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Living For The Giver Of Life - Bro Jeremy Howell 7-24-2024

Bethel Holiness Church - Wednesday Night Services

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  1. Amen, Praise the Lord. I too, thank the Lord for what we

  2. have been feeling around this place tonight. It has been different. I'm sure

  3. some of you are still recouping from the meeting. I hope you've been able

  4. to rest. I'm sure those of you that took off for the meeting have

  5. been back on the grindstone, turning that wheel just three hundred and sixty degrees.

  6. You're walking away from the job, only to return there again the next

  7. morning three hundred and sixty degrees. It's just the same routine, the same

  8. routine for you homemakers as well, the same routine. But I know those

  9. of you that took off for the meeting and had to go back to work,

  10. and I know you must be tired. I do ask you to pray

  11. for me tonight. The Lord does not do this to me very often,

  12. but thirty minutes prior to this service starting, he whispered into my heart something.

  13. Now you preachers know what that means. So I'm relying totally entirely upon

  14. the Holy ghost and for those that are looking to criticize and find fault,

  15. we always totally and entirely rely upon the Holy ghosts to help us it's His

  16. words and it's not our words that we want you to hear. And I

  17. want you to know though, what I'm saying is there will be very few

  18. notes tonight, so we will be depending upon the Lord. We always depend

  19. upon the Lord, and we never leave leaning heavy on the notes anyway.

  20. But I believe God is going to speak to somebody in this building tonight.

  21. It's not that I don't not have other things to preach. I have plenty

  22. of sermons that God has given me to preach, and I'm telling you they

  23. came straight out of the very from room of God, and I'm chumping at

  24. the bid right. I want to bid to preach them. But God wants

  25. to speak to somebody directly tonight. So preach a message the Holy Ghost titled

  26. living for the Lifegive for living for the Lifegiver. I will never understand why

  27. people struggle in serving the Lord. I will never be able to relate to

  28. that, because the night I got saved, it was easy right then and

  29. there, it was easy for me to serve the Lord. And Sister Irish

  30. Woot, you've been saved now over thirty years, thirty five years, as

  31. she says, she's never contemplated or considered turning back. I've been saved since

  32. October nineteen ninety three, and there has never been one second, for one

  33. moment in my walk with the Lord wherever I thought of turning loose of his

  34. hand and walking away from him. I didn't say there hasn't been trying moments,

  35. that there hasn't been testing trials. But I have never thought of turning

  36. my back on the Lord. What I do when I see people turning their

  37. back on the Lord? Our question, as Charles Spurgeon did, whether or

  38. not they really had genuine salvation. Seriously, I've got to where I just

  39. questioned that, because I'll say this, there is a spirit of righteousness.

  40. It's not our righteousness, our righteousness that's felt the rags, but it's His

  41. righteousness. And there is a spirit of holiness. And He will lead and

  42. guide us into all truth. And he will lead us into that spirit of

  43. righteousness, not self righteousness, but he will lead us into that right standing

  44. with God, and he will lead us into a holiness lifestyle. Because Jesus

  45. was not a hippie. Jesus has so many beliefs, but Jesus mandated that

  46. the believer be holy, even as his father in heaven is holy. And

  47. he also spoke to us of being perfect. Now, how did he speak

  48. to them about that? What did he mean? He was speaking of them?

  49. Would be being perfect morally? Right, being perfect morally. And I'll

  50. want you to know in the Book of First Corinthians, we find some sins

  51. that are listed there that are definitely sins that will keep people out of heaven.

  52. And a true Christian, a pure vanilla gray, a modified blue ribbon

  53. Christian, pure vanilla Christian, they will have no desire whatsoever to sin.

  54. They will not commit sin habitually, they have no desire to displease their Lord.

  55. And to be honest with you, it's really not even in them to

  56. sin, because the addemic nature is still there, but it is not the

  57. predominant nature in that individual, the nature of Christ. He becomes a new

  58. creature. And so I've got to the place where I just simplify and say,

  59. if they're struggling loving the world enough to do what he says, if

  60. they're struggling to obey God, if they're struggling to cease from sinning, if

  61. they're struggling, then I've just concluded they're not saved, And I'm not there,

  62. judge. I just know God's not the author of confusion. And I

  63. know that anybody that I've ever seen that I've had confidence in their experience.

  64. They may have been made in Christ for a little while, but after a

  65. year or two they became mature in Christ and they were able to walk in

  66. the spirit and not fulfill the lust of the flesh. I'm just telling you,

  67. God knows those that are His. How many of you ever seen a

  68. baby that was born that favored the Father? Oh, yes, there's some

  69. of you. Your child favors you, and God's children will all favor him.

  70. I believe it was Charles Spurgeon one time that was questioned because of the

  71. size of his congregation. He had quite a few members there, and I'm

  72. telling you, brother Jesse, that I guess the Metropolitan Tabernacle was quite large,

  73. and so because of the size of the congregation. Of course, there

  74. were just numerous people there from all walks of life, people with various occupations,

  75. people of various persuasions, and there were some possessors and some professors,

  76. and there were people that were being critical and judging the ministry of Charles Spurgeon

  77. and they said, well, you've got a certain amount of men in your

  78. church that we see down at the pub over the weekend, but they appear

  79. in your presence and in your church on Sunday. What do you think of

  80. that? Charles Spurgis said, they may profess to be Christians, but they

  81. do not possess Christ and their being. They may professor and proclaim to be

  82. Christians, but he says, I questioned that, and I would just say,

  83. they need to meet Jesus, fall in love with Jesus, and they

  84. will be drunkards. Drunkards no more, and drunkards no more. Let him

  85. that has sinned go and sin no more. And so I'm going to give

  86. you a little bit of the contextual basis of what God's been dealing with me

  87. from the thirty minute mark part of the service tonight. It's like God showed

  88. me that there's somebody in this building saying I'm having a hard time serving Jesus.

  89. Let me be clear, get saved. If you're contemplating and considering backsliding,

  90. you have not been saved anyway. It's not backslighting. I'm asking you

  91. right here tonight to fall in love with Jesus again. We're gonna preach a

  92. message the Holy Ghost titled Living for the Lifegiver, Living for the Life Giver.

  93. Brother Nathaniel, Romans, Chapter number five and twelve. Brother Jesse Romans,

  94. Chapter number five and fifteen, if you will turn with me tonight,

  95. beloved to second Corinthians, may I direct your attention of the fifth chapter and

  96. the fourteenth through the seventeenth verse. Did you enjoy the convention? Did God

  97. bless you in a special way? Oh? He blessed me in a special

  98. way. I'm sure. Did appreciate the preaching of the brothers. I appreciated

  99. all the singing, all the instrument playing, all the musicians. It was

  100. just all wonderful. Praise the Lord. Now we can recoup for the next

  101. six months and recover and do it again this time next year. Praise the

  102. Lord. Don't shout too loud over that we go from sacrifice to sacrifice,

  103. right from every act of selflessness to another act of selflessness. How many of

  104. you know Jesus wasn't selfish, He was selfless. How many of you know

  105. the Christian will not be selfish, They will be selfless? Amen? All

  106. right, Brother Nathaniel, Romans, Chapter number five, verse number twelve.

  107. Wherefore as by one man centered sin entered into the world, and death by

  108. sin, and so death passed upon all men, for that all have sinned.

