A Secret Place Or A Place Of Secrets - Bro Nathanael Howell 6-26-2026

For this youth service so far.

Amen. Amen, it's been wonderful. I appreciate everything that's been said. Amen.

Praise God.

You may have to get a little amen bit dirty,

but the victory will be worth it.

Amen.

David's men didn't mind, Amen getting their hands dirty. Amen. Hellylujah,

Praise God. Brother Caleb, if you don't mind to grab

a microphone and help me read a co text tonight, Amen,

I've been Amen, praying and asking God amen about what

to preach and amen seeking the Lord.

Amen.

I first sought him about who to preach and just

couldn't get away from this.

Amen. The Lord gave me a sign. Amen. I went

to the doctor's office. Amen.

And I don't know if we'll get all the way

there tonight, but I went to the doctor's office and

in June. Amen, they had a tomb amen and two

characters standing at the tomb.

Amen.

It uh was a little bit of confirmation for me

the Lord.

Amen.

Trying to Amen, get this old Amen. You mean to

do what I needed to do, and man, so I

got a burden tonight to share with you, a man,

what the Lord put on my heart. Brother Philip and

Brother Buford, would you mind giving me a hand. Amen,

We're gonna get somewhere tonight. Amen, these are right here.

There's another box, if you'll open that one up, brother Philip.

So make sure brother, from.

The age of seven to forty five, somewhere in there

they get a punt and a pack of seeds. All right, men,

just make sure from about seven to forty five, they

get one of them, brother Philip, one of each of them.

Amen.

I want to try to get somewhere, beloved, we're gonna

be in Genesis chapter number two. I mean I want

to say I love my pastor and appreciate him so much.

I mean, I count it. I want you to listen

to me carefully. I counted a privilege to be amongst

this youth group. I counted a privilege to be in

this church. Amen, this church I hold in no uh

there in no greater regard would I, or or reverence

would I have revered an upbringing on the pews of

the Metropolitan Tabernacle.

I'll say that again.

No greater would I have revered an upbringing on the

pews of the Metropolitan Tabernacle.

Amen.

And I don't know one good thing that come out

of their pastor history books record all the wonderful messages

he preached.

Amen. But I don't know one young man that come

out of there with his coattail on fire that changed

the world. I don't know a one young lady that

the history books record. And I'm sure there's some unsung soldiers, Amen,

because have it our name? Amen in history books. Isn't

what it's all about. Amen.

But I'm here tonight to tell you I hold it

in high regard to be in these pews, so should you, Amen.

I'm gonna try to get somewhere.

Now.

Each of you just got a pot. Amen, that little

compressed item there is a If you wet it, it's

gonna turn into potting soil. And in that package there

are some seeds.

Amen.

That little seed will actually grow into a spruce tree

if you water it and maintain it right, Amen. And

Brother Philip will give the rest of them to Sister Hannah,

and she can give them to her class whenever. Amen,

we finish up.

Amen.

But it'll it'll turn into a spruce tree. It'll it'll

grow pretty tall.

Amen.

From a little seed. Man, Brother Jesse, would you read

turn to John chapter number eighteen and read twenty five

through twenty seven. And Brother Caleb, I'd like you to

turn to Psalms ninety one, verse number one, Amen, Praise God,

Brother jesse John eighteen twenty five through twenty seven, And

Brother Caleb, Psalms ninety one and verse number one, My brother, Amen.

When you got that, Brother Caleb, go ahead and read,

my brother, he.

That Dwelleth in the secret place of the Most High

shall abide under the shadow of the Almighty.

Amen, he that Dwelleth in the secret place. I mean,

if you would remember that the secret place.

Amen.

Brother jesse John eighteen twenty five through twenty seven.

And Simon Peter stood and warmed himself. They said, therefore

unto him, art not thou also one of his disciples.

He denied it and said, I am not one of

the servants of the High Priest, being his kinsman whose

ear Peter cut off, saith, did not I see THEE

in the garden with him? Peter then denied again, and

immediately the cock crew.

Amen.

Somebody there took note of this and asked, Peter, didn't

I see you in the garden with him?

Amen?

Genesis chapter number two, And we're gonna look at verse

number eight a man, beginning their beloved Genesis, chapter number

two and verse number one. And the Lord God planted

a garden eastward in Eden, and there he put the

man whom he had formed, and.

Out of the ground.

And out of the ground made the Lord God to

grow every tree that is pleasant to the sight and

good for food, the tree of life also in the

midst of the garden, and the tree of knowledge of

good and evil. Skipping down the verse number fifteen, and

the Lord God took the man and put him in

the garden of Eden, to dress it and to keep it. Amen,

if you would stress your hands toward Heaven, ask God

to help us. Amen here tonight, Lord, we thank you

for your mercy, your grace, your many blessings, all that

you've done, Lord, how you've worked, how you've moved, how

you've been ministering. Here tonight, Lord, we need you desperately.

God. We cry under you. We lift up our hands

under you, and beseech you, God, that you would please

touch and work God in this service conto us. God,

make it clear God what we need to hear. Old God,

Lord anot the minister, God anoint me that I would

get out of the way. Lord in just your will

with me done, bless us tonight, God, let your word

go forth, Let the anointing destroy every yoke. God help

us in these altars as we call on your name.

Meet with us, O God, for your glory and your honor,

and we'll be sure to give you the glory of

the honor and the praise in Jesus' holy name. And

the church said, Amen, Now I'm gonna give you some instructions. Amen.

You've got a pot, you've got some potting soil, and

you've got some seeds. Amen.

There are multiple seeds in these packages. Now I've got

the secret. The instructions I've got here in my hand.

What they say say it takes to be successful. So tonight,

after church, you have to come to me and take

a picture of the instructions. Now, God told Adam in

verse fifteen to tend to dress and to keep it.

This is now your charge.

God gave Adam something to dress and tend to, and

if Adam was successful, it was going to be a

beautiful place.

