Cultivate before its to late - Bro Jeremy Howell 4-17-2024

Well, would you continue to pray for them? If you have your bibles,

will you turn with me to the Book of Jeremiah mad direct your attention

to the fourth chapter and the third verse. Brother Nathaniel Matthew, chapter number

thirteen and verse number nineteen. Brother Jesse Mark, Chapter number twelve and verse

number thirty seven. Didn't you all appreciate that singing that we heard a little

while ago, the congregational singing, the choir singing, the special singing,

all of that singing was just so wonderful to testifying. Everything has been so

good. I'm thankful for the good report that we received from Brother Philip.

Even though he is enduring radiation along with chemotherapy and having radiation treatments daily,

not for thirty days, but for three months. The doctors are bewildered that

he does not need a blood transfusion. His blood count, his hemoglobin levels

are not decreasing, they're increasing, mysteriously, thank God. Through that mysteriously,

I'll tell you who that mystery man is. The miracle man himself is

helping brother Philip. I was seen text messages from people that have been listening

to the messages, and they have heard us talk about Brother Philip's hair growth.

They say that's a miracle in itself. They say, there is no

way a man who is going through chemo and radiation that his hair would be

growing. But it is growing because of that connection Brother Philip made with the

miracle man a few weeks ago. God bring him and promise he would help

that hair. Really he has. I'm thankful for that. Brother Nathaniel Matthew,

chapter number thirteen, verse number nineteen. When anyone here at the word

of the kingdom, and understand if it not didn't come at the wicked one

and catches the way that which was sown in his heart, this is he

which receives seed by the wayside. Amen. Brother jesse Mark, chapter number

twelve, verse number thirty seven. David therefore himself calleth him Lord, and

whence his heat in his son, and he and the common people heard him

gladly praise the Lord. Jeremiah chapter number four, verse number three. For

thus saith the Lord to the men of Judah and Jerusalem, break up your

fallow ground and sonaw among thorns. Reading that latter part again, break up

your fallow ground and sonaw among thorns, I want to preach a message that

I feel the Holy Ghost title cultivate before it's too late. May we pray,

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

for the opportunity to be in your house. I thank you that the saints

have gathered tonight. They feel it important to come to your house, as

brother Stare said, for no other reason than to worship you. We're so

thankful Lord for the weapon of worship that they possess. Lord, the weapon

of the warrior of God is the word of God and the worship that they

have in the heart and their phrase. I thank you for that which you

annoyed, this thy servant said of God at my mouth. And help me

to say the things that you would happen to say, nothing more or less,

And anoint the ears of this thy people, that they might hear what

the Spirit of God saith under this church. Deny the people inside of these

four walls. May they be hearers, and may they heed. Will give

you the phrase and the honor and the glory. And may we depart this

place joyfully and not sorrowtly. And the Church says Jesus name. Amen,

you may be seated reading again. Jeremiah chapter number four and verse number three.

For thus saith the Lord to the men of Judah and Jerusalem, break

up your fallow ground, and so not among thorns. Our text is found

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

The title bears the name of its author. The author of this sacred book

was a holy man of God. How many of you in this building tonight

understand that a holy man of God pen these words. He put pen to

parchment and gave us this blessed book. And by to add that every book

of the Bible was penned by holy man who was moved upon by the holy

ghost, that good holy Spirit of God breathed into them. This particular man,

Jeremiah, who we will focus upon some tonight, and we will focus

even more upon his writings. This man was a man of God. He

was a prophet, a seer, an oracle, a mouthpiece of God.

When it came to preaching the truth, he was first in line to volunteer

chapter this writing. He told the people that the Lord said, let not

the wise men bask in his wisdom, nor the mighty man in his might,

nor the rich man in his riches. He had told such men as

the mighty the wise, not to boast in their wisdom, might and riches.

He did not say that they were unwise. He did not say that

they were not mighty. He did not say that they were poor. He

told them, don't you boast in your wisdom, might and riches. But

it goes on to notify the children of Israel. Some who might have been

like these men were some who might have been these very men, But other

people who did not have the wisdom, the might, and the riches of

others. The Lord said, can I let you know something, Israel.

Listen to me carefully. Now you may boast in something as a child of

God. And you can boast in this fact that you know and understand who

I am, who God is, who He is. You can boast in

that. And I'm so thankful tonight that people came into the House of the

Lord boasting of the goodness of God. All this week I've been thanking the

Lord for his goodness and for his mercy, And truly it has been trailing

the heels of each and every person in this building. Why would we not

come to the House of God and make her boast in the Lord, I

want you to know that it would take a mighty man of God to put

his finger in the face of the mighty, the noble, the wise,

and the rich and to tell them, don't you boast about it. I've

been spending some time down in Miami on business, and you see a lot

of vehicles down in there. You see the vehicles of the paupers, and

you see the vehicles of the princes, so to speak. You see Lamborghinis,

and you see little tiny hondas, rasp burners, toyotas, and plenty

of times you see rolls, royces, and Sister Harrison, the Bible said

that a man's gift would open up opportunities for himself. I'm trying to paraphrase

