The Criminal Couple - Bro Jeremy Howell

All the ones you opened the winder told me out

some manor, Well, would you do that?

Lord? Praise the Lord, Amen again, belove it.

If you have your bibles, will you turn with me

to Philippians chapter number four, Man, direct your attention to

verse number two, Brother Nathaniel, Proverbs chapter number six, Verse

number nineteen, and Brother Jesse, Philippians chapter number two and

verse number two.

Brother Nathaniel, would you read that tonight, the false.

Witness that speaking lies, and he that sow discord among brethren. Oh,

I don't want to be one of those that shows

discord among the brethrens of Pentecostal and holiness.

People need to reread that verse of scripture because before

that part that Brother Nathaniel just read in our hearing,

it says God hates that.

God hates that. Look at your neighbors, say hate neighbor.

Did you know that God hates some things? That's one

of the things God hates, Brother Jesse, Philippians, chapter number

two and verse number two.

Fulfill ye my joy that she be like minded, having

the same love, being of one accord, of one.

Mind, being of the same love, being of one accord.

Being of the same mind.

How many of you in this build and know a

little bit about American history? How many of you know

a little bit about the wild West and the taming

thereof of the wild West. History tells of married couples

or lovers that were unmarried, committing crimes together, and because

of their commitment to togetherness, they were able to accomplish

great and amazing.

Things that even to this day people will understand. How

were they able to successfully commit such crimes?

I want to preach a message the Holy Ghost titled

the Criminal Couple in parentheses the Dramatic Duo.

The Dramatic Duo, again.

Preaching a message the Holy Ghost titled the Criminal Couple.

Will you stand with me for the reading of our

text Philippians, Chapter.

Number four, verse number two.

I beseech you ade, and beseech sent Tickie, that they

be of the same mind in the Lord. 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 servants and of

God in my mouth, and help me to save the

thing that you would have me to say nothing or

less anoint the years of this Thy people, that they

might hear what the spirit of God says under this

church tonight. God, not of my words, but of your words.

It may these so go below the shoulders. May they

saturate the soul, the spirits of mind. Lord, don't let

these says just go in one ear and out the other.

I pray God that they would not be hears Only what.

We do is help them to pay attention and to

take action. We give you the praise and the honor

and the glory in Jesus' name, and the church says,

hey man, praise the Lord. Reading our text again Olympians,

chapter number four and verse number two, I beseech you

ad dice, and beseech the tickie that they be of.

The same mind in the Lord.

Our golden text is found in a New Testament book

of the Holy Bible, the Book of Philippians. I'm sure

the title of this book sounds familiar to many of

us in this building tonight. One reason for that would

be because we are blessed with devout saints here at Bethel,

people of God who read and know the Bible from

cover to cover.

Another reason this.

Title sounds also familiar this night is because not too

long ago. We turned to this book of the Bible

during a service, and our golden text was found in Philippians, specifically.

Chapter number one in verse number six.

If I'm thinking correctly and clearly, Brother Roducap, I believe

that was the golden text for that serve entitled his

faithfulness to finish his work. How many of you are

committed to work with the Lord as he works on you?

How many of you are committed to being pliable somebody

that God can put his hands on and work on you?

Will you have to be willing to work with God

as he works on you.

As a physician would speak to a patient and say,

work with me here now while I try to help you.

I'm reminded of a time when a.

Girl was busy working and while she was working, she

slipped on a work platform and her hip was out

of joint because of that accident, and her coworker laid

her on the ground, and the girl would not allow

her coworker to put that hip back in it socket

because of the pain. And it was a long drawn out,

dramatic process.

And what that one that was trying to help her was.

Saying, if you would just work with me, if you

would just bite the bullet, so to speak, or bite

this piece of wood and allow me to.

Work on you, we would get this fixed.

And rather than suffering for hours or days, you only

had to suffer for a few minutes.

So work with me here.

I know it's going to cause you a little bit

of pain, but at the end of this you're going

to feel so much better. And for those that were

here that night that the Holy Ghost had has delivered

that sermon to this precious.

Group of people.

