Imitating Immanuel (Emmanuel)- Bro Jeremy Howell 5-24-2023

I'm telling you God can make a way for his people. So I've said

for years, I don't like going to the beach as most people think of

it as. But I do like going to the ocean, and I love

it when the Lord makes it private for us and we don't have to witness

the flesh show. Isn't that great? I was thinking of how many people

go out there for the wrong reasons, But it was good to go out

there with my family of twenty one. Just ten years ago, we were

a family of eight. Ten years later, we're a family of twenty one,

and we received some really good news. But I can't tell you because

they told me nothing to tell you about it. But we received some really

good news. Every time we go on vacation, we received some wonderful news.

They're gonna wait till some things have been done before they make an announcement.

You're thinking, a brother Philip and sister Elizabeth, isn't that wonderful that

they're going to get married? The stress it must be on Berth and Danny's

sister Tracy Mine. I was thinking about them as they're pastor and praying for

them. While brother Philip and sister Elizabeth they're blissful and just carefree. No,

really, they're trying to get a house ready. But I was thinking

about Dad and Mom and again he can make a way where they seem it

could be on the way. How God did it? In Paradise opened up

about six or eight acres of the Fort Myers Beach for holding us people to

have a vacation. I've got the pictures to prove it. You can't deny.

I can't talk about me behind my back doors that are listening on the

podcast. It was a private I've got the pictures to prove it. And

of God it is good. I saw sister Lauren today and the first thing

she said is mine, you all are so dark song. Brother Rick Jacob

just a little long ago for the first time as he was receiving the offer,

and the first thing he said, what was pastor you guys will fit

in and Dominica. Yeah, that's right. And what's so amazing about that

is I was wearing one of them big wide brimmed hatched and I don't know

how you say this, but that sunscreen is rated. Do you know that

as effectiveness is rated. If you really want to get dark, you lather

on the baby ard. Did anybody used to do them back in your teams?

Okay, some of us did. Some of y'all don't even know about

that. It's tanning lotion, yes, tanning lotion. But if you don't

want to bacon burn, you get some suntan lotion. You got that into

spray bottle now that I really like you Just spray it, close your eyes

and just spray your face ears. And some of it's a fifteen rating,

some of its the twenties, some of us the thirty. I went over

there where my grand babies mamas had their diaper bags and reached in there and

I got that fifty rating stuff that's really supposed to block the sun. Sister

him, because I'm getting old enough now that I realized I don't need too

much sunshine, you know, I don't want to have skin cancer. And

had a white rimmed hat with all of that, still somehow turned a little

brown. So I'm a little toasty here tonight. And you guys haven't voted

in a black minister, but they could be old, kay if y'all voted

in a black minister. And how many of you are glad that you're in

the House of the Lord tonight. I'm telling you what. I turned around

just before I walked up here to the platform and saw this full house,

and I realized, God has been good to us. We have so much

to thank him for. Why because He's been so good to us Again,

I admire a respect and appreciate everything the Holy Ghost did and said to night,

through you all, through the ministers, through the preachers. I want

to take the time to save. These brothers had filled in for me while

I was gone, did a wonderful job beginning. Brother Aaron Wood MCing and

directing the services all by. What a great job he did. He even

got annointed to preach the fight a little bit. He sure did. I

said, come on with it, brother Aaron. So it was wonderful.

The Reverend Justin Roadcap, the Reverend Thomas Starrett, the Reverend Caleb road Cap,

the Reverend Jonathan Edwards, and I hope I'm not overlooking anybody, but

they preached wonderful. Brother EJ done a great job teaching the Sunday School lesson.

I really appreciate people that love to do what they're doing for the Lord.

I don't appreciate it respected or admired when somebody does the grudging leaner or

be grudging leer that just feel so bad about having to obey the Lord,

to worship the Lord, to raise their hands, run around the church holler

glory to God. And you're gonna be upset to an anything, whether that's

slicing it's made it to the glory of God or washing dishes in the fellowship,

Paul, or teaching a class or preaching, and you're gonna put me

into depression in the process. I'd rather you're not do it. But I

do appreciate the way they ministered to you all. They were such a blessing.

And I've got a message that the Lord did lay upon my heart.

If you will turn with me to the Book of First John, May I

direct your attention to the second chapter and the sixth verse of that chapter.

First John, chapter number two, in verse number six, Brother Nathaniel.

The Book of Philippians, please, sir, Chapter number three, Verse number

seventeen, Brother Jesse, First Corinthians, Chapter number eleven and verse number one.

Now there's a saying among the worldly people that while the cat is away,

the mice will play. Did anybody come to church to not feel in

condition him nor anything anybody. I'm telling you the way this place blew up

to night by the power of the Holy Ghost. I said, Lord,

you've got this. This would be great right here. Just fine with me

if we don't even get to the preaching. But I noticed after about an

hour, just worshiping of praising the Lord, hooting and horring to the glory

of God, shout the high praises of King Jesus. Have y'all heard that

rumor that the priest a rumor for now because I haven't confirmed it personally,

But have y'all heard that rumor that the priest that prayed over Prince Charles declared

him to be King of Kings of Lord to give me that audio or that

video of Bide so that I can look at it. I sure hope he

didn't, because that priest is definitely a liar. He done a light Again,

we know the King of Kings and the Lord of Lords, but I'm

not saying that priest said that. But if he did, he is a

liar. I don't want to lie to you tonight. I don't want to

preach the truth. Something that the Lord really did put upon my heart while

I was away for a few days with my family vacation. And you have

probably looked at that scripture already. First John Champion number two and verse number

six. We got some code texts. Let's have brother Nathaniel read Philippians read

verse number seventeen, and I want you to listen to it very carefully.

Brethren, be followers together of me and mark him. What's walk? So

as ye have us for an example? Brethren, come up? Did y'all

catch that you speaking to his partners? Spiritual brethren and sisters were there as

well? Brethren partners, I'm looking at some partners in Christ here tonight.