right there, not quote it exactly as it is written. And so it

took a mid man of God to point to the noble prince and to tell

him, I know that you're wise, I understand that you're mighty, and

I behold your great wealth. But I want you to know you should not

be boasting in that. Back to me and Sister Havell, being in Miami,

we would see those that drove by into Lamborghini that was content to just

let it advertise for itself because of what it was. You knew who was

behind the wheel. You knew the popper or the young businessman was not operating

such a motor vehicle. But there were those that wanted to boast in the

abundance of the things that they possess, and they would advertise it would be

perfectly quiet around us, and then this loud noise, a great rumble would

take place, and you could tell that somebody had pushed the pedal to the

metal and rent the engine. And you looked to see somebody there in some

sports car that costs two hundred thousand plus, revving the engine, just wanting

you to turn your head so that you could see that they were behind the

wheel. Whether Mick Laru's mother is deceased now, so I could tell this

on her back when her husband Emilio was prospering greatly and not doing so well

spiritually, he took her out and he took her car shopping. While she

was car shopping, she pointed at a beautiful vehicle. I do not remember

the make model, but it was not a cheap vehicle. I want to

say it was something like a Lincoln Continental. And back in the eighties.

He bought her one of the finest vehicles that you could buy in that area.

She admitted to them many years later why she was riding around the neighborhood

so much in that vehicle. She said, I'm ashamed to admit it,

but I was showing it off. She said, I wanted everybody in that

neighborhood to know that I was the one driving that vehicle. She said,

I would slow down so that they could see and focus on the driver and

know that Barbara LaRue was the one behind the wheel operating that motor vehicle.

That's what Jeremiah the prophet was telling the mighty, the wealthy, the noble,

the smart, the wise man. He was telling them, don't you

boast in those things, and don't you show them off? Church say amen.

You see, this man of God must have been a mighty man of

valor, because at this time he was a young preacher or a young prophet,

but he was glad to serve as God's spokesman. Brother, stare at

this man, squared his shoulders, walked into the streets, threw down and

preached. His words were fiery, His message was explosive. This man of

God wasn't preaching a camp meeting. He wasn't preaching to a household of true

worshipers of Jehovah God or the faithful that were walking in and out of the

temple. He was preaching a message of repentance to his people who were going

astray. He knew his people were not doing right. He knew that his

people were sowing among thorns. He knew that his people were not cultivating their

hearts. God knew who Jeremiah was. God knew that he would be willing

to volunteer to engage in such conflict, a spiritual conflict with the believers that

were not living right, and also with the unbelievers that didn't want to hear

anything at all that the man of God was saying. God knew who Cheremiah

was before his mother's wound began to form Jeremiah. God knew he could use

this man to operate in the office of a prophet. Jeremiah was not going

to operate in the office of a noble man, in the office of a

king or a prince. So God had a planned for Jeremiah to be a

prophet, and Jeremiah would gladen me Colt the rate his own heart until the

time came to Jeremiah to do what God had commissioned him to do. At

what point Jeremiah said to God during his early years of minutes, that he

could not speak to the people on this important searching matter because he was too

long. Am I'm not supposed to respect to my orders? Am I not

supposed to honor the people that aren't in authority? And I paraprace here as

I've been doing so tonight. God replied with these words, come home,

Jeremiah. Don't let your young age hinder you. You won't remember that the

apostle Paul, speaking to the young man Timothy, he said, let no

man despise thy. You preachers, come out of your age. You signfinitely

possess capacity. You should also have a burden before you, minister. You

should also have a great knowledge and understanding of the Word of God. And

after you have obtained all of those wonderful things that that will help you in

your ministry. Remember you don't ever have to be intimidated by any one,

not a king, not a princes. No one so intimidate you. Who

said, understand who your employer is? Who to misses you or the past

that hand, and you should never feel inferior to the wealthy business man.

You should never feel inferior to the king, or the prince or the land.

When you learn how to get these things out stowed away in your heart,

you will find yourself being fearless, and you will preach without talking fear

and favor. It'll keep you from me a god haines eye. It'll you

from being balked. Enable yourself as somebody this for sel, preacher. You

will not walk around with a full seal side. Who can you test?

Let's say all that preacher's gonna do it. Let's call me a little maid.

Then I set myself down. Then I'll be careful who I go and

preach for Amen, and the church says Amen. Preachers preach repentance to people,

whether they be princes, kings or queens. Preach without fear or favor,

man of God. If God calls you, and that two letter word

if is a very powerful word. If God has called you, preach the

preach man of God, preach the whole counsel of God. Tell them nothing

but to truth. So help you God. One of the messages that the

propert Jeremiah had to deliver to the people. It's found it of golden text

Jeremiah, chapter number four and verse number three. Listen to what the Man

of God said in our golden text me find this writing. But just said

the Lord to the men of Tuna and Jerusalem, break up your fallow ground

there and so not among thorns, say somebody look at your neighborhood, saying

that, hey, neighbor, make up your fallow ground. Seen this next

time, So nothing among thorns. So what this is saying is said,

get read up the briars and the prayer of boll say and prepare the land

there that God has given you. Preparing on Parker, say, preparing for

clots, prepare it for fema for your family. Prepare the Lamb made it

to Who was this message directed? Certainly not to the Heathens of their patent.

This the sient porter onto the nation of Judah and being of Jerusalem.