We don't find anywhere where. The garden of Eden was

beautiful just because God had planted the trees. The reason

it was still beautiful after many years. Was Adam was

dressing it, he was keeping it.

Amen, Tonight, if you don't read your Bible at night,

so tonight, if you don't read your Bible and in

the morning, if you don't read your Bible and pray tonight,

if you don't read your Bible and pray and in

the morning, if you don't read your Bible and pray.

This is your instructions from me, and you'll get the

instruction you know how to make it grow later. You

are not allowed to water this the next day or

give it sunlight.

All right.

It says it takes two to four weeks for you

to start seeing results. Man, I'd love to see some

people build some good habits over the next two to

four weeks.

So you aren't allowed to give this seed any water

or any sunlight if you haven't done your reading in

the morning and your praying in the morning, and you

have it done your reading and praying in the night.

Does that make sense? In that simple enough?

Your soul will be no different than the seeds that

are planted here with God, should be no less nourished

than how you nourish what you plant in here. When

you put it together, Amen, you'll see you're gonna be successful.

You know. The truth is, twenty years from now you

could have a spruce tree growing in your yard from

this service.

Twenty years from now, Pastor could say, Amen, I want

y'all to plant them trees somewhere, and we're gonna know

who read and prayed.

Twenty years from now, they're gonna testify to us. Brother

Jesse was serious about God. And we know the garden

of Eden is known as paradise. Amen, But what made

it paradise? God went out of his way to make

this garden. Verse eight said the Lord Lord God planted

a garden east Swerd in Eden, and there he put

the man whom he had formed. And out of the ground.

God made the Lord God to grow every tree that

is planted to the sight and good for food, the

tree of life also in the midst of the garden,

and the tree of knowledge of good and evil. In

our Golden Text we bind the first exposure to deep

love with God. Amen. He displays his love for humanity

in this first act. The first act was he created

a place where mankind could dwell, they could feel serenity,

they could feel peace. It would be a secret place

nobody knows where the garden of Eden is today. It's

a secret place. Amen. He created a masterpiece. It was magnificent,

no doubt. Every fruit tree planted by the hand of God,

fruit tree planted by God, every rosebush planted by God,

every great oak tree planted by God. Amen, Brother Tyler,

every furda, every shruba, Amen, every Amen, Daisy. Everything would

have been exactly how God wanted it. If he wanted

it in Rose, it would have been in Rose. Amen.

If he wanted it to be Amen. Just a natural

masterpiece it would have been. But it was mankind's job

to upkeep it. And it was mankind's job to maintain it.

And here tonight it is our job to keep the garden.

It is our job to keep the secret place. It

is our job to keep our connection maintained with God.

I mean, he would have been a place of fellowship

and friendship, a place of communion, a pure place of

places where the wind would begin to blow in the evening.

Adam would begin to see the sun go down a

little bit, and that wind would start blowing through that.

Could you put yourself there, it would blow through the

garden of evening. It'd be a little bit of a

cool breeze, Brother Philip, and that hot day would begin

to wear off, and Amen, Adam would stack the Amen

the branches he had proved, And Amen, probably stack the

fruit that it fell from the tree. And Amen, he

didn't get it all organized and cleaned up because he knew. Amen,

evening's coming. And when it begins to cool off and

it begins to get a little later, I've got an

apartment with God. Amen. And too many of us get

too busy. Amen, after a long, hard day, after we've

been rocking in Tarlant, Amen to realize when the wind

starts to blow it and God starts to talking to us,

it's time to set aside our phones. It's time to

my God, set aside our hobbies. They've been set aside

our desires, because God's about to come to the garden.

He's about to try to meet with us and talk

with us about hows of gold? How wash today? What

did you do? What's your beneficial to the kingdom? Have

you been keeping my will? Have you been listening to

my voice and heiding my words? Could you imagine knowing

evening God's coming? Could you imagine knowing God's gonna come

down into your yard, and you get to go out

there and talk with him. Could you imagine in the morning,

waking up and knowing God's interested in talking me. But

every morning God's waiting in the garden, every evening, God's

waiting in the garden. And our relationship would be like

these little seeds. Emen, for the new convert it starts

out as a small tree. It starts out at a

small seed. Rather, Amen, for every person, every child of

God that is born again washed in his blood. Amen,

your relationship starts out with him small Amen. And you've

got to nurture it, and you've got to feed it,

and you've got the water, and you've gotta give it sunlight. Oh,

could you imagine how Adam would have cared for the

new growth in the garden. Could you imagine how he

would have cared for her? Amen, these things of God

had put in his charge. How serious he would have

been about it? Amen, His day to day activities consistent

of nothing more than maintaining what God had given him.

But there's too many young Pefore, I mean the last orda, Amen,

is what would I the men have to do to

maintain what Gods are giving me? You've been giving a

wonderful gift. It's called the next generation? What the best

of holiness? Churger, You've been given much. Remember there's a

lot of you come in here throughout the week. You

ain't done nothing to maintain what Gods are given you.

You ain't near put the care amen and hard into

it like Adam rut Hell, we charge my God. I remember

it's in your hands. What will tomorrow's church be like?

If you are amen, praise God the elder. How have

you maintained it? How is it growing? Is it growing

good in your life? Is it flashing? You've got the

Holy ghost? Is there progression? You've been saved? Is there

progression you've sanctified? Is there progression? Sixteen verse sixteen sading.

The Lord God commanded the man, saying, of every tree

of the garden, thou mayst freely eat. And men, he

told them, here, keep the garden and dress it. God

gives them an assignment. It is his job to tend

to this special place. If it's a burden and a

bother for you to tend to the special place, you

have not been converted. If it's a burden youth, young

man or young woman to show up at the work

day and tend to the special place. You ain't walking

with God? Amen? If it's a burden for you to

show up and paint some picnic tables, Amen, intend to

what God's given you and you ain't paid a dime

for it. A'men. But all you gotta do us maintain

ain't been what God's given you. Rest the shore, Amen,

Tomorrow's church. We'll be left in the ruin because you

don't care for what God's given you. We don't care

for the God, and we don't care for Paradise. We

don't care for this special place. I'm about to praise

to you for just a minute. Ain't then? What are

you come out? Do you really come about the Dad?

