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The unfrozen chosen - Bro Jeremy Howell 11-29-2023

Bethel Holiness Church - Wednesday Night Services

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  1. Of Acts. May I direct your attention to the ninth chapter. In the

  2. fifteenth verse, I want to say, it is truly wonderful to have Sister

  3. Donna home with us, home where she belongs. There is no doubt she

  4. belonged visiting with her grandchildren and her children. But it's so good to see

  5. her smiling face in the House of the Lord here at the Bethel ho in

  6. his church where she belongs. How many of you all feel like you belong

  7. somewhere? I hope it's here. Do you feel like you belong here?

  8. Well, if you don't feel like you belong here, there's the door.

  9. And I'm not saying that meanly. I'm just saying you can always find somewhere

  10. where you belong. But I'm glad you feel like you belong here. One

  11. hundred percent of us are saying I feel like I belong I do. I

  12. belong to the Family of God, and that's a membership that I will gladly

  13. display before this world. It's nothing to be ashamed about, ashamed of the

  14. Lord. I'm not ashamed of his gospel. I'm not ashamed of his word.

  15. I'm glad to be your family member, your brother in Christ, Brother

  16. Nathaniel, will you turn to Saint Matthew's Gospel chapter number twenty two and verse

  17. number fourteen, Brother Jesse, John Mark's Gospel chapter number three and verse number

  18. thirteen. Again, Brother Nathaniel, Matthew chapter number twenty two and verse number

  19. fourteen, and Brother Jesse Mark chapter number three and verse number thirteen. Brother

  20. Nathaniel, would you stand and read that to this people, for many are

  21. called, but few are chosen. How many of you have heard the clarion

  22. call of salvation and accepted it? How many of you all have heard the

  23. clarion call of the Spirit of God summoning us to revival. Can anybody else

  24. admit that the God of Heaven and Earth is calling us into higher places?

  25. I want to be one of those that are chosen. Brother Jesse. Read

  26. Saint Mark's Gospel chapter number three and verse number thirteen. And he goeth up

  27. into a mountain and calleth unto him whom he would, and they came unto

  28. him. So he called those disciples unto himself, and they came. Hey,

  29. if God calls you, who will benefits you to come? Right?

  30. If Bama calls you to dinner, did you come pretty? Quickly right,

  31. some of you guys probably did. But when Dad stepped on the threshold of

  32. the front door and hollered and said, dinner is ready, I guarantee you

  33. you came when Dad called. And I can hear the Blessed Savior calling us

  34. unto revival. May we stand and read our Golden Text Acts chapter number nine

  35. and verse number fifteen. The Bible said, But the Lord said, unto

  36. him, go thy way, for he is a chosen vessel. Unto me

  37. to bear my name before the gents and kings and the children of Israel.

  38. For I will shew him how great things he must suffer for my name's sake.

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

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

  41. these precious people. I thank you for what they represent. I thank you

  42. for these ambassadors of the gospel of your kingdom and of your son Jesus.

  43. I pray that you would adorant this thy servants, set of gud and my

  44. mouth, and help me to say the things that you would happy to say,

  45. nothing more or less. Anoint the ears of this thy people, that

  46. they might hear what the spirits say unto the church. I pray, let

  47. these sayings go below the shoulders, Let them get into their hearts and their

  48. minds and their soul the spirit I prayed God that they would not be hearers

  49. only, but doers. Let them not deceive their self. And may the

  50. saints of God depart this place joyfully and not sorrowfully, in Jesus' name.

  51. And the church said, Amen, as you're being seated, look at your

  52. neighbor and say, hey, neighbor, are you one of the unfrozen Chosen.

  53. I want to preach to you a sermon, a message that the Holy

  54. Ghost titled the Unfrozen Chosen. I remember reading a meme sometime back, and

  55. as I read that meme, it said the Church of the Frozen Chosen,

  56. and it was a term or an expression referring to those people who are more

  57. reserved in their religious life and worship. How many of you have ever sat

  58. next to somebody that seemed to be a member of the Church of the Frozen

  59. Chosen. But I'm glad to know that I'm part of the Bethel Holiness Church,

  60. where the people of God are on fire. Let's lay a foundation for

  61. our listeners in India and other places that are unfamiliar with this sacred writing we

  62. call the Holy Our text is found in a New Testament book of the Holy

  63. Bible, the Book of Acts. The Holy Ghost has given us a few

  64. golden texts taken from out of this Book of Action throughout this year of twenty

  65. twenty three. I call this particular book of the Bible the Book of Action.

  66. It is named the Book of Acts because of the nature of this sacred

  67. writing. The author is Loot the beloved position. A beloved physician is someone

  68. that is most appreciated by the general public. In fact, he is somebody

  69. that has summoned in the times and the moments of crisis. So we have

  70. confidence in the author of this writing. He personally was not and our witness

  71. to the man or the ministry of Jesus Christ. But he interviewed many people

  72. that were men that have been chosen specifically to evangelize the world and to spread

  73. the good news of Jesus Christ coming to die in their place as a substitutionary

  74. sacrifice atoning for the sin of mankind both past, present and future. Jesus

  75. chose some people. I'm glad tonight that I can say I am not one

  76. that is part of the crowd of a multitude or many. But I'm glad

  77. to be able to say that I am one of the chosen few. It's

  78. good to be able to say that we are not one that finds ourselves on

  79. that broadway, that highway that's spiraling downward and leading souls to a devil's hell.

