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Sit down and growl

Zephaniah 3:1-4

(From the borne to the ham)

Did you ever see a dog get a bone and just sat and growl, he want eat it but he doesn’t want another, dog to help him know on it. Sometimes I get a little dog blood in me, all I want to do is sit around and know on a bone, and growl. While the world is dying and going to hell, sometimes we sit around and know on an old dry bone when the room is filled with hams, and I mean good smoked hams. Im sick and tried of being handed an old dry bone to know on by the devil, my teeth, are worn down, and my gums are becoming, cal laced over, ( bring one of the dogs raw hides) im leaving my bone, here at the alter, im going after, the smoked ham. No wonder when I come into the church house on Sunday, people are telling me, hey my pains are gone, no wonder are getting up all over the church, saying im, healed.

My heart is normal, now, my cold and flue has vanished, in seconds, I can tell you why someone got off the bone, and found the ham, our church is not the biggest, in the county, but by by old dry bone. One can sit in church and wither away, just chewing on a bone, I can see old Caleb, around 85 years old going to his old friend Joshua, one day, he said listen, man im tried of chewing on an old dry bone. I want that mountain, over yonder, im going for milk and honey, im dropping, my old dry bone right here by you. Burn it stomp it bury it, man im, though with it, when I drop this bone here today, at this alter im through with it, do what you will with it, someone else can have it, someone else can chew on it, and sit and growl, but im leaving it here. Lots of people that god has called to do great things are in a Connor, some are gnawing on an old dry bone. Let’s go for the ham, in a big way. The bone is not any good, but the ham is real good. Old Samson was defeated his enemies, thought, but he grabbed and old dry jaw bone of old donkey, and slew a thousand men , but soon he left the bone, and reached for the ham, I mean the life giving water, when we throw down the bone then, god will see we get the other goodies. One can die holding on to an old dry bone.

Ezekiel, saved a valley full, of dry bones, but they were no good until flesh came upon them, church today bring your dry bones , to the alter and stack them up. And leave them there god is looking for someone to leave the dry bone, and get the ham.

Strange things

1 peter 4:12-19

Im going to preach awhile on strange things, do you know who sits around all the time thinking up strange things, you quested, it, Satan, himself. Do you know who knows you better than you know yourself, of cause you know, the devil, he studies up, new things all the time? The very second you get that little sharp tongue of yours, under the blood, Satan, will throw something else at you. We live in a very exciting time; we are playing with Satan’s tricks all the time. Some people are easer to trick, than others, hell is full of preaches, that god really used, in by gone days. I have never told this before, a pastor, that I know told me about, a man that was an outstanding minister, he had power, people got saved, he drew large crowds, but one day, he was hateful, tried to do everything he could against, everyone.

He refused to do a thing that anyone wanted him, to do, you could look at him, and know Satan had him, he told him, and he had a sulking hateful demon. All of a Sutton, another voice spoke, it was not his, voice, this voice said, I know I have one, but what are you going to do about it. This man pastured a large church, no one knew, about this, the preacher told him in a harsh, voice, tonight am taken you to church, don’t you, make a move, ill put you in a chair, and you sat there. The man sat there, when the service, was over, he told everyone come pray for my dad. He said he had stood alone, until this, bro martin, spoke to the devil, and he came out, he said don’t blame dad blame the devil. His dad started his ministry again.

And had greater success than, ever, Satan nearly got, one of the greatest, ministers in the country, bro martin, said his dad never went down again. Because god came along, the judgment is no push over, the great apostle Paul, said if the Christians that are striving, to make it. Barely, make it, what will be the end. Of the ones that are in, and out, all the time. Im going to make it, some how, something new happens all the time, but god is still god, and he cares, for us. The problem is when someone makes a mistake; it’s the unforgiveness that we carry around with us, but you don’t know what they have done to me. Ill never forgive them for what they done, am just going to wait and when they make a mistake, ill make sure they never recover. Ill tell everyone what they did. It’s not my flat what he did; he’s got just what he deserves. He out now ill keep him down and out.