I have noticed that you have allowed the Father to

work on you, and he's trying his best to finish

that that concerns you.

I feel like there's people in this building.

Tonight that is resisting the work of the Father in

their life. And so Brother Samuel Howell would have to

testify and exhort and monish the way he did tonight.

You could tell that this brother truly had a burden for.

Some people in this building.

And you could tell that the brother had been with

God and that he had prayed for me.

Today as I tried to obey God, I can feel

his prayers.

You will remember how the great Apostle Paul was known

for his ability to work with people. There's no doubt

it was a tremendous bird and unto him to carry

the load of his brothers and his sisters in the churches.

One time he said, it's just such.

A great weight upon my shoulder spiritually speaking. Just the

care of the church is so cumbersome and so bird andsome.

To be a laboring in this field is no easy undertaken.

And he was dealing with a lot of times were

people that just were not pliable.

They seemed disinterested in working with him as he worked,

told him, would you pray for me here tonight?

You see.

At some point, though, the Apostle Paul, he came into

this particular area, and he spent some time out there

in this part of the country here amongst the Saints

of Philippi, and the Bible students and the readers prison here.

Did not know that the Apostle Paul and the saints.

And Philippi were on common ground. They had no problem

whatsoever working with him as he worked on them him

the name of the Lord.

You see, there was.

Common ground, and they shared a very special bond between them.

And the closeness between this preacher and these parishioners was

just amazing. They shared experiences, burdens, and a deep love

for Jesus and Christianity. Some of them were willing to

be in prison. But even if they were in prison.

For example, Paul and Silas were in prison.

Together and they were in a harmony.

And while they were in prison, one wasn't praying while

the other sang, and I wasn't singing while the other

one was playing.

We've seen people like that in the church before.

The spirit of God's pulling everybody up to the front,

but there's this one queer which means strange or eccentric sister,

or perhaps it's a brother that just feels like doing

something different.

They go to the back of the church.

And it seems to some that are simple that they

must be different, or they must be special, or somehow

gods operating in their life.

In a unique way.

But I want to point out here tonight that we need.

To gatherness in every passion of Christianity, in our families,

in our lives, in our services. We need common ground

and we need to be able to share these very

special experiences and those should cause us to have a

very special bond.

And we find an example of this in the church

at philip Hie.

It's unlikely that most of the people within this fledging

local church needed to hear the words of Jesus, which

are found in John's Gospel the fifteenth chapter. In the

twelfth verson Jesus speaking, and as he was speaking, he

said these words, this is my commandment, that she loved

one another as I have loved you. I'm sure most

of the saints shared a deep love for Christ and

each other. But I wonder what the issue between these

two sisters was. It must have bothered the apostle Paul

in a great manner and measure for him to address

it publicly and to put pen the parchment and put

it on the page of an epistle.

It must have been bothered him.

What was it? Did something take place that caused something

to come between these two sisters.

I wonder if they held back showing their love.

For one another, if it existed in any way? Did

they feel uncomfortable saying I love you?

Did those words get stuck in their mouths? Whatever the

reason was, it does not matter. What did matter is

that they were not of the same mind In the Lord.

He heard preachers for years say erroneously that we should

agree to disagree. But the Apostle Paul would not say

a man to an expression or a statement like that.

In fact, he told the saints that fill a pie

with earnest, please. He beseeched it to be of the.

Same mind in the Lord. He did not tell them

they had to.

Have their piece of meat coop to the same temperature.

He did not say that their family kitchen.

Up needed to be steamed the same with the same theme,

or get there ready with the same decor. But he

did say concerning the things of the Lord, they needed

to be.

Of the same mind.

The propert aim say he's in agreement with the Apostle Paul.

It aim as.

Chapter number three and rest number three. He asked the

question the Lord. The Spirit of God was oning, and

he asked this question. The Lord asked this question. The

property ask this question of spirit.

The Lord ask this question.

How many of you know that the Word and the

Spirit will always be in agree. The Spirit of God's

not gonna disagree when the Word of.

God, the Bible said us.

Many more voices in the world they're.

