Don't Be Squirmish Because Of The Skirmish - Bro Jeremy Howell 5-3-2023

Brother Nathaniel, Hebrews, chapter number ten, verse number twenty five, not

forsaking the assembling of ourselves together, as the manner of some is, but

exhorting one another, and so much more as you see the day approaching,

Amen, Brother Jesse. John Chapter number ten, verses twelve through fourteen.

But he that isn't hiring and hath not the shepherd who's on the sheep,

are not seeth. The wolf cometh and leaveth the sheep, and fleeth,

and the wolf catcheth him, and scattereth the sheep. The hirling fleeth because

he isn't hiring, and careth not for the sheep. I am the good

shepherd. I know my sheep, and name none of mine. Amen.

Sounds like brother Jesse has a cold, like I do. Let's stand for

the reading of our texts. Verse Chronicles, chapter number eleven, reading verses

numbers ten through fourteen. The Bible said, these all so are the chief

of the mighty men whom David had, who strengthened themselves with him in his

kingdom and with all Israel, to make him king, according to the word

of the Lord concerning Israel. And this is the number of the mighty men

whom David had. I don't have my reading glasses to hear. We're going

pull him back. Jesh Beam and Hakami, the chief of the captains.

He lifted up his spear against three hundreds slain by him at one time.

And after him was Eliezar, the son of Dodo the whole High, who

was one of the three Mighties. Isn't that need one of the three mighties.

He was with David at Pandaranum, And there at the Philistines were gathered

together to battle, where was a parcel of ground full of barley, and

the people fled from before the Philistines. May we prayly, Father, we

love him, We praise you tonight. We thank you for the opportunity to

be in the house of the Lord. We pray God, that you would

anoint this thy servants and of God in my mouth. Help me to say

the things that you would have me to say, nothing more or less.

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

saith unto the churches through this preached word, this blessed book. Not my

words, but your words, Dear Holy Goes preach through me. I pray,

may they hear what the spirit saith this church right here, this very

night. I pray God and sayings of this blessed book would go below the

shoulders that enter their heart, mind, soul's spirit. God, help us

not to hear only but to he he held brother Jesse's body and my body

others that are sick tonight and fevering. God, sickness seemingly has jumped upon

me just before I started preaching. I pray that you would help us and

antics to hear. I pray we would depart this place joyfully and not sorrowfully.

In Jesus name. Amen, let's do something different. Stretch your hand

this way and ask God to give me strength. And feel extremely weak,

I know he can help me, Heavenly, Father, God, I know

that you can heal me. I'm own business for the King. I pray

Lord that you will help me right now and more give me strength that I

need to preach. Lord, there's no dout. The devil knows what I

pray and preach. That I run under attire. I pray that I pray

to you will do my health long to power host. My prayer they give

me is focused. I do. That's I have to turn Lord, I

must be the man to somebody to my I ask you again, a wilieve

you will power, you will spare by pathful for the street that I feel

in Jesus name. They man, thank you for praying with me as you're

being seated. Let's look at verses number thirteen and fourteen. Again the Bible

said he was with David at past Dammam, and there the Philistines were gathered

together to battle, which was where a parcel of ground was full of barley.

And the people fled from before the Philistines. And they set themselves in

the midst of that parcel and delivered it and slew the Philistines, and the

Lord saved them by a great deliverance. Our text is found in an Old

Testament book of the Holy Bible, the Book of First Chronicles. This eleven

chapter of this book of the Bible has been a favorite of mine for as

long as I can remember. I remember being a little boy in that Pentecostal

church, the Church of God of Cleveland, where I was raised, and

when the preachers would preach out of this leventh chapter of the Book of First

Chronicles, something within me would stir up. I felt like I knew that

one day I would be a soldier of the Cross, a fighter inside of

me would come alive. And I marveled at that mysterious feeling a lot of

times at the reading of the text within this chapter. There was something about

it, whether rodecap, that would rally my spirit. For as long as

I can remember, this is one of my favorite chapters of this blessed book.

And it's very satisfying. It's gratifying, it's fulfilling. It's fulfilling and

satisfying to me because it proves that the Lord finishes everything that he starts.

In my line of business, I tell my employees and co workers that it's

not how we start something, that's all in how we finish it. And

I preached this past Wednesday night, and here we are again tonight on a

Wednesday night, and I talk to us about Him being the author and the

finisher of our faith last Wednesday night, and I believe that it should be

satisfying and fulfilling to you tonight to understand that that good thing that God has

beginning you, he will bring it to fulfillment. And I believed here tonight

that there are people in this building that recognize there is something mysterious going on

in your life that you thought you would never be where you are at today.

