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Accepting His Answer - Bro Jeremy Howell 12-4-2024

Bethel Holiness Church - Wednesday Night Services

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  1. To the Book of Numbers.

  2. May I direct your attention to the twenty second chapter

  3. in the nineteenth verse, Brother Jesse James, chapter number four,

  4. Verse number seventeen, Brother Nathaniel Psalm chapter number thirty two,

  5. and verse number eight. Some of y'all have been dealing

  6. with sickness this week. I'm glad to see you in

  7. the House of the Lord. We've been praying for you.

  8. Pray for Sister Sending Neeley. She is in the emergency room.

  9. Don't try to call her, don't try to seek her out.

  10. She's expressed of concern about some of that going on

  11. concerning some of her family members. Do when I give

  12. information like this, it's not for you to just seek

  13. it out come walking in with a bouquet of flowers.

  14. What she would prefer you do is pray in the

  15. church today. Continue to pray for dear sister Cheryl. I'm

  16. telling you God has helped her for that. I'm very thankful.

  17. Are you thankful for your brother and sister being here

  18. to now?

  19. They tell me there's about sixty five in the building.

  20. That means there's souls that belong to God in this place.

  21. I'm sixty five or so in number that love the

  22. Lord and want to worship him in spirited and truth.

  23. So there's no reason at all for us to feel

  24. that Elijah syndrome to feel down and out. Sister Rootin,

  25. you sounded excited about serving the Lord. You sounded excited

  26. because you are Brother Stared. It sounded to me like

  27. you are excited about serving the Lord. I'm excited about

  28. serving the Lord.

  29. Amen.

  30. It's good to see in church, Brother Jesse.

  31. James, Chapter number four, verse number seventeen.

  32. This is coming from the Epistle of James, one of

  33. the pillars of the early Church.

  34. Listen therefore to him that knoweth to do good and

  35. do it it not to him it gives sin. Well,

  36. Brother James, that doesn't give people much lead weight. That

  37. doesn't really allow them much room to maneuver and wiggle

  38. out of whatever it is they're supposed to be doing.

  39. There's no wiggle worm in that chapter. There is no

  40. wiggle room in that chapter, Brother Jesse.

  41. I want you to read that again.

  42. Y'all.

  43. Listen to how clearly we are instructed concerning doing what God.

  44. Told us to do.

  45. Listen carefut therefore, to him that knoweth to do good

  46. and do it and not to him.

  47. It is sin Wow. Wow, James.

  48. I'm going to meet you one day in glory Land,

  49. and I can tell you you're not one to bullpunch

  50. his Brother James, you're in that great grand stand cheering

  51. us on and asking us to come home and to

  52. remain faithful and true to God. You just let us

  53. know that the sins of omission are just as severe

  54. and as bad as the sins of commission. There are

  55. things you should be doing that you're not doing that

  56. can be sin unto you. There are things that you're

  57. doing that you should not be doing that is sin

  58. unto you. There's things you're not doing that you should

  59. be doing that is sin unto you. According to Brother James,

  60. he was speaking of church people. Somebody had aired, somebody

  61. wasn't thinking correctly. Brother Nathaniel sam chapter number thirty two

  62. and verse number eight. I will instruct THEE and teach

  63. THEE in the way which thou shalt go.

  64. I will guide THEE with my eye.

  65. How many of you thank God for his guidance and

  66. for his instruction. I thank God for the Holy Word

  67. of God. Let's stand for the reading of our text numbers.

  68. Chapter number twenty two beginning in verse number sixteen, The

  69. Bible says that.

  70. They came to Baylam and said.

  71. To him, thus, saith Beaylax, the son of ziphor let nothing.

  72. I PRAYTHEE hinder THEE from coming unto me, for I

  73. will promote THEE unto very great honor, and I will

  74. do whatsoever thou sayest uneo me come. Therefore, I pray

  75. THEE curse me this people. And Balem answered and said,

  76. unto the servants of Bayliak, if Baylak would give me

  77. his house full of silver and gold, I cannot go

  78. beyond the word of the Lord my.

  79. God to do less or more.

  80. Look at the last part of that verse, to do

  81. less or more. I cannot go beyond the word of

  82. the Lord my God to do less or more. Now,

  83. therefore I pray you tarry ye also hear this night,

  84. that I may know what the Lord will say unto me. More,

  85. and God said unto Balem at night, said unto him,

  86. if the men come to call THEE, rise up and

  87. go with them.

  88. But yet the word which I shall.

  89. Say to THEE, thou shalt thou do our texas verse

  90. number nineteen. Now therefore I pray you, terry, ye also

  91. hear this night, that I may know what the Lord.

  92. Will say unto me more. Are you kidding me right now?

  93. Man of God, Prophet of God, Preacher of God, are

  94. you kidding me?

  95. Right now?

  96. You're gonna go right back in that prayer clause and

  97. pray about something to God's already given you the answer, toute,

  98. I want to preach a message the Holy Ghost titled

  99. accepting his answer. Let's pray, Heavenly Father, we love him,

  100. we praise you, We thank you for the opportunity to

  101. be in.

  102. Your house tonight.

  103. I pray that you would have gone this, thy servant,

  104. said a guard at my mouth, Help me to say

  105. the things that you would have me to say, nothing

  106. more or less, and knowing the ears of this thy people,

  107. that they might hear what it is the Spirit of

  108. God says or to the church.

  109. Tonight, Not in my words, what of your words? May

  110. they hear?

  111. God?

  112. I pray these sayings would go below the shoulders, Let

  113. them saturate the spirit of.

  114. The soul of the being. I prayed, God, don't let

  115. these words.

  116. Go in one year out the other, and whirl around.

  117. And troil around in that mind and making eggs and

  118. help them and hit the bar. God, pray them, God,

  119. you know who you're speaking tonight. I pray that they

  120. would receive these words joyfully and gladly.

  121. In Jesus' name.

  122. In the church said Amen, as you're being seated, look

  123. at your neighbor and say, hey, neighbor, are you willing

  124. to accept his answer?

  125. Again?

  126. Preaching a message the Holy Ghost titled accepting His Answer?

  127. Our text is found in.

  128. An Old Testament book of the Holy.

  129. Bible, the Book of Numbers.

  130. I may have witnessed some smiles turned upside down when.

  131. I said the word numbers.

  132. I recently heard from someone that told me they despise

  133. arithmetic and mathematics.

  134. There's people in this building.

  135. Tonight that despises working when numbers. Sister wouldn't work with

  136. numbers for many years. As one of the accountants at

  137. our husband's business, I work with numbers every single day

  138. of my life. Yesterday, I was out of town on

  139. business for about five hours. While I was speaking with

  140. one of the presidents of a very large company, him

  141. and I were trying to add and subtract numbers. We

  142. were working with measurements and dimensions. We were trying to

  143. strike the right number in order to meet code. I

  144. know that there's people in this building. You probably don't

  145. even recognize that this book is a book in the Bible.

  146. You don't recognize it as one of the books of

  147. the five book Pentitug. But in this particular book of

  148. the Bible, there is information that is very important to

  149. an Israelite as well as a spiritual.

  150. Israelite, meaning somebody that believes in Jesus Christ as Lord

  151. and Savior. Personally, I enjoy studying this new miracle data

  152. found in this book, while others in this building.

  153. Do not care one thing about it.

  154. Some here tonight have noticed that I cited the world population.

  155. The number of the world population is seven billion, a

  156. lot of times plus or minus.

  157. A lot of times.

  158. During the service, I will cite the world's population at

  159. seven billion, plus or minus. When I first started preaching

  160. down here about eighteen years ago, I would cite the

  161. world's population at six billion. I remember doing some research

  162. back then, and I've done some research in recent years,

  163. and that number is rapidly changing. On a daily basis,

  164. on an hourly basis, and even on a minute and

  165. second basis, that number is changing it's almost impossible for

  166. a mortal man to keep up with the number of

  167. the Earth's population.

