Stop swimming and start surfing - Bro Jeremy Howell 6-5-2024

Mad, direct your attention to Isaiah chapter number fifty nine. Had director attention

to the nineteenth verse, Brother Nathaniel, Salm chapter number one. You will

be reading the entire chapter, and it's not very long. Brother Jesse,

first John chapter number four and verse number four. Brother Nathaniel, would you

read that one hundred and forty second psalm? Please, our brother. I

cried into the Lord with my voice, with my voice of the Lord,

did I make my supplication? I poured out my complaint before him. I

shoot before him my trouble, when my spirit was overwhelmed within me. Then

thou knewest my path in the way wherein I walked? Had they privily laid

a snare for me? I looked on my right hand and be held there

was no man that would know me. Refuge failed me, No man cared

for my soul. I cried the under the old Lord. I said,

Thou art my refuge in my portion in the land of the living. Attend

none of my crime where I am brought very low. Deliver me from my

persecutors, or they are stronger than I. Bring my should out of prison,

that I may praise Thy name. The righteous chaptain pass me about for

thou shalt build bound to flee with me. Wow, it sounds like David

needed some divine assistance in his situation. Brother Jesse one, first John,

chapter number four and verse number four, you are of God little children,

and have overcome them, because greater is he that is in you than he

that is in the world. He may. Let's stand for the reading of

our golden text, meaning these first of scripture that the Lord put upon our

hearts, that began this sermon building process, that brought forth this sermon.

Isaiah fifty nine, chapter number nineteen. The Bible said, soul, shall

they fear the name of the Lord from the west and his glory from the

rising of the sun. When the enemy shall come in like a flood,

the spirit of the Lord shall lift up a standard against him. Let's pray,

Heavenly Father, we love him, We praise you. We thank you

for the opportunity to be in the house of the Lord. I thank you

for these brothers and sisters of like precious faith, these servants of the Lord,

the believers in Jesus Christ. We thank you for the gathering of them

and this local assembly. I pray that you would annoyt this thy servants,

set of God at my mouth, and help me to save the thing that

you would have me to say, nothing more or less, and anought the

ears of this thy people, that they might hear what the Spirit of God

says unto the churches this night. We give you the praise and the honor

and the glory for everything that will take place. We pray that we would

not be hearers only, but that we would heed the words and have been

given to us tonight. And may we depart this place joyfully and not sorrowfully.

In Jesus' name in the church says Amen. Reading again our text Isaiah

fifty nine and verse nineteen. The Bible said, so shall they fear the

name of the Lord from the west and his glory from the rising of the

sun. When the enemies shall come in like a flood, the spirit of

the Lord shall lift up a standard against him. Our golden text is found

in an Old Testament book of the Holy Bible, the Book of Isaiah.

The title bears the name of its author. In this particular sacred writing,

we find and read the words that Isaiah, the son of Amasaul, concerning

Judah and Jerusalem, his nation his people were in trouble. They were in

grave danger because they were transgressing the laws of God. In fact, the

prophet, the Seer, the oracle of God, Isaiah, this man of

God, he had a desire towards his people. He liked the Lord.

Did not want to see anyone perish. He like the Lord, did not

want to see anyone suffering at the hands of their adversaries. He liked the

Lord, did not want to see anyone seek into despondency and despair. This

man of God leaned in the Lord's direction. His ear was bent towards the

voice of the Lord, and his heart was panning after the words of the

Lord. And his desire was that his nation would lean towards the Lord.

He told his nation at one point that he believed the Lord desired of them

to wash themselves spiritually. This generation is also expected to wash our souls clean

by the ruby red blood of Jesus. This is nothing new. Even here

in the Old Testament, we find that the ministers that were preaching to the

people also told them that God wanted his people to be clean people, to

feel clean, to have a clean mind, to have a clean heart,

to have a clear conscience, to be clean, squeaky clean. How many

of you like cleanliness? The old timers used to have a saying that went

like this, cleanliness, it's next to godliness. And so the prophet Isaiah,

he told them, you need to wash yourself spiritually. He instructed them

to put off their evil doings. He told them to do well. He

understood that they might have been ignorant because of their parents steering them in the

wrong direction, but it was letting them know that their ignorance was no excuse

that God expected them to do right. How many of you in this building

tonight know that you cannot do wrong and get by no matter how hard you

try. The Word of God is really available. It's on hand. It's

in every dollar store that I've ever been in. I've found a copy of

the English translation of the King James Version Bible. I have also found it

written in Spanish, and every dollar store that I have ever been into in

these United States of America. We can cleanse ourself, the biblical writer said,

by washing ourselves with the water of the Word. So Isaiah was telling

them you should learn to do well. I'm glad that thirty one years ago

I came into a church and set on the back pew and listen to a

preacher preaching. My heart was convicted, and I learned to do well.