Speaking that have you compared what is being said inside

of you?

The seeds that have been planted in your mind.

Have you stepped back and looked to see who has

planted them?

Because amos like Paul and Amos.

Three and three asked that question, can two walk together?

Accept they be agreed? What a question? And the obvious

answer is no. Get this imagery.

My mind goes to a team of boxing her and

there is a power in the unity between those two.

In that relationship, there is energy.

And there's power because of the unity. Want you to

know there is power in relationships of any time when

there is unity, marital relationships, animals relationships, or criminal relationships.

In these United States of America between the twenties and

the thirties, there was a notorious couple known as the

criminal couple. You've got Barty and Clyde, the must notorious

criminal couple of that era.

We seebody in Clyde knew that there was.

A need for agreement and alignment between them in order

for them to walk together and work together harmoniously if

they were gonna commit that crime, and somebody that was

investigating her, the clime that was committed to say this

was well done. It was plotted and planning and executed

it perfectly. These two had to be in sync. They

had to be alive. I'm telling people in this building

the night meaning this two or three year in this

place scoopil like it.

Could be the assistant where.

The outba with all of the other ladies had to

church together around the first lady, and then asked her up,

what you have me to do? No?

Instead, here's so is he. You gotta get up.

For her, earthy you gotta start work at six. But

then these little boys and girls said she left her

before the ladies meeting the what I don't understand, Pastor's

at twelve o'clock.

I saw her a liar McDonald's. I know we've all

got claims to do.

I know we're all being see taking care of other people.

But it's important the God so much as us to

see that we are willing to be together.

I kid, I guess were your BEAUTI be of the

only way.

You see your child, the say, the only way you

see them delivered, the only way you see ever the

specifictory in their lives. The only way you'll get a

blessing that you suggistantly need that is if you come

to church.

If you're a the same minder in your Lord, the

mind the said.

Is good and it's pleasant for rather than par together

in unity.

These two women were in the same building.

They were the same place with the great apostle place.

Say that you're not of the same minder in the Lord.

I want you to know. They're protest of pastor.

To say something hits something. Lord, this's your shepherd. You're

not the white super You're not the one around away

doing something different and what everybody else there for many

of families have suffered because mom and dad decided they

wanted to be the black sheep. Mom and dad decided

they wanted to buck against spiritual and natural authority.

Y'all pray for me right here tonight. I've got murdered.

Until somebody's gonna go to hell that they don't learn

hell to work well with others.

I remember it was kindergarten when I got graded from

my behavior and from my manners and from my actions.

And I remember some of them people that did not

cohabitate well with their peers in the classroom environment. When

they took their report card home, Mom and Dad would

ask her while there was a negative marking on that

score sheet or that report card, and Dad would ask

that child a question, why.

Is there are you on there?

And what does the legend say that you means? And

the child chieflessly black, chiefleshly wouldn't.

Lift their eyes to Daddy, knowing that had done wrong,

and they.

Would say, you means unsatisfactory. And then somebody else might say,

but I did a little better. I got an s

which was satisfactory.

Let you know what.

Dad's and Marza and teachers and principals and pastors and

leaders wanted to see her.

They wanted to see in that box a bed e.

It meant excellent.

Come on, you're tired of God.

You're a pastor and the people you a church, you

a contemporary.

And you all Peters ought to be.

Able to write.

People leave in that box.

Then I want you to know that call you.

There was something spittal in Macedonia specifically until a time.

Then he said, we got to check her that boss,

you annosaur, they send to you with ane.

That's not all time to check it with you, because

it's not about you anyway.

It's about others, and it's about teaching our children how

to submit to authority. Well, I'm just as intelligent as

my first lady. Really, then, why aren't you a first

lady somewhere? Well, I'm just as annoying as my first lady. Really, well,

why are your children lost? And that's not gonna make

anybody feel bad, But you don't possess the wisdom that

you think you do. The definition of insanity is doing

the same thing repeatedly expecting a different result.

It doesn't matter if you've been doing it that way

five years or fifty years.