There's some of you asking yourself, how did I end up here?

How did I end up with this blessing? How did I get this position?

And graze them with a master. It's because of the perfect will of

God that you're abiding him, and because of the plan of God. God

has brought you here. He is rallying the troops to do something for him

in the last of time and the end of the days. He's got us

all here, Brother Nathaniel, and I believe that as long as we all

abide in His perfect will and stay within certain boundaries, we can see things

come to fulfillment, or, to use a different word, into fruition.

The Bible reader knows that David had been declared king right here. I believe

that there's a lot of people in this building tonight that you would say I

had decided to make Jesus king of my life. There's been a lot of

emphasis on Jesus being King of kings and Lord of lords of late in our

services and until you come to that place in your life where he sits on

the throne in your heart. Until He rules you, you cannot see the

great things of God done in your life. So we see here as we're

reading this chapter, that David has been brought to hebred and finally Israel has

come together, and they've come together together to sell celebrate David as king.

Everybody's excited because what had been prompisied has come to pass. The promises of

the Lord are yea and amen. The Bible said that the Lord is not

slack concerning his promises. So now it's time to celebrate. Everybody's excited since

to him, and I look out at the congregation sometimes and I see reasons

for an abundance of joy and jubilation and excitement because of the way God has

rallied the troops, the way he is building this church. Jesus promised that

he would build a church. He said that the gates of Hell would not

prevail against that church that he would build. I can say tonight by personal

testimony that when God begins to do something, and sometimes even when God prompts

a preacher to preach a certain message, that preacher comes under attack. It's

a spiritual attack, and sometimes we can feel it in our physical body.

I was feeling fine up until it came time to preach. The devil has

seen these notes, He seen the direction that the Lord has set me in

tonight, and he has upset about it, because the devil does knock like

seeing God's plans come to fulfillment. And so David had been King Judah,

partial fulfillment of the plan of God, partially fulfilled, brother Jesse, but

not completely satisfied. Y'all let that seek him. But now all Israel has

declared his kingship. It's so sad that the process took as long as it

did, but the day came. And as we continue reading this narrative,

we see that David and the Israelites traveled to the land of the Jepes sides,

and David said, do you see that heal over there? I want

us to conquer that hell and make that the place of the capital city,

and we will call it the city of David, New Jerusalem, mouth Scion.

It's gonna be a new place for us. It's gonna be a place

where we can set uptak the blessings of God and look around at our surroundings

and say, without a doubt, God brought us to this lofty place.

The Bible teaches us that at some point, brother Jesse, they overtook that

city after a skirmish. A military skirmish had taken place, and they overtook

the city. Everything that you get from God will come through a battle.

You're gonna have to fight. The Apostle Paul said, you must fight the

good fight. There's a lot of people. They just want to lay down

and give up, and they don't want to fight for the things that God

has prim Still, but we find that even though David has been crowned now

king of all Israel, he's got to fight. Another battle is going to

require a skirmish. Now Here is what God laid on my heart to preach

tonight. Don't get squirmish because of the skurvish. There's people in this building.

I can sense that they are prone to fear or cowardice. I believe

that if you're going to make it to God's heaven, you're going to have

to lose that spirit of fear. The Bible said that God has not given

us the spirit of fear, but of power, and of love and of

a sound mind. But you say, I feel like I have made it

because now I'm a member of the Bethel Holiness Church. I'm part of the

family of God. If you're going to make it to God's capital city,

that New Jerusalem, you're gonna have to fight some spiritual chimpion sides along the

way. You see, the Bible says that David had told his men,

We've got to go fight in order to overtake this city. If I'm gonna

live in the castle, we've got to remove the chimpions sides. The Bible

said that the chimpion sides walked out. They approached these men and let them

know, you cannot have it. It's not yours to have. The devil

will tell a lot of us that's off. It's not within our reach.

It's out of bounds. It's not ours to possess. But brother just said,

every person that is a fighter will do whatever they can do to see

to it that they get whatever it is that God intends for them to have.

