1 00:00:02,700 --> 00:00:07,400 Well, I have to tell you I'm thrilled on just many levels to 2 00:00:07,400 --> 00:00:10,700 be here tonight. I'm thrilled to be back with you 3 00:00:10,700 --> 00:00:13,600 here to worship, and I'm thrilled for the reason that 4 00:00:13,600 --> 00:00:15,200 we're back here with you to worship. 5 00:00:15,200 --> 00:00:18,600 I was asked when weight and Taylor were engaged, was I 6 00:00:18,600 --> 00:00:22,700 excited for the wedding and I said, well, I'm a little I don't 7 00:00:22,700 --> 00:00:24,900 know so much about the wedding but I am ecstatic for the 8 00:00:24,900 --> 00:00:28,700 marriage. So I am thrilled, I'm excited 9 00:00:28,700 --> 00:00:33,500 for the congregation here that Wade's here among you and that 10 00:00:33,500 --> 00:00:38,500 way we tailor plan to be here. So thank you for who you are and 11 00:00:38,500 --> 00:00:40,700 what you are now to him and to us. 12 00:00:41,500 --> 00:00:44,600 And it's amazing how much shorter the road between Oakdale 13 00:00:44,600 --> 00:00:47,600 and Bakersfield has gotten for the branch family. 14 00:00:49,200 --> 00:00:51,800 For a little while this evening, I'd like to draw your attention 15 00:00:51,800 --> 00:00:55,000 to the Book of Mark. I hope that you can see it well, 16 00:00:55,000 --> 00:00:57,800 and of what's going to be up here is primarily going to be 17 00:00:57,800 --> 00:01:01,300 the scriptures that we read and we consider in this subject. 18 00:01:01,700 --> 00:01:04,300 The question, am I fruitful know? 19 00:01:04,300 --> 00:01:06,600 This question comes up in my mind. 20 00:01:07,700 --> 00:01:10,600 For a lot of reasons but specifically you'll see after we 21 00:01:10,600 --> 00:01:13,200 finish our reading for Mark chapter 4, we're going to read 22 00:01:13,200 --> 00:01:16,800 verses 3 through 9 and then verses 13 through 20. 23 00:01:18,400 --> 00:01:22,900 In Mark 4 and 3, says listen. Behold A sower went out to sow 24 00:01:22,900 --> 00:01:25,200 and it happened. As he sowed that some seed fell 25 00:01:25,200 --> 00:01:28,200 by the wayside and the birds of the air came and devoured. 26 00:01:28,200 --> 00:01:32,200 It some fell on Stony ground where it did not have much Earth 27 00:01:32,200 --> 00:01:34,900 and immediately it sprang up because it had no depth of 28 00:01:34,900 --> 00:01:36,900 Earth. But when the sun was up, and 29 00:01:36,900 --> 00:01:41,800 it's was scorched and because it had no root it withered away and 30 00:01:41,800 --> 00:01:45,300 some seed fell among thorns and the Thorns grew up and choked it 31 00:01:45,600 --> 00:01:48,100 and it yielded no crop, but other seeds. 32 00:01:48,200 --> 00:01:50,000 It fell on good ground and yielded. 33 00:01:50,000 --> 00:01:54,000 A crop that spring up increased and produced some thirtyfold, 34 00:01:54,000 --> 00:01:58,000 some sixty, and some an hundred and he said to them, he who has 35 00:01:58,000 --> 00:02:00,700 ears to hear. Let Him hear. 36 00:02:01,400 --> 00:02:04,900 We go on down to verse 13 and he said to them as he tries to 37 00:02:04,908 --> 00:02:07,200 explain his, do you not understand this Parable? 38 00:02:08,199 --> 00:02:10,000 How then, will you understand all the Parables? 39 00:02:10,000 --> 00:02:13,000 How are you going to stand anything the sower? 40 00:02:13,000 --> 00:02:17,500 He said the sower sows. The word And these are the ones 41 00:02:17,500 --> 00:02:19,600 by the wayside where the word is sown. 42 00:02:20,000 --> 00:02:23,600 When they hear Satan, comes immediately and takes away. 43 00:02:23,600 --> 00:02:25,500 The word that was sown in their hearts. 44 00:02:26,300 --> 00:02:29,400 These likewise are the ones on Stony ground who when they hear 45 00:02:29,400 --> 00:02:32,000 the word, immediately receive it with gladness. 46 00:02:32,200 --> 00:02:33,700 And they have no root in himself. 47 00:02:33,700 --> 00:02:36,600 And so indoor only for a time and afterward when tribulation 48 00:02:36,600 --> 00:02:39,000 or persecution arises for the words sake. 49 00:02:39,800 --> 00:02:44,200 Immediately, they stumble for, I leave this slide in because 50 00:02:44,200 --> 00:02:46,100 we're not going to spend a ton of time on this. 51 00:02:46,200 --> 00:02:49,100 Terrible, i-i'm trust, and I'm talking to a Wednesday night 52 00:02:49,100 --> 00:02:51,900 crowd. This is not new for you, you've 53 00:02:51,900 --> 00:02:55,100 heard this if you haven't, then we can talk about this. 54 00:02:55,100 --> 00:02:58,000 Maybe more later, you can study in depth, but most of you, I 55 00:02:58,000 --> 00:03:02,500 believe have read this. We recognize when he talks about 56 00:03:02,500 --> 00:03:06,200 this, the seed that's been sown in the Wayside that Satan 57 00:03:06,200 --> 00:03:08,700 immediately and you've done it, you've talked to people when the 58 00:03:08,700 --> 00:03:11,100 minute you talk to him, you think it's getting through but 59 00:03:11,400 --> 00:03:13,800 it's like immediately it's it's gone. 60 00:03:14,800 --> 00:03:18,700 He said Satan takes that away. He says, there are ones in Stony 61 00:03:18,700 --> 00:03:20,900 ground, they hear it. They say, they're happy to hear 62 00:03:20,900 --> 00:03:23,000 it. They seem glad about it, but 63 00:03:23,000 --> 00:03:25,800 they have no root and so they don't stay for very long. 64 00:03:25,800 --> 00:03:29,100 And they're gone. They, we've hardly gotten to 65 00:03:29,100 --> 00:03:31,400 know them and they're not here anymore. 66 00:03:31,900 --> 00:03:34,600 He says, now, these are the ones sown among Thorns. 67 00:03:34,600 --> 00:03:37,700 They're the ones who hear the word and the cares of this world 68 00:03:37,700 --> 00:03:41,000 that a seat fulness of riches, the desires for other things. 