Is that doctor who were preaching to today the hysteric. Just like Jeremiah,

we're preaching the professor Christians. People that say God is their God, people

that said they have faithful attendance went on in the house of God, that

they are not of their father Jesus, they're up their father the airport.

Jeremiah was stirred on a homely ghost to get out into the highways and stand

there and tell them that you are not putting God first. God is not

a priority in your life. To hear you're missing a poet Jeremiah. At

this time he was not preaching, saying head to the he that's and o

padan. So he was preaching to professors who would not professor say so.

With that in mind, the fool am I preaching tool who gotta culklabate the

broth too, lay sayna a monk of thorn. So thank God for that

fellow ride. God was concerned about their turning away from him unto other gods.

In other words, they are losing their good standing with Jehovah. The

old saints of yesteryear would say this, they were backsliding. A lot of

professor Christians today they say a person cannot backslide. But the old timers of

yesteryear would be clipped to say they have let their first love. They did

not lose it, they've walked away from it. They chosen for rabbits over

Jesus. They chosen the cares of this life and over the cares of ministry.

They chosen this pleasure over pleasures of God. This fact sliding. Notice

two things we're going on. The concerns here in my habit. He stated,

clearly, you aren't back sliding. The first thing I saw was the

commandment was given break up your pholoh ground, and so not to among the

thorns if they were not cultivating. There was something wrong telling somebody here tonight

the fact that your crownd is Philoh is disappointed to God. It is very

upsetting to your brothers and sisters in Christ. A lot of people they do

not preach properly on this scripture Pholloh ground. They act as go it has

never been plo They act totole. It has never been playing in the fruit

and never grown from the plants in that soil. That's incorrected. How the

girl speaks of a land that has been abandoned, that's lift unattended. That

love was what's prosperous, So that I must what's talcupate It trust the user,

it's the property older, it's the landlord. Hey, there's something that's

happening there. Somebody's lost her. They desired to cultivate, and that's what's

coming on. I'm feeling in my soul needs somebody, not in the sound

of my parents. So you're not cultivating, You're not preparing. You're preparing

the heart before you come to church. You're preparing your heart everything that we

get from return the times you will cultivator where you will lose out when God

I'm setting tone. People are a cultivated divorce to light. So the first

commandment was break up your ballogram and so not among thorns. And then I

think about this, brother Jesse. The concern was stated clearly, you are

backe sliding as a result to not obeying the command of God. Oh Jesus,

they have hearded their hearts. They have calloused their hearts until their almost

past feeling. Jesus mentiones something similar to this. In the Gospels. We

find the record of it. Some people call it the parable of the sower,

and I too have preached on the parable of the sower over the last

few years. But I've met something this past Sunday in my soul that instructed

me to name this the parable of the soils. We're gonna do that here

tonight. We're not gonna call it the parable of the summer. We're gonna

call it the parable of the soils. You see, Jesus was telling your

mind to tell these people, look at the condition of the soil. What

is it to cultivate? It is to prepare and use land for gardening or

crops. Do you all remember that when Jesus came, the Bible set aforeerunner

was sent ahead of the Son of God. Just tells me of the necessity

of proper preparation before anything takes place. And if Jesus cluster him, Saper

needed a prophet. Now you chilling the badness, a lockness of wild honey

eating prophet to be a bosser. And the we were to say one word,

prepare concern another world for their teen need. Is somebody cultivated before he

came? Don't you believe it? You need to cultivate your own heart the

parable head of the cerel say, it's speaking up the haunts of people like

you alive. Obviously we know who the soler is. Obviously we know what

the seed represents. We understand the interpretation of the parable. And so Jesus

needed someone to cultivate the hearts of mankind before his arrival. Now, I

want you to know that must have been a very important piece of ground.

We're not talking about a piece of ground that could not produce. We're not

talking about a piece of ground that was worthless. Just outside the front door

of the church here there is a little portion of this ground that seemingly will

not produce. It is not conducive for growth. There is something wrong with

it. Recently, brother Jacob and I said, we're gonna have to give

it a soil transplant. We have tried to cultivate it. We have tried

to break it up. We have tried to sow seed, and we did

not sow among thorns. Brother Jacob and I know better than that, we

would never do that. But there is something wrong with a condition of that

soil. We've tried every choice of grass and you could plant there. This

church has spent a couple of thousands of dollars trying to grow grass there.

Now, Brother Jacob, what are we gonna do? What in the world

are we gonna do with just that little piece of ground. We've got several

acres here now, and it seems like every piece of ground is further so

on other than maybe it eight by twelve Rectangler's shape of ground just outside of

the church. It's not only because of heavy traffic of people coming in and

out of the House of God. There's something wrong with that soil. Is

that? What's going on with you is there's something wrong when you're soil.

And when I look at your humanity, I see you have a saint coming

to name nominator. As Sister Root does again, I see that you have

the saint coming denminator the sister Root has you are nothing but flesh and blood.

