And

knowing it been O meal right? Because the Lord here

is mearby.

Sister Howell said, she said that you know jes his

wife Hannah God on that peace Sunday morning.

I said, no, honey, God's blessed the quiry. It is

increased in numbers. I can't see past acquiry anymore, hard line,

making a habit of staring at the parishioners.

In the view, I'm making a habit of worship of God.

And let my moderation be on, Let my gentle.

Spirit be known, my patience be known, my forgiveness be known.

I know the world's done me wrong, but I forgive them.

I know my brother's done me wrong, but I forgive him.

I know my sister's done me wrong, but I forgive her.

Or no woman, I'm talking about church family that does

us wrong.

The customers may have done you wrong. The boss man

may have done you wrong.

When you're study this word moderation, it literally means you

were in a place when you could have brought somebody

to judgment.

By the letter of the law. You would have been

okay to do so.

But to step back, and you let mercy prevail, he says,

for son of Pie and exemplified in Jesus's handling on

a woman culture than the very actor.

Don't the little along and I gave him permission. The

stone are there.

He could have picked up the stone because he wants

to sinless one.

He asked everybody else have you seen h are you innocent?

And you know what? To walked away? But he could

have held it.

I'm perfects He could have held it there, perfect monciousness.

He could have held it a young lady. But he said,

kill me, Let's send them all. He didn't want to

slide back.

He never sin but he did little slide. I said

that had come on, not you know, holl revent to you,

but for you to sit there, but stand.

There, and my God, now these servants, what do you

mean to do if you don't change?

And we told Jordy Wallace changed, we told Heather road

Camp change. But brother each it ain't just your sign

of brother justice. And I've been preaching to you. There's

other people I've been preaching to you. There's some adults.

I've been preaching to you.

And Sister Howo saying, did you see Jesse's wife Hannah

come out up you and go up and down.

That center all?

I said, no, I did not.

She said, Sunday night, did you see Elizabeth run out

of the choir? I said no, I did not. She said,

they have responded to your preaching. They have responded that

in what God has told him to do.

Sister Tracy. I just say, if you never known about

God like you did three.

Or four weeks ago, your daughters could still be looking

at polling the souler and refuse it, to allow their

testimony to be untaken.

I want you to know, no matter what's.

Are going through, there's a little child. Look in the sea,

how you're connecting yourself. Get in the surface.

Don't come on now.

I can't tell you of one time that sister Cyril

Harrison Man has ever come in here. We a mad attitude.

They're a God spirit, and she's been a blessing of

my soul. The Apostle Paul said, let your moderation be

known unto all men.

Lets your patience, lets your forgiveness, let your gentleness, Let

your testimony of these such things.

Let it be evident, let it be shown, let it

be manifested, Let it be demonstrated.

And perhaps it's unlikely, but.

Perhaps there was one in that congregation, just like there

might be here, that he would clarify with a period

and in a short sentence, the Lord is at hand.

I hope you remember this fifth verse in the fourth

chapter of the Book of Philippians. Luck I do after this,

I hope. It's right there with I can do all

things through Christ. What strengthiness me?

Apostle Paul goes from the rejoice in the Lord allway,

and then he goals and basically says, don't let your

testimony retain it.

Amen.

When circumstances change, what flows out of your character?

When circumstances change, what flows out of your character? You

as an individual? Are you on your tiptoes tonight? And

then circumstances will change it tomorrow? Notice who wrote that,

let your moderation be known?

And to all men?

Oh, I feel like you're helping me here tonight. I

don't know that I'll be preaching much longer.

But Brother Nathaniel, these people remember their beginning as a

church family. They remember what the Apostle Paul went through himself.

Realize how much he has been willing to be spent.

They realized the murden that he carries, and they realize

how blessed they are.

Again.

They remember seeing Paul and Silas beaten with Roger and

Casta in the innermost prison.

They were a witness though to his joy. They were

a witness to his joy. There was nobody that was

a member of the Philippian Church having to send him

a letter to encourage him. Don't you backslide in jail?

Don't you back slid as you go through something. I

don't know why it's going to God have to go

through things, but they do.

Jud's wife got so diskoirtage as she went and told

Joe while to.

Go ahead and curse God and die. I know that

was a difficult spot for Job's wife to be in.