Do you really come about the thanks of God? Boy?

You barka side with your father and your tale? Get

your next bye? There? What do you come aboufter God?

Ad It's a special place hell in the highest of

the God's There. Ain't hardly anything I love more than

working at God's house. It's my greatest thrill and joy

when I hear of Pastor's next improvement. Whoo, you don't

think Adam and God talked about God's creation well, God,

the rosebush is sure doing good. I've been keeping I'm

taking care of them, and man, they're just flourishing. Amember.

I gotta like to see them. Amen, over there by

that oak tree surrounding the base of it. Amen, and

they begin to grow the garden of eating and the

something with the fingerprint of Adam. We're the beth of holiness.

Charger ever have your finger Prilla on the special praise.

Ain'tmember the garden of eating? I ain't in Adam's finger preda.

Ain't it all Olorada? He trusted, he maintained, he captain.

What about you? Are you keeping it? Are you maintaining

or is it a brother? Oh? That the bother. I

want to preach just for a minute on a secret

place or a place of secrets, A secret place or

a place of secrets Genesistry in eight. And they heard

the voice of the Lord God walking in the garden

in the cool of the day. No doubt this was

a regular occurrence, and Adam and his wife hid themselves

from the presence of the Lord God amongst the trees

of the garden. Now they're avoiding him, but they're using

what he gave them hide from him. You can come

in here with your suit on, your dress, shoes shined,

your hair brushed, your dress dragging the ground, your hair parted,

just a rider. And all you're doing is using what

God gave you to seclude yourself. Amen, from transparency. You'd

be better off coming in here a man looking like

the worder, with the understanding you are up the world

when they're coming here, and seclude yourself behind what God

gave you. God gave us standards, and I holy support them. Amen.

It is my love to live there a. Remember there's

a lot of young people. They pretend like her. They're

as good as everybody else. They pretend like her. Amen.

They've got it all figured out, and they're just using

what God gave them to hide themself and the staff Amen.

And they go to the trees Amen. And they begin

to hide themself in what used to be a secret

praiser and now it's a prace of seclusion. It's a

praise of secrets where they're hiding. How often do you

come to God's house hiding what you did awake? How

often do you come to God's house and hide yourself

there in the message and revelation, and you hide yourself

hearing talks and interpretation at the secret praise commediate praiser,

or you should have met with dog becomes a praise

of secrets. They're avoiding their prayer closet because they don't

want God to see how far are they fallen. I

know that's parabolic. They're neglecting their Bible reading because they

don't want the light to shine into their situation. They're

neglecting to seek counsel and to talk with those authority

such as their pastor, because they really don't want to

hear what God said about that relationship, about that job opportunity.

Oh you're gonna help me preach just for a minute. Amen. Wow. Amen,

you listen to what I'm saying. You do a self

an Amen analysis. Amen, praise God. You hide because you

don't want God to really get where you're living. And

that's what's happening. And that's what's been happening. It's happened

since the very beginning, since the genesis of sin. Amen,

man found a way to secute themselves from God. Amen. Ah.

If Adam would have rend the God and said I

messed up, Oh I've just done something terrible. Amen. In

full transparency. He'd ha said, me and Eve, we were

keeping the God and we messed up with transgress. You know,

there's a lot of young people. Amen, they are doing good,

Brother Samuel. They do have the Holy Ghost. Amen, Praise God.

And then they mess off and they keep pretending like

they've got the Holy Ghost. They keep pretending like they've

got south. They seena and they never stop or say,

God into transparency. I ain't gonna hide behind my guard

I ain't gonna hide behind them in the lingo. I

ain't gonna hide behind my heritage. Put him through transparency. God,

I need my secret, praise Aca. I'm sick of tired

of the secrets. I'm a keith in a I'm sick

a tide of the way. I mean, I've been a

little I'm sicking, tired of sneaking around and wondering as

God about to come down to catch me. Or is

that you tonight? You've been scared, You've been a wonderader,

You've been a worrieder. I remember got you just know

it's a matter of time before the facadis yan down

and God comes down into your pracious secrets and he says,

I know you ain't a living like it's approached to

it anymore. But you still act like it. You still

running with the youth group, You still jump and crab

your hands. What your wrong sense left the secret place

for a prace of secrets. Even God is a rotting you,

and God and knows how you live in He knows

you ain't been going to seedar He knows he ain't

been watering it. O God, only he, Hey, only he

can give the increase. Amen. They hid themselves amongst the

trees of the garden. Now, I was gonna try to

be quick tonight. Hey man, we're gonna see how the

Lord helps us Verse twenty. I'm walking through this. It's

fully transparent for us. You can hide now. But the

Bethel ho in his church is gonna sit back on

Judgment's Day and say, we knew it. Look at that

they went up there and sang with the youth group.

But we knew they hadn't shouted in a while. We

knew they ain't spoken tongus in a while. Amen. They

wanted to clap their hands and bop their heads, but

we knew something just ain't quite right in the garden.

And now we read the account of what happened to them.

It's fully out there. It's fully open. Amen, and God,

aymen seize through the smoke screens. And he's been warning

Simon for a while. They been sneaking around, they've been

doing things. They man, he's a watcher and he's a

gonna see it. Amen, he's a gonna tell it on

your vitually. The man you mess around, and God's gonna

tell it on your vitually. That man, he's gonna make

it clear. And praying theymen, so everybody knows. They ain't

got a secret place with me. They've got a place

of secrets. They've got secret sins and secret parts of

the Aymen. He that aymen prays God covers it. They

ain't gonna prosper. But him that confessed isn't for sake

of it, shall find that that he's needed, that mercy

and help that is needed. Amen. If you do some

confessing tonight instead of some hiding in the shrubs and

in the trees, you might find the restoration you've been seeking.