  168. So Brother Jesse, I.

  169. Feel like this book of numbers and this book of

  170. statistics must have something in it that is very important

  171. for us to get a hold of. Brother Nathaniel, I

  172. find the content of it quite interesting and fascinating.

  173. This book of the Bible gives a lot.

  174. Of specifics and details concerning the Israelies.

  175. Well, I don't care how many Israelites there were doing

  176. this or doing that.

  177. But I'll tell you this when it comes to you

  178. as a spiritual israeliede, as somebody that said, I've been blood.

  179. Balt and I'm a born again child of God.

  180. Of my name is written in the road book over

  181. there yonder in the sweep my mind.

  182. You're definitely thankful.

  183. That God has your name and number.

  184. You're definitely thankful that God has your name and number

  185. in his contact list.

  186. So I'm glad for God's showing.

  187. Us that he keeps up with the name of the

  188. number of all of his people. I'm thankful that He

  189. knows about every single boy, girl, dad, mom, grandpa, and

  190. grandma in.

  191. This building and cares so much about them.

  192. That He ows the numbers of their heads. And if

  193. you believe that God knows the.

  194. Number of the hairs upon your head.

  195. I believe you could say that God is very mindful

  196. of you. If He is concerned about the little Sphaoh

  197. in the barn loft having its necessary.

  198. Food and meeting his daily diet requirements, there is no doubt.

  199. As the Soumists, we say, what is man and the creature.

  200. That thou art mindful of him?

  201. What is Man in the creature that thou visitest him

  202. in our times of needs? So we find great relief

  203. and comfort in knowing that we're under the watchful eye

  204. of our heavenly Father. I'm glad to know that whatever

  205. number I am, and I'm glad to know whenever he

  206. calls the.

  207. Number that I am home, that I'm one of his.

  208. I know there's people in this building. You don't appreciate

  209. the fact that in some of the Gospels you have

  210. to read of the lineage of Jesus Christ. But you

  211. can get involved in the numerology of that and even.

  212. Feel the power of the Holy.

  213. Ghost their witness in your heart concerning things. And that

  214. was the inspiration up tonight's message.

  215. As I was.

  216. Thinking about numerology and thinking about numbers and biblical statistics,

  217. not something up to the Pew Research Centers of website,

  218. but something out.

  219. Of the Word of God.

  220. The power of God got to move it in my heart.

  221. And I started thinking about all of the information that

  222. is in this Book of Numbers, and so the Bible

  223. students and readers present to now you know some of

  224. the things that happened to the israel Lies. As you

  225. read the Book of Numbers, you see that.

  226. They had a rough goal of it during their time

  227. in the wilderness. How many people in this building understandingnied

  228. that God did not intend for them to spin their

  229. wills install in the sandy things of the wilderness. And

  230. so wilderness life is not exactly the perfect plan or

  231. the will of God.

  232. But because God.

  233. Is a God that works all things together for our good,

  234. God was able to take what should have been a

  235. seven day journey.

  236. And allow these people to grow and.

  237. To develop and mature over a period of forty years.

  238. There's some of you in this building tonight.

  239. You're experiencing wilderness life when you should.

  240. Be in Canaan Land by now.

  241. You see, there's people that would tell you your son

  242. is good.

  243. Cool teachers would tell you that things happened.

  244. To the israel Liza while in the wilderness that should

  245. have never happened to them and their desert babies. In part,

  246. every single person that left eachyp's land should have occupied

  247. Canaan's land. But we find, according to this book of

  248. the Bible, that most of those that left Egypt's.

  249. Land, they did not walk into Cana's land.

  250. But I don't want that to be the case of

  251. metal where some dad and mob missed out while they're

  252. offspring enjoy their lessons of God.

  253. In the wild of God.

  254. You can see as you study this book of the.

  255. Bible that God does not look upon rebellion when alive.

  256. I've looked at my son.

  257. Sometimes as they look at their children, and there's been

  258. times that they grin just a little bit before they

  259. speak a word of discipline or take disciplinary action, they

  260. smile and cause of their child's rebellion. I'm not saying

  261. they coached them into rebellion, or course them into rebellion,

  262. or pushed them into.

  263. Rebellion, or reward them.

  264. From rebellion, but sometimes you can tell that they's somewhat

  265. proud of that little boy that decided I would climb

  266. to the top of.

  267. That tree, even though they know.

  268. That child had been told not to do it.

  269. Somehow there's an element of delight in the fact.

  270. Of watching that child grow Upford.

  271. But I've studied this book of the Bible enough to

  272. know that God does not belived in.

  273. Rebellion at all.

  274. In fact, Claus spoke to the Great Clock of Samuel

  275. concerning stubbornness and rebellion, and he said, you don't want it.

  276. You might as well be a witch or a.

  277. Witch doctor and commit idolatry and commit human sacrifices on

  278. a daily basis.

  279. And for you to expect me.

  280. To accept her, come on, accept stubbornness and rebellion. We

  281. expect God to accept our stubbornness and rebellion that sometimes

  282. we're so reluctant, and hasit to accept her his actual

  283. concerning her, his real.

  284. For our life. That a Nathaniel I foun.

  285. That God does not take delight in grumbling her and

  286. writing her.

  287. God does not like it one bit.

  288. It does not bring her a sly or sly in

  289. it upon the face of God.

  290. If pac con sided.

  291. It that the good hand of God would turn there

  292. over and change directions the same good hand of God

  293. that kind of the steps up.

  294. And a good man will give her.

  295. And I'm hold here back of man a back hand.

  296. Can I tell you that.

  297. The hand of God can quickly change and directions and

  298. it could swimply steer.

  299. The grumbling that the rapping in the way.

  300. Refolts back home course, And we see that it be

  301. the trend.

  302. Among people that call themselves.

  303. The people of God when.

  304. They find themselves in the sandy dudes of the wilderness.

  305. You see sometimes when they're walking through the the reorder,

  306. just the dustom of the ground turns in the carpet

  307. by person on everyhend they're being struck.

  308. Their heel is being.

  309. Bruised, and for a time there is.

  310. No remedy until they humble their separate and God moons

  311. onest men to erect.

  312. A braize and cross with their brazen serpent.

  313. And for those that are willing to look towards them

  314. that God has said is the answer.

  315. Those are the runs that.

  316. Make them a swift and a poor recovery.

  317. That for every person held.

  318. Down and helping to God out of the Lord and

  319. to do their way, well.

  320. It'll be a dust storm for them.

  321. I'm telling you their dead body, their cold cuts, when

  322. they and the sandy dude and dust storm.

  323. Not to despair there.

  324. Yet they wear them deeper and deeper away.

  325. From everybody's memory.

  326. I'm telling somebody in.

  327. This building the night you don't realize you are trifling

  328. with God.

  329. You're trifling with her plan.

  330. Say now, that's nothing that's hoever, let's.

  331. Lie forever, it's nothing that's himl abowt. When God says

  332. do it, We've got no chance not to do it.

  333. There's gonna alternate round. This should be up with consideration.

  334. It should be a simple yes, scrum to your wield,

  335. and yes now to your way. But so many people

  336. get caught up, as Janis and Chambers did, asking too

  337. many questions, asking for reasons, why, asking for explanations, until

  338. they get.

  339. To the point and they question the motives of Moses.

  340. They question the method.

  341. Of Moses the Christian of comin and said, hell, could

  342. it be above six hundred thousand?

  343. To me?

  344. You could be the only one hearing from God. How

  345. many people present to not know the complain and brings.

  346. A consequence, say I know that the heralds and Sister

  347. Hannah two.

  348. Can tell you the complaining in the prawl.

  349. Household never changed things or turned in for the better.

  350. And the saint can be said about the Lord and

  351. a steep. This book of the Bible is proof positive of.

  352. This very thing.

  353. I've found it to be true that God is angry

  354. when the wicked every day.

  355. And he's also angry that those that.

  356. Turn aside her and turned back when they should be

  357. going forward.