69 00:03:41,000 --> 00:03:45,600 Enter, again choke the word and it becomes unfruitful These 70 00:03:45,600 --> 00:03:50,200 people take it further. But life gets in the way. 71 00:03:51,900 --> 00:03:54,800 There's a tendency we can have, I might say a little time out on 72 00:03:54,800 --> 00:03:59,000 myself already to blame our self when other people get caught up 73 00:03:59,000 --> 00:04:01,000 in life, and they don't hang onto it. 74 00:04:01,000 --> 00:04:03,900 Like they did it first and we say, what do we do wrong. 75 00:04:05,700 --> 00:04:07,600 Jesus, is he talks to his disciple? 76 00:04:07,600 --> 00:04:10,000 Says it could be the soil. That was planted. 77 00:04:10,100 --> 00:04:11,200 We plant. We water. 78 00:04:11,200 --> 00:04:17,500 God gives the increase. He said sometimes it's it's 79 00:04:17,500 --> 00:04:21,000 everything else. It's the noise around that take 80 00:04:21,000 --> 00:04:25,000 people away, note to self to the Wednesday night crowd. 81 00:04:25,900 --> 00:04:27,300 We're not immune from this either. 82 00:04:27,300 --> 00:04:32,000 Are we? The noise around us, can begin 83 00:04:32,000 --> 00:04:36,100 to take away the joy we have, but these are the ones on good 84 00:04:36,100 --> 00:04:39,700 ground, those who hear the word accept it, and bear fruit. 85 00:04:39,700 --> 00:04:43,800 Some thirtyfold, some sixty and some 100 in Luke's account. 86 00:04:43,808 --> 00:04:46,500 He says, now the ones that fell among Thorns of those who, when 87 00:04:46,500 --> 00:04:49,400 they heard and go out and are choked with cares, riches, and 88 00:04:49,400 --> 00:04:52,400 pleasures of life and bring no fruit to maturity, but the ones 89 00:04:52,400 --> 00:04:54,200 that fell on good. Ground are those who having 90 00:04:54,200 --> 00:04:56,500 heard the word with a noble and good heart? 91 00:04:56,500 --> 00:05:00,500 Keep it and bear fruit with Shoots. 92 00:05:01,200 --> 00:05:03,600 Now, I threw this one in here because it's such a parallel 93 00:05:03,600 --> 00:05:07,400 teaching, but I really liked what he talks about the fruit. 94 00:05:07,700 --> 00:05:09,300 We're going to have to be patient. 95 00:05:09,800 --> 00:05:12,200 I'm not very patient. That's why I like to have some 96 00:05:12,200 --> 00:05:14,800 radishes in my garden. They don't take long. 97 00:05:15,900 --> 00:05:17,700 They remind me that it's going to be worth it. 98 00:05:17,700 --> 00:05:21,400 Everything else we're doing for the beets and for the turnips 99 00:05:21,500 --> 00:05:26,900 for the tomatoes. he says we have to understand that even 100 00:05:26,900 --> 00:05:30,300 when it's in good ground, You hear the word with a noble 101 00:05:30,300 --> 00:05:33,000 heart, you know, they're going to bear fruit to, but we're 102 00:05:33,000 --> 00:05:35,600 going to have to be patient to see that happen now, why did we 103 00:05:35,600 --> 00:05:39,600 even read through this? Because the question is, am I 104 00:05:39,600 --> 00:05:41,800 fruitful? And I read through this parable 105 00:05:43,400 --> 00:05:46,500 and I'm not so much interested this evening and US breaking 106 00:05:46,500 --> 00:05:49,000 down this Parable. Is I imagine Torsten Askin. 107 00:05:49,000 --> 00:05:52,000 Okay, now having heard this Parable, am I the one that's 108 00:05:52,000 --> 00:05:56,000 fruitful. And I want you to ask yourself. 109 00:05:56,300 --> 00:05:59,800 Am I fruitful based on what we've just read? 110 00:06:00,100 --> 00:06:03,200 I want us as we come out here to see the urgency that's 111 00:06:03,200 --> 00:06:06,600 associated with. Being fruitful, it's not just 112 00:06:06,600 --> 00:06:08,900 kind of a question. We ask ourself and then we just 113 00:06:08,900 --> 00:06:12,000 say, well yeah, I'll think about it more Sunday, I got things to 114 00:06:12,000 --> 00:06:16,800 do Thursday for. We have a wedding I need to 115 00:06:16,808 --> 00:06:19,200 understand this is an urgent question, even amongst the 116 00:06:19,300 --> 00:06:23,500 amidst the wedding. John chapter 15 and verse 5. 117 00:06:23,500 --> 00:06:26,200 Jesus said, I am the vine. You are the branches, he who 118 00:06:26,200 --> 00:06:30,300 abides in me and I in him Bears, much fruit for without me you 119 00:06:30,300 --> 00:06:33,900 can do nothing. If anyone does not abide in me, 120 00:06:33,900 --> 00:06:37,500 he is cast out as a branch and is withered and they gather them 121 00:06:37,500 --> 00:06:40,000 and throw them into the fire and they are burned. 122 00:06:40,700 --> 00:06:44,800 If you abide in me my words abide in you, you will ask what 123 00:06:44,800 --> 00:06:48,000 you desire and it should be done for you by this, my father is 124 00:06:48,000 --> 00:06:50,700 glorified that you bear much fruit. 125 00:06:51,400 --> 00:06:55,800 So you will be my disciples if I understand what Jesus saying, if 126 00:06:55,800 --> 00:06:57,500 you're my disciple, you're going to bear fruit. 127 00:06:59,200 --> 00:07:01,200 And if you don't you're gonna be like a branch. 128 00:07:01,200 --> 00:07:03,900 That's no good and they just they trim them they wither and 129 00:07:03,900 --> 00:07:07,600 then they just burn them if that's not enough to give us it. 130 00:07:07,700 --> 00:07:11,200 Romans chapter 6 verse 20 says, for when you were slaves of sin, 131 00:07:11,400 --> 00:07:15,200 you were free in regard to righteousness in Singing in 132 00:07:15,200 --> 00:07:16,400 anything to do with righteousness. 133 00:07:16,600 --> 00:07:19,200 What fruit did you have? Then in the things, which you 134 00:07:19,200 --> 00:07:24,200 are now ashamed? For the end of those things, is 135 00:07:24,200 --> 00:07:31,100 death. I don't know, everybody story 136 00:07:31,100 --> 00:07:34,400 here. I know a lot of you were raised 137 00:07:34,400 --> 00:07:37,700 in a home brought to this building and your whole life. 138 00:07:37,900 --> 00:07:42,200 Essentially you've been brought up in the Lord's church and you 139 00:07:42,200 --> 00:07:46,100 obeyed the gospel. Some in this audience. 