  80. I'm glad to say tonight that we can say we are part of the

  81. family of God, the numbered, among the chosen few that are on that

  82. highway of holding us loop. The Beloved Physician was fascinated with these people that

  83. had been chosen to evangelize the known world of that time, and truly they

  84. were people that I would have liked to rupt shoulders with as well. It

  85. is no surprise to me at all that the Beloved Physition would abandon such a

  86. prosperous practice as he did in order to follow the apostle Paul, and to

  87. tether himself or attach himself to the ministry of such a man and the other

  88. apostles, naming it Peter, James, and John. We find that the

  89. men that wrote these blessed books of the Bible were men that had been chosen

  90. for times and purposes specifically assigned to them by God. This past Sunday night,

  91. I preached a message titled My Miracle. The number one character of that

  92. sermon was miserable Matthew and secondary we've talked about the blind people that needed a

  93. miracle. Specifically, two blind men needed a miracle. You will notice that

  94. a bridge was burned in Matthew's life. After that, Jesus summonsed him or

  95. called him from his misery unto his ministry. On one side of the bridge

  96. that had been burned, Matthew had formerly been known as a tax collector.

  97. But later on on the other side of the bridge, he can look back

  98. upon his past and say that is in the sea of God's forgetfulness. It's

  99. good enough for me. My sins are gone, and now I am the

  100. author or the penmen of Saint Matthew's gospel. These men were all men of

  101. action. They would not sit in a service and not do something. They

  102. were very active. In fact, that inactivity of many a people in the

  103. modern church would sorely disappoint these men if they were able to receive what is

  104. going on during this worship of this generation, during the evangelism outreaches of this

  105. generation. These men would be terribly disappointed. In fact, if they could

  106. view from their dead corpses the situation at hand concerning the modern church, these

  107. men would roll over in their grave in shame and discuss concerning the way people

  108. handle church and the things of God nonchalantly. I feel like here tonight that

  109. is our duty and our responsibility to accept the necessity of servitude in serving our

  110. community and serving mankind, and tried our best to get the message of Jesus

  111. Christ out to a loss and died world. These people have been chosen people,

  112. especially the apostle Paul, which is one of the more prominent men that

  113. you read about in these narratives inside of this sacred writing, the Book of

  114. Acts. Also, the number one character in the Book of Acts is the

  115. Holy Ghost. How many of you know that he is the third part of

  116. that trying Godhead. He's always been active. He's always been highly active in

  117. the life of every believer, somebody that is truly a worshiper of the Lord.

  118. He has also been active in every church that has totally sold out,

  119. consecrated and committed to God. We find as we're reading the various and their

  120. narratives contained in this sacred writing. The Holy Ghost had been busy building the

  121. church that Jesus promised to leave behind. How many of you feel tonight like

  122. God is building a church right here in Fabel, Florida. The good news

  123. is we're not alone. Worldwide, the Holy Ghost is still active. He

  124. has not sought out retirement. Although it's been over two thousand years since he

  125. began to build the church that Jesus promised to leave behind. He is still

  126. building that bride for our Savior, and I'm glad to be part of that.

  127. How many of you consents the call to revival? How many of you

  128. consents the working of the Holy Ghost and the activity of the Spirit of God

  129. in our services. If you could feel that drawing unto God, you are

  130. a blessed person. Because there's a lot of people living in this year twenty

  131. twenty three that is almost over that can say. I have not yet felt

  132. the slightest inclination to draw nigh unto God, even though the my will promise

  133. that if I betraw die to God, he would draw die unto me.

  134. So thank God for the ministry and the workings of the Holy Ghost that I'm

  135. so glad that the Holy Ghost chooses men to dwell in, and that the

  136. Holy Ghost com minister through us and make our preaching effective. Because the message

  137. must go out. I said, the message must go out, and if

  138. it's going to go out, it needs to go out effectively. We need

  139. the word of God not to return unto him fulloyd. We need it to

  140. prosper. And I believe that the Holy Ghost is involved in any man's ministry

  141. or any say of God's life or testimony. You will see that it is

  142. a fruitful testimony, or a fruitful message, or a fruit for life.

  143. If you study the New Testament, you will see that God was busy choosing

  144. people. In fact, the New Testament is full of characters, and it

  145. is comprised of people that were chosen by God for specific to these responsibilities and

  146. task. One of them is the primary character of our message tonight. The

  147. apostle Paul, if you will read untext again, the Bible said in answer

  148. chapter number nine and verse number fifteen. But the Lord said, unto him,

  149. go thy way, for he is a chosen vessel unto me to bear

  150. my name before the gentiles and kings and the children of Israel. In the

  151. sixth chapter of Saint Luke's Gospel, we five the record of our Lord Jesus

  152. calling unto himself disciples, people that he wanted to walk shoulder to shoulder with

  153. him, People that he wanted to be eyewitnesses of his wife. People that

  154. he wanted to look upon her his ministry, and to learn his ways,

  155. and to become more like him. We call this discipleship. These men would

  156. perfectly imitate Christ. Eventually be law became when ever came about with a calling.

  157. As you read all down, you'll find that there were twelve that were

  158. chosen by him. Many were called, but on the twelve worth chosen.

  159. These twelve disciples that were made apostles by the alert Jesus himself. These men

  160. weren't Daddy called or Mala center, that were not members of the twelve frozen

  161. chosen Church or the dozen frozen chosen nerve. These were men that were unfrozen.

  162. These men were attached or tethered two a Holy Gus fireplencer. If you

  163. went the fire himself out, can then wat so the soudan is such a

  164. man without their clothes being burned. We know that that in a circle of

  165. chains, and John and Peter certainly had brought fire into their bosom and their

  166. souls had been burned as a result. You will find that those that were

  167. called and chosen, they were always active doing something for the Lord. If

  168. they were in a service, they were praying, in that prayer meeting at

  169. a house, they were praying. And when they were out in the community,

  170. they were crowd in the highways and in the headless, in the powers

  171. that they were preaching, and they were compelling the loss to come in and

  172. fact, immediately after this calling and being chosen as they were, we found

  173. that these men begin to reshape their errant to the glory of God. Name

  174. mis Simon, James and John Andrew Philip are calling you, Matthew Thomas,

  175. change the rest, Daddy, said Simon. Macellus. And the infamisis judas

  176. a spirit, you know, the one that betrayed him talking about Jesus.

