The Blessing Of Bankruptcy - Bro Jeremy Howell 10-8-2024

You mad direct hero attentions to the fifth chapter and

the third verse. Brother Nathaniel one Timothy, Chapter number six

and verse number five, Brother Jesse Matthew, Chapter number twenty

three and verse number twenty three. That's easy to remember,

isn't it, Brother Jesse Again, Brother Nathaniel one Timothy, Chapter

number six, verse number five and a Brother Jesse Matthew,

Chapter number twenty three and verse number twenty three, Brother Nathaniel,

would you read that first code text, my brother for

verse disputings of men a corrupt minds and destitute of

the truth. Supposing that gain is godliness from such withdraw thyself.

Supposing that gain is godliness from such.

Withdraw thyself.

That sounds like a financial transaction right there.

Of withdrawal, much pull back, pull away from now.

They weren't gaining the things of God.

They weren't growing in grace and in the knowledge of

the Lord's Savior Jesus Christ.

They weren't going on unto perfection.

These hypocrites thought that because their bottom line.

Was swelling so big, they were blessed.

These hypocrites were blessed financially, and they supposed that their

financial prosperity meant they were blessed by God.

Now, brother Jesse, would you read Matthew chapter.

Number twenty three and verse number twenty three.

What would to you, scribes and pharisees hypocrites, where do

you pay tithe.

Of men and needs and coming and have admitted the

way to your matters of the law, judgment, mercy, and faith?

These ought you to have done and not to leave

the other undone.

So these were wealthy men.

These men had prospered financially, They were doing well in

the world. God had some men that he calls to

prosper namely Abraham.

Joseph, Solovan David. But these particular men, they were not

prospering because of the blessing of God.

We know that the Bible said promotion comes from the Lord,

but not always for.

Every person that promotion and prosperity comes from the Lord.

Sometimes it comes from Lucifer.

To simplify, for our young adults and our young people.

Do you feel like Elvis Presley's prosperity.

Was of the Lord?

Do you feel like the blessing financially upon Taylor Swift.

Is the blessing of the Lord.

All of the saints of God that are educated in

the Word of God are shaking their heads right now

and saying no, So what is the problem. There's an

attitude problem. And we're gonna look in the be attitudes.

And this word be attitude also means blessing. So if

we're gonna look into the Sermon on the Mount that

Jesus preached, and we're gonna look at our golden texts

Matthew chapter number five, verse number three, which is stand

for the reading of our golden text. The Bible said,

blessed are the poor in spirit, for theirs is the

Kingdom of Heaven. Notice it does not say it blessed

are the poor.

I'm thankful that those two words are behind that statement,

blessed are the poor.

Hold on a minute, now, there's more to.

Be said in spirit, blessed are the poor in spirit.

Let's pray Heavenly Father, we love him, We praise you.

We thank you for the blessing of bankruptcy. We thank

you for the privilege to be in your house. I

thank you God that we can be gathered together even

on the eve of the visit of Milton.

We pray that even now you would dissolve.

That storm, send it away from all of your people

and all of your children.

Just let it dissolve right there.

In the gulf of Mexico. We ask for mercy for

all of our.

Brothers and sisters, the children of Adam and Eve, and

also the children of God, all of our brothers and sisters,

both natural and physical.

Lord, we pray that you would help this.

Thy servant set of guard at my mouth and help

me to say the things that you would have me

to say, nothing more or less, and annoying the ears

of this thy people, that they might hear what the

Spirit of God says. Or to the Church tonight through

the preach word will give you the praise, the honor,

and the glory in Jesus's name.

And the church said, Amen.

As it being a seated look at your neighbor and say, hey, neighbor,

are you bankrupt?

I hope not, he meant. Our textas found in a New.

Testament book of the Holy Bible. The Book of Saint

Matthew is the first book of the New Testament, and

the title bears the name of its author. Matthew, also

known as Levi by Doctor.

Luke, had worked for the Roman.

Government as a tax collector, and there's no doubt him

doing such a thing would have put him in odds

with the Jewish people whom he would have met, and

also Brother Nathaniel, those people he would have conducted business

with him. I believe that Brother Road, those Jews that he.

Faced on a constant and daily basis, would have despised him.

I know the sister Irishwoodness to Charity Howell are not

at all happy about going to the tax collector's office.

I've heard them talk about that before over the last

seventeen or eighteen years, and so we know that this

man Matthew would have been despised by those people that

he wanted to be a have to buy. I know

that he was probably blessed financially, and the blessing didn't

necessarily come from the Lord, and the promotion that he

received did not necessarily come from the Lord.

It came from the Roman government.

And as a result, most of his people, including his

kindred friends and family members, would have deemed him as

a trader, a treacherous person, someone that could not be trusted.

Perhaps he was a dishonest man prior to his calling

and his conversion.

Brother Nathaniel, I have no doubt at all that this

man was familiar with the.

Phrase of being poor, I'm poor.

He would have heard it a lot of times. I'm

sure that he was familiar with the word of their

day that meant bankruptcy. I believe he looked.

At people with stern consternation and he said, what you

don't have the means to pay your bills?

Pay that now.

Ost He could.

Even say, the faith.

Healer, the miracle worker that's out there, you know, the Messiah,

the on't so many people perceive to be the son

of God would tell you.

You better pay your bills and that you better give

to Herod.

What is Herod's And so this man could have preached

a sermon of finances. He could have hosted and held it,

held a financial seminar. Brother Nathaniel, I think about this

man a lot of times, and I think about his

conversion and what a true conversion it was. The spiritual

metamorphoses that took place in the life of Matthew, his

second to none, including that commersion of the great Apostle Paul.