I sympathize with her ten caskets with.

Ten little babies in and ten young people, ten children,

you know what I mean.

And by in the tame you all, I know that

was hard to bear.

With her testimony, you hastainted recalled the fact that she

told Jose to curse God and die.

Lets me know she had probably already cursed God, and

she had already blamed God. How come I no matter

whether you're speaking or not her, your anxious needs louder.

They're your Lord, So you can blame God by your

refusal to praise him.

That all the time, My God, Paul knew, he knew,

they knew what I've been through it.

And brother Jesse, they knew what and he knew what

they had been to me, well, I want to preach,

and I feel like God's giving me some things the

same sister, how I want to say him just exactly

the way.

He would have me to say them.

Paul rejoiced in the midst of difficult circumstances. I said,

Paul rejoice in the midst of difficult circumstances.

While he was doing the will of God.

And something awful happened, while there was being obedient to

the heaven to call him.

Something offul happened, while.

He was responding to the Macedonian call, something happened.

What about Joonah?

Though in our co text, the Bible said that Jonah reluctantly.

Finely did what God told him to do, and after

he preached, he was such a great preacher.

After the city had repented in sack cloth and ashes,

and the Bible said God had mercy on them people.

The Bible said that Jonah pitched a fit. I'm telling you,

Jonah was upset because his people did not get what

was coming to them. They did not get what was

coming to them, and Jolah was not set about it.

And the end result is his testimony was tainted.

Oh come on, now, you ain't getting this.

What about the men that rudely shoved Paul and Silas

into the innermost part of the prison. What about those

that tried to slam their hands in their bron bars?

What about those that shackled them to the walls and

the floors of their prison?

Says?

What about it?

What about it?

Are going?

Ain't getting us? That's what the hole post has given

me right now.

That jailer that was responsible for some of that, after

that prison break, when the earthquake came and tore things apart,

when the lamps that went out, that prison guard that

was about to commit suicide, that prison guard that was

about to end this line. Apostle Paul that his federation

be known to every man in that house. And he

said to the Philippian trailer, Hey, hold on a minute, stop,

don't do any harm to yourself. Hey, come on, let

your childness bemoaned to all men. Let your forget a

spirit in mind to agen that's.

Your testing on it, to know the amen. That's your weakness.

You know a man that your likeness serve your Savior Jesus.

Oh come on now, Paul. He ran to lem and

the man ran to him. Then he said don't do

yourself any harm.

Oh, come on, there's some I know him personally that

they would have waited for the gunshot.

I know they didn't have a gun back then. They

would have.

Waited it for the sword.

The trol from the scabbard, and the body took a

collapser on the film, Oh what's in your heart here tonight?

What in the world to cause you to walk in

to the house of God hurting? The God put out

a smile that.

Your friends in as telling old, what's up of yours?

Do you thyself?

No harm?

I know of some holiness people that would probably kill

him in the darkness. He don't know up from down

Right now, I'll draw this sword out of his almost

cabbage and sled us through the Bible, said mercy rejoices

against judgment. Who are you preaching to right now? I'll

tell you about six and the seventy five? Who are

you preaching to right now? I'll tell you about six

of the seventy five.

I need to say it again, who are you preaching

to right now? About six? How to the seventy five

and everyone of them from a family.

I'm preaching this of people right now. Hey, your gentleness

ought to be known no matter what you're going through.

Your forgiveness ought to be known, your compassion, your kindness.

Jonah got angry when he saw ninabouts had repented and

escaped the wrath and the judgment of Almighty God. I

don't know about Chaull, but I'm glad that brother Jordan

has been trying to praise some things through. I'm glad

that brother Ethan has decided he's not going to cater

to the whims.

Of the speed demon anymore. I thank God for that.

Then the Bible, said Jonah.

When he realized people escaped wrath and damnation, it displeased

him exceedingly, and he was very angry. After he witnessed

the gentleness of a forgiving and a loving God. Jonah

told the Lord, I knew that you are gracious. I

knew that you were merciful. I knew that you're sla

ain't there. I knew that you're a great kindness up

goes on Jona's words.

So he knew that about his father.

I said, he'd knew that talk about his father, and

these people knew that about Paul.

It doesn't matter her if.