Look at your neighbors. Say how did neighbor so well? How did in

partner? I wonder if we could become patterns, when partners become patterns?

I want to priest tonight. A sermon the Holy Ghost is titled Imitating Emanuel,

Imitating Emanuel, Brother Jesse, First Corinthians, Chapter number eleven and verse

number one. The ye followers of Me, even as I also am of

Christ? Isn't that a bold thing to say? I'm sure those that heard

that writing said that was quite bold. Those that appreciated, admired it,

and respected it said that's a very bold statement. That man's very confident for

him to stand up and say such a thing, how dare he? Some

others would have said, and others would have said, that is so arrogant

of him to say that. But we either believe this blessed book or we

don't. There's sixty six books right here, love letters that comprise the divine

library. That all of my confidence and hope is in right here. The

eternal, never lasted, never changing, were to God. So I'm gonna

believe that the apostle Paul knew what he was talking about when he talked to

his partners and said, become patterns such as I have became. Let's stand

the reading of our text here tonight. First John, chapter number two and

verse number six. He that saith, he abideth into him, ought himself

also to walk, even as he walked imitating Emmanuel. Would you pray with

us here tonight, Heavenly Father, we do love and we praise you.

I know that only through your power can I preach behind such a mighty move

of God, with such wonderful manifestations of your spirit. Although the saints are

bore out, although it's still early, yet promped about eight thirty. I

pray that you would anoint this thy servants and a guard at my mouth,

and help me to say the thing that you would have me to say,

nothing more or less. Anoint the ears of this not people, that they

might hear what the spirit saith unto the churches. God help us to have

these sayings go down below the shoulders to our heart. I pray, may

they be Lord, change us forever. Let us imitate Emmanuel. I pray

that we would not be heres only but doers of the word. It may

we depart this place joyfully and not sorrowfully in Jesus name. Amen. Amen,

look at your neighbor and say, hey, neighbor, are you imitating

Emmanuel? I hope so, I hope your pastor's imitating Emmanuel. Our text

is found in a New Testament book of the whole Bible. The Book of

First John is a wonderful writing given to us by a wonderful servant of our

Lord Jesus Christ. I, along with many others, believe this writing to

be the handy work and the heart work of the beloved Apostle John. This

man John was a lover of Jesus, and because he was a lover of

Jesus, he had to be a lover of truth, and this loving of

truth is what may him be such a true disciple of Jesus Christ. Early

on in this letter we see the apostle John emphasizing that the record or this

writing is accurate and that the words of this writing is true. He states

that he is not lying, but tells the truth. In this writing.

He said that those who are seekers and followers of truth will listen to his

saves and the spirit of truth and error can be deserved by observing how someone

receives his writings, which ultimately is the message which he is preaching. You

will remember that John the Beloved also wrote in one of his writings or letters,

he said that God is light and in him is no darkness at all.

There's people today. They want us to believe that God and his followers

tolerant darkness. They want us to believe that it's okay for the followers of

Jesus Christ to live in darkness after having seen the marvelous life of the Gospel.

This apostle, whom Jesus chose, was not one of them of modern

thinking, one that believed it's old Kay to do wrong and try to get

by. This man believed that if God is living in you, then you

are the light of the world, and you are the soul of the earth.

And there is something very different about you as an earthling or as an

event individual upon this planet we call earth. This apostle whom Jesus chose,

with the exception of one named Judas and eleven others, he became the leader

of the newly founded church along with his brother or his partner John, and

their other partner Peter. These men believe that the newly founded church were people

that had changed by the Gospel, and were people that had been redeemed by

the blood of Jesus Christ. They had been born again. We remember that

the religious leader Nicodemus, was fascinated with this mysterious teacher that's some supposed to

be Messiah, and he inquired of him at night, and he asked him

some questions, questions that have been keeping him up at night, questions that

made him wonder, could it very well be that Emmanuel is with us?

But the definition of the word Emmanuel is God with us. And I want

to tell you that if God is with us, and if his word is

with us, it ought to change us. That's a very powerful thought to

realize that God incarnate is walking amongst humanity in that time period. And Brother

Nathaniel, there are people that are not being influenced positively by Jesus Christ.

That's not that his influence was not present, is that they would not allow

his influence to change them. And so I believe that if you are going

to become an imitator of the Lord Jesus Christ, you have to allow him

to be your influencer. This generation knows a lot about online social media influencers,

and we read it almost weekly, and certainly we read about it monthly.

There are influencers on the YouTube platform, Facebook, Twitter and other social

media platforms that are aborting their lives prematurely. We see these people are committing

suicide. I thought they were supposed to be leaders socially. I thought there

were supposed to be people that are leading followers where we find that they are

recognizable among their peers and society at large worldwide because of their ability to influence

others. Sometimes you look at them and you say, how is it that

that person influence so many people. Somebody said, there is a man that

is becoming rapidly one of the richest men upon this planet simply because he is

an influencer or a performer on the social media platform. You know, people

are allowing that man to influence them. I'm not here to judge him to

not and say whether or not he is influencing people for good or bad.

That's not what I'm talking about. But I am talking about the power of

influence is very real in the land today. That is why children are now

being so disobedient or rebellious to parents, because they are being influenced by the

propaganda and the teachers in the classroom. That's why our middle agers are where

they are at today because there were people that influenced them, and they imitated

them, and they became just exactly like their teachers. Hey, if you

sit at the feet of Gamela, it's not too long before you become like

Gamel. And we find that the apostle Paul had been schooled at the feet

of Gamela, and the Bible said that apol Paul, who had become a

persecutor of the believers or the people of this way, it was so sure

that he was right in what he was doing, and executing people of this

newly found belief called Christianity. The apostle Paul, the one that was persecuting

people, obviously somebody had influenced him in a negative way. I wonder if

there's somebody in this building tonight that has allowed people to come into your inner

circle and it is causing an adverse reaction to into your life. I want

to talk to you here tonight, if I will, and if you will

allow me to about imitating Emmanuel. And so this apostle, whom Jesus chose

with the exception of Judas, but he did with the eleven others, he

began to become a pattern of how people should live, how they should conduct

themselves, how they should dress, how they should react to the things that

the world done, how they should treat the Lord. And I believe that

these men are somebody that we can respect and admire the leaders of the early

Church. You see, these men have the credentials that they need to lead

the new believers. Not only do they have the credentials that they need to

lead new believers, these men have credibility that they need in order to lead

the people that are now the people of God. Their peers trust them.