  109. That is a powerful verse of scripture right there, brother Jesse, which

  110. you read Romans five and fifteen. But not as the offense, so also

  111. is the free gift. For if through the offense of one many be dead,

  112. much for the grace of God, and the gift, by grace which

  113. is by one man, Jesus Christ hath abounded unto many. Oh, I

  114. thank God for that one man. Oh, you're struggling with sin because of

  115. the abdemnic nature that's in you, because of one man named Adam, and

  116. because of one woman named Eve. That's why you're struggling with sin. But

  117. if you'll fall in love with the man I'm gonna preach about tonight, the

  118. one these two brothers just read about, you will have no problem whatsoever ceasing

  119. them from sin. Let's stand and read our golden text tonight, shall we?

  120. Sac of Coristians chapter number five, beginning with verse number fourteen. The

  121. Bible said, for the love of Christ constraineth us, because we thus judge

  122. that if one died for all, then we're all dead, And that he

  123. died for all, that they which live should not hits forth live unto themselves,

  124. but unto Him which died for them and rose again. Wherefore, hits

  125. forth know we no man after the flesh. Yang though we have known Christ

  126. after the flesh, Yet now hens forth know we him no more. Therefore,

  127. if any man be in Christ, he is a new creature. Old

  128. things are passed away. Behold, all things are become new, And these

  129. the verse follow. He does not say, and after I've had a few

  130. bumps in the road out backslide, after I've had a few bumps in the

  131. road, I fall out of love with Jesus. It does not say that

  132. the problem is people have not become a new creature, again, putting our

  133. focus on our golden text, verse number fifteen. And that he died for

  134. all that brought there all to make you love him, And that he died

  135. for all living, for the lifegiver, And that he died for all,

  136. that they which live should not henceforth live under themselves, but under Him which

  137. died for them and rose again. If you fall in love with him,

  138. you will have no problem whatsoever living for him. You'll have no problem whatsoever

  139. living for the one that died for you. I pray that you stretch your

  140. hand towards Heaven ask the Lord to anoyt me here tonight. Heavenly Father,

  141. you know it's been a couple of weeks since we preach for your Lord.

  142. Lord. I know that my voice is probably not gonna hold up without your

  143. help. Lord, would have several preachers come by this way, and we

  144. have preferred them, and they have done us a wonderful job and been annoying

  145. another. Lord, I pray that you'll give me the strength and the energy

  146. and the voice that I need to deliver this message tonight. But knowing this,

  147. servant of the Lord, I prayed nor said, I guarded in my

  148. mouth, and help me to say the things that you would have me to

  149. say, nothing more than less. And have not the ears of this my

  150. people, that they not hear what is the spirit of God says under the

  151. church, Not of our word God, but if your words lifegiver Lord,

  152. these words their spirit and their life. I pray that these sayings would not

  153. be in the mind only or gonna win one ear and out the other,

  154. but that they would go below the shoulders, saturating the spirit and the heart.

  155. I pray God that we would depart this place shortfully and not sorromply.

  156. And those that are struggling, I pray that they will leave full of life,

  157. because you came to give them an abundance of life. We thank you

  158. for that. We praise you for it, Jesus Nate, and the church

  159. says, Amen, look at your neighbor and say, hey, neighbor,

  160. I'm glad I'm in the house of God tonight. Amen. Our text is

  161. found in a New Testament book of the Holy Bible. Second Corinthians is one

  162. of my favorite epistles of the Great Apostle Paul. How many of you appreciate

  163. the Apostle Paul. I'm looking forward to meeting Father Abraham one day because I

  164. do revere him, and I hold him in high regard, the highest of

  165. regard, because he is truly the Father of the faith. But I also

  166. hold the Great Apostle Paul in highest regard, even though if you were to

  167. look at his resume, you would see a particular line item that has been

  168. scratched out, and it would read like this, formerly a murderer, I've

  169. done things that I am ashamed of but I still hold him in the highest

  170. regard as one of the fathers of the Early Church. One of the faralding

  171. fathers of faith is the Great Abraham, and one of the faralding fathers of

  172. the New Testament or Early Church, is the Apostle Paul. And we find

  173. here in this second Epistle to the Church at Corinth, we find that there

  174. is a gathering of believers, people that have been converted from paganism unto Christianity.

  175. Some of them, no doubt had ancient it to day is some and

  176. going on into perfection into Christianity, while others are fresh out of paganism.

  177. They stand here being participants on this new religion called Christianity. And some of

  178. them would soon find out that participating in a worship service is not enough,

  179. spectating is not enough. They would find out that they needed to have more

  180. than another religion. They needed to have a personal relationship with this Jesus Christ

  181. that the great apostles of the Early Church were preaching about. That's the same

  182. thing that we're pushing for here tonight. Among seventy five people in this building.

  183. A sense that there's between three to five that are not blood off born

  184. again of God. That with Professor and say, my relationship with the Lord

  185. is my primary relationship. I appreciate Sister Howell, her and I have a

  186. wonderful marital relationship. I'm telling you, if there's ever been soul mates in

  187. this world, Sister Howell and I are soul mats. If there's ever been

  188. a couple that was in love with God and in love with one another,

  189. and Sister Howell and I, but I want you to know that our life

  190. and our lostyles do not hinge upon one another. It was only this week,

  191. Sister Howell, when next door and she began to talk to the Lord

  192. about the burden of a soul. I wonder hem me in this building tonight

  193. find yourself at a midweek service and you're feeling guilty already because you have I

  194. talked to your Lord. I could ask you the question how long has it

  195. been since you've been angry? That some of you would say, well,

  196. this was only an hour ago. I was so frustrated and so angry because

  197. something didn't go away, as somebody didn't treat you just right. But I

  198. could ask the question, how long has it been since you talk to your

  199. savior. How long has it been since you talked to the substitutionary sacrifice himself,

  200. that one that activated Calvary's code and pushed you out of the way and

  201. said, I will pay that Siddick for them to be love it. That's

  202. the problem tonight for about three to five you don't really love him. I

  203. know you're stuggling to live for him. And because you're struggling to live for

  204. him, you can rest assured knowing this, you will not die. I

  205. want you to know you must first be able to live for him before you

  206. can have an assurance and a peace of life that you've got what it takes

  207. her to die for him. And there could come a time in these United

  208. States of America when people such as you and I have to die from what

  209. we believe. And so these Christians would soon find out that being like Paul

  210. and Peter and James and John, they're not playing church, they're not having

  211. church. They are the church. And whenever the sort of heroin was thrown

  212. out of this cavern and one of the pillars of the New Testament Church had

  213. his head cut off and he died as a murder. You don't change he

  214. died by the edge of Herod, saying they realize this is no game.

  215. We're not on a playground. Were own a battle felly. I'm sure it

  216. was very sobering for some to realize the very actor of what a baptism that

  217. could be a death sentence for some of the very active attending her local assembly

  218. with tons of god work gathered together could be a death sentencer for them.

  219. But you see, according to these two epistles, first a second Corinthians,

  220. we find that these Corinthian believers were excited about their conversion. And and I

  221. find where they were sending a text messager or writing a letter to the apostle

  222. Paul or some of the bishop or some of the leader of the church and

  223. saying, I am reconsidering. You know, most of these people were making

  224. their calling and their lesson. Sure they only can't de battered. I say

  225. that they tried to love Todder as much as he loved him. We know

  226. that's an impossibility for any person, even the spirit pill believer. But one

  227. of the things I love about the Holy Ghossa living in side of the believer,

  228. the spirit pill believer has an unbelievable ability to return dates her to the

  229. Giver of life, they're able to praise him adequately. There's a lot of

  230. times in what I'm struggling her during the time of prayer, that I seem

  231. to be tied in off her the horns of hell. To keep my focus

  232. hold the Lord, I ask the Holy Gursa to help me in a scene.