He was standing up or a ship, calling upon that

it didn't matter how to heep he spit up there

and nodding the deeper. He didn't matter if he was

in the Philippian jailor or rolling person up. He's gonna

have the jailor to the Lord because without a talk,

he's gonna have one straight talk with this death versus Papa.

Let your gentleness be known.

To all men.

Jonah didn't handle it well. One things did go his way.

My pastor dropped dead while he was preaching. How would

you handle that?

Right?

I can tell you this, my gods, Jesse, you ever

seen me drop dead, preacher? It won't be because of

God's fault. My chest is killing me right now. I

keep checking my left arm our. Brother Nathaniel, I want

you to know it won't be God's fault if I

drop dead right now. I've never hurt now my chest

while I preached, but I did Sunday morning, and I

am right now.

But if I had not had told you, you would

have never known.

And concerning about fifty of you, you're no more in

the spirit to desert it to know to pray for me.

I don't know I can fill my heart race or

put your hand there. I don't need no penny. I'm

trying to tell you a lot. You can go through

things sometimes. I don't know that that's a pending heart attack.

I don't know if that's a stroke at hand. It

just might be a bad case of heart burn. I

don't know what it is. But brother, just say, right

now we're having church.

Right now, we're in the house of God, and there's

nothing in the world whatsoever to bleame God, for God

has been goody And that's what Joab said. The Lord

givet and the Lord taketh away. Listen be the name

of the Lord. I'm here to ask you that. Now,

whose attitude do you possess? Joab's wife son or chops

Choam said, though he's sleeping.

Yet, will I serve him?

How about what a second doesn't go your way? What

a thing? Don't you enough the way you thought they would? Enough?

Are you gonna just curse God? And now are you

gonna go sit under the one left that wady.

For God and distress somebody here? I'm trying to help

your head and out.

Why won't you standing there beside a highway, let's go

a caromory of pay said.

Why would't you try to advertise Jesus I said with Nasa,

have a smile now, don't come on now and a

cost man that come mother does for the people.

Listen, world, No, I got my solc on. I'm telling

you here and not tell me. Do you sleep with

the nos? No, angel I s if you aren't got

loving everybody, do not come now. He's a jack daughter.

He's good of coughing as you better as nothing. I

feel the holy ghost sit in this place. Sweet, Why

my god, Jorny are you serious right now? Johnny?

Are you serious right now? You knew he's a kind god.

You knew he's a gentle god. You knew he's a

compassionate god. And you knew when you preaching.

Okay, God, Jordy.

Watterson, do right ethan he do right, says the charity,

do right, brother, area that don't prove and do better.

Yeah, that's right.

That's why we're preaching. So people that ain't doing it

right to learn to do right.

So the people that haven't had good attitudes to develop

good intention till you, God have been matter could become back.

Oh I thought a holy girl sitting this place in

a mighty way. Let your moderation be known, and all one.

The Lord is and hand. The Lord is at hand.

Come on her, mother, Jesse, The Lord is at hand.

Say I'm gonna stare. Look at that picture on photocircle.

That your dad or mama took.

That is an indictment to you as an individual, as

a preacher. One of the most sorrowful looks I've ever

seen on a person's face is on your face.

Look at the picture above it, sister, Stare. It's just

a smiling and she's a beaman. That's the same thing

I see on other people's faces.

Hitting this building tonight.

There's some smiling, there's some beaming for the most part.

About seventy of your arm. Then there's fiber six of you.

If that fats humility, that's fibers.

Six of you trying to act like you're so definded.

That's fiber six of you out of the time of

sing every day of the week or whatever.

It is, reviewing it condives you.

It's a you need to come to the hazard God

and let that testimony be entertained. Because the laird is

a hat apostle. Pause of the lid is a here

the parment of Philippians.

The madre is a here if I'm in a Roman

prison X. The lad is a care if every dods

has got sick and the man's going to be delivered later.

The lad is a gods in the word, he is

a lad if the goods they meant well. He brought

that care package to the apostle park Lydya of the

Saillar of Purple. This is just jeremy house imagination.

She probably had a nice little handkerchief in there, some

personal effect, since Elizabeth, you made that for your husband,

Philip Howell. Nice handkerchief. The Lord is at hand. Silar

Purple might have sent him a little purple cough or

something to remember her by, because she don't know what

the outcome is gonna be.