Their brothers and sisters trust them life because these men are changed men. Everyone

here knows that people have witnessed the change and somebody's life in this building.

Recently, we have had a series of revivals, wave after wave of revival

that has come in and change the life of people that are sitting there on

those pews right beside you. I have heard some of you testify behind closed

doors saying concerning your peer, or your brother, or your sister, your

partner, that I cannot believe the radical change that has taken place in their

life. You say that was so painful to God. They loved church.

They loved the singing that's in church. They loved the preaching other ministers in

church. They loved the movie of the Holy Ghost and his manifestations among his

people. They were not bad people. They were my partners. They were

my pew partners. They were my prayer partners. But they needed perically as

a partner. And somehow though they have become a pattern, somebody that has

no longer appeared, somebody that is no longer a partner, but now somebody

that is a pattern for me to pattern my life. Actors, Brother Caleb

Roquat was preaching recently, and just before he got into his message, he

said, I respect brother Jeremy Howell, my pastor, and I respect brother

Nathaniel Howell, one of the preachers in our church. He said, you

will never know how much I respect these men. Brother Jonathan Edward said the

same thing before he damped into the Divine Library and preach the message that he

would preach to us that night. I respect the Apostle Paul, I respect

the Apostle John, and I respect our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. And

these precious words of these men that were moved on by the Holy Ghost.

Men that were great men. They were not trashing, they were not rejects

of society. In this servant to God, I will prove that to you,

by the grace of God, that these men were partners with people that

mattered within society. But somehow these people witness the change. Someone may have

asked the question what happened to these men, and someone within the circle of

their influence would have said, well, we know that there's a common denominator

that those twelve men they walked with Christ. They have been seen with Jesus

at different times and we have to believe that Jesus was their influencer. And

because Jesus was their influencer, they have become imitators of him and Magnoel.

You see, John the Beloved states that he had been an eyewitness of Jesus

Christ in this letter. So in three and a half years of christ and

ministry, after he called the apostle John to follow him, John has been

eradically transferred. His life has been forever changed. Sister Wood, I will

never understand how somebody can attend church for decades upon decades, some of them

for half a century, and walk out of that building service after service and

never be changed. These men who had gotten with them, these men that

had a manual with them, after three and a half years of being with

him, they were changed. We know what the apostle Paul told the struggling

new believers at the Church of correct He said, if any man be in

Christ, he is a new creature. For old things have passed away.

Behold, all things have become new. I want you to know that this

apostle John also had a brother who was his partner in business. These men

had inherited a commercial fishing business from their father in seventy that was known as

a bold man in society, somebody that was very bold, a hard working

man, somebody that had a good work ethic. And Brother Nathaniels I was

studying to prepare to preach this message here tonight. I also developed a respect

for this man seventyso developed a respect for the mothers of these men of gods,

such as the Mother of Change and John we Piement. These people were

hard or working people. Come on now and so they're wonderful men if you

would. These are men that have become great leaders among their peers. How

many of you know that the Bible talked about a man that is diligent in

business, that he will not remain among the common people, but in time

you will be promoting or elevating because of his diligence in business. So he's

of men that have been promoted among their peers because of them couldn't worked ethic.

They've inherited financials because of there couldn't work ethic. When Game was coming

to work, the little boy has changed and John went to work until they

become a promitent. Being head of the history of compernament and catiline, we

see that these young men like Simon and lead Father know as furthering, these

are partners. They come on their partners in business, and they're not partners

in crime. They're not mischievous, they're not trying to do as little as

they can to get by. They're not king as hard as they can within

the fishing industry of that day. These two brothers bringing another partner named Peter,

and Peter brings in his brother, and now they're all partners. They're

harvesting the fish out of the seat of Cabilee, and they're feeding people are

society, and they are respecting that these meeting because on the way they're supplying

the needs of they're brothered with fish to eat fresher fish on the daily basis.

Something stood out to me recently as I was reading the Bible. There

and John chapter number eighteen and rest of the fifteen and said Simon was following

Jesus and there was another disciple following him. The Bible went on to say

that that other disciple was a man that was no for a high priest.

He was one that knew that he come on the people that were the prominent

people of that Lamb. He was able to come in went Jesus unto the

palace of the High Priest, because he knew the High Priest what this testing

is, that he could be granted our sssor into the palace of the priest

sect he was a respectable person of society. The Saint Mary, Mary was

greatly bested and highly favored with the age of the Lord. Came upon Mary

and declared her the bee, that vehicle that would transparent to the glory,

myself, trustful and your glorious Christ, from the glory world into humanity.

That I'm telling you, I'll know that God will reach out to the outcast

of society, that he will cleaning them up, he will save them,

that he will make them preachers in the poopen. Hen'll make them pastors of

the church. Hell make them seniors. And said, he's the teachers,

and oh you see will that I want you to know that you are people

that is not to the parting when you're not. But you don't have to

go into this world. And so the Lord a line attitude distincts critical what

the homis say, what the teacher creature? You don't have subbatical from Jesus

when you come out into the world and kiss the devil in the go.

You can stay right here in the house of God. It need to be

blessed up in the House of Cord. That what you need to do.