  233. I ask the Holy Gursa to help me sufficiently and adequately praise the Lord

  234. the way he deserves to be praised. When I start rehearsing, there in

  235. my spirit that in my inter being my Sarah, and even in my mind

  236. about the good things of God, most importedly, when I revisit Calvrin,

  237. that I can, Amason of Calbry, that I see her what my way

  238. done for me. I have been probable whatsoever and all pleasing Man, the

  239. life giver. How many of you a little while ago, these brothers a

  240. rich scripts and talk to about all people have seined now and how I people

  241. are have been in the grip of retalerance of delta. I'm gonna tell your

  242. I Falter about a message I preached her some years ago. Better Samuel Howell

  243. hit the altar. After that messager, I talked about it, this assassin

  244. that I won't ever in this building and know that the wages of sin is

  245. damn. You think you're a cooler. It's treating you badly. You're not

  246. treating yourself dead either, because the payday that you're gonna receive for those sin

  247. is dad. And I'm telling somebody tonight you need to stop taking it about

  248. yourself and start unsaving to treat your part the giver her alive. Ask you

  249. to pray for me tonight. I feel like God's gonna help us. You

  250. will remember Romans that said that all have sin that have fallen and short by

  251. the glory of God. Tonight, Sister how and I got to the church

  252. one hour and ten minutes early, only to remember that we had left our

  253. keyring at the house. He had to go back to the house. At

  254. about thirty five minutes later. We got here for the second time. We

  255. needed a key to the door. There was not one handset that was not

  256. locked. There was not one that open that was not locked. The building

  257. was sealed tighter, every door was shut, and every locker was turned in

  258. the lock and position. Now, then I watched you. Then there was

  259. a key that I could get in my hand man, and we unlocked each

  260. and every door. And I let somebody in this building the nerve the deal

  261. there has a steting to key her that will open here and unlocking every sole

  262. there. It will open there and unlocked it and that party temper, I

  263. said, down there, how's the starting the key to you? And it

  264. will come from you one day. There ain't gonna take that soul from that

  265. body. They've been opening up that body, and the soul will retain the

  266. God to be sized up, to be chuged. What will you be sized

  267. up? A guess her? What will you be touched or gifts up?

  268. You'll be touching. Let just look dear your life, you'll be touching.

  269. Let just a live of life you be touching? What just a btural life?

  270. I'm telling you they did about little world. It's doing a focus on

  271. the word of God. This ain't no shout, missles Din. I know

  272. that every person in this building has at some point sin. All all the

  273. inclusivity of that all half sin. But you'll notice the writer did not say

  274. all are sin, you nor any soul. All are constantly sinning. But

  275. they all must wake up in the morning expecting to be sitting listen. There

  276. is a holy wrath that he makes from her the body of God. There

  277. is a spiritual emotion that God feels towards the evildoer, towards the unrighteous,

  278. towards the rebellion, sir, towards the stunning, towards the wickedness. It's

  279. not only the hands of the of coursing doctor that God hates her. He

  280. hates the hands and the woman with holds praise there with hoods time, there

  281. will holds calling and is do here you realize we will hold down You're very

  282. real soul. God is upset. The miners said that God is angry with

  283. the wicked everything. Then all said, sidnel, we to lift up our

  284. heart. We're the hands somebody's withholding from God more than tith, more than

  285. praise, more than thanks, more than gratitude. You're withholding God's hand.

  286. God can move in your life, but you are literally pushing the hand of

  287. God away from your life. Then the sin will come reach towards me.

  288. You're withholding the hand of God from your life. Oh yes, their everlasting

  289. armor of God has them reaching down to route to the ration under to ration.

  290. Lets you know want care to the racing after generation. That's ours pistol,

  291. the hand of tad a way then a telling somebody to night. You

  292. ought to be thinking God, it's a soul, that he's not in hell.

  293. You want to be thinking God that you are not to experiencing in turn

  294. to death. He he loves you. Do you love him enough? Do

  295. you care about him? Jesus said, if you love that spouse for it,

  296. then you love him. You're not worth it. You need to be

  297. careful turning your nose up to God and that to like God. He's at

  298. that special significant someone in your life. God will never be known as a

  299. significant other. Good will always be known as the significant naught. And if

  300. you put him first time, and you seek him first, and you make

  301. him turstal. You don't have a marriage, not cheer Me and Charney,

  302. you don't have children, not cheer Me and Cheerny hat, then you are

  303. owing to touch on not Cherny they Tarny have. But I want you to

  304. know that we're not serving God because he's blessed us the way he has he

  305. has blessed us. I'm served to him because He's the giver a life.

  306. Love it the lifegiving little for the life Giver. Why would I not serve

  307. him? Why would I not live for him? Why would alcohol be a

  308. priority in anyone's life? Why would communication be a priority in anyone's life.

  309. It was a priority in the Corinthians life prior to their conversion. Prior to

  310. their conversion, they had issues such as this. Modern preachers have coined the

  311. terminology that one of their phrases is this, Cardinal Christians, there is no

  312. animal. You are either a new creature or you are not the creator power

  313. that David requested out. The Lord is still the creative power that every sinner

  314. requests when they come to the altar. The pressure be estreme as Kadred.

  315. David sent perish man with his supine and I shall be clean. And David,

  316. that have been writing the songs in twenty twenty four he is said,

  317. perish man with God's super and I shall be clean. Now I'm telling you

  318. some of you herbody picking about your soup, the Bible smoker of a pool

  319. of soper n my copet. You've got to want to be clean. I

  320. must cut somebody love here. Then, the reason why you're not living for

  321. the lifegiver is because you're not willing to body yourself. You gotta lose your

  322. right gonna. Jesus said, you gotta be willing to love me more than

  323. father and mother. And if you're not willing to do that, then you're

  324. not worthy. Peter was willing to forsake y'all to follow Jesus. The end

  325. result, we could conclude that his wife kept serving Jesus because we find an

  326. instance where Jesus was requested to go pray for his mother in law. How

  327. many of y'all feel like Jesus would have been praying for Peter's mother in law

  328. if Peter's wife had left the house. It's highly unluckily that missus Peter left

  329. Peter because he had been following Jesus. That I want to say, if

  330. you are trying to keep somebody and they're not willing to keep Jesus from he

  331. knew how to just left them walk away. You ought to learn this phrase.

  332. Trudball and good Reddy. Now that's what I'm the Hem was instructing of

  333. the Lord to do the haard. He's start going ahead at the ham that

  334. sin for they don't go road because that accidental and not mistaken should not keep

  335. you from lot time. I say when we do, y'all, Jesus,

  336. that accident, that a mistaken will not keep you from being who want to

  337. be a god? Well, I've got an unbeliever in his pause. It's

  338. an accident. I married him out of sin. So what if you love

  339. Jesus, that won't keep you from serving Jesus. If you care deeply for

  340. the one to die that you might live, that won't keep you from living

  341. for Jesus. I remember one particular Sunday afternoon, I had to make a

  342. decision. Is it Jesus or charity. I made the decision that's gonna be

  343. Jesus, whether charity goes with me or not. You see, there's twenty

  344. six reasons why I want to thank God tonight and then for Jesus, but

  345. they are not the primary reason. For those of you that tell went over

  346. your head. There's twenty six who are relatives of a mind direct deceit.