  177. You're not gonna be that guy, are you. You're not gonna be that

  178. one that wants her out of the sival and stands in the shade or in

  179. the shadow of the church and say, I just don't see it that I

  180. should be part of that crowd. I don't see it that I should be

  181. one not gonna from that group. You're not that God, are you?

  182. I know that's a different sermon for another time. But when I read these

  183. gospels, I see where some of these being had already been following Jesus.

  184. We thank of Peter and his brother Andrew, and James and his brother John.

  185. You'll find that these men had already been called. Now Jesus fallowed.

  186. They were in their ships and working for themselves and their fathers. They weren't

  187. busy, yes, say they were active. Yes, say they weren't bending

  188. their next Yes, sir, planning to go fishing her the next day that

  189. Jesus came and he called them. At this time, they're among the crowd

  190. that has been called, and they have been called already. That there comes

  191. a time when Jesus he comes out of the mountain and he notices a multitude

  192. had followed him. How many have followed him to night? How many people

  193. have walked him to revive? We're ownly to walk out a year later?

  194. How many people have heard the poice of God? A color gets to the

  195. Kenyan minister train of bearding. That's the preacher preach the call of call the

  196. sit forth. That's some hurried and some did not listen, while others heard

  197. the call and they gathered together. How many of fallow Jesus and we don't

  198. know that our multitude was present, But how many they're chosen in this moment

  199. when the Holy Ghost is picking out ten of nature that will reshaping the community.

  200. Only twelve I sought the bble. I looked for more. It was

  201. more than a parallel to the twelve tribes of is Well. I believe it

  202. was indicative of only a few, just like the twelve tribes of Israel,

  203. or only a few that wanted a vent for God. Only a few and

  204. want a cue the letter of the wrong. God knew they be will owner

  205. twelve, I said, God knew they're gone. Owner twelve that would be

  206. chosen, Say that we are termine that wall. Believe in predestination lisbon God,

  207. do we believe that every person God has already predestinated where they will go?

  208. No, we cannot cancel the free will remain. It is so obvious

  209. to us that mankind has a free will, because some of us are suffering

  210. today because of the choice or the freedom of choice of others, Our Mother,

  211. Eve and Adam have caused this great hardship, travel and pain because of

  212. their choices. Oh, yes, we make some bad choices, but cannot

  213. tell you that God never chooses bad. There's been stocked brooklets that it made

  214. some bad choices. There's been some preachers that have made some bad choices.

  215. There's been some articles that have made some bad choices that are rutched. And

  216. know God made some good choices when he made the choices of these twelve men

  217. that he would call her apostles. Say, Matthew, put it to its

  218. cust for your finding. In the twenty second chapter and the fourteenth versa,

  219. he wrote, for many are called, but few are chosen. Many are

  220. called, but few are chosen. Can you say that you are one of

  221. a chosen few? If you can say that he who ought to thank God?

  222. I said, you want to praise him. Your man at the choer

  223. comes back her. Let you get chosen. I'm sure there were many followers

  224. of Jesus Christ. The Gospel writers tell us that multitudes of people had followed

  225. him at times. In fact, multitudes owned him. They tried to touch

  226. the tangible Christ, God incarnate God right there in flesh, God present,

  227. the omniscient, the oh knowing God, the omnipresent God was present to meet

  228. needs. He was present to minister the Fella Nathaniel. Only a few received

  229. the healings they needed because her, or the motives for why they followed the

  230. call. There was something that simply followed him because her he saw the good

  231. breakfast, or he saw a good mousa, or he said a good suppler.

  232. God knows him your motives, I said. God knows the thoughts are

  233. and the gents or your heart. God knows God you are gathered together in

  234. this macha simbly. God knows their purpose. I believe the Lord heard all

  235. of these people as they gossiped, as they slambered, as they slammered,

  236. as they slumbered, as they slept, as they did anything but pay attention

  237. to what the teacher of teachers was saying. The Lord knows the hearts of

  238. people. God knows who, already hearing this message, is thinking about work

  239. tomorrow. God knows already who has been prepared for revival. God knows already

  240. who is ready for something to take place in their life that has never happened

  241. before. God knows what's inside of man. He remembers our frame that we

  242. are dust. He knows the thoughts and the intentions of every person in this

  243. beauting. There is something special and different about these twelve tones in men?

  244. Wasn't that Oldmost all of them, with the exception of Tunis, It was

  245. all of them were willing to serve the Lord, no matter what took place

  246. in time. Sometime down the road, even Judas was okay with Jesus's plan

  247. if he was willing to overthrow her the Roman government and serve as kingdom of

  248. kingsa and lord of lords at that time. The truth is one hundred percent

  249. of the men wanted to follow God, or one hundred percent of those men

  250. we're willing to die for him. Jesus wanted to do it. Then Judas

  251. wanted to be the treasurer of Christ earthly kingdom. No, what about you?

  252. Are you ready for danger to go your way? Are you ready for

  253. your plan? Give become God's plan? Her? Well, I will tell

  254. you, Jesus, you pay it, You'll d be God's fail I fall

  255. well. I thought I'll get it over here. I thought I'll get it

  256. in church. Brother Carter Baucap, you got your holy ghost experience it in

  257. dwelling beside a hotel room. Then brother say, now you got your life

  258. change besides your living room couch. If I understood you correctly. In Saint

  259. Marge Gospel, in the third chapter and the thirteenth verse, we find that

  260. John Mark wrote that the Lord called unto him who he would, and they

  261. came unto him. Then he ordained them the twelve to be with him,

  262. and he sent them forth to minister. Did you get that the reason why

  263. God wants to do something for you is so that you can effectively be something

  264. for somebody else. He will save those that He's called so that they can

  265. help her save her to somebody else. He sent there forth to Minister.