We talk about every thing that we don’t like that’s going own. We tell every one what’s wrong with everyone, ( sat down by someone talk to them about what’s wrong with things do you work here, do they pay you its not enough, they should pay you, what you think about the pastor, ) SOME ONE ASKED what do you think about all these preachers that have made mistakes, what you mean what do I think about it, its not important what I think about it. You know why most people cant get up we are going to make sure they can’t get up.

When someone makes a mistake, we push them down; we don’t want them to get back up, il want to tell you that a sprit out of the pit of hell, if the blood of Jesus is good enough, for the pew, its good enough, for me. Unforgiveness has got to go, im going to tell you the biggest emery in the body of Christ is long tongues, I heard one church saying that this church will never make it. Its time this junk stops, that we stop hanging our brother up to the radical, of the world, its time, we tell the world leave them along. This is my brother am going to help him, he going to make it. Come on say it he’s my brother he’s my brother, ive had someone walk up to me, they said can (I talk to you,) sure you can, they looked all round like this was some kind of secured statement. ( well you’re the only one we’ve had to come thou this church, but I feel your spiritual enough to hear this, I knew right then they didn’t know what they were talking about I just started, PREACHUING AND I AM SURE NOT THAT spiritual. )

SELF ESTEEM

EXODUS 15:20-24

And Miriam the prophetess, the sister of Aaron, took a timbrel, in her hand: and all the women went out after her with timbrels and with dances. And Miriam answered them, sing ye to the lord, for he hath triumphed gloriously: the horse and his rider hath he thrown into the sea. So Moses brought Israel from the red sea, and they went three days in the wilderness, and found no water. And when they came to marah, they could not drink of the waters of marah, for they were bitter: therefore the name of it was called marah. And the people murmured against Moses, saying what shall, we drink.

HOW OFTEN DO WE FORGET, WHAT GOD, HAS DONE FOR US, MOSES, WAS ONE, OF THE GREATEST, TO LEAD, GODS PEOPLE, IN HISTORY. HE WAS MEEK, HE WAS HUMBLE, AND GOD USED HIM, IN A MIGHTY WAY, ONE OF THE GREATEST, MERICALES IN THE HISTORY, OF THE WORLD, HAD JUST HAPPENED. GOD HAD OPENED UP THE RED SEA, AND LED AROUND 3 AND 1 HALF MILLION PEOPLE, ACROSS DRY GROUND. GOD, HAD ALSO DESTROYED, the great Egyptian, army god had really showing, himself, to be a god of miracles. Miriam, the sister of Moses, and Aaron, looked the situation over, got her self a tambourine, and started walking up and down the red sea, shore singing, at the top of her voice, the lord he is good. For his mercy endured forever, pretty soon thousands of other women joined her and the praise session was under way. One could hear the singing for a mile away. What a day of praise, the whole congregation, was moved at the miracle. But it was soon forgotten, and the march was under way again. They went into the wilderness, for 3 days, but things did not gto so good, they got tried, and thirsty, but the water was no good. It was bitter what a time, everybody was grumbling at the leader.

When things go wrong, and they will we have always got to blame someone. I guess old brother Moses, put up with more jaw than any other leader in history. At this time the people were disparate, for water, and 1 could see there point. But griping doesn’t get the job done. Moses did a strange thing he cut some trees down and put the branches into the water and, the waters were healed. We forget to quick god, can heal us he can do great things for us, and soon we have forgotten all about it our self esteem, it is one of our greatest assets. We don’t have to feel above everybody, but we don’t have to feel under everybody ether.

Im a firm believer in self confidence, if we don’t have it, then we cant do anything, I don’t even like to talk about defeat, it should, never be mentioned among gods people sometimes we run into bitter water. But remember we have lots of trees too. This life is up and down, some good days some bad days, but every day puts us closer to heaven. God did not put us down here in a bed of roses, all time. Sometimes we are made to wander why, but if we will only remember that god will help us up the hill.