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Manhunt - Bro Jesse Howell 1-31-2025

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  1. Man, it takes more than will power to be saved.

  2. You know that it takes more than will power to

  3. be delivered.

  4. Amen.

  5. Amen. So good to be here in the House of

  6. the Lord with you all on a Friday night at

  7. youth service. I want to say to those that might

  8. not consider themselves youth, I appreciate you for being here

  9. and showing to our youth that church is important.

  10. Amen.

  11. Amen, I've seen I've seen some people that decide that

  12. you services is not for them.

  13. What are you showing the youth whenever.

  14. You do that?

  15. Amen.

  16. Amen, I want to say I sincerely appreciate each and

  17. every one of you all. Praise the Lord. I do

  18. miss the pastor. I miss him terribly, the Mighty Man

  19. of God. I thank him for everything he's done for

  20. us and for the church.

  21. Amen, for his burden, for his prayer life for us. Amen.

  22. So wonderful. We appreciate him. We miss them.

  23. I want to say thank you to a brother Nathaniel

  24. for this opportunity. Thank you to the Lord for the

  25. confidence and this opportunity to stand here.

  26. Amen.

  27. I want to preach a little thought to you tonight,

  28. and I want to title it man Hunt.

  29. Amen.

  30. I need some help from these front two.

  31. Pews right here.

  32. I want to get all the young people ages five

  33. to twenty five unmarried to come.

  34. Ladies on this side and the men on this side.

  35. If we could do that. Can you brothers help me

  36. out with that?

  37. Yeah, I want to get all the ladies five and up,

  38. five to twenty five up here on the front row.

  39. Amen. We're looking for we're looking for Saul. If we

  40. don't want anybody like Saul hiding among this stuff. Amen. Amen,

  41. I got a burden for you young folks here tonight. Amen.

  42. Come on, Micah, I'm preaching to you. Son, sit up here. Amen,

  43. y'all field this pew up. Don't stand it up. Spending

  44. these few, brother phil Can they have that few up there?

  45. I want to preach to this group of young people.

  46. Amen.

  47. This is a good group of kids we got here.

  48. That's a good group of young folks. I appreciate them.

  49. I love them. Amen. Amen. Amen.

  50. I'm looking for the Lord to health with us tonight,

  51. ancient Amen. Amen, all right, let's preach.

  52. You know what man hunt means. It's an organized search

  53. for a wanted person. Amen. It's an organized search for

  54. a wanted person. Amen.

  55. I believe the Lord wants to spend some time with

  56. somebody tonight. I believe the Lord wants to spend some

  57. time with some young folks here tonight.

  58. Amen. Amen.

  59. Let's look at the Let's look at the beginning. Amen,

  60. Let's look at the first parents. Y'all thankful for your

  61. parents tonight. I believe most of us here have godly

  62. parents raising us in church. Amen, bringing us to church

  63. since we were knee high to a grasshopper. As the

  64. saying goes, Amen, you're thankful for your parents. Amen, I'm

  65. thankful for them.

  66. Amen.

  67. Let's look at the beginning, the first parents, Genesis, the

  68. third chapter.

  69. Genesis. This third chapter, we'll read verse number eight.

  70. And they heard the voice of the Lord God walking

  71. in the garden in the cool of the day. And

  72. Adam and his wife hid themselves from the presence of

  73. the Lord God amongst the trees of the garden. And

  74. the Lord called unto Adam and said, unto him, where

  75. art thou?

  76. And he said, learned thy voice in the garden. And

  77. I was afraid.

  78. Because I was naked, and I hid myself. Amen, and

  79. I hid myself. Would you ask God to help us

  80. here tonight?

  81. Lord, we thank you so much for your goodness and

  82. your mercy. Lord.

  83. I thank you, Lord for all that you've done for us.

  84. God for your help to us. God, I thank you

  85. Lord for how you've touched each and every heart.

  86. I thank you for this service. God.

  87. I thank you for this set of part time, Lord,

  88. where you would deal with hearts and lives.