It's about somebody that the partner real in the church house, somebody that there

have been a pattern to moving your life. I said, from partners to

patterns, that's what we need in this church. So he's being a respectable

brother, Jesse and the last spoke to me about that, And that's a

conception of this sermon. Wait a minute, this man John is going to

be persecuted by these priests and these religious leaders later, but at this time,

he's like Apostle Paula. He's in with him. He's rubbing shoulders with

him because whatever he's doing, he's doing it with all of his heart minded

shriek, and it's causing him to become somebody that somebody can have confidence in.

Now I'm going somewhere with this, and I hope you haven't turned me

out or turn me off, because we should be the people that people look

at and realize that we have been with Jesus and they look to us for

rock solid e examples were examples of hell. People are supposed to be who

are the children of God. You see, these men have been partners with

one another, and they become a partner with Jesus christ him, and in

time they become personal patterns for people within Christina Olympians, chapter number three and

Most number seventeen. Speaking to his partners, he said, brandren be followers

together and me and marked him which walks so as he has seen us walcome

and marked him parent example. But as Samuel that's been. Tom said that

I've been around people and I did not have the letter of Paula in my

head. Speaking of that, learn that he rot and sent to the trench

at Philippie. But I could tell who possessed the creekd Chester and the Athority

to save her. I can't with Jesus listen with somebody's creating in his pasts.

And they really have listened to him talking, and they walk up where

he's walk up, and he's told him count to live, but he's told

him don't touch that any day they want to live. He has mourned then,

but he has saved them. I'm asking you here tonight, here is

your round, mo model. How arrogant that seemed the apostle Paul to tell

the people the Philippie brother my partners, my partners. He didn't call them

devils, he didn't call him anything less than he was. But he didn't

challenge him, and he said, brethren, be followers together of me.

He didn't point to this one and say this is a sheep of another fold.

He didn't point to this one and say you can believe something a little

different. He didn't point to this one and say you can go a different

way. I am sick. I am so cut, sick of hearing people

justify people living in sin and continuing in sin. And so God's got a

different polia from different seat. I'm going he don't. Cod's got one play.

I said God's got one tota. They don't have a nominal name on

the time. They don't ever go another nation name on it. Say God's

got one Chusa. And it's taught the pride of Croster than anybody that's a

part but the Pride of Croster by the same set of rules that anybody else

list creature to us something here a night. Everybody will not be confused by

different examples. I don't move the only example I mean, this is the

Bibles apart. Why is there so much confusion in the label Because there's so

many different doctrines, so many different denominations, so many different churches. The

Apostle Paul gave this church a Philippie, a wonderful letter. He, like

John, possessed the credentials that he needed for confidence among the people. He

also had that apostle apostolic authority needed to be respected and followed. You know

why I wasn't devastated when another social media influencer committed suicide because I wasn't following

him. If every morning when I woke up, I was looking for something

that had been put out by them, source of information, something that would

make me excited about starting my day. I'll tell you when it comes starting

to starting my day. Here, give me Jesus, give me the Word

of God, and got coke, And if you ain't got that, give

me a cup of coffee, and let me start my day with this pattern,

this blessed work of God. Come on, now, how Prosser Paul

is telling these people. You compattern your life after me, You compattern your

experiences after me, You compattern your ministry after me. I wonder how many

people in this building tonight could stand up and it's order your person and encourage

him to look to you when it got questions about how question of Christian should

live after do? I wonder how many people would stand up and save me

a follower of me as I callow CHRISTI one of the negative things about bust

ministry, and we've caught one. But one of the saddest things about the

bust ministry is you can teach them bust kids everything there is to be known

about Jesus, and you can do that one Sunday burning of every week.

But unfortunately you only get two or three out of fifty or sixty who decide

to follow you rather than follow farm or God because must to them her influence

mostly by what they see that its spirits at home. But Pere or a

preacher in this house doesn't matter. Who his finger looks, freak meve doesn't

matter to you, their own vacation live what doesn't matter. Who's in your

ear, doesn't matter, who's at the pot table. We you, yes,

it does, and I want you to know if you rather find yourselfer

with us sinner sitting in your presence, they ought to be able to look

up at another sinner when you walk away. They say when they're lock I've

never low Jesus, I said, and I've never let a did when you're

cat talking this little Jesus see I'm if that is not Jesus. See us

say that I want to be do not that person. I see a lot

of church people that I've never wanted to be like. But about fifth year

sixteen has been two between that. I said, I want a b my

wife to my partner. Why because they imitate Christ? Why because they imitate

Christ? In other words, people can pattern their lives an tore Apostle Paul

and Saint John. Notice Brother Nathaniel. He said, we are followers together.

It is true that the people of God, in a short space of

time will come together. There is never a time that we should gloat or

glory in the fact that we say, let's agree to disagree. No,

let's cover our prayer closet. Unlet's swing the hinges to the gate that opens

it to fire chorus. Unlet's pray until we find out and dessern While there

is a disagreement, we don't need to shrug our souls and say it.

Obviously we disagree about something in this blessed Word of God. Somebody needs to

do like the saints of old dead our patterns did. And you need to

go into that prayer closet and pray these things through until somebody in your family,

some immediate family members, somebody on the child can look at you and

say, I want to follow them as they follow Christ. Do you know

the Bible said that? And I'm believing my womanhood, that is Mary can

actually influence her husband by her manner of life or her mee conversation. Couple

with here you're going to Churchill, calling home back, coming back to Churchill.