140 00:07:46,100 --> 00:07:49,100 So I'm gather I would gather that's not your story. 141 00:07:50,700 --> 00:07:53,100 But you know, one thing everyone of us have in common in our 142 00:07:53,100 --> 00:07:56,700 story, no matter what our raisin was like and whether or not we 143 00:07:56,700 --> 00:08:00,500 grew up listening to sermons like this or not is we've got a 144 00:08:00,508 --> 00:08:02,100 dark place that there are things. 145 00:08:02,100 --> 00:08:06,100 We hope nobody else finds out and we hope that the people who 146 00:08:06,100 --> 00:08:11,800 do know or willing to forgive us. and we are so grateful, that 147 00:08:11,800 --> 00:08:16,100 God is Because we're ashamed of those things. 148 00:08:16,100 --> 00:08:19,000 There's no good fruit. There's no fruit in that, not 149 00:08:19,000 --> 00:08:22,900 good fruit. The hang of those things is 150 00:08:22,900 --> 00:08:27,400 death, that's why we're here. But now having been set, free 151 00:08:27,400 --> 00:08:31,300 from sin and having become slaves of God, you have your 152 00:08:31,300 --> 00:08:34,700 fruit to Holiness and the end everlasting life. 153 00:08:34,799 --> 00:08:36,900 We don't have to look down that dark path. 154 00:08:36,900 --> 00:08:39,600 We can look to something. That's wonderful for the wages 155 00:08:39,600 --> 00:08:42,600 of sin is death. But the gift of God is eternal 156 00:08:42,600 --> 00:08:45,200 life in Christ. Jesus, our lord, that's a gift. 157 00:08:45,200 --> 00:08:46,500 We're here. That's why we're on them was 158 00:08:46,500 --> 00:08:49,000 denied. That's why you do what you do. 159 00:08:49,000 --> 00:08:50,700 That's why you live the way you live. 160 00:08:50,700 --> 00:08:55,300 But what about Disfrute. Matthew chapter 7 and verse 19 161 00:08:55,300 --> 00:08:57,100 says every tree that does not bear. 162 00:08:57,100 --> 00:09:00,800 Good, fruit is cut down and thrown into the fire therefore 163 00:09:00,800 --> 00:09:03,400 by their fruits, you will know them. 164 00:09:04,300 --> 00:09:05,700 So here's the answer to the question. 165 00:09:05,700 --> 00:09:08,300 Am I fruitful? Yes, I am. 166 00:09:08,300 --> 00:09:12,200 Fruitful But now I got another question. 167 00:09:12,200 --> 00:09:13,700 Is it good? Or is it bad? 168 00:09:15,200 --> 00:09:18,100 Because what I learned from the passages, we just studied is 169 00:09:18,100 --> 00:09:22,300 everybody is fruitful everybody bears fruit? 170 00:09:23,400 --> 00:09:25,800 But some fruit it in fit for eating. 171 00:09:27,100 --> 00:09:31,900 Some fruit is not fit for God. So my question becomes. 172 00:09:31,900 --> 00:09:34,800 What does it mean to Bear? Good fruit. 173 00:09:36,100 --> 00:09:39,500 That's really the answer that I need tonight is that mean I have 174 00:09:39,500 --> 00:09:41,400 to convert somebody? That's lost. 175 00:09:42,200 --> 00:09:46,800 Does it mean that it's how many people I baptized or LED to to 176 00:09:46,800 --> 00:09:49,900 have the preacher baptized or how many people that I helped 177 00:09:49,900 --> 00:09:53,800 restore or maybe its children? Because we know Proverbs 1 27 178 00:09:53,800 --> 00:09:59,900 and verse 3 refers to children as the fruit of the womb, What 179 00:09:59,900 --> 00:10:03,000 is it mean to Bear? Good fruit. 180 00:10:03,900 --> 00:10:06,700 I want to spend the rest of the time we have tonight to see what 181 00:10:06,700 --> 00:10:08,600 the Bible says, because I got to admit. 182 00:10:08,600 --> 00:10:12,800 When I started this sermon, it's I didn't reach the conclusion 183 00:10:12,800 --> 00:10:15,800 that I thought I was going to. And you know what? 184 00:10:15,800 --> 00:10:18,100 I don't know about you when you study things in the Bible, when 185 00:10:18,100 --> 00:10:21,000 you sit down and people say, how do you come up with service? 186 00:10:21,000 --> 00:10:24,200 Generally, sermons to come up for me, just reading but 187 00:10:24,200 --> 00:10:26,900 occasionally, it will be a question that I want to find out 188 00:10:26,900 --> 00:10:30,600 what the Bible says. And I I usually go in with a 189 00:10:30,608 --> 00:10:34,100 preconceived idea, kind of think, I know what I'm for, I'm 190 00:10:34,100 --> 00:10:37,200 coming but I'm going to I hope I'll let the word ring it out 191 00:10:37,200 --> 00:10:39,200 with a word. Let it in places that I didn't 192 00:10:39,200 --> 00:10:42,900 expect it to tonight because I want to know what else the Bible 193 00:10:42,900 --> 00:10:45,200 says about being fruitful first of all, we're going to go to 194 00:10:45,200 --> 00:10:49,100 Romans chapter 15 for her. Please knows from Macedonia. 195 00:10:49,300 --> 00:10:51,300 Macedonia. And a Ki to make a certain 196 00:10:51,300 --> 00:10:54,800 contribution for the poor among the saints who are in Jerusalem, 197 00:10:55,000 --> 00:10:57,400 it please them indeed. And they are their debtors for 198 00:10:57,400 --> 00:10:59,900 at the Gentiles, have been partakers of the Our spiritual 199 00:10:59,900 --> 00:11:03,600 things, their duty is also a minister to them and material 200 00:11:03,600 --> 00:11:06,500 things. Therefore, when I have performed 201 00:11:06,500 --> 00:11:11,100 this and have sealed to them this fruit, I shall go by way of 202 00:11:11,100 --> 00:11:14,200 you to Spain, but I know that when I come to you, I shall come 203 00:11:14,200 --> 00:11:17,000 in the fullness of the blessing of the gospel of Christ. 204 00:11:18,300 --> 00:11:20,900 Did you realize that your contribution is a fruit? 205 00:11:23,200 --> 00:11:25,800 You know, we don't talk a lot about contribution and if you're 206 00:11:25,800 --> 00:11:30,100 a visitor here tonight or maybe you're new to the church here 207 00:11:30,100 --> 00:11:31,500 since I don't know everybody's face. 208 00:11:31,500 --> 00:11:33,600 Don't remember exactly. Maybe somebody's here. 209 00:11:34,400 --> 00:11:35,800 There's not going to be a contribution. 