  89. God, be asked that you would annoint me for just

  90. a little while here tonight. God, in the name of Jesus,

  91. let me speak as your oracle. God, touch your heart

  92. and life, Let someone live different.

  93. I pray, God, we know that you're evil. We believe

  94. that you will. God, we know that you can.

  95. We give you praise and honoring glory in Jesus wonderful name.

  96. Amen and Amen.

  97. The scene before us here tonight is a beautiful place.

  98. Amen. The garden of Eden was a beautiful.

  99. Place, hand crafted by God, just as the world is today.

  100. It was beautiful. You thankful for the home that you

  101. were raised up in. Amen.

  102. There's a lot of us, young teeple, that should be

  103. thankful for the home that we were raised up in.

  104. Amen, in a godly home, a god fearing home. Amen.

  105. Adam was raised up in a beautiful place.

  106. Adam was raised up in a beautiful garden in the

  107. eastern part of Eden.

  108. Is what the Bible says. We call this the garden

  109. of Eden.

  110. Amen.

  111. It was on the east part of Eden.

  112. In this garden, the Lord caused every kind of pleasant

  113. tree that you could imagine, every fruit tree that you

  114. could think of, every good fruit that you like, every

  115. good tree was planning there. A river flowed beautifully through

  116. this garden. A river flowed through the garden to provide

  117. plenty of water and hydration for all the plants and

  118. all the animal life.

  119. Amen.

  120. All the plant life and all the animal life was

  121. hydrated by this beautiful the river flowing through this beautiful garden.

  122. Amen.

  123. God created man in his own image, and he set

  124. him in the minion over the fish, the birds, cattle,

  125. and everything else that would roll the earth.

  126. Amen.

  127. God takes this man named Adam, and he places him.

  128. In the beautiful garden of Eden.

  129. During his tenure in this place, he names the animals.

  130. He enjoys the garden, and he also received a wife.

  131. In time, the.

  132. Woman is convinced by Satan to eat of the tree

  133. that God specifically told them not to Amen.

  134. The only tree that.

  135. God told them not to How tempting is the only

  136. thing that you're not supposed to do.

  137. Amen.

  138. Growing up, whenever mom said don't touch that. You can

  139. touch all this, but don't touch that. What do you

  140. want to touch? You want to touch that?

  141. Amen, that's the nature of mankind. It's the nature of mankind. Amen.

  142. He had one tree that they were not supposed to touch,

  143. one tree.

  144. That they weren't supposed to partake of.

  145. God specifically instructed them.

  146. Not to eat of the tree, which we all know

  147. the story.

  148. After she gave after she ate, the Bible says she

  149. took it to her husband.

  150. Amen.

  151. He took it to Adam and he ate.

  152. The Bible tells us that at that moment his eyes

  153. were open.

  154. Amen, he was enlightened. He saw things differently than he

  155. usually seen them.

  156. Amen.

  157. And I've seen Satan offer people fruit. I've seen the

  158. devil offer people things that they know they're not supposed

  159. to partake of, and when they partake of them.

  160. Their eyes are open, they have an epiphany. Amen. I've

  161. never seen it this way. Amen. Ain't just seen some

  162. people like that? Amen.

  163. Ain't just seen some people that said the old time way?

  164. He ain't what it takes anymore. I've had an enlightenment, Amen.

  165. I took up this thing, and I've took on it.

  166. And I've made of it. And now I'm enlightened.

  167. And now I see things differently then I used to

  168. see them. Adam and Eve saw things differently then they

  169. used to see them.

  170. They didn't know the shape that they were in. They

  171. didn't know how.

  172. They lived their day to day life. They didn't know

  173. that they were naked.

  174. Amen.

  175. They were so innocent and so good that they have

  176. no idea that they were naked. Amen, that this fruit

  177. that offered them, that was so good to look at,

  178. this thing that looked so pleasant to the eyes, stole

  179. their innocence. That thing that looked so fun and so nGy.

  180. They're not such a good time. It'll steal your innocence.

  181. It'll lead you standing in the middle of the garden

  182. saying what have I done.