But it's gonna take transparency, saying God, I need a

secret place, not this place of secrets. I need transparency again.

I need for transparency again. I need for transparency again

between me and you. I've seeking died of hide, and

I've seeking died of bobbing and weaving and drugging. The

messages and the words of God. Oh God, see me.

They may know me, They may look inside of me.

Address those secret sounds, address those faults. God, talk to

me again. Come down in the cool of the day.

Refresh my spirit again, Oh God, let me commune with you.

Genesis three and twenty three, And this is where we get. Therefore,

the Lord God sent him forth, My God. Therefore the

Lord God send him birth from the garden of Eden,

to till the ground from whence he was taken.

When you you come to the House of God and

you pretend you're just as saved and just as sanctified

and just as holy ghost Field, and.

God sends them forth. When you come to God's House

and pretend for six months and eight months and a

year and two years that you're just a man like

everybody else with the whole church knows. Amen, you've been struggling,

and there's never a transparency and a heartfelt conversion. Amen.

The ultimate result he is for those that seclude themselves. Brother,

Philip from transparency with God he is. And when God

takes up the case and through the pastor Amen, through

spiritual death or through physical death, God will send them

forth out of paradise. So he will send them forth

from his presidence. He will cause them to depart, theymen

from the fellow ship with the brethren. It has been

since Genesis that this happened. It has been a biblical

prince of all Amen since the very first women man

that was ever created a man. Then when he don't

have transparency, God packs his back and kicks him out.

My God, I said, God will pack your bags and

he'll send you down the road. You'll leave what you

knew to be pair of eyes. You'll leave what you

knew to be holy ground. You'll leave what you knew

to be the perfect will of God. And you'll live

the rest of the level, the rest of your life

in the regular Adam a man with sweat coming down

your brow and been beaten and battered by wool task masters,

Amen and miss Eve. If you let it have in

a if you fall to the temptation, you'll live with

pain like Nada. You'll live with burdens and heartbreak and heartache,

like if ever Nauda, It'll be a new level a

man praise God. It'll be a whole new level when

God packs your bags and kicks you out of edom,

when God sends you out of paradise. Amen, if he

kicks you out of a paradise, here rest the shore,

and man, you've got no part of paradise there. If

you can't live a man in peace and holy communion

with the brethren here, you will not live with him there.

If you can't live with God in the garden here,

you will in no wise sit by the crystals, Amen. River,

you will in no rise sit underneath the tree of life. Amen,

in the new garden, in the new Kingdom. Amen, He

transplanted that tree, and he started a new garden. He

transplanted that tree, and he started a new paradise for

all of us children, all of those a loa communion

and mellowship with him. You'll eternally get to talk with

him and foster wily relationship with him, and golw to

know him even better. They men. Each day at a time,

they man, they'll know more about him. They'll know more

how he likes to be praised. They'll know more how

he likes to have church. They'll know more how he

likes his saints to sing and watch song he lost

to hear. Or could you imagine the new guard and

the new paradiyes, the new eating. Amen. But if you

can't live and eating here, you can't live in the

flock of God the man her. Keep yourself unspotted from

the world, and men you will know wise in herend,

God will pack your bags for eternity. God now exiles

them from his presence. He expels them from the secret

place because they made it a place of secrets. You

see Ezekiel seven and twenty two said my face. Will

I turn also from them? And they shall pollute my

secret place. They shall pollute my secret place. God takes

offense to you coming in here with your secretive nature

and your lack of transparency and polluting his house. God

takes offense to you bringing filth into this congregation. God

gets down right up set about you committing sin and edom.

God gets down right up set about Amen. The Bible said,

He is angry with the rickyter every day, every time

they sail, every time they depart from his presence, every

time they drove back, every time they quit yielded. Every

time they quit surrendering, every time they hold back, every

time they don't come here her, every time they resist,

every time they don't let go, every time they hold on,

every time they they man hide themselves from the presence

of God, hinde themself from the chu's arcay. God Almighty

looks down on your bedley, and he hates Allah. He

hates the salor, and he hates the soul. You're his creation,

You're his secret place. You len to be his fellowship,

you right to be the community. Now all he says.

It's said that they said Holly sees its failed. The

Holly says they managed. To God, they act, Does your

soul get marred by sin? Does your soul get covered

by sin? Yes? It does. Thus it takes the antiseptic

and cleansing power of the blood of Jesus to restore

that temple. God now exiles them because they polluded his

secret place. What have you done to your temple? What

have you done to your prayer altar? What have you

done with that time you set aside for him when

you first got the Holy Ghost? What have you done

with that time you initially set aside for him? That

promise you made him in that revival, that promise you

made him in that Sunday school lesson, that promise you

made him when Pastor was annoyed and preaching to you,

and you said, Lord, I'm gonna do better. And you

did good for two weeks, and Amen, you created a

place for God to come down. And Amen. Now that

same place you spend hours playing games and watching videos.

They when you spend hours reading the news. Oh are

you listening to me? Amen, God will turn him himself

away from you when you start polluting the secret place.

I dare say, sir, there's some of you that wouldn't

thank nothing, other women talking, mad women praise God they

been letting something slip. Amen. There's probably some of you, amen,

wouldn't thank nothing, other women thinking ungleaned thoughts while standing

in pyre forest, while standing here in the bed of

hor in this church. And every time you do, you

are polluting the secret place, God, my God, among the

sweet smell of the saints, there is a filthy, vile

odor that God catches a whift. When that eye goes

places that shouldn't, when that mind goes places that should it,

don't tell me you've got a secret place with God.

What you've got is a place of secrets. You think

nobody knows, but the true there's the Lord knows every

time you've looked at him. The Lord knows every time

you've downloaded that after when you running around your parents

and lock into that account and went to the back room.

God knows every time you've done it. He's watched you

every time. But you still come here in that locker.