  358. He now want to do testing.

  359. The writer said. He said, no, Brendan, how to set

  360. his hand in the bowel and.

  361. Looking back there it's fit.

  362. For the kingdom.

  363. Go Calor broke Tampa. He speak to me of somebody

  364. that had good intentions. He worked in the lazy bar

  365. recliner in the father's house. He wasn't in the swimming pool.

  366. In the backyard.

  367. That with good intention. He went to work with good intention.

  368. He anticipated the harvest with good intention. He is treating

  369. in worcome in that particular powder that wouldn't look back

  370. for everybody knew it was our put for reconsideration. I

  371. let you to know Tony in God's fitz and the

  372. conments here and play.

  373. It's a it's a point not for consideration.

  374. It's enough said, enough said, enough said.

  375. Oh my Jesus said, I keep preaching her saying the

  376. go kovers I had.

  377. I've heard and heard that.

  378. Let me ask some parents about this.

  379. If I was to look back there and look at

  380. Betther Christian that's just along, I would ask them the question,

  381. are y'all okay?

  382. With brother Titus saying back to you, after.

  383. You have provided ample instruction and direction, say more.

  384. As though he did not comprehend.

  385. What was being said, as though.

  386. He could not wrap his mind around what your intentions

  387. for him were.

  388. I've seen children like this.

  389. There's been times I've seen husbands and wives do this

  390. to one another. It's easier for them to say what

  391. did you say, rather than acknowledge that they heard and

  392. understand what's your answer was. I've seen it in churches.

  393. I've seen children doing to their parents. The parent gave

  394. a clear answer, and they act like they didn't hear,

  395. or they act if they didn't understand what. Hopefully, when

  396. that parents take her again, the cause her for that

  397. minutes for prison, that parent would feel.

  398. That kickback and that the parent would revise her.

  399. What has been said in the words of Pilate.

  400. May I say concerned in the word of God. What

  401. has been written is written. Jesus' outcome these words is

  402. may he is written that all that you know, he

  403. make ed a courser. He may tied up her mother

  404. ter that it will leader in.

  405. The wilderness life.

  406. I said, it will read in the willerness life.

  407. I know, I know that's for him. I'm not married.

  408. I know that's the will of God for my life.

  409. But I won't make this one take his the will

  410. of God for their life. All right, answer that question

  411. that I gave you about two minutes ago. Do y'all

  412. thank Brother Christian and Sister Laurie would be okay. We're

  413. Brother Titus questioning them, and we're requesting more and more information.

  414. I want to ask your sister Lauren right now, how

  415. would it feel? And Brother Titus made a habit of

  416. asking for information. This mother would love to hear him

  417. ask from more meat and potatoes at the dinner table.

  418. After he's been sick.

  419. Brother Nathaniel's little girl, Sister Rebecca, she has been very sick.

  420. Brother Jesse's little boy, brother my son has been very sick.

  421. I see the weight of leaving their bodies. I see

  422. they're becoming a bag of bones are shriveling.

  423. Up, and mom and dad is just waiting for the

  424. day that that virus has taken.

  425. As told and went on, but for the time that

  426. God has healed them, and I believe and Sunday services

  427. both of them took a turn for the better.

  428. But when you see your child shriveling.

  429. Up like that, it is a blessing for them to

  430. ask for more.

  431. I'd say, sister of Lord, would love to hear tyd

  432. to say, are there more hours in the day for

  433. school work?

  434. Are there more hours in the day.

  435. For household choice? And I promise you the child will

  436. not ask that very often. In fact, they want to ask.

  437. Dad and malve and principal and teacher and pastor.

  438. To shorten the work or school day in order.

  439. For them to do the less.

  440. But how is it when it comes to.

  441. The things of God unlock? It is with everything else and.

  442. Everyone else we're content with less.

  443. But when it comes to God, sister, how will you

  444. see me stand outside of restaurants nil one or two

  445. in the morning, literally listen to them say they.

  446. Know where to be here. He didn't know her to

  447. be there? Who know her to be doing this? And

  448. they know them to be doing that.

  449. I've seen preachers they call themselves seen men holdiness still

  450. being standing behind the hoo pits in churches they call

  451. themselves so holding this churches and say, I'm never supposed

  452. to be doing this. I'm not supposed to be here.

  453. I'm know I'm supposed to be there.

  454. What happened?

  455. Why did they never get here?

  456. Why did they never get there?

  457. Why did they never get into.

  458. Because they are looking throw way out of that. I

  459. said that sometimes you go to God, what time too many?

  460. To tell about it? What time too many?

  461. And the answer from God is even different than it

  462. was a glorious night He moved on you.

  463. I could use great plan.

  464. Is a speech, and I could be very personal with you.

  465. But when God called me out to leave a family

  466. business in a six digit income anually, I had been

  467. fishing on a lake, different lakes about three to four

  468. times a week.

  469. One of the first things I noticed when I moved

  470. to LaBelle was these lakes down here are not premiere,

  471. pristine lakes from the.

  472. Public amusement, because there's chalk full of alligators.

  473. I realized I wouldn't need the kneedboard. I realized I

  474. wouldn't need the slalom ski. I realized I wouldn't need

  475. the tube and I wouldn't even lead.

  476. Those two jipskis because even running up and down the

  477. close the hatchet could be a hazard.

  478. There could be a tree floating in the river.

  479. I could have my child of a kneeboard or on

  480. the ether tube and then fall off, just like the

  481. I did two hours up north of her, and give

  482. to hit head on over a log floting down aboudy

  483. for lousa hatchett. Hey, I had to put the fisher

  484. pones up. I had to park the bast foot Today.

  485. I got home after.

  486. Lunch and I took a ride around to see what

  487. my poise had been doing.

  488. And I told sister.

  489. Holler, they've done a good job.

  490. And over there in the back corner of the property,

  491. that shit old Bessie and I looked at her.

  492. The rubbers come off the rim, the boats boding melding

  493. the rock box.

  494. That I used to stop for her, and come on down.

  495. Loose steed sticks up the sticks, nice play shop Rells.

  496. And Roger his guy just mooned. It's poon and Mesa

  497. and I told her to see her.

  498. He's this pretty and she's ever been. When I prayed

  499. to pay.

  500. Her eight thousand dollars for her and I loved the

  501. fisher the guy in the wheel of God.

  502. I didn't need an inner. Two, I didn't need a

  503. need more. I didn't need my fishing polls.

  504. God said, I've got something on you to know. Do

  505. you do the fishing that.

  506. You used to do, though not the luck I used

  507. to do. There's many reasons for that number one. I've

  508. never been shown how to fish like okachovie. Could I

  509. figure it out?

  510. Yes?

  511. Could I do it on a weekly basis.

  512. Yes, But I understood eighteen years ago that God read

  513. arrange my priorities.

  514. I've seen being made out of church in order to

  515. sit in.

  516. A deer stand.

  517. Let me tell you how riding of a hound they are.

  518. They spending much pouring out corner in the corner of

  519. a pressure.

  520. They go to gas pro shopper or try.

  521. To supply or spend the baby's me money and got

  522. her money from an automatic feeder. So they only have

  523. to go out there about what's a week or.

  524. Watch a month?

  525. And then they check on a trail camera. They say, well,

  526. what's about time?

  527. Right? Then they set up a blind and they bought

  528. and tried.

  529. To supply or even worse wal water. Then they sit there.

  530. And they are like her.

  531. They're your Morod the mighty hundred time. Tell ain't no hunter,

  532. he said, you're trying to tell the Native America.

  533. In me you're a hunter. And then rif in your faith.

  534. Look at this big buck I shot. Where'd you shoot it?

  535. At the end of the driveway of Grandpa's property. You

  536. body hunter, you, you mighty hunter.

  537. You.

  538. I went to the apple orchard and shot bamby right

  539. up from the mama. And what I'm telling everybody, I

  540. meant to hit baby, but really you were aiming for Mama.