  183. It'll lead you standing in.

  184. The middle of a beautiful place saying what have I done?

  185. I see things differently now, Amen. You cannot bite off

  186. on everything that's offered to you.

  187. God told Eve God to eat of that fruit.

  188. God told Adam everything else you can have with that

  189. one fruit.

  190. Stay away. From it. Amen. People bite off on any.

  191. And everything that's offered to them, and what happens. They

  192. find theirself in this shape. They find themselves not thinking

  193. like they used to thought, used to think. Excuse me, sorry, Mom,

  194. I know English. Adam and Eves were opened. Oh I

  195. see it now, I see it differently.

  196. Now.

  197. The devil will offer you things that look good on

  198. the outside. He'll offer you things that looks so pleasant

  199. to the eye. But when you take a bite, whenever

  200. you take that bike.

  201. It's tattered to your soul. Am'am.

  202. The tree looked so good for fruit. It made a

  203. lot of sense to eat of that fruit. Amen, it

  204. made perfect sense. It's a beautiful fruit. It's probably perfectly formed.

  205. It was in the garden of eating, after all, perfectly formed.

  206. The peel on it, or the skin on it, or

  207. whatever you want to call it, was perfectly presented to Eve.

  208. It looks so good. People will tell you things that

  209. sound so good. But whenever Eve took a hold of it,

  210. destroyed destroyed her.

  211. And whenever she.

  212. Was destroyed, what did she do? She shared and she

  213. destroyed others.

  214. Amaen, ain't that like that? You ain't that like some you've.

  215. Heard they ain't content with themselves being deceived.

  216. They want to take others down with her. Amen, even

  217. wanted to take Adam down with her. Adam, look what

  218. I've done.

  219. Try this, my my ma.

  220. I've heard and I've seen too many young people be.

  221. Enlightened and have their eyes open, so to speak, because

  222. they were off or tainted fruit.

  223. Amen. I'm laying a foundation here tonight. We're gonna get somewhere,

  224. Lord of helpless. Amen.

  225. After Adam and Eve ain't the fruit and their eyes

  226. were opened, God came in the cool of the day,

  227. and he began to look, and he began to speak,

  228. and he came down to the garden of eating this

  229. beautiful creation that I told you about, all the beautiful trees,

  230. and God came.

  231. Down to commune with his creation.

  232. Amen.

  233. God came down to commune with him.

  234. He came down to walk in the cool of the

  235. day and to look at all the trees that he

  236. had created. Amen, all the trees and all the beautiful animals.

  237. That there was no animosity between.

  238. A man.

  239. There was no hate back then. Amen.

  240. But the issue is when God came down to commune

  241. with Adam, what does he do He finds himself hiding.

  242. Why is he hiding? Why is he hiding? Why did

  243. Adam and Eve run to hide condemnation? Because even though

  244. their eyes were opened, they were condemned. Amen, what they

  245. thought they enjoyed. Whenever the concept on the scene, they knew,

  246. they knew that they had messed up, and they hide,

  247. They hid them us from God because that is the

  248. nature of man time, that's the nature of me, and

  249. that's the nature of.

  250. You and you and you and you to hide. Whenever

  251. we do wrong, we try to hide it. Whenever we

  252. do wrong, we try to cover it up.

  253. Amen.

  254. I know I'm not preaching nothing new to you, but

  255. this is the warding of my heart. And this is

  256. what God laid on my heart for this people tonight,

  257. for this group of young people. Amen, our nature is

  258. to hide and cover it up instead of confessing and

  259. receiving forgiveness. It's that easy.

  260. It's that easy, sincere repentance, sincere confession. Come, I'm sorry,

  261. I shouldn't have done it, and with your health, I'm never.

  262. Do it again.

  263. Sincere confession and repentance is all it takes to release condemnation. AmAm,

  264. I wondered tonight, what would have happened if whenever Adam

  265. took a bite and he opened his eyes and everything

  266. around him looked different. If he would have fell on

  267. his knees right and called out for God, I said,

  268. Oh God, what have I done?

  269. I fault you? Why did the one.

  270. Thing that I must not the post to do?

  271. What would have happened if he would have fell on

  272. his knees and cried out for forgiveness?