You've got the Holy Ghost and a relationship with daughter,

and you polluted the secret plaiser. You ain't man let

God a'men down her. He smelled of vile wretcher amen

amongst his people, and he's taking note Donia, and then

he will calls to the part from his presence them

he will exile from eating. Are you content with an

exile from paradise? Or do you roll again her relationship?

Who you run again with? Secret place? Are you interested

in again walking ghostly with HeLa and him walking with you? Yeah? Hm,

A simple talt.

Matthew six and six kind of sums up what I'm

trying to get across here. Simply put, you're never gonna

survive as a Christian without Bible reading and prayer, and

Matthew six and six said, Uh, Jesus said this, But thou,

when thou prayest, enter into thy closet, And when thou

hast shut thy door, pray to thy Father, which is

in secret. And thy Father, which seeth in secret, shall

reward thee openly.

Altar. And my altar is my secret place. My prayer

time with God is my secret place. I don't pray,

Oh God, I don't pray before church to be seen,

and then don't at home. I don't pray when I've

got someone spending the night, and then don't when they're gone.

I spent the night with my cousins before hey Ben,

I'm not gonna name anybody, but man. They get in bed,

get tucked in tight, andy man. But then when my

knees hit the floor, all of a sudden they remembered

they were supposed to pray that night. You know, I

saw through that phony facade easily. If another member of

the Bethel youth was to spend the night with you,

and your prayer time and Bible time had to change.

So they think you're spiritual, You're not spiritual if how

you conducted yourself at the closing out of the day

and change with pastor. Spent the night in your bedroom

if it changed, and all of a sudden your Amen,

Now I lay it down to sleep prayer. Amen. A

lack of even that turned into an hour long shick

of my shy man. You ain't spiritual. You ain't spiritual

at home, You ain't spiritual in the youth choir. You

ain't spiritual in the testimony service. You ain't spiritual during

the sermon. It do some of you more good to

shit down, I shut up and listen to your pastor.

Remember then, sitting there acting like you're on the same level. Amen,

with those that are maintaining their tree and their guard,

and it do some of you better. The mean than

food transparency. Listen to your pastor for a while while

he straighten you out and fed nutrients. Aymen, to a

little seedling they meen fed nutrice or something that needed

to germinate. Amen, My God, to do some of you

some good. To let God pow up your heart, because

some of you, the seed don't even take ruda. You're

so fallow, you're so stony, you're so hard that our

pastor can preach, my godd the finest words from heaven.

I've ever heard them in this side. Aymen, praise God

of the soda. And it don't even phase you. There

ain't any tear run down your eye. And I'll tell

you what it is. It's proof seeds aren't germinating. It's

proof the words of God ain't taking ruda. It's proof

you've got the doors. Amen, hard Amen, Praise God, and

you've got every hole looking Granny cram fool, a man

of hydraulics, a mean a man. Every time the Holy

ghost finds a cracker, you find some fast setting. Amen. Reassurance,

you find them fast setting. Amen, Praise God. Convincing. Amen,

you right at yourself and convince yourself you've got a

secret pace. And really you burn God out. And every

way you barred God out of every entrance because you

don't want him in eating, You don't want him in

your heart. You don't want him in the burdener walking

and talking with you. Because you know what's gonna come out,

They men in the evening. Oh God, you know what's

gonna come out When God walks through the garden and

he sees her. They men, the small foxes have had

a heyday in your rose guardian. They men praise God

in the moles they've been running through the carried patcher.

Oh God in the rabbit, Sir, they don't God in

the green beanfielder and the deer. They don't God in

the corner. And man, that's what some of your gardens

look like. Those small foxes have done. Stull pairad eyes.

Those little thoughts and those actions and those habitual sins

have already taken a Amen. Praise God and gnaw. That's

your roots systemmer, when you ain't flourishing, but the runing

of God stands through. Amen. He will lay the action

to the ruler or the tree that is gnawed producing food,

pastor ain't. Man is strong everything he can at it.

He's strong dung at you weaven. Amen, he's through it.

Your face. I remember he said what some of you needed,

and he's even gave some of you splice of it. Man,

you need your face. They'm rupting it. He's tried everything. Amen,

MERII are we not changing? Amen. I'll tell you what's laughter.

I'll tell you what's left. It's exposion. I'll tell you

what's left. It's the action, Oh God, When you ain't

letting the God card, they been down with you when

you don't set aside time to go to the secret

place to find the closet the Oh, you don't know, aymen,

how much I pray or where I pray sometimes because

sometimes it's just me and God and my God. But

some of us know how much you pray or where

you pray because the only time you do it's right there.

I mean, where is the secret place? Where is the

alone time? Where is the relationship that you are nursing

and building your Bible reading and prayer, when and where

you walk and commune with God. God put these two

very specific trees in this garden. He put the tree

of knowledge of good and evil. This tree caused them

to understand things they were doing in detail. It was

an eye opening experience, Brother Caleb. There's been times I

didn't want to pray because I knew when I got done,

God was gonna open my eyes. There's been times Pastor

preached to me as a young man, and I knew

if I went down there, And that's the difference. I

don't know how you come down here. I knew if

I even so much as knelt down there, God was

going to do a work on me whether I wanted

it or not. What I mean is, Amen, he was

going to fight. Pastors told us they Lord changed me,

letting me love your will, let me walt your will.

God change my will to meet yours. And if I'd

fall down on my knees, I'd leave that altar, Amen,

with a heart change.

There's been times I gotta be transparent. I'm talking years

and years ago. Amen, I Amen, would be talking to

somebody and I knew Pastor had mine number, so I.

Didn't go to the secret place. I went to the

place of pretend. I went to the place of secrets.

You know Pastor's been talking to us. You know Pastor's

been a preaching to us. You know God's been right

where you're at in what used to be eating some

of you. You used to have the peace of God.

Some of you used to have a relationship with God.