Bonnie and Clyde could tell you you're not gonna get

anything done. They come on, whether notable or a criminal,

you can't get anything doneble unless you work.

We goes. They don't want to me us.

They don't unless you walk.

We've going this water enough hold you till now.

We teach her in in a single soul. He's still

working up call me.

We all a praying that.

They think, continue to.

Live God to walk on there.

I learned a long time ago in.

Business to create a team sphere and a team environment,

because somehow two.

Or better than one.

And somehow, if you get more people working harmoniously and in.

Agreement, somehow, by the jesse in compounds, somehow two can

not only do twice the work, and somehow by working

together in agreement, you can get a whole lot more done.

For these two women, they should have come together. Paul

knew there needed to be a togetherness. Also, on the

road to a Messa was a couple that was not

a criminal couple. They were a Christian couple, and they

were walking towards.

A certain area away from the church.

But they were up the same mind. They were talking.

About what was stunning Jerusalem.

They were talking about things concerning Jesus, brother Caleb. They

were out the same mind. Mister Clippers and Missus Clippers

on the road to Amadasa, we're up the same mind.

Missus Clippers was a saying, let's turn right and.

Gain the burger king.

Mister Clippers was not saying, there, misus cleipless, let's turn

it left and go to McDonald's. Simple when I know

I was not McDonald's a mcburger king.

In that time and day. What I'm saying is, though

they were obviously here on the same mind, on the same.

Spirit, and in one acorn, the callus Jesus came by,

I said, the Bible said, while they walked her on

that road to Amada, say Jesus shut up, and if

you want Jesus to show up, he.

Stopped bating the wheel of God. I'm finding the.

Past there's not got the fear of God, and you

will get an alignment to an.

Agreement with what they said God.

For years, I've heard people speak concerning their unsaved loved ones,

and I've heard people in pews give them terrible counsel.

They've said, the best way for you to win your

unsaved or unregenerated or unconverted loved one is to just

love on them so much and lay out of.

Church and not be faithful to God.

I can take it about a Vernon Golf's mother, and

we could ask sister Mety.

Golf, how did you do it? How to all of them?

Years of your husband foughting you going to church and.

Him resisting it, and him threatening you with this, and

him actually going beyond threatening and actually doing this.

Time would not permit me to tell you of the

great persecution that woman encountered because of going with her

God and not going with her husband. That I want

you to know this, and because she's telling love of

God and she kept.

Obeying God rather than obey a manner that couple became

a Christian couple.

That man God saved.

That man heard her teacher the Bible. That man said,

a tear God, Spirit of God. N I'm telling you

you don't have to be a ciminal couple. You can

be a Christian couple. I'm talking about her.

He's two men them or in church.

They were not to Pisa in the pod.

Or come on, now, they were the same kind of people.

Traumatic yes, sir, but they were not in the same spirit.

I'm telling you concerning the people of God, it.

Ought to be to Pisa of a pod, I said

to Peace.

The same was true for the husband and wife team

Clippers and his bride, as it was for Bonnie and

Clyde and these two women.

I don't know what their relationship was. They're supposed to

be Christians. They're supposed to.

Be I'm telling your brother Jesse, people that love one another.

In the Bible it has said that people will know

that we are followers of Christ and that we have

love one toward another. But I feel like every time

one of them went to say I love you, the

other one could not say it. Do you know that

this church right here supports its pastor and first lady,

second to know church does. I'm telling you we've got

the support of our people. I know that ninety eight

percent of people that are here are with us entirely, totally,

without a doubt. But every now and then I use three.

Very powerful words, one write out to another till I

complete a sentence.

And there is a handful of backwards and shy and

perhaps priple and arrogant people in this building that they

cannot say back to me. Those three powerful words say

I with me a love he what he is, and

what happened to you? Why are you not in agreement

that God's people can say here up you and not

be hypocritical?

God offect? What present that was going.

On right here among these two sisters that creed the

sphearing Apoll.

You know you don't have to say a.

Word to each other in Churchill, but you can have

a secret and relationship outside of till check.

It don't Calls can be going.

Over, conceipt can be taken twice, and y'all is seen.

