A Chip Off The Ol' Block - Bro Samuel Howell 3-19-2025

That's a pastor certainly glad to be here and ask

of the Lord. Tony, certainly glad to have our pastor.

Whether there's some some preachers, probably, but I said no,

we're two hours away, but they can do it now us.

But I'm glad he come back.

I'm certainly glad to call him pastor and dad, but

most importantly he's my pastor and they.

We're thankful for this opportunity.

And we want God to help us here.

Uh.

I feel like what Pastor's talking about goes right along

with what the Lord had given me.

Uh.

So y'all, y'all bear with us and say a prayer

for us as we see what the Lord has in

story for tonight.

We'll be looking in Matthew chapter sixteen.

Uh.

I've been praying about this.

But I just want you to know, buddy, if God's

with you, you.

Had the message for that hour because I flopped my

Bible open and I met Matthew sixteen.

Alright.

I don't even know how bad I battle about this,

Thank you, Lord, Matthew sixteen. From verse eighteen, I say,

up to thee thou art Peter, and upon this rock

I will build my church and the gates of hell

shall not prevail against it.

I won't be long, but for a little while.

I have to preach on the chip off the old block.

If y'all would pray with us, God.

Will ask me, well what I was? God be? God is?

So she change?

Chill?

Lo God Lord, I'm gonna sue you.

Wise, y'ad.

Take my mouth and my mind and my heart. Lord y'ad,

if you please, Old Lord, that's not writing. They changed.

So that's someone.

But then with streak the wrong with hell on y'all

in hers sofyad's the safe.

You're gonna to break. Y'all will be show and give.

You all the glory and all the honor and the

Nord's name. We asked him. You's ready, Amen and amen sh.

Now, I'm sure h Most of our life, a lot

of us have heard someone say, or we've even told

someone you're a regular chip off the old block, and

we all know what that's saying is implying is a

lot of times you you have some type of characteristic

of your parent, or you talk like him with your

youth words like him, or you perhaps you work like him.

And as matter of fact, just the other day we

are Pastor seen all us brothers a text as a

picture of us. I think he posted on us on

the seconds of a little truck that he had sketched

up just in his free time for I just having

a good time and better and his skills. We all

started replying because we were honestly impressed with it. I

stared at it for probably five minutes, just blown away

by it and realizing that there's no way I could

do it. I think my comment was, Wow, that's amazing.

But every one of.

Us brothers received a text back said every one of

y'all our chips off the old block. Well, I had

forgotten about this completely, forgot about it. And then whenever

passed that, Pastor asked me to pray or to preach

Sunday afternoon.

I went home.

When I started praying, and y'all got.

To deal with me about this versus the scriptures in

that text come back to mind this title, and then

I remembered what Pastor your text, I don't want you

the thing that I just pulled something out. But uh,

my first my first doll was whenever I received that

was there's no way that means I'm ana chip off

the old block. But then I got to got to

realizing that God to think and there's ways that I

can be a ship.

Off the old block. There's ways that I can by

raising my family in church, by doing it like the

Bible says, by not doing.

It the way the world doesn't, but practicing what my

pastor preaches, by by getting a prayer life, by.

By doing everything at the word of.

God says, doing it in order that way that my

children to be a chip off of the block of

Jesus Christ.

That's a lot of what we see. Our pastor is

a block off of Jesus Christ. He's a chip off

the old block. And that's what I want to be.

I want to being ship off the old block of

Jesus Christ.

Is an honor to be a block off the chip

of my dad or chip off the block of my dad.

But it's even more of an honor to be a

child of God and a chip off God's block.

Some say, hey, some of you might say, you.

Know what, I don't have someone and that I like

to be like in my family. Well, that's why you

have Jesus Christ. That's the perfect example. You don't gotta

be like someone in your past.

You don't have to break up. You don't gotta be

just like your parents.

You can say, you know what, say gone and wrong?