When I think about this man, Brother rogue Cap, I

think about him being merciless and how he would demand

payment of those that had bills to pay.

Brother Rogue cap.

Whenever Matthew dealt with somebody concerning monetary transaction, I.

Believe he meant business. If he had to call in

the centurion.

A Roman soldier to come in and use the strong.

Arm of the Roman government to enforce.

Payment, that he would do that if it was necessary.

This man wouldn't have been sensitive and all to somebody

that was experiencing something such as bankruptcy.

We see that this man handled monetary.

Transactions on a daily basis and on a constant basis.

I'm sure he is a tax collector.

Hurt. Many people cry, hurt. People talk about.

I can't allow my child to go to a work

camp in order to pay that that is due. I'm

sure it took the census of that town in which

he worked, and he also demanded payment of those that

reported and those that he hit out and refused to

report for payment.

Brother Nathaniel, this man thought change forever after that of

Jesus Christ.

In a moment, he made a commitment because of the call.

I know there's a lot of you that have relocated

simply because of that divine call. It was a clarion

call for commitment and there's about eighty of you here

on Sunday morning, Sunday nights and Wednesday nights, when you're

altogether and you're saying, I'm committed to the calling, and.

I'm obedient to what God has commissioned me to do.

You see, after the Lord Jesus called Matthew out of

his occupation up to ministry, we never find where he

was concerned about going belly up.

We never find one time.

Where he was concerned how he would make ends meet.

We never find him going belly up.

And singing to the bottom financially.

After all, Jehovah Childah.

Himself, his provider, was standing in front of him and

offering him a new job.

I said a little while ago, there's some I'm a.

Businessmen in this area, three in numbers separately have offered

to buy out some of my properties, and they have

offered large sums of money to buy me out.

Now, I want you to know.

That sometimes that is quite enticing and tempting to do.

But if the spirit of neighbor is in you.

You can easily refuse such an offer. And I'm not

saying that the spirit of neighbor is in me. Concerning

spiritual things. The spirit of Naymoth is in me very

much so. But concerning earthly things, I cannot say that

they are priceless.

You have heard it said for years that the right

price will.

Excite the seller. Everybody has a sale price. That's true.

If your house is worth seventy five thousand dollars and

somebody comes.

By and offers you five hundred thousand dollars, don't be

hypocritical about this.

You will sell it and by two or three are poor,

just like it.

You see, the Bible, students and the readers in this

building will remember the words of Abraham when he spoke

concerning God being a provider.

Abraham spoke specifically and.

Directly to his son about determining us of Jehovah Jiva.

You will remember he looked at Isaac in a time

when he need a commitment from God, and he needed

payment from God, and he said to his son, Isaac,

the Lord will provide. Let me ask you a question

here tonight. Has anyone had a problem prepared for this

hurricane named Milton because of a lack of provision.

I have not had a problem at all.

Properly preparing for this hurricane. I've been amazed at how

advance we have become it being properly prepared for things.

Somebody asked cover to Rhon de Santis on Live a

couple of days, They said, are their fuel shortages in

those areas? And Ron de Santas said, I don't know

it of any The poor mis mayor said.

The same thing today.

He said, I don't know of any fewer shortages yet

the trucks are coming.

We've got plenty of.

Fuel in the reserves. Sister, how how many of you

know that the children of God never have a concern

at all?

The alarm bell never.

Wings concern for peason from Jehovah Childrah himself. Again, it

was Jehovah, child of persona pipe God, incarnate God in

the place Jesus Christ standing there with Matthew and offering

him a new job. And there's not one person in

this building that has told me past there I cannot

find something. Give it just a few hours a day

and you.

Will found exactly what you are looking for.

I want to tell you, as citizens of this city

here label Florida, we aren't blessed people.

I'm glad to not that I'm not living.

In Ethiopia and basing such a classicism as this, Sir,

I want you to know what card there's how the

storehouse of an abundance of supply for his childy provisions

on the ready, and provisions that.

Are easily obtainable and accessible.

How gonna have you turned into be true?

The provisions are really available in these United States of America.

Just about it a whole time.

When you see the world provision, there is awakeness world.

To every person in this building.

Even for the child of God.

They don't care for a lot of thought of the

prevision of tomorrow.

They see the little bird, how God pleads the little bird.

They see the spisser in the sea, and how God

provides her for that little fisher got a Nathaniel. When

you think about Solomon, her and all of his glovery

and splendor, the fields were clothes, better when the lilies

and the lavender than all of the bell to calsa,

the solemn re clute, all of their daughters.

If he is who he is, how many of.

You know that God knows how to provide for his.

Children, and better the Solomon and.

Dava that you have to provide us to their children.

You will remember that the sun of David Solomon here,

he grew up here in a solvent, and it was

talking about Jehovah child and his abundance of provision. And

his father wrote her these words. And as an old.

Man, I have been young, and now I'm all yet have.

I'm not seen the righteous forsaken nor his seed begging bread.

The identity of that sonister is the father of Solomon David.

It's no wonder than me that.

The children of God expected the blessings.

Of the land on every.

Hand, so including the biblical history and historical records, to

even nor Seeda inding the beggars having the streets that

I want to ask somebody in this feeling tonight, are

you a beggar? And I want to ask her every

person listening to me preach this message tonight, what do

we have any beggars in the house when it comes

to the teens to God.

I don't know, Charle, that I know. My heart is broken,

my spirit.

Is crusting that I think about the thanks the Cod's

people are missing out, that it is so easily obsessive

a lot, and really they're paying the ball that.

They just steel pard that they just ask for it.