Pastor could count on when he called on you. I'm

getting in a little deeper here. We should have kept

surface preaching. Hey, and man, you know where you're at

and where you used to be. And the truth is,

the minute you know you've regressed, Amen, you've got a problem.

The minute you know there's something running through the garden. Amen,

that has been a detriment to your walk with God. Amen,

you've got a problem the minute you're talking to somebody

used to and they steer you away, Amen, from your

walk with Dada. In any regard, you've got a problem

in the darning. There isn't the minute they push you

could do something you shouldn't do. You've got a problem

the gardener the minute you let it for a small

fox get in the garden, even the minute that serpent

comes slithering up and crawling up besides you, and you

listened enticing words. Amena, they ruined paradise for you. You're gonna know.

I should have never let them in the garden. I

should have never let them talk to me. I should

have never let them persuade me. Amen, to get away

from my rock with God and Man. Even lived the

rest of her life, no doubt, regretting that conversation. And

there's some conversations on some after you can have that

you live regret. There's some conversations on the jama that

you can have who you live to regret. Hey, my God,

and then you ain't hearing me. I'm telling you there

could be some boxes on the horizon and what you

deemed to be Eta, they been my God. Jost up

the road, Donna Bell, they've had a hello off. Prayer

provides understanding, clarification, and revelation. Why you avoid praying about it,

it's because you fear the eyes of understanding being opened.

If you're ever in a relationship young woman or man

and you can't talk to your pastor without looking at

the ground. When you can't talk to your pastor and

full transparency, the minute it becomes a place of secret,

it will affect your secret place. I'm preaching to you

for tomorrow, I said, I'm preaching to you for tomorrow

the minute of my God. I can I shoe. I

could take you down memory lane. Amen. On those conversations

I had with my father, Amen, But it was my

pastor I was talking to, Amen, Lord God, Dad, I

don't know. Amen. He said, well, if you don't know,

you better not marry her. Dad. Their church does this, well, Amen,

Raise God. That sounds like some confusion to me. Amen.

He's saying, theymen little words of wisdom, and I craved aymen, clarification.

Some of you, I'm telling you you're gonna get in

some relationshift and you're gonna, I'm in crave concealment instead

of clarification. I said, you're gonna cry concealment in stet

of clarification, and you're gonna find yourself in a darker

tanker secret prace with the deal of whispering in your

ear and affecting your walk with God. You ain't hearing me.

I'm telling you your current state of mind, you would

be okay with a pace of secrets and losing your

secret praise if it got you what you thank you roda,

oh ebody. I'm telling you, may man, you better not

let him talk to you. You better not let him

whisper in your ear and say it ain't sah. You

don't have to be that way in God's garden. It

does in God's secret pacing. Real he man, man, you've

got adjuster. You're real and desires to the plan of God.

If you're gonna maintain a secret a secret praise Amen.

The latter part of First Peter four and seven said,

I may be too long to no shoe hip us

God be ye there for a sober and watch unto prayer.

Prayer is our eyes shoe. You ain't hearing me? The

reason you don't want to talk to God about it

because you don't want to know about it. And that

means you want a place of secrets. If God convicts

you in a message and you even thank it's God,

and you don't go down there and say, Lord, was

that you because you don't want to hear what he said,

It's a place the secrets shore. Hey, my God, I

know I'm slowing down, but you I need you to listen.

Go meet to Luke chapter number twenty two, Luke twenty

two and verse thirty nine. And he came out and

went as he was wontt to the mount of Olives.

And his disciples also followed him. And when he was

at the place, he said, unto them, pray that you

enter not into temptation. Where did Jesus take them? A

place he wanted to go? The Bible said Jesus wanted

to go there, God incarnate wanted to go to the garden.

Jesus Christ himself, the second Atom craved another Eden in

his trial, in his test in his darkest days, where

he wont to go to the garden, he wanted talk

with God. The second Atom Reinventitieden. The Second Atom showed

you the important of falling on your knees in your

times of question or trial or unsulted. Tea and Jesus

Christ himself. They Ben went to the gardener. He was

pulled there. He was desirous, Sonnay, let me ask you,

where's the last time you were wrot to go to

the garden. Where's the last time you were wrote to

kneel down? Where's the last time you truly desired that

morning before you left worker to talk to God? When's

the last time before you rode your head over you

really roll it up to talk to him? You mean

Jesus wanted to go to the garden. He rolled the gold.

He desired to get there. He knew he needed to

talk to God. And you're better than him. You're too

good for the garden. You're too good for he Hey, hey,

he desired to speak with his father. He was rolling

the prayer to talk and commute he Ben praise God.

At the second Adam gets to the guard and he

begins to pray. He begins to cry, hey, man, I

believe it would a being if you look at the story.

At least three hours women praise God. He goes and

he talks to his disciphers and wakes him off. That said,

you need to pray, You need to talk to God,

Oh God, could you not arry with me? Just an hour?

Maybe the next hour? Take by her? And he God

kind of concerned and grieved, and he said, would you

not seek me? My God? Are you here the spirit?

How long as he said seek me? How long has

he asked you to talk to you? How long has

he asked you to be consistent and pray to Jesus?

Win to the gardener he's sucking out of her. And

he told his disciples, you reason your ear, it's to

pray that you don't fall, Oh God, in the garden.

You've had n't want to prayed her? And even Wanna

fell down, That said, here that devil's a talking to me.

I've got a prayer. Lord, did even missa a couple

acternoons with God? Rush? She too busy picking strawberries. They've

been the gold talker, because if she'd ha had a

conversation with him, what she had not had entered into

that temptation? Why do you fall so consistently? Why do

you trip Papa so consistently? There's no prayer in the garden.

There's no prayer of your bad there's no prayer on

your joba. You're entering into temptation because you ain't been

talking with God.

M hm, righty.

Eden means paradise, but guess simony means oh press it,

do some of us some good to find guest semone

before we get content in Eden, to let God press

out us, to get rid of me, to get rid

of my desires, to get rid of my plans with

Brother Samuel. That's just what I'm trying to preach tonight. Amen.