  541. And you don't got enough of God.

  542. In you to say I was off aimed.

  543. I remember when I started figuring out all these body

  544. hunters come hunt season, had to beat in the woods.

  545. And then I started inquiring about where they were hunting at,

  546. and I found out the woods was the back five

  547. or six acres that Grandma could see from her kitchen

  548. window as she made bacon and venison and fry come

  549. on backstrap from the previous year at the note that

  550. she saw flop on the grassy plane down there. After

  551. her grandson the mighty hunter Al Nimrod killed it.

  552. Come on, are you killing me?

  553. Are you kidding? Are you crazy? You're gonna pay five

  554. thousand dollars to go down road right here and kill

  555. an alligator?

  556. They have that just right down the road.

  557. There's a gator farm, and there's a ben from all

  558. over the road coming the road.

  559. I've been there. I've talked with the guys as they've laughed.

  560. You pay for it by the foot. If you want

  561. to get a thirteen footer.

  562. Good, you might have to spend seven thousand. You want

  563. to get that rare fifteen footer, yeah, that's good. You

  564. might have to pay seventeen twenty thousand.

  565. I don't know.

  566. The prices are astronomical, out.

  567. Of this world.

  568. And we walked around a pond that might have been

  569. about one acre if that maybe three.

  570. Corners of an acre, And everywhere we went the guy.

  571. Was saying, don't step on the gator's nest.

  572. We try to step two or three feet this way,

  573. he said, don't step on the gator's nest.

  574. We try to step over here, he said, don't step

  575. on the gator's nest.

  576. And that pond is surrounded by cypress stops and cypress

  577. trees was invested with Alan or.

  578. So that were just thinking to come up and be

  579. fetch some chicken corners.

  580. Come on or hear you listen to me?

  581. And he said, would you like to cay a little

  582. bit of money to shoot one of them alligators? I said,

  583. you know what, I'd rather poached Loyda on the back

  584. side of the clusa hatch you and the pay you

  585. set it at ten dollars and dollars to come up

  586. of y'all. What I'm telling, I'll say you is the

  587. serially reason take people and decide what.

  588. To do, what God ship do the siy reason a.

  589. Why not in church to tell minds and me standing

  590. the fair Godda and the day attention and saying.

  591. I get funding a man in Florida because I.

  592. Must go right for my kids to swing it.

  593. Here get your match me.

  594. Standing a fair.

  595. God, and me saying Goda, I ain't get a little

  596. the Florida because there.

  597. Was nowhere to put my dear stand.

  598. Are you killing me?

  599. Are you kidding me? Are you killing me?

  600. Don't be a simpleton.

  601. If anybody could do this, and this is God's business, God.

  602. Would be calling any and everybody to do it. But

  603. the reason why he.

  604. Called you, he counted you faithful, putting you into the ministry.

  605. And that could be extreet ministry, teaching a son'school class,

  606. or just simply being a lefty or just simplicitting in a.

  607. Pew and stand up with truth and righteousness.

  608. Back.

  609. And Sister Lauren, when it comes to her words of

  610. guidance and instruction and discipline, she wouldn't be a happy

  611. mommy if everything she gave her son Titus instructed and

  612. told him to do, if he asked for more, Ram,

  613. I need more guidance, I need more instruction, I need

  614. more specifics.

  615. I've men in details. I mean I need more than

  616. what you've given me.

  617. Brother Jesse, I found out when a God told me

  618. to come down here, he had one word. It wasn't

  619. that he had a limited vocabularia. I've got sixty six

  620. books of his ability to put to words in men's

  621. mouth like Peter that are getting at and unlearned and

  622. make them seem has learned as an Oxford or a

  623. Harvard scholar in their universities. But brother Caleb, he gave

  624. me one word, and it was this though, when God

  625. says Cora you got to dream latter, and you do.

  626. You go forward.

  627. You won't go assortos.

  628. You don't go to the letter.

  629. You don't go to the writer.

  630. You just God, Brother Christian, you tell me. It just

  631. sounds about right. Let me try to be sister Lauren.

  632. I know a little bit about Sister Lauren her speaking

  633. of brother Titus. No, Titus, I'm not saying any more

  634. to you about this. You understand me, and you know

  635. what you're gonna do. Young men, Now just go ahead.

  636. And do what I said to do.

  637. In Change, chapter number four and verse number seventeen, the

  638. great Elder James.

  639. The brother of John, John and James, the sons of Sunder,

  640. the sons of seventy, he said these words.

  641. It was one of our cotext.

  642. They're poor to him that know it to do good

  643. and do it, and not to him it is sin.

  644. In our texts we find these words that I will

  645. know what the Lord will say under me more.

  646. Bam, you've already prayed about it.

  647. I know, baby.

  648. The King of Moabb has come to you and solicited

  649. you for your services. You're a prophet of God. You're

  650. supposed to be a man of God. You're not even

  651. supposed to be praying.

  652. Curses on your brothers and sisters of the nation of me.

  653. But because bailable less promise, power and prestige and precis,

  654. he said, I pray a little more about it. Listen,

  655. if you can be fault on the preacher of the road,

  656. if you can be fault call a policy sat up

  657. the road. If you can be bought by that, if

  658. you've got a possle and what to say, and the

  659. govern lit read and do say.

  660. What's your promise of.

  661. Brother Jesse was talking about recently receiving a promotion in

  662. position and pay an increase of pain and also with

  663. an increase of responsibility. Brother Starrett mentioned or not something

  664. he had told us about until tonight. He also now

  665. has been promoted and he's got men under him, And

  666. he was talking about the responsibility of teaching those that

  667. don't have a teachable spirit and the responsibility of teachings

  668. that do have a teachable spirit. Brother Jesse, I can't

  669. imagine why a supposed prophet of God and named Balim,

  670. that's already supposed to be traveling with the people of God,

  671. but he's mixing and meanling with people he shouldn't be

  672. involved in y'all familiar with Baylife, the son of zippor

  673. sons school teachers, you know what I'm talking about.

  674. He had heard about the children of Israel making their exodus.

  675. He knew that God was with them and toward them,

  676. and they have literally just stalked the Amaritza into the

  677. dust of the ground. And Baylife, being a wise peint

  678. and king over bab, he said, you know what, I

  679. better get them where it hurts.

  680. I better strike them where it hurts. And what I

  681. got to do is get them one of their own. Now,

  682. come on, go to Balem. He says, he's one of them.

  683. But why is he hanging out over here?

  684. Oh?

  685. Come, I'm telling you.

  686. You start hanging out to off center, you start hanging

  687. out on the escorts of Stuntzer, start hanging out on

  688. the perimeter.

  689. It ain't gonna be too long.

  690. It's gonna be a man on come by, and a

  691. baylet come by, and they're gonna try to strike a

  692. deal with you.

  693. I'm telling you, God's poop.

  694. To me and told somebody you better have shipped his answer,

  695. it's doubtless plain and simple.

  696. It was his answer. God, sip go and you'h God

  697. said you better.

  698. Go, and you better go.

  699. God said you better do it, and you better do it.

  700. No, said.

  701. My sister Root, Sir enough because Baalim's Teina Toddard on

  702. the fence, He's on the perimeter, baylife.

  703. Decides to pick him off.

  704. There's always the preachers that aren't totally sold out to

  705. the seer of God's will. There's always those on the perimeter,

  706. and those are the ones that are dangerous when you

  707. find it to be so that injoy presence, there's a

  708. brother that can't be best friends with the Bethel Brethren,

  709. and he's always on the perimeter of One years went by,

  710. and two years went by, and three years went by.

  711. This is that beautiful church family here, I promising us

  712. another church family as an example. But brother Richard Jacob

  713. when they can't be friends like you and brother LaRue are.

  714. And as single bachelors whose wives left them.

  715. Because you two guys want to certain God.

  716. You go to long camping together, you go over there

  717. to legos together, and they're best friends, just like Simming

  718. and leave I were.