How many of you know we can learn to do better, and we can

learn to do well. In fact, they inspired Prophet Isaiah. He said

that though the sims of these Israelites were as starling, they would become as

wide as snow, and though they were red like crimson, they could be

as warm. From the beginning of his ministry, his words were such as

aforementioned. Now in the fifty nine chapter, where we find our golden Text,

we see that the Prophet Isaiah is still preaching along the same lines.

He's preaching the same things to his people, and he's telling them that you

cannot do wrong and give by no matter how hard you may try. He's

talking to people that are supposed to be the people of God. They're professors,

but they are not possessors. And his charge against his own people was

this, you have not committed a few sins. You have committed many sins.

Now, let me ask us a question tonight, are you ready for

it? How long has it been since you wilfully sin? No, I'm

not asking you how long has it been since you slipped our poor made a

mistake. I'm not trying to justify the wrong doing it all. I know

that I Lead himself told his followers, including us, sir, and every

child of God, that we are to strive to holding and we are destriving

to be perfect. But I want to ask somebody in this building how long

that has it been since you willfully sin? Now? If you send an

hour ago, that is not good. If you sind last night willfully,

that is not good. If you are an obitual sinner, a wilful sinner,

then you must know that your sins are affecting you. If your sins

do not affect you, that I'm very concerned. But I know asperin that

I was living a lifestyle a sin, and when I was not doing work

God that told me to do, I felt convicted when I was around people

that was serving the Lord of Spirit and the truth. And I felt con

dem when I did things I should not be doing that I felt to them

that I refuse to do things I knew I should do. That I was

living in a lifestyle form of habitual sin as a willful sinner. I knew

that I was being adversely affected, meaning negatively affected. How many of you

know that your sin, now, however little it might be her or how

large it might be, he is known as your adversary. Now, a

lot of people do not realize that the sin is an adversary to God.

And more people than that do not realize it that the sin is their own

personal adversary. Or come on, now, you choose to wikfully this so

very the words of God, and when you do that, it breaks the

heart of God. I've got twelve grandchildren, and if I asked them to

do something for me and they go against my will, it's good churning and

it's heart to breaking. What as I see them whipping the choosing to do

contrary to what I have asked for or requested him he required of them.

Do you not know that God do is an emotional being? The Bible said

that God is angry with a wicked every day. Why would God be angry

with people? It's because of their adversaries, the sins in their lives.

I said of the prophet, the preacher, the minister, the teacher.

He wanted his people to understand that their sins, whether adversaries and those adversaries.

We're arresting the sword those adversaries, and we're taking their toll on their

sud. I want to ask you, Tony, what is it inside of

you? What's seining? Is it? Hey? That's taking a terrible now

on your soul? What is making you so hopeless? That's causing you to

be so miserable? Is that the adversaries, the custant, the martint I

go and take sin when the enemy comes in here like a blood. Oh

come on, now, there's some people in this under the night, on

this surface, and that appears that your Hakane in prayer today our realized her

underneath it the surface and there is a spiritual body that is about to erupt.

And everybody, man on your exterior, everybody on the outside, listen,

just how mistab all that really? All that the inside? We've hear

another it's been told a social media people that the influencers, they're talking the

untouchable, that they're committed, the unimaginable, that the people sin online they

go to talking on Instagram. Man, if they spec they not so happy,

then they left so happy, they were so successful, and why did

they take the life. It because for their adversary. I said, it's

because of their own sin. The Bible sin of man shall be holding of

the character or their all sin. Man don't talk wants to help you tonight

when the atmasta comes here that incessantly he wants to raise a standard, I

guess that I want to preach to you here tonight. I remember there was

a secular comedian. He played morek and his co star her name was many

or some sitcom years ago before it got saved. I watched some of it.

I cannot remember the name of that comedian. I think it was Robin

Williams. Thank you Holy Ghost. And they said that he didn't developed some

mental illness and some other things were going on in his life. And one

night, unexpectedly, his adversaries came in lo of flood that he was unable

to find help. There are still people today suffering because they were unable to

help this man. Somebody should have rocked him to eleven fifty three Cornelia driven

and where any other church is that is preaching the truth that escorted him man

to an altar of prayer that he could have found a standard. The man

was seeking. The man was swimming in the flood waters. I feel that

preacher the rest when their enemy comes in in there like a flood. Now

there's not sneaking there of a little trickle, there's not speaking there, or

a little prison like man resting her everything he could to tread water. He

was swimming. Let me into that seeking. I want to preach a message

the Holy Ghost title. That's stop swimming and start suthing. Now there's somebody

in this building of life. God will take you mother hand. They were

to both the trouble. The Bible said man that is born of women is

a few days and full, meaning mankind that comes out of the woman.

