A Lamp With No Light - Bro Philip Howell 12-31-2024

It's certainly good to be in the house of the

Lord tonight. I won't be long tonight if I'll be

one of my shortest messages yet. If you have your Bibles,

Matthew twenty five, brother, good thing you already mentioned this scripture.

I want to give honor to my pastor. I'm very

grateful for the opportunity I considered a great honor. I

don't take it lightly, and I thank the Lord for

the wonderful twenty twenty.

Four year that I had. It was life changing for me.

The beginning of the end of twenty three seemed like

it turned upside down, but then by the beginning of

twenty twenty four.

I believe it was.

March seventh, or somewhere along them lines of twenty twenty

four that I got.

My healing grey May twenty four was a fantastic year

for me. To the twenty twenty five, I know God's

speaking tonight.

If you have your Bibles, Matthew twenty five, will be

reading verse three through six.

The Bible says they that were.

Foolish took their lamps and took no old with them,

but the wires took in their vessels with their.

Lamps while the bridegroom tarried.

They all slumbered and slept, and in midnight there was

a crime.

Behold the bridegroom cometh, go ye out to meet him for.

A little while.

I'd like to preach on a lamp with no light

you have if you would stretch your hands towards him.

And that's the Lord that help, Lord, helpless heart for soon.

Word, hempless world, Pile.

Ya Jesus God in Jesus' name.

Amen.

This is a very very familiar story. I know most

of us know it, if you don't. Jesus would speak

at times in a parable. He would tell a story,

and that's what this occasion is. In the beginnings that

then the then shall the Kingdom of Heaven be liking

undo ten virgins which took their lamps and went forward

to meet the bridegroom. And we signify those virgins the church.

In church, we signify the bride of Christ and him

the bridegroom. He would tell stories and times and parables

to kind of bring it into a situation, to relate

to something they might have seen or something along those lines.

I won't be long at all tonight. I want to

preach for a little while on the lamp.

When those lights, so, Jesus begins to tell this story

of the virgins.

These ten ten were white, and five were wives.

Five were foolish, it says, But the wives took who

in their vessels with their lamp, while the bridegroom tarried.

They all slumbered and slept.

And then midnight there was the crime. They behold the

bridegroom cometh, go ye out to meet him. Then all

those virgins arose and trim their lamps, including the five fools.

They stood up and trimmed their lamps.

They arose.

Sometimes that's how it is in the church. We do

it the way we've always said it. We see folks.

Run, we arrive and we run. Even though we don't.

Have no old We raise our hands, we say a

lamb through the pastor yet we like something. These five versins,

they didn't even have no hold, but they stood up,

and then they looked at the wivens that they told them,

give us of your over. Our lamps have gone out.

They had all at one time. And I want to

preach to someone. Maybe you had it at one time.

Maybe you had more of God than you have now,

and you've seemed to let it slipt.

That's how these versions where they set for our lamps

have gone out.

They knew what it was like to wait and times

hit their lamp have it all.

But they turn and they look to the wife, and

they say, give us of your role in the five

wives say not so lest there not be enough for us.

Then they wouldn't have what they needed. There's churches in

this day and age. They'll depend on certain ones to pray.

During the week, they'll.

Depend on their whole We've heard it our entire life

that dad is prayer won't get you there, Mama's prayer

won't get you there. That's all we gotta have all

for ourselves. We gotta have a prayer closet. I gotta

live in a little one.

I live in a double wife and you, hugy, that's

ever lived in one of those?

You know the wall.

Then I can hear my phone playing inside. And I

made the mind I gotta find me a prayer closet.

But I didn't want my neighbors to think I got

neighbors clothes. I'm yelling at my walk when I'm in

there praying. So you have to take time to find

a place to pray.

I went in the close and I buried my face

in those clothes to kind of mufflet because I got

neighbors just a few feet away.

And a husband.

Your wife's prayers won't get you to heaven if you're

just sitting there in that bed, sitting in the car, whatever,

while they're trying.

To get a hold of God, they're down by the

dead praying. You gotta have over for yourself. These people

knew what it was to have it at a time.

I know we're heading into a new year, and it

says at midnight here soon will be twenty twenty five.

If it was this midnight was the call, would you

be ready? Do you still have what you have when

you first got it? What you got ten years ago,

five years ago, twenty years ago won't get you there.

We have to come to church on the weekly. I

can get a little hold, and I get refilling the spirit.