They straight away from my God a heaven.

I'll do it like a baba says. I'll stand with

the pastor.

I won't back down, I won't give in, and I

want to rrunt. What though that slave the path of

part that lead. I'm glad to be a true holiness.

Person, part of the family.

How if you're family or people of this world can't

tell that you're in shot of God, or the people

of the bell can't tell that you're a part of

the betht of hole.

In this church family, you still yet to become a

chip off the old block.

How the God's help, I feel the fire. They'll know

just by the way you talk to them, by the

way your attitude is.

There's enough of us now in this church that you

can't hot to go into town probably without them saying.

I can tell by the way they talk.

I can tell by the way they ta that non

tell if they belong to the bestel all in his shirt.

How you may wonder where my bible is, for my

bible for where you where you're giving away?

Who you are by your speech. Go to Matthew chapter

twenty six, and I'll give it to you. Look y'all

Matthew twenty six and seventy three. After a while, he can't.

After a while came up to him. They that stood

and said to Peter, surely thou art one of them?

Right, they'll know.

Surely you are one of them.

For my speech tells on you.

I'm just fair phrasing.

I speak your speech for Rethy. Now you ain't gotta

go around to everybody in.

This world and speak being thal and and all that.

By just the way you're you're.

Not toussing, by the way you have a good attitude,

by the way you're polite.

Now, this is what Truthing be right here in.

Verse seventy four, then began he's a curse, and to

answer saying I know not the man and the pet

of the cont crew.

It ordered for him to get them to believe them.

He done something that Jesus wouldn't do.

He started tossing. He started swaying, saying, I.

Don't know that matter.

You know, if you get found up by pressure and

you came by co workers and you say things, I

do know not to think I'm trying to prove to

them that.

They're not a trying to God.

What are little same for Jesus Mother?

That shame of you, he said, I do bes shamed

of that. I'll be ashamed of you.

His speech gave him away, because he been around Jesus

at times twenty four to seven.

He sounded licking. Perhaps he even carried himself licking. I'm

sure the signs of Jesus were all.

Over him, but in artist look so desperately out of

fear to prove that he wasn't, he began to curse.

He began to curse. Now, the very name Peter means rock.

That is not a very good representation of a rock.

Peter crumbled by just them asking and the question he

take him like a sand castle.

That's not very rock life.

If you asked me, they believed it, perhaps maybe because

they realized that Jesus would never cuss, or that Jesus.

Would never curse.

He Holy God, God, I'm glad to be called the

child of God. I'm glad to be a part.

Of Bethel and to be a part of the church

that's built upon the.

Rock and it's not falling, and it's not caving in.

This world needs to see someone who's saw it.

This world needs to see someone who doesn't keep to

pure pressure.

Whenever they say something, you just stand up so bony

and say, hey, don't.

Talk like that around me. I don't got time to

heal that field.

You gotta stand.

They click came in.

God, make them think otherwise before you be a reproach

to Jesus.

You might be the only.

Bible someone sees in their life, for the only Jesus

that someone sees.

Where to carry ourselves like Jesus, and where to talk.

Like Christians, and where to be what we say we are.

I don't know how you could come to this church

and not be build on the rock.

This is the rock.

I don't care where you talk from, if your church

that you left.

If you can look back now and look at the foundation,

what's the foundation of it?

Is it considered us sandcastle or castle?

God help us Lord. Go to Matthew chapter seven, Jesus.

Matthew chapter seven, starting in verse twenty four.

Therefore, whosoever hears these things of mine and do with them,

I would like in him unto who ha wise man

would build.

His house upon a rock and the rain descended.

Then the floods came, and the wind blow and beat

upon that house, and it fell not for it was

founded upon a rock. This church is founded upon a rock.

A house is just as strong as its foundation is.

We have a church with a rock solid foundation that

farmer growing.