  719. You know, me and mother LaRue talk today in the.

  720. Dollar General market. It was good to see him.

  721. We talked for about ten minutes.

  722. We didn't gossip, but we didn't talk about Caleb ro

  723. Kampa and who she's married.

  724. We didn't talk about church business.

  725. We just talked about the job.

  726. We talked about the goodness of God.

  727. We talked about open air evangelism.

  728. But always get a bit concerned when I see that

  729. brother us been there three or four or five hours,

  730. cents or seven or ten years, and for some reason.

  731. Nobody can get comfortable.

  732. With the facer that he's there.

  733. Nobody seeing an interesting in purchasing real estate.

  734. Nobody seeing an interesting in drawing down state, so nobody's

  735. seeing an interest in them being at home. Those are

  736. the people I've never used, and those are the people I.

  737. Won't ever trust.

  738. As long as I leaga, I will sit the test the.

  739. Bogans, as long as I leega, I know thinger all

  740. that will say ill, as long as I'm lega, I will.

  741. Say now as I pay my state. I'm telling you,

  742. people that come.

  743. Off up perimeter, if you want to get.

  744. Slap that center in the wheel of God.

  745. I'm creature enough. I ain't playing.

  746. You can tell blood of the wondering spirits. After two

  747. or three years, we're still in the perimeter. After about

  748. twenty minutes, there's no brother to talk to you. They're

  749. gonna sit in the car.

  750. Huh.

  751. I tell you, I give you any excuse of the

  752. book or why I shouldn't be here as well.

  753. I had that opportunity to abandon this work for about

  754. six years.

  755. It was all we could do the whole fifteen or twenty,

  756. and I was never satisfied with that. But I'm telling you,

  757. you have to put your boots in the scene, and

  758. you had to fill them up with sun, and you

  759. had to get stationary.

  760. I'm talking to some of you apparently that moved down here.

  761. That wasn't my intention, But now I'm talking to some

  762. of here that moved down here.

  763. You need to stand stationary and stay put long enough

  764. that you see a palm branch shooting up out of

  765. your boots, or you feel your big toe hurting and

  766. you feel a seashell under there, or they're at excuse me, somewhere.

  767. You're standing around this pond. It ain't like the pristine

  768. premiere les of the of the compare around Avon Park.

  769. And Seabring and Mulberry. Then it ain't Clinch LAKEA. This

  770. is the Calusa Hatchet. I want to ask you here tonight.

  771. Is it clinch Laka or Calusa Hatchet?

  772. What are you day dreaming about her?

  773. Either you're a pastor.

  774. What are you panasizing about that? Here?

  775. You're a pastor?

  776. Oh, come on now, it's beth o'baby. If God sits

  777. you here, it's bethe o' lakey cod it nothing.

  778. Get out of here as fast as you can go.

  779. I say, there's so many wondering spirits and gypsy spirits,

  780. so many people today are spending their entire life and

  781. I've heard it, Tim, I'm sick of it asking the question.

  782. I wonder if I'm in the sinner of God's will

  783. will Jamee.

  784. Said, it is Epistle.

  785. He said there for here to know what to do.

  786. Good and doing to not to him and a SINU

  787. feel like me knowing to do better, me knowing the

  788. word of God better be repusing to throw away the

  789. tabhold me, repleasing.

  790. To throw things to the curve.

  791. I would say for me to.

  792. Pastor in church, this fifty percent worldly would make me

  793. a bayl them.

  794. I would say for me to shah La la lah

  795. over a rebellious person that's known to.

  796. Do good and knowing the impact for twenty.

  797. Years, I would say that I've got broader.

  798. On my hands.

  799. I'd want a step to the side. Time here, a

  800. hold in his church and say.

  801. You know what, we know how to do right, we

  802. know what it's gonna take, we know.

  803. How to leave it, we know how to do I said,

  804. we know it.

  805. If I started pastoring the world at church tomorrow, you

  806. know what you'd all throw up in my face. James,

  807. Chapter the fourth verse, number seventeen. He knows he should

  808. be doing that. Here's what y'all would say.

  809. He knows better than that.

  810. We also, I.

  811. Knew better than with my son's biological clock take to

  812. a certain age. I knew better than to take them

  813. off very long. I knew better than what churches the visit.

  814. That's one of the reason why I'm not.

  815. Dealing with sons with marital issues.

  816. It's because I knew when God said come out from

  817. among them and be separate.

  818. I knew just the boss.

  819. I don't buy that bishop's church does.

  820. I don't may that reference church this my don't mind.

  821. That's just as charge.

  822. In our text we find those words that I will

  823. know what to mow will say to me more that

  824. sounds like al bayl them.

  825. Pray with me that I'll get the will of God.

  826. Pray for me.

  827. Nothing's working out.

  828. Pain't pray for me. I don't know if I made

  829. the right.

  830. Decision or not.

  831. Pray for me.

  832. I'm wondering if this is the judgment of God.

  833. Pray for me. I'm wondering if I'm in the will

  834. of God.

  835. Pray for me.

  836. I've heard that tell I'm sick about the time I

  837. get encourage her as somebody's.

  838. Finally done what God told him to do.

  839. And so now Lovestock and Bell, did I receive a

  840. message that says, I wonder if I'm supposed to be

  841. on a mission?

  842. Peeled, what that you think of?

  843. It was gonna be easy either he should thank Peter

  844. and Johnny and Change.

  845. Did not tell you that I would not be easy?

  846. They could tell him and do all of that. What

  847. that Thomas shoe the same thing, Jesus Thomas shoe. Nothing,

  848. Lord would be with you.

  849. God doesn't promise immediate financial stabilization or security.

  850. Ain't man of that?

  851. Brother broke Cap said, I'm preaching to some of you

  852. that moved down. Apparently I did not intend for it.

  853. To be this way.

  854. But when God says go, he meant what he says.

  855. God says what he means, that he meant what he said.

  856. I've said this for years. I've seen people play the

  857. will of God game.

  858. They make a move, they do this and do that.

  859. They think God's bipolar, they think God's by polar. But

  860. if you look at Jeremy Hamill, I guarantee you, Bud,

  861. there's a simpers stunt probably in one boot.

  862. And a palm tree and the other. There ain't no

  863. fishing pole in the rock box. And I think a

  864. little bit about that. I thought, yeah, But you know what,

  865. as time goes on, I think.

  866. Less of the sacrifice and I think more on the blessings.

  867. As time goes on, I think less of the sacrifice,

  868. and I think more of the compensation.

  869. A business associate that I have. And there'll be something

  870. that's listening. It'll try to find out who this is.

  871. But they've been.

  872. Trying to do a business with me and been trying

  873. to get together. We've already been together for about four

  874. or five months. By the Jesse went with me yesterday.

  875. He witnessed it for first hand. Own one hundred and

  876. one companies. They were having their jet picked them up

  877. tomorrow to fly them all over the United States to

  878. celebrate Christmas at various offices.

  879. And Brother Samuel, they said, whenever we get done with

  880. this one particular project working on some railing for a

  881. ten million.

  882. Dollar house, I'm telling you it's a beautiful little dollhouse.

  883. That's what I'm told them, to build a beautiful little doll.

  884. Brother Samuel. I had to make up my mind and

  885. I hold to what I told them.

  886. I'm not leaving the bell.

  887. And Brother Samuel, you also received a job offer from

  888. the state of Maryland about two weeks to go. Phone call, Kay,

  889. say it to me like it lasted about thirty seconds.

  890. Brother Samuel put it to them like this, if you

  891. were to offer me five hundred thousand dollars a year,

  892. the answer would be know. And because of the tone

  893. of his voice of them knowing how sincere brother Samuel is,

  894. they knew there's no need in talking. There's no need

  895. in trying to talk him out of this and talk

  896. him into it.

  897. Are y'all women, but there's pet in this building.

  898. You would take your wife out of the outbout steakhousel

  899. and you would say things like you know, sister Looton

  900. is a good example of an elder. But we're gonna

  901. move somewhere, whether it's no holding this church where God

  902. didn't tell us to go, and I'm gonna go pray

  903. and I'm gonna faster. I'm even gonna borrow Bethel's fire

  904. tourist and I'm gonna pray about it.