And so David had to challenge his men, and he gave them something

that made it worth fighting for. He said, whoever overtakes the city,

whoever answers and accepts the challenge, I will make them the chief over my

military. As I reigned in this castle in the city called Mount Science,

the city of David, you will be bestowed with honor. People will look

upon you with admiration, and they will know that the blessing of David is

upon you. The Chronicle says that Joe A. David's arose to the challenge

and said, I will go down there. How many of you know that

if you're going to win in your life, you got to accept the challenges

that come your way. I'm trying to demonstrate that to you tonight. The

challenge before me is to preach over some sort of spiritual attack, to preach

through some kind of spiritual weakness to the devil's trying to plat me win because

he does not want you to get a hold of this message. To Mike.

You see, there's a lot of people that have just said church,

keep on shouting, and I'll preach this with a feeling better with my voice

his sounding better. I fettle better right now. You see, David have

a capital city of mind. And David knew that some special person would be

chief or captain over the army of that special capital city. And David did

not stop after that. He had overcome the city and had occupied the city

with Pia. David began to build around the capital, where the world capital.

While David was building around the capital, enlarging his territory and enlarging his

boundaries, the Bible said that Joe app began to repair the city. It

takes two teen warner. The Bible said, too, is better that warn

and a three fund court is not easily broken. I don't know what your

assignment is, if it's to repair the water, or to work at the

church, or teach a suns old CLASSA. I don't know what your assign

it is that is to repair broken homes and broken thoroughly sa and broken hearts,

or perhaps is to be an international harvester that began to spread out your

tentaclesa and overtaken extend the bountry Linescather Jesse, how feel a preacher here to

not regardless of of my voice, just a posa. The Word of Cold

said that David became great. Look at it right there in First Chronicles,

chapter number eleven and verse number nine. So David watched greater and greater,

for the Lord of Hosts was with him, Sister heaven. David watched greater

and greater, for the Lord of Hosts was with him. It is a

blessing for David to know that the Lord is with him, and that the

Lord has ordered his step. Another reason why I enjoy reading this chapter,

it's because it tells us, the readers, that David had some great people

with him. If you'll look at meirst number ten, the Bible said,

these also are the chief of the mighty men whom David had, who strengthen

himself with him in his kingdom. It appears that these mighty men and the

people of Israel were in this to make him their king. You cannot be

in this for yourself. You've got to be in this for somebody else,

more importantly, for Jesus, and for your brother and sister, and for

the lost people. They said, if my kny, they were determined that

there would be one man that they recognize as their leader, one man that

would be their key. I know, as the church would look up to

our pastor. I appreciate your admiration, I appreciate your reus spect towards me

and appointing me as you're a pastor. But I want us to know something

in this battle that we're in We've got to remember the causer, and while

we are fighting that it is from one man and one man alone. We're

fighting for the Lord, I said, we're fighting for Jesus saying, I'm

fighting because from the Lord and the Lord's plans. I'm not trying to go

about this from my old agenda. I'm not trying to me to my old

condition to I'm fighting because of God enlisted me the fight. Brother Jesse read

that scripture. Listen to whom we are fighting for. And in the midst

of the seven candlesticks were like unto the sun of man, clothed with a

garnet down to the foot and girt about the path the golden girdle. His

head and his hairs were white like wool, as white as snow, and

his eyes were as a flame of fire, and his feet like in a

fine breath, and it burned in a furnace, and his voice as a

sound of many waters. And he had in his right hand seven stars,

and out of his mouth went a sharp two head sword, and his counternance

was as the sun shineth in his strength. It is true that this man

Eliazar was fighting for David because he loved David. It is true that all

of these body men recognized that God was with David, and their loyalty is

to be appreciated and admired. They were loyal to a fault concerning David.

But Brother Jesse, I feel like I said, I feel like they were

looking beyond David and they saw that person that Brother Jacob and Brother Jesse just

described that Jock the Revelator had looked at and beheld. And I've been like

here tonight that there's a lot of mighty people in this building tonight. Some

don't realize just how instrumental you are in this battle that had been a raid

and that we're fighting in. Some of you don't realize exactly how strong you

are. You're stronger than you think you are, and you're fighting for a

cause that has been put inside of you. We find that this man has

been called one of the mighties. That's a biblical word, one of the

mighties. And the exploits of this man is our golden text. A familiar

enemy has come into the land now, Brother Jonathan, a very familiar enemy,

one that David is very familiar with. David had at some point destroyed

their champion. But it seems that the enemy just continue to reproduce. It

seems like the longevity of the enemy is just perpetual. It's eternal. Brother

Wrong, Captain David of Goliath. And when some of us mighty men killed

the brothers of Goliath, the Philistines, but I jes say they did not

eliminate the enemy. David has said that the battle is the lord's and it

was ever hit. The God was going to destroy some Philistines, but they

were not all destroyed. And so we find here that this man Elia's art

is dealing with an enemy that is very familiar. How many of you know

that the Bible said Elijah was a man subject the like passions as we are,

but he prayed. How many of you know that Jesus was tempted at

all points in all matters, like as you have been tempted. It's a

familiar enemy. It might be a formidable phone or the cheer of mind.