  347. My sister Howell and eyes in this feeling and nia that could have never been,

  348. and I steal would be in love who Jesus, just the whom you

  349. will remember this. Several years ago, I felt like God told me to

  350. ask the Methyl congregation and this was when we probably had thirty or so people,

  351. I'd say, can you say right now I am madly, lovely,

  352. crazy in love with Jesus. There were some in this meetle and a brother

  353. be fraid that could not do it. And I remember being shocked as God

  354. revealed to me their heart by them not being willing to say that. And

  355. then, of course there was something they said in the same way they sent

  356. it to their high school girlfriend when they wanted something. They told her they

  357. loved her just because they who wanted something. Let's leave it above little kid's

  358. heads. Are you not listening to me? That's the oldest lie. Him

  359. the book Girls said, he the man tells you he loves something because he

  360. wants something. I don't know whether that's t trauma that I want to tell

  361. somebody. I don't come in this den and tell her they give her life

  362. that I love him because I need a he he cause I needed the same

  363. thing I love how A cause that hon that conviction. Then't me talk to

  364. Nante the creator color may Man, who oh that I am, Well,

  365. they'reever hope to be. It's not because of my daughter and brother. That's

  366. because my brother say that he said these people could have heard discerning of Elijah

  367. held on halting between two pigeons, But elive to the prophet is not alive

  368. in their time period, and neither is he alive in our time period.

  369. And Apostle Paul that was preaching to the Corinthian people, he is not alive

  370. in our time period. But the messages of the ministers of yesteryear is the

  371. same connect as it was then. You see, these people were definitely friel

  372. and happy to be new creatures. They had been radically and gloriously transformed dearing

  373. their salvation experience. Jesus had rescued them from idolatry. Jesus had delivered them

  374. from disobedience and their burdens, their addictions, and their week and lost the

  375. house of more consequences, positive consequences of the blood bath or come on now,

  376. I remember seeing out it's being deliver They did not even have to request

  377. addiction. They can't have to request was help me to love you the way

  378. that I should and be lord of my life and the all of man of

  379. consequence of it. Wassap deliverates. Oh my god, I've never heard anybody

  380. just coming to the altar and saying God, what you deliver me from my

  381. alcoholism? Just primarily and get what they needed. Those that get what they

  382. needed, right, Sister Lutness said, over thirty one years, Lord Costa

  383. Hall was saying, right now, over thirty one years, Hey, we

  384. came the altar and said, I'm sick and tired the way that I've been

  385. living. That I need a change in my life and that will include a

  386. transformation. And the consequences of it were deliverance, the shage, the change,

  387. and the shackles were busting. That spiritual metamorphosis that took place was just

  388. as great as the natural metamorphois as it takes place when a worm becomes a

  389. butterfly, when a caterpillar becomes a butterfly. You see, these people were

  390. so excited about their newfound relationship with an individual that loved them, with an

  391. individual that could feel their pain, that could associate himself to their burdens and

  392. their cares and his life, and that he would give them an assurance that

  393. he would be with their present and every situation. I would label these people

  394. as being very zealous. Wouldn't y'all say that this was a revival church When

  395. you read these two epistles. You'll find that they were very spiritual. You

  396. weren't having to beg them to seek the holy ghosts. You weren't having to

  397. beg them to pray in fast. That's what happened when I got saved.

  398. The love for this world was gone right then. And there there was no

  399. coaching sessions from the pastor. There was no counseling sessions from the pastor.

  400. Nobody was having to handout offers to keep them coming back. Nobody was having

  401. to help me take my bill off. I'm telling you I could have slept

  402. under the bridge and joy the spenders, how the Lord, and enjoying the

  403. glories of God. There, My God, you're not getting yourself. The

  404. church is more than a social time, and the church it's more of the

  405. words just come from religious practice, from religious structor five you be throwing come

  406. to serve them every God that is the killer of our life. I thank

  407. Tod that I am no longer under the pit. Took the dam pray for

  408. me on. We got this thirty minutes before the service. You see,

  409. these precious people were gilt free, shane breed. They had been in temples

  410. where there was prostitution all throughout the corridors of those pagan temples. They had

  411. been exposed to homosexuality, they had been exposed to effeminine clear spirits, they

  412. had been exposed to all things that stubbornness springs, all things at rebellion brings.

  413. They had been idolaters. They in fact, it's almost toe curling when

  414. you read exactly from where these people came. And there's some of you.

  415. You come out of fundamental churches. Some of you come out of churches where

  416. you were taught the right way, and you act like you can't live right.

  417. The Bible talked about them being a great cloud of witnesses in that celestial

  418. city. And you say, I can't live right. I don't want to

  419. live right. I'm struggling living right. The devil's fighting why I'm living right?

  420. There aren't they're saying, oh, you ain't God's child, because make

  421. no mistake of battle that we never wrote it to napota an effect from the

  422. faith. So this is a zealous church where there's family gathered and they're enjoying

  423. toe tapping services. Jesus Christ himself singing him. They're singing in themselves and

  424. songs and hims and spiritual songs. They're singing and making melody in this power

  425. pact and spirit feeling and spirit led church. And after looking through these two

  426. epistles, though, Brother Nathaniel, I see that the apostle Paul had noticed

  427. that they had fallen into a trap of comparing themselves to others. You can

  428. point to your coworker and say they profess to be a Christian, but I'm

  429. living better than them. You need to stop focusing on you're co worker and

  430. even that person sitting next to you on the teo. Because the Boble said,

  431. when you compare yourself by yourself, you are a wiser in doing so,

  432. because you're supposed to put yourself to the powder that on the water good

  433. and teases himself. So these zealous Christians began to compare themselves to others,

  434. and they seemed to find themself training their eyes upon others who they were churching

  435. with. When the church would gather together, perhaps somebody that had been recently

  436. saved from paganism had come in. They would look around and Brother Jesse,

  437. perhaps there was somebody that was not blood ball, blood washed. Oh,

  438. come on now, and they would see the way they were dressing and the

  439. way that they were acting, and they would want to line themselves up.

  440. We got or perhaps they would say, well, I'm good enough because I'm

  441. better than them. That's why a lot of the nominal churches that call themselves

  442. holiness have come to It's that mindset and that methodology. They feel like because

  443. they're better than the Presbyteria or the luther or Lutheran of the Catholic. They

  444. feel like because their Church of God or the Assembling God or independent Holiness,

  445. that they must be okay, Oh my God in Heaven, you can't disregard

  446. the words of the Bible and point as somebody else has pussle. Example,

  447. they say, because they're better than them, you're okay. You messing yourself

  448. by the Bible. I thank God for the mere ministry of the Bible,

  449. and I read the Bible. It's better than a looking glass that shows me

  450. my neighbor. I'm telling you, the mere ministry of the Bible. It's

  451. better than you minded yourself and compare us with a neighbor. Well, I'm

  452. no longer having a six pack. Now I'm only having one. Get saved.

  453. Well, I'm no longer smoking a whole bunch of joints. I've just

  454. spoken one on the weekend to b better, get saved, get born again,

  455. while no longer drinking eventually and getting drunk. I'm having a social drink

  456. just so I want to stick out like a sore thumb. Get saved.

  457. You see those people begin to look at others. But may I say,

  458. when one begins to look at others and they begin to base how they live

  459. their life by what they see others do, and they're as soon to be

  460. a problem. That's one of the things that a lot of pastors have missed

  461. today. They look at the Holiness Church Houp the Road and the Nominal Church

  462. of Hop the Road whenever they had seen them in the Chicken House on Sunday

  463. afternoon, and they say, well, I'm glad I'm not like this song

  464. that's the prayer of self, not sus percy. I'm lied on my like

  465. that way. We must be doing something right. No, if you're doing

  466. it, we're doing at all. I don't care how they're doing it.

  467. Huh. Well, Jesus, I feel the Holy Girls are out there.

  468. Look at your neighbor and say, hey, neighbor, don't ever take your

  469. eyes off of Jesus all right, and take your eyes off of that neighbor.