  266. The Holy guess was given that they might be witnesses or martyrs for this message,

  267. that they would stand for in the face of their adversary's opposition and the

  268. devil. No matter the outcome, these men have answered the call visit.

  269. That's simple. Yes, it's very simple. For the early Barty used to

  270. sing the song and the lyrics would go like this, why don't you just

  271. do what the Lord told you to do? You see, when these people

  272. were called, they answered every person in this fielding knows how to answer a

  273. phone call. With the exception of the children under the age of three,

  274. I would say even my two year old granddaughter Natalie would know how to answer

  275. her daddy's phone call. She seems pretty intelligent, and she seems pretty sharp.

  276. These men were called upon and they answered. They didn't just answer the

  277. call. They stepped up for service. It was do or die for them.

  278. I say, with God calls Eva, it is answer, do they

  279. die. That's the spirit that is hindering revival in America. As people realize

  280. that God is going to require something of them and they answer the claric call

  281. of salvation, sanctification, and Holy Gooes baptism. They cannot be selfish.

  282. They're gonna have to be selfless. They cannot be covetous, they cannot be

  283. envious, they cannot be jealous, they cannot have hatred in their heart any

  284. longer. They've got to reach for those that hate them. They gotta love

  285. their persecutor. They gotta love everybody unconditionally, and they gotta love their spouses.

  286. As Jesus left the church. Not everybody wants to love your world like

  287. Christ does. But it seems like everybody wants their love the spirit of the

  288. world the way the public knows. Do you love the spirit of Christ or

  289. the spirit on the world. You were seen that these men love Jesus more

  290. than they loved they'll work life. They love Jesus more than they loved their

  291. whole life. They love Jesus more than they loved their very own life.

  292. The problem is today, and the love of self is s prevalent. The

  293. love of pleasure is so prominent. The Bible said that men would love pleasure

  294. more than they love God so much for fishing on the sea of Galilee and

  295. told it all not and being ready for service. The next morning, when

  296. Zebede asked us, did we mend the nets? We said yes, Oh,

  297. come on, John, did you catch anything last night? No,

  298. it's because your hold God, Your nets got a hold, and it go

  299. mend the net, go fishing again. They were always active, they were

  300. always working. They were never inactive or you gonna getting miss her. They

  301. were self motivators. They had a self driven wheel to do something. And

  302. God calls these men to do something. I believe God is calling people at

  303. the bead of holding his church and in his time to do or die.

  304. He getting nature. I said, if you're gonna either do what God taught

  305. you to do or you're gonna fall off the trip, you're gonna die.

  306. Spiritual, you know what's gonna happen in those four fishing me in there not

  307. to or left their fishing boats, their fathers, their families and their nursing

  308. and done what God told to do. Their probably would have been a change

  309. to Come's deal came in the love of God, some storm on the sea.

  310. It's either do or do. I'm preaching all the unpros and chosen.

  311. These men never just sat by idle. How can we sit by island and

  312. not do anything while the revival fire is setting our church on fire? How

  313. can we do anything but run? How can we do anything but seek?

  314. How can we do anything but pray? If your coach tell spiritually speaking his

  315. on pire, you will stop, You will drop, and you will row.

  316. I'm telling you, you'll put down the pissing net. You'll stop her

  317. doing what you want to do. Your troxeesecake in the tressa, and you'll

  318. trump to your knees on a doctor or on a concrete called in the houser,

  319. and you'll become a hole in rolling someone again, suppose her to be

  320. trucking, even if it's the third hour for the king, who will be

  321. in the spirit. I said, your stop her, you won't drop her,

  322. and you'll roll to the d of God. It's still die, I

  323. tell I twell. In October of nineteen ninety two, when I gave my

  324. heart to Jesus, I could tell, even though my fiance was in the

  325. process of scratch on my back while the preacher preached, A conviction was so

  326. strong. I knew that I must leave her, even if that meant our

  327. relationship being severed and over. I must do what God wanted me to do,

  328. or I would die. What's worse to die naturally or it dies spiritually.

  329. The Bible said, if you don't fear that man that can destroy that

  330. body, what you do fear that man that can destroy my body and soul?

  331. In Hell? I'm telling you this so pediaself. It's a horrible thing

  332. you. I'm telling all consequence I solved, I said, oscar Kean,

  333. solve it. He needs to do something. Samuel said, why don't do?

  334. Your disobedience is unacceptable. You might be living in a iteration, says

  335. tolerate everything, but God don't have to tolerate your stubbornness and rut. Bel

  336. there, I'm telling you, when God says, hit your knees, you

  337. hit your knees. Come up here, brother Justin. I'm definitely not commanding

  338. you to battle mesa face where there's nobody standing. Get right there in the

  339. center at all, right out there in front of this pool pit. And

  340. brother road Camp was to hear right now that God said, Justin, hit

  341. your knees and get on your face. Huh before me? That is exactly

  342. the response that I believe that justin road Cap would gimpa the albody God.

  343. And I'm talking about another choosen missile. Think about the road Captain narrative.

  344. Just like this soul of Tarsusa was on his road to Damascus and a lot

  345. appeared to him brighter than the meanday side. Now you know the end result

  346. is the high, lofty spirited man ending up on his face. My question

  347. is what let it take God to get to Oh God, faith before?

