It's a ministry not a mistake - Bro Jeremy Howell 2-21-2024

Brother Nathaniel. The Book of Neobiah, chapter number four, Versus number fifteen

through eighteen. Who else has the microphone? Brother Caleb? Ephesians, chapter

number six and verse number eleven. Ephesians, Chapter number six and verse number

eleven, Brother Nathaniel, Would you breathe that? Neobiah, chapter number four,

Verses fifteen through eighteen. And it came to pass when our enemies heard

it, it was known unto us, and God had brought their counsel to

naught. They will that we returned all of us to the wall, everyone

to his work. And it came to pass from that time forth that the

half of my servants wrought in the work, and the other half of them

held both the spear and the shield, and the bows, and the harbingers,

and the rulers were behind all the House of Judah, they which build

it on the wall, and they that bare burdens, whose those laid in.

Everyone with his own and wrought in the work, and with the other

hand held a weapon. For the builders. Every one had a sword girded

by his side, and so built it. And he that sounded the trumpet

was by me. Praise the Lord. How many of you are willing to

have a shovel in one hand and a sword in the other, if it

comes to that. I am not saying that is what brother Nathaniel just read

to us specifically. I'm just paraphrasing, you're willing to work for God while

you stand for God, or you're willing to stand for God while you work

for God, Brother Caleb, Ephesians chapter number six and verse number eleven,

the full Owner of God, that you may be able to stand against the

walls of the devil. Amen, let's stand for the reading of our golden

text Dilations, chapter number six, verse number nine. And let us not

be weary in well doing, for in due season we shall. I don't

read if we faint not, just to him, and that word of faint

was what stood out to me early today. If we faint not. She

came in here tonight testifying along the lines of do not faint, praise the

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

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

I praise you for these wonderful servants of God that have gathered. I

thank you so much, and I praise you God, for your people,

people of like precious faith, gathering together people of the book, the Holy

Book, people that love you, Gord. I praise you for them.

I thank you Lord for sending them our way. We pray that you would

bless those that are unable to be here tonight and do to work and other

circumstances annoying this Thy servants of God, at my mouth, and help me

to say the things that you would have me to say, some more or

less than a nought the years of this nine people, that they might hear

what it is the Spirit of God saith under this church through this preach word,

and may these sayings go below the shoulders. I pray God, that

of satireate, permeate the soul. We give you the praise and the honor

and the glory, and maybe to part this place joyfully and not sorrowfully.

In Jesus' name in the church says Amen. As you're being seated, look

at your neighbor and say, hey, neighbor, it's a ministry, not

a mistake. So I want to preach a sermon the Holy Ghost titled It's

a ministry not a mistake. Our text is found in a New Testament Book

of the Holy Bible. The Book of Galatians is one of the Apostle Paul's

shorter epistles. Even though the Apostle Paul, one who spent all night teaching

and preaching to a drowsy follower named Eudicus, cut this specific writing very short,

it is very powerful. Again, this writing is very brief. In

fact, the brevity of this writing from such a man as the Apostle Paul

bewilders me. The fact that it is so potent and powerful but yet so

brief amazes me. And I will say again, this is one of my

favorite Pauline epistles. This Pauline epistle is one that made it clear to the

believers people of life precious face, specifically bathes in Christ. It made it

very clear to them that salvation is through faith in Christ alone. The Apostle

Paul taught that no one can earn a salvation. It is true that we

must work out our own salvation with fear and trembling. And it remains true

that after somebody has experienced a true conversion, they have true they've been sorrowful

regarding their sins, and they have turned away from their wickedness and unrighteousness,

and have been born again. After plunging in the ruby red blood of Jesus

Christ. They surface as new creatures. Old things have passed away. Behold,

all things have become new. Things that they once hated they now love.

They're fascinated with things that they used to despise, things that used to

be forbidden to them. Because of the condemnation of their sin. The devil

would not allow them to embrace some things such as salvation, sanctification, and

receiving the holy ghosts. They are no longer forbidden. They are candidates to

receive such wonderful things as that. But even though we do have to put

forth an effort to continue in the spirit and by washing ourselves through the water

word, there is nothing at all whatsoever concerning our works that would cause us

to earn our salvation. The very purpose of this sacred writer was to inform

new believers babes in Christ within the early Church that had been founded by the

apostle Paul. Was for these believers to know there is no spiritual life whatsoever

outside of Jesus Christ. And I believe there are some people in this building

this morning or tonight rather that wholeheartedly concur with that statement that outside of Jesus

Christ, there is absolutely no spiritual life, but all Jesus came to give

us abundant life, and I'm thankful tonight for that abundant life that we have

through Jesus Christ. You will find that after the appall Us So Paul had

established this church in Galatia, that there were people that were Jews that came

in. And these were not just ordinary Jews. These were people that were

profound in their speaking. They were learned, they were scholars. They were

religious leaders known as of Judaizers. If you were to call the commonw a

Judaizer, you may in fact be speaking incorrectly. But if you were to

speak concerning the religious leadership within a Judaism, you could speak of a Judaizer

or somebody that was adhering to the teaching of the Laws of Moses. That

would be a Judaizer. And there were some people that were Jews that were

not God fearing people, they were not Judaizers. And so these Judaizars had

come into this Christian church, this Messianic church, that had received Jesus Christ

as their personal Lord and savior. They embraced the possibility that Jesus Christ was

in fact the substitutionary sacrifice that stood in their stead, and that he brought

forth their salvation, and they no longer felt it needful for them to participate

in certain ceremonial laws. There was also gentile people predominantly, this congregation would

have been full of gentile believers. And so these Judaizers again that are religious

Jewish people, they'd come into the congregation and they take their seat, and

at some point they began to promote what the Apostle Paul considered to be a

false or a perverted doctrine. They began to infiltrate this group of people.