As soon as he begins to leave his mother's womb, he can anticipate or

expect trouble. Being the grandfather the twelve kids, I can say, unexpectedly,

suddenly we have experienced trouble. Just as soon as that baby came into

this world. Just as soon as that baby breathe the breath of life,

if you would, it took oxygen into its black immediately it fell on a

trouble. I'm preaching to somebody tonight. I hope you're as honest as David

Watterson in the one and forty second saba about where you're at. In the

first versa in the fifty nine chapter, we find words of hope for people

that are going to be overthrown and there are being overcomer by their adversaries.

If you look at the phraser in that first versa, it goes like this,

the Lord's hand now is not shrewing it that it cannot save. And

come on, now, you know sinking one time he took his eyes off

of Jesus that in a moment to the mister on the floor, to the

mister of the store, that came the hand. It was the hand,

see, he says the bindle said of Peter thinking in this secret he cried

out w to the Nord who ansaing. Do you know what people enough to

meeting suicide they may take the live. It's because they ain't taught help her

the Jesus. They don't call for the name of the Lord, and they're

just call on the name of the law. They in findings are their friends

and help you're trouble. Addictions cause people to feel overwhelmed. Unexpected pregnancies cause

people to feel overwhelmed. Unexpected deaths cause people to feel overwhelmed. Unexpected illness

and sickness, causing people to feel overwhelmed. People that go into the doctor's

office expecting to walk out with a prescription for a boxicilan end up being sent

out to a specialist to research what kind of contentser they have. They thought

they were having long trouble because it was pneumonia, only to find out unexpectedly

it was stage four. A long answer. But listen the Lord's hand.

It's not shorten that it cannot save. You may feel likely you're in a

storm surge, and you may feel like her. It's the rising time that's

coming down and gets you. Today in my prayer, cause I saw a

wave. It got burther, it increased her, it got taller, it

rons even higher. I said, not needed this, Lord, He said,

the enemy come in now like a fright. But then I say,

oh, Lord, when they said I will raise a stand, gets them.

What's more, it's true that we read things we sol I believe in

the soul and in the wreath of principle. I believe that sometimes old the

Lord says, they want to be a new creature, and I'm going to

rape away own things, and I'm gonna make them. But come new.

In the Bible, we find that the apostle Paul reached some things, but

he also did not read some things that he should have because the Lord's hand

was not shortened that it could not save him. Or come on, now,

the Lord still eyes power to save people from their adversaries. And the

Bible set concerning Jesus by name of Manuel, that he was saving people from

their sin. Now, your sister, we'd say, ton man, she's

been saving about thirty one years. I've been saving her thirty one years.

I remember coming to church that nither. I did not want to put on

a clinker of excuses her. I did not want to put on a clink

of criticism to the people at the church. I knew I was traveled to

and from me here water say that I knew it was my aunt Paul Red.

I knew it was my aunt Sen. I knew it was because of

my own test says. I wouldn't want to cast the labor and nobody else

or to the news wise that's coming here. But I find then the step

of the Lord God's goodness. It is crazy and its holy guessair rose up

a standing head against it. If you win God's living this sufboard. We'll

sing that song. Lift me up above the shadows, I want to say,

Lord, lift us up above the sore storm search, Lift us up,

God, plant our feet on the higher ground. The summer said,

when my heart is overwhelmed, lead me to the rock. That is hard

that I didn't come to church that night and say Lord, I'm living better

than that one's living. Ill came to church that night with their own vision.

The only thing I could see was the cross. That I could seek

God's lamp Jesus helen over the cross, and with spiritual vision I saw that

I was responsible for his death because of my sein. It was my sin

that overwhelmed and somebody's help that didn't crush. Come on, now, it

was not the right of the crosser, the Christian. It was the normality

of the size of the mankind's sin. That God is the crosser on the

hero to batime, Buddy, I'm telling somebody in this building the night,

stop smimming and stop supping there. Why are you in a secret the a

smear retic sinuation. As long as your unsurmend to God, as long as

you've got an acre a sn there and who you're wealthy, do w you

want this? A secret swear since yours? When I want you today,

you sent me serving there no seat. The Lord still has power to save.

I remember some time back I was thumbing through the Guinness Book of World

Records, and I came across the part there where a god named Sebastian was

surfing off the coast of Germany. And they said, over there, every

now and then, one hundred foot waves will come up, and sister women,

they say, people there, that's right, But when they head out

on a surfboard they chicken out. How many of u OK timers remember that,

don't chicken out, don't be a yellow belly, don't get scared.