They're just seething. They won't find it. You will have

any betters in the house.

You know what I feel like, It's still true blessing

of those who would.

Admit they need help.

We've got three preachers out preaching that are part of

the Metal Horness Church.

I heard from.

Brother Billy Rock today. He said, I start revival, didn't.

Tax the suit.

I heard from Real Johnny theremore. He said, I've been

preaching in the Kentucky.

And the Indiana area.

I heard from Better ask me today he said, we

tot of re Bible. They were supposed to start last night,

but because of the pandemonium and the pannic that ensued.

What's going on right now concerning the storm, a six

and a half hour drive turned to.

A thirteen and a half hour time.

Some of you that will remember what I preached on Sunday,

I've talked about a two week feature turning into a.

Forty year tempering tip in the.

Readiness what taking them to that.

God considered whenever they want you dead in the ruinines

seeing you here.

Out of the reel of God.

It was God's wheel that they inhabitake the time of

Slam within the burning tip, the crates.

That are thirsting with you with honey tripping down from

the rock.

I'm turning somebody in this den in the night, right

in the road.

It's my rule. Why were not pig We didn't need something.

Broad touch here and there's what you gotta do there,

even in.

The wilderness of the offered, people that.

Will try out if they will care for me, they

will tie out that if they need a man forever.

That they will try out.

There were needing us beggars in the hospital. They understand

the blessing, a night, lessay, the blessing the bankruptcy.

You'll talk somebodd you remember.

That Jesus full fault. We are members of a certain church,

the prophecy. It was spoken that you say you're rich

and you're increased with goods.

Then you have need of nothing.

We't have a need.

They're not Pentecosta and holiness churches for people to be

able to walk here they do prayed.

Over and they have their seakless steel. Then we're still

having need for the producta to come here and still

feel invent in the house we've talked to realize we

are needing people less a poor his spearit for such

his the teetum of heaven and the blessing of bankruptcy,

the blessing the bankruptcy.

Well, I'm too arrogant to ask for anything.

I'm too proudful to beg You will remember that man

there was asleep with.

His family and brother Jesse. Well, he was laying there.

There came a knock on the door of midnight, somebody

looking for bread. And you know what, because of their

continual coming, they're constant coming, and they're constant knocking. He

opened the door and he gave up him what they needed,

Brother Jesse.

I look at young people in.

The in this and pedecostal churches, and dads and monster

in your churches as well. Then they come to churchill

as though they don't need to be saved, as though

they don't need to be sent to talk, as.

Though they don't need to mean to you. Hevery you,

you will holy gust that they would come here broken.

They're spiriting.

He they wing reading us stead I'm broken there, and

be honest with God, He gone out goding.

Not bestives such an attitude.

Now that's there are such when they're coming here, look

saying I've got everything that I mean that, Oh, come on, now,

it's indicative that they've got nothing at all.

I want to ask the.

Question again, they would have any beggars in the house.

Did you know that you had to be a beggar

to qualify to enter the Kingdom of heaven.

I just want to say, not that.

Your kicks that look at that, go and text the

you have to be a beggar to qualify to enter

the Kingdom of heaven. And so Abraham, he's looking for

an answer, he's looking for solution. He's missing and for

an answer, and he's missing in for solution.

And you know what the solution is.

A meet sacrificer, a living sacrificer.

Why and why do we not present to our broken

self in an altar, A live a sacrifices under God.

That's how we serve God, the spirit.

The truth, reasonably represent it to him every service we

come here the best meaning people.

I don't know not to, but I'm holding out for

all of God.

Our evangelis are telling us, and our missionaries are telling

us as well as our pastors. They're saying, the problem

is they're still hungry. You see, if somebody's not hungry

they won't beg. I know I'm not at all interested

and getting a ten by fifteen cardboard sign and righting

on it. I'm hungry, please help. I probably have a

little too much of the wrong kind of pride to

do that, or maybe it's too many morals and too

good of a work ethic.

Before I beg.

In that matter, I'm gonna be for it. I will

need a child and the dollar splitting can't burious.

There's a lot of men who are causing their families

the summer because.

They do right. They want to do the chancer.

They're needing a test. They want to be the millionaire.

They want to be the millionaire.

Listen, elon must but tell you you will.

Never get there.

They muss your pay off there alass try then that's

the same jesusnool, I ainvite you.

Rush he just stay up, try, porters.

I'm getting it.

Do whatever you gotta do to get it.

Get that paper, get that promise, get that bread, get

that answer, get that miracle.

I won't let you go.

Tell you bless me.

That's the spirit of tacer.

I'm broken.

The's a planning the deceived with spirit, it's broken.

I can no longer and manipulate my way into a

business deal that will cause me the presper tight actually

or monetarily.

I need a blessening.

Let this figger than my financiers.

I'm telling you there's a lot of business being commit

suicide because of the blessing of their financiers, who are

not enough. Where the United States government the side of

that that they would spirit up the dimensions of the titans.

Of earlier America. You know what, the crush the hearts

of the spiritual or some of them me in it's

a monopolize and took the.

Man a the little man, come on now or you

in this house? Who did not They left their brother

and the sister in the streets.

Begging all that passor won't come on now? Her pass up?

Paul he sent me in, would shut up their paws

a compassion.

And not be moved at all to help somebody else

you lead.

I know some of you have your mind on the store.

I can feel a lot of tension, and I wish

to get your iron on the Lord.

You see a liver la.

Yet they hold me out of the house of bread,

sitting there as a beggar. But he was begging at

the wrong door. Somebody should walk out of the doughnut shop.

They should walk out of.

The bread house to go to momapp and beg and

try to find a better life.