210 00:11:35,800 --> 00:11:37,300 That's not why I'm about to say this. 211 00:11:37,900 --> 00:11:40,400 There's no love offering that's going to happen tonight. 212 00:11:40,400 --> 00:11:43,800 In fact I am confident that at this congregation. 213 00:11:43,800 --> 00:11:47,100 It's done one time and is most likely done with the morning 214 00:11:47,100 --> 00:11:49,600 service on Sundays, first day of the week. 215 00:11:51,100 --> 00:11:53,200 Because that's the New Testament pattern for it. 216 00:11:53,900 --> 00:11:56,600 But as you prepare your heart and purpose and in your heart, 217 00:11:56,600 --> 00:11:59,700 what you're going to do this next Lord's day, I want you to 218 00:11:59,700 --> 00:12:02,900 consider the fact that your contribution is referred to in 219 00:12:02,900 --> 00:12:08,700 the scriptures as a fruit. Are you proud of your fruit? 220 00:12:09,000 --> 00:12:11,500 Do you consider yourself fruitful in that light? 221 00:12:12,500 --> 00:12:15,200 Now I want us to understand for this fruit to be good. 222 00:12:15,300 --> 00:12:19,700 It has to be from cheerfulness in 2nd Corinthians chapter 9 and 223 00:12:19,700 --> 00:12:21,500 verse 7. God loves a cheerful Giver. 224 00:12:21,500 --> 00:12:23,600 He doesn't want you. Do it grudgingly or out of 225 00:12:23,608 --> 00:12:26,500 necessity. He loves a cheerful Giver. 226 00:12:27,500 --> 00:12:34,200 We also understand from that, What Paul told the Corinthians 227 00:12:34,200 --> 00:12:38,000 in First Corinthians 13 and 3, he says, you could give all your 228 00:12:38,000 --> 00:12:42,700 goods to be everything you have to the poor, but it's with it. 229 00:12:42,700 --> 00:12:48,200 If it's without love, it's worthless, you've become like a 230 00:12:48,200 --> 00:12:52,500 sounding brass or a tinkling cymbal, just a noise spiritually 231 00:12:52,500 --> 00:12:54,900 speaking. You know what, we also 232 00:12:54,900 --> 00:12:58,200 understand from what Paul told the Corinthians and the Second 233 00:12:58,200 --> 00:13:03,900 Corinthian letter. He says, I want you to consider 234 00:13:04,100 --> 00:13:08,800 what you give. What'd you get? 235 00:13:10,600 --> 00:13:13,100 I want you to consider this in light of God, I want you to be a 236 00:13:13,100 --> 00:13:14,100 cheerful. Great Giver. 237 00:13:14,100 --> 00:13:16,100 I don't want you to grudgingly or of necessity. 238 00:13:17,200 --> 00:13:20,300 I don't want you to trust me in this that if you don't see if 239 00:13:20,300 --> 00:13:22,500 you don't, so what's right? That? 240 00:13:22,500 --> 00:13:25,300 God cannot bound to you. Now, I'm not going to preach a 241 00:13:25,300 --> 00:13:27,900 Prosperity Doctrine. That's not my point, but here's 242 00:13:27,900 --> 00:13:32,500 my point, our contribution, what we give, and I'm guessing here. 243 00:13:32,500 --> 00:13:34,600 If you're a Wednesday night crowd your, some of the main 244 00:13:34,600 --> 00:13:41,800 givers First of all, I want you to know that's fruit because we 245 00:13:41,800 --> 00:13:45,300 can get really depressed about how many people, we've converted 246 00:13:45,300 --> 00:13:47,100 about somebody. We're trying to get back to the 247 00:13:47,100 --> 00:13:48,500 church. That's just not answering our 248 00:13:48,500 --> 00:13:51,200 calls anymore. That's even maybe asked us to 249 00:13:51,200 --> 00:13:53,600 stop reaching out. They just want to be left alone 250 00:13:53,700 --> 00:13:56,600 and we can beat ourselves up over to that and think I'm not 251 00:13:56,600 --> 00:14:03,600 fruitful I want you to know is if you give to the Lord, The 252 00:14:03,608 --> 00:14:07,600 Lord says that's fruit as long as it's cheerful and it's with 253 00:14:07,600 --> 00:14:09,400 love. What else does the word say 254 00:14:09,400 --> 00:14:12,000 about fruit? We have an altar, Hebrews 255 00:14:12,000 --> 00:14:15,700 chapter 13 and verse 10 says, we have an altar, from which those 256 00:14:15,700 --> 00:14:19,800 who serve the Tabernacle have, no right to eat for the bodies 257 00:14:19,800 --> 00:14:22,300 of those animals. Whose blood is brought into the 258 00:14:22,300 --> 00:14:26,200 sanctuary by the high priest for sin are burned outside the camp. 259 00:14:26,700 --> 00:14:29,500 Therefore, Jesus also that he might sanctify the people with 260 00:14:29,500 --> 00:14:33,200 his own blood suffered outside the gate, do you think? 261 00:14:33,300 --> 00:14:36,200 It was an accident that Jesus was crucified outside the city. 262 00:14:38,600 --> 00:14:42,300 He had to fulfill the shadow of things from the Old Law, all 263 00:14:42,300 --> 00:14:46,100 those carcasses, everything they got carried out because it was 264 00:14:46,100 --> 00:14:50,000 to be outside the camp Jesus, took that upon himself that 265 00:14:50,000 --> 00:14:53,800 shame, that's why he was outside the gate that Hebrew writer 266 00:14:53,800 --> 00:14:58,300 says, therefore let us go forth to him outside the camp bearing, 267 00:14:58,300 --> 00:14:59,900 his reproach, we're going everywhere. 268 00:14:59,900 --> 00:15:03,100 We're not in this sterile environment, with what we have. 269 00:15:03,800 --> 00:15:05,800 We're willing to follow him out there for here. 270 00:15:05,800 --> 00:15:09,600 We have no continuing City but we seek The one that come we 271 00:15:09,600 --> 00:15:13,100 don't Center our religion in Jerusalem or any other place 272 00:15:13,100 --> 00:15:16,200 anymore. It's not geographically Bound. 273 00:15:17,200 --> 00:15:20,000 In fact, it is bound to Jesus Christ. 