And Uh Paul gave him this wonderful epistol that we're

preaching out of here tonight. Rejoice. Let that break your heart,

lets you lets you a soulcle man and soaking it. Hey,

he's in a prison house.

Oh my god, oh brother Jesse, I want to preach

right here in this corner because it feels pretty good

right over here. But right now, oh thank God for

the healing virtue of you. Know, helping us care who

right here?

The Lord is at hand, The Lord is a hard The.

Lord is nearby.

This canouflags captain was nearby. Oh, Lord son supposing to

be a rock. Moses said that was cost Son supposed

to have been a rock.

And David said that was Christ will come on.

I'm telling you, if you're standing on the street side,

you have a smile over your face, and you will cross.

Has anybody ever seen anybody and you tell us without

a smile? And I call that queer? Look you, I

call that strange.

I call that weird.

I call that a no.

Somebody told me recently that a celebrity chef got old

of somebody for sit through his entire broadcast with a

frown on her face.

I need to look it up.

They said he got on with somebody pro sent through

his entire broadcast with a sour expression on their face.

I thought, my god, what if I started calling him out.

Because he knew he wasn't good for listening. He knew

it wasn't good for the kindness. The Lord is at hand.

If your daddy's dying with a heart attack after preaching,

the Lord's at hand, if that would love and have

me get better.

I'd asked him to let me buy a law I'm preaching,

Oh y'all, not my bother.

Holding out of my sort.

Time I sacked my sort.

Time I'd asked him not to let me die skin

of bones in a cancer ward.

Sister, whom you told me you've asked him nothing, lets

you die out of your my hand. Oh y'all, ain't fell.

I went on my family, because what's.

It going in this place as a lesson that you

don't got the holy ghost? You ain't got the holy ghost?

You can get it in the service tonight. Rejoice in

the Lord all the way. And again I say that.

Choice he raped.

And what happened was when Aphroditis got there, he got

sick with the battle said he got sick. Brother Nathaniel

Aphraditas was excited about taking good news back to Philippi

and jaygra taking good news back to Lydia from Paul,

and it gets dog sick whatever that means, dog sick,

And finally he gets.

Better and they get the letter. Hey, come on now, I'm.

Sure apostle Paul snapped his fingers and don't I can't

believe this.

I'm in prison and my buddy Effie is dog sick.

Then we're trying to get some good news to Idio.

Then we say I finally get sent. Oh, Aphrodita says

here it is Mama, here, it is mother?

Here is wrong?

I got what we all want him? And what did

he say? I can do all things through Christ?

What sweetes bath?

I can't into so yes, cite, who is this streaking

the usual?

I can't be.

Gentil Oh yes, cita, I can't be forgiven.

Oh yes, sit here, I can't be capacity. Don't not

sit here, hol y'all'll be more tied to yourself. I

said that to be more kind. Don't forgive it to yourself.

Sweet now on God, I'll feel the love this house.

Are you saying you're going I'm preaching?

I don't know, but I may So what.

So what.

If Samuel was crying because I heard him borning my death?

So what God's goods? Didn't it cross my mind.

That he was moorning my death? That God let me

hear him mourning? Yeah, because I won't hear anybody moren

my death. And I wondered had to because of the

severity of his mourning? Was he mourning my death, that

God let me look into the future. I feel the

Holy Good sent this pot.

He God.

I don't sit there and panic and pound about pray

about it. This ain't no time to panic, This ain't

no time to pout. It said, no time for penny,

It's time to dray. I thought, as Christians, we believed

a prayer changes things. I thought, Christians we believe prayer

prolongs life. I thought, as Christians, we believe prayer raises

it is. I thought, as Christians, we believe prayer cures

cantion or cause or Paul.

Believed in what he was preaching about, and that's what

these people knew. He's been drugged in to.

Prison, he's been black and blue. He practices what he preaches.

I'm telling some of you here and now it's about

time you start practicing what you're preaching.

What a penniful case it is for Joan to say,

you're gracious, you're kind, you're forgiving, you're loving.

Sweet, I'm a still feeling.

It's just a strong.

What you gonna do when there is nobody to preach

you like you're feeling right now, Paul handle things well

when circumstances change, When things took a turn for the

worse in his ministry.