I've seen young people, sister, walk out of the father's house.

They walk out, were pleady.

God divided it up to them. He allowed them to

keep the talents. He allowed them to keep their good manners.

He allowed him to keep the good work. And when

the world got done being parasitic, come, when the Lord

got done being toxic.

Come. The Lord had shuck and dry. I said, if

woman had trained and drive had heat him the polical sun,

he was not ashamed to go Viacca and say, oh, blesser.

And the servant just let me sit. Hen't care on

the steps as a servant.

And let the dead fill the crops.

Don't come on now stings.

He greed, He got her. They don't dica this tile prison.

I'm there, God can have me. That's you're right characteristics, you're.

Right virtues, He a right morals.

He a lot attitude and they can be a blessing

to gods.

And I'm talking and not about people. He's the wrong attitude,

A feeling of preaching.

Abraham looked at his son, and in essence he said,

let me introduce you to the provisionary.

It makes a way when there is no way.

Let me introduce you to our protector, the one that

shows up to our time of crissis.

Let me ask you a question. Has anybody had any

problem at all?

Feeding your family?

That's reason enough right there to praise the Lord.

You might want me feeding up real bad.

You might want me feeding them tongue of hawk, but

you know.

What, you're feeding them hair murder.

And you are feeding them better than most other kids

him the world are fit by their parents.

That's reason or life. The same that's came to when

he was saying he didn't have nearly what had happen

when he was old.

I want you to know, when you're young, you.

Take God for the meeting meetings, and when your old sister, Howard,

you take God for a real bye.

Every day than we come.

The won't tell about it.

You've never at our head down, they said, I'm holding

hold hold now.

You know how to praise dark night in a bad

jail for whatever lets you need, he said.

Some say I'm too ashamed to beg it's in the

Bible to beg I'm ashamed that's a problem concerning the

things of God because your hattiness and your haughtiness, your

heart mindedness is not gonna bring down Heaven's man.

I want to say that again.

There's something's out of.

Your reachs A little bit of valps him thereto the kitchen,

and he knows, Mama, it's.

Got the cookie jar on top of the cabinet tree.

And brother Jesse, even the step stool that's in the

kitchen will not cause him to reach high enough. The

sermon will not lift you nor wise to element. You

have enough to give in Heaven's cookie jar.

Then if you're bad, I said in.

That little baby bed true until Bama tongues, they'll cook

your charge down and hands him or heard, I'm cooking.

And that's what you gotta do, little broken steering. I

need something good.

I know what I need.

I don't have everything that I need.

I need so much more.

Than what I have.

Not one person in this church is working in the

corner because they don't have.

Enough to eat.

Provisions are really available.

And the church said, thank God, But if you look

at our.

Text again in Matthew chapter number five and burst number three.

It says, blessed or the poor and spirit for theirs

is the Kingdom of Heaven. This morning, early around seven am,

I received the text message.

It was a group message, and in that group.

Message, it was a text to one of our evangelists, Fossil,

and she said, Pastor, I need to be transparent with you,

going through.

Something for about four months. She said, I let them

motions her get the best of me.

But she said, I listened to that sermon you preach

her this past Sunday night about the clay collapsing and

god kitchen and collecting it.

And she said, before I even listened to it, I

had prayed and God dealt with my spirit.

And she said, I'm telling you our thought.

I listened to a little.

Bit of it and stop.

And she said, I listened to it to it is

entirely and it blessed me and it helped me.

She's going around the landside of her.

Husband and she's handing out her pools of heavenly manner.

On purpose to other people.

But here it was one of our ful time her

anglesses while saying her, Pastor, I have need of something

and Heaven's.

Manner came down and he wanted an Evangelis.

Said, have messaged me the last three to poll Mesa

and said, Pastor, we just want to come see Pastor

re when I come home. Past be lucky, just sitting

there for you.

They say it, and here a pastor preacher. They'll come

home now.

Even if you give it out, he's still like to

take care, I said, even if you're pissing it out,

he's still.

What she was saying as be poor.

But I've been begging for help.

And he came through.

He caught the claim as it collapsed. He collected, and

I feel the Holy ghost in this place. And I

was talking to somebody. I know he is the blessing

of bankruptcy. Well, I don't want to be poor in spirit,

it's okay to say you don't want to be poor.

I believe both of my granddaddy's had a great educations.

If I'm correct, they both became very successful in business America.

I can't say that either one of them handed me anything,

but maybe you know, they handed me a good work ethic,

and maybe they handed me in a desire to succeed.

And if nobody else was gonna do it for me.

I'm gonna do it myself, and that's enough. But the

men with an eighth grade education, they had.

A good work ethic, and they put food.

On the table.

My grandfather ormand Alvin Danter. He became the head of

his household. I think he had three or four sisters.

And a loving mother.

When his father is a drunker.

Decided not to come home, Brother Jesse, he had to

quit school and had to work.

He worked on a fish and motor, He worked in

bed Trump's.

He did whatever he could.

To make and living for his family.

Every time that came in, Brother Nathaniel went right back

down to his family. He was not selfish up until

the day he died. I was one of the most

unselfisher men that I've ever met.

You could ask John.

Rockapillar, what was the greatest joy a messing all that

breta sener that to you of your life. Listen, John Wilcome,

the teller who may live to be nearly you're one

hundred years old, that's who will find this.

No listen that dear, they're no received.

I said, it will always be saying there's no.

Blessing to give. And then receive. Yes, I can sit

out to Tony. They refuse the pree text that I

know you need me a give you need a hold

against the hill.