  470. That's how these people got trouble. They got to looking at their neighbor.

  471. It is true that some of these people developed an inferiority complex heaven,

  472. if you've ever seen somebody dealing with that, dealing with an inferiority complex is

  473. definitely a very serious issue to have to deal with them. But we're also

  474. tying there's some spirit filled believers that are just speaking in tongues insistently to the

  475. point that you can't even hardly have a normal worship service that's in order.

  476. And yes, it is true and at times somebody is speaking in tongues.

  477. It can be in order, but it can also be done out of order.

  478. The apostle Paul and set things in order. He said, I speak

  479. and talk to Lord than you are. But you will ply that he did

  480. not leave us an epistle with a bunch of chimber jabber or a bunch of

  481. heavenly language. There the sipper ones in the church, for those that are

  482. saved, cannot understand. Oh, come on now, I'm telling you you

  483. can have her a superiority disorder. We can see right now that there are

  484. people. They're so good and they're so holy, it doesn't matter what the

  485. Bible says. They're pointed brother Nathaniel, their pointed sister Rachel, and they're

  486. calling it holier than now. But these people must be even home there,

  487. the mother Nathaniel, her sister Rachel, because they can live locked and they're

  488. well, and supposing that still be saved, that live locked to dead rock,

  489. but still they sanctifiy live lo to them and still be stupid. Here

  490. they must need us up, not just peosees the holier than mine. No

  491. requirement for sacrifice, no requirement for humiliation, no requirement for hubility, a

  492. superiority superiority disorder. We can see right here the formation of the Big Eye

  493. and the Little U club. Right here in this book we find the clique,

  494. the Big Eyes, and we find another clique, the Little Used,

  495. And they get in that trouble because they get the minds off of Jesus,

  496. and they get their eyes off of Jesus, and they're tall out of love,

  497. some of them, not all of you, but they're falling out of

  498. love with Jesus. Listen, the reason why we continue to stand for holiness

  499. the way we do is not because it makes us popular, not because it

  500. makes us feel good. The other night, in praying for some of them,

  501. that I had to stand for holiness in front of Brother Nathaniel witnessed me

  502. weeping. There's not many times so that I have walked away weeping, but

  503. that particular service have wept for their soul because I realize they believe the lie,

  504. and a short delusion has come upon them, and they feel like just

  505. because they're better than most or better than some, they must be okay,

  506. oh, come on, now, you're better than some and better than most,

  507. it's not enough. Our righteousness is as filthy. Right, well,

  508. we must be doing something right. Because we have the word holiness on the

  509. marquis. We must be doing something wrap. Because we had the word Assembly

  510. on the marquis. We must be doing something right because we had the praise

  511. or the name of the organization Church of God on the marquis. That does

  512. not mean anything. God could have put an inscription over holiness all that marquis

  513. assembled, that God Church of God, Presbyteria luther Church. God could have

  514. put an inscription over that that says it could God? And if God's the

  515. only one that sees it that the hand ritting is on the side or the

  516. handwritings on the wall, and nobody else can see it, but God nevertheless

  517. it is written. So, sister Root. Some thought they were better because

  518. they possessed spiritual gifts. But if they didn't have a holiness lifestyle or a

  519. separated or a sanctified lifestyle, if they weren't living righteous lives. For those

  520. who despise the word holiness, some of the nominal churches despise the holiness people

  521. using that word holiness. And for some of them that despise the word holiness,

  522. let's just say for those that despise righteous living, for those that despise

  523. sactified living, for those that despise being set apart, those that despise being

  524. separated. Hey, they thought they were better than because they could speak in

  525. tongues. They thought they were better than some because they had spiritual gifts.

  526. How many of this feeling possessed spiritual gifts? Quite a few of you do.

  527. I've seen that. I've seen them, manfest Thank God for them spiritual

  528. gifts. But do you know why you were giving them spiritual gifts to glorify

  529. Jesus had to help the church had to advance the kingdom and to praise our

  530. Lord and to be a blessing to other He gave it to us, didn't

  531. they. He gave them to us. We didn't give them to ourselves.

  532. The kids that we possess are for us to be a blessing to others,

  533. not only to ourselves. That's why we live holy, because we want to

  534. be a blessing to others. Well. The gable that some of these people

  535. were feeling like as long as they had it, it's enough. What God

  536. knows my heart, God knows I talk tongues God. But does that little

  537. boy know that you're chind of God? And you love that little boy not?

  538. But before you think about that, do you love your Jesus enough?

  539. We're gonna listen, no brood of Jesus flowing and when ne Us, no

  540. holy goes showing. Joseph had enough integrity not to disappoint his time. David

  541. had enough integrity and righteousness to feel guilty, although he lost the king and

  542. could have covered his sad so deep that nobody would have cared. That's all

  543. tid it. But Davis are creating me a clean hole, thank God,

  544. and renew a rock spirit within me. I'm not trying to prove it on

  545. the steer Outlet be within me. And if you've got it within, you

  546. have a sap on that steering. Brother Johnny Larrymore took a crack at some

  547. of y'all this past week. Brother Timothy Grant took a couple of cracks at

  548. y're in this past week. I was going in a different direction today,

  549. and God's put to me thirty is before this service started to life. He

  550. made it clear to me in six months time you want him to be in

  551. church if you don't fall in love with Jesus. In one particular instance,

  552. there was a time that people's speech betrayed them, and several different instances and

  553. accounts. One account in the Old Testament sibil Eth or shibil Eth, and

  554. then also Peter, while warming his hands by the world fire, so to

  555. speak, his speech betrayed him. When you're on the job, it tells

  556. people who is your God, and it tells who is your father. Then

  557. it tells who you belong to. Now I'm a feel liberty of my soul

  558. and preached to you tonight. God gave you them spiritual gifts, So why

  559. are you having a problem living for him. If he is the giver of

  560. gifts, and he's liberally gave them to you, then why in the world

  561. would you be struggling to serve the Lord If you're such a possessor of the

  562. gifts. It's because you ain't really packing it right. It's because you're a

  563. professor and not a possessor. Because it doesn't matter if you're going to Nero's

  564. chopped block or if you're going to the ace hardware in the bell, you

  565. will have no problem. What's so, whenever you live and die, you

  566. will have no problem. What's on a standing call for Jesus. If you're

  567. a child of God, it's time that we settle it right here, Brother

  568. Grant said Sunday night, it's time that we stop doing things backwards. I

  569. said it a little while ago. Most of them that got born again didn't

  570. come down here and say God, I'm having a hard time putting bilk in

  571. my baby's bottles and filling the basket full of baby's diapers and buying baby food.

  572. I'm having a hard time getting enough of marijuana. I'm having a hard

  573. time getting off a drug that's using God, that's saying I love you.