274 00:15:21,400 --> 00:15:24,900 We're seeking City that had come yet therefore by him. 275 00:15:24,900 --> 00:15:28,900 Let us continually offer the sacrifice of praise to God. 276 00:15:29,000 --> 00:15:35,000 That is the fruit of our lips giving, thanks to his name, but 277 00:15:35,000 --> 00:15:38,500 do not forget to do good and to share for, with such sacrifices. 278 00:15:38,500 --> 00:15:43,200 God is well, pleased, when you sing praises tonight, According 279 00:15:43,200 --> 00:15:48,100 to Ephesians 5:19. I hope you presented to God a 280 00:15:48,100 --> 00:15:55,400 heart Melody. I love sitting around Rochelle 281 00:15:55,400 --> 00:15:57,400 when she sings. She's sick right now and she 282 00:15:57,400 --> 00:16:02,000 couldn't sing tonight. That's the exception. 283 00:16:02,000 --> 00:16:07,400 Not the rule. I know Christians who the rule 284 00:16:07,400 --> 00:16:12,500 is, they don't sing. God wants the fruit of your 285 00:16:12,500 --> 00:16:13,800 lips. You're like, oh, but I can't 286 00:16:13,800 --> 00:16:15,700 seem like this person or that person. 287 00:16:16,100 --> 00:16:19,000 That's the beauty of Ephesians chapter 5, not 19. 288 00:16:21,300 --> 00:16:23,800 The melody is made in the heart to the Lord. 289 00:16:26,600 --> 00:16:28,700 You know, people that use this verse and they'll go to it. 290 00:16:28,708 --> 00:16:31,300 And so, you know, that's the Greek word there solow. 291 00:16:31,300 --> 00:16:34,700 And that's just to pluck as a stringed instrument, and that's 292 00:16:34,700 --> 00:16:38,000 their justification for for using instrumental worship. 293 00:16:38,000 --> 00:16:41,100 If you go into that, what's plucked there, it's the heart, 294 00:16:41,100 --> 00:16:43,800 it's not the strings of an instrument, it's the strings of 295 00:16:43,800 --> 00:16:48,300 your heart and praise God tonight that he didn't say, we 296 00:16:48,300 --> 00:16:52,500 had to sing a Melody out of our vocal cords because some of some 297 00:16:52,500 --> 00:16:55,400 people just can't do it. And all of us at one point or 298 00:16:55,408 --> 00:16:58,200 another because of some problem whether it's laryngitis or 299 00:16:58,200 --> 00:17:04,000 sickness couldn't do it. Thank God. 300 00:17:04,000 --> 00:17:06,000 He doesn't say we have to be able to play a melody on a 301 00:17:06,008 --> 00:17:09,000 stringed instrument. There's a few in this audience 302 00:17:09,000 --> 00:17:11,400 that maybe can do that, but I can't. 303 00:17:14,300 --> 00:17:17,400 In fact, even if I thought I wanted and God said, that's what 304 00:17:17,400 --> 00:17:19,300 you have to do. How long would it take me to get 305 00:17:19,300 --> 00:17:22,500 to the point that I could play an instrument to make a Melody 306 00:17:23,700 --> 00:17:25,900 if I couldn't sing? But it was possible to somehow 307 00:17:25,900 --> 00:17:27,700 learn. How long would it take to learn 308 00:17:27,700 --> 00:17:32,700 to sing? How long does it take for you to 309 00:17:32,700 --> 00:17:34,800 learn to put your heart into something? 310 00:17:38,800 --> 00:17:43,400 Miniature committed your hearts. In its engaged, God has asked us 311 00:17:43,400 --> 00:17:46,400 to present something, the fruit of our lips from a pure and 312 00:17:46,400 --> 00:17:50,300 sincere heart that the minute a person believes, they're able to 313 00:17:50,300 --> 00:17:54,300 accomplished any other interpretation on that that 314 00:17:54,300 --> 00:17:57,300 somebody wants to put on the theological world, makes it 315 00:17:57,300 --> 00:17:59,600 impossible for somebody to immediately upon their 316 00:17:59,600 --> 00:18:05,400 conversion. Be able to fulfill It's a 317 00:18:05,400 --> 00:18:07,400 wonderful thing. I don't have to be able to carry 318 00:18:07,400 --> 00:18:09,800 a tone, I don't have to be able to read music. 319 00:18:10,800 --> 00:18:15,100 I can immediately began to sing or give praises to God, and he 320 00:18:15,100 --> 00:18:18,400 can accept it. The fruit of your lips, your 321 00:18:18,400 --> 00:18:21,200 praise to God, is fruit or you fruitful. 322 00:18:22,900 --> 00:18:27,200 If it's your habit that you don't sing that, you don't speak 323 00:18:27,200 --> 00:18:30,400 up. With your voice to God. 324 00:18:30,400 --> 00:18:34,800 I hope it'll become that habit, that's fruit that God wants 325 00:18:34,800 --> 00:18:37,000 from. You Galatians chapter 5 22. 326 00:18:37,000 --> 00:18:39,200 You had to know we were going to get here eventually, but the 327 00:18:39,200 --> 00:18:44,700 fruit of the spirit is love. Joy. 328 00:18:45,900 --> 00:18:49,600 Peace, we like those first three at least. 329 00:18:49,600 --> 00:18:52,900 I do. Even if Joy, you know, I don't 330 00:18:52,900 --> 00:18:55,900 know if it's that giddy thing. It's really a calm Assurance. 331 00:18:55,900 --> 00:18:58,300 Peace, it seems when you really look through it. 332 00:18:59,600 --> 00:19:04,800 But when we get to long-suffering Do you realize if 333 00:19:04,800 --> 00:19:06,800 you're going through something and you're wondering if it's 334 00:19:06,800 --> 00:19:12,500 really worth it, you hanging on when it your suffering is fruit. 335 00:19:14,900 --> 00:19:17,900 Are you fruitful? We've all gone through times. 336 00:19:17,900 --> 00:19:19,700 We suffered. We've all gone through times. 337 00:19:19,700 --> 00:19:26,000 We wondered if what's worth it. When we hang on and we suffer 338 00:19:26,000 --> 00:19:29,100 long, that's fruit of the spirit. 339 00:19:29,200 --> 00:19:36,800 Kindness, Being kind to people goodness faithfulness gentleness 340 00:19:37,200 --> 00:19:41,100 self-control. I mean we could spend just a 341 00:19:41,108 --> 00:19:43,700 week talking about all those if we want to break them down and 342 00:19:43,700 --> 00:19:46,400 yet you can sit there and read them and it's just as plain as 343 00:19:46,400 --> 00:19:54,600 the Hannaford your face. This is fruit when we have love 344 00:19:54,600 --> 00:19:56,900 joy, peace. We're willing to suffer. 