  273. Amen? What would have happened.

  274. If Adam would have went looking for God instead of

  275. God coming looking for Adam?

  276. Amen?

  277. What if you find an altar to pray? Ain't go

  278. looking for God? What if you find place they'm go

  279. looking for God? Won't he needs you there? Won't he

  280. meets you in that place that you feel like you

  281. can't help no more?

  282. James said in his writing to the Early Church. Then

  283. mercy rejoices against judgment. If God was the.

  284. Same yesterday, today, and forever, like he said in Alaka

  285. three or six, then if he's merciful today, and we

  286. believe that he's merciful to all of these young folks

  287. here today, then.

  288. He must have been merciful back then.

  289. If he's merciful right now, then he must have been

  290. merciful in the garden of.

  291. Eden whenever Adam mess up.

  292. But instead of confessing, I've already said, he hines, perhaps

  293. Adam could have found forgiveness. Perhaps God would have forgiven Adam.

  294. They said, you know, you shouldn't have done that. I'm

  295. sure he would have faced.

  296. Some kind of consequences for his actions, because he is

  297. a just God.

  298. Amen. Consequences for our actions are a good thing. Amen.

  299. Correction when we do wrong, he's a good thing. Amen.

  300. A child lived to himself brings a mother to shame.

  301. Amen. A Christian by yourself, you bring God to shame,

  302. you bring yourself to shame.

  303. Amen. You can't do this alone.

  304. Instead of confessing, our nature is to hide and conceal.

  305. But to be saved, we must confess.

  306. The presence of the Lord walking in the garden that

  307. day must have scared Adam to death.

  308. No doubt he knew his time was coming. Amen, I'm

  309. sure he knew. Oh.

  310. Some commentators believe that this was a regular occurrence, God

  311. walking in the cool of the day.

  312. I searched the scriptures and on he found it this once.

  313. So believe what you want. But nevertheless, the presence of

  314. God walking in the corner of the day.

  315. That day in the garden, must have scared at him.

  316. Amen, he ran to head. Why was Adam nervous, scared

  317. and hiding? Why was Adam fearing God's not?

  318. God is to have a fear, But you should never

  319. fear God coming into your space. You should never fear

  320. God being close by to you. Amen, animal was scared,

  321. he was nervous, and he was hiding. What causes us

  322. to drift backwards? What causes us to drift toward the shadows?

  323. What causes us to take the step back instead of

  324. the step forward?

  325. When the Holy Ghost begins to walk in the service.

  326. Whenever the Lord begins to walk up and down our

  327. ears and he walks in between the pews, what causes

  328. us to get nervous? What causes us to drift back?

  329. The Bible said, old, no go on?

  330. What is it?

  331. No pleasure in them? They drawn back? Amaen, Adam drew back.

  332. He drew back into some trees. When God begins to

  333. speak in the garden that you're living in, in this

  334. beautiful Sainctu area that's your living in, what what?

  335. What would what would cause you to be distant? And

  336. I know I told you.

  337. I'm preaching to a bunch of of my favorite people

  338. here tonight. That's why I'm preaching to you, Amen. That's

  339. why I'm preaching to you because you're my favorite people, Amen,

  340. And I want you to go to Heaven with me.

  341. And I know I'm not preaching to everybody, So don't

  342. everybody feel condemned like Adam did.

  343. Amen.

  344. But if the shoe fits where it.

  345. When God begins to move among you, is there something

  346. in your life that would cause the communication between you

  347. and the Lord to be strained?

  348. Amen? When you find yourself in.

  349. That place or prayer, I know there's time whenever we

  350. pray and.

  351. We feel like the ceiling is.

  352. Man.

  353. We pray and we praying, we pray and we feel

  354. like we.

  355. Can't get God anywhere.

  356. So I'm not talking about those situations whenever you know

  357. that you're living holy and you know you're living righteous

  358. and you just feel like God's testing you to see

  359. if you'll persevere and be faithful. But I'm not talking

  360. about those times.