But this enemy that we're dealing with tonight, that's trying to hidder us from

bringing in the gifts of God that we'en enherging the promises of God, is

trying to hit somebody in this building to die. I want you to know.

You need to recognize that that there are people in this building that I've

already worn some fights with these enemies that you're facing. I don't know what

kind of temptation testing your toil a trial you're in tonight, but there are

people that can say, I am familiar with that family. I am familiar

with the s Philistine. I am familia with the way they fight and the

way they work. And now you can study this and see it, and

the Philistines gethered together hit more to place. They should never be true that

the enemy gethers together and it's more unified, and the people have gone mad.

You find these people come into cost territory and they took up a stand

right there. They come on. Now they find it straight when they're coming

the holdiness Churchill, that the people take up a stand and say, you're

not gonna breathe the prosductrins, You're not gonna take up a long grond from

myself. I tell somebody here to night that the church has got to be

beautified. We've got to stand to get us from them. Oh God,

I feel the strength, Just give me a little bit more so. The

enemy appeared to be united in their calls and in their purpose. The enemy

has a wolf pack mentality. Brother, want us notice why the enemy is

assemblant together. Most of God's people are fleeing. But brother Jeremiah set of

Elia's are and David and some of his men that they were not prone to

flee. Thing. I'm a shirt up tonight is the sinners are gathering together.

It doesn't matter if it's for some sort of banquet. It doesn't matter

us for a gathering at a spool hall, or for some concern or scene,

or down at the local pub. The sinners are congregating and they are

coming together. But the churches are closing their doors. Why because they are

fleeing when the wolf comes. My brother read it in Hebrews, chapter number

ten and verse number twenty five. Not for saking this assembling of ourselves together,

as the mayor of SMIs, but exhorting one another. And so much

the more as she see the day approaching. May we be like Eliazar,

he was not going to flee. I know that it is commonplace now to

have one service a week, to close the churchill a Sunday night, to

not turn on the lights of home Wednesday night. It's commonplace now to give

away our revival. Now they don't want to have more. And a two

or three not revival. I'm telling you that a ground and we got a

fight more to tell us turned in and the church is fleaing. I said

that devil is coming in and the church is fleaing. Why because people are

getting squirmish? Say because but the squirmish said, you cannot allow yourself to

this squirmish. To be squirmish is to be easily made to feel sick,

faint, or disgusted. You see what the devil's trying to do right here

to your pastor tonight, I have felt great all day long. Squirmish is

to be unpleasant. Imagery is such as the sight of blood made me feel

squirmish. It can be to be easily offended or disgusted. I know people

that have abandoned pastorates and attending rock solid holding as churches simply because the devil

come in and creating us some trouble. And they said, I don't vote

any parture her confusing. God is nothing after her confusing. You can quote

as Finnish scriptures as you want to, as you look over your shoulder and

run away from the roof packer and I'm gonna tell you hit before I've been

teaching us, alf there are boys and girls to see you stand put it

scandrew. Ground considered trust can considered more clota. Somebody's gonna stand their ground.

So many are so squirmish because of this Turvish brother Rode Captain Devil can

just come in and say I'm gonna huff and I'm gonna puff and I'm gonna

blow your house down. And you know what, they put their belonging to

a suitcase and they say, see you, I didn't sign up for this.

When you became a Christian, you became a lawyer. If you are

a Christian, you are a lawyer. Hey, come on now. If

you are a Christian and you are not a lawyer, you are not a

Christian. I appreciate the old Mother anything, but Christian has said that MWord

Christian soldiers, So marching out to war, we're the cross of Jesus going

old before I'll say it tonightto i'mword Christian soldiers armor Christian said rward. Christian

postim s we got the fight point even ain't worth fighting point. It ain't

worth the live and he wor said, I feel like it's not only work,

did it bore, it's my thing? Point he want us a did

that's him die for it? Maybe want it so bad you die for it?