Very few people would attempt it. Now, twenty foot wave would scare me.

I don't know what the distance is from the floor that this church to

the Apex people out there. That's probably a good twelve and a half thirteen

foot A wave that tall would scare me. If I take my family to

a private beach over there and there, but need a beach of Fort Myers

Beach and them what is getting six eight ten feet? I'm telling you that

alarms being concerns me. And tell my family get out of the water.

But I can't imagine going out after a twelve or thirteen foot wave because I've

never done it. I'm probably the top of I had have been raised off

the coast of Germany, but at the golf beaches, you don't expect to

have wait, they ain't no surf something. I was over there near don't

tell forty Bars yesterday and I saw a surf shop, a skateboard shop,

and a coffee shop all in one. I snickered, and I laughed,

and now said six wind. And we've been surfing it over here in the

Gulf waters. I mean, who are we kidding? It's cute to it's

really cute, and it looks cool. I wouldn't mind getting the frampe or

or copy in that shop, But who are we kidding? Now? I've

been over there to the Atlantic and I've seen some ways, but they saying

that's not even any waves. When they say you go over there to California,

go to Hawaii, or going over here to Germany and other places,

a little wave is twenty foot and the surfer's pretty much target. The forty

foot waves, now that's a means four stories high. Those of you that

saver been to my house that I just saw on You know that I had

two and a half put seedlings in there and it was two stories, so

probably to the top of my house would have been twenty seven foot to the

very top, Brother Cheerami, could you'll imagine you being on a surfboarder and

paddling out and saying, I want something bigger than that. I want something

taller than that. Hey, that's asking for trouble. I know that there's

been novices. If you would an amateurs go after fifteen and twenty foot waves

and try to get up only to be buried and to see to swim riding,

and to fight their way back to life and to fight their way back

to the breath of air. The day joy becaust. Too much water came

in on them. If you would now the Admasarah, the water come down,

that be a moss of a rain came crashing down there unexpectedly. Suddenly

it was nothing what they respected her. The timing was off, It was

untimely. Why it break right there? I just wanted a minicer that I

remember reading and this encounter the Sebastian had and they said he just kept on

paddling then and got out there, brother Nataniel, and they had modern technology

not measuring the wave, and they said, when Horry he min Sebastian's about

to attempt the unstakable and the unimaginable that and bought an equipment estimated that way

to be up. I remember correctly. I believe this was only four years

ago. It measured an eighty six feet high. Oh my god, almost

n stories high. And he's not gonna be under it, and he's not

gonna swim to it. He's gonna surfle on the top of it. And

that's the way the old child, Oh god, he can feel about you

any front that counts her right, it's not a secret. The swill s's

a wasting. I feel my using the cross. That's my surfboard. I'm

telling you what the crows too over you're seeing I say it playing. That's

to me what the raise up a standard? Just that adversaries adversaries? What

is an adversary? An adversary is one's opponent in a conflict or dispute.

An adversary is an enemy, a person, a group, or a force

that opposes and attacks. I'm going to share this with you all I am

not one of those people that believes if buffy hicle breaks down that the devil

cost it, especially if I refuse to change the board. I am not

one of those people that believes in the floodwaters and if my car ends up

in the ditch, that the devil was attacking me, especially if I drove

around on bald times being lazier, refusing to have some tread put on there.

I believe that's just my stupidity. Points your neighbors say, hey,

stupid, will you have tread on your tires? If anybody's driving around with

bald tires and you end up in the ditch, don't stand up and say

the devil put me in the ditch. That was your stupidity, not saying

doing that. But last Tuesday night at twelve and eleven fifty nine, as

it rolls on the Wednesday twelve, A m sister how and I said,

well, it's about bedtime. I'm self employed, so once in a while

I'll push it to midnight. I don't recommend those of you that had to

get up at four and four point thirty and five doing that, but I

don't start working sometime till seven thirty or eight. I start late so I

can go to bed at twelve o'clock. I'm a pastor. I'm running a

good sermon right here with our little excert. But eleven fifty nine, I

threw the lever on my recliner and I pushed the rag wrest down and jumped

up, and I saw a puddle of water in the floor. Now,

we had been in that fifth wheel for about a week and a half,

for two weeks, and Brother Tyler, that had been no trouble whatsoever.

And I thought, I smell a spiritual rat. It stinks there's something wrong

here. And I missed somebody, and I said, do you have any

idea what this could be? And by the time they got back to me,

I figured it out. Not that it took them a while to get

back to me, but I figured it out, put it quick, and

sister have us it immediately. Something in her soul said something's gonna happen in

the morning, and she started to say it. I remember her saying,

well, that other just happened, and now this has happened. And she

said, well, I know I'm not gonna say that, cause I don't

want to give any credit to the devil. But I knew exactly what she

was gonna say, because the same nasty, filthy, bold voice that said

the same thing to me. Now, y'all listen to this on my own,

not because it was overflowing in the fifth wheel, on my own.