  361. But I'm talking about.

  362. Those times when you know there's something that's hindering your prayers.

  363. Then you know that there's.

  364. Something that calls there to be a distance that calls

  365. is there to be a disconnect between you and God?

  366. Amen?

  367. Adam felt this disconnect.

  368. Adam felt this disconnect whenever God came close by, whenever

  369. God began to begin to begin to walk up and

  370. down where.

  371. They're at, they felt this disconnect.

  372. It is amazing to me that after Adam and Eve,

  373. seeing that their reaction was behind.

  374. My the reaction should have been quite the opposite. Amenha,

  375. I believe.

  376. That Adam felt disconnected because of disobedience.

  377. Amen, you'll believe obedience is important.

  378. Adam's conscience, who's eating in him? Adam's goodwill was eating

  379. at him when he knew that he had done what

  380. he should not do. Amen, Don't it hurt you whenever

  381. you do something against your parents and and you know

  382. they don't deserve that. Don't it hurt you whenever you

  383. do something against God and you say a cross word

  384. and you know that you shouldn't have said that, and

  385. you walk away and you say.

  386. Why did I say that? Why did I act that way?

  387. That's your conscience, that's your conscience dealing with you and

  388. saying you shouldn't act like that, You shouldn't talk like him,

  389. You shouldn't talk to your mother like that.

  390. You shouldn't talk to your daddy like that. You shouldn't

  391. treat your sibling like that.

  392. You shouldn't treat your brother and sister at Christ like that.

  393. That's your consciousness, That's what God gave you.

  394. That's what God gave you, that little voice inside to

  395. keep you in the right direction, to.

  396. Keep you walking in the right direction. Why would it

  397. Why would you suffer the torment of your sin finding

  398. you out right?

  399. Why would you go through that week after week, week

  400. after week, just dreading when God would come down in

  401. the garden?

  402. Why would you go day after.

  403. Day, service after service, message after message, prayer after.

  404. Prayer, dreading with yours him? It's tail now. I don't

  405. know how long it was. I don't know when they

  406. ateh of this fruit.

  407. I don't know if it was early in the morning,

  408. where if it was close to the.

  409. Cool of the day.

  410. But I really believe that Adam was dreading that time

  411. that God would come down.

  412. And that God would be looking through the trees.

  413. Adam, Eve, where are you?

  414. Where are you?

  415. I know you're in the garden. I know you're in

  416. the garden. I know you're in the church.

  417. What was that Sunday School lesson. You're in the building,

  418. but you're Are you in the body? Wasn't it?

  419. Am? I am?

  420. I crazy?

  421. That was the adult class, so I didn't hear that.

  422. I know you're in the garden at him. I know

  423. you're in that beautiful congregation.

  424. I know you're in the church house.

  425. But where are you at?

  426. Because I'm in.

  427. The church house and I can't find you with the worsipers.

  428. I'm in the church house and I can't find you

  429. at the altar.

  430. I'm in the.

  431. Church house and I'm looking for you, and in searching

  432. for you, and I'm calling for you, but I can't

  433. find you.

  434. Why are you hiding? I love you, I've created you

  435. in my whole limas.

  436. Why are you hiding? For deed?

  437. I've never done you, nothing be done to try that

  438. you hide. I gave you every tree you could possibly

  439. never want, every desire that you're gonna possibly need, And

  440. you're hiding from me? What have I ever done to

  441. you to make you to hide from me?

  442. To cause you to draw back?

  443. God's been nothing but good, Hadney.

  444. God's been nothing but good Hapney. Did he save you?

  445. Did he die across for you?

  446. Did he carry your sins up to the tree. He

  447. had done nothing but good for Adam and Eve. He

  448. had done nothing but everything they needed. He gave Audham

  449. the most beautiful wife you ever seen in your life.

  450. He gave eat him the most handsome husband that you

  451. have a seen in your dreams.

  452. He gave him every piece of fruit.

  453. He gave him a back of the hall that would

  454. make King David jealous. He gave him a spread that

  455. the most royal of kings in Bible times and modern

  456. history would be jealous. God, why would you hide from me?