Her people come at Turntil and I like you don't

know one another, and go out to Tensil. It's in

the Tensil and they're calling one another and they're sewing

discord and don't.

Get the brethren.

I'm telling you God, hat.

Stains hot down. That's the spirit of the man. And assa,

that's a file who come at Churchill. I can look

us one day and if you go out there it

didn't know me. Let do another. I went to the

morning night and then the same You didn't knock this

in there.

Somebody's dancing with the devil.

I said, Hey, somebody is dancing with the devil.

Oh, come on, man, I'm telling you, if your brother

clamps and his bride and you're walking in the right road,

of the right mind and of the right.

Spirit, Jesus will show up no matter how weak it seems.

You don't have to take a phone call or make

a phone call of fine friends where to get attention.

I'll tell you the best thing you can do is

be transparent.

Open and honest when the spirit of God is moving,

and show your weakness in the house of God, rather

than get my phone or get across the table.

From somebody and showing your weakness. Come. I'm telling you,

I display my needs in church.

If it's my cancer, stricten sun, I display my needs

in church.

I never take them to the job. I never took

it to the job. When Philip was diagnosi to cancer,

I never gave one report to.

Anybody in the workplace that my son was bounding cancer

her and repeated her. I didn't bring it to church,

and I'll let it be known our vulnerability. We need

the merciful hand of God to intervene in their sensuation.

Why because I knew if I brought it to the

right people, I get the right answers. You talk to

the wrong people, the spirit of fearit get hold of you.

You talk to mad people, old enough, you don't get mad,

it said.

I mean many times, it said that whenever a caretaker's

taken care of an alzheimer patient or a patient that

has dementia, eventually it gets them. I don't understand it.

I don't believe every time. And it's spiritual. I'm not

saying in every instance that you're dealing with somebody with

dementia or Alzheimer's.

That it is spiritual. Come on, but there are times

that it is spiritual. And I've heard of people hanging

around those kind of people and day God had not

taken a sabbatical.

Even Jesus told her his disciples, we need to get together.

We need to come a party, and we need to

rest her and then a while.

Don't get not sent with your crestor and the first

lady when they've gone missing for a week.

Ind you want to thank God if they set us

out some time to keep their mind.

I tell us somebody didn't miss through you run me

a long time over the lever he will lose all bye.

I received word just a couple of days ago, and

I took it as confirmation.

Up tonight's message. They said that this woman who.

Had been a caretaker to her husband, who had been

smitting with Alzheimer's for years, said suddenly she started showing

symptoms of Alzheimer's, and so they took her and they

did some testing, and.

The psychologist, the psychiatrist.

And the doctors that evaguated her said, without a doubt,

she is in the early stages. Brother rokep you go

sit in a nutthouse long enough and you see this

one go.

By, and that one go by, and this one go by,

and that one go by.

It'll get a hold of you. I'm telling you, I

thank God for the blood of Jesus. I thank God

for sactification. I thank God for the Holy Ghost.

Back to this woman, I'm.

Telling somebody in this building here or not, you better

learned how.

To be an agreement where the people.

Of God, in the spirit of God meets her. Who

you you'll jok get dropping. Don't come on God, he

don't come on. Tide up. We got some chils to

read enough for God.

You ought to be able to get a chip because

somebody out there that needs God. I'm gonna say it again,

whether mantle, animal or criminal, there needs to be an agreement.

And the church said keep preaching, pastor, or perhaps he

said let's go to the chicken house.

Pastor. Whatever she wants to say is fine with me.

I'm in agreement because I know there ain't no need

and trying to preach over an hour.

To people that are done.

Come on now a clippers.

He could say, hey, missus clippers. He came by, didn't

they missus clippers?

He came by, didn't we I'm telling you you shouldn't

ever walk out of methel.

They say, I'm not getting the messer.

I had about ten or twelve people to night, about

seventy or eighty say I got so much of God

Sunday morning and Sunday night.

I couldn't wait to get back here to night.

But a practicused to say, if you mean a menthel

service bound, it's because you've walked.