The same way, Well, they're gonna call their say, dear Blessing,

give you forgotna live, dear the man messen here it

come on?

Now? How many all a give God praise?

How many of the dear God takes so?

How many dollar save God?

I need you?

So?

Who said it, Solomon? That's is unquote so much to

your one thousand wives?

Who said it?

Daddy didn't I've been young and now I'm old, and

they ain't. No Jesse mights becon. But I will tell

you this, there are Christians. Jesus might if you would

that a becon.

I said a little while ago. Matthew never expected to beg.

Peter never expected to beg.

When you think about what Peter and Andrew and James

and John left behind for the sons, for Zebedee.

When you think about how many fish they left that

man a rich man, they left that man with a plenty.

Not taking anything for themselfs could the church say came out?

But at the end of the day, at three point

thirty in the morning.

Then at six.

O'clock in the morning, all the patterns that brother.

Cheerman can get down all us kneeds and say, God,

I don't know what you're talking to me about it

about bankruptcy. But if I need the bed for you,

the bliss of people.

Of method, I will bed.

If I've got to ask her for them, we'll receive.

I will ask for it. If I've got to seek

for you to bless them, I will seek for it.

I want you want to know.

It's not gonna rain down or out of haven and

taller in your laugher, You're gonna have to chase it.

You're gonna have to.

Get after it.

When I was sending out a list of hurricane tips

to you all yesterday, of the tips that I sent

to you, my favorite is this one have some cash

in him. And the reason why that is is because

Actor A hurricane has gone through. Amongst the after mass,

them atm machines are not working. Those that were functionally

spitting out money now they're refusing to regurgitate money.

And you can try to.

Force your card in there or you want to.

It's like force feet and the baby that doesn't want anything.

I don't feel like I'm having.

The force feet you are here.

It not seems like it's well received, But I asked

you to visit the ATM yesterday.

Or today before Milton comes. He's already taken a lot

of your money.

I know, in the.

Preparedness, he's took about four of five hundred dollars.

Of Sister Harold and I his money.

He's taking several hundred of your dollars too. I'm sure

the brother Nathaniel.

I know there's a lot of people in this building

would cash on him.

Maybe we ought to receive a double offer tonight. How

many of it took out more than you need?

Just in case?

Right, here's one and brother road Cat rated it today.

He'd come by the apartment and he rated it very well.

He walked out with a bariss significant summer money, and

he was smiling.

Bigger then than he is now. And if you look

at him, he's smiling by the bhica but right now.

And so if there's any poor people in this building,

I would be surprised.

God has blessed you all the same way he blessed

Peter and Matthew when Peter needed to pay the lord's taxes.

Or hey, what did he do?

And told Peter to go down there.

And cast applive that didn't even.

Have a bat on it into the sea, and out came.

The money needed to pay the taxes.

God never intended for anybody to walk around poor. God

never intended to anybody to walk away and the shoulder

and displailure or poorness or colary you and come old.

No that He also did not demand.

That every person prosper financially.

He said, blest to the poor in spirit.

I said, blessed a power in spirit.

But notice that Jesus isn't speaking about being poor in general.

How many of you have heard of the guitar picker

gold Dykes. I heard him in person in the Church

of God years ago. He used to be a Church

of God preacher. He was a modern day chet Atkins.

I believe he played with Atkins. He wrote a song

about being guitar poor, and that man probably.

Has hundreds of guitars.

And every time I listen to him singing, I know

he's mocking everybody because everybody knows that he has a

lot of guitars.

He's not guitar poor. And there's a lot of you

sometimes yet like you ain't got any money.

But when brother Richard Jacob gets done with you an

altar and also at to offer, and you really realize

you can.

Give a little bit more in the church, said amen,

And I love to see something that are seeking.

The Holy Ghost be felled, and I love.

To see him. Sister Howell, feel like I did this

morning at.

Three point thirty and six thirty. But Sister Luke, and

I could tell that God was letting me know. If

you don't beat that mattress off your back, then if.

You close your eyes and roll over and shake off conviction, you're.

Not gonna have the message for the hour, and you're

not gonna get the blessing that I have for you.

You see, Sister how Well saw her husband get blessed

because I had to seek the Lord.

The Bible did say, did it not seek? And ye

shall pine?

So notice that Jesus is speaking about the blessing of

bankruptcy in spirit again. I'm teaching a sermon the Holy

Ghost titled the Blessing of Bankruptcy. People today are so

much like the religious people of our Lord's day. They

suppose that gain is godliness. And I love to hear

crickets pleach. They suppose that gain is godliness. They are

self sufficient.

But according to my Bible.

That I'm reading my copy.

Of this Bible, it.

Basically says the self sufficient are disqualified.

If you're gonna be qualified to.

Go to heaven and to be among the people of God,

you have to depend on the Lord.

Again, I'm gonna say the self sufficient are disqualified. The

first Timothy check the number sixth and verse number five.

The Bible said, perverse disputings of men are corrupt minds

and destitute.

Of the truths.

Supposing that Caine is comliness from such withdrawal thyself.

Paul goes on to tell Timothy that god.

Iness with contentment is great gain. How many of you

feel like you're prospering in the Lord? I mean, all

you got is salvation, sanctification and holding this friend.

And people at the job said, what do you got?

What are you so happy about?

You're not driving a brand new catialoc escalating You're not

driving a brand new.

Tessel of pickup cyber trump.

You see.

Somehow, the religious leaders and religious people of the Lord's

day and the Apostle Paul's day, they've felt that their

abundance and excess monetarily was indicative that they were godly somehow.

But that's not so.

It can be so in the.

Case of Abraham, it can be so in the case

of David, it can be so in.