I went outside, and that emptied theceptic line. You pulled the valve on

the gray water, you pulled the valve of the blackwater. After I did

that at eleven fifty nine, suddenly I had to having no problems at all,

and draining the septic line and the gray water line in that fifth wield

shutting me has back it up water that should not be in there. It's

back it up in the sink in other places. Then alive eruptions they don't

stop there. Then the devil Whisher something to Sister howell we go and fix

that. And then about six o'clock I noticed that the AC system goes down,

and I messaged somebody in I said, schedule attack to be here first

thing in the morning this morning. And so the tech didn't show up,

and at about two o'clock I realized what was going on. Sister Halliw went

next door to prepare to get ready for church, and I've been working in

my office, which is next door, and so I walked over there to

the trailer and the Hawow family. They do not know about this. But

I stood in that field and I said, very boldly and very force me.

I don't know that I've ever done anything like this in my life,

but I perceived that I personally was under attack. Hey, I'm not fearful.

I'm not looking for the devil to knock me out tonight. But I

proceed to I was in spiritual warfare, and I was under attacked him.

And so I stood in my center my fifth will, and very angrily and

boldly, with righteous indignation, I said, Lucifer, I rebuke you with

the name of Jesus said, just as the Man of God said, Lord,

rebut you, I said, O, my Lord, Lord, rebuke

you. If I myself, I submit myself to God, have and resist

the devil, he will flee. The adversary will flee if you stop playing

with a seal, if it stops trainling with it, if it stopped sinking

and swimming. There, sir, as I a service. They gonna get

two peop live up by the sunlight, live up by the sinlight. Don't

sink, don't swim. Start something. So I stood there very boldly,

and I said, I know what you're doing, and defiedly. I sat

down on a little couch and I sat there for an hour and a half.

Was out prepared for service. Last Wednesday night. Sister Howell came in

and found me in there as poor and sweat I looked way more sweaty than

I do now. I'm telling you what I was getting weak. It was

about one hundred degrees probably inside of there, and I was just proving a

point to the devil. Whenever he tried to tell me he was responsible for

taking Jephtha's life. I said, it was my little grand baby that had

just been born. I said I watched gyp to dye in his dad mom's

arms. And the devil said I did that. There was nothing you could

do about it. And I walked out down the hall and I said,

you devil, more than I've ever hated you. If you think this is

gonna make me hate my God, then you are wrong. If you think

this is gonna make me backslide, if you are wrong. I was preaching

Gyptist funeral. We buried him in that little casket. I'm talking about Unexpectedly

the blood came in. We was expecting everything to be okay. They had

told us everything was okay. But when I was leaving the hole, that

girl spoke to me and said, you stay right here. Brother Nathaniel's sister

Rachel's fixing to niege And can I tell you what God was doing. He

was sliding us across. He was sliding us a serve board and we stood

there in About two minutes later my phone ringer, Brother Nathaniel, said,

Dad, They said we better go over there right now. Gyptus took a

turn for the worse. Hey, enemy, man, come here. Luck

a blood. But I can testify and tell you and God raised up there

and God's playing knowledge on the situation the right. I'm a statement the Bible

say concerned chest intitulation. They said Todd will make her a war of escape.

You just have to stop wanting to sin. The Marble said about them

that cannot cease from sin. You have to turn it over to Jesus.

Have to get an altar, and you have to say what I've said that

nine thirty one years ago. I'm singatired, I'm sinking and swimming. I'm

singing tired on my sin. Don't look me up from called the tiny forgot

my sin? Do be thatteray said, jet to past jep to past Brother

Dathaniel's sister Rachel. I kissed them on the forehead, and the walked up

side and the lady she said, there were your kids. I said yes.

She said, I've never seen anybody handle a situations like that, not

at that age. They're very mature. And she said, I want what

they got. I want what you and your wife got, and our end

that had been in the business for years. She said, I've never seen

anybody have peace like that. I've never seen anybody go through a tragedy like

that with peace, Brother Jesse. After I got done talking to her about

Jesus and the peace and he'll bring into the life when you're overwhelmed with trouble

and sorrow, I walked down the hall and I Sir noticed to them by.

I said, listen, Lucifer, I said to you and your imps,

it's gonna make me more of a holiness preacher than I've ever been.