  348. If you chose a vessel, yes, what he do? The choice is

  349. his God has chosen him. But has he chosen God? You've all heard

  350. about those infamous wit proposals where the bride grew to be supposed that the bride

  351. was so ready for him and his proposal that for sure he would ask her

  352. to marry him, and he was so convinced she would say yes. And

  353. you've heard of those foolish young men not choosing to do like I've done and

  354. other young men have done. Just go out there with you and the candidate

  355. by yourself before God and the stars. Hey, I mean, rejection is

  356. not an easy thing with some of these men, Brother h. Nathaniel.

  357. They have proposed in front of celebrities. They've interrupted concerts. Some of them

  358. have proposed proposals that cost them five million dollars I mean and landish winnings.

  359. Maybe not that much, but they spent a lot of money. I've heard

  360. about it. Some of them are spent five thousand dollars on it. Proposal

  361. opportunities are your women? You know? They put them women in a bad

  362. situation and they dropped the knee, thinking, because there's so many onlookers,

  363. that this woman will serving to answer the call and that she'll say yes because

  364. she's in the middle of an NBA game, says the Mavericks or a Miami

  365. heat. I don't keep up with that stuff anymore. I hope they're still

  366. a team named that they rather than they handle hearing halftime, they tip the

  367. right people. And they tracked her out there in the midcarta and they hit

  368. the knee, and that girl slaps them and says no, because she knows

  369. her why they proposed her te they heard right there are young women are out

  370. here. She's more than bid that they would pressure her in such a manner,

  371. because no doubt she knows she's already been telling him I'm not ready.

  372. I don't want to hear the call. Oh come on now, I'm telling

  373. you a sung you talk caught her into the dinner of the church house,

  374. and you left God standing there because you are not ready for the call.

  375. I'm gonna hit to my knees with God, and I'm gonna look God in

  376. her eyes and say, I am a ready. I said, I have

  377. read, mad reproblem's what you sat. I am a ready. It's avation,

  378. man, there's not coming my way. I am ready. So even

  379. the mean spirited, arrogant egotistically I minded so that would later become the apostle

  380. Paul willing to hit his face when he got smacked down. He got a

  381. verbal smack in the face. Now I know you all worship to praise Lord

  382. for a while. The night before I got to the preacher, and I

  383. appreciate you backing me, but I want to preach just a little while longer,

  384. if you'll bear with me. You see, Peter at one point had

  385. been asked by the Lord, will you depart? Also? You will remember

  386. the Lord asked Peter this because others had walked away. John chapter number six

  387. and worse number sixty eight had said, then Simon. Peter answered him and

  388. said, Lord, to whom shall we go? Thou hast the words of

  389. eternal life. Peter was saying, where else could I go? You have

  390. called me, you have chosen me. Peter had not forgot her that calling.

  391. And the primary character of our tux Tony is Paul, and he does

  392. like this and speaks one tim He said, I was obedient to the heaven,

  393. recalling I can't understand why anybody would be disobedient to the spirit of God,

  394. saying now it's the call of the miracle. Now it's the time for

  395. repinted God. How many of the multitude and followed him all it's well chosen.

  396. How many present in this building tonight are children? How many in this

  397. building used to be children when you were little? Did you ever contemplate running

  398. away? Huh? Did anybody? Not? Really? Most are saying my

  399. sister Crystals shaking her head. Yes, I need a confession to anybody else,

  400. sys to Donna, our sister, Steric, Brother Gabriel, Sister Canness,

  401. Brother road Camp, Brother Christian, Brother Richard Jacob, all of God's

  402. little angels, all of the precious saints of God, at one point had

  403. contemplated running away. Now I know Brother the Thing or Brother Philip had got

  404. it worked up in their mind that they were like Huncleberry Finn and Tom Sawyer

  405. the younger generation from about twenty years of all the age and daw don't even

  406. know who I'm talking about, But I too was inspired by Huncleberry Finn one

  407. time to sit out on the Alipi or my little homemade manufacturing raft, and

  408. to see how far I would go. I remember Brother Nathaniel and better Philip

  409. being the adventurous type of setting out. But you know what, hain't Brother

  410. the Thing or you and Brother Philip or not for lone this song that considered

  411. running away from home. I see that y'all didn't get too far from home.

  412. I see you here tonight. I've heard you talk about your parents and

  413. your family. Why not, you know, Michael, some of y'all did

  414. not know where to go? I right, beer berth turning. That makeship

  415. right around after that first spin and after get out of sight of home,

  416. and I said, you know what to forget to rapt and I'm walking home.

  417. Oh, come on, you're not getting this. This is going over

  418. your head. What happened? You got a little racer up the road and

  419. you thought about where will I go? Didn't you? And that's what people

  420. was saying, God, Lord, will I go? Lord? How could

  421. you go anywhere but to the throne of God to obtain grace and a time

  422. of need? How could you go anywhere but to the cross and let the

  423. riby red cruise of God of Jesus wash your saphie. That's a lot of

  424. cod say from the bad founday, say, how's a world? This is?

  425. Whosoever call for the name of the Lord, How can you not say

  426. the name Jesus, Jesus, Jesus. Oh I will took her brother to

  427. Jesus asked Peter that question, because many had walked away. Brother Richard Jacob,

  428. think with me on that getting the imaginary picture in your mind. Let's

  429. imagination work, got John Avery Whitakers. Let your imagination work like Nathaniel Howell's

  430. let your imagination work like Brother Caleb Road caps, Brother Caleb, where would

  431. you tell me some of them went? Brother Road? What you say some

  432. of them went? Brother Nathaniel? Where does some of them go? I

  433. know at one point Peter was tempted to go back fishing. I know that

  434. some probably went to the bakery. It's just the how had it been in

  435. that multitude and had a decided to go away, she would have went to

  436. the bakery. Where in the world where are they going? Where are you

  437. going? Where are you going? In your mind? Why are you not

  438. going up the Coosta? Why are you not going in the bble, Why

  439. are you not going to the all? Why are you not going through the

  440. altar? Because I'm going somewhere else, I set up and pause up.