  574. God say you can get something. But whenever you fall in love with the

  575. one that died for your soul, ever justice demandtainment for sin, when Justice

  576. made inquisition for blood, because without the shedding of blood, there is no

  577. remission of sin. When God's fiery eyes got angry with wicked me the wicked,

  578. when God's count kids and visage change because of the rebellion and the pride

  579. of Lucifer, And when Lucifer calls Adam and Eve to stumble and the triple

  580. and God got upset with him, And when God got upset with King,

  581. and God has got upset with you? Do you not realize the fact that

  582. the hand of God would be reaching past your significant other and distresses somebody because

  583. he loves her soul, because God will be the one watching when you are

  584. so burn so for an eternative rather nowhere around, My God, God you

  585. want to come for would not take me around? And you're better now,

  586. Let's take that carl Is out here? Can we return escaped? We're not

  587. promised tomorrow. So many girls have died in the arms of lovers, not

  588. considering that Deliver himself had a Lifetipper himself had his arms opened, Wild had

  589. his hand outstretched all for tim or fly. The marriage it lasted a measly

  590. fifty years, for a tenth of things. For maybe a military relationship that

  591. lasts eighty years. What about eight million years from now? We used to

  592. sing the song a lot hester year thirty something years ago. Where me,

  593. where will you be one billion years from now? All the money in this

  594. world, it's not nearly so empticing, And now it is it when we

  595. consider all things, all things concerned. I should have knew the Holy Ghost

  596. has slowed us down. The doctor reads book Morning sold us on the threshold

  597. of return, door that leads to the lake of fire. But I'm looking

  598. at others. I'm improving. It's not enough. I see these preachers,

  599. I see their antics and their tactics. I listen to what they're saying.

  600. Sometimes the congregations they're still preaching at the same church they were preaching to twenty

  601. years ago and twenty years ago. That gave us the excuse after them preaching

  602. for three to five years twenty years ago, after preaching the same believers three

  603. or five years, they said they're growing in grace, they're babes in Christ,

  604. and they still look just this world and twenty years later as they did

  605. back then, and some of them look worse. Just because you can measure

  606. yourself by the church up the road, that does not mean your measures up

  607. to the standard, because we don't set the standard Jesus Days, and there's

  608. more than just an outward external standard to be considered up for consideration as a

  609. temperament change, an attitude change. Behave your changes. Things that you once

  610. love. You should start hating things that you hate right now. You should

  611. start nothing. Whenever they don't have a desire to come back to church,

  612. sys to looting, and we're having to beg them to get their work schedules

  613. change. I may there's a lot of people in this building that does not

  614. have to work on Sunday and Wednesday rais ahead. There's seventy five people in

  615. this building right here Europe, right now. I think there's only a handful

  616. of you that's ever told me your bosses were giving you a hard time about

  617. working on Sunday. And most of the time if you put your finger on

  618. the pulse. Historically, as a pastor, I have found that it's usually

  619. a weak Christian that's not serious about their faith it's not all that interested that

  620. being in church, or it's an employer that is deliberately pullying them. But

  621. I'm going to tell you, if you love the giver of life and you

  622. want to live for the life giver, you'll do lots as to how and

  623. I did for brother Cheerremiah when the devil was trying to take him out of

  624. church, I said, boy, you missed too many Sundays. We better

  625. get the fasten and pray them or you're going to lose your soul. Do

  626. y'all remember them days the devil was trying to take Jeremiah Tyler out of here.

  627. You know what we did. We fasted and we prayed until Heaven change

  628. their work schedule or change their job. It does not do us a bit

  629. of good to say it's not working out for me, rising not working out

  630. to me? Where you got the power of God on your side here?

  631. If you're a child of God, If you're a child of God, think

  632. I been f If you're a child of God, you'll have your problem saying

  633. I ain't gonna miss a Sunday. Believe you'll make sure you're working at Momber

  634. You're let's see you're working on Tuesday. You'll make sure you're working on wisdom.

  635. PRIs you're working on a coaster. You're lets see you're walking on father,

  636. What lets you're working on? Say the Bible saying six days? But

  637. a man of that fuck if you ain't working, if you ain't out of

  638. us high to provide to that wife you're rushing to take to tell you're roster.

  639. I got a tat no less up to the earth. You can come

  640. in your road. Oh you won't he you ben t talking on his Oh

  641. you're welcome. What's all talking? Lo the w nasty, disgusting? Just

  642. think of their lazy posts for a Christian. You're sorry, God fast about

  643. the tail time? If I try to draw to make confy's good, tall

  644. and love he treats us on the lame trainer You see us with they do

  645. who is in the world. Pray that trap down, Pray that playing race

  646. down. The reason why don't have to finance the problem is because if always

  647. had a problem. We're timing you saw you know, always a trouble who

  648. robbin and raper? God, I love you to be one. I will

  649. if you make five hundred dollars a week twenty five dollar time. Don't tell

  650. it. That's the spirit of international supply. But I don't count because it's

  651. a a clima of the Bible. Are tied because I love you, he

  652. said the pastor your first Financially it chack me. I believed in tithing when

  653. I satigue your old Do you need to fall in love with Jesus? You

  654. need to live for the lack of the one that died for you. We

  655. all love him enough for that. I'll try and pray at his fee weekly

  656. and say thank you for dying for me. The reason why you're having financial

  657. problems is because you never fully died. Well, that's what went on.

  658. There will be a financial curse. Go ahead and do it your way,

  659. and God's gonna do it his woman, against his willing and against his wish

  660. and against the design of the Calvern code. He will kick the goats,

  661. and in the wake of pil he'll center the chap for the retail, he'll

  662. separate it and he will come her purchase car. Telling you, God knowstones

  663. he that took him at his word, and I grateful for him, dire

  664. for them. My ultimate praise is it that he delivered me from some habitual

  665. sins that's not my ultimate pace. My ultimate praise is it that he healed

  666. my boy from an aggressive real from a cancer. That is a great praise,

  667. but that is not my ultimate praise. My ultimate praise is in October

  668. of nineteen ninety three, so I mean one years ago. He got the

  669. dealer with me, and I got to feeling bad about my sin, and

  670. I got the feeling guilty about him dying for me, and on a sellard,

  671. I want to hear it from you, as much as he wanted to

  672. die for me, I got a laugh for him as much as he wanted

  673. to die for me. I'm not here to not to cause brother rod cap

  674. good company. I'm not here tonight because this church provides a good spiritual sheltering.

  675. I'm here tonight because I love him. I'm here tonight because I serve

  676. him, because he died for men. On the Sweet Jesus, on these

  677. spiritual gifts, the Bible said Paul was dealing with these Corintians. He said,

  678. who may need a different one from another? What has to all that

  679. now does not receive? Look at our gold texts sake to Corintians five on

  680. fifteen cent and that he died for all that day which lives should not live

  681. unto themself. I'm not here pastor of church for Jeremy Howell. There's a

  682. lot of people doing it through the wrong motives. They said right here,

  683. and that he died for all of the day which live should not live unto

  684. themselves. You gotta stop living for Philip, you gotta stop living for Tyler.

  685. A good reason to live. But I said it a little while ago,

  686. there's twenty six reasons why I live. There's an old song that is

  687. title. It's a Christian song of yesteryear. I think the title is the

  688. reason I live, And then that lyric goes, He's the reason I live?

  689. Hold on what a reason? And years ago I said, I got

  690. a problem with that lyric because there are other reasons that I live. I

  691. live for Charity, how live for cheer Mine, how Live for Jesse?

  692. How Live for Nathaniel? I live for Hannah, how live for Samuel?

  693. I live for Philip? And you know what to go right on down the

  694. line, I tell you twenty six reasons why I spip, Why for twenty

  695. six reasons why I blow clear? Twenty six reasons why how live? Holding

  696. for the real reason why how I live. It's not only because there's seventy

  697. five people followed me as I following Christ. No real reason I live.

  698. It's because I want to live for because I leap going for me rather wroth

  699. enough for want to live for somebody that was willing to die for you.

  700. Again, I'm calling him what it is. Tonight, three to five people

  701. in this building are not even saved. FOSSL. Paul said, so fine.

  702. A god is one that beats the year. I'm gonna hit the mark

  703. tonight, three to five. I'm coming into three. It couldn't be as

  704. many as five. Well, are you judging me? The Bible said,

  705. you'll know that tree by the friend it burst. When I see you don't

  706. want to serve him just because you're having a little sickness in your body.