Oh, I feel a shatter upte John, chapter number ten, verses

twelve three fourteen. Our brother read it. But he that isn't hirely,

and not the shepherd who's on the sheep, or not see it. The

wolf cometh and leave it the sheep and fleeth, and the wolf cutcheth them

and scatters the sheep. One thing would never be said of David when he

was taking care of the sheep of his father Jesse. When David was wearing

the title of shepherd over the flock of Jesse on his breast, everybody knew

he is more than a shepherd boy. He is a shepherd warrior. That

he's gonna fight for him sheep. That pre truth. When the lion came

in and take a lamb, David fought for one lamb. When the bear

come in to take one lamb, David fought for one lob. I gonna

fight to one doctor. I'm gonna fight her form one role. I'm gonna

fight for one standard of I amout that fight that tisted in me, but

I will fight her for this moral ground that God has given us a to

protect. I would have fight for this holy ground, the sacred ground,

this blessed book. This generation is wanting us to accept same sex marriage.

They're wanting us to flee away from the subject of homosexuality. They want us

to abandon it and not preach it in our pool pits. They have tormented

our wonderful governor rotten Us sent us because he is a man that refuses to

flee when the liberal wolfs come and try to take what is considered to be

sacred ground. I'm gonna continue to preach against homosexuality until my dying day.

In my period last breath, I tell us somebody care an you gotta left

the spiritual and a warrior come alive, but get you, because when it's

alive and you remeb gotta feels like shouted, but you will shoutter and that

God can pare, that God is club. When it feels like pretty losing

ground and we're losing people, you read Piecrt for what he is. A

left I'm telling us here to night and we got the pie part. But

I get nervous. I get squirmish whenever they start running in declaring victory.

I get squirmish whenever I realize we're in a spiritual skirmish. As soon as

I announced that I was under spiritual attack, I've only maybe setting that in

two or three times of ministry over sixty seventeen years. I know that the

devil is wanting to keep some of you in that timidity. He wants to

keep some of you as cowards, spiritual cowards, and with me under the

spiritual attack that I'm under right now. Some of you have felt no desire

to playing some of your extremul and saying you mean the cavils that song,

You mean the cavils at Paraclat, that he could interfere with my pastor trying

to preach to us. But if we can get a view as to who

has hovered over the barley patch, if we can see who the real shepherd

is, that's what they even knew. That's the las are new, this

is tearing. Tell him, this is God's count and the cover can't come

in here. My listener, soldier, he come, my listen, I'll

take he came a list of skin of the God that I'll tell us somebody

then this church hauns up. You're gonna stop coming alive. But if you're

gonna fight up, I said, you're gonna FIGHTE got gonna fight. When

I get nervous because of all that shouting, do you realize that shouting there's

a spiritual hard cry. He were not competer that creditor? Is he theres

beIN us that he is in the Lord. That's my shinners, my shout

the same chount we shout. He's better, He's creating who you see.

There's a difference in the spirit of an hireling and the owner of the sheep.

This is why I feel like it's worth fighting for through sickness and preaching

with him naughty to a spiritual attack, because I realize if the devil's attacking

me, it's because he does not want one of you, or to in

three of you, whoever you are, to learn how to be a fighter.

You see a fighter and will see tune it that God's we all is

perfected in their life, and that God's we all comes into parishion. They

will do whatever it takes to not mess it up. Jesus had pointed out

this difference between the hired hand or the hireling, b the w and the

owner of the sheep. And part of this Jesus had spoken of a deeper

rubber that would come in knocked through the door. I'll come on now,

tell us somebody in this building tonight to this position that you're end is a

temporal pos this Shai, because the hirling there's nothing more than a Sunday Christian.

And I reachday Christian the hired hand, and there's nothing more than I

tall labor. I didn't get it to the owner, but he's fully invested.

He turned the money for petrol hockey. I tell us somebody to not

tell you want to own the bottle. Feel you want to own the body,

feel hocky, You want to take holdership and be the a and not

a hard head. Somebody said, why do you fight for those people the

way you do? When you take ownership, you become invested. They hurt

you hurt, they feel it, you feel it, They suffer, you

suffer. Apostle Paul said, I bear in my body the marks of the

Lord's Savior, Jesus Christ. But he also said, there's a load upon

me that is greater than anything I could have for experience. I'm shouldering the

load of the church. Brother Jesse would have been so easy to have forsaken

that for her union and returned to religious at here, had become a two

day oser again and climbed the first see a corporate latter, the religious,

the latter of that day. But instead, Brother Samuel, he was shoulder

his brother's burdens. He would fight the devil. He would be a missionary.