They deliberately attempted to impregnate this young church with false doctor. But it was

started by none other than the great God fearing man, the Apostle Paul.

As we were get started in preaching tonight, I said, how many of

you are willing to have a shovel in one hand and a sword in the

other hand. There's no doubt that it was very discouraging to the Apostle Paul

to have perceived a word that these false teachers had appeared within this congregation and

was whispering in the ears of these parishioners. These false teachers were religious.

Most people would have said, the ju day isars are here tonight. These

false teachers had come to relations and saw out the little ones of the faith,

the babes in Christ, and they were stressing the importance of keeping the

workings of the Law of Moses. They seemed to be on having all of

the males within that congregation circumcised in order to honor the covenant that Abraham had

received from the Lord Jehovah. I'm sure that this had to be disheartening and

discouraging for the apostle Paul to have to deal with this while he's trying to

be obedient to the Lord and God's commandment and to fulfill the Great Commission,

and to plant as many churches as he can in that part of the country

before he takes his last breath. May I point out firstly that he is

trying to receive converts into the Christian faith, and while he's receiving converts,

he finds himself having to convince other people who should have been convinced already,

people that call themselves converts. He's having to convince them that these people that

have come in from the outside, the judai Asers, religious Jewish people.

He's having to convince these new converts that these judai Azers are teaching and promoting

a perverted gospel. And those are some of the very words chosen to be

written down by the great Apostle Paul in this Pauline epistle. He called it

an accursed gospel. He called it a perverted gospel. These people came in

and appeared to be religious. So the Bible students and readers present tonight will

remember the Old Testament Bible character Neel Mayah and the leaders of Israel, and

how they had to do this very thing that the Apostle Paul did while they're

beauty. They had defied, while the Apostle Paul was building up that church

had been Majordan testified tonight about the one that Jesus said, while pointing to

himself and speaking of Peter. He spoke of himself as being the rocket,

that the church would be built upon her, and that the gates of Hell

would not be able to prevail against it. What Jesus was saying is this.

He was saying, after I leave you guys through the power of the

Holy Gust will begin to establish my bride. The church will be conformed,

it will develop and begin to mature. But the gates of Hell will be

open, and the demons of Hell will enter into the souls and of human

beings. That we'll do everything they can apostalize another. You remember the Bible

said this and that they would compass the land be seen in order to prosaloge,

in other words, to bring somebody from one relief system like unto another.

And that's what we find here. These Jewish people are traveled in the

Glacia with one purpose in mind. There as bad as the Wantness people,

and they try to infurturate her the Trinity churches. They come on, knowing

missing her to the Personaliza to Trinity. Terrior hands her and try to get

them to commutum unto Wantness to the custom. Who is he that is heresy?

Listen a costal Costal, I said, preferning doctrine. I'm know right

now I'm losing some leaders on the Ontness to the Custom movement. As you

listen to me as something who in the state of losing her has been listening

to us for several years. I want you to know. You've got to

come up and out have fos doctor who want to be convinced under truth of

the doctrine of the triood Godhead. I want you to know it will not

be the first time that somebody had been warned and told you better be careful

who listening and themni and preachers, and you better be careful who listening to

their false teachers. And I'm talking to somebody and I just when we talked

to him, we received the pressings, Oh God, just when we talk

to her, we're being a stabber something. Then the enemy comes here,

I said, they're the enemy comes here. Amen. Amen. So we

find this biblical character Lehemiah and the leaders of Israel. They had to do

this very thing right in the middle of a major project. A real pastor

sometimes we'll find himself for having to run off the roof. No, he's

busy, mystery to the sheep. I know it had to be discouraging and

disappointing or apostle Paul to receive news from the believer, also from the Holy

ghost, the grievous usser. They're coming in. I'm telling you, not

a holiness church there will come ady when there's not a ton of stering.

There will come aday when there's not a Justin roy Taper. They are come

of kinder when there's not a Jeremy Howard. You better not be so busy

working on the building. The mystery. The sheep that to forget her about

the rotter, I said her, that's a ministry that's not on the stake.

We have done what we done, deliver. They had no purpose,

these people with the Amayah, right in the middle of a major construction project.

The only thing I don't like about being off for a week or two,

Brother road Cap, is loosening the condition of my voice. I'm going

to try to recondition it here tonight. The spirit is willing, but the

flesh is which erase. Your hands have praised the Lord. We find right

in the middle of a major project. They had to hold a hammer in

the one hand and a sword in the other. And to cut this a

little short, I will not read all of our cotext that was found in

the fourth chapter of the Book of Nehemiah, but we will read eat that

seventeenth and eighteenth verson the Bible said they which building on the wall, and

they that bear burdens with those it laden everyone. With one of his hands

rota in the worker, and with the other hand he held her on weapon.

Sister Herven was not only on target tonight when she used the word of

fat, she was also on target which she used the word of weapon.

Not everybody in this building who lost Pastor Howe will probably not everybody in this

building appreciates the preaching or the testimonies that have happened to night. That is

undeniable that God has spoken to somebody in this building. We cannot just click

because he did disturbs her. A little man, we turn, not just

clip because of clearness, A little there where is your weapon? For the

weapons of our warfare are not colonel, but body through God. To the

pulling down of strongholds. There's some imaginations that need to be cash down tonight

for every person, preacher, teacher, and pastor out there tonight. Let

me say this, in one hand there should be a shovel, and in

the other hand there should be a sword. I've seen plenty of pastors of

parents, preachers and teachers that we're willing to get to the shovel that I

preached about her. A couple of weeks ago. Somebody don't get a shovel

was the title of that message. I see they're wearing the build I see

they're wearing the dead. Not to marry somebody. You know something beautiful.