  905. God's gonna say no, I'm gonna pray about it.

  906. God's gonna say no, I'm gonna pray about it. Cost's

  907. gonna say no. I'm gonna call him and say that

  908. I hear you strengtha.

  909. What was your offer?

  910. And they're gonna tell me the offer Aginna. They're gonna

  911. sleep in the PoTA.

  912. That's the favorite.

  913. Did he ship down in this run in in Vienna

  914. to Blum One, he said, care Flum, I'll.

  915. Give him there pray, I'll give him more position.

  916. Now, I'll give him more priority.

  917. If you know what pain I'm run and praying about it.

  918. Ho Kim, I'm telling you you can.

  919. Pray about it.

  920. Look to your Carter.

  921. Says yes, after he said no a thousand times, come

  922. hold down, unjust tuckson there there. It's not a plickable

  923. look in this insituation, in this environment with God, siys no,

  924. he means no. Went God says yes, sir, he means yes.

  925. Except the answer seek or swill charny. That's what I said.

  926. We asked stupid questions, how, Jeremy, what are we gonna do?

  927. Where's Abraham and Sarah's playbook?

  928. They didn't have one?

  929. Are you sure, Jeremy? I maybe one.

  930. Hundred five times in six years. She was careful. She

  931. is the weaker best bushy. And there were times she said,

  932. I don't see it.

  933. But I can tell you now.

  934. We came down here with three or four. We didn't

  935. come down here with seventy or eighty.

  936. Ever, we didn't come.

  937. Down here whever and move like God.

  938. God move it in a mighty way.

  939. But I can tell you this, sister, woot call you

  940. a loud in your face if you think I wasn't

  941. preaching like I'm preaching.

  942. Now back there, just to give him and to color

  943. you a liar to your face. I can picture like

  944. that picture right now with one or two in this building,

  945. and I ain't relying upon these notes.

  946. Some of you.

  947. You can't see me Sunday night, I can tell you

  948. right now, I'm talking about Baylif, the son of Zipport.

  949. It was the king of Molif.

  950. And the reason why he was nervous is because these

  951. great children of Israel just stalked the Amorites in the ground.

  952. And he said, we better get God to curse them,

  953. because he realized there was no army on this planet

  954. that could turn them or that could harm them or

  955. hurt them, and what he needed was God to curse them.

  956. Oh, come on, I'm telling you, when God blesses the people,

  957. there's no gossip God.

  958. That can bring a curse on that church. There's no

  959. troublemaker can do it.

  960. In a split, there's no bailim on the perimitive vaiting.

  961. On his life to get offended.

  962. I told sister how concerning one sister here, I said,

  963. if he's waiting on her to get off and that

  964. he's gonna wait till he takes his last breath.

  965. And he stood up tonight said I love it here. Ah,

  966. y'all like this kind of preaching.

  967. I know you do.

  968. That's why God's blessing our church, and that's why you're

  969. living holy because you.

  970. Love what the word of God said.

  971. And when you read it.

  972. You don't try to explain it away. Then you don't

  973. ask God to make an exception to the role when

  974. you're reading.

  975. Some literal translation. It is what he is. It says

  976. what it says.

  977. Not then not call mad.

  978. It's no touch.

  979. Of God pasta, yes, simply of God pastor, nor Presbyterian minister,

  980. no prius Palterian bishop, no ruth and cardinal, your Roman

  981. Catholic paper that can say, oh Liza.

  982. They can ask God somewhere it is actually will be

  983. he is.

  984. I said he has.

  985. Who didn't.

  986. About the preacher out west that got caught with a

  987. young woman in his office. Similar God preacher can't meet

  988. and preacher everybody thought he was conservative of the more

  989. conservative persuasion.

  990. What was going on, I'll tell you what went on.

  991. Whenever the payday got big enough, he overlooked certain things.

  992. Y'll hold didn't come home. I didn't call any names.

  993. But whenever he saw things going on, it did not

  994. go on in Mama's house. So it ain't grandma's house.

  995. He overlooked into. That's what happens when Baylittle gets.

  996. A hold the perimeter.

  997. I'm telling you we better align ourself with what the sample.

  998. The word of God.

  999. Forty something year old man shouldn't be caught with a

  1000. twenty something year old girl in the pastor's office. Huh,

  1001. what happened?

  1002. Somebody got above God, somebody got above truth and righteous

  1003. somebody got.

  1004. Above somebody said, let's just say a little more. His

  1005. sister's okay, this brother's okay. Y'all know, I'm an easygoing guy.

  1006. I believe him working with people. But listen, you don't

  1007. have to work with somebody twenty years. You don't have

  1008. to work for the same individual thirty years.

  1009. I've been working with people for a long time.

  1010. I'm almost fifty years of age, and until I die,

  1011. I will be patient.

  1012. With people, and I will work with people.

  1013. My brother Caleb, you know enough to say, he doesn't.

  1014. Have to work with me on holiness. Oh, he doesn't

  1015. have to work with me or tread to righteousness. So

  1016. his grandma's mehit his mama's limit. And now he's living

  1017. a town he can go to your preacher and say,

  1018. say a little more. Tell me it'll be okay to me, Yes, sir,

  1019. tell me to be okay to me.

  1020. Yet, it doesn't matter what the preacher says.

  1021. What matters is what let's say it the word of God.

  1022. The word of God have precedents, it should anyway. So

  1023. I've heard this statement since I was a teenager. The

  1024. decisions you are making today are the decisions you are

  1025. going to be in twenty years. The decisions you are

  1026. making today are the decisions you're gonna be twenty years

  1027. from now.

  1028. You miss church on Wednesday night, your son's gonna miss

  1029. church altogether. You miss church on Sunday night, your son's

  1030. gonna find it not a party to go to church

  1031. at all. I'm talking all of our Daddy's right here.

  1032. What you do in moderation, your children will do in excess.

  1033. And the church said, hey, my god, that's just stage.

  1034. That's brother Thomas Dais said, tonight, our conscience tells us

  1035. better than to do. But you know what, you can

  1036. see that conscience. You can kill your guard doll. That

  1037. conscience is like a guard dog.

  1038. You can kill the guard dog until you feel like.

  1039. It's all tell you because everybody else is doing it.

  1040. You know what that peer pressure? And that's what kind

  1041. of holm of baalim it was peer pressure. Peer pressure, Brokie.

  1042. The decisions you're making right now is very important. What

  1043. you say in front of your family. It's so important,

  1044. you better be careful. I remember telling the Full Time

  1045. Evangels one time. I said, you're gonna lose your daughter

  1046. simply because every time you get around a preacher, you're

  1047. talking about the hypocrisy of this one, in the hypocrisy

  1048. of that one.

  1049. I said, she's gonna lose confidence in everybody.

  1050. He took her away from us, and then it was

  1051. about seven years later she texted me. She said, Pastor Howell,

  1052. I've been strung out on drugs at times. I haven't

  1053. done right. I have not called any names, she said.

  1054. I have not been the advantageist world model's daughter. She said,

  1055. but I pretty much lost confidence in everybody. I still

  1056. had the text of this day.

  1057. She said, the.

  1058. Only man that I have confidence in in this world

  1059. is Jeremy Howell. And she said, you will always be

  1060. my pastor.

  1061. Yeah, because when it got right down to it, you

  1062. didn't favor popularity.

  1063. You could have had it, but you favored the Bible.

  1064. A very prominent business man stood face to face with

  1065. me yesterday. He was greatly moved emotionally when he saw me.

  1066. Did you hear his voice quake? His eyes just filled

  1067. with joy and jubilation.

  1068. We treated him good. But Brother Samuel, I've let him

  1069. know I'm not for sale. But I wonder if somebody

  1070. in this building will sell out too cheap.