  457. I mean nothing but good. I've done nothing but good

  458. things for you. I've done nothing at home I have

  459. now when you are filthy, I don't nothing about hole

  460. my hand out. When you were in the door of

  461. this world, I've done nothing about. Offer you mercy, offer

  462. you happiness, offer you salvation, and you deserve hell.

  463. I did nothing to climb up on a tree for you.

  464. Shut my, what do you have to hide from condemnation?

  465. That little voice in there talking to you?

  466. I read of a young boy. They had quite the

  467. opposite experience as as Adam did. Whenever he heard the

  468. voice of God. Yeah, you a wom speaking of a

  469. young boy, Samuel.

  470. God came talking to Adam, and what he do? Where's

  471. the nearest tree?

  472. Adam?

  473. God created that tree, He formed it. He spoke the word,

  474. excuse me, sorry, He spoked the word and it was worn.

  475. You think he can't see through that tree that he created.

  476. Lot, are the trees gonna hide you from them? Trees

  477. don't offer you no protection? Drawing back, don't offer you

  478. no protection. Amen.

  479. The Bible says, be sure your sins will find you?

  480. How will find you? Out that, ma'am, I told you.

  481. I read about a young boy, a young youth.

  482. Amen, that hurt. The call of God for Samuel three

  483. course number one through.

  484. Tens of Calling's a mighty calling of the young lad Samuel.

  485. Samuel had quite a different response to the voice of God. Hey, ma'am,

  486. I don't know if God was there or if he

  487. just sent his voice or he just spoke from heaven

  488. down to Samuel.

  489. The Bible says that.

  490. Adam heard the voice of God walking. Adam heard the

  491. voice of God walking in the cool of the day.

  492. So I don't know if God came down to the

  493. door where Samuel was at or wherever he.

  494. Was staying, but he came and calling Samuel. Amen.

  495. Samuel didn't hide or get frightened by the news.

  496. Samuel didn't hide or draw back or get scared when

  497. God can't call it him. What's the difference here? How

  498. can one man get scared, nervous and hide and one

  499. man jump up and run in there to Eli and

  500. say you called me. Samuel wasn't hiding from the man

  501. of God. Samuel wasn't hiding from the voice of God.

  502. I wonder how someone here and tonight would like to

  503. leave this place with the new love and a new

  504. appreciation for when God comes looking for you, for a

  505. new love where you don't feel condemnation. Whenever God comes calling,

  506. it comes knocking on your heart.

  507. You know he'll come. There's a scripture that said, behold,

  508. I stand at the door, and I knock you hear

  509. my voice. You let me in, and He'll knock on

  510. your door. He has knocked on your door. In prayer,

  511. I was reminded of this of the Disciple through Jesus love.

  512. In John chapter number thirteen of verse twenty three the Bible.

  513. He's now there was leaning on.

  514. Jesus's one of his disciples who he loved. This disciple

  515. wasn't nervous to be right there, to be right up

  516. close to where God's at. He wasn't condemned.

  517. In his heart. You think Judas, who's making right there.

  518. His passage I remember from my studies from reading it.

  519. This passage I do believe is when Jesus handed out Jesus,

  520. Judas wouldn't have been up there.

  521. Judas would have felt too condemned in his heart. You've

  522. heard that song walking with God at a guilty distance,

  523. That's where Judas would have found himself.

  524. That's not where this disciple found himself. He didn't find

  525. him at arm's length. Aba.

  526. He had no desire to be at arms length with

  527. the Savior. For re knew the time was coming when

  528. he would be, when he would ascend. Wouldn't you love

  529. to have that kind of relationship with God? Wouldn't you

  530. love to have no condemnation, just peace and happiness.

  531. You know that's some they just don't get any better

  532. than this. Maybe John talk man just don't get any

  533. better than this. Aymen, it's not what you just thought.

  534. Wouldn't you like to have that kind of relationship? Wouldn't

  535. you like to have that kind of.