Sister weep.

You go ahead, and you don't want to hold back

for me. It's decent in order to worship and praise God.

It'll be fine with me for the hole he gets

to take over this message. I'm gonna say it again.

Would you have been gentle with the jailer who would

imprison you? Would you be joyful that you witnessed that conversion?

Or would you be quit to say?

Man, you gave me a story. Right there?

Oo, Jesus Christ is standing right there next to your sister.

Who he's standing right there next to you?

Brother?

Justin the Lord isn't him?

But you know what stood out to me this evening

while praying in my office, God said, it's true.

I'm nearby.

He said.

Also, their family's nearby, He said, their spouses nearby, and

their children nearby.

I don't want to be one.

Of them people that people have to walk on eggshells

when they're around me. Jesus was gentle. Jesus had the

fruit of the spirit is gentleness.

Sake it to the last. I believe Jesus was gentle.

When you overturned the tables of the money changers, and

to seek to them that sold to us.

He was gentle, He went as a lamb to the slaughter.

He had a gentle spirit.

One of the things that is required for a pastor

of bishop of deacon is to have that kind of spirit.

Compassionate forgiveness, gentle, not a brawler, not soone that be

about to walk on eggshells when they're around, not worried

that daddy's reaching a holler, not worried to bonuswitching and

provoked the.

Children under breath.

Don't with.

What I'm saying is and we haven't done this.

If we are careful, will crucify Geordy and will stone Ethis.

I told brother Ethan yesterday before he left work, I said,

moa yard tomorrow morning.

First thing. He's a young man.

What has he got to do?

How could he be busy?

Fifteen sixteen years old? Three thirty today? With everything I

got going on, God brought it to my attention. I

was driving sister. How witness it happened? God spoke to

him and said, Becky's yard didn't get done today. I'll

mess his brother Ethan, And I knew I had saw

the pictures I had sought confirmation that was completed asist

the wood.

And I said, Ethan, you get the yard done with nothing.

Hardly going on in his life, with hooleness and grass,

no wife to take care of, no children are raised,

no bills to pay, hardly to speak of, compared to

what you are going through, basically with nothing on his mind.

Really he failed me.

Now, a lot of people that weren't gentle in spirit,

they'd have looked for a reason to firing, terminating.

Their real color.

Would have come out right then when a preacher preaches

holiness and he deals with hypocrites and spirits that nobody

knows is under the surface, and he's bold as a lie,

and Jesus comes in, or Paul comes in, where John

comes in.

When they act.

According to the Holy Ghost, with holy boldness and reprimand

the hyphracrit and the hypocrite that is not indicative of

them lacking a a gentle spirit. A gentle spirit reveals

itself in times like this afternoon. I message him and

I quote, I said, it's okay, buddy, sometimes we forget things.

Get it first thing in the morning. And then he

come back, said, Pastor, I'll go do it right now,

a non gentle spirit would have said, no, you forgot,

You ain't got a job. Just how do you have

a bottle of lotion in your person? Does anybody got

a bottle of lotion?

And feel the way?

Go speaking to me here and walking up down? I

see this right here, Jurgen's lotion.

What you really are is known by what comes out

of your bottle when it squeezed.

Brother Jesse, I'm sorry, I hold your hand down. Let's

see what's in here. Looks like Jergon's Lotionen to me,

let me smell it. Yep, that smells like your mama's hands.

If God squeezes you tomorrow, what comes out?

Right?

I said, If God squeezes your bottle tomorrow, what comes out?

I won't say it once morning?

If God squeezes your bottle tomorrow, what will come out?

Sister who when God squeeze join us bottle? Bitterness?

He said, it's very angry. It came out.

When the Lord squeeze Job's bottle. He said, when it

tries me, I shall come forth as gold. Sister woot

and I watched it that morning your husband died. She

didn't curse God or charge God foolishly.

She kissed him.

And sent him away, Sister Heaven, I watched him. My

brother Duke shocked us both and left before we were ready.

I said, God, where's she at? He says, she's in

ards home. She buried him on the other side of

the cemetery, but says to How, I can tell you

it's true. I drove right up on her clear on

the other side. I feel the presence of gone in

this place tonight. I don't know what it's gonna take

to keep you from taking your testimony, but it is

no testimony to a lost in dye world.