They're all excited about constructing a church. They're all excited about pioneering the work.

They're all excited about becoming a ministry or having a ministry and becoming a

minister. But they forget. You must take for a reaping. You must

have the sword of the spirit, and you've got to use it when you

need to. I'm telling somebody in this building there, if you don't have

a shovel and a sword, your ministry won't be a failure. Well,

I don't want to hurt any about his feelings. What about gods? You

don't want to hurt his either? While you dodge hurting other people's feelings,

do you, Every person in this building should have a shovel in one hand

and a sword. I'm sure everyone who is familiar with the story of Nehemiah

and his mission remembers and understands that their enemies were against him and his people.

We wrestled not against flesh and blood. When Sister how and I were

first summons by the Holy Ghost and the Lord to come down here and to

participate in the pioneering and the planting of this work in South Florida. We

were very excited and would definitely grab our spiritual shovels and we begin to labor

concerning the spiritual building. But it wasn't very long after being here that we

realized we had to have a sword too. This will not continue to be

over some of the people in this building's head very much longer. You will

get a hold of what I'm reaching here voluntarily. You see the apostle Paul

him to hundreds of years and centuries later, after he had heard about to

store him Nehemiah, he found himself too coming agist an enemy that was trying

to lay waste everything that he was doing. Can I tell you that the

rancher understands that he must encompass or circle his property boundary daily, and that

pastor that is unwilling to repeace a certain perimeters and certain boundaries, including ancient

their mancel and to put in there is that water the soul in his body.

Yes, you can get inside of her for a shovel in your hand,

but you not agree on your soul. They even one time he found

out what the liver it is when we tied for me something with doctor.

So come on, now, we're better be able to fight off the horns

and the hands of hell. And you need a weapon it to do it.

I've seen them, sister, and they were. Mama called and Daddy

said, Sister Howard. We've seen them travel in the fireplaces in the distant

lands. I'm gonna do this, and I'm gonna do that for God.

They've had people speak in some sort of tongue and it sounded no different than

this. Follow a lah ala la la. And they've had prophetic words spoken

over them, and it was either of God or it wasn't. Because I

have seen that either they were obedient or they were disobedient. I've seen it

go both ways. I've seen those that have headed home. I had to

know when they were sent to do something, after knowing they were commission and

they just simply said, I can't do it any longer. It wasn't that

they didn't enjoy the construction project. It was or that they didn't enjoy building

upon the rock of the foundation Jesus. It's not that they didn't enjoy having

Easter service and Christmas service and dedicating babies. What it was, they did

not enjoy the spiritual warfare. They did not enjoy. They themself and their

family said he had targeted not the devil. I don't know they heard from

God or not. I don't know why they chose to come home either they

had not been sent either that disobeyed cont either they simply did not persevere,

and they were not paying for her to do what contact I told him to

do. Had a shovel in what hand, what a sound in the other.

It's a ministry. It is not a mistake. Maybe the man missed

it, but God he never Missas God sent us down here, and as

we labored in the vart field, if you would, we had questions,

and just when we thought we had all of our questions answered, there would

come a list of more questions. There were never any murmurings or complaints,

because we've simply would not allow that. But the apostle Paul, he had

to be so disappointed when he found himself having a write letter foot pin the

parchment and say, dear little ones, Thaves and Christ, my children of

the faith, I love you so much. Who hath bewitched. You work

for its Guatians who's coming here and told these men that are Jews or these

men that are gentiles that they must be circumcised. You're getting carried away with

this lead delism. You're getting carried away with this fanaticism. And don't misunderstand

me. I believe every person that is genuinely been born again, somebody has

had a true blue experience with the Lord. They are living holdin us.

They are righteous on the inside and the outside. And I believe what is

good for one is good for all. I believe that these standards that we

have did not come to us individually. They are not personal standards. They

are coming to church bodily as in the pride of Christ or must team.

There is no division, there is no skills. I said, there's no

depasion. Everybody leans at the same everybody is having a spiritual exercise and they're

working out their own salvatient whipper. They're trembling. They're not personal convictions.

They are corporate convintions. The bride and herself holds these convictions. Not everybody's

gonna preach this, Not everybody's gonna teach this. Some we're gonna come in

and say, hey, we have been enlightened. Our fullest minds had been

darkened. Thus we had been alienated from freedom. And although they have yet

been entangled again with a young bondage, they declare themselves to be free.

And as they declare freedom to belong to them, they are no longer laid

aside every weight and the sin that so easily beset in that. We find

them building things that they wants destroyed. We find them adorning things on their

temple that we thought he would be found only her own her, the pagan

temple. That temple is supposed to be her, a body that belongs to

the bride of Christ. That is a temple for the residency of the Holy

Coastal. We found the decorating that he has car it got a pagan tribe.

I wants you to know her. You sim personify her holding us in

the hand hour live. But they're coming in, and Apostle Paul said,

in this short epistle, he said, who hath bewitched you? In another

place? He said, you did run? Well, who did hinder you?

What false teacher? Confuse you? What park gets you start reading?

That confused you? That church did you start visiting that confused you. That

preacher that clothes himself as an angel of life came in there and and filtrated

that church will begin to the impregnationel mind with false doctrine. You should consider

that person and a cursed person. You should consider that doctrine and a cursed

doctrine. In fact, the apostle Paul said, when I'm not here,

if a preacher or if an angel seemingly from heaven comes in that preaches something

that's rejected, and throw out. You know what so many people are doing.