He would travel uncharted waters. He would naver came uncharted to reign and

territory in order to find her one sheeper. I'm gonna tell us Ranta,

when you got ninety nine barley fields, the wind got tools to fight for

one, it's cramer. They got ninety knife sheeper. But in God,

caser fight for water this cramping. They got seventy people when everybody's hold and

we got kanzi lack to night to fight for water and not to night.

You can top these corners. Hear it disturbish when you see the church pary.

That's nothing that's gonna be done. God, Oh, I'm a feeling

it. Brother Jacob stood up during the offertorium while Brother Jesse was playing that

song Praise the Lord. I heard the whole day go saying you might not

be feeling it right now, just stand with him, Just stand with a

pillar, Just stand with an elder. And I said, that's good enough

for me. If the captain needs to stand with Joe had if David got

down there in the field, what elia's are y'all just said, Hey,

if he is gonna stand and God is telling me to stand with him,

that's what's aren't done. And if he's the same guy that you read about

it and Nurst number ten, he is whose hand who will clean to the

swords of the same man, he is one whose hand will clean to the

sword. You know what they were feeling more than a triddling that locked that

grip, a partner half of the sword. They were feeling, holy ghost,

a naughty neon the lie. The holy ghost came and don wore a

kid. It's simply because her he knew one of the standing for he knew

who he was standing up there. And you gotta realize this is not a

box here. This is about that high and lucky wander in the high and

lofty plays something the laws of yesteryear. You gotta stand for Christianity. You

gotta stand for the trade. Elias Are was a mighty warrior. If you

see those that have got the Holy Ghost start slipping with that little boy,

harmers and screamed in his vama, it says, no, it's my way,

not your way. He's slipping. The Holy Ghost I got would never

do that. It would drive me on my knees and I would weep.

A crime play. And a grandmother's wheel never overrides the wheel of a father

or a mother. There is not two heads, there's not two hens in

the church. Being brother rold Cat never talking for position or power. Lasar

was not trying to be David, but he's known as a mighty man.

This chronicle and this catalog of all these body men did not take one take

away from them because they were not David. David said, I think God

for the thirty that body, and I think comp for the three night days.

Well, if I can't be as strong as pastor, if I can't

be in a position David's inn, if I can't be as strong as Irish

lind Wood, Charity Lynn Howell or Tammy Charlene Wood or Aaron Hush the Middle

Day Patrick Aaron Wood, Joseph, what you're just a what Nathaniel road cap.

Then I ain't gonna find my place what what I wanted to be set

on my empatamph he was a mighty man of God. The only way I

can achieve that and attain that, Mother Jesse is fighting the devil Tuesday nail

every single day, how the week. When the roof comes up, you

I typed the looper. You don't. That's a woman, Casper. And

when the philli stops taught up, still tip the barne peel that you don't

let him take up the harvest that God has given you. Mama, Da,

Grandma, Grandpa. We can see the devil attacking Theesa got the hole

of ghost. You can't stop Friday. The devil will to take it from

them. I'm gonna say this, you Holy Ghost, to young men and

the preachers. You will never holder at your mother. If you got the

Holy Ghost, I that you will never hit to override button with your mother,

holedge your mother. You will honor them with or without the Holy Ghost.

If you're a Christian, you will respect him with or without the Holy

Ghost. If you're a Christian, you will honor that you will be subject

to the higher powers, for the powers that be are or Dame, look

God, and you found here to Elia's arm, was just glad to see

David come to the throne. That's what it said right there. David was

great. I said, David was great, and these people were gonna see

time that he got to work cloud. Let's take it out. These men

were courageous, not cowards. Peter done some things that were inappropriate, and

the Bible said to the Paul came into the presence of Peter, and he

withstood him to the face, for he was to be blamed because on one

Saturday, he's acting like everything's okay to be feasting with the Gentiles and the

bacon eaters. But then when certain men developed men from Jerusalem come, then

he wants to act like he don't even know them. That's somebody resorting back

to him, that spirit that made him betray Christ and deny Christ when that

little maid spoke to him. You see, this is why we need the

Holy Ghost renewed week by week, day by day, because we find Peter

needed another upper room experiencing because he being hypocritical. And I know that my

brothers are feeling the pressure to compromise. I have had ten thousand devils try

to persuade me to compromise. I feel all that matter now if you can't

tell you know you gotta fight every compromise and deeming this content want I to

each other that stayed up to year in and year. As long as you

live, you're gonna be fighting down myself. I felt down on my soul.