God has pulled you from the dust of the earth and breathing you the

breath of life. And you have a spirit and a soul that has been

given to you. As Adam was given to garden that Adam was told to

keep it, you probably be a You are not keeping that soil, and

you're allowing the crimbles and the guy say the words of acorns to grow there

because you're not given to the soil. I said, you're not tending to

the soil. That's wrong with my peace of grown preacher, I'll tell you

what's more with it. When you're coming to church, you're not letting the

man. He's not a gospel time in his hand head to you on your

soul. You're missing a part that we're not churching this to it, but

we're not hearing. Let God say, that's what you're alive for saying,

I'm weary, were preparing god Im. They're thanking you our preaching the Lord

to day, but they're not kidding. I'm preaching it to the Prince.

I preach on to the proper time, curse the limity, cultivate, touch

the brons too late. I'm telling you the the the nurses coming, the

troubles on the horizon. Then you gotta cultivate the bath too late, Omon,

proper church and something. We want to cultivate her before it's too late.

Somebody. Then you get the gospel power. Then there's somebody better get

to work and work and lab You see, nowadays we can tell when we

walk in the building in most places, speaking of churches, you can tell

the pressure is on the preacher in the pool to cultivate. You can tell

that the pressure is on the elder in the church to cultivate and make it

a place that would receive seed and then it would grow and bring forth glory

to God. But Jesus himself said in the ninth chapter of Saint John's Gospel,

he said, I must work. You keep it mind. John had

already cultivated that. Jesus said, I must work the works of him that

sent me. While this day the night cometh when no ban can work.

You know the duration of Jesus's work. You have an idea of the duration

of the longevity of John back. This is work. You know when the

time of cessation came, when they were no longer working, when their work

has ceased. Now that work too and that word late too late is very

disturbing and very troubling. But an emphasis tonight is not too late. But

there will come a time when it's too late to reach the least lost and

Nolan, it will come a time when us too late to hear the preacher's

preaching. Now, they will come a time with us too late to attend

Sunday school. Faith, it will come a time with us too late to

go to church, for Jesus has already returned and took his bride away.

But the emphasis here tonight, it's not on too late, it's on cultivate.

Oh. Now, I feel like the pressure should not be on the

preacher. It should be on the person in the pew. I'm telling somebody.

You could sit there in the pew and how somebody runs the spiritual cultivator

say, all arounds, you run by road, all by all, they're

kills a cultivating. There close a power, there comes a shovel, there

goes a hood. But locked up, or you do it, we will

solve. We better lock while you are time to do so. That's told

the poor mother that doesn't read it. Talk And now it's up to you

to do what I called you to know. Well, there's something odd about

my piece of ground. Oh no, there's nothing. Oh no, there's

nothing. You're not cultivating within every man. There is a measure of faith,

the salvation of God that works repentance has appeared to every man. I'm

telling you the reason why you're not bringing forth fruit is because you're not allowing

the seed to go in the ground. And the reason why the seed can't

go in the ground is because you are not cultivating for reception of the seed.

There's anybody in this building here now that boy just preaching to myself or

as known, let the crickets preach here or not. So we're gonna call

this parable of our Lord, the parable of the soils. Did you catch

what I just said, the parables of the soils. I know we have

a sower and some seed in this parable, but let's focus on the soil.

The obvious is, we have a sower in Jesus tonight. We have

a sower that administers in this building tonight. And we have some seed,

and it's being scattered right now, and it's being so But I want you

to know that it is uncertain where it is being sold. I have no

idea. It seems like her. I'm custing upon equal ground. It seems

like her, I'm custing upon people on the same persuasion. I don't know

the secrety on the soil. I'm uncertain about the tradition of the soil.

We don't know, Richard, on the categories represent the condition of your heart.

I don't know if your heart is the stony ground. I don't know

if it's the fallow down. I don't know if it's the thorny ground.

It might even be by the way side. You modelate Hooray took this servant

and threw it out the door, and you will allowed to know of the

way side. Don't top me that you would have such a heart as dear

so our condition and uncontimpated, that you will about the press it, Oh

God, in the face in this day the propheteer of Mama was so un

to see, and he was preaching. Brother, he was preaching. He

said, that power they shut up in my bones. I cannot hold back.

The anaughton of God is upon him. He's doing everything he can to

deliver the burden of his heart. Since he was a young man, he

would have made informed in his mother's wound, just to how he knows.

I'm a prophet. But you know what they were hearing, But they were

not heeding. They were hearing and maybe listening, but they were not giving

them more earnest heed to the things that they heard. They were not pondering

things in their heart, and they were not acting upon those things that they

were hearing. In Matthew, chapter number thirteen and verse number nineteen, the

Bible said, when anyone here at the word of the Kingdom and understand it,

did not then come up the wicked word and catch it the way that

which is soda in his heart. This is he which was seved the seed

by the wayside. How are you gonna understand if you're daydreaming her and you're

not paying attention for what the spirit of God says her, come to the

church. Jesus comes on the same In Nurse number twenty two, he said,

he also that receives he among the thorns. Is he did here the

word and the cares of this world, and in the sequelness of riches trunk

the word and it becomes her unfruitful. That's what was happening in the Jermiah.

Oh he's just a young preacher. Oh it's just a crazy prophet telling

Lisa he is so look how passionate he is. We are card to and

collected, We're noble, we're mighty, we're rich. Yet to he said,

I'm just Michael goes within the churches a chargn they are rich and increased.