Yes, single routine, a single pattern is influence of somebody. Every

time I knock at the door in a six bed room, four back rough

house, a two story houser, I n that there are many reasons that

we're looking at the pastor a Sunday morning, Sunday night, and whisday they

see on a con hanger hanging over my saber is a suit contact that I'm

influencing them as saying, followed me back, get a house of cop and

come home back. But we should be such a lifer where somebody doesn't preceive

a time, doesn't entergo statement time, but they believe it if that it's

got caught in mail and noting that God a person. But I want to

be I want to be light that imitates the Emmanuel. You know, if

you're not an imitator of Emmanuel, you are an irritator of Emmanuel. If

you are not keeping these commandments, and you are revising these commandments in order

to meet your certain circumstances, that that your you are having primate interpretations of

the law and adjusting Christ to meet your pattern. The moment you do that,

the very second that you revise the pattern, you have become a God

to yourself. The very moment of preacher quickly turns over to another page of

Scripture because something he knows that that particular first Hume and that Bible's gonna hear

Lippa to be by Deacon when he flits real quickly, that's another chapter,

because he knows that it's gonna hear Limpa. He's Jessabel White and come home

now to Molata. He is modifying her the word of com who's supposed to

rightly depinder this whole consul of God. There will be a time when it

will be proper and a ministers's love to preach every purse of scripture and never

overlooking to intentionally come home. Now, I'm trying to help somebody in cover

and grace and in the knowledge of the later, and the same to Jesus

Christ her these apostles that went from being partners in a commercial fishing industry and

a commercial fishing belt probably being home amo the hot priest because they bead the

hot priest family to be coming her men whose life were radically changed her and

then't on the leader fishing from behind. They sincere behind. They have something

behind. I'm telling you we got to leave some things behind that after that

we must leave them alone. I'm not talking everybody to night as though you're

the devil, but I am asking you to search your heart and saying,

is there something in me that needs to change? Three and a half years

change these men? And he said, Jesus said, it's expedient for you

that I go away, for if I go not away, the comforter will

not come. This lets me know that the Holy ghost that Jesus was ministering

through the third part of the Godhead, that God has walked around ministering,

and he's said, I'm gonna go be on the right hand of the Father,

and the Holy Ghost is gonna get in you twelve, y'all, remember

one took you to his place right he was crafted in. I don't know

my cha, but I'm glad that I got crafted in. And it doesn't

matter if you were chosen or crafted in. You're all gonna leave the same

thing, and you're gonna preach him the same gospel. As a lot of

people say, well, I don't chosen by Pastor Howell, I didn't get

shaved. Have the becke hold this church? Well, have you've been crafted

in? I'll tell you this. You're gonna following Pastor Howe and you aren't

following the teaching or the becke holdest church. Even if you've been chosen in

this place, you are following in Jesus. I'm calling in christa and gonna

Johnny Plant used to say, Pastor, as long as you're following Christ,

I will follow, you will come home down. My question is are you

following christal with over without leadership? I said, with home without we are

can be fellow of the power. This man emphasizes togetherness. Do you know

why demons left Apostle Paul and the Fellowship of the Brethren. Do you know

why he's left the Fellowship of Paricleet his prayer partner. Do you know why

he left the fellowship of his partner, the Apostle Paul and these wonderful powerhouse

ministers simply because he loved the world. This is why I stress to our

young men and women here at Bethel not to come to church as though they're

coming to a club. Not to come expecting the same atmosphere that is generated

in a club or a pub. But this is the House of God,

and I might get in a little bit of trouble here. But concerning our

camp meetings, of our conventions and youth, we allies and meetings, who

are we patterned and after what are we patterned after? I'm not studying the

big Apostolic meeting that has a thirty thousand people. I'm trying to pattern our

meeting after that. I'm not sure if that's right. I'm not sure about

some of these things that people have polter and do what they called the house.

Oh come, I'm uncomfortable pattering this church like I'm uncomfortable pottered. I'm

meeting after hook I'm on now I'm calling them mother. So I'm trying to

get somebody to bet apit other down. Why did we start talking pounding?

Do meeting after other things? It's getting their own passion? Can't meeting?

Politics were boys in your partner? Politics were boys and retreat passion for chriss

politics were poison and all to the pattern for the whole of those sons place.

These men had credentials an authorities simply because they had been with Christ.

And what They'll look at somebody that's a student of the book and they say,

don't judge, don't judge, And if you're easily offended in like the

height of an alligator, you'll just be blown away with that. But if

you study the word of God, you know the Bob said he did his

wife judges all things. And you realize that Jesus told his followers, Hey,

we're going over there today. People want to talk about it. He

was dining with publicans and centers. He was, But I can tell you

the things that was on the menu that day was not offensive to Christ.

I love to hear crickets preach right now, and so I am precise and

as the apostles emphasize, there should be a togetherness. Somebody told me last

night late they needed to talk about some things that are confusing them within our

movement. And I told him, I said, you know, there's there's

there's power in unity. He said, the unity that I see at Bethel

is amazing. He said, it's obvious that they have some kind of influence.

And what I wanted to say is, it's not my influence. It's

not the influence of Sister Howell. It is the influence of the good Holy

Ghost. Before I looked out a real relationship with him, I was religious

and I was a partner with the people of the church. I was not

there enemy. But I didn't understand how people could be perfect in the eyes

of God, not among their brethren, and how people could be holy in

the eyes of God and not necessarily everything just right according to the opinions of

their brethren. But I got saved, I really got changed, and I

started loving things I once hated and hating things that I once loved them.

And God started influencing me. And I told somebody reason that I said,

the thing that is influenced my ministry, the most of my message is the

word of God. Brother Samuel said her Dad, when your preacher just flows

out of you, I said, my son, you didn't see me for

ten years fasting. People said, I don't look like the victim of hit

was Holocaust. At times he didn't see me on the backside of U the

part on lux breaker. He didn't see me wearing out three times and chain

bibles in a few years. Hey, listen, you put to his word

in your heart. You must sit against him. Do you know why these

men became the legendary leaders for the New Testament Church. It's because they had

luck with call that. Did you know you got to put that on the

mind of Christ? How do I do that? How do I love the

things he loves? So? How do I hate the things and hate say?

Look, you put on the thinking caper from the learning to call that

you was sucker Hill maintaining him, I said, and you really imitator and

Manuel, I am not computed from about these hardings. And to preach are

other doctor. I don't creak it. I ain't com contact that creatures heaven

another doctor. Because they one of God said I can do it. I

will call him or cursed. It doesn't matter. There's mighty signs and wonders.