  441. We're going somewhere off. Why this politics? Nevertheless, and you won't be

  442. chosen if you choose to go somewhere else. One by one they walked away,

  443. just like those religious hypocrites that was gonna stole the woman that had been

  444. caught the very act of a notary. And it's something hell. They only

  445. brought fifty percent of the problem. Huh went the other fifty percent slide?

  446. I hate politics. I sure do appreciate all of our great preachers in the

  447. holiness movement, but I will never bows to any type of makeshift political pressure.

  448. I'm telling you, one by one, these people begin to walk away.

  449. I'm sure the disciples asked each other the question, where are they going?

  450. It's prayer meeting time. They're out there in power pots p before church.

  451. It's pair meeting time. They all munch break there ain't their snack real

  452. quick? They're reading the Bible and they're praying. It's pair meeting time.

  453. Revival service Dutch of seven thirty and there comes Jesse Howell and he's frid his

  454. three sons and now went in the roomb early about seven o'clock, even though

  455. I need to get home from birth till six. Where are you going?

  456. I said, where are you going this revival time? I not borrowing a

  457. lottery ticket. Come at the handy store. I'm telling you, I don't

  458. do her a lottery ticket to change her my life. I need to choose

  459. her for Christ to change my God. Where the where that came from?

  460. I don't need a thirst buster before church church Dutch of seven thirty and the

  461. Master's calling me, calling you. Can't you hear the rest of the Savior

  462. calling you. I don't need a first I need that living water. You

  463. say, well, I've got the satisfied by natural Thursday and Appetits not really

  464. that woman came to the well of Samaria with a bucket. Owner has told

  465. her, But you know what care which she got water from the world,

  466. her sign racing water from Jesus him supper. She forgot about the world.

  467. I say, forgot about her bucket. What you need is her the wale.

  468. Where are you going? God has called us to revive them? W

  469. are you going? Jesus is teaching? Can you imagine them? Twelve disciples?

  470. Sister wouldin this is the son of God, Brother ron cap If the

  471. multitudes will not heed his preaching and they will not teary for his ministry,

  472. the one that can breathe on them and say, receive the holy ghosts,

  473. the one that can open the ponded eye. If that was not enough,

  474. Sister hand to calls in the pamp out at his feet. I don't know

  475. why to to take their son. The truth is the free will. I

  476. hear the call and I want to be choosing. I'm a hold man,

  477. I feel the holy gours in this place. Just because you've been called does

  478. not mean you'll be the chosen. Just because you fail a call in his

  479. service tonight, just because you felt a Sunday, just because we got on

  480. the schedule, when somebody's printing the flower that don't you only chosen you haphazardly

  481. O o'clock. You're come in to dinner and you ain't really concerned about what's

  482. over to me and you? They Mama, don't have to serve you.

  483. I pull a holy ghostop in this place. Where were they going concerning about

  484. the tea? They did not want their follow Jesus. They get pot farlow

  485. Jesus. They would not follow only Jesus, and they would not obey Jesus.

  486. I swear we're out right now. I just will not follow sister hold

  487. her sister rooting into a prayer of calls at I just will not following my

  488. pastor in the high that's all right, you won't be telling either. Concerning

  489. the multitude, why don't you come? What's a half on your phone?

  490. And most importants? When he called, we're taking your baby to the park.

  491. The baby dot came, you are most importents. When he called,

  492. he called that some were slimmering and some were sleeping, summer flies and summer

  493. foolish. Fifty percent, we're doing good. Fifty percent we're not doing so

  494. good. With the callcade, I said, the call came, how do

  495. you know you're saint? Them did not hour of your life? How do

  496. you know this ain't your prodcream? You're a savior? Calling you before you

  497. got this not means your lost my party? These people would not do what

  498. Jesus said? Where did they go? And I was praying today and I

  499. wrote that down. Where did they go? And Brother Jesse, here's what

  500. the Holy Girt said, not to eternal life. That means they went to

  501. eternal death. Because Peter said, where shall I go? Thou hast the

  502. words of eternal life? What Peter was saying, don't only call me,

  503. choose me. And I want to be so close to you that I hear

  504. your words, because your words or words of eternal the life. Any time

  505. you choose brabis who were Jesus, we're gonna lose God. Who does or

  506. what does b rabbits representing your life? I can hear it. It's calling

  507. even right now. That app on your phone is calling you right now.

  508. He said, Well, that app is not saying. It might not be.

  509. But the Bible did say, let's lay aside every way in the sell

  510. and so easily miscetists. You gotta race to run. You gotta get the

  511. Pentecost because it's two days until the power of class. I said, with

  512. a pentecost, they tear it two days. If they showed up on your

  513. running day, it weren't. Hey, this is home. Way around.

  514. We're gonna have another Pentecosta, not over. That was the appointed time for

  515. that particular rearea. Everybody, well, I'll consider running away. I'll just

  516. get out of church. You can run, but you can't hide. Let's

  517. read our golden text again, brother and sisters. But the Lord said it

  518. to him, go thy way, for he is a chosen vessel unto me.