The reason they ain't talking to Ema because they know

he's gonna tell him change that attitude. The reason he

had they ain't a talking to Ema because they know

he's gonna check them about them walking eyes. Amen. The

reason Amen, they ain't talking to him is they know

he's gonna victim Amen about how close they pushed the line.

Theymen with their accounts that they listen to music re Amen.

The reason they man they don't want to pray to

God is they know he's gonna check them about how

far they push the line, how far they open the

gate to Satan on the job, on the breaker they

man a hour, Oh God.

Amen, some of you, Amen, ain't got more sense and

an Amen, your pastoral mighty man of God at your

age would have been seeking God, praying and fasting.

Ay Maen. You wanna compare apples to apples? Amen? Where

do you measure Rapa? You wanna beat him aymen, in

the next twenty years. But you don't need her put

in the prayer time, You don't need her put in

the Bible reading. And you pretend like you're gonna happen

on a successful walk with God without talking with him

about his concerns and the directions. They man. I'll tell

you the worst employees to have is somebody that just

runs headlong into something, assumes they've got to figure it out,

and they never stop and ask, Brother Samuel. They man,

how do I do this? What's your inploy? A man?

And you expect to make it the the second they

man eat it the second part Isa without ever consulting

the God that paved the road. There they man, without

ever talking to the daughter that made it clear how

to get there. You won't make it shoes. I gotta

hurry a man. Let me read. Let me read something

that appalls me, truly deep down appalls me. Back up

in Luke twenty two to thirty one. These are the

scriptures that precede this. And the Lord said, Simon, Simon,

and behold, Satan have desired to have you, that he

may shift my God, that he may shift you as weed.

But I prayed for THEE that I faith fell not.

And when thou art converted, strengthen the brethren a foretelling

of a fall thirty three. And he said on him, Lord,

I am ready to go with THEE, both in the

prison and under death. And he said, I tell Thee, Peter,

the cock shall crow, shall not crow this day before

that thou hast thries, before thou shalt thrist, deny that

thou knowest me. Then we get to the verses we

just read, pray that ye interre not into temptation. And

then verse number forty five said, and when he arose

up from prayer, he was come to his disciples and

found them sleeping for sorrow. You mean he just told

Peter you're about to fall? Peter. How many times does

God's had to stop a service and say, young man,

you're about the best hall wide open? Aymen, praise God. Theymen,

Hell's gates ain't gonna be locked. You're gonna hit them

plind the harder you find yourself in the lowest regions

of the damned. Oh God, and we hem it. Sunday comes,

they're asleep. Wisday cards and they're asleep. God just said

you're about the go to hell. And they're asleep. God

just said, you're gonna fall to the temptation. And they're

in the garden sleep. And while the wolfsore come here.

We're in the garden, while the small boxes creep in

and spoiler, fine, and that they're asleeper. Rob the doo

comes into their field. That shows the tales who did

it for the enemy? Darned? Who let it happened? A

pastor said, somebody who was asleep on the job. Where

are you in the gardener, Hana? Where are you in

the garden? Head of your house? Are you letting movies

creep here her? Are you letting bad music creepy in her?

Where is the head of the house? Where is the

head of in the garden? Where are you Peter verse

forty six, And he said, under them, why sleep ye

rise and pray lest you enter into diff pation. Why

do you have to say that twice. Why pastor had

the warners twice? Why do you have to say there's

a snake in the garden more than once? And then

we go to sleep. They don't matter what you act

like her puts you in slumber. If it's sorrow, wy man,

you better sorrow unto repentance. If it's sorrow, you better

cry until you find rest race And they men praise God.

Off it'ser, they men praise God. Conviction, you better let

it convict you until you find repentenceer. Oh, where are

you at him? Her? And where are you Peter Her?

You're sleeping through another youth service? Why frets my guts

out to tell you? And then there's the destruction of

the horizon. There's destruction just in the future. When you're

condemned to be Peter Her, you contend to be out

of Then the track recruit. He is an exposion. Go

with me now, praise God, Oh God, Oh God, he

did I had double hold no our cotext We read John,

Go to acts, go to John eighteen. Let's look at

verse twenty six. One of the servants of the high

priest being his kinsman. This was Malcus's kinsman. He wouldn't

have forgot that face. He wouldn't have forgot Peter's face.

He saw him probably in age. Yeah, shoe, they won't

forget that look on your face. One of the servants

of the High Priest, being his kinsman, who's ear Peter

cut off, Saith, did not I see THEE in the

garden with him? Peter denied again, and immediately the cock

crew shm went not my heart with thee shoot.

One of the servants of the High Priest, being a

kinsman whose ear Peter cut off, Saith did not I

see THEE in the garden with him?

Didn't I see you in walmart with that mother that

wore them long dresses? Didn't I see you lunch with

that church group, brother Philip. There's some of them about

to experience peer pressure on the job. Didn't I see you?

Aren't you remember of that hole in his church? Wasn't

you just in the garden? Didn't I see you in

the garden. They're in the garden and they're in paradise.

But it won't save you. Shot. I hold you, Peter

net a stone stroll from God in the same garden

he earnestly prayed in Peter was a stone stow away

as God himself poured out his heart. But it wasn't enough.

How wasn't it enough, brother Jefin, When the second atom

was about to pray for the first atom sin and

that Peter would have looked the stone so away, and

so the agony of spirit and soul, and it didn't

change him in the garden. Why do you see the

agony of heart and the agony of soul? Or Sunday Wednesday,

even the pouring out of her pastor's blood, sweating tears.

And you're in the garden, but we all know just

up the road. If somebody want to ask you, weren't

you just in the garden, You've got the wrong man.

You've got the wrong Peter. That wouldn't be hell about

at a hole when you feel peer pressure. It's gonna

matter if you slept through your alarm to go to

the garden. It's gonna matter, brother Jesse, if they slept

till six thirty, or they got up at six fifteen.