I am one nerves. It doesn't matter Adam any crocodile tears. I

see he in the altar, the word of Goddess in the heart, influenced

in togetherness, the great men of God. We're not afraid to take the

same path, sister. Would that troubles me that there's so many paths nowadays

in Christianity. I remember singing out of what we call the Church of God,

King James version him not because this is the Church of God himnal that

we use. Cleveland, tennessee the Pathway Press. My former pastor's wife,

Francis Let, his name was brother Dre brother Let. His wife worked at

the Pathway Bookstore, one of the only ones in Florida that I knew of.

I saw himself them song books at the Church of God camp Meet.

A lot of them, songs that people still singing, were written in the

early nineteen hundreds. They had virtue into lyrics, They had power in their

praise. We saw the way Holy Gost moved tonight. The Holy Dost moved

tonight because from our church. Pianus said, I feel like during playing during

the offer Tory. Redeem Sweet is the song I'm singing today. I am

a redee. That's what the Bible said. You are bought with the price,

come on as a great price. I'm telling you that's something to shout

about. I was sitting there while he was playing, and it started resonating

them my soul. Wait a minute, people both worthless trash like me.

I every year I'm gonna stand up for my feeble and crows. And that's

worth either. And Andrew with James and John Cassaya. I loved fishing.

I love gender the next. I loved tending to the needs of people.

But there's nothing better than I like them than the words of Jesus, that

it be influenced by his word and by his spirit. I'm telling us right

here to night, this should not be so many divisions. In the early

nineteen hundreds, it did not matter if you were lunting, the Presbyterian printer,

the Popish papa. I don't want to name them all, but everybody

had a standard of holiness, concerned living for cost. People ever pay you

you come o the world, but hardan you me again. But then I

suparated, I said, everybody separated because you wogain if the listen making well

and you betave and you imertator, I'm so, I don't worry. Wouldn't

criticizers say things? Since to how? And I took her tribe, the

twenty one in total to that private beach as we parked at that public beach

access because that particular day, our private beach access, for some strange reason,

was filled. So I said, you know what, w you ain't

winning. We drove past field up, didn't we, And then all of

a sudden, there's one that's got room for six people, six vehicles and

twenty one people. I said, I don't understand it. I would never

understand it for as long as I live. And it's just like the Holy

Goes cleared the path for us to go out there on the final day.

I'm gonna tell you something. If you respect him and you honor him,

he will respect you, will arder you. That's what he said. If

you're ashamed of me, I will be ashamed of you. And ever since

I got saving your Daddy has never been a shame. I saw people on

the highway looking at the way we were being modest, the way we were

covered up and protecting our body from impure minds of this world. And come

on now, not causing our brother's assist me to be tempted and said her,

Yes, I'm not better than anybody, but I'm gonna tell you something.

They're not gonna go to hell for lusting over this point right here.

My charismatic preacher author one time told my daddy, he said, what if

the women lust that to my body, that's their problem. No, sir,

sucker, if you call yourself for a preacher and you're plotting your pleasure

at a pleshure and there's somebody sitting from your strength or your claus and you

know what the great preacher, the Methodist preacher and founders said, or come

home now, he said, Dad was tempted to sit that. Come on,

people sin, but that was tempt to say it. I want to

make sure that wouldn't make me look at me. And there they say the

same thing. They said it after me because our Christians. Why, because

they're impertating, compell seem like so many people, I'm putting off so much

and not taking up what really matters. Apostle Aposta to the Church of Christ,

be followers of me, even as I am also a christ. These

men repeatedly told the members of the Early Church that Christians conduct himself differently than

the world does. And somebody says, but you don't understand our day an

hour to each his own. God loves me. We're sheep of another fault.

God will accept the successiveness. God will accept us immodesty. Y'all,

dude, realize that the Book of First Corinthians was targeted. It was upon

the backs of people that were calling themselves Christians that needed to be tweaked at.

My father tweaking them out. My mother wrapt the epistle because Apostle Paul

was saying to the Pagans that you come out of their temples and their houses.

You're not being a good example. Come on, oh come on,

man, I shout the ground raptor. I thought I was preaching to the

bethel Holders Church tonight. I don't think I was preaching in the first worldly

Church of America. I thought he had these things saddled in our heart.

Oh yeah, you're not getting this right here. Apostle Paul said, you're

no longer exemplifying the goddess of a pagan temple. You're no longer a Mimericans,

a Greek cop head. You are no never talented my parents in the

world. That's an imitatory falling out around. I had never been the same

beast. But Jesus Christ up any pressing father, that's not you know what

it is. They are ashamed of Jesus. That's why they're changing things.

That's why they're doing things that they didn't used to do. That's why they're

crossing their fingers and saying, I'm going to heaven. They hope they are

going to have Oh God, I need to move over here. The apostles

made it clear that they did not believe it was a good thing that people

would remain in their sin, that grace would have bound. Why would there

have been any epistles from the apostle Paul. Why would there have been any

tweaking epistles. Why would have there have been any tweaking sermons? Why would

there have been any letter to say, I'm want to get right where you're

living. I want to talk about the example you're setting. You're not setting

a good example. How many parents in this building. I told you that

older supering concerning their younger soup even before You're not being a good example.

That's what Apostle Paul told Timothy. You be a good example. You walk

like a walk. Somebody said, where's that out? I wrote it down

because I knew you doubt it. It is in there. Paul told Timothy

to follow his actions following my pattern of sound doctrine. And these are the

words that I've spoken under you, Timothy. And Paul said, if any

been coming to you preaching another doctrine in that which he received, let him

be accursed. So because of Paul, it's still what Brother Jeremy House trying

to do right here tonight. To those that are listening, those that are

listening outside of these four Watsons that are hearing right here in sound of hes

or Wross tonight, I'm telling you, if you are a child of the

life, you will not be comfortable in the night. If you are a

child and a life, you will be uncomfortable in the dark. They carry

us on second of from those who professed to be changed to be following friends

of this Lord. And wherever you're following friends of this world, it won't

be long that you'll be following the trianta from this Lord. I'm gonna say

it again I'm not worrying about Creanso, and I'm not worrying about Trians.