  519. That's the emphasis of tonight's message. For he is a chosen vessel unto

  520. me. Could the church say amen, not just so it could be said

  521. he's the great Apostle Paul that wrote most of the New Testament. Not so

  522. it could be said that he's the great Apostle Paul that was beaten and left

  523. for dead so many times. Not so it could be said that this is

  524. the great Apostle Paul that lost his head at Nero's Choklaw. He was a

  525. chosen vessel, Brother Nathaniel, to bear my name before the Gentiles, to

  526. be a missionary, to take the Gospel to the kings, and to take

  527. it to the children of Israel. God could have chosen anybody, but what

  528. it is. God knew what was under the surface of Saul. And I'm

  529. telling you today tonight, in this service, I felt the Holy Ghost in

  530. a mighty way as we had congregation on choir singing. And God, let

  531. me know, Sister Iris, there's somebody right here that trauma isn't even saved

  532. the way I felt. But He will sanctify them and fill them with the

  533. Holy goes not many days. Hens. If they will sell out and get

  534. consecrated right here, he said, I'm telling you, I will change them

  535. in a moment, Sister. How he changed Matthew in a moment he went

  536. back listening to that. You're not getting hold of your miracle. Hey,

  537. brother Nathaniel, what at this representative miracle coming, Brother Nathaniel. I know

  538. something about Brother Nathaniel. How he ain't gonna miss it. He ain't going

  539. I'm telling you, That's what Jacob said. I know this promise is mine.

  540. I'm gonna prepare for it. I'm gonna do everything I can and I

  541. can. He ain't know not to anything. I don't heal what to to

  542. your address me. I'll brother, just see, I'm gonna get away from

  543. you. I will not hunt your bless me. Huh. That's what Jesus

  544. do about soul over her conscious. He will knocked that toe when he gets

  545. a whole of the town, and I'll get a hold of him. I'm

  546. here, That's what I said. I ain't got that a hold had got

  547. a hold of me, but I take it. I'll try to apprehend your

  548. tongue. I'm trying them. That's the truth. I'm tired of the hold

  549. of it. The bivals here right now. You can receive the holys from

  550. rotting in what we're being rock now, whether kss, the houses lost in

  551. the spirits those other people get clost to in the spirit who say, well,

  552. I'm know where I need to be, saw what they needed to be

  553. either, but not many days he had, so he must follow her.

  554. How the whole of those chosen vessel the uncrosen chosen. I wish somebody's soul

  555. would catch on pine, catch all Pie, catch all Pine. I wish

  556. somebody would not be rich, and we not you or cats roll pie.

  557. You, like Paul, have been sent on an assignment to bring Christians back

  558. to God backslaughters pedicles. Paul would bring Christians back to Jerusalem so they could

  559. be pressured by any means necessary to denounce Jesus. Ask the personal Lord and

  560. Savior. That was Paul's intentions to persecute and to destroy any that he founded

  561. this way, so your excuses do not hold water. In fact, he

  562. was en route to Damascus. Why Damascus. I was praying and asking God,

  563. why Damascus? I think I know the voice of the Lord, something

  564. inside of me, not in an of a voice, but something opened my

  565. understanding and said, look up the definition of the word Damascus, brother Danny,

  566. and he said that was his destination. I looked up the word Dabascus

  567. and it can mean the land of the left hand side. Brother Nathaniel.

  568. He had bad motives that said like her to everybody else, and it seemed

  569. like he was gonna mean harm. He meant harm. He's gonna do harm.

  570. But there must have been something in the spirit of Saul eating at him

  571. the same way miserable Matthew was miserable. I'm telling you the reason why God

  572. he's doing what he's doing, Sister Howl, A little more time. There's

  573. somebody on the surface to the Mariems. Even Anna I sa himself can't say

  574. you're mean. They thank your hearts. They think you don't want it to

  575. but here inside your heart's excide. You know Jesus hen deal with you.

  576. How come on Saul knew that it was Jesus hadn't been calling him. It

  577. appears to sob Sister Howl that these individuals are going to the left hand side.

  578. Then we're gonna lose him. We're gonna lose him. Paul certainly was

  579. headed in the wrong direction, but God still had a plan for his young

  580. man, young woman. I want to tell you something that might feel like

  581. you are headed in the wrong direction, But God still has a plan for

  582. your life. I said, God has their beautiful time for your life.

  583. You've been called. He was en route to Damascus. Brother Jacob puts it

  584. to do something terrible, No doubt, he'd already beat himself up over Barton

  585. and Stephen. But you know what, God saved you, and the Lord

  586. didn't planning to hide Paul in a corner. No, Paul had a terrible

  587. record, did he knock? Paul had a lot to make saints afraid of.

  588. Paul had a lot to be ashamed of her brother Jesse. But here's

  589. what the Lord said. He is chosen. He's a chosen vessel. He

  590. has a special assignment, a special work to do for me. He's a

  591. chosen vessel. Unto me, appears to be contrary at the moment, But

  592. he's chosen. And that's how I want to close tonight. You appear to

  593. be contrary. You're not making all of us feel comfortable about if you're ready

  594. or not. We can't tell, But I'm telling you the Holy Ghost knows

  595. more than what you appears in this building. Those I feel like a holy

  596. guess wants to take this service right here. You might appear to be contrary,

  597. but you're chosen. The Lord has a purpose for your life. The

  598. purpose for Matthew's life was to take him from misery to ministry. The purpose

  599. for Justin Rocap's life was to take him from being a junkyard dog to a

  600. holy worlder. Brother just In, the purpose was not for you to keep

  601. seeing people get arrested for the manufacturing and sales and drugs, but that you

  602. would be found teaches study is to my South Florida brother, Philip. There's

  603. a purpose for that, buddy. I don't understand why you're fighting cancer,

  604. but I have not questioned God yet I feel the whole it. Ghos stand

  605. in this place. Paul was chosen to bear in his body the marks of

  606. Jesus Christ. That's what it said the Lord told Antonius. He said,

  607. I've chosen him to bear my name. He's gonna stand before Gentiles, He's

  608. gonna stand before Jews, he's gonna stand before kings and y'all remember the address

  609. of Apostle Paul, we most notable, Festus, Felix, and Krypton.