I'm not gonna loosen up. I'm gonna tip up. Hey, come on

now, I'm talking to somebody right here in this building. So I stood

in my fifth will last Wednesday at two thirty, and I said, I

hate you with a perfect hatred of Lucifer. I said, I have perceived

by the holding ghost that this is you that is doing this. I rebuot,

temping the name of Jesus with the authority. I didn't say one word

of my wife. I didn't say one word of my daughter. And now

I don't want everybody and their brother standing up and testify for the next five

years saying I know it was the devil in that particular case, I was

under attack. I don't know how many times that has happened. You don't

want it to happen. Don't go looking for it. It'll come anyway.

The Bible did not say if, maybe possibly the enemy will come in lack

of blood. It said, when the enemy comes in lack of bloody last

Wednesday, from eleven fifty nine until two thirty, he was coming in lock

of blood. Come on now, and I rebuked the devil. We came

here and had churnch and I forgot about him. We passed out prayer claut

do y'all remember that, And at some point we got the rebuke and the

devil. We got the praise of the Lord and rebuke his sickness and illness

and disease the same way. Better Philip rebuke cancer. Come here, better

Philip. He's had one of the most aggressive rare for him atops of cancer

that's in the world, only one of four hundred and forty people that's got

in um. It's supposed to be deadly. He's supposed to be dead right

now. He's not supposed to have any hair. But after an aggressive people

art treatments of radiation treatments are They said, we can't figure out why his

hair is growing up. We can't figure out why skip towards give it.

Because one night when he was under attacker the spiritual warfare, he wanted me

that back there and you can't cancel out and he said, I felt my

hair going immediately. I felt straight fuck in my body. That you can

choose to keep seeking that they keep swimming that if you want to ask for

me, sir, something I said, ask for me. Stop. I

ain't growing down. We don't put on that loo. There's no such thing

that's live undernetail. The surfers for the water. There's no such time that's

life. But the problem to see that somebody and I put life, that's

a brandon. It's hiding up the way he's so try to Brother Brock messaged

me a couple of nights ago, and to the trouble making preacher that listens

to this, it feels lad to text him and say, I perceive you've

been having trouble. No, you heard me, just say that my brother

Brock. He said, Pastor I was preaching. I felt something bust.

He said. I'm a dying man. I know I'm dying. It was

just the last Sunday night, this past Sunday night, and I'm telling you

what. I hit my knees and I cried. You ever cried and prayed

until you sound like you've had a hit cold for ten years. You praying

in the Holy Gris's movement. I cried in the spirit because I knew he

couldn't leave a bride behind. I knew he couldn't leave children and grandson children

behind. And I was aid praying about two minutes into that prayer, God,

let me know he's been about to follow his business. He's in a

good hand of what happens. He is in the good hands of God.

Come on now, I'll tell the Holy godsend this. And the truth is,

it's not the Biden economy has caused us, some of us the problems.

It's our own bad choices. I don't want to stay sweep right here,

I've been sweep. Now. I'm trying to give you encouragement. Apostle

Paul, he reached out to some people, and he let him know with

God before you, who could be gets to the Sarmist wrote a psalm that

said, if it had not been for the Lord who was on our side,

we've surely been swallowed up. We've surely been drowned, We've surely drifted

away. For a short time, a very short time. The generation of

people who lived during Isaiah and the Prophet's lifetime might have been enjoyed temple pleasures

of the simple lifestyles. But then there comes a pseudonami, the rosis of

delivery HIV aids d ui head on collision. For while these Israelites had been

basking in their indulgences, their debaceries, basking in the light of temporal pleasure,

but then there came a time when suddenly they were flooding, overwhelmed by

their adversaries. That's what the Bible said. Noah, that just and righteous

preacher preached for over one hundred years, and he said, the floods come

in again, not if not, maybe not possibly when the enemy comes.

And that's what Isaiah was telling them. It's coming. It's going to come

in like a flood. Notice that phrase didn't begin with if. Brother Philip

Powell said recently. I believe it was on March the twenty sixth. He

said, we must be prepared for whatever life throws our way. Do you

know That's why thirty one years ago I started serving the Lord, because I

knew I had to lead a wife to Jesus and that I had to raise

children. I didn't want them to be swallowed up by this world. What

Brother Philip was saying on the twenty sixth of May, he was saying,

expected it's coming. Trust me, I've had a cancer diagnosis, as to

how has had a lung disease diagnosis. Trust me, it's coming tonight.

It's unprecedented. We've got a house full of people. In fact, the

church house was so full of about seventy people that you haven't noticed there's ten

miss, But tonight knowing what I was going to preach on. Within the

last hour, I received a message from one family and said, tray for

us, Pastor. My son's having some problems in school with situation. It's

unavoided. Unexpectedly, this has arisen, and there's a model a wife.