  1071. To sell out for one penny less than what God

  1072. would have you stand for, it was to sell out

  1073. too cheap. Now I just felt my heart break. I

  1074. hope that I've helped somebody. I ain't even halfway through

  1075. this message, brother sam And how pray for me. God

  1076. does want to help you make the right decisions, just

  1077. as Lauren who want to help make the right decisions

  1078. for Titus.

  1079. But in that decision make a process.

  1080. You have to listen to God, and when you ask

  1081. God to speak, you have to accept his answer. And

  1082. once the decision is made, it's finished, it's done, it's sealed,

  1083. it's settled.

  1084. Since the wood, I'm.

  1085. Sick of young preachers and older preachers and even Christians

  1086. running around concerning their ministry saying I'm still waiting on

  1087. the perfect will of God. Listen, you got to invest

  1088. yourself in what God said, do sincris will. There's been

  1089. missionaries here. God tell them to go overseas, and they

  1090. went overseas. Good brother waldall Butler, And you know what,

  1091. they had a ministry of Brother Samuel for two years

  1092. and then they were killed by some tribal people. What's

  1093. easy for some religious person, even a Christian bishop of pastor,

  1094. an evangelist and overseer, even a parent that was not

  1095. okay with them obeying God, it's easy for them to say, See,

  1096. they weren't in the perfect plan of God.

  1097. They weren't in the perfect will of God, and.

  1098. They'd still be living.

  1099. Not so.

  1100. Sometimes it cost you blood, sweat and tears.

  1101. And I will tell you from personal testimony, ministry has

  1102. cost me health. Somebody asked me recently, said how's your help?

  1103. I said, I feel pretty good. They said, but are

  1104. you pretty good? I said, I feel pretty good.

  1105. In the fourth chapter, James the Church Elder shows us

  1106. how people respond to the Lord.

  1107. We read that verse.

  1108. It was our cotext and brother, and it breaks my

  1109. heart to think that he was saying concerning those we

  1110. see those who ignore the.

  1111. Instruction of the Lord and who choose to do it

  1112. their way. He said in the thirteenth verse of that chapter,

  1113. he said, go to ye that say today or tomorrow

  1114. will do this, today or tomorrow will go into such

  1115. a city and continue there a year, will buy and

  1116. sell and get gain, Brother Nathaniel, they are told that

  1117. they didn't even have their minds wrapped around what was

  1118. going on to take place tomorrow.

  1119. He said, what is your life?

  1120. But as a vacer, it's here today, a gold tomorrow.

  1121. How do you know what you're gonna do tomorrow? How

  1122. do you know what's gonna happen tomorrow? The evil today

  1123. is enough, Brother the Thaniel.

  1124. They may face destruction.

  1125. They're unaware that they may face elimination, they may face

  1126. termination of life.

  1127. James says, your life is brief, oll the brevity of life.

  1128. That's why I must be about the Father's business. Because

  1129. I'm not promised tomorrow. I'm not promised to be your

  1130. pastor Sunday. I'm not promised that my heart will beat

  1131. another beat when I say, let's gather around the altars.

  1132. So it's time for me to do the will of God.

  1133. Lest I beat jo that I didn't do what God's

  1134. wild was.

  1135. That's why Apostle Paul said, woe went to me if

  1136. I preach not the gospel.

  1137. Sometimes what you had to do is just climb onto.

  1138. That roller coaster seat, sit down, and strap the seatbelt

  1139. on and enjoy the ride. There's gonna be ups, and

  1140. there's gonna be downs, Brother Butler. There's gonna be twist

  1141. and there's gonna be turns.

  1142. There's gonna be climbing.

  1143. High, and there's gonna be falling love, Brother Phillips.

  1144. Sometimes it even bush silling me through the earth and

  1145. take you through a tunnel and come out and blue sky.

  1146. That's how I best describe being in the will of God.

  1147. Sometimes you feel like being pastor.

  1148. I walked out the.

  1149. Door today growing in a spirit. I love pastoring you all.

  1150. I love each and every one of you. But I

  1151. knew what God had put on my heart. I opened

  1152. the door, not even realizing what I was doing. I went, oh, well,

  1153. and your mama said what.

  1154. I said?

  1155. Nothing, just the way of delivering a sermon and act

  1156. because I don't know what people is going to do.

  1157. I didn't even hear myself. My wife hurt me. As

  1158. I was growing and in the spirit, I met people

  1159. throughout the years that we're saying, what am I supposed

  1160. to do? In Psalm thirty two, verse Numbreeda said I

  1161. will instruct THEE and teach THEE in the way that

  1162. thou shalt go.

  1163. I will guide thee with mine eye.

  1164. You see, God sees the bigger picture.

  1165. We do not, and didn't say I will guide thee

  1166. with my hand.

  1167. I was praying on that verse this afternoon, and what

  1168. stood out to me, Brother Nathaniel, was he said, I

  1169. will guide thee with my eye.

  1170. My brother Philip, he's got the best ego eye view.

  1171. I'm ah, I will guide thee with my eye.

  1172. He knows the way that I take. There's great preaching

  1173. in there, but I need to pull you in the altar.

  1174. He knows the way that I take. And that's what

  1175. Joe demonstrated to us. Sometimes bad things happen to good people,

  1176. but we just had to ride out the storm. And

  1177. in twenty second chapter Numbers, we see where a pagan

  1178. king named Baylick is hoping that a prophet of God

  1179. will curse the people of God, where brother wrote, Captain

  1180. God's telling Balem, don't you even try it?

  1181. Would you come in the king, or brother Jesse, let's

  1182. stand tonight. I feel the release.

  1183. Baylick did not like Balem's answer, and he said, go

  1184. pray about it again.

  1185. You must curse these people. And then Baylik attempted to

  1186. buy Bailick Babim.

  1187. He pressured him, He pushed the right pressure.

  1188. Points, resulting and pushing the right buttons. What will it

  1189. take tonight to get you to change your decision? What

  1190. will it take tonight to get you to change your mind?

  1191. Because if your wife's finally with the program and you're

  1192. ready to leave, all that will do is bring on

  1193. a wilderness experience. And I'll say this, a lot of

  1194. times with men and women to walk out of the

  1195. will of God, they lose their partive us. A lot

  1196. of times when parents decide to walk out in the

  1197. center of God's will and what so many people call

  1198. the permissive.

  1199. Will of God, if there be such a thing, they

  1200. may make it, but they lose all that their children.

  1201. I wonder what would have happened to sister Helen.

  1202. I'd have put our feet down and said, you know what,

  1203. I'm not gonna accept the fact, and I got to

  1204. park my boat, sister moving. That seems like a little thing,

  1205. but so many people sell out for things as little

  1206. was a fishing opportunity and a.

  1207. Hunting opportunity or preaching opportunity.

  1208. There's not a bunch of churches around here, that our

  1209. Holy Church is righteousness and truth isn't promoted just everywhere

  1210. down here, so there's not a lot of preaching opportunities.

  1211. Are you sure there were back where you came from?

  1212. Are you sure there weren't snares.

  1213. There and traps that God.

  1214. Kept you from, kept your children from confusion, turnoil compromise.

  1215. Are you sure it wasn't part of the plan of

  1216. God to move you home, to get you up and out,

  1217. to push you on to the promise.

  1218. The Bible?

  1219. Said he?

  1220. And then he aired when he went back to the

  1221. Lord to see if he had anything more to say

  1222. on the situation.

  1223. God, do you have anything that you'd like to say?

  1224. Are you kidding me? And are you killing me? Cause

  1225. it's gonna kill me to see you walk out of

  1226. the house of God the will of God, to see

  1227. you discard the plans of God as of the pieces

  1228. of trash.

  1229. I figured out a long time ago the sister who

  1230. was in this for.

  1231. The long haul. I figured out his sister walker sister,

  1232. him and his sister how old sister Sheryl, whether Dwayne,

  1233. and many others reading us for the Long Haul.