Your own rope.

I'm telling if I get him one by he want

to call it one place of three.

God move. It shouldn't be sent that Bobby and Clyde,

they had.

A nacense of fire.

God is look life better than we do the criminal couples.

Matthew eighteen and twenty.

He said, for where two are three are gethered together

in my name?

Notice the speaker A lot of times when people recite

this verse their greatest scripture memorization.

But when they recite that verse, they don't really realize

who was speaking that.

Huh. For where two or three are together together in

my name? There am I in the midst of them.

We take Jesus's a liar. Jesus isn't a liar.

Well, we don't just get by ourselves. Apparently we can

get by ourselves, and we can feel the presence of

the Lord. I know from being on my knees last.

Night between four am and five am, that he will

show up but there was a reason why Jesus called

for togetherness.

How about it?

Can you look at each sister sister and say, without hesitation,

I love you.

I got family members.

They can't tell other family members I love you. Somebody

tells them I love you, and they can't reply with

the same three words. What is that? Or they cite

some past experience, or they cite some hurt Paul. I

can't find it anywhere in here, brother Nathaniel, where Paul told.

Us something what was going on.

I can find other examples in the Bible where they

told us exactly what.

Was going on.

I don't know one detail about their situation. I don't

know one detail of their.

Disagreement, but I know Paul was not happy with it.

And you can't expect me to be. That came with

you work in the.

World and throwing.

Behind the ministries or the hope. Why in the old thing?

Where is that the Bible? What's your own pack?

If you got that much of God to come, you.

Old persuad, If you got that.

Much of cottage, teach your restern's conference. If you got

that much risdol mccono, the truth, I said, he shut up.

You will never see victory in your life.

Until you learn how to think less of yourself, you

cannot help the young preacher that will not be helped.

You cannot help anybody that's living in denial. I don't

know what them two Hens were doing, but.

It was supposed to be a Christian conference, a Christian service,

a Christian counsel. But instead it's what I've done, be

called a Hen conference.

I mean, brother Jesse.

I don't know how many's going to this church in

phil upon it this time, But Paul said, I beseech

you at I and sud Tiki, that they be of

the same mind in the Lord, not twin, not match perfectly,

not have the same shoe size, not have the same

hair color. But when it comes to the purpose and

the plans of this local church and the will of God,

come now, I beseech them.

Beyond the same min in the Lord. Then the church

goes to the nus At Hotelvis. Don't come lurking mine

or your old type pawker. Come on, b your old.

Mess of holding the game too. But I can that's God,

even of God. The problem is who can't.

Walk well with alls?

Never have been able to do that it's a heaven

of hell isship for you, sir.

It's a heaven of Holy Shepper. You have to God, Well,

my church family has got a big outreach. I know

what day they're doing it.

I'm gonna do it the next day. I know what

day they're doing it. I'm gonna do it the same

matter that day on the next block. I'm telling you,

God knows the motives. God knows the thoughts and the

intents of the heart. God saw them too long dressed,

wearing for women. Come in behind the cellar of purpose,

that great woman of god Lydia, that sacrifice selflessly. God

saw them to women come in behind the cellar of purple.

And the seller of purple was wanting to see unity

and harmony and see them move a.

Cot in the place. And Paul's telling them, you better

stop what you're doing.

I'm not even gonna give you enough glory and telling

people what you've been doing because you like it. You

like the attention, your attention, devil. You like trumpling out

and said, I'm preaching also on.

The traumatic duo that I'm telling you, amoniasis a fire.

You not vote attention. You can say you're a proper.

You can eat eels or wheels. You can eat the

dishes for the propper.

You can say there's more than one of ourself involved in.

I want you to know, as a provider of Aten,

there was more than one of myself involved in. And

if I had six digits in the banker, I did

not apply to fool assistance. I'm telling somebody else and

this fool out there us truly the rush. What it

is for a Rochester to not be forsaken, love for

the Rochester to ever stand in the right play line.

The problems you're not riting.

He're the rights. Here's a ritches. They can upset it tonight.

It's the provider to hold of. The provider ally has it.

