Summary: We need to start living in the God of the House of God

Are You Living In Bethel Or El Bethel?

Have a time of praise (testimonies)

(The song I would Love to tell you )

Genesis 35:1-7 And God said unto Jacob, Arise, go up to Bethel, and dwell there: and make there an altar unto God, that appeared unto thee when thou fleddest from the face of Esau thy brother. Then Jacob said unto his household, and to all that were with him, Put away the strange gods that are among you, and be clean, and change your garments: And let us arise, and go up to Bethel; and I will make there an altar unto God, who answered me in the day of my distress, and was with me in the way which I went. And they gave unto Jacob all the strange gods which were in their hand, and all their earrings which were in their ears; and Jacob hid them under the oak which was by Shechem. And they journeyed: and the terror of God was upon the cities that were round about them, and they did not pursue after the sons of Jacob. So Jacob came to Luz, which is in the land of Canaan, that is, Bethel, he and all the people that were with him. And he built there an altar, and called the place El bethel: because there God appeared unto him, when he fled from the face of his brother.

We have name this church Bethel which means The House Of God I would like us to go further than that of being just The House of God

To being El Bethel which means The God of The House of God

There is a difference of being in the House of God

To being in The God of the House Of God

It’s like living in the Valley verses The Mountain Top

The Valleys is where it seems to be full of troubles & bad things happen

We all know that all things run down hill.

It floods it goes to the valley

Sin takes us down

Sad times are the valleys On the mountain Top everything is better

It’s like living in darkness verses living in the light

In the dark bad things happen

In the light you can see & know where you are going

It’s like living on a house boat verses a house on dry land

The house boat will rock when the winds & storms come

The House is built upon solid ground will be stable It’s like having a big juicy T-bone steak verses a Big mac

It’s like Having Jesus verses just knowing of him

Many people including Baptist or going to Miss Heaven by 18 inches

1)El Bethel Bring Us To Remembrance

Vs1: And God said unto Jacob, Arise, go up to Bethel, and dwell there: and make there an altar unto God, that appeared unto thee when thou fleddest from the face of Esau thy brother.

Remember when you were 1st saved how excited you were. (I remember the place the day & everything that happened) (re-live it) (5 rows back the song being sung) (I was sitting 5 rows back) The message was there are devils in the church) (I was teaching, driving a church bus, going soul winning BUT LOST) (The time was 12:25 on Sunday March 31,1982) (I ran those 5 rows and fell on my face and got rite with God) (I was born again) (I will never forget it Never)

When you saw God move in your life

Your 1st soul you led to the lord (Mine was at the SA Rescue Mission A black man) (I was riding high) (My 1st teenager was a gang girl) (My what a change in that girl) (she gave me a key chain that said Preacher Harold I love You Thank You (I still have it)

I remember when the Lord called me to preach (My was I scared still am) (I remember the 1st message I preached at the Nursing Home “When the Role is called up Yonder) (I remember the 1st Christmas message I preached “The unspeakable Gift) (Very loud I was stupid & young in the Lord))

Hey have you lost that 1st Love

Revelation 2:5a Remember therefore from whence thou art fallen,and repent, and do the first works; To get to El Bethel we need to remember & get back that 1st Love

2)El Bethel Brings Us To Repentance

Vs 2-3 Then Jacob said unto his household, and to all that were with him, Put away the strange gods that are among you, and be clean, and change your garments: And let us arise, and go up to Bethel; and I will make there an altar unto God, who answered me in the day of my distress, and was with me in the way which I went.

Be Clean The Bible Says : Put away the strange gods that are among you, and be clean, and change your garments:

We are to be old fashion

To know the God of this book Is Repentance

Be Not Yoke With The World The Bible Says: 2 Corinthians 6:14 Be ye not unequally yoked together with unbelievers: for what fellowship hath righteousness with unrighteousness? and what communion hath light with darkness?

Touch Not The Unclean Bible Says: Corinthians 6:17 Wherefore come out from among them, and be ye separate, saith the Lord, and touch not the unclean thing; and I will receive you,

Repent Of Sins Says The Bible: Revelation 3:19 As many as I love, I rebuke and chasten: be zealous therefore, and repent.

There are Independent Fundamental Baptist Preachers preaching against Repentance

Men we need a change I mean pull out them ear rings & the nose job too.

Look like a man pull up your pants

Smell like a man put on some old spice Instead of mommy’s stuff

Women let your hair grow out

Put on a dress Deuteronomy 22:5 The woman shall not wear that which pertaineth unto a man, neither shall a man put on a woman’s garment: for all that do so are abomination unto the LORD thy God. 1 Timothy 2:9a In like manner also, that women adorn themselves in modest apparel …” Demand that the door be opened for you

Smell like a lady not like a mechanic (I thank God for my wife being a lady)

Get rid off those trash perverted Bibles Get the real thing KJV baby

It’s time for an old fashion Burning service

Oh how much fun they were

Send it to Hell where it belongs

To get to El Bethel we have got to have some old fashion repentance

Man when I got saved I changed I mean to tell you

2 Corinthians 5:17 became real to me “Therefore if any man be in Christ, he is a new creature: old things are passed away; behold, all things are become new.”