By the Sunday morning, I'll need it again. It's a

continual thing.

And I know we're one of the other's brook we're

each other's brothren and sister in Christ.

But to an extent this way, isn't every man for himself.

I can't get you there.

I might be the encourage, and some pastor can't get

you there. He reaches for you like I've never seen

a man do.

I told the Lord before him, I love souls. That

man has a burden, sick and to none's ever had.

I've told the Lord, I.

Don't know that I ever want a pastor, because I

see em reach.

For people time and time again times I would have

already got frustrated.

Why because they won't get the offer of themself. And

when you do get it for him, they use it.

All they want to do.

Is sit there and live.

I feel testimony.

All they want to do is sit there.

There no preaching. It takes getting it for yourself. Brother Jesse,

if you come to the funeral, I know I told

you I wouldn't be long to lite if you had

it at a time. Do you still remember what it

was like.

When it didn't take long for the spirit of God

to fall in your prayer closet, when it didn't take long.

For you to pray before church started, and you to feel.

The fire of God.

Because you have the old that's old red hour, is

it completely empty? I don't ever want to be a

lamb that has no old. There's too many churches. They

got the form of God, but they deny the power

of There's nothing but a.

Lamb read no light, they have no fire of God.

All they do is depend on other people's prayer. I

don't want it, ever, it says in verse thirteen. Watch therefore,

for you know neither the day nor the hour. Wherein

the sunner man coming.

I can't tell you it'll be at midnight, but we can't.

Say it ain't gonna be a midnight. I want to ask,

if it was this midnight, wouldn't you be ready to

meet the maker?

If he said this night, your soul would be accounted for.

Your soul would be required of you.

Go past or.

Soul on your behalf, your soul, your prayer life. I

begin another year.

I'm looking.

I was gonna start a new Bible reading program, and

I was finding me a new one on my Bible

app because sometimes I'll need to reading and then I'll

just jump somewhere else, and I wanted to stick to him.

It said get back to y'all. That was the title

of one of them, and I looked at it. It

was a three year Bible reading program.

Five minutes a day. That ain't gonna get you know,

it only takes fifteen minutes a day to read your

Bible through once that year, three or four times forty

five minutes.

It takes work to have.

When you see the pastor preaks the way he does,

it takes work. It ain't an easy religion. We never

promise that it be easy.

It takes work, and I want to work for it.

I don't want to ever find myself realize.

That I don't have what I have a year ago.

If you're that way, it don't take no time to repent.

There's no feeling. I remember when I lay on my

bed knowing that I wasn't ready, and knowing should he

come this night, I wouldn't be ready. There's no greater

feeling in this world.

And right now look good to heaven anew if I die,

then that I'm going to heaven.

That's a feeling.

A go all ALFs an it the rock, go split

the side. No, I'm ready. If you weren't coming to

the actors, make sure your lamp has a lot that

others may see. It's super time religion. I had to

get it for myself. He's soul time religion. Had to

get it for myself.

Where the preachers talk about it, how it really you are,

had you get it, had to get it for my

See where the soul time religion handed eat it for myself.

It's soul time religion had did get it for my suit.

Will heard the preacher.

Talk about it, how it really were had.

To get it, had to get it before the lady.

I love to hear me say, everybody want to.

Do the street. The story gotta change me. That's reader Jesus.

So time we're had to give it for myself.

It's so timing it.

I heard the preacher talking about it, how it already worked.

Hand you give it, give it for my seal, where

the all time religion hand it for myself. He's sure

time religion.

My id the preacher talking about it, how it already

work hand again.

For my sea, going to charge me sing insation spar

I don't need some getting. I'm control and.

Time for myself this song time releg Will heard the

preacher talk about him, how it really was, how you

get it get its.

Will this time? This all time to this, said Will.

I heard the preacher talking about him, call in a

really well this.

One is preaching his teaching will of herding. On my day,

I've seen y'all stand of the here.

In so many different ways, but the end of hurting

where I mean his sanctifying power.

He cleaned me up and change from.

That very are well?

He so time to each and again on myself the

whole time.

And Adam, well, I heard the preacher talking about it

for a really work.

I can get it.

I can get there.

For I said, where is a time and the John

get here?

Where this time?

Andy turn?

You have to get it for yourself where you.

Hear the preacher of at HELLI it really ain't work

what you have to

Get it to get it in for yourself