Another brother said, Pastor, a situation has arisen at work and I'm unable

to get away. Another brother he said, Pastor, I'm never late to

church, but a situation unexpectedly arose and I'm unable to get to church.

Then our pianna player, brother Jesse, wave, my brother Jesse. If

you'll notice, if you've been paying attention, if you have a burden for

your brother and sister, you've noticed his precious beautiful bride sister hand up and

two of his sons, well, actually three of his sons because one's in

the womb. His wife and three of his sons aren't present tonight because an

unexpected situation happened. Except my sons were dressed for church. They seemed to

be filling fine, and then suddenly one got sick, and then he roughed

all over his church clothes, and my wife took him to bathe him and

to clean him up and to try to get him dressed for church again,

and said she turned around and nur's the baby vomiting to all over his church

clothes. And then she takes and gets him a clean set of clothes after

bathing him and his brother, Jesse texted me a little while before church and

said, it's happened again. My wife and the babies must stay home immediately.

Right then, just a hand on Jesse's brother. Jesse's wife was overwhelmed

and had her hands full immediately. Right then, this mother received word from

school that your son is in a bad state and you must provide intervention.

Our brother read the context a little while ago, because he read the entire

one and forty second song, and in that third verse of that song,

David the sawst pin when my spirit was over out within me, then they'll

do us by path. Suddenly you're overwhelmed, Suddenly you're flooded with it.

Brother fellow, when you told me of your cancers, cancer diagnosis in your

situation, I believe it was a Wednesday night and I was sitting down in

my recliner to put my shoes on, and I remember I grabbed the first

leather shoe and put my foot in and he said, Dad, I need

to tell you something. And he said, I'm sorry to put more on

you because as a pastor, as a father to six kids, as a

father in law to five daughter in laws, as a grandfather to twelve,

and as a pastor to eighty plus, and just being busy, I hate

to put more on you, knowing what's going on with mom, knowing what's

going on with sister Cheryl. He said, but I need to tag and

I said, please do. I can't handle it because I got a big

god, he said, I got a very rare tithe. Okay, it's

very aggressive. I remember not breaking down. I remember not trembling, and

I remember not shaken. And I said that one I hate you in my

spirit. I said, I hate you. And if you think that's gonna

make me clip, yeah, it's gonna Workmen, you gotta have the spirit

of fire. I can see some bastion now strolling out. Their brothers stare

too small, twenty foot high, thirty foot pigh not yet, forty foot

pigh, not yet. When my spirit is overwhelmed, the ser said,

lead me to the rock that is higher than I. In this one hundred

and forty second some of verse six, David, the powerful king of Israel,

did not try to save face, nor did he try to flawn his

slavery that he took glythe down with, or did he try to flop the

sword that he severed the head of blythe within, nor did he try to

flawn his crown. And the one hundred and forty second Psalm David said,

I admit my adversary is too strong for me. First John five and four

siph or whatsoever is born if God overcometh the world, and this is the

picture that overcometh the world even our faith back up one chapter. First John

four and fourth said, Year of God, little children, and have overcome

them, because great or is he that is in you than he that is

in the world. Now I got to praying about that, and I said,

God, what's in the world. He said, it's in my word.

And I remembered immediately John that beloved called these people little children, Brother

Nathaniel, little children, and he said, little children, what is in

you is creator to what's in this past, big giant world. These grown

men and grown women, these babes in Christ, these new creatures in Christ

Jesus that have become part of the family of God, these believers. He

was saying, little ones, what's in you? It's creator to what's in

the world, not what's in the God, the road, not in your

unruly boss man or coworker, that's against you, in the whole lide world.

And I got to look at it. In this same book of the

Bible, in First John, chapter number two, It's told me some of

the things that are in the world. It said, the lust of the

flesh is in the world. There's a lot of people they're overwhelmed because of

their own lust. The Bible said that in the world there's the lust of

the eyes. It also said the pride of life is in the world.

Do you feel flooded? That's what the media is doing. They're flooding on

these people. They're trying to make people not feel good about themselves. They're

flashing a list celebrities, superstar athletes, glamer guys and glamour girls, GQ

guys and glamour girls, and trying to make everybody feel ugly. That's a

flash flood of insecurity. But the Bible said that God would order ordinate us

and or adorn us with a beautiful meek spirit. And the most beautiful people

in the world. Are them children of God that don't have grimaces on their

face, but have grace on their lives, those that don't have plastic,

fony faces and bodies, for those that have the peace and the joy that

passes all understanding. Do you feel flooded? Are you sick? Did you

expect this diagnosis? Did you expect this reading? Did you expect this verdict?