Who cuts and they have need of nothing. Stop boosting in your mind,

in your not give your wits, call down down gorns ants of my

doing. I'll start to forgive him left I can do repent it. J

I did apply in a fando. Let's not cultivating, isn't it? Find

how they can do little? The creature who is simply fulfilling his call or

ordained, ordained from his mother's womb. Jeremiah ordained from his mother's womb.

John the Baptist ordained from his mama's room. Jesus Christ ordained from his mama's

will. Rich Man Noble, right wise, you better be very careful of

down playing what God is trying to do in your heart. When God says,

I've given you an opportunity to break up that story. Ron, I've

given you an opportunity to cultivate. You know who the cultivator is. That's

the Spirit of God. No old man coming to the Father unless the Spirit

draw him. This message tonight lets me know that the Lord is trying to

pull for somebody. Maybe this are people in this building. God is handing

you a cultivator and telling you you better get to cultivating. They said right

here, and the deceitfulness of riches choke the word, and he become a

fruitful if you might remain fruitful in this life. Your Mighty not say you're

unwise. Your Amighty did not say you're stupid, you re minded, not

say you're brocal. He said you better stop your bursting. Now, come

on to anybody listening around here, This twenty second versel. It is directed

to those who are rich and increased with goods, who need nothing, and

they feel us O they don't need anything else in their life. I don't

need a preacher. I don't need a doctor. I don't need a law.

I don't need that sermon. I don't need true Sola says say all

I need that. It's my private that must s tom with God. Hold

were ready by silence of God from us passage? They heeded Jeremi did John

the Baptist did? They needed? Others heard? How many of you right

now can admit that you are in hot pursuit? Oh God, what Jesus

was saying? What Jeremiah was saying? What John the Baptist was saying?

Some of you are in hot pursuit of Earth, of wisdom, pleasure,

wealth, knowledge. You're ever learning and never able to come to the knowledge

of the truth. Men are increased with knowledge. Pleasing myself is all that

matters somebody's thinking right now, Doctor Luke would speak to you. Doctor Luke

spoke of such people as yourself, and he spoke of the different soul types

thorny soul. Oh what did doctor Luke say? They are unable to produce

real fruit. Doctor Luke said, those that plant seed in thorny soul types,

they are unable to produce real quality fruit. There is an absolutely no

spiritual development in their lives. They never mature. How many of you saw

that picture I set out today of that young boy that has developmental issues.

He's not developing bodily because of there is something wrong. It is not the

case here. There is nothing wrong with this church. There's nothing wrong with

the sixty five people here. There's nothing wrong with the teachers and the preachers

here. There's certainly nothing wrong with the soul, the good Jesus that we

serve, and the good holy ghost that helps us, and the good Word

of God that blesses this service after service. So what is the problem.

What is the problem whise there are no spiritual development? By is the spiritual

immaturity. It's not Taunt's fault. It's not the prophet's fault. Jeremy,

the prophet was preaching of these people. He said, break up, you

are fellow ground. It's some not a monk's thorn, said, do you

know who sows a monk's thorn to somebody that thinks about doing something for God

after last minute. Someone that thinks about saying heaven, but that time praying

ahead after they're falling asleep. Somebody that thinks about head praying her before they

do. In the monk after they are reading a work care they come on.

Now, he just scout on that scene, have the hole turning around.

Not a preacher, bet it stewing that scene. I'm going around head

if you want to. That's gonna prove out that's unprofitable for their sake.

Listen, I love every person in this building tonight, but the condition of

your heart is what is most important to me right now. The condition of

your heart. There's no doubt the off Jeremiah was a great sower of the

Great Seed. There's no doubt. I mean, this man appears in the

Sacred Scriptures. This man gave us one of the most wonderful books in the

Bible. This man was so prophetic and so profound, and he gave us

such a glorious view of our Savior when our Savior was being crucified. There

is no doubt. There was no problem with the message, but system with

these people simply did not want to hear it because of the condition of their

heart. Also, Brother roquep he was a sower of the great seed.

But it was going to be left up to the people if their fields became

productive or not. And that's what's happening right here at Bethel. In many

other places, the pressure is on the preacher, The pressure is on the

order, The pressure is on the teacher. But the pressure on that soil

ought to be you. You ought to be sitting in sackcloth and ashes.

You ought to be fat, the praying and seeking God. You ought to

be turned in that song. How many of you believe that even Esau was

a keeper of the ground, even Esaul to what it was like to cultivate

to the song? How many people heard Cheerimiah in Jesus preaching about the condition

of the soil. A lot of people, I would say, tens of

thousands heard these spent of God preaches. How many served them? How many

serve Jesus? How many served the prophety? How many following Jesus? And

how many following the prophety? Not many? The Bible said, many are

called, but you are chosen because of the truth is very few people want

to work. And I can tell you if you do not want to work

naturally. There is no way you already holding our spiritual I have seen this

to be son a lazy preacher. He's a lazy prayer womber. He is

known want you at all that will come on now. I would not go

around from church to church they're in for an offering, and then when I

leave, having received a tear, say not offering, accuse him of knock

hiving will when I would not be atta knocked their head to help somebody in

that church. There was in me that even a postle call would say,

a quilla and priscilla. We got some tents to make just supplement. Not

INtime that the preacher castor listen to me because he had come not contivate that

they're playing for his family. The hell lock tw through his ten vest I

t church up pure revival. That okay, I raising preacher head. What

there's time to hold that? Now? Well? Would I act like he

had times on his plan? I feel a holy goos in this place.