The case of Job. But brother Richard Jacob, it is

not always so.

It is not always the law. But it is true

that most.

Rich men develop such an attitude that they can barely

enter into heaven.

And that is easier for a cambell to go through

the eye of.

A needle than for a rich man to make it

to heaven. Are y'all seeing how this is our time together?

And so won't be unto them that are rich.

Won't be under them that are increased for goods, won't

be under them that do not have a dependency on God.

It would be better for you to be a better

in the.

Street like lasses.

It to be a lets me out sitting upon the

tory in a castle and having abidence. It's better to

be a burglar. It's broken in spirit. It's that broken,

his sister.

Who I play a true don't need to realize.

If I don't const covic, I'm bankdropt. And when you realize,

sir patma oh, the blessing of that brokenness. He a

blessing of the break mess. My thing recalled, take dots

a spirit from there?

Oh, I mean to God. I mean to God.

We need revival.

I need a hero. I need to be sake the time.

I need the Holy gas.

Ask the rich man a Lazarus, which one's faring better?

Now?

Ask the rich man of Lazaris.

Which one is firing sumptually every day of eternity? Now,

the one that's sit in the throng on a continue

on daily basis, or the one that barely scraped.

Eye day in and out.

I could tell you, brother Elijah, would tell you of

a woman that had broken us, and she scraped the

bottom of the barrel.

Every God, but she never read out because Jehovah, Jillah,

what's pranson?

Just put a little more all in that cruiser, Just

put a little more meal in that barrel. I said,

how your sister will never tell I come to church.

I'll scraped from the bottom.

Of the bara.

And I know kind of he saying, there was a

cake for me, There was.

A cake for the man of God. There was a

cake for my life.

There was a cake for my kids.

You should never come in here we are igging.

And say I got that old I to barrel, I

couse o over bad to come in and nothing.

I say, God, I mean going, I said God. I mean.

That's why the barrel, I believe, was almost empty every

day for that dependency. Oh come on, there's so many

people talks about self sufficiency.

How to disqualify you.

I got the Holy Ghost and it was enough to

master decad No, it wasn't.

I used to say, if I went two or.

Three days without speaking in tongues, I would be concerned.

One time Mother Boo used to was preaching and he said,

upon my twenty four hours without speaking in tones, I

would be in my prayer of closet, or I'd be

singing in a corner, or I'd be shotting the glories

of God until I got Refield there, until.

I spoke in tones.

Who not Heaven and r against her kin?

And I can tell you just about every day at

some point, and so they do stuff overshadows me and

I say thank you for showing up because I need

you every day.

You gotta have that longing.

That's what took me ONMI.

Back to the house of bread. You gotta have that brokenness.

You gotta have that brokenness. I said it through the

plesson a bank.

Weels you the person of coming to church.

You don't sister weep saying she said, I'm a holy

ghirlst sound.

That you said?

If I'm a holy ghirlst hog. If you don't watch

your portion, you're gonna watch out. I'm gonna you riding

over there. If you want to wait for that chopper,

I'm gonna get me up her and I'm gonna be

an over to deal. Then I can they say they

can't shout in a sad and say.

Hey, you'll come and see. They said, you take the

presser and to see us at Pylas time. I said,

there's been enough that the story has put my pot

in his hand, said, need to let us all that

please this man if who has said, what's at not

that you don't have to be.

At God's will and let you don't have to feel

the holy and that you're forget about what up?

Don't rest so for you hit two years.

Ago for you you know, not safety, no man, not

God put i't hold me right now, man.

Sat say.

You may put this way, you're.

This you destitute you know a deckd you're not in Look,

hold you talking, You're not nice. You to get pout, decessive,

you're Jesus if we want today. It's not that there's

not bred enough in the father's house. It's not that

there's a lack of provision.

It's a lack of reception. The blessing about repasy.

Jesus looked upon the attitudes of the Pharisees. Our brother

read the context, Matthew twenty three and twenty three, Brother Jesse,

you read that one. I believe Jesus looked upon the

attitude of the Pharisees and the scribes, and he noted

the spirit by which they gave. It was probably a

year ago I preached a message talking about that widow

woman that came in with those two, these two bites,

and I talked about how when she threw it it

made just a little trick on you call.

Y'all know what I'm saying. But when them rich men

came in and cast theirs in, what a rock as

it made? I said, didn't the Tilian worthly bird him

near that offeraty It wasn't a wooden boxer.

Oh, come on, I'm telling somebody even if there was

a wooden boxer, it would have been loud. And you

remember the title of that message, mother, low cat officer.

You'll figure it out before the end of the service.

But Jesus stood there and watching. I talked that night

about how he stood there and he had served on

how they gave. He watched for the spirit of the giver,

I said, I watch for the spirit on the giver,

and hear the beatitude of the blessing.

Is this?

It is more blessing to give? Then the received?

Come on now, he.

Said a sen or the park in spirit that where

it came here.

Say it looks I ain't kind of like to give that,

Lily can't say it. Let's cut out.

Let me call you who you come to churchill do

ought to give him everything?

The truth got it the chooses such she acting in

your mind because she was told in spirit she was

poor in spirit.

I love how Jesus himself, Jehovah Jirah is the great equalizer.

Where it takes the Rockefellers, and it takes the little missionaries,

and it equalizes. It cuts them down the size. It

cuts down the susos and need to be cut down.

Then it raises up those that need.

To be raised up. Jesus is the equalizer.

The Bible said, try the spirit to see if it be,

Oh God, And that's what Jesus was doing. He was

sizing up to give. They had sized up the gift

that he was sizing up to give.

Listen, Doc cat.