You don't believe it. I'm telling you that fifteen minutes

a man, it should be. It could be a little longer,

but that fifteen minutes could save your spiritual life the men,

because if you they mean sleep through the alarm, clocker

the garden, does you know? Oh good if you sleep

through these sources and then without looking at your hard

at becoming a mature teenager and a mature young adult

and learning to hear what the spirits said through the churches,

I'm telling you Paradise, they man won't do you no good.

And it won't be God's father. It won't be Jesus's father.

It won't be your pastor's father who has carefully they

intended her. They've been praise God and kept the garden

and Paradise, it'll be your father because you slept through

the alarms, You slept through the warnings, You slept through

God trying to get your attention, and he've been fifteen

more minutes of Sleeper's more important to you than growing

your tree and becoming rooted and ground in her that

sound doctrine her and rooting the ground to her in

a relationship with God. Oh, Peter, I preach you to

you women, you're a sleeping her. When God's are learning you,

they've been just up the road. They're gonna ask y'all've

been Peter pressure who's gonna do a number on your

spiritual condition. Weren't you just in the garden Wednesday? Weren't

you just in the garden Sunday?

You know there's people that will leave this service, Brother Philip,

and commit the same trespass tomorrow.

Weren't you just in the garden. Weren't you just there, Peter?

You were just there. You were just so close to him.

The church had the holy ghosts blow through it. Sick

were healed, the dead was raised, blind eyes were open.

Weren't you just there, Peter when he touched the main

woman and God straightened her out? Weren't you there when

the messenger told you where to keep your mind? They

meen on good thoughts what you're just there? And then

by Monday your minds in the gunner, and some of

you by Sunday afternoon you're out of the garden, in

your secret SEMs and in your destitute places, wallowing in

the filth and the mire. Aymen, of all the sin

of Fords. I'll tell you what's wrong with you. You're

sleep in the gardener and you're not tending to it.

And when you're not keeping it up, you're not working

at it. You're not making that your ultimate goal. They

meant to see yourself flourished with God. Oh, it's more

important that you get a personal relationship with God than

even you listen to me to night. The most important

thing for you would be that you get a consistent

prayer life. I gotta stop now, he double today. I'm

coming to those, brother Jesse, if you would, y'all go

ahead and stand tonight Isaiah one, verse twenty nine through thirty.

For they shall be ashamed of the oaks which they

have desired, and he shall be confounded for the gardens

that you have chosen. He do, ye shall be confounded

for the gardens that you have chosen, For ye shall

be as an old close leaf faded, and as a garden,

and hath no water, Brother Philip, as far back as

Judges three, I believe there was a group of people

when I believe they worshiped the god astor Wroth, brother Caleb.

They had a spiritual facade. They were very, very religious.

By Jezbel's time, she had four hundred in her employee

profits of the Grove. Prophets of the Grove, and the

Bible speaks of how the children of Israel's hearts would

turn aside after the groves. The Bible says of one

generation they made groves on every high place and under

every green tree. Desperately religious, desperately trying to have something,

desperate in their pretense, desperate in their charade or charade,

however you want to say it. Some of you tonight

live in the grooves. Here the Heatable Hotel and brother

Road camp. From the groves, we go to the graves.

Tahita Halte, I'm telling you, you're pretending you're in the garden.

You're living in the groves, and next you'll be in

the graves. You'll be in lesion. Amen, this and your

best to get free. But you forsook paradise. You've been

in neat and pretending. But where did Thatam and Eve

run to? They ran to the trees for the wood,

They ran into the groves. You come to these altars

and you hide out in the groves. You come to

these altars and these altar calls, and you hide in

a serrade and a free tance. And eventually the man

of God gets quickened and we have a caramel. Not

because the Man of God wanted it, but because some

stubborn rebellious witch. Your rebellion makes you a prophet of

the girls. Your rebellion makes you a wizard in God's eyes.

Your stubbornness and your filth is leading you by the

neck to the graves. Your cell phone is not a guardian,

it's a grove. Your house no longer is a guardianer.

It's become a grove your career. Who shore here the heat?

You better be careful you put the garden first. For

they shall be ashamed of the oaks, because they have desired.

And ye shall be confounded for the gardens that ye

have chosen, For ye shall be as an oak whose

leaf fadeth, and as a garden that hath no water.

And Jemiah wrote this, And I feel the burden of

our pastor so often. But if ye will not hear

my soul, if ye will not hear it, my soul,

shall weaf in secret places for your pride? How many

times have we wept in secret places because of your pride?

Because you concerned with the groves, we hide out and

pretend that you God what you don't have. And you're

own your.

Rail to be into the grass, banished, driven out, not

by pastor by God, will.

You not heed his voice? Harden not your heart. If

you have a grove, a place of secrets, you must

cut it down mean of God. Like Giddy and and

Exa and Hezekiah, God moved on by God.

And they recklessly, with reckless abandoned wait in there and

destroyed the groves, those high places, those things are exhorted

himself against the will of God.

She that ahead never heard about it. But he that

abideth in the secret place? Hey, God, But he that

abideth in the secret place shall abide under the shadow?

Could we pray tonight? Is there an honest heart. I'm

not here for just another youth service. I'm not here

for you to just pretend your way through this altar service.

I wish I heard some hack sauce tonight. I wish

I heard some spiritual chain saws. They're loud. I wish

I heard some people rinding them hearts their hearts like

Peter should have done. God, you're in the garden, But

is it doing you any good? You're in the best

of all, in this church, of the best use group

this side of heaven. What is it doing you any good?

While you're living at the golds? Shutting the hand of Hey,

with your prayer life, I'm telling you, with your prayer life,

not even that spruce tree would grow. How will your

relationship with God grow? There's got to be a change.

Cut down the groves, a polish everything that exalted it

self against God. Destroy a brutal rate. Remove, Oh, God

created me a clean heart. Hey, shut a hoe. Let's

pray