They listen, but they did not allow the words to bring forth change in

their life. I spoke of Simon's name this past Sunday morning. It means

to hear, to listen to understand and to respond. Every child of God

must have a tender heart. We call that good ground. They're the people

that take every sermon seriously. It comes into every service thankfully. They come

into every service offering praise and thanksgiving because of the goodness and the mercy of

God upon their lives. I'm telling you, tender hearted people will pray every

night of the Revival when in service starts, dear in the service and dearing

the ultra service. But they will also pray every other service night. They

do not wait for Revival to plow their hearts. Oh Jesus, I struck

a nerves out there. I still love you. Are you waiting until the

last minute to say, Oh, that's right, we have church in thirty

minutes, Oh that's right, we have church in two hours. But the

tenure hearted person will take every service and every sermon for themselves. They will

get everything they can out of it. Even the oldest of saints that's been

serving a Lord for thirty plus years will allow the Holy Ghost and its spiritual

times to roll over in its heart, and that person will say, God,

change me, don't let me stay the same. And we see this

happen repeatedly. We've witnessed this happen for years. The person that needed it

walked away unscathed and not blessed. But that person that had been in God's

house for years walks out blessed, and they come to church the next of

us, just saying I got so much out of that. I feel like

I got saved again. Do you know that the same thing that they've done

when they got saved, it's the same thing they're doing now. There's never

a time when anybody stops. Can't deny it. I'm telling you preaching such

to tell them, never come out of time when you're not killing it up.

Saints God, then will never come a time when you're not punking it

up, when you're not stirring it up, puss, Paul said Timothy,

stirring up. Don't tell that's within you. That's what Paul is saying.

Don't let it lie us out, don't let it lock down the tack stand

up. The fellow ground had been turned up for so long I couldn't receive.

See, We'll say it like this, and it developed some sort of

crust. You know, It's like water off ducks back. It just does

not penetrate. He's scattered the seed and it bounces off the ground and the

fowls of the air come and pick it up. I've got some dove at

my house, and when that big hoodo he comes looking for something that he

picks one of them off. It might take him two or three days to

stunk it properly, learn his patterns and learn where it lights upon the feed.

But eventually he'll get it. The next morning I'll see that he had

got one of my pitches. I'll see a plum of feathers that just puffed

up right there, but no bird, because that seed could not go down

in that earth. And that's what I'm dealing with right now. We're pulling

and we're pushing. We've handed you the plow, and God has said,

cultivate work, cultivate work. The foul ground had been turned up before,

but now there's no desire. I'll just let it sit. And I want

to say something I said a little while ago. There is a family here

in town that used to be a very normal family. They used to be

a functional family. They used to be a prominent family and a renowned family.

Well recently I looked at their property and I looked at their homestead,

and I knew a meeting that something is wrong, something is not right.

There's a problem with dad. There's a problem with mom and sister. How

I was told there's a problem in the marriage. After all of these years

of being together, they are no more. He's seventy and she's sixty five,

and they're divorcing. I haven't called any names. What went wrong.

Somebody's stopped coltimating, I said, somebody's stopped plowing her off that crowd.

Are you powering up your heart? Are you searching the heart? Are you

killing me earth? Are you killing your soul? Are you pushing? Are

you praying? Are you stirring it up? Are you reminding yourselfer ah lokill

us of God? Are you hoping in God? Are you charging yourself in

God? Pray? But cultivating in the ashens of sick life? That's not

mattering. Let's to being true. That's not wrong with brothers, turns,

you lot, you sit, come on and stop cultivating. You see when

you stop cultivating, right then and there, it's known to your neighbors,

it's known to your visitors, it's known to everybody. You have no intention

whatsoever of being prosperous or fruit. When you see a church's running three or

four and it's been running three or four for fifteen or twenty years, you

can tell right then there's a nugget of wisdom for all of you right there.

You can tell right then that that pastor that preacher in that church is

content with us four and no more. And I guarantee if you grow up

to Dennis with him at the church, they'll give you ten thousand reasons or

why they can't grow at church there, and they'll blame it on everything,

but on their lack of desire to work. You'll do what I'm put in.

They'll say things like this, Well, the reason why this brother over

here is being blessed is because his church is where there's good soil. It's

where it's fertile. Oh what I would do if I was over there,

Know you would not you slocked a servant, Know you would not. You

would destroy it. You would destroy it by the timers. And I was

walking around looking at the portable buildings today. He climbed up on the rail

of one over them, and he threw one arm over one side, the

other arm over the other side. He dangled both feet off and he said,

Papa, look at me. I looked like a sloth. I said,

you sure, do you know what one looks like, don't you?

And I didn't explain one bit what that meant to that little man, but

I meant what I said. But I said, that's cute, and that's

funny, and that's adorable, that's hilarious. And I laughed and I said,

now let's go find something to do. And it wasn't too long after

that he said, Papa, look, there's some batteries that somebody needs to

throw away. There's some batteries that somebody needs to throw in the dumpster.