  707. When I see your question of whether that you should serve him because you're having

  708. drawn and paying the bills. When I see you're having a problem, I'm

  709. serving him because you're gonna have to miss the company picnic. When I say

  710. you're having a problem serving him because you don't have to miss the ten year

  711. class reunion, you know why you have to miss it, because you're too

  712. afraid to show up sactyfile. It says the heart and I can show up

  713. in our thirtieth and they just as sanctified as we are tonight and not be

  714. ashamed of him. And that's when a pustle Paul had demonstrated in the New

  715. Testament church. He said, I am not ashamed of the gospel. I

  716. am not ashamed of the custom of Jesus Christ. No, we're not gonna

  717. shout over. You need to make it all to No, we're not gonna

  718. shout over. You need to have a sacrifice right here. No, we're

  719. not gonna shout over the fact and a realization that you're playing church. The

  720. reason why things aren't going right is no or the church's fault. It's your

  721. fault, right, Joe, Notice the fossil false statement, and that he

  722. died for all, that they which live should not live under themselves, but

  723. unto him which died for them and rose again. You know when my wife

  724. stopped cutting her hair because it's a glory unto her, and she does it,

  725. she no longer cuts it because of the angels, because it is an

  726. open statement of rebellion as sin as a woman lays the scissors to her hair

  727. and cuts it. That's why the talons of that wicked woman is sitting right

  728. over here, near where sister Tracey is sitting up tonight, rose out and

  729. she couldn't help but spew out that film and admit she've been cutting her hair.

  730. I know there's good, good people that's still learning that to twenty five

  731. years of me in church and didn't get it the five thousands time they read

  732. that scripture. I don't really want to preach a whole bunch of standards here,

  733. because if it ain't on the inside, it ain't gonna manifest on the

  734. outside anywhere. The same thing with spiritual gifts. If it ain't really on

  735. the inside, it ain't gonna manifest on the outside. I don't know if

  736. I should keep preaching or just give you a chance to have a killing in

  737. the solitary. They said, and that he died for all, that they

  738. which live should not live unto themselves, but unto him which died for them.

  739. I lived for him because he lived for me. I remember years ago,

  740. when was it that the infer in Napoleon, that French inferor. They

  741. say, we are of French ancestry. My mother's maiden name is Dampierre,

  742. and people of the damp years. The damp years, they say here in

  743. the States, but over there it was dampy air. The dampiers are heavy

  744. and thick in this area. My granddaddy was one of them. They were

  745. mullet fishermen, ran the mullet boats and used the gillnets the harvest mullet over

  746. there in Punga Gordon during Gord Damper, but just a cousin of mine attended

  747. this church for a little while. As soon as he walked in. As

  748. soon as he walked in the door, I knew he was a Damper.

  749. Well, we know a little bit about French history because Napoleon was a Frenchman.

  750. If I'm not mistaken, there's been a little wat since I've been in

  751. school. It's been about thirty years, I guess since I've been in school.

  752. But Brother Jesse, our thirtieth class reunion, I'm not a sham right

  753. now, bud it to drag your mama in there. I have been ashamed

  754. of my wife, ashamed of her. Maybe I've got enough Frenchman in me.

  755. I don't care what people thank you, But I remember reading back then

  756. a student of history, Napoleon Bonaparte. There was a certain battle that they

  757. were facing about to fight. And if I'm not if I'm remembering correctly,

  758. if I'm not mistaken, the Russian forces and Austrian not Australian, but the

  759. Austrian forces had formed an alliance and they were getting ready to come down and

  760. just squash Napoleon and his troops. Now, whether it's part of his legacy,

  761. a legend, or just a story or a fable, I don't know,

  762. but this is what I remember. They said that Napoleon knew that the

  763. odds were against them. You talk about it gainst overwhelming odds, And I

  764. hadn't even thought about that till right now. But they said that sleep had

  765. left Napoleon and said that all night long, he just walked the perimeter,

  766. and he walked past guard after guard that was part of the security detailed,

  767. just garden his soldiers. And they said, after a while, sister waiting,

  768. he walked past one of them centuries that had collapsed, would just sheer

  769. exhaustion and fell asleep, and said he tried to say something to the soldier,

  770. and a soldier get up, and that soldier was so weak and so

  771. exhausted soldier's eyes just rolled back in his head and said, Nupholeon, being

  772. a brew Or man that he was, one of his commanding officers standing nearby,

  773. just knew he was gonna do what his policy required him to do,

  774. and that was to snatch him up and push him in front to in front

  775. of a bunch of French soldiers and have him executed for sleeping on the job.

  776. And they said, Napoleon, his heart broke and he realized what the

  777. men had went through for him, and he said, rather than waking that

  778. man up and taking him to his execution, Napoleon stood in his post told

  779. the commanders said just keep surveying the perimeter and keep looking. And the emperor

  780. himself stood in that century's place, and brother theremore, that's exactly what came

  781. to me today. Thirty minutes prior to the service, he stood in the

  782. gap, and that's where I'm hided. And Napoleon stood in the gap.

  783. And the next day when that century or that guard, the security guard realized

  784. what Napoleon had done. When he came to and the Emperor himself was standing

  785. in his place, he fell at his feet commercial him and kissed his feet

  786. and said, I deserve death. Commander, then for I deserve to be

  787. destroyed, And first I said, don't worry about it, and your post.

  788. So they said. The next day the Russian and the Austrian forces descended

  789. down upon the French army and said to a spirit of gratitude and fight,

  790. and went through the camp of the frenchmen that they utterly destroyed the Russian and

  791. Austrian forces. Now, why is it that Jesus can look upon Tyler deserving

  792. death? Just as demanded payment for sins, the penalty was death, and

  793. Jesus said not Tyler, and Jesus stood in the gap for Toddler. Then

  794. when Justice demanded payment for Jesse's sins, Jesus said, no, you can't

  795. have Jesse. And Jesus stood in the gap for Jesse. I'll serve him

  796. because he loved being able to die for them. I'm thankful for the twenty

  797. six reasons that are here, tony brother of you that are blood relatives of

  798. mine, and I'm thankful for the seventy five that are here that are spiritual

  799. relatives of mine. But the real reason why I'm here to I is because

  800. somebody died for me. Could somebody come to again, somebody obey the Lord?

  801. Could we stand right now? Somebody stood in the gap for me.

  802. Jesus died for all that they which live should not live unto themself, but

  803. unto Him which dyed for them. I'm not trying to flatter you, and

  804. I'm certainly not trying to lie to you and tell you you're okay, or

  805. telling you that the new and improved you is good enough. It's not.

  806. Apostle Paul said, I die daily. Literally. When you study that,

  807. the context is he'd beat himself black and blue spiritually. He didn't talk about

  808. it. He humbled himself all the possibilities that were attainable and available in the

  809. world. Apostle Paul said, to live for Christ is what it's all about.

  810. Somebody, you don't love him because he stood in your place. You

  811. really struggling. That doesn't mean anything. To use Sister Wound's ball and it's

  812. gall and run health. You profess and does it. It is true that

  813. we confess and that we profess, and salvation is granted by faith and by

  814. grace. But you had to have that faith and you have to have that

  815. love that creates a genuine connection. Today, at four point forty I lost

  816. cellular service. Did anybody else lose cellular service today? This morning? I

  817. lost cellular service for about thirty minutes this morning. Today, I lost cellular

  818. service from four forty and when church started at seven point thirty, I still

  819. didn't have it. For three hours and maybe longer, I haven't had cellular

  820. service. I lost my connection with that network. We've got two brand new

  821. babies that happen to be grandchildren. I'm here tonight because I need to be

  822. a good grandfather. True, but that's not the real reason I'm here.