That's why we have a pastor who stands for what's right,

who doesn't cave, who doesn't give in, who has it

backing up, who hasn't said, you know what, maybe wanting

to do it a little different.

That's why you're here, because you say, Lord, I need

a house.

That I can build upon God, I need a.

Rock that I can build, a foundation that my children

can have confidence in.

This sounds like a house that's built upon the rock

and at the gates of hell, shell lunch prevail against it.

Hallylujah. That's the kind of church I want to go to.

That's the kind of house I want.

To build off.

That's the kind of house I want to raise my children.

And that's the kind of.

Place I want my children I have confident And that

is the kind of manna that I want to be

able to tell you know what.

I don't got to worry about them being pola. I

don't got to worry about them. Here it donation.

I still remember something our dad used.

To tell us often if we'd been messing around with him,

perhaps trying to push him over to something, and if

we failed it, he fought, remember this. I know all

the kids with brothers and sisters will He said, what happened?

You're running to the rock.

Next time someone said something we're trying to run you down,

just push.

It right back over and say, what happened? You're running

to the rock.

Don't cave.

They right, hald Man, all right to the rock?

He man, Hell about your ball on the rock, and

you I'll be going by your fo up not started.

You try up that stable.

That ain't nothing to do by.

Do what he gonna don't like to house.

They're gonna talk.

Let them know.

Let your house is no longer get upon their halves.

They get under like that, say.

How about you up here?

Don't cut all along.

I'm thankful Donors didn't have the Passon's made up at

mine that he's gonna the lot of dollar foundation. Let

your hands up prison, don't take to stand your ground

and say I've become a chip of Rebecca's block.

Come and visit.

And see what cre made of Hallie Luten nineteen. I'm

saying to hurry Loot nineteen. Starting in verse thirty thirty nine,

some of the Pharisees among the multitude.

Said, under him, Master repeats our disciples.

We are. And he said under them, I tell you

that if we should hold their peace, the stones would

immediately cry out.

Immediately sounds like no matter what, God is gonna.

Have a voice that's heard.

You may your peace where there's gonna be a rock

that cries out in your place.

Perhaps the church you come from.

Has changed their mindset and have decided that they're now

gonna hold their peace.

I want you to see yourself as one of them rocks.

And again to cry out and find your place how.

To rock solid church.

Where they don't just left sin go by, when they

don't just ignore the things that are there causing stum

that blocks to the little ones that are coming up

behind them. I'm passing takes the stand against sin and

against things that has crept into this holiness movement, and

every one of them, people that hate it, those that

love it, they find themselves here with those that hate it.

Often find himself on the ground because the Bible s

that's touched, not mine anointed. And to my proping no heart,

God the lord of this man to the day he dies.

And I believe as long as you get his back

one hundred percent, God lost the watter you.

But you gotta make sure that you have a.

Rock foundation and you're not come on the sun. God's

word will not be stopped.

They can.

They can say all manner of things.

They can say all kind of lies about the church

and start trying to make you believe.

Things that aren't true.

Just begin to cry out and say, hey, I'm a

rock now.

Because you're health, your peace, and not have to cry

out because you want to take a stand.

Because you wantn't preaching right because you.

Wasn't listening to up there and listen to the bust

of God. Aman is glad to be out.

A rock solid church, such a peace of mind to

know that I can raise a family in here. I'm

thankful for a pastor. I will stand and will say

things that need to be said. Heed to chip off

the block of the very Jesus Christ all wrong and

our Savior and our leader. We that have come to

this church, we all come looking for a place that

was solid, that we can go to bed at night

with peace of mind, knowing that comes.

Sunday morning, there comes Sunday night, and come Wednesday.

I'm not gonna find myself in a spiritual earthquake where

my house is shaken down by up a preacher who

backed down, he didn't take a stand fire.

We're here because we knew that God was building this place.

And to all this golfers that hate the true Holy Way,

holding this way and the Bible teachings, I hate.

To tell you, but God building a church.