The only kingdom matters, he said, I am following this power. I'm

sure it would have been trinity for Peter and Andrew, James and John and

Paul to have done something else. Oh, yes, it would have been

trinity to adjust the wardrobe has lay so exemplified and demonstrated by aidless celebrities.

I'm concerned that even among our holiness movement and Pentecostal churches, that there's too

much stuffing of the fashion magazines and the fashioned painters, and we are being

the influence in our dress. I'll come over all the Syrian war lords and

us hereon daughters and the Babylonian no good carpets. People are picking them up.

Why because there'll be an influenced by her fashion influencers. So I don't

pick up a wardrobe tonight, He but calls her. It's one of the

A list celebrity reward to one of those red carpet events. We've got our

old A list celebrity here tonight. You know that since the Tammy wouldn't walk

the red carpet just a few days ago, she won whatever in the Orlando

and done something with business. Isn't that awesome? Now, this guy right

here, little Mica, looks like an A list celebrity, somebody that stuck

a little poster boy for a Cereal boxer, a poster boy for GQ magazine.

Little got a handsome little Mica is He might to pull that out,

but if he gets older, they come out prompt. I's gonna tell him,

you don't mean the look at GQ Magazine had men Squarehouse Magazine to pick

her out. Are you going to live your and our li great wrestle and

you have not come home? Now, I'm telling you're out a lot of

loop of provising celebrities or aimless celebrities. They influenced me. I'm looking for

him, looking under Jesus the author and a peniser of our pay well.

I thought we had a whole insjecture. The last I heard we did have

one. There's about seventy people here to night, and we've had some wonderful

services. Have you ever noticed that you were influencing people around you? Some

of the older brothers in this church have said concerning the fourteen preachers in this

ministry associated affiliated with both of Home of Church. They said, I can

tell you're their pastor. One of the local pastors years ago told another Church

of God preacher. He said, Hey, when you hear me preach in

the MP program tonight, if you knew my pastor of yesteryear, you're gonna

hear my pastor preach because I come up under him. I got a lot

of his actions, a lot of his antics, just a lot of his

sands, His quip, his wip is just all in me because he influenced

me. But he took it another step. He said. I even imitate

him at times. Now, Brother Samuel is a master imitator. Wave at

me, Brother Samuel, And sometimes I told him, I said, who

needs Jungle Jim or Adventures in Odyssey? When Tan Samuel can take you through

both. He can make Jungle Jim visit to Eugene and Connie and just wonderful

Harlow goal. I told him. During the beach vacation over, I said,

who man needs Ventures in Odyssey? Tonight when we got Samuel and Sister

Megan wanting a smiling laugh because he knows it's true. He's just gifted as

an imitator. But Brother Samuel I want you to do more than imitate you,

Daddy. I want you to imitate the Manuel. I said, I

want you to follow him as I followed him, Would you follow him with

me? Brother Jessing, his little eyes watching us. They are imitating our

actions. And I saw little Micah on the other end of the piano,

bitch tonight her Rose. Daddy was singing at He furrowed his eyebrows the same

way his daddy furrows here, so he cocked his head the same way Daddy

cocks his head. And he was trying to sing, Sister Harold, And

I said, called one day, because of this influence, he will start

imitating. But whenever he picks imitating Daddy, this starts imitating Jesus. I'm

gonna be so blessed. I'm telling you it's good that we imitate. Our

partners say it's good. But I want you to look on at the pattering

little eyes. I could be looking at Jesus little little eyes. I can

be looking. I came her into the lad They're gonna imitate our actions.

A righteous person can watch someone and can witness the actions of that person,

and they can easily determine whether that person has their priorities correctly alive. They

can watch a person and tell where their true priorities are. The truth is,

the world is watching you. The truth is the church is watching you.

Somebody walked into the building one time where I was ministering, and there

were a lot of people there, and they were a person of my past,

a friend of my past. And when they walked in, they done

something that I was unfamiliar with. They took their second and third finger and

made the peace sign. Doesn't happen to Errand I thought they were just being

cool, like we weren't back then, and I thought they were just flashing

me the peace sign or dome put up the V for victory. But then

they took that piece and poked up their ears, and I said, man,

they gotta spirkle in the face, and they're trying to say, I'm

going to poke your eyes out of the message with me, trying to make

me lose my attention, you know, and make me misspeak or something.

I thought it was funny, so I'm thinking, and then they do that.

I went't familiar with that, and I knew right then, even though

I did not know what that meant, they were saying I'm a watching you.

I'll come here tonight to see you. I'll come here tonight to watch

you. I come here tonight to hear you preach, and I'll come here.

What they said is there might be a couple of hundred people here.

I'll come in this building and the first person I saw was you, and

I'm gonna be watching you. Come on at the church, and they let

me know how much they enjoyed it. But I want you know that the

Bible said that I other Lord is in every place, beholding the evil and

the good. So this is why I'm going to follow him as my pattern

and not worry about what the big name preacher does or says, because he's

watching me. Brother. The truth is, the world's watching. The truth

is right now, seventy some people's watching me. You know what I'm saying,

Brother Nathaniel. The world needs a view of Jesus. You won't need

a view of a preacher of righteousness. The world needs preachers of righteousness.

The LRD needs people of righteousness. They don't need somebody to demonstrate another Hell's

Biker gang member. They don't need some preacher to go get a multitude of

tattoos and get everything on his body, piers and just look like a Hell's

Angels member. Right, that's what they're trying to tell us to do.

Change the atmosphere in the church, and the sinners will come into church.

That's what they're saying. Change so that the world can be comfortable with you.

No, I really liked it that when I was a sinner, I

would come to church. I was comfortable with conviction and comfortable with my christ.