It came from out of nowhere, didn't it seemingly? Brother Jesse,

is there somebody in this building tonight? Are you battling an enemy of depression,

anxiety and fear? You don't have to. Are you struggling with anger?

Give all that to Jesus, as David did in the one hundred and

forty second chapter of David said, I cried unto the Lord with my voice.

I showed him my trouble. Look, Lord, here's my trouble.

This is my problem. I remember when I discovered myself and got to know

myself for the first time. I said, God, I can't overcome this

sin. God, I can't give victory over this sin, but you can

give me victory. Give all of it to Jesus. So David plops down

at the Lord's speed, and he acknowledges the Lord and he emits, I'm

unable to handle things on my own, meeting. It's coming here like a

flood. Now. I want you to notice the first part of our Golden

Text is one of the most beautiful parts that's often overlooked and never that So

shall they tear the name of the Lord from the west and his glory for

the rising of the sun. Basically, the Lord is saying, they're gonna

see that I turned it around for you. They're gonna see that I've lifted

you up about the storm search and put you on the right right. They're

gonna testify. I don't know how they've made it, but they've made it.

And you'll say I made how I made it. I gave it to

Jesus, and he temp taylor of it. My God said control and my

God hand will just stand to them, and it's just I get you to

come to the piano, my brother. The Bible spoke of a time when

mountains would be swept into the sea. When floodwaters come, there are only

a few things left standing where they once were. Houses are swept away.

If you drive along Fort Myers Beach. You will see things that once were

there are no or I've seen spiritual tidal waves and pseudonomies go through churches Sister

Neely and Sister Hill. This will sound familiar. And when that strange,

familiar spirit gets done seemingly came from out of nowhere, we look around and

say what happened? And so this is why I say it, Bethel,

May we never greet the Holy Ghost, and may we never greet the spirit

of God. When the shower is here to shout the name of Jesus,

may we shout because you never know what that move of God is driving back,

because the same spirits that try one church will try another. But what

is we need this? We need the rising of the Holy Ghost. I

love what I feel in my soul right here. We live in a time,

as Isaiah did, when people's sins have separated them from God. Some

people find themselves being attacked by their adversaries, and we call this spiritual warfare.

If we can bow our heads tonight between me and you and the Lord,

but E raise your and if it's you that would say, pastor,

I'm the one who's been sinking. And then swimming. I've been drowning.

There's one, There's two, There's three, there's four. Is there one

more? There's five, there's six. I want to tell you, God

send me to preach to you. I dedicate this message to these seven people.

Stop swimming and start surfing on his banner. Start surfing on his banner.

Can we find a place to pray tonight? Would you make an altar?

Can we find a place to pray? I want you to take your

trouble. Show Jesus your trouble. I want you to tell him all about

it. I feel victory in this house. Some prayse and old s stop

thinking, stop slip, start the doing robing the Lord fall life in the

orbles. Give the fat little found the bolls we found in the dark.

You who was to shelter earth the will of the rain? Who kept you?

Say skin? Who are your shield of the bar in line? He

give you the victory turn the tide being nothing the Lord as with the world

all against a friend. The tide sick with the battle with thors, can

be down in the dark. He would be in despair nothing the Lord knocking

the Lord on our side with the world of against the fell the grows out

into the battle of Thost, and we down in the dog, he would

be in despair. Who had you open? All your friends would go?

Who's to buy your side? And would lift you alone? Who to body

spoke to your storm? You made a way out of the diny row he

did, and nothing the Lord. He lays on your side with the rosy

gainst this. When t rolls out in the lads and we died in the

Lord, we would be in deffair. Then knocking the load. He had

nothing proverci had not been for grace, it not being for the lawn to

dark painted did and nothing for power did and nothing for love. If he

didn't nothing for cheese the same especial just did not in for mercy, in

nothing for grades. They did nothing for the part. By not in for

power, not be for low it is not in for Jesus standing mister.

But he didn't nothing the Lord. He was all our side in the wall,

all the deads. When the tackle woll high in the lost and we

found the ever despair didn't nothing in the long well? Who want to share

through the wind and the rains? Who can be saved? And the game?

Who was to shave all the fiery who gave the victor me who turned

the tide. He didn't nothing the Lord. He was on our side when

the world almost the spears the title of side in the Battle of dolls,

and we crowd in the dark really did the spay, repining nothing in the

lor. M hm hmm. If me above the shadow, let me,

let me stay all the man the time a boat. Let me join you,

Let me about the shadows. Let me up. Let me stay all

the man the time. Let me up above the shadows. Not need on

the higher crown. We be up above the platform where the your sun shine

is found. We'd be up about Bobby, and let me up until the

astera hip me up before the shadows. That same hall it deal the bow

the shadow you be. Letay all the b talk the bow. Let me