They're neglecting to put on the whole armor of God. I wish I

had more of a voice than not to preach this. They need to put

on the whole armor of God. One of the Pauline epistles, the Epistle

to the Ephesian Church, in the sixth chapter, eleventh verse, Apostle paulse,

have put on the whole armor of God, that you may be able

to stand against the wiles of the death. For the entire time I was

out of town, I had the word against on my heart. That is

a word that a lot of people find repulsive when they hear it. They

don't want to be against anything they're willing to have to shuffle and be out

for us having children's church, for us having a Sunday school program, for

us having a youth choir, a booster man had an adult choir, for

us building another church of our for us having a bust ministry. But when

it comes to standing against the walls of the pathol, it should not be

that the apostle Paul has to put pin to a parchment and tell somebody to

have a problem with it, or come on not do I know it's true

in this holiness student that I'm fault. I'm not against the movement. I'm

fault, but we know it's true. The recent trend is nobody preacher against

the anti just hold your shovel, don't be fat something. But nobody bring

out the sword and bringing that's something. This is a ministry. It is

not a mistake, No Apostle Paul. It was not a mistake you planning

that church there. Even though the devil has come in and try to discourage

and disappoint the saints and dissolve what you have done. No Apostle Paul,

it is not something to be discouraged to mat It is to turn that pin

into a sword and an epistle that will are of their beings in Christ with

the knowledge that they need to know that they do not have to be physically

circumcised guys, that they need to be spiritually circumcised, or come on in

so, how many people in this building have learned that every Christian will have

to take a stand eventually at some point. I didn't just say the pastor

or the preachers or the teachers. Every Christian throughout the world will have to

take a stand eventually, at some point in their lives. They will have

to take a battle stand. They will have to postep her and stand perceupted.

I'm not telling you to get laft side of heck and throw the shovel

down. I'm not telling you to get laft side of her and hold the

sore and her holy that I am saying for we loved good, discerned the

preacher, your better preacher, that message, and God told you there's nothing.

It just Spot's doctrin, It just their crest, and it just person.

That's why we're losing our young people. I'm not against our movement.

I'm allowed to speak by behind our passed her a church of seventy people.

Yes, I'm mad concerned that everybody has to run around with a shovel and

leave the swords in their closets. Stand against the wives and the devil.

What's not the devil being wiley? Will Eve begin to woo the congregation When

they opened the door and they welcomed them, that they call brother and sister.

And as soon as they heard something that sounded a little bit off,

they should have marked them. That's what the Bible said, marked them.

He also said, know them that labor among you and this generation. They

would never have even let the Apostle Paul know that they were dealing with issues

like this. But if you're a student of a Pauline epistles as I have

been, you will see the by mission and taratune. The Apostle Paul said,

I am pitting these words on parchment paper because somebody brought word to me

and told me what's going on. And he sent Tobacco with a letter and

set danger in order. It shouldn't be that another pastor's preaching a little podcaster

and lighting your church out. It shouldn't be that another pastor for a five

states away is reprimanding her your people that are being disobedient and preaching her her

pretestination is a doctor and preaching her or what's senta, what's in consent?

Always in once he told us a turney doctor creature, you doctor ditta the

souor in your head, and you're not the whole target. Just just couldn't

help. That's you holding it up. So that's in the other hand.

No, I'm not advocating hurting anybody. No, I'm saying we must be

careful how we wield the sword. We must wield it and use it skillfully

and wisely. Notice that the apostle Paul said to this church, he said

that you may be able to stand against In Paul and Neomy's cases, they

had to use the shovel and the sword simultaneously. I doubt that all these

people were amberdettris, but I know that the Holy ghosts. I know that

the Holy Ghost can use the left side as good as he uses the right

side. I don't believe that a church should be lopsided. I believe the

left side of the church should be just as strong as the right side of

the church. And it may be that we've got some that's a little bit

stronger in the sword side of things. But I want to encourage you guys

not to forget the hold his shovel too. And it may be in a

congregation of seventy we've got some that mean a little more to the shovel,

and they seem to be able to be able to feel better than others,

and they seem to let the sword drag in the sand. But I'm telling

everybody at the bath the hold in this church. This should never be a

time, spiritually speaking, that any part of this church, any person of

this church, comes into this building without a shovel in one hand and a

sword in the other. I did not come here tonight to sit on the

few and to absorb air condition. I did not come in here to night

to look her and see who's got a new wardrobe. Whom Uncle Sam was

good too. He gotta be a tax reputed or return. I have not

come in here to night to look upon any of that. I come in

here tonight to help her my brothers and sisters be on it. I come

in here tonight to help my father's and sisters fight the Good Father. Pleatha

yah. Holding on to any ton of life you got to use that sword

and shovel simultaneously, the enemy of the Devil had plotted the downfall of Neomy's

wall. Again, the enemy of the devil had plotted the downfall of the

MIA's wall. The false teachers of Apostle Paul's day, empowered by the devil,

had attempted to destroy the labors of the great Apostle Paul, Peter and

many other men. Now, don't you think that at the devil or the

enemy of those men tried to destroy the work that they were doing for God?

And that day, don't you think that they're going to try to destroy

the work that every preacher or a minister or people was trying to do for

God. I remember my uncle used to say often while we were in those

production meetings with mostly executive managers and middle level managers and also shocked forming he

said, if it was easy, our wives and chill and would be doing

it. As soon as he'd say that, the atmosphere would change and everybody

knew it's just time to pull yourself up by your bootstraps, dust off your

knees of elbows, and just do whatever it was you had to do.

Now, I feel like there are ministries that are being adversely effective through the

spirit of disappointment and discouragement. And I also believe there are saints of God.

Hopefully not any in this building tonight, although I do feel like there's

one or two people that if you don't stop playing with a deaf or,

you're gonna find yourself being weary and seemingly what is well doing? And you're

gonna find yourself fainting. Now I know the Apostle Paul had to be discouraged.