I might have been comfortable with some of the people, but I love

that our own fashioned conviction. I love being able to say I'm not what

I was spircet to be. I'm a sitre, I'm not a safety,

and I say, but when I get it, I want to have it

rifle. And that's why we've got to live with the standards that we got

to de riter, we got to speak rica, we got to walk to

rider think. I mind, Now, this world needs a view. I'm

Jesus. I'm not worried about your worldview. I'm worried about the worst view.

Jesus. Not only representing well, are we representing, only representing modesty,

only representing your reality? That all we representing the bod. I know

this is deep tonight. But I thought you like deep, Preacher. The

world needs a view of Jesus. Paul had told him Mthy to follow his

actions followed by doctrine. What would it hurt to imitate Jesus? What will

it hurt to imitate Imanu? Well, I don't feel like the last seven

or eight days us walking around Benita Spring's beach area like holiness people was offensive

to Christ. Huh, Brother Johnny Larramore, you'll be listening to this I'm

shore. But often he speaks with his dear precious mother. Just before she

died, he said sometimes he would call her and said, Mama had been

listening to Brother How preached under in South Florida, and she'd say something like,

one day you're gonna be with him at sense You love brother, how

you respect Brother How? Because of what he heard living him, Paduca Kentuck

him listening to podcast coming out Little Belle, Florida in time become one of

my great friends. Heard from him before service to night, he said,

just before his mamma died, she had encouraged him in this old hord,

in this way, in this old Pentecostal way, and child as human said

Johnny, We've got to make it home. She was such a godly woman

that he feels like it's worth it to patter has life back to her.

I want to ask you, do you have somebody in mind right now that

you would say, I can say I will be safe and patterned my life

after that person. Does some of you without hesitation? You would say,

if I could just pattern my life after Sister Wood, Sister Charity from the

Rick. You know what, Brother Johnny, even though she was a great

pattern, now the only pattern you have outside of the other wonderful believers in

that area, there is Jesus and a word. That's the only thing going

before you, Brother Johnny, because now she's gone. I've been looking into

this Bible and realize that I must walk the way he walked, that I

must talk the way he talked. I believe these that have received the Holy

Ghost recently can say that they have been changed. And even though there has

been much spiritual growth, now they can say somehow I perceive there's a greater

need for more of God. Your leaps and bounds ahead of where you were,

Brother Jesse, three months ago, but now I see a stronger desire

to grow now I see a craving for more spiritual development. Why because you've

had an experience with a master that has caused you to watch hill. Brother

Samuel was in that swimming pool. Brother Philip was in that swimming pool.

All of us guys, we're a swimming pool, dressed very modestly. And

Brother Samuel said, you know, ever since I got to hold a ghost,

he said, when I read the word of God, somehow, now

it makes tallest sense. He said. I remember when I was just attending

church and religious and saved. Yes, he said, I remember getting my

bottle out and open it and get frustrated because I reread it, reread it,

reread it, reread it. Cannot get anything out of it, you

know, get angry and say, why can I not understand this? He

said, But as soon as I got the Holy Ghost, immediately those things

that are spiritually discerned and all made sons. And when you hear him preach,

I stand over there and say, that's my son. I raised him.

When I hear all of these young men that have got the Holy Ghost

come up here an exhort and preach and testify. At a moment's notice,

I say, three months ago they were incapable of that. What happened,

what happened, And then I realized as to Wooten, he was with them,

but now he's in it r standing, and now they're imitating Emmanuel.

Three months ago I wouldn't have pointed the world to them as an example of

Christ. But now I can light them up and say, hey, I

believe it'd be all right. If you'd be like brother Jonathan, Hey,

I believe you do all right. If you'd be like brother Katy, hey,

I believe he'll do all right. If you're like brother Nathaniel, You

that have preaked through and got the Holy Ghost, you hurt Brother Nathaniel the

night challenged you. He said, you've been given so much. He didn't

know what I was gonna preach on. He said, don't you lose it.

There's words you used to say before you got the Holy Ghost. You

ought to get quick in about saying some of them words. You ought to

get quick and about saying some of them things. You ought to shut up

on some of that offensive stuff. Because when we find Peter after he had

wept bitterly and had to hear him with preaked through and had to he had

been filled with the Holy Ghost, Brother Jesse, we never find where Peter

walked away web bitter if. I said, when you start loving to imitate

the man you, I feel the sweet presence of golf. That's why I

told Brother Samuel's sister Whoop. I said, son, you got it.

He said, I don't understand how it just flows out. Again, I

said, you got If you got the Holy Ghost, the Bible said,

he will say the things that need to be said. I was driving South

belt on ten years ago. I got into the state of Florida, and

the Holy Ghost descended upon men. And I speak as a fool, but

in my mind, I'm again to preach with the tongues of anjos that I

said as I preached that sermon of my mind, I said, Jeremy,

howd you can't preach like that? And I heard somewhere in my inner dead

the Holy Ghost said, but I can't. If you'll just imitate the man

who will fall in love with the man will He'll take care of it for

you. It don't have to be a struggle. Why don't we coming these

altars today to find a place to go down and pray and say, change

me. Lord? If there's anything in my life that you want to alter

to match your pattern? Would you do that? Change me? Lord?

I really do want to be like you. If you're not an imitator,

you'll become an irritator of the Lord. Say imitates. You may like him

all through lies. That's right from the same thing about it in him himself.

Also some are him, and but who's so keepeth his word in him?

Very is the love of God perfect is hereby snoby that we are interview

hereby we do know that we know him if we keep his cars imitating and

jail. Can you get somebody to cross? Can you tell somebody following eyes

of following place listening to Jesus? Let's be our right, let's be a

going to strut that they're apostle loaded an epistle, he said they went out

from us. They because they went out of us when he was saying he

does. They're not willing to imitate us. They're not willing to imitate Jesus

the pastor, who is said to look at that one. Can he speak

to the new convert and be believes I see that following them on noble not

be ju ust? What makes them special? They're following out, that's very

special, that's a good, very special. Used to be chees so ches

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