Tipper to give two hundred thousand.

Dollars, it ain't not mean anything more than a willow

that they're to plant.

The spirit.

Blessed or the poor spirits?

And what does it take for you to be broken?

Apparently it takes the rich.

Man a lot more to be broken.

That's the danger of relying and depending upon richness.

They're the trust in the richness. They're the trust in

abundance of things that they possess. They said, a man's

life does not consistent abundance of things that he possesses.

Oh my God, I'm heaven up to the Holy Girl

Center's place. My life consistent us Us. And because we've

got you Jesus, we have contentment. Right doesn't Jesus satisfy

all things?

You see?

When that spirit agreed is raging inside of a man,

he k will double cross his best friend. He would

be as crooked as a snake. That was one of

the problems that the US government had with John Rockefeller.

Although he was a devout Baptist man, huh, he was

crooked as a snake. Although he would put a triumph

of alcohol to his lips, he was as crooked as

a snake.

He was buying the country.

Brother Nathaniel, brother Jesse knows that I'm a student of history,

that I love history.

And we were talking and I was just shooting from

the cuffs. Sister had his sister Rachel and sister Howard

witness to this. They were talking about Blackbeard, which his

name is Edward Teach, and he was.

From Bristol, Tennessee now Bristol, England. And I said, that's

where George Mule where it was from. You got one

pillaging pirate from Bristol, England.

It's taking stuff that wasn't right to be his.

And he was working for queens and he stole a

ship that didn't belong to him, and he'd say something

like this. Upon his death he went on to say,

only the devil. Then I know where the treasure. But

then you have for George Miller, who himself had been

a homeless boy on the streets. I told him, brother,

the thing you brother Jesse, I said, look it up,

he too is from Bristol, England, I said. The difference

in the spirit. George Muller saw a little boy run by.

He was stealing to eat. And you know what the

Bible said about that one. You show that one a

little bit of mercy. But he's remembered. But he was

stealing to survive at my breach, stilling to survive. But

he started the orphan and chow many you're familiar with

Jordan's willing and orphans. And he would pray, and sometimes

he would set the table when there was nothing coming

in sister him and and he would tell them to

school barbs and tell all them butlers them maids, that

was working in an orphanage, he says, set the table

and let the children know nothing about the fact that

we have nothing in the pantry.

And then when the lunch bell ranged, they brought.

Them fifty and a hundred and two hundred and three

hundred kids, set 'em on them benches, around them tables,

and the dean and the prince of his school, mister Buller,

god fearing man. Now the pillaging pirate god fearing man,

a man that was broken in spirit and total dependence

and humility. He bowed his head and thank God for provisions.

Every time it's on record, it's being knock at the door.

We got a special delivery from mister Muller and the children,

and they would take it in through the back, take

it into the kitchen and put it on the little plates.

Them kids never knew they got fed by God.

And I feel a sweet spear of God in this

place right now. Listen, Captain black Beard.

You don't have to steal to be blessed, and you

don't have to defraud. You don't have to take.

You can be a blessing to somebody. I feel God

speaking to somebody right here in this building, young person.

You need the Holy Ghost, young person. They that hunger

and thirst after righteousness. That's what we're broken about. We

need righteousness. A lot of full time evangelists use that

script for all the time you're hunger and thirst after

the Holy GIFs.

That's not what it says. The context is righteousness.

I want to be in right standing with God, and

I realize that my righteousness as filled through rags.

I need His righteousness.

And when you realize that your righteousness doesn't measure up

sys the how That's what takes the pastor to his

knees at three point thirty when he's tired as you are.

I was so tired from praying through the night that

before we left the house, I fell asleep. And Sister

how It will tell you that never happens. But if

you'll be broken, you'll be blessed. But the Bible said

if you don't be broken, he will fall upon you

and grind you to powder.

And I've preached us with a good spirit. But I

want you to know God is sizing up the gift

while the giver sizing up the gift.

You see, Jesus looked upon the addeditudes of the Pharisees

and the scribes, and noted the spirit by which they

gave Brother Jesse. Would you come to Canna. It wasn't

an empty spirit, sister Howell. It wasn't a bankrupt spirits

as to him, And it wasn't a poor spirit, sister Walker.

They came in with their abundance.

I'm full of myself, they thought, I'm rich, I'm increased

with goods.

Listen how loud it plays in the offering thing.

That futrid spirit of pride was manifesting its ugly self,

and Jesus despised it.

Brother LaRue tells a story on his brother.

His daddy with success was a businessman, and even though

his brother was a stay at home.

Mom, nobody knew what was going on in her heart.

And Brother LaRue said his dad was well to do

and could buy just about any house in any vehicle

he wanted.

In his pride, he owned a big ice house down

there in downtown Myrs.

Brother Geordie said, one day, mister a big lee O

LaRue took Barbara LaRue shopping and bought her.

The prettiest new car you ever seen.

Brother LaRue said, Barbara was known to ride it around

the neighborhood, just get in and take a drive.

Nobody understood why. Nobody knew why she would do such

a thing. Was she bored? Was she tired of her sewing?

Was she tired of her cooking? Did she just need

to get out? Did she just need some fresh air?

Later in life, once that spirit began to break and

old age began to settle in and got to think

it about her ways, she confessed to Brother LaRue and

his siblings something like this.

I got in that car to ride around the block

so everybody could see that was Barbara LaRue driving that car.

Didn't that sound?

And Brother LaRue listens to his mother, explained, I did

it out of a bad spirit. I want to sustaind

here tonight. God knows if you're doing it out of

a good spirit or a bad spirit. God knows if

you're doing it out of a pure motive or an

ulterior motive. I am full of myself.