You cannot get squaremus because it us gone. You see, Eliasar had

taken offensive many times because he was a mighty warrior, but he also was

not pasitantant and reluctant to take a defensive many times. I feel like here

tonight that people's faith is strong because of the goodness of God. Brother ej.

We are so unworthy of his goodness, so unworthy of his goodness,

But we can't take his goodness and his grace for granted. You can't stop

reading that Bible, you can't stop going to that prayer closet. Just because

you've been handed a promise does not mean you're gonna make it to the bank

to deposit. You've got to fight it. You've got to fight for it

day in and day out. You cannot be a coward. You have to

be courageous. Get the imagery here. If Elias are the Philistines are having

a seminar, if you would, they're gathering together corporately. They're unified in

their close knit group, and Lasar has to make up decision. Do I

go down here and get the middle of that. It's just like Jesus when

he went to the temple and he saw making merchandise, and they were selling

things, taking advantage of the people, and making sacrificial offerings an easy thing.

And Jesus come right in the middle of them hypocrites, right in the

middle of them religious leaders, and said, this is supposed to be the

house of prayer, but you've made it a den of devils. Who could

call his house and den of devils? But the mass to the house.

He was disappointed with what was going on. And I will never apologize for

us standing black booted and standing against immorality, and standing against homosexuality, and

standing against rebellion and stubbornness and our daughtry. I want to tell you grandparents

that you parents something. If you see your children stepping out of bounds,

it is short duty to rebuke him with love in the name of Jesus Christ

and let him know that that spirit can take back over them. The Bible

said that that devil would look and find a place that us that swept and

played, and he'll say, I want to get back there, and he'll

hire some more help and bring seven more in the condition to that man's going

to be a whole lot worse. If I holder than my mother, I

would feel so condemned. I'll be so scared, and I'm gonna get possessed

by seven spiritual dupens of hell preparing the stopping us. I'm telling you,

you gotta pick part weel tipping a screen or somebody. We didn't feel tipting

to think about that. We get peel timpted a compromise we didn't feel timpted

to pass up. I said, you gotta stand for solid Brown. I've

seen preachers before and getting right up to the police where they can preach against

something and name it. And they wouldn't dare do what I just done.

They wouldn't dare name said first riches, Chapter number six would have never been

on printed page. They would have never put a pin in department and named

all the things found there, All of those things that keep people from inheriting

the Kingdom of God. Now I'm feeling better and I'm done that he was

come by. I'm feeling better and I'm done, said Elia's art was.

He took an offensive and a defensive. So imagine him brother Nathaniel posting up

into barley Field, posting up here they are, it's gonna be a close

encounter. The martyrs of Yesteryear knew what it was like to have the breath

of the executioners that would be taking their life from them. That breath would

be upon their money. They knew what it was like to see the hands

of the executioners that would be putting a hand on a sword and severing their

head from the perso. Those men were courageous. They were not cowards.

The martyrs of Yesteryear refused to flee from the cause of Christianity, the cause

of Christianity. Are you fleeing from the cause? Are you standing strong in

adversity? Are you feigning in the day of adversity? A brother is born

for adversity. If I did not have the backbone to stand in this last

day against the spirits of compromise, and I was prone to compromise and change

some things and let up and ease up. I would find a David and

in Elia's are to post up against her and the proper against and that's what

the Bible said. They recognize that David was able to lead them, and

so they post it up next to David. All come, all, are

you getting this? I am not ashamed to be in a place where the

Holy Nurse post up at the bettle holding his church, and he stands strong

for holiness, righteousness, separations from the world. I'm to God. And

if I must die from Bette holdest church but what she stands for for Jesus,

then I must die. I repeat to abandon my assignment, to my

calling and my mission that I thought formed women boys and does many times for

many years. And I got their box up, with nobody else up would

get their box up, only receive kinda didn't find her were time to help

the other. But as home as I live, but I real help Jesus.

We don't worry my dagger in my bag. Let's stand right here.

There's yet to be seen. What you will do if you faint in the

day of adversity. Your strength is small. If when they tell a dirty

joke at the job. You laugh, turn red, snicker, and then

walk away. You need to learn how to step out, walk away,

and stand up and report it. You need to step up after you've stepped

out. You need to take risks on the front lines. I remember when

some of you quit being ashamed of standing for something. I remember when some

of you quit being a shame of standing for something. And certainly you take

risk on the front lines for standing for something. Anybody can fall for something.