Say what disappointed? Say what you mean? Act that they've been saved,

sanctified and holy ghost, feel they've been bewitched. Say what you mean?

I've got to take time out of my busy schedule to toil with this

person, to preach to them once again, to try to coach him once

again, to mentor them once again, to try to push them once again.

You mean, yeah, it's grief, but it's powerful yet discerned.

And I might not be as low as some of the older ones when I

had my voice, but it should be pathless for somebody. We cannot just

give up and clear it's a ministry. It's not a mistake. God knew

what he was doing when he's saying to God knew what he was doing when

he called you into the ministry. He considered you to be faithful who felt

like you would persevere. He don't disappoint God to right make disappoint you.

Family may disappoint you, Coworkers may disappoint you. The devil may cause her

the stars that in your life. But you should never just go ahead her

and disappoint God. Hell, Lord turns family. What about disappointing God?

Well, I thought I could do this. I guess it was a mistake.

No, every child of God has a ministry. Every person has been

commissioned if they are a child of God. Every person has been commissioned to

do something for God. But when we see them giving up, they say,

well, my mistake, my bad. It must not have been God.

Or maybe it was. But in some cases, in the case of

Nehemiah, in the Apostle Paul, there was still spiritual and natural walls that

needed to be built and guarded. There were spiritual and natural walls that needed

to be built and guarded. There's some doctrine that needs to be defended.

And we need some preachers to stop being discouraged and disappointed. And we need

them to be strong. The Bibles of Quincy like men be strong, and

we need somebody that quit being lopsided and that shovels got so heavy in that

run hand. And that's all you're thinking about is I want to build this,

and I want to build that. I'm gonna pioneer this. I'm gonna

pioneer that. You might move a piece of crowd a little bit, but

you won't run off ten thousand devils unless you learn how to use the word

of color, the soul and the spirit them and pull out the soor on

it and prowd off them devil. It's a ministry, not a mistake.

Men like Paul and me and my possessed perseverance parents in this building that I

possess perseverance, Sister Howell, Sister who others possess perseverance. Perseverance means being

persistent despite the difficulties on the delays that we face. Perseverance is the call

to faithfulness. Niam I believe that induce season, he would see that wall

built. Paul believed that this young congregation would be well established, rooted and

grounded in their faith and Pitchley if we continued to run off of the false

teachers. And if we continued to run off these dreavous water, we will

have a church pastor, preacher, teacher, give me a favor if you

ever get offsided her, and the only thing you can think about her is

what we are for. Please, soldier, dismiss yourself and let somebody have

her. Let's shovel and let them bring her the sword and walk the town

truck the way her that hat to be held in the coward. This is

wanting to get out of the service of the Lord. The one that's wanting

to backside and fall by the wayside coward in the service, he shall find

no place. And if I'm not mistaken tonight, brother Caleb Rocat led that

song page number two twelve in the Red Back him north, keep on the

firing line. What Brother Caleb was saying to this church is he to let

that song was perseverance and faithfulness of most importance. Nam I believe that in

due season we're gonna reap if we just keep on building wrong at all.

We used to sing the song when we first come out of the Church of

God into the holiness. If you would movement and sister, how will we

sing it. Everybody's sing it. Ever it can't meet, and it was

the theme song for a while. I'm building up this wall and I won't

come down. I'm telling you them people had a shovel or a hammer in

one hand and a sword in the other. Our golden text said, and

let us not be weary and well doing, for in due season we shall

reap if we faint. Not now I'm talking about neami at the wall right

now. How many workers decided to come down from their work, turn in

their resignation and give up because of the persecution, that was verbal persecution of

saying with at Tobias and the others. I'm sure there were some people that

simply shirked rather than work. I'm sure there's some people that said, you

know, what he's saying has causing me to be discouraged. That's what that

man had been hired to do. Go over there and speak to the workers

and discourage them in their work. This is no time for anybody to come

into the House of God discourage or disappointed. We're supposed to enter those gates

with thanksgiving. We're supposed to enter his courts with cration. The evangelist debicionaries

the pastors and the teachers and the parents. They ought to persevere unto faithfulness.

They ought to be faithful to that heavenly calling to teach them, mantain,

you've got to fight until you take her your last death. I see

her people come in Bethel, her holiness church, and I've seen her them

go out. Other preachers have told me their congregations have just recreated her themself,

and it's been like a revolving door her experience, and like congregation for

two years, and another congregation and another two years her and another congregation in

another two years. He tell to tell you of this, Sir, is

indicative of people that grew weary. This is indiguative of a people and God

think her. It's true. If you're gonna be a child of cover and

not enough in the belly of hell, it's gonna be a fighter. Every

step the light ye or the highway her of holing us up. It's gonna

be a classing her a soul. It hampress so her knowmage of every day.

That's why IMPOSSL. Paul said, I have taken a can yes,

and can take you. I'll say, fall, what are you fighting for?

Said? Are you fighting for I feel the knowing of God in his

house, So don't be weary in well doing. It's a good thing to

build a church. It's a good thing to set out to be a preacher.

In fact, that the Bible said concerned in one particular office of ministry.