  536. Communion with God? Just coming into his presence and rejoicing.

  537. And just enjoying being close to it, just coming into

  538. his house and enjoying in his present. Lifting up your hands,

  539. lift it up, clean hands, a pure heart. Wouldn't you

  540. enjoy that? Ain't that worth it? Ain't that a good

  541. trade off for all that condemnation.

  542. I'll tell you.

  543. It is.

  544. Tomorrow, February the first Amen. I didn't only get the Holy.

  545. Egost February, the first I sold out February the first.

  546. I'm coming up on my anniversary. No condemnation. I'm coming

  547. up on my anniversary. Look, just peace and happiness. I

  548. remember being in that place.

  549. I remember very well. Let's go. Let me tell you.

  550. Condemnation will zapp your happiness. Condemnation will sap your joy.

  551. It's after peace that Greek condemnation caused Adam to the

  552. hide of the trees.

  553. From an all lobe, all seeing God.

  554. Your cover won't hide it.

  555. Your cover won't hide that condemnation. Because whenever you come

  556. into a place where there is no condemnation, your condemnation.

  557. Shines like a city that's set on a hill, shines.

  558. Like a candle in a window seal, shining out.

  559. To a dark world. That's what your condemnation does. Amen.

  560. There's no hiding that feeling.

  561. There's no hiding that emptiness inside. Adam felt condemned. Samuel

  562. felt a direct connection. You could trade condemnation for a connection.

  563. You could trade arms, Lincoln and lay on his bosom.

  564. Right.

  565. Samuel didn't know what it was like to feel that

  566. this connection from God like Adam did. Do you think

  567. Samuel had an opportunity to run away, neglect his duties

  568. and neglect what he's supposed to do, what he knew

  569. he would have been dedicated to do.

  570. Sure he did.

  571. He could have laid right there and said, get up,

  572. old man, do it yourself right.

  573. He could have neglected his duties.

  574. Right.

  575. Samuel had quite a different reaction, and he had quite a.

  576. Different relationship with God. Brother Caleb, would you help us out?

  577. Get to that brother with the somebody gives a song.

  578. If you live a dedicated and committed life, you won't

  579. find yourself standing at a guilty distance, scared to death

  580. of when you're gonna get found out, Scared to death

  581. of when what you did.

  582. And what you've done God reveals to the men of good.

  583. You could have that same communion and that same fellowship

  584. with God. Like Samuel and John did ay Man.

  585. Does countless other.

  586. Times throughout the Bible where God would come looking.

  587. And that God would come. Whether the Famuel spoke of

  588. those appointments tonight, there's many a time, whatever God an

  589. appointment with.

  590. Someone, it's not worth living your life and condemnation, feeling.

  591. Condemned every time you lay your head on your pillow,

  592. every time.

  593. You walk through the doors. It's not worth feeling that

  594. heaviness on your heart.

  595. You know that beautiful garden that we talked about Adam

  596. and Eve dwelling in and in habiting. Did you know

  597. that Adam got kicked out of that garden. Lord began

  598. to deal with me, and I thought I might preach

  599. one day on the.

  600. Point of no return. I've heard the priests.

  601. Many times, and I'm not sure I've ever heard that

  602. text used.

  603. Adam could never go back to that place.

  604. Adam could never find himself in the garden again, looking

  605. at the beautiful trees, at the foliage and the river

  606. going through Why because it was guarded, believe it was

  607. cherubs with fleming swords. Adam would never return. Don't find

  608. yourself in that place tonight, friend, It's not worth it.

  609. Adam and Eve lived in condom, and you know what

  610. happened to their children.

  611. One of them, God helped, one of them pulled through.

  612. One of them did. Adam lost.

  613. His ability to walk in the cool of the day

  614. with God in the garden. I don't know if Adam repented.

  615. I don't know if Eve repented.

  616. I don't know if God restored that communication they had.

  617. But they would never find themselves in the place that

  618. they once were aging.

  619. What a beautiful place it was, What a beautiful place

  620. God created for them. Oh, how God blessed him. Look

  621. around and see the blessings of God.

  622. Where God put him. God placed at them there. God

  623. placed at them.