And you'll be left with your little measles sand castle,

and when the time comes, it's gonna get trampled on

them by God.

God will have the last laugh.

You leave people astray and tell them.

Factuse I just thought about a pastor was talking about

that house or that that structure that had a big front,

but it wasn't what it seemed to be. You may

be lying to people and telling them come to our place,

we got a solid church.

It's not. Don't you go back to where you come from.

Let's all stand.

Let's those standing.

Next time someone says something about your pastor or the church,

or the fact that you left them and they could

really use you.

Say, well, I didn't really see where you were wanting

to use me.

Every turn you stop me out every turn you told.

Me to hust whenever I pray, thanks to your attention.

You dead us leave it alone. That's why I left

be on that plea them come like it is. They

wouldn't tell you like it is. Let him know and

feel what it feels like to be told what it is.

And maybe, just maybe I doubt.

It why God sent you here. Maybe they'll do it right.

But I tell you, this is just all it has,

this is where it belongs.

I'll be going ahead and bolt and say, if you've been.

Moved to Bethel, ain't no way God told you to leave.

Ain't no way he told you to go back where

you come from. You can believe that no hell on

God's cleaner. But he tell you that they've fucking start

it and go back to a sand castle.

I'm glad to be a part of a rock castle.

They're not a sentadle.

I love that.

Let's gather in the altar right now and pray for

that and mine God. I want to be living in

a rock castle, not a sand castle. Thank God, Lord,

is our desire.

You said you would give us the desires of our hardest,

our desire.

Lord, to be build on the rock.

Oh Jesus Christ, it's our desire for Bethel to be

anchored in Jesus, rooted, grounded on the rock, rock.

Solid ground. Somebody tonight, God speaking to you. The entire

service has been speaking to you. And get rooted, get grounded.

Get on that foundation. It's stable, it's steady, it's firm.

You don't that.

Firm foundation, You on that firm foundation. Praise the Lord. Hey, ma'am,

the man Jesus, He's weeaking to somebody tonight. I'm convinced

of it. Be rooted, be firmly, rooted, grounded in the

day of Jesus. Lord, It's okay for me to be

where I could grow. It's okay for me to be

somewhere where I could prosper. I have to be somewhere's

can do so for I will be inspirited with.

Lord.

It's your will that we be anchored and the wrong

because the storms are coming to the storms, earthquakes will

take place, so that the storm of the play that

don't feel that free, don't fill on that fault line.

Build on the rock, the mountain, the mountains.

There all around position. If you need to pray through sand,

prey through it right now. Leaves that sand and come

over to the rock. You need to pray through the

secular music, do it right now, get build on.

The rock, shine and little of the storm.

Wrong to bound down.

The mountains say by.

All around me, see.

It sound nis that solid nail. We need a scheving man,

I need a green to go you worping, not turn

when there's gover death to turn to to humanatll to

we nobody wants this.

So only.

When there not founda is stable.

I go to the rock. He's a like.

I do you up myself a shine A good style

up to me prejected rounding mount to down the mountain,

stay by me.

When the dog around me see me sun.

Dog lifestyle, solid around my stand will.

A shelter away on again wren gold.

Round or heaping.

I have.

To the storms of all past over. We're my don

around windows a wind sorrowing.

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In those times of the.

Tribulation with my sordis consolation on the corner round.

I left right through my salvation shine the corner.

Stone let the reject you walk to you about in

the mountain.

Sand by.

When the earth all around me? To see in sand.

Dog the rice that solid around that stand when I

need a shelter, when I need.

A brand, did I go to the rout of pselvation,

go to.

The stall at the building rejective want to about detains

the mountains stand by me.

When the hair all around me seeking sad doll.

But I started selling it on myself when the shelter,

when a.

Turn to talk, we know that want this take around.

Rock my salvation, go to list home actual to redected,

run to the mound to tame the mountains.

And by army.

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