If you don't stand for something, you'll fall for everything. And I

want you to get this as brother Jesse comes to the piano. The risk

on the front lines are certainly high, but the rewards for those that take

the risk, Oh my god, I feel the Holy induls right there.

This was no minor skirmish. This was everybody in the break room against one

man, so to speak. This was everybody in the city marking one street

preacher. This is everybody in the church compromising versus one person saying we will

not compromise. Sometimes all we have to hold on to is the sword.

And I need more than adrenaline to help me hold on like you did tonight,

until I feel better. Brothers every mind. We can hold on until

our hand pleads to the sword and no man can pluck it out. You

can get ahold of these convictions that God has given you, and if brother

Hail drops dead in the bar you won't lose it before the year's end.

Because this battle that we're in called life, it is no minor skirmish.

There's a field full of barley. It's supposed to be ours. But if

you let the devil have it, you've lost everything. Let's bow our heads

right here. My final point that I want to his brother Roquat, there's

a lot of back row Christians. They never want to get on the front

lines. Here's what they do. They go to prayer meetings, they hide

in their prayer closets, and all of that's good, but they never get

on the front lines. Brother Caleb, remember this. They offered counsel,

they talk about things. They've been around the church for years, and here's

what they say. Let's pray that fire will fall out of heaven like it

did for Elijah, and then it will consume the opposition. In this case,

Brother Roquat, there was no lightning, won't striking from out of heaven.

It was a man and other soldiers that must fight themselves to night God's

hand and some of useful promises. The only way you're going to see them

come to fulfillment is continuing to fight. In my prayer closet today, I

felt like the somebody being easily offended, easily disgusted, getting nervous fate when

it comes time to fight, because there will be the sight of blood,

there will be casualties. People will fall, Brother Feeling. Preachers will fall

on our right, preachers will fall on our left. People we once had

confidence in will compromise. What are you going to do, young preachers,

when your peers that you've preached with here and there begin to compromise, You're

gonna get squirmish. It's a sacred feeling, brother Jay, when you stand

on a balcony and you realize God is telling you they're going to fall,

and your heart breaks. Brother Wallace was sharing with me a testimony of how

he knew the end result of certain people. He said to casualties will be

great, he said, I wept and I cried, but I wasn't willing

to sacrifice my family. I feel the Holy Ghost right here. If you

feel lad to pray right now. Would you come into this altar and pray

with me? Would you meet me this altar and say, I'm not going

to be a coward. I'm not going to get squirmers. Because of the

skirmish, I feel like I bet understand my ground. I feel like I

better fight for what is mine. God's blessed me with a good local church.

God's blessed me with a good family. God's bless me with a good

savior. God's bless me with a wonderful life. I realized that this is

no minor skirmish, and I realized the risk of me being on the front

lines when I'm gonna fight. I said, I'm gonna fight, Pastor.

You took taking took me, so somebody needs to tell the Lord. I'll

see what you're doing. You know, I'm gonna fight for it. It's

sad that the process took so long, but the day came and it's great.

Yeah, go ahead, and said shild Ludi, I be your favor.

I'm eating Martin. I'll be the first. I'll be ridicule, I'm

shoe be my will be talking about You're really all that I need. Pattles

should David watch your brayer prayers silly to David. Lords do mean your favor.

I'm getting all. I don't not now sho day baby, see like

you all happy the battlestarting the battle silly to day. Then lordy's time in

your favor. I'm giving it all. I'm so glad you let me cele

glory. Only about is more time to give it holies all the battle's don

my, said little David Mary side in your favor, giving it all you

know I want. I'm so glad you letd c Lary You're it. I

mean a bottles done, give it to you a boy time you, Davy,

don't so small, ain't a lie so so time on. The eyes

were just too hot for little David, so we shook off all of his

love with the power guard. He was going to say about an man,

I give me any monies side Bob, said Little David Moyes. Hide in

your favorite giving any I don't want to do five. So glad you let

me see Thaddyiby and the bottle Barma. I give me anty youniesie you do.

David a he grey before the giants doing that day, everybody around him

saying it wasn't gonna be. Just's like al Am, a very swim with

a light shall fall down to he said, A battle not mine. I

give it to die. The battles like Bie said, Little David, the

boys diving your favorite g all you or I don't like to do. And

I'm so glad you let me see, let youry all that I need all

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