It's a good work. He's desired a good work. It's a good

thing to say, I'm going to relocate a wife and six children, obey

God and get down there and help some precious people and do something for the

Lord. It's a good thing for brother e. J. Wallace and Brother

Aaron Wood and other men. Brother stare at Brother Jacob, say I'm gonna

uproot, go down there and help that brother. I'm gonna plant my family

down there, because I'll believe in what they stand for. I'll say,

out leaving what they stand against. I believe we're standing for some things that

I stand for, and I believe they are fighting against some things that I've

been fighting against. And there's no need in us fighting fore and against things

alone. Even David had men that began to attach themself to him because those

men were like minded and they wanted to help David. I'm telling you it's

a good thing to come to the church and see our babies pray around the

altar. It is a good thing to see the church growing the way it's

growing. It's a good thing for the apostle Paul to take one missionary journey,

and take another, and then take a third and say, look at

all these churches that have been planted. And Brother Jeremiah, there was something

though that fell away, and he would never say it was a mistake.

It was a ministry. And I'm telling you there has been times since the

Howell that ten thousand devils have said to me and Syster Howell, and she

knows this to be true, you made a mistake. Every person that has

ever attempted to do anything for God, the devil has said it was a

mistake. That I'm telling you. The further I get down the road,

and the more I look back, from time to time, I see mountains

of victory. I may see valleys of trial and tribulation and temptation, but

also I see some mighty high subjects and mountains of victory. And I want

you to know the only reason why we can stand on that final summit of

glory Land and look over our shoulder and see all the monuments of victory.

It's because of perseverance and faithfulness. That was one of the reasons why after

six years of driving back and forth two hours one way to church, two

hours hold for six years whom we had revival one time, seven weeks long,

we did that two hours here, two hours back. The reason why

I did that, I could tell that even though there was only a handful

of people here, then we had people that would persevere, and we had

people that were faithful. I want you to know two or three that are

faithful. If one of them men's name is Michael Joseph Laruth, that one

of their name was Robert Hammond, and one of their names is Johnny Platt.

One of their names is Jeep Wooden. If you'll persevere and be faithful,

we don't remember our golden taste, for in due season we shall reap.

If we faint. Not right, there were plenty of opportunities to faint.

There were plenty of opportunities just to flop on the wayside, then flounder

in failure. But I refuse to flounder in failure, just the Hallie refused

the flounder and flop and failure. What about you, young man? Yes,

it's a fight. Are you willing to fight? Are you willing to

pray your way through this? Are you willing to pray your way through the

victory? Are you willing to fight the good fight? Are you really going

to play through? There's twenty twenty four gonna your year. Harless times upon

us, another great with Bibles, upon us, another spiritual awaken. It

is upon us to those who persevere, for those who have been found faithful.

I want you to know God spoke to me this morning. We're gonna

read. I cried and I wept when my wife looking around, when I

heard the words spoken to my soul. Jeremy, you're going to weep them

to the one who's been doing wrong, and the one that's been unfaithful,

and the one that's been shirking instead of working. That is blood children.

That's a frightening statement to hear. But the one who knows the the innocency

of their heart and their spirit, they've thrown everything into it. Like Apostle

Paul said, I have been spent, I have been wore out, and

I have invested blood, sweat and tears into this sister Wood and that was

the reward that I needed, was Jeremy, you're going to reap. Now.

I'm telling you the critics and the skeptics are listening right now. I

am not in a spirit of pride. I'm in a spirit of meekness and

ubility. I'm unworthy of it. I even said. I wept in our

cried and I said, God, I'm not worthy to reap. God,

some soul, some plan, some waters, you give the increase, you

reaping all to your glory. But he said, you're gonna reap. And

what he said is hope in the reward. A lot of people quit because

they lose hope in the reward. They say, what's the use? In

due season, we shall reap. That's the promise we shall reap. I'm

feeling good of my soul. While some of you apparently had the spirit of

Unicus of Parliament. That's through the Unicus is rock. So to sleep after

a week and a half or pastor being gold. There will be a reward

for the laborers for their labor. There will be a reward for the workers.

We believe in the so and in the reefer principle. Here, don't

we We also believe that he is a just God, and that there will

be a pay day someday. I've heard a lot of preachers preached us out

of context. It doesn't be well. They spoke concerning the people that have

rested with to the portals of glory. They spoke concerning the after life that

I have not seen nor ear heard, neither hasn't ended to the heart of

man. The things that God has prepared for them that love him, there

is somewhat out of context. In context, it is in this life.

God's got some things prepared for you that are beyond you are a lot of

dreams that image. They said, So will you continue in person for your

exel food, painfulness? Will you clicking you up? You come hold walk

back to her heartness. I'm telling somebody you got to get rock down to

the walker hour. We've got to fight your way through it and a through

wava. You will read it. You have to fake not if you faint

not, there will be her reward in this life and the afterlife. Psalm

chapter number one, twenty six and verse number six. It goes like this,

He that goeth forth and weepeth bearing precious seed, shall doubtless come again

with rejoicing, bringing his shees with him. Notice hardly nothing is said about

the process. I've read no commentaries today. I've got some notes the Holy

Ghost gave me. I'm preaching what God gave me. I've looked at now,

I think, but what I got to looking for because of the way

my mind works. Where's the process? Here? We see the seed and

then we see the sheafs, But what about in between? That's what I'm

talking about. Some ministry is not a mistake. Huh. What about the

process? Hoe in the garden getting a debris out after the storm comes,

by standing up to stalk his corn. One time, I had grew a

lot of corner sweet corn, and it had done really well, and it

got really tall, and I had two or three ears on the stalk.

Witnesses the how I loved garden, and I got that from my part.

But I have a green tongue. That's what she told my aunt yesterday.

He's got Papa's green toe. I looked at it, said it ain't green

unless I got a corn. I've been doing something. I shot some of

you get that one night rightfully fall asleep, okay, But Papa was at

his house a storm had come through our area. I knew he was home.

I knude answer the phone and I called him. I said, Papa,

all my sweet corns laid over and just this calm, cool and collected.

They said, it ain't no big deal, so I thought it was.

I knew the process. I knew what I had went through every day

to go out there and turn that soul over and turn it to the roots.