  610. You ain't getting this, you say right now, I don't know how to

  611. stand. Having done all the stand, all you got do is take yourself

  612. to the friend clause and pray. He's the one that saves, He's the

  613. one that sanctifi us. He's the one that baptizes my God. I'll feel

  614. the holy ghost unto this place. I'm preaching on the unfrozen chosen. There's

  615. people in this building. You feel cold, and you feel richer, and

  616. you feel damp. I'm telling you, God's about to set you on fire.

  617. If that's you, move quickly to these altars. You could get under

  618. your face. That's right, sister, Just run to the altar. That's

  619. right. Brother, run to the altar. Saints of God gathered around them,

  620. and lay your hands on them. Pray for him, sisters, Pray

  621. for sisters. Brothers, pray for brothers. I wish somebody's soul and catch

  622. on fire. Catch on fire. There's a special work for you to do.

  623. I don't want to be one of those that are frozen, one of

  624. the stiff to his air hearing the Bible. They are chosen, They say

  625. that, they are phrase that, how can this be? I wver do

  626. one of them chosen fu that chose it for Jesus. Use them, Oh

  627. Lord, don't refuse them. Sure, there's a work that I could do,

  628. even though it's humble. Lord, help my will. Troubles go to

  629. cost for great ill work for you. Jesus used me. Sweet lad my

  630. God, don't quench the spirit. Jesus Us, Jesus, you used to

  631. Paul, always did one of the us. He's a chosen boss, She's

  632. a chosenness the Lord. I be a witness because you will help my weakness.

  633. I know that I'm not worth in ordering my eyes of faith. I

  634. see them the card the class of Calvin. He Lord, I cry not

  635. be I serve he Jenesus used me. Oh, Lord, don't refuse me.

  636. Let's try a choice. I'll stand for the dear Jesus. Though death

  637. may come my way. I'll spread the gospel to the far in earth.

  638. But if it be, I will Lord to go across to see. Lord,

  639. help them to be willing to say yes. He's the lily of a

  640. valley, the round up the star. He's the fairest of thousands to my

  641. soul, He's the beautiful ways of shared. He's all the world to me.

  642. For most of all, he's my sun coming King Jesus. Usual,

  643. Oh Lord, please don't refuse me. Sure there's the work I could do

  644. even though it's hoble, Lord, help my will and crumble those across the

  645. great I'll work for thee. And here's what somebody used to tray. Dear

  646. Lord, I'll be a witness if you will help my weakness. Let's don't

  647. turn it down, church, Let's turn it. He says that the frozen

  648. chooses you, the DRIs changing. It's up to you. The outcome of

  649. this is up to you. That is called. Where you be chosen?

  650. Not many noble, Not many noble choose. There's a work for you to

  651. do. There's a work for you to do. Can you see the cheerious

  652. subjects being your called? But few are chosen? Men your call? But

  653. few are chosen. And here's yeah, yeah, go ahead, what help

  654. us? Let's pray a wild church, those of you that have to get

  655. up with two, three, four, four point thirty you've dismissed. But

  656. let's pray a while. Yeah, I'll come with This is up to you.

  657. Let's pray a while. We got about six or seven right now,

  658. the spirit of God's helping you. Just tarry a while, sister, how

  659. and I can be here for you. Just teary a lot. Go ahead

  660. and tell you set up on fire Lord. I don't want to be wanting

  661. to be I know, be one of the church to one of the children.

  662. You know, I wanna be one news boundarady man, I be the

  663. two rump it sounds. I wanna be one he can depend on when this

  664. new one nils around. I wanna be one that he looks, so it's

  665. fee fool the truth. I don't wanna be one in a ullion, just

  666. one of the chosen jeeves. I wanna be one who's found ready when I

  667. hear the trumpet sound, I wanna be one he can depend on when this

  668. no one else around. I wanna be one that he looks, so it's

  669. free full the truth. I don't wanna be one in a mullion, just

  670. one of the chosen. Gee. When I was a child, someone asked

  671. me, when you grow up, but would you like to be a doctor,

  672. alawyer, the president or a star with your name on the marquees.

  673. But I remember what Daddy was told me, no matter in the swirl,

  674. but you may be there's no glory and being just one of the millions,

  675. So stand up and be one of the chosen few. Now, I wanna

  676. be one who's found ready when I hear the trumpet sound, I wanna be

  677. one he can depend on when there's no one else around. I wanna be

  678. one Daddy looks so sweet, pulling true. I don't wanna be one in

  679. a million, just one of the chosen. And now I wanna be one

  680. who's found ready when I hear the trumpet sound. I wanna be one he

  681. can't depend on and there's no one else around. I wanna be one thy

  682. losson. It's me fool and true. I don't want to be one in

  683. a million, just the one out the chosen. I don't wanna be one

  684. in a bullion, just one out the chosen. You may be a man

  685. with great virtue, you may possess the wealth of a king, or you

  686. may sip he be one of the million secrets in search of the American dream.

  687. But soon the Lord it's coming. And this one thing, I know,

  688. he's not coming back. Where are the millions of secrets? But he'll

  689. be looking for them playing ball too and view. I don't want to be

  690. one who's found ready when I hear the trumpy sound. I wanna be one

  691. he can depend on when there's no one else around. I wanna be one

  692. that he looks so that's feed food the truth. I don't wanna be one

  693. in a union, just one of the chosen. Fear now, I wanna

  694. be one who's found ready when I hear the rump is sound, I wanna

  695. be one he can depend on when there's no one else around. I wanna

  696. be one that he looks on. That's fee food the truth. I don't

  697. wanna be one he evenna bellion for one of the chosun. I wanna be

  698. one you found ready when I hear the drump it out, I wanna be

  699. one he get it being done when there's no one else around. I wanna

  700. be warn mad he looks, so let's be fall the truth. I don't

  701. wanna be one