345 00:19:56,900 --> 00:19:59,100 Long will be kind of people. We want to be good. 346 00:19:59,100 --> 00:20:03,300 Will be faithful faithful from God's perspective, not just that 347 00:20:03,300 --> 00:20:05,500 we're doing things. We think are good, but that 348 00:20:05,500 --> 00:20:08,300 we're looking to the word of God, and we're faithful to it. 349 00:20:08,300 --> 00:20:11,300 And we're gentle and we'll have self-control against such. 350 00:20:11,300 --> 00:20:15,100 There is no law. Nothing is against this and 351 00:20:15,100 --> 00:20:17,800 those who are Christ's have crucified, the flesh with its 352 00:20:17,800 --> 00:20:21,400 passions and desires. We're going to turn away from 353 00:20:21,400 --> 00:20:23,100 sin and turn to the fruit of the spirit. 354 00:20:23,200 --> 00:20:26,000 If we live in the spirit, let us walk in the spirit. 355 00:20:26,000 --> 00:20:28,600 Let us not become conceited. Provoking one. 356 00:20:28,600 --> 00:20:32,100 Another envying, one another, and then he continues in chapter 357 00:20:32,100 --> 00:20:33,800 six. Remember, this is just the 358 00:20:33,800 --> 00:20:36,400 letter chapters and verses. And I want to keep going to see 359 00:20:36,400 --> 00:20:39,400 where this leaves Brethren. If a man is overtaking and any 360 00:20:39,400 --> 00:20:42,800 trespass, you who are spiritual restore, such an one in the 361 00:20:42,800 --> 00:20:45,600 spirit of gentleness, this gentleness, he's talking about 362 00:20:45,600 --> 00:20:50,300 here. He says that applies to how we 363 00:20:50,300 --> 00:20:55,800 restore people, who have sinned. Be careful of with the way we 364 00:20:55,800 --> 00:20:57,800 truth. Considering yourself lest your 365 00:20:57,800 --> 00:21:03,600 also tempted for some of us, maybe it'd be better if we said 366 00:21:03,600 --> 00:21:05,800 consider and how we want our kids treated. 367 00:21:08,500 --> 00:21:13,100 He says think about you bear one another's burdens and so fulfill 368 00:21:13,100 --> 00:21:15,600 the law of Christ. If anyone thinks himself to be 369 00:21:15,600 --> 00:21:18,000 something when he is nothing, he deceives himself. 370 00:21:18,200 --> 00:21:22,300 What is it that causes people to not treat people with this kind 371 00:21:22,300 --> 00:21:27,100 of love and gentleness? I infer from the reading it's 372 00:21:27,100 --> 00:21:29,200 because he thinks a lot of himself anything I never would 373 00:21:29,200 --> 00:21:30,700 have done that. How could you do that? 374 00:21:32,600 --> 00:21:35,200 If we consider ourselves and we think you know what, maybe I 375 00:21:35,200 --> 00:21:37,500 wouldn't have done that but I've done something just as bad. 376 00:21:38,900 --> 00:21:42,400 I've done things like it, does that change the way that I want 377 00:21:42,400 --> 00:21:46,400 to re ache, he seems to have that tied together, that when we 378 00:21:46,400 --> 00:21:48,700 get to where we have, no patience with other people. 379 00:21:48,700 --> 00:21:51,700 It's because we think so much of our self and he says, that's not 380 00:21:51,700 --> 00:21:52,900 a good point, what is he going to say? 381 00:21:52,900 --> 00:21:56,600 But let each one examine his own work and then he will have 382 00:21:56,600 --> 00:21:59,200 rejoicing himself alone and not in another for each one. 383 00:21:59,200 --> 00:22:02,300 Shall bear his own load. Let him who is taught in the 384 00:22:02,300 --> 00:22:04,000 word share and all good things with him. 385 00:22:04,000 --> 00:22:10,600 Who teaches do not be deceived. God is Not mocked for whatever a 386 00:22:10,600 --> 00:22:14,400 manso's that will he will also reap. 387 00:22:15,400 --> 00:22:18,700 Are you fruitful? Yes, is it good or bad? 388 00:22:18,700 --> 00:22:23,400 He says it's depends on what you so for he sews to his flesh, 389 00:22:23,500 --> 00:22:25,100 will of the flesh. Reap corruption. 390 00:22:25,100 --> 00:22:29,200 He supposed to The Spirit, Well of the spirit reap everlasting 391 00:22:29,200 --> 00:22:31,800 life. I want you to know it's never a 392 00:22:31,800 --> 00:22:36,300 mistake to put the church and spiritual things as a priority. 393 00:22:38,000 --> 00:22:40,400 As parents, you go through all those decisions with your kids. 394 00:22:40,400 --> 00:22:42,500 While I know should we do this? Should we do that? 395 00:22:42,500 --> 00:22:44,900 We'll never make a mistake when we put spiritual things as a 396 00:22:44,908 --> 00:22:47,300 priority when we're in our work, we think live. 397 00:22:47,300 --> 00:22:49,400 I know I'm committed to the church but you know with my 398 00:22:49,400 --> 00:22:53,400 worker with my job or with this client never made a mistake when 399 00:22:53,400 --> 00:22:58,000 you put spiritual things your priority We sow to the flesh 400 00:22:58,000 --> 00:22:59,100 will of the flesh. Reap corruption. 401 00:22:59,100 --> 00:23:02,600 We sow to the spirit, we will have the spirit reap everlasting 402 00:23:02,600 --> 00:23:05,600 life and let us not. Grow weary while doing good, 403 00:23:05,800 --> 00:23:11,300 don't get tired of showing up on Wednesday night, don't get tired 404 00:23:11,300 --> 00:23:14,100 of being the one that answers, the call for brother so-and-so 405 00:23:14,100 --> 00:23:18,700 her sister. So and so You keep doing it. 406 00:23:19,700 --> 00:23:23,000 As long as you can do it until you're that brother so-and-so 407 00:23:23,000 --> 00:23:25,900 her sister so and so that somebody's need to call for help 408 00:23:26,500 --> 00:23:29,800 or get help to, he says, for in due season, we shall reap. 409 00:23:29,800 --> 00:23:33,000 If we do not lose heart, My fruitful. 