Because corn grows on us the bove the ground. The roots are just

barely floating on top of it. You don't know it. You can actually

see the little tiny roots they just barely grab. And that stalks designed by

the Lord. It's the aerodynamic. But if you get a high wind and

lay it down, Papa said, it ain't no big no big deal,

son, Just go out there and stand them up, one stalk at a

time. And I said, okay, I tried to. He said,

just pack a little dirt around it. It'll lean over just a little bit.

And I'm telling you it looked like dogs and crooked tails. As if

I know, ride my best to stand it up as tall, because y'all

know what I did for a living, what I do for a living,

as tall and as strength as I try to be as a holiness preacher,

right. And the lean over you have the boys probably remember, I said,

and lean over awful tower looked level of the world, and it was

glare and all that prepared to my stalks of corn. I called him back

and I said, Papa, I got it up. And he said,

I said, but it's leaning. They said, ain't a big thing.

Get a big fine. He said, you packed that dirt around, and

I said I did. I pulled every dirt I could. I after agians

diameter, followed the dirt that stood about six inches high round each one just

looked like a little antred around each face of the stalk. He said them

roots are gonna grab hold, and he said, and then it's gonna reach

for the sky. That was his words. He says's gonna straight for the

sun, and then roots are gonna take hold. And brothers and sisters,

after about three days, I went up to every stalker coin was just as

there, standing straight up in roots and ground the hole. And there's been

a lot of time, sister, you know, concerning the Bethel hole in

his church. The devil has come by with a mighty Russia wind, and

he's blue on his congregation, and there's been an opportunity after opportunity for me

to say, just bring in the spiritual bulldowser God and just plower it over.

I'm gonna resign. All these other timers are gonna scatter, We're gonna

just leave it be. Somebody else have the wild come break up the paloground

and start over. But no, it's called perseverance and faithfulness. We'd say,

this young man, do hear his name, Tyler Wood? Why are

you spending so much time with him? Because I believe in him? Now

I feel if the Holy Ghost as great as I ever have as our preacher.

And I've slowed down a little bit because I believe in And when he's

not standing quite as straight and as tall as I want him to, God

said, that's all right. Just fertilize it a little bit, pack that

root system and let him get a root or too grounded and rooted, and

let him become faithful himself. And you won't ever have to say what wints

you up for to see and read shaken in the wind. Now people look

at the Bethel ho in his church, and I speak as a fool.

I'm not a brother anybody that really knows me knows I'm gonna I speak as

a fool. I speak as somebody whose can hands are very much so spiritually

callous of having to redo the same thing over and over and over again.

I know I have a learning on me right now, and parents, preachers,

ministers and teachers. There will come a time when you say, I

ain't seen the results of my ministry about getting the results I thought i'd get

this nursing home ministry. Where's the results of this, the street ministry,

where's the results of this, this gail ministry? What are the results of

this? In due season? You shall reap if you faint not. I've

been waiting, not for some of you to get ahead of God of manipulating

the plan of God. But I've been waiting on a genuine visitation by a

prodigal son or daughter this year, not where you've planned the scene, not

where you told him. I think, if you'll go to church, God

will have something for you. I've told about God on Friday, allowing us

to read. I love what I feel in my soul. There were times

system well like Sarah of old would ask Abraham. She would ask me,

She's never murmured, she's never complained that there would be times the church would

fill up. And because we stood for truth and righteousness and reviews to allow

charismatic spirit to take over, you know, we re views to allow worldiness

on the platform. We'd lose a lot of people, not being hateful,

not being mean. Most of them people still calling pastors, still love me

and still seek out prayer when they're in serious need, that they want to

play church instead of have church. That there would be times when we'd go

from I'm talking early days from twenty five back before or five, because we'd

had to stand on issues that mattered. And Sister, how'd say you sure,

Jem, And I say, well, out of doubt, I'm sure,

And I keep that old diesel pedal to the medal. And we'd go

on two hours back to the house and get home at one o'clock in the

morning, put six kids in bed, which is a children, six of

them worse leap. There's two or three trips for those of you who think

you get your hands full right now, and some of them has wet brenches

because they fell asleep at one o'clock in the morning. You want to go

in there and just crash. By the time you get that many kids in

bed attack at two o'clock in the morning, and by the time you read

pray Yeah, Charity, I'm sure there would be no further question. She

trust me, and we did that for six years now. Everybody all they've

always been any way, it's called perseverance. To the parents and the ministers

out there, let me say you are making daily sacrifices to serve Jesus,

your ministry, your family, that you should expect it. The process will

never smoothy saving They will never be a smoothy process. No, don't expect

it, don't anticipate it, no matter who prophesize it, and matter who

speaks in terms of give an interpretation. Remember this, it's ministry. And

when you feel like you flunked and failed, it was no mistake. I

have no regrets. It was never a mistake. If you will sell on

despite the tumultus waves, you will develop patience and endurance and you will build

character. But whatever you do, don't faint. Sister Haymond didn't know what

I was gonna preach all the night, but I'm telling you, y'ad an't

mighty speaking of somebody tonight, You're gonna need to hold onto this message in

the day's head, because it's gonna be easy for you to speak foolishly as

Joke's wife did and say, why am I bothering with this ministry? Why

am I bothered with this individual? Why am I putting up for this?

It's a ministry not of mistake. In the same book of the Bible,

the Book of Glatians, Paul said, be not deceived. God is not

bobbed for whatsoever it meant. So with that yell, he also reap.