He would looking percepting to do. Come now, old uncultivated soil invites the

infestation of leeds, brambles and thirty bushes. Or you can miss her uncultivated

soil, Her invites infestation of men things who you want to be invested by

our parents and the demons of Hell. No, oh, no, how

they think you do. Then you gotta get to pollend and you better not

look back. Don't see anybody that mos up conspt loose for loser, for

the pole ens up leaving the field and they lose for the results of the

Kingdom of God. The Kingdom of God's results is that you would be fruitful,

and that's your frequent remain God's about attention is for you to post apostle.

Paul said, I word that you prosper, not talking about everybody having

a big, healthy roquest bank account, but I'm saying I do desire that

you prosper. Right, that you first, that you be in good health,

that's your soul prospers, that God blesses you. It's not God's will

that God would look down out of the portals of glory right now and see

some trees bring them forth a lot of fruit. And it's true, some

bringing forth a few pieces of fruit, and then some feels, Brother Philip,

God looks down from heaven and he says, why is that thorny patch

there? Why why is it so infested with thorny bushes? Those thorns are

what's choking the life out of you spiritually, the small foxes full of iron

and little thorns, the thorny bushes. Someone needs to cultivate that heart.

How do I do that? Preacher, thank you for asking you humble your

else you repent and you allow that heart to be resentive to the word of

God. You acknowledge at the foot of the prophet Jeremiah, and say,

Preacher, it's apparent to me that God sturges you to preach this very message,

a young preacher. You just said I needed to break up my fallow

ground and that I should not be sowing among thorns. Any wise man,

any noble man would realize sowing among thorns will not bring forth good results.

And that statement doesn't mean something to somebody. I can tell that. But

if God was to tell me brother Howell, he probably wouldn't say Brother how

If I said Jeremy, or maybe call me by my new name that I'm

getting one I get to heaven, or brother Nathaniel. If God told me

Jeremy, so not among thorns, I said, what moment? Now you

do realize that somebody in this building tonight God has said you better cultivate because

it's too late. And we know what the Holy Goss has been saying through

tones of interpretation, and we know what he said this past Sunday night.

His sister WoT came in this building tonight to testify of how she was greatly

blessed Sunday night as this youth choir was singing this past Sunday night, I

said, Lord, that was so wonderful. The power of God was so

strong, the glory of God was so real. Rich, Sweet Sister Howard

asked me that Sunday night. She said, how they do? She said,

When I'm standing up there in front of them, I can't really hear

it. I said, honey, didn't want the Sister Wooton is saying I

went home blessed. What she's saying is I went home with an abundance of

fruit, And she said, I've been feasting on it all week and couldn't

wait to get back here this Wednesday night to testify that I was still full.

And I still feast them. But in that same service before they spoke

and said, somebody, before too long, it's going to be too late.

Jesus said, I must work the works of Him that sent me while

it is day for the night coming. You may like night shifty. You

may be a night hour, so when God turns the locks out, you

won't be working by canderlight. That's what you do it you're waiting until it's

too late. You know you're supposed to start spiritual work. At seven am,

you start thinking about where you're supposed to be the seven oh five area.

Your employer doesn't lock that vea, does your God lock that? And

I've heard creatures before say I don't have any notes. I don't use notes.

I don't believe in notes. I can tell who's got enough God in

them and enough Bible in them to do that. And I can tell who's

lying between their teeth. And they simply are making an excuse for why they're

fixing a preach on every and anything, and preach a rabbit trail sermon that

makes no sense to anybody. The sloughful they was at McDonald's up until seven

o'clock, drug hisself into the church at seven twenty and open service at seven

point thirty. Did not Jesus say he would say, thy slothful servant,

break up the fallow ground. I love each person in this field, and

I love the people of God. But Jeremiah's message that he preached would not

be posted on most podcasts today. John the Baptist's message that he preached would

not be posted on much media today. Mark twelve and thirty seven goes like

this, David therefore himself calleth him Lord, and whence is he? Then

his sons and the common people heard him. Gladly, someone should have heard

Jeremiah Gladdy, someone should have heeded the words of John the Baptist. Glad

d. Mark is saying that most of the people present who were listening to

Jesus at the time, received the Lord's teachings. But also it's been noted

because Sun did not receive them. So where does this leave us? Somebody

has to go to the tiller and not wait until the last minute to realize

that needs gas and or Titus was telling me today and system arguere right,

I am programming him and I am working on him. Today's that Papa cover?

Are Titus wills us psit down? Or right now? Coupny of times?

We just talked about working. After I made him a little wooden knife.

I spent three minutes on it. Maybe because I'm not to give him

a REALISTI let me today we were talking about working, and you said,

Papa, what kind of man goes and gets a weed either to do some

weed eat I forgets to bring this straight? Would you say that? See?

Did you mean what you said? You couldn't believe that kitchen. How

old are you? Okay, thank you? That's coming out of the mouth

of a six year old. What kind of pastor comes to church and he

doesn't have a vagacy? That's what Jesus said. Behold apparel, Behold of

sower, Behold a sower. It just won't out of the barn. Down

there in his hand is a bag of seat. Who goes to the field

without their bag of seat? But I can tell you this, maybe three

days prior, or a week prior, a farmer renod the whole. A

fireman coming out of the barn with a cultivator. I don't want to freeze

like that. I don't want to stir it up. I don't want to

turn it up. I don't want to tell it up. That's okay,

freacher. You can cast that seat if you want to, but you've better

cultivate before it's too late. When that young man that could have been helped

ends up being a homosexual ends up being a transgender, that girl ends up

being promiscuous, that boy ends up being a murderer, that girl ends up

being in a bank robber, a thief. The old manner of sin is

being committed because you refuse to cultivate again. The pressure is being placed right

here on the whole pit and all the preacher, But where the pressure needs

to be placed is on each person in that period. Let's stand. We're

gonna give Brother Jesse a break tonight. This is not to condemn us.