410 00:23:34,200 --> 00:23:36,600 What am I willing to do? Therefore, as we have 411 00:23:36,600 --> 00:23:40,400 opportunity, let us do good to all especially those who are of 412 00:23:40,400 --> 00:23:42,600 the household of faith, keep doing as good. 413 00:23:42,900 --> 00:23:45,000 That's talking fruit. What else does he say? 414 00:23:46,500 --> 00:23:49,400 In Ephesians chapter 5, beginning in verse 8, he says 415 00:23:49,500 --> 00:23:53,500 for you were once Darkness but now you are light in the Lord. 416 00:23:53,800 --> 00:23:57,900 Walk as children of light for the fruit of the spirit is in 417 00:23:57,900 --> 00:24:03,100 all goodness righteousness and Truth finding out what is 418 00:24:03,100 --> 00:24:09,700 acceptable to the Lord. My fruitful, do I care? 419 00:24:10,400 --> 00:24:14,300 What is good right and truthful according except what's 420 00:24:14,300 --> 00:24:21,700 acceptable to the Lord? That's fruit. 421 00:24:22,400 --> 00:24:27,200 Fruit of the spirit. Sometimes we wonder if it's 422 00:24:27,200 --> 00:24:30,800 worth it to keep trying to strive to know what truth is and 423 00:24:30,800 --> 00:24:32,800 to hold the doctrine in its Purity. 424 00:24:32,900 --> 00:24:35,000 And I want to tell you it is as important. 425 00:24:35,000 --> 00:24:38,600 Now as it has ever been as it was the day it was pinned, it's 426 00:24:38,600 --> 00:24:41,400 just as relevant today. As the day that this was written 427 00:24:41,400 --> 00:24:43,500 by the Apostle Paul to the church in Ephesus. 428 00:24:45,000 --> 00:24:47,900 And may we never ever doubt that. 429 00:24:50,600 --> 00:24:55,200 What acceptable to the Lord is fruit of the spirit and have no 430 00:24:55,200 --> 00:24:58,100 fellowship with the unfruitful works of darkness, but rather 431 00:24:58,100 --> 00:25:01,000 expose them for. It is shameful to even speak of 432 00:25:01,008 --> 00:25:03,500 those things which are done by them and secret, some things you 433 00:25:03,508 --> 00:25:07,200 can talk about. Said, stay away from that. 434 00:25:07,300 --> 00:25:10,100 Don't have any fellowship with that, but all things that are 435 00:25:10,100 --> 00:25:12,200 exposed are made manifest by the light. 436 00:25:12,200 --> 00:25:14,800 For whatever makes manifest is light. 437 00:25:14,800 --> 00:25:19,200 Therefore he says awake, you who sleep arise from the dead and 438 00:25:19,200 --> 00:25:23,600 Christ will give you light. Why do we have to stay and worry 439 00:25:23,600 --> 00:25:27,500 about what's acceptable to God? Because that's where the light 440 00:25:27,500 --> 00:25:31,800 is. That's where hope is. 441 00:25:34,100 --> 00:25:39,300 That's where everything is. Nobody desires. 442 00:25:41,000 --> 00:25:46,000 To stay in darkness. See, then that you walk 443 00:25:46,000 --> 00:25:52,900 circumspectly. not as fool's but as wise Redeeming the time 444 00:25:52,900 --> 00:25:58,900 because the days are evil Now this wasn't written in the year 445 00:25:58,900 --> 00:26:03,900 2020. He stays have always been this 446 00:26:03,900 --> 00:26:09,500 way. Today, we have to hold to this. 447 00:26:10,100 --> 00:26:14,500 This is bringing fruitful. Back to what Jesus said in. 448 00:26:14,508 --> 00:26:18,800 Luke chapter 13. He says he also spoke this 449 00:26:18,800 --> 00:26:21,300 Parable we started with a parable we're going on with the 450 00:26:21,300 --> 00:26:25,000 parable he spoke this Parable a certain man had a fig tree 451 00:26:25,000 --> 00:26:28,400 planted in his Vineyard. He came seeking fruit on it and 452 00:26:28,400 --> 00:26:31,400 found them he said to the keeper of his Vineyard. 453 00:26:31,400 --> 00:26:34,800 Look for these three years. I have come seeking fruit on 454 00:26:34,800 --> 00:26:37,100 this fig tree and find them cut it down. 455 00:26:37,800 --> 00:26:43,300 Why does it use up the ground? The answered and said to him sir 456 00:26:43,700 --> 00:26:46,300 let it alone this year. Also until I dig around it, 457 00:26:46,300 --> 00:26:53,100 fertilize it and if it bears fruit well but if not after 458 00:26:53,100 --> 00:26:59,500 that, you can cut it down. This is quite this, this purple 459 00:26:59,500 --> 00:27:02,000 to me is just one of those that I love it and I've scares me to 460 00:27:02,008 --> 00:27:06,300 death. How do we know when we're in 461 00:27:06,300 --> 00:27:10,300 that last year? And my fruitful. 462 00:27:12,900 --> 00:27:15,600 So it says Greg you didn't even talk at all in this about how 463 00:27:15,600 --> 00:27:18,700 many people are baptized or how many people were converted or 464 00:27:18,700 --> 00:27:23,700 how many people were restored. You know why? 465 00:27:26,800 --> 00:27:30,700 Paul said, I have planted paulus watered. 466 00:27:31,900 --> 00:27:37,300 God gave the increase. I need to stop feeling the 467 00:27:37,300 --> 00:27:42,200 pressure of everybody else's reaction and I need to start 468 00:27:42,200 --> 00:27:45,100 feeling the pressure of what I'm going to do with the truth. 469 00:27:47,100 --> 00:27:49,500 Whether I'm going to sing, praise to God with my lips, 470 00:27:49,500 --> 00:27:53,300 whether I'm going to live the life that is just screams Jesus 471 00:27:53,300 --> 00:27:57,500 to the world around us. If nothing else, we might be 472 00:27:57,500 --> 00:28:01,000 able to be like that wife. That Peter talked about who says 473 00:28:01,000 --> 00:28:05,600 that had the unbelieving husband that he says by your Chase 474 00:28:05,600 --> 00:28:08,900 conduct accompanied by fear. You may without a word win him 475 00:28:08,900 --> 00:28:13,200 over. Now if that works in a marriage 476 00:28:13,600 --> 00:28:16,900 with an unbelieving husband and a believing wife, why can't it 477 00:28:16,900 --> 00:28:22,000 work in any relationship? You keep standing up wherever 478 00:28:22,000 --> 00:28:24,800 you're at wherever you live, whatever you do. 479 00:28:24,800 --> 00:28:27,500 You keep doing what's right follow this pattern. 