  1234. And then several years later, maybe six seven years later,

  1235. I realized the rope caps reading this for the.

  1236. Long haul, Brother Jesse, that child comes back.

  1237. And repeat it itself and asked the same question over

  1238. and over again. Brother Kayleb hoped her for a different nature. Pastor,

  1239. what do you think about me talking to this one?

  1240. Pastor?

  1241. What do you think about me dating this one?

  1242. Pastor?

  1243. What do you think about me going to this youth camp?

  1244. What do you think about me?

  1245. And then after a while it gets agitated to have

  1246. to entertain such questions, and sometimes maybe even in the

  1247. flesh and carney.

  1248. Do you say you know what?

  1249. This is what you want, this is what you deserve?

  1250. And sometimes dad mom says they're gonna have to learn

  1251. the hard way because it's not really hard to do

  1252. right anyway.

  1253. And sometimes you'll say go when you should say don't go.

  1254. It's like the little girl that was raised in an

  1255. independent Holiness church. She kept coming to her pastor and

  1256. she said, I go to a pope at school where

  1257. they have prom.

  1258. She said, do you think you'd be all.

  1259. Right for me to go prom?

  1260. Because one of the football players has asked me.

  1261. To go prom?

  1262. And he said, no, absolutely not. You know, there's many

  1263. scriptures evil.

  1264. Communications, grew up good manners. The children of Israel begin

  1265. to inter marry, and he lie loud things like that

  1266. of the stumba block to Sampson, you remember.

  1267. This past Sunday Night's message. Give all them biblical examples,

  1268. give all them scriptures. But Hannah, all she could see

  1269. was her being on the arm of the.

  1270. Football player, the star.

  1271. And so she decided to go one night without the

  1272. pastor saying yes, you could go, hiring that football star

  1273. smacked an oak tree.

  1274. Both of them went into eternity, they said.

  1275. When they founder her gunet was supposed to be pulled

  1276. up and modest. She had modified it to reveal flesh

  1277. like all the other girls. I wonder what you'd do

  1278. if there was nobody around tonight. Wonder how you'd act.

  1279. Or wonder where you'd go, or wonder if you could

  1280. slip on the will of God and you could get

  1281. a yes?

  1282. Would you go anyway? If Mom and Dad sets you

  1283. up and said I'm gonna say yes, just to see

  1284. just they'll do it?

  1285. Would you do it?

  1286. And That's how I've always been. I've been concerned that

  1287. God would say yes. The Bible said God.

  1288. Granted those children of visual their requests, concerned and need meet,

  1289. and he gave.

  1290. Them twell from heaven to the point they gorged themselves.

  1291. And if they threw it up out their mistles, he

  1292. gave them their request, would send them leanness.

  1293. Unto their souls.

  1294. The Bible said, I preached to night like a dying man,

  1295. a dying people, telling you that this subject is one

  1296. that's out of my control.

  1297. This is above my grade, this is above my case.

  1298. Tell I can't do anything but tell you because the

  1299. decision and the choice is yours.

  1300. But I will tell you what God spoke to me.

  1301. And I thought to preaching about five or six not.

  1302. Of the same family. You need to accept the answer

  1303. and stop asking the questions.

  1304. Would you bail your heads right now? I've preached with

  1305. a burden. I've preached love. Do y'all know that if

  1306. I started asking questions, can we do this and get

  1307. by this church? Can we let up on this?

  1308. Can we do this and get by? It may be

  1309. a fault spirit.

  1310. The foul spirit comes to mind, says sure, if you

  1311. can do that, brother Tyler, I had to accept what

  1312. was written. If you feel like the Holy Girst spoke

  1313. to you tonight, would you raise your hand.

  1314. There's one, two, three, four. Now I want to tell this.

  1315. As we get ready to close, you prepare yourself to pray.

  1316. There was this young man in a church and brother Jesse.

  1317. One day he was working in his father's field. Now,

  1318. Brother Nathana, he said, well, he was working in his

  1319. father's field.

  1320. He said, he saw the word preach end up clouds

  1321. with a big capital P.

  1322. And he said, then he looked into the clouds and

  1323. saw the word Christ in the clouds with a big

  1324. capital C. But he said, not long after the reach

  1325. and the hrit was gone, and all I saw was PC.

  1326. He left his father's business and went to preach Christ.

  1327. He ended up being a hobo on the street without

  1328. two pennies to run together.

  1329. Brother phil I, a wise old preacher, went to him

  1330. and said, son, did you really pay attention to the

  1331. message in the clouds?

  1332. He said, well, my really, I just kind of read

  1333. it the way I thought it should be read. And

  1334. what was in my heart?

  1335. And the preacher said, on that same day, I thought

  1336. I saw the same thing over the same field, in

  1337. the same sky.

  1338. Brother Jacob, He said, what I read, friend, was plant corn.

  1339. After a while, la n T was gone, and r

  1340. N was gone as PC and that man brother Nathaniel,

  1341. because he wanted to do what he wanted to do.

  1342. He wanted to preach.

  1343. When God didn't say go preach, he lost the golden.

  1344. Opportunity to be a successful farmer. I don't know why

  1345. God has given you specific constructions on what you are

  1346. to do with one of his plan perfect peace, and.

  1347. His plan his posterity, prosperity promise, and Brother Ethan, if

  1348. he tells me tonight to stop preaching Christ.

  1349. It's unlikely that he will. If he tells me to

  1350. start planting corn, you know what I want to do.

  1351. I'm gonna start planting corn because there's a reason for it.

  1352. I'm not gonna give a general altar call.

  1353. I'd like for some to say, you know, it's me,

  1354. just like the Knight that I answered the call and

  1355. decided I was gonna do what God had commissioned me

  1356. to do.

  1357. I came before everybody had wilt down.

  1358. If you're one of.

  1359. These people that I've preached to you and out you say,

  1360. you know what I need to accept the answer, and

  1361. what I want to caution you ed is this you

  1362. better accept it at you and get up.

  1363. And we better never have to preach or broach this

  1364. topic and gain for you, maybe for somebody else, but

  1365. you need to accept his answer.

  1366. Would you come in this alter area right now?

  1367. There was four of you that used your hand, and

  1368. there was a sister trying to raise your hand, but

  1369. you just couldn't do it. For when you come right

  1370. here and knee a money alter, don't let fear pressure

  1371. holds you back.

  1372. Everybody keep your head bow and eyes closed.

  1373. There was four of you that raised your hand.

  1374. I want to accept his answer. Are there any sisters tonight?

  1375. There was one of you started to raise your hand

  1376. and put it back.

  1377. Now, is there any sisters? And I see what I

  1378. need to do. I understand how out to live. I

  1379. surrender all. I surrender all. So let it be said tonight.

  1380. A month from now, two months from now, after disciplinary

  1381. action comes from sister Lauren, Brother Titus won't be a

  1382. to say she's not my mama.

  1383. Let it be clearer tonight, we've accepted his answer. In

  1384. a month from now, a month from now, two months

  1385. from now, when.

  1386. Pastor has to use the rod of correction.

  1387. The word of God, I'm not going to be easily

  1388. offended or get out of the will of God?

  1389. Can we find a place for parade right now? Just

  1390. say God, I accept your answer.

  1391. I don't know why I brought up the bass boat,

  1392. but there's been bass boats keep people from doing what

  1393. God called her the dude.

  1394. There's been jobs, hunting, opportunities.

  1395. Work opportunities, and illnesses, pet raises, relationships.

  1396. I heard a woman one time saying, if a guy

  1397. that looks like this comes into church, I'll quit God and.

  1398. Go with him.

  1399. Do y'all know what happened a guy that looked like

  1400. that came into church, she quit God and went with him?

  1401. Or how my heart breaks tonight?

  1402. Do you really suripulous?

  1403. I assume everyone here to that has a heart has.

  1404. Tuned into the voice of the boy. I trusted that

  1405. everyone is intently listening for what he has said to me.

  1406. And now that he has spoken, who would dare ask

  1407. him to say board on any subject or situation?

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