This message is to protect us, each and every one of us. It

is to challenge us. I, like Sister Howell, like Sister Crystal,

like others, have been very sick. But I feel like I'm about to

be done with that, says to how It's still in the middle of it,

says the hand is still in the middle of it, says the crystal

just gets starting and stead going around. But I want to come to night

threats to you because I felt like I needed to cultivate towards to Lady again,

cultivated to prepare and use land for garden and earth province. Now the

pastors come through, as John the Baptist did, and Jesus came, and

Apostle Paul also said, I've laid a foundation. You better be careful how

you build on that foundation. At this point, we're pushing the tiller towards

you and saying, now kill up your on parcel ground, because around each

person in this building there's a boundary, and there is a line that your

Sunday school teacher, your parent can't cross. I always told my children,

I said, I cannot make you do things. I cannot make you serve

the Lord. But if you, like Judas, choose to go to hell,

then the song that goes like this, why would you choose to go

to hell? Why would you choose to die? How does it go?

Brother just said, why would you choose to play the full? What has

what convinced you to play the fool? Laziness? Lawfulness? Right? Because

it's work. But I want you to know those people may have thought Jeremiah

was being hard on him as he preached, but you know who he was

being the hardest on himself. He cultivated his heart before he preached. But

y'all think about the cultivating that went on for him as a young preacher at

that time to walk into the streets and to subject himself to mockery, ridicule,

criticism, for some rich guy to drive by on the latest model Cammell

and it make him feel like he's nobody. God could have easily commissioned Jeremia

to be the rich guy. But God commissioned that preacher to preach to the

rich guy to keep the rich guy from going to hell. All right,

you better be careful throwing the prophet out of your life. They ended up

taking Jeremiah, throwing him in defict. Y'all remember the terrible of the soils?

Right? Or have you missed the point again? The condition of your

heart has everything to do with you. If you're refusing to cultivate, then

you will never bear free. I'll say this carefully. Brother Tyler has told

me for years, I want to be just like your dad. He's like

an adopted son team and I want to be just like the only way he

can be, just like he has to cultivate on a daily basis, the

same way I do. Right, Brother Samuel told some preachers recently. I

heard him say it. He said, if we're gonna have the anointed that

our pastor has, if we're going to have the call that our dad has

and the anointing that our dad has, we're gonna have to work spiritually the

way our dad works. I want to say this. There are no orphans

God, and with God, there's no handouts to the slothful and the lazy

Spiritually, you have to earn it. And if I could, I'd like

to scream two phrases, break up your foul ground and scream once more in

distance. So not one of the fos. You'll think twice before you play

that country music tomorrow, hopefully, and then try to come to church and

sew gospel seed among thorns. You'll think twice tomorrow, saanks God, where

do we go from here? What do we do? Because A definitely gave

me the latter part of that before it's too late. I know, Sister

Rachel, if she could, she'd cultivate for you. She'd help you.

If I could, I would. That's what I'm trying to do. But

I keep get sunk, I keep seeing ground and says, don't touch me.

Now you say preach to me, and you say, I'll listen to

you. You can scatter and see, but I'm not going to receive it.

And as if you said, I'm untouched and I'm unscathed and I'm unchanged,

you don't realize how dangerous that is. So where do we go from

here? When does change come again? The cultivator is in front of you.

It needs oil, it needs gas and it needs an opera. It

needs an operator. Do you know who the operator is? Each one of

us only I had to sort of altar by now. But I feel like

God's I want you to feel that pressure again. I loved each one.

I love them barely. I heard it. Creatures feel like they just can't

plant some soul with the hearts of him because of the condition of the soul.

They said, I just can't plan anything. They're interest as it waiting

for the seed or the sack. I had plans, I had to see,

I had to serve, and I had to message. I had to

sack them. But I just can't plan it there. It's not going in.

It's not ten to bleed. I just can't plant. Yeah, I

just can't plant there. It's thorny there. It's not that I amout casting

seed and I just can't get the seed to penetrate the crust. I just

can't get it in. I just can't get it in there, brother things,

or I just can't. I just I just can't sermon at diserment de

servant. If I took a hammer and a chisel and bore a hole by

driving the chisel into the crust with the force of the manet and drop the

seed in there. It still do no good. Be sewing among thorns.

Cultivate before it's two length, hereby to tend the men. You're n wild,

you're weak, you're poor, he said. Don't you boast any wisdom

your mind or your richest preacher. You can't touch me. Who do you

think you are? You at another better preacher. Your name is Jeremy.

I met Jeremiah said name. God sent the cultivator to you, and you

know it. And you used to humble yourself, but now you get hard.

I'm harder where there's hardness of soul. There the thorns first