To go to the job with a.

Frown on your face for people out to be walking

around on egg shells, because you're like a ticket time

bomb just ready to go off.

The howl.

Children know nothing of being nervous to come in our house,

no matter what they've done.

It was a home of discipline. It was a home

of correction.

The sister how and up to the state, we've tried

not to tain our testimony. Let your borrow being known

to all men. I hope everyone feels that you handle

things well, says to How. No, I didn't see Jesse's

wife Obany God. No, I didn't see Philip's wife.

Obay God. But I'll tell you this, Malack, I sold

your wife. Obay God, a you have felt your wife

or a bat. But beyond that, when they ran, the

Lord ran with them.

What do you have to run about that your soul's

not in hell? What do you have to shout about

that your name's written in the lamb book.

Along to it?

When God squeezes you, what comes out? I'll tell you,

no matter what you're going through, when he squeezes you,

you ought to say, well, glory, how they leave you?

Brother Nathaniel, I've felt strown treasures of the Holy Ghost

here at all.

You see, Brother Roquat. When we get squeezed, it reveals

what's inside.

Our greatest witness to others comes not when everything is

going our way. Our greatest witness comes when they see

that our world has fallen apart.

Joe two and nine, how are you still clinging to

your witness?

And testable?

As she's saying, why don't you just go.

Ahead and curse God and die? And Joe knew, Brother

Jeremiah know God's nearby. Job k new My children are dead,

but my wife is still nearby? Are you prophesying you're

gonna die while preaching?

I hope?

So?

Is it gonna happen tonight?

I doubt it?

Is it gonna happen this year?

I doubt it?

Could it?

Sure?

I could dine in at a car accident too.

What would be a better testimony for you, Jeremiah at

Israe you papa died and head on collision or your

papa die want preaching?

But what I am prophesigning preaching is about you.

I gave you an example of what I was going

through while preaching, and I just chose to tell you.

But what I am prophesied is if you don't stop

taking your testimony, if them sleep proceeds.

Don't come out of the pack and get planning.

And if you don't start coming out of that you

and obeying the Lord and took a smile onto the

face of praising the Lord and worship of God.

I don't know what's gonna happen, because I knew.

That message, Brother Jesse, preach wasn't only for brother Geordian,

Brother Ethan. It was for some of us other Oneths,

including Miss Rebecca Howard. And you're waiting on me right

now to say something up. So I preach probably for

an hour and five minutes. And we've been at just

long enough to know these altars were open. We've been

at just lone enough to know Pastor's got a burden tonight.

And there's a reason I'm preaching on old Tantard testimony.

I've heard people say, as long as anything's going good,

I'll serve the Lord.

But as soon as things gonna go my way, I'm

gonna blame God. It's somebody looking for a whal Listen,

cut up.

I see, I gotta hide, funk.

Shine down.

I got a I got gota forky coutt the most

shot down, I kin eat most.

I got the hide.

I say to you, rejoice. And again I say, rejoice.

But why do you not rejoice?

You know it's to your strength. It's not older to

praise me, or to glorify me, or to lift up

my name or to exalt me. It is your strength.

It's necessary for your survival that you rejoice.

And I say, others are watching, not only those outside

of this church, but those inside. And they know and

you know.

But I say, I am near, And I said, and

you have offended me.

I take not.

You have offended me, says.

When you consider the circumstances and the conditions and others

in our opinions, you take your testimony. It's terrible. Don't

taint your testimony.

You come too far.

You've come too far. You come too far.

Oh my, what have you do it?

Right now? With me fertaining my testimony? I haven't let

my mother should be all into my bed. I haven't

had a general.

Spirit outside of church. I haven't had a general spirit

when going through difficult circumstances. I have a forgiving spirit, compassion.

I had been having enjoyed that.

Now it's a good time to start repent it. I

ask God to forgive you. I know this message is respecting.

I know that.

Let it be evident to all men. Let your moderation

should be older.

And let every little boy, every little girl, your employers,

your co workers, the waiter and the waitress, the baker,

car washington, the funeral home director, O God, the shaff

of the cook, the road construction worker.

Let your gentle spirit be benifested. Be gentle, be gentle,

be gentle. Let's pray a water to my.

Shall we.

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