But we pray that the.

Windows be opened.

We playing at the windows of Heaven be open.

That's a terrible testimony, enity, to have sixty seven digits

in the bank and walk up there to the welfare line,

call your cary.

Leek county and your county lade's kring until a lie,

y'all tell God's got somebody's number to know this one

time from mother Ethan and whoever he is marrying. He

just get started and need to go to a food banking.

That's one time I thank God for government assistance.

But you know what' telling a lie to manipulate the.

System, whether it's social, governmental or Christian, to manipulate the system.

Come on, now, is this great preaching? Is this pitiful preaching?

You be the judge.

I'm telling you, I'm trying my best just to scratch

the surface. When I was a younger preacher, I just

go ahead and get it.

I'm gonna try to tenderly scratch the surface and tell

you that when I heard Brother Samuel and Brother Caleb

preach a fine before I preach tonight, I knew that

tonight's message is a warning of somebody. You've got six

digits in one account, and you've got assense that come

on to.

Master a couple million dollars. You're not rolling in the

same boat as Chip Roy. Brother Roy is truely relying

fully and trusting. O.

God, come on, I'm telling our preacher right here in

this building. Connect We've got to be honest. The seller

of Purple was not.

Going around saying I'm both I'm gonna pack.

You don't like this, do you in fact that somebody

believes a lie there, damn don't lie to me.

Don't lie to me to get me to be your friend.

Don't lie to me to get me to feel sorry

for you. I'm gonna say it again. If you look

at mother Jesse, he's wearing a pretty sharp looking purple necktie.

If you lived in the days of Lydia, she would

have been the one that sold up material and the

seller of purple.

Was known for being generous and benevolent.

In fact, one time a postle Paul told one group

of people, he said, you're not being very generous and

kind and benevolent towards my ministry and other ministries and

the brothers.

And the sisters of God. But I can tell you,

miss Lydia. She opened up her house. She wasn't afraid

that she hadn't hired a maintenance man to take care

of it. She opened up her house. She wasn't afraid

that she had cleaned that.

She opened up her house and.

Said, if we ain't got a church, we got a

living room. And if we ain't got a living room,

we got a river, or.

Come out and make I'm gonna.

Tell you she did not say I'm a pauper. She

didn't put over Oh my God, and hiven or cotton

shawl and our clock. She didn't have nothing. She was

plastered in scriptser that's the seller of purple.

She wants at more time eating and no read the scripture?

Do it? Pow Apostle Paul or Jesus said to give

it her for her water.

Because of her ownest.

Spirit and a generous dimon.

I can tell you ninety eight percent of Bethel was

in the spirit Sunday morning the Sunday night. I just

happened to be one of those fellas that I'm not

okay with a ninety eight percent. I just happened to

be naturally and spiritually one that really wants to be

perfectionist if I can be.

I really do want to be a man of excellence.

I really do want to see to it that all

of my sheep were white. I really do want to

see to it that all of my sheep you can

eat out of.

The same trough.

I really didn't want to see that the young and

old could come to the same troup of life without

anybody getting bent or kicked.

I'm supposed to be pastor of sheep, not alligators. Come on, now,

I don't know if you're.

So full of what I'm feeding you right now and

you're done, or if I should keep preaching. There could

have been cultural differences or generational gaps, but that shouldn't

have kept.

Them from being in the same mind in the Lord.

Maybe one of them was young, maybe one of them

was old. David said, that don't matter. I've been young,

hadn't been old.

I've never seen the righteous forsaken, nor seed begging bread

among the saints.

And Philippie, you got Lydia. You got the Philippian jailer.

I believe his name was Jason. You got his entire house.

According to the biblical record, this successful businesswoman had.

Opened her home to be used for Christian gatherings and services.

Her life included great sacrifices and services.

But in the middle of all this goodness you find

two that are not in the same mind in the Lord.

And may I say, Lydia wasn't using her financial blessings

and wealth after life.

I'm trying to pour of how God blesses me into

you all while I'm alive.

You've heard them say before, bring the roses to them

while they're alive, not after they're dead.