  624. In the garden.

  625. Young people, your parents and God placed you in this place.

  626. What a beautiful place it is. What would you do

  627. with that opportunity? What would you do with your garden?

  628. Isaiah six and eight.

  629. Another man of God that heeded a call, that wasn't

  630. afraid of the call of God.

  631. That could be you. Another man that wasn't afraid of

  632. God to commune with him, and he with God.

  633. And wasn't fearful to speak the word of God. Isaiah

  634. was a prophet among prophets.

  635. God used Isaiah mightily, where we all stand here tonight?

  636. I close him with his verse Isaiah six and eight said, also.

  637. I heard the voice of the Lord say, it's Isaiah speaking.

  638. Isaiah said, I heard God speaking. I heard the voice

  639. of God. I heard the call of God. You've heard

  640. the call of God. You've heard the voice of God.

  641. What was God asking? What was God saying?

  642. God said, who shall.

  643. I say him?

  644. Who will go for us? Will you go for us?

  645. For them? Will you be sinn? Will you allow yourself

  646. to live in that place.

  647. Dedicated, consecrated to where you can hear the voice.

  648. Of God, and not running high? Isaiah did when God

  649. heard the voice of God. When Isaiah heard the.

  650. Voice of God, he said, God, I'm right here. You

  651. can look right where I'm at. God, I have nothing

  652. of height, I have no condemnation. I'm right here of God.

  653. Order.

  654. If we got someone wants to come to the aultie

  655. tonight and say, God.

  656. I'm right here. You feel like coming, go ahead.

  657. If you don't, I pray God, I'll help you if

  658. you're the one that I preach to you tonight.

  659. Any willing hearts say God, I'm right here.

  660. Here in my Lord, send me God. I'm willing to go. God,

  661. I'm willing to walk that path. That's your call for me.

  662. Here am I?

  663. Here?

  664. Am I old Lord? Oh God? Here am I send me?

  665. God's calling someone tonight. God has called someone tonight. Amay,

  666. will you answer? Speak Lord from my servant here? Will

  667. you find yourself tonight leaning on the bosom of God

  668. in that place? Some sweet communion, no condemnation any man. Amen,

  669. I approach to you, my heart.

  670. I had a.

  671. Completely different direction than I was gone, and God send

  672. me down this path to find something to tell someone.

  673. He's looking for you. He's looking for someone that's willing gonna.

  674. Sell out, live.

  675. A dedicated life, consecrated.

  676. Yours me.

  677. Oh Lord, usays there group placing your arm home, eaving.

  678. You long gotta beginning at the end, he's handing out

  679. the county, becoming an.

  680. Artyllo mongs fears seem fitts.

  681. L's your secret.

  682. Stare replacing your.

  683. Were naving you wont go. You don't want a launch.

  684. And go.

  685. Now that he's handing you tears up about spani Sarahman,

  686. thank you lad?

  687. Can you your secret place?

  688. Is there?

  689. Replace in a home?

  690. Reading do you all, but you can go on about

  691. what he's had in the king, what tears at.

  692. About its se seeen your secret.

  693. Well upping up the door. It has a true I stop.

  694. I was so shamed. Is I reveal my head sing.

  695. About the room. I'm not shaking any.

  696. Than no man s so longer. I behind the door.

  697. And there's a passing, A.

  698. Want I want to go.

  699. Nobody's had the meat hungry we can magis please, I'm

  700. we can?

  701. Did you have the shaws?

  702. I sure?

  703. Thank you for this Christ. You can't shows to become.

  704. You can't look at com me. You can't looking He

  705. made with me, and there was no way I couldn't see.

  706. I looked too far.

  707. Jeeves was near to rescue my soul.

  708. I come on, Hapy now saying I'm.

  709. Off time in the wa living in born.

  710. Became the man man this Jesus my name mat for myself.

  711. Happy, I say, pa time one came in to head.

  712. On my arm Europe last week and see if I

  713. wouldn't suffer naby as the play said, loo at the lie, if.

  714. I don't say reading.

  715. This great r rang out and brought up.

  716. All I could say was the open side and I'll

  717. be because when I had Tom became to get well,