480 00:28:27,600 --> 00:28:30,100 You keep showing ever people know when you come to church 481 00:28:30,800 --> 00:28:36,800 they know what's your where your priority is And don't fall prey 482 00:28:36,800 --> 00:28:40,800 to that old trick that somehow. Well, you know, I could go to 483 00:28:40,800 --> 00:28:43,200 services but I'm really trying to encourage so. 484 00:28:43,200 --> 00:28:46,600 And so to come back, maybe if I go do this with them, then later 485 00:28:46,600 --> 00:28:48,600 on, they'll be more encouraged to come to church. 486 00:28:49,400 --> 00:28:54,700 I've never seen it work. The only thing I seen it do is 487 00:28:54,700 --> 00:28:58,400 draw a good people that you can rely on to help build the church 488 00:28:58,400 --> 00:29:05,500 up further away from the body. You stand for, what's right? 489 00:29:06,600 --> 00:29:11,000 You stand for what's true? Nothing else. 490 00:29:11,000 --> 00:29:13,300 You don't know if this is the last year or not. 491 00:29:15,000 --> 00:29:19,200 Take advantage. God planted us got allow us to 492 00:29:19,200 --> 00:29:22,100 dig around us and fertilize us when we need to grow and God 493 00:29:22,100 --> 00:29:24,100 Waits patiently. One last season. 494 00:29:25,100 --> 00:29:29,100 I don't know if this is our last year tonight, but I asked you. 495 00:29:29,100 --> 00:29:31,600 What would you do? If you knew this was your last 496 00:29:31,600 --> 00:29:37,100 year, we're starting a new one. What if somehow you just knew 497 00:29:37,500 --> 00:29:40,300 whether it's miraculous that God could tell you or whether it's 498 00:29:40,300 --> 00:29:43,900 the doctors that said, look, here's what it is and we know 499 00:29:43,900 --> 00:29:46,700 nobody's lived more than a year with what you've got. 500 00:29:48,300 --> 00:29:51,700 What would change? Maybe you're here tonight. 501 00:29:51,700 --> 00:29:54,500 You've never obeyed the gospel. Mark, 16 and 16. 502 00:29:54,500 --> 00:29:56,300 Jesus said, you need to believe in him. 503 00:29:56,900 --> 00:30:01,600 Do you believe my God, most likely you do believe in less 504 00:30:01,600 --> 00:30:03,300 than we just made. You come tonight. 505 00:30:03,500 --> 00:30:06,600 Have you repented? What is repentance. 506 00:30:07,300 --> 00:30:10,500 Literally, if I understand this Greek word, it means to think 507 00:30:10,500 --> 00:30:14,100 differently. Change the way you look at 508 00:30:14,100 --> 00:30:18,300 things from a man's perspective to the way God would have us and 509 00:30:18,308 --> 00:30:20,100 what that means is going to be a turn around. 510 00:30:21,100 --> 00:30:23,100 From self-will to what God's will is. 511 00:30:24,400 --> 00:30:27,100 In all the things that people talk about in what it takes to 512 00:30:27,100 --> 00:30:29,700 be a Christian and whether it's a work or whether the faith and 513 00:30:29,700 --> 00:30:33,700 works and all that repentance to me is it's the toughest you're 514 00:30:33,700 --> 00:30:35,800 changing the way. It changed everything. 515 00:30:36,700 --> 00:30:38,800 Jesus said, unless you repay, you'll perish. 516 00:30:40,300 --> 00:30:42,600 In the book of Acts, he says, there was time God winked in 517 00:30:42,600 --> 00:30:44,200 ignorance. But now commands all men 518 00:30:44,400 --> 00:30:46,900 everywhere to repent. He also wants us to confess, 519 00:30:46,900 --> 00:30:52,000 Romans 10, and 10. Are we willing to confess Christ 520 00:30:52,100 --> 00:30:55,700 from this day forward and he wants us to be baptized and 521 00:30:55,700 --> 00:30:57,500 Galatians chapter 3 and verse 27. 522 00:30:57,500 --> 00:31:00,400 It says many of you have been baptized into Christ, have put 523 00:31:00,400 --> 00:31:05,400 on Christ tonight if you haven't put Christ on if you think you 524 00:31:05,400 --> 00:31:08,300 put him on what you have been baptized, it's time to put him 525 00:31:08,300 --> 00:31:12,000 on. Come tonight, being me according 526 00:31:12,000 --> 00:31:14,400 to Ephesians, 4 and 5. There's only one baptism 527 00:31:15,000 --> 00:31:17,200 therefore has to be what we can read in the scriptures. 528 00:31:17,200 --> 00:31:19,400 We know the Ethiopian eunuch in Acts chapter 8, came to a 529 00:31:19,408 --> 00:31:22,000 certain water said, here's what our y-intercept me from being 530 00:31:22,000 --> 00:31:23,800 baptized. You said if you believe you met 531 00:31:24,000 --> 00:31:25,800 at the you get they got down already a chariot. 532 00:31:25,800 --> 00:31:29,200 Both Philip and the eunuch down into the water and he baptized 533 00:31:29,200 --> 00:31:30,900 him, he immersed him. He dipped him according to 534 00:31:30,900 --> 00:31:33,800 Romans chapter 6. He buried him in that water. 535 00:31:33,800 --> 00:31:37,000 That's what we'll do tonight. If you are a Christian perhaps 536 00:31:37,000 --> 00:31:41,300 you fallen away, maybe you realize that You know what? 537 00:31:41,300 --> 00:31:43,500 You're not fruitful. And if this was the last year, 538 00:31:43,900 --> 00:31:45,700 you don't think that would be a good one. 539 00:31:47,100 --> 00:31:49,100 Beauty is you got a chance to change that. 540 00:31:50,900 --> 00:31:55,100 That look as a Christian. As a kingdom of priests. 541 00:31:56,100 --> 00:31:58,900 You can pray to God and he will forgive you and cleanse you of 542 00:31:58,900 --> 00:32:03,700 all unrighteousness. But James 5:16 says affected for 543 00:32:03,700 --> 00:32:05,400 her prayer of a righteous man, availeth much. 544 00:32:05,400 --> 00:32:07,600 I trust, there's righteous people here to pray with you and 545 00:32:07,600 --> 00:32:10,800 for you and maybe you're like Simon in Acts chapter 8. 546 00:32:10,800 --> 00:32:13,100 It says, you know, would you pray these things? 547 00:32:13,100 --> 00:32:15,900 Don't happen to me and you'd like the prayers of the church. 548 00:32:16,100 --> 00:32:17,800 We love to pray with you. 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