3)El Bethel Brings Us To A Place Of Revival

verses 5-6 And they journeyed: and the terror of God was upon the cities that were round about them, and they did not pursue after the sons of Jacob. So Jacob came to Luz, which is in the land of Canaan, that is, Bethel, he and all the people that were with him. 2 Chron. 7:14 If my people, which are called by my name, shall humble themselves, and pray, and seek my face, and turn from their wicked ways; then will I hear from heaven, and will forgive their sin, and will heal their land.

Psalms 85:6 Wilt thou not revive us again: that thy people may rejoice in thee?

When men got exited & shouted AMEN PREACHER AMEN

When the men would jump up & shout

When they raised their Bibles in the air & shouted

When the women would raise theirs hankies in the air

When the men & the women & the children would run around the church pews Shouting & praising God While the Man of God preach “Thus saith the Lord thy God”

The days when the altars were full of sinners getting saved

Christians getting right with God

Folks were getting right with each other

The days when God would come down & meet with us like in the day of Moses When he was told to get all the people together & bring them to the edge of the mountain. He was going to talk with them and show himself to them all

Why?

So Israel would see that he is God Jehovah

We need that today our children & grandbabies deserve to see the Almighty God The God of the mountains

Psalms 71:18 Now also when I am old and grayheaded, O God, forsake me not; until I have shewed thy strength unto this generation, and thy power to every one that is to come. This is my prayer that God would allow me to this before He takes me Home to Heaven I desire for them to know the God I grew up with

This is not the case today!

Preachers falling into sin

Preachers quitting On God

Church members falling into sin

Members quitting on God

Church people on MY SPACE

Wicked & out of hell

50 percent on there is queer

50 percent Predators

100 percent liars

Preacher’s children living like the Devil in spite of daddy

Church members helping the preacher’s kids run away just because they are mad Him

Song leaders running off with women off the internet & church members wives

Youth Pastors having affairs with their young ladies

Then they get pregnant & then kill them because they don’t want nobody to know

OH My Oh My

What are we coming to today?

We are dead churches

No singing taking away the good songs for 7-11 songs The church following these new air singers (full of air) (perform it) (The God of the mountain) (Amazing Grace) Instead of good old fashion singers that praised God & sung from the heart

No amending, no raising the Bible (can’t get them to even read the Bible)

No shouting, no praising the Lord (the song service sounds like we are in funeral home)

No soul winning, Altars are empty (You have got to be running on empty yourself)

Pastors killing themselves preaching & no body listening

To get to El Bethel we need an old fashion Revival

4)El Bethel Is A Place Of Reverence

Vs 7a “And he built there an altar, and called the place El bethel: because there God appeared unto him…”

Let me tell you something backsliders will not worship the Lord

When we realize who God really is then we will show reverence

Isaiah 6:5 Then said I, Woe is me! for I am undone; because I am a man of unclean lips, and I dwell in the midst of a people of unclean lips: for mine eyes have seen the King, the LORD of hosts.

We will really see who we are when we really see the Lord in who is When Jacob met Jesus on the Ladder Jesus touched the hollow of his side Jacob change he walked with a limp.

May I say when the Lord touches you there is a change A big change Nothing Like it May I remind you that God is

He is a Holy God & we are to be the same

1 Peter 1:15-16 But as he which hath called you is holy, so be ye holy in all manner of conversation; Because it is written, Be ye holy; for I am holy.

Then we will Thank the Lord from our hearts

I remember great preachers Jack Hyles, Jack Wood, Lester Rollof, & John R Rice

They were holy men OF God

They were men that cried for the Lord to use them

John R Rice asked God to take away his tears all the time

Souls quit being saved John R Rice pleaded with God to give back the tears

Jack Hyles when told to choose between the Bus Kids or them

All night on his face crying lying prostrate on the ground

Next morning a crowd was all around him

He was on Public Street in Chicago

He jump up and said I’ll take the Bus kids

The Rest is History

What am I trying to say real men will cry & give reverence to the Lord

Bro. Woods had a preacher friend come to visit him

When he arrived the Sec. told him just go on in but be very quiet

This is weird, he went to the door wanted to knock but just walked in

Bro. Woods was just sitting there looking out the window

The Preacher just sat there after awhile he began to cry just watching Bro. Woods

Bro Woods looked over at him and said

“He’s been here all morning” “Don’t run Him off”

I’m reminded in the Old Testament of Moses when he asked God to show himself

Exodus 33:18-23 And he said, I beseech thee, shew me thy glory. And he said, I will make all my goodness pass before thee, and I will proclaim the name of the LORD before thee; and will be gracious to whom I will be gracious, and will shew mercy on whom I will shew mercy. And he said, Thou canst not see my face: for there shall no man see me, and live. And the LORD said, Behold, there is a place by me, and thou shalt stand upon a rock: And it shall come to pass, while my glory passeth by, that I will put thee in a clift of the rock, and will cover thee with my hand while I pass by: And I will take away mine hand, and thou shalt see my back parts: but my face shall not be seen.

Hey I want that

Many a time on my face crying and the spirit of God all over me

You can’t move, hardly breath, crying uncontrollably, snot running down

Your Lost in the Lord

Yes El Bethel is a Place of reverence

Do You want just Bethel? (The House of God)

Or do you want El Bethel? (The God of the House of God)

To get El Bethel we are going to have to change our ways Our thoughts Our life styles Our every being

To have El Bethel we need to come to a place of Remember

To have El Bethel we need to come to a Place of real repentance

To have El Bethel we got to come to a Place of real Reverence to the Lord

To have El Bethel we need the Lord