  823. I want to live for him who died for me, living for the life

  824. Giver. Can we bow our heads here tonight? It's got to get beyond

  825. pastors watching me pray. The elders are watching me pray. People's watching my

  826. public profession, private confession, my public confession. It's gonna get right down

  827. to everybody can tell you now have a connection with Jesus, and I wanted

  828. to close with this. Nothing I do for him will ever be too much

  829. because of what he'd done for me. Nothing I do for him will never

  830. be too much. The things he asked me to do for him. It'll

  831. never be too much the things he asked me to lay down for him.

  832. It'll never be too much to lay down the things he asked me to take

  833. up for him. It'll never be too much to take up for him,

  834. because I'm living for him, and I feel like we've got some others here

  835. tonight. So I'm gonna follow the lead of Brother Grant, Brother they were

  836. Moore, and Brother Carver, and we're gonna say it. There's definitely three

  837. here tonight that he needs to fall in love with. Jesus, I'm not

  838. gonna give a general alter call. If you're one of them three, would

  839. you come with this altr right now and tell him thank you for dying for

  840. me, thank you for standing in the gap for me. Is there somebody

  841. right down that would old bankrupt? Remember death as a skeleton key that fits

  842. all rocks? Don't you love him enough? Don't you love even though Brother

  843. Nathaniel. I'm convinced if I'll just taken outside this building and sacrificed for these

  844. three people, I don't believe it wouldn't have an eternal lasting things as much

  845. as they say they love. But if I took a bullet for brother Nathaniel.

  846. But we're not talking about your pastor taking something for him. We're not

  847. talking about your pastor standing in the gap. We're talking about the Son of

  848. God stood in the gap for them. So we have three? Is this

  849. the three? Could there be five? Is there another? Is there one

  850. more? Is there one more? Right now, you won't have a problem

  851. with the spirit of holiness. You won't have a problem tithing, you won't

  852. have a problem living right. You won't have a father's good wife, you

  853. won't have a trouble about being God's will when you rarely fall in love with

  854. him when you were. When you start serving him and Martin, you've been

  855. changed, living for the lifegiver. I want to say it, plains and

  856. you could talk to me a book and send it to you. Going to

  857. be a text message tonight. I want to say, plain and as the

  858. shepherd that God has precided over his church, there's three to five of them

  859. you want to save, no matter how much you teach me. Because he

  860. said, if you love him, keep my commandments. He said, my

  861. commandments are not grievously. It's not hard to obey God. What's scary because

  862. Jesus is about to split the eastern sky. He's coming back for a bride

  863. and a spotless, a bride who's been a god a dis ray, hopefully

  864. spot Freehi, whoorious church. And while we compare ourselves to others, I

  865. feel like check of my own self right now, I feel like trying my

  866. own self. The First Lady's coming. And while you keep cussing and you

  867. save your speaking in tongues, be the self righteous and being a holier of

  868. the man, Your first Lady will show you how to humble yourself and how

  869. to offer yourself on the altar. And I want you to know if you

  870. save yourself from hardship in this life, to save a marriage, to save

  871. a business, to save your relationship. The Bible said, what is a

  872. man prophet? If he comes the whole world and lose his own soul?

  873. What shall a man give an exchange for his soul? Where you exchange in

  874. Jesus' family? He stood and again, stand again, stood again. Don't

  875. you love him enough to work for? That's why I sing it. This

  876. is the Holy Ghost preaching tonight. It's his word, and that's his version.

  877. It's his words. He put this about. I'm just about them first

  878. breath Test, chapter number six. First num Brady said, man, you

  879. do wrong, and he fog and that your brother know you not. That

  880. the fat righteous shall not inherit the Kingdom of God be not deceased either fornicators,

  881. nor idologiers, nor adulterers, nor to feminine, nor users of themselves,

  882. with no kind, nor thieves, nor conifics, nor champers, nor

  883. revinders, nor extortioners shall inherit the Kingdom of God. But the good news

  884. is to these corinth of believers. Paul said, you were like that,

  885. but now you're wish you're simplified, You're justified. Holy know you not that

  886. your body is the temple of the Holy goose. Jesus, Jesus, I

  887. want to thank you for ying told me I think you to band to education.

  888. It's in the splunt looks of you generation job a chap he loves to

  889. death. It's not I love you, Jesus. I love you, Jesus.

  890. While I've learned him for our financial dances at him about myself, all

  891. would Jesus. Jesus, Jesus says, why would I blame you for my

  892. troubles? He's still look at it. It's not if ided to just chase,

  893. thank you for God in your place. I don't deserve still in and

  894. I don't deserves great today. He's a love best not measure by oday.

  895. See I did the real be to day we pray not for over again.

  896. It's a love best no mature by over day. You see I didn't love

  897. me, you love me bos wow only he's hold no costly clo, just

  898. a road that was stall. He never gave me dis d but the story

  899. of his love. He's the greatest advert to you love me. He bred

  900. mother forg He's a that's not bad by see. I ne' someone be not

  901. deserve me? Yes I could. I don't deserve his mercy and I don't

  902. deserve his charge. But don't the cross we are fired hoping. He said,

  903. I love you, don't be uh me de bat other four gears.

  904. It's a love as non measure see again m h thoucon some that's gone desore

  905. because I see I don't deserve is versy and I don't deser mistuch. But

  906. on across me the hard time. Don't say I love you you an everybody

  907. just think about the Lord as they say, it's about healthy. It's not

  908. about you. It's not about you comparing yourself to brothers. It's not about

  909. the pastor about that. It's not about the first lady. It's not about

  910. the associate. It's about our love to hear. The whole pot of this

  911. message is asking why can't you love him? He ought to assen. There's

  912. been a lot of them and telling their wives I love you. They don't

  913. want their words, not a lot at you, and tell their mother as

  914. they walk down the house, I love your mother. But they're on a

  915. lot of their words. I don't say I love him just to get something

  916. out of it. The whole thing is right there. I thank you for

  917. standing in the gap. I'm gonna live to the life, give if to

  918. myself, but live for him. Singing again, Brother philm somebody used to

  919. think about Jesus right now? How cool. It's not all the pastor after

  920. the house cannot It's about how bad they say. I don't deserve I don't

  921. punished on the cross, about costs. It's about how you're saying. It's

  922. about him. After a holy ghost in this place, it's hard to keep

  923. gassing. God are consequences to this from there's saving I feel weak and crying

  924. it's sad and just balling their eyes out because you were up to you can

  925. help. It's up bail when we think will cry. And the gratitude of

  926. the things the truely comes from the heart. Like sister's dad said a lot

  927. about telling talking, the truly comes from the heart's right. I love comes

  928. from the paps, and the ship from the depths, and ours gratitude talking.

  929. There should be going to the things you let your hall in his eyes

  930. up. The should be go the same thing they should be want to eighty

  931. five, but once again received those above the versus there. That's why brother

  932. grand Food tricks the word ship. It's my brother Pard who please drinks the

  933. word My brother, I'm gonna prove the fleaks the way he did, because

  934. it's evident you love the local boy than you got five got. I ask

  935. you a question. It's a short way, it won't take too much time.

  936. Why why why a bunch of money the way the ship? Why a

  937. woe work question? Why why mans m all about winning again as worse y

  938. m as you chose the names m H mean you could have all to way

  939. turned your back to all as be again. It chose to be bad.

  940. You ain't Thestrabat you fell today as you chose the name. When you can't

  941. fall, to glad you all true be by answer we can you will by

  942. m HM three you the good time and the bad. At times I tank

  943. you you were