We tell our young people that if they go out into the world, we

assure them they're gonna reap what they sow. Well, let's look at the

flip side of that. If they don't go out into the world, and

they do marry right, and they do stay faithful to God, whether pastor

does preach the truth and the church does stand against foolishness and unrighteousness and wickedness,

we're gonna reap. Be not deceived. God is not mooped. The

devil's not gonna win whatsoever we sow. We're gonna reap the so and isn't

in vain, the tolling isn't in vain. The laboring is not in vain,

the praying isn't in vain. The devil has convinced somebody in this building

tonight that they will not read in this life. What's the use? There

will be no reward in what I'm doing. But I want to tell you

there's going to be a reward in this life, Brother Jeremiah. After six

years, we could have folded up and went home, and you know what

my testimony would have been. There was a mistake. But now tonight,

because of perseverance and faithfulness, I can say, make no mistake about it.

It was a minished Let's stand tonight, Brother Caleb. Would you come

to the piano? Has in every person in this building had more than their

share of disappointments. As we make an altar call, how many, by

the showing of the hand, has had their share of disappointments. No matter

how hard you try to do it right, no matter how it's hard you

labor to see to it that is constructed right, you found it faring apart.

We put forth doing something to make an endeavor of it. On purpose,

we try to make it successful. But somehow, for some reason,

things just don't go away. We plan them to go. I had no

idea my child would go into a world of sin. I had no idea

that my child would end up being Nashville Star. I had no idea that

my child would end up becoming the person to build reputation. I had no

idea that my child would runt that far. But did not the Bible say

train up the child and the way they should go when they grow old,

they will not depart from it. You know what the devil wants to do.

He wants to get you disappointed and discourage to the place that you want

to pray and persevere. What's the use I'll never see the results of it.

They'd be like Pastor Howell saying, well, I want to be like

David. I want to build a new church for God, but God's not

let me. So what's the use of fasting the one that I have?

Now? That'd be like you young people that have a goal of buying a

bigger house when they're buying a piece of land having children in the yard playing

and said, well, I don't see that ever happen, and so what's

the use might as well as letting the house fall apart? What is your

purpose? We've all seen those building projects come to a screeching halt. In

fifty forty five Old Briton Road. This doesn't mean something to most people,

but it means something to my wife and I. At fifty forty five All

Briton Road, there is a pad for twenty six hundred square foot house,

two story house, seven and a half acres with a tributary running through it.

Live oaks, bickory trees, bick kickory nuts on the ground. I

cleared it my own hands, with the help of my little children. Every

year I scraped the surface of that ground, got the plans drafted up,

and was just getting ready to build our dream home. Now you have to

hide through the woods. I done it, not too long ago. I

did it. You have to go through grass and brush and shrub everything.

You get out there this one little air the where is this luscious green grass?

It is and the sky is clear because of all the trees. I'm

booted out of the way and there's a path for a house, not a

concrete slab, but a nice area where there was to be a house.

A building project comes to us creeching halt. Parents, you search through your

children's lives and you can't seem to find the fruit. Where's the fruit?

Why do I take them to church? All the years? I thought they

were getting help in the Sunday school class. I thought the teacher had a

burden. I thought the pastor had a bird. Where's the fruit? I

thought me and their father had a burden. I thought me and their mother

had a burden. Where's the fruit? Can't seem to find a fruit.

There's a never ending turnover sometimes in membership to the holiness pastor in church pioneer

or planner. That doesn't mean anything to some of y'all because you're not the

pastor, you don't have the pastor's burden. The fact that the congregation has

a new face at just sixteen years doesn't mean anything but most of y'all in

the billion, But it means everything to me, because if I was to

have the other eighty that have come through these doors and set in these views

for their link to period of two years, we need a bigger church.

So there's a never ending turnover a membership of the church, pioneering planning.

So what do we do is give up and quit. I don't see the

results of this your plan, good sidelined, your ministerial train wrecks. What

do you do? You just give up? You stolen David. Everybody just

goes back home and says, it was a mistake. We all made a

mistake. Really, was your marriage a mistake? Is that where you live?

Your marriage? Was your ministry of mistake? Was a God that called

you? Or not? I know what I know tonight. I know what

I'm feeling. I haven't preached in a while. My voice has held up

very well, but I know what I know tonay. It's a ministry,

not a mistake. Says the how there's a lot of storefronts. We're young

couple said I was called a God's sent of God, And they shouted and

told the story of camp meets, and people gave him big offers and sent

them on their way and said, I'll bid you God's feet. But when

it got right down the perseverance of faithfulness, when the wolf comes to hire

them fled. But in due season you shall read if you faint not.

I wonder, brother rod Keap, how many of them through the towel winds

just before harvest time? I wonder how many preachers got to the age of

fifty and it's just about to read. I said, you know, what

is time for me to retire? I think I'll just preach every now and

then and meeting somebody else, and then the wolf comes in. You won't

find in the word of God. Where's the apostle? Paul, ever retired

for ministry, you may step down from pastoring the church. You'll never retire

for ministry, Brother Philip. I don't want it to ever be said that

my ministry was a mistake. I don't believe you'll ever say, brother Philip,

that that night in February or twenty twenty three, when I had that

also encounter of experience with God, if that was a mistake. But if

you want results right now, if you want a church right now, if

you want to pastor it right now, if you want a pullpit like this

one right now, if you want a church to run seventy or one hundred

or two hundred right now, you're in the wrong occupation. You joined the

wrong crew. I'm gonna leave y'all with two words tonight, as we gather

in the altar, perseverance and faithfulness. Let's just find a place to pray.

I didn't want to be too long tonight, but I didn't want to

preach with a burden as a pastor that's come off with a weekend, I

have vacation, I have long with kids. A leak. I guess.

I want you to ask the Lord right now to help you not be weary.

Weariness, weariness. Why are you being weary? What's causing that weariness?

What's causing o