I'm rich.

This kind of attitude, Brother Jesse provoked or recurgitating rebuke

our Lord Jesus.

He felt that these men were no different than.

The sons of Satan, a brute of serpents, scrubbed up,

cleaned tombs, and hypocrites. In fact, in that chapter in

Saint Matthew's Gospel you find where Jesus called him a

bunch of names. These men were faithful tithers. They gave

out of their abundance. They gave out of their pockets

and their gardens. Again, I say they gave out of

the pockets and their gardens. I've heard of men given

pastors their old SUVs because it's time for the business

to buy a new one if they were living this

day and hour itby. I'm going to give that young

preacher over there, my old it's only two years old,

my old benicle. It's not that he wanted him and

his family to have something. He wanted to get out

gay with the romotives. But Jesus said, the attitudes that

I'm seeing, they stink.

They are stinking before me. It's not a sweet savor

that I'm smelling.

He said, Folks, you're overlooking important matters like faithfulness, justice

and mercy. Sunday morning is the howl of family. The

Hawl tribe made our way to the House of God.

This would be something neat for you all to do.

I'm sure you have a family group message where every

member of that family is in that group message text threat. Well,

every morning on Sunday, they're little long around my house.

I used to play before we would leave for church,

gospel music, a certain soul.

Sunday's coming.

When now somebody within the high will trial will send

to that group message a song and inspirational their thoughts

that they woke up with that morning.

Another groupet family does this often.

Brother Nathaniel, Sunday morning not knowing what I would preach

in most services.

Sunday morning Sunday night, send us a beautiful song about

the mercy of God. And that's what Jesus. He said.

Guys, man, you're giving out of your garden and your pockets,

but you're forgetting faithful this mercy and justice. How many

in this building knows that Jesus will challenge the spirit,

and he will check the motive.

He will try the heart at first John four.

One is said, we loved believe not every spirit, but

try the spirits whether they are of God, because many

false prophets are going out to the world. Jesus wasn't

dealing with Kenneth Copeland or Kenneth Hagen or Kreflo Dollar

here or TV Jakes. Jesus was dealing with men and

worked into temple brother bot cap men that actually copy

verbade in the.

Word of God. He said, your heart's not right. It's

evident that the apostles of our Lord. Jesus believed.

That Jesus requires his people to be the poor of spirit,

bankrupt in spirit, empty of oneself.

And full of the things of God.

If you'll listen to people a lot of times concerned

in ministry. Here's what they'll say whether.

Bef never do that because of the sacrifice that requires.

It's like Brother Jesse with that nursing home ministry that

he's taken over that sister how and I started.

Sister Walker did for a decade probably behind us.

Now Brother Jesse's doing and we're proud of them who

we are, and so is Brother Philip or Brother Jonathan

and brother other These sisters.

Are going over and helping them.

Or Brother Jesse, I can tell you're tired a lot

of times because you don't get a napple Sunday. You

have to eat something real quick, go to nursing home

service and come back. Sometimes even preaching, I want to

ask every person in this building are you involved in

some kind of ministry?

Are you involved in some kind of ministry?

Because if you're not, you need to check yourself because

what it is we're scared of the sacrifice.

That was my greatest concern, what God called me down.

It was sacrifice that wouldn't soon follow. What did I

get myself into? How will I provide for my family?

And I want to say it again, God doesn't expect

you to give your baby's milk money he doesn't expect

you to fall bankruptcy.

What do they call that? Chapter thirteen? And following is

a chapter eleven? Right? Something like that? Follow thirteen is

the Garden's can chapter eleven, something like that.

I don't want to be pastor of a bunch of

people that are just pouring or broke and looking for handouts.

But when it comes to coming to church, I would

love to see young people and young adults and moms.

And Dad's getting us all to right now, just like

sister moving his sister.

How's been doing tonight? And just say I need more

of you, Lord, I need more of you. I admit

there was nothing in the world like that night I

got the Holy Ghost. I've been telling the Lord here lately.

How is to those that receive the Holy goost of

witness such wonderful manifestations of the glory of God? How

is it that they forgot that that was the greatest

thing that ever happened to them? How can the love

of money.

Get them again? How could greed get them? How can

thus get them?

The best thing that ever happened is receiving the Holy

coas salvation.

It's wonderful, It's the best thing that ever happened sanctification.

I wants to bow our heads right now. Is there

something in this building, he said, Pastor, it's the eve

of Milton Strick in our area. For he'll hit somewhere

between Tampa and Front Myers and we'll be on.

The right hand side of it. But I came to

now bankrupt. Admit. I need more of you. There's about

five of you that quick.

Is there anybody that would say, you know what as

that widow put down, I'm gonna come down and slide

in the altar and I'm gonna tray a wall. It's

not gonna be five minutes. I'm gonna tray and say, God,

I realize what I need is more of you. There's

some kneeling, some gathering.

I want you to forget about the world, concentrate on him.

Forget about your brother and sister, forget about that property,

forget about those cattle, forget about all of those things

that were excuses and those people used for.

What they could do what God wanted to be doing.

And I want you to get along right now and

just kneel down. I'll tell you there's no great thing

that he from the table along the blessing of bankruptcy,

God out of it.

I knew something. I feel that emptiness that woman saw

that empty.

Barrel every day where there was enough, there's pender for provisions.

I believe there's two sisters and three brothers this very

night that you forgive.

All to God said, I was so thirsty. I'm so hungry.

I've empty at.

Dot all thanks for this world and not see.

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water short fill me on ground.

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of mind. I will change now.

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but there is walking long.

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