1 00:00:03,040 --> 00:00:05,560 Thanks for checking out the Anchor Faith Message podcast 2 00:00:05,560 --> 00:00:06,960 from St. Augustine, FL. 3 00:00:07,520 --> 00:00:16,880 Now enjoy this message. Here we are now, beyond 20 4 00:00:16,880 --> 00:00:22,040 years, and the Lord has prepared us with another prophecy for the 5 00:00:22,040 --> 00:00:27,640 Church concerning our reach. And it's not by accident that He 6 00:00:27,640 --> 00:00:33,160 would use branches. For anyone who does construction 7 00:00:33,960 --> 00:00:36,760 or, you know, you just drive around Saint Augustine long 8 00:00:36,760 --> 00:00:38,840 enough or our county, you'll realize a lot of things are 9 00:00:38,840 --> 00:00:42,920 being built. The thing that's that is being 10 00:00:42,920 --> 00:00:46,560 built that we don't see most of the time is what's called the 11 00:00:46,560 --> 00:00:51,000 infrastructure or what's underneath the ground. 12 00:00:52,120 --> 00:00:54,080 When you go in and build a neighborhood, they're going to 13 00:00:54,080 --> 00:00:55,720 come in. They're going to build all the 14 00:00:56,000 --> 00:00:59,720 pipe that's going to run all the sewage and they're going to lay 15 00:00:59,720 --> 00:01:02,080 all the curbs that are going to be able to get water, drainage, 16 00:01:02,080 --> 00:01:04,400 all kinds of things take place, prepare the ground. 17 00:01:04,400 --> 00:01:07,960 All these things take place before the 1st foundation of a 18 00:01:07,960 --> 00:01:09,880 house hits. And then once that hits, there's 19 00:01:09,880 --> 00:01:12,400 the foundational size where they're digging A footer and 20 00:01:12,400 --> 00:01:16,520 they're putting the pipe in all that's underneath the foundation 21 00:01:16,520 --> 00:01:19,680 itself and then the foundation. And once that's laid and it's 22 00:01:20,080 --> 00:01:24,240 cured that they can build and the foundation is designed to 23 00:01:24,240 --> 00:01:31,120 hold a certain amount above it. The larger the the building and 24 00:01:31,120 --> 00:01:34,480 the more weight it is, the stronger the foundation must be. 25 00:01:35,280 --> 00:01:41,440 So we obviously had a 20 year foundation build Hallelujah. 26 00:01:43,120 --> 00:01:46,160 And so that's why the prophecy said all of a sudden there to be 27 00:01:46,160 --> 00:01:48,280 there's some exponential things that will take place. 28 00:01:48,280 --> 00:01:50,400 We are in this. Season of exponential. 29 00:01:52,080 --> 00:01:54,120 Now things don't take place without faith. 30 00:01:54,720 --> 00:01:58,800 Can I just say that things that I will talk about moving forward 31 00:01:58,800 --> 00:02:03,480 from here, nothing is obtained in God's realm without faith, 32 00:02:04,400 --> 00:02:06,840 period. If you come across something 33 00:02:06,840 --> 00:02:10,320 without faith, somebody else's faith brought it to you. 34 00:02:11,880 --> 00:02:14,440 Period. Somebody else's faith. 35 00:02:14,440 --> 00:02:16,600 Brought it to you. The man that was at the pool of 36 00:02:16,600 --> 00:02:19,440 Bethesda, he had no faith, but God did. 37 00:02:19,760 --> 00:02:23,640 Jesus did, and it was Jesus's faith that brought that man up. 38 00:02:24,600 --> 00:02:27,360 Are you hearing me? It wasn't God just did it. 39 00:02:27,960 --> 00:02:31,080 Someone was in faith. Someone was pulling the unseen 40 00:02:31,080 --> 00:02:34,080 realm into the scene realm, pulling heaven into the earth. 41 00:02:34,240 --> 00:02:37,600 If anything good's happened to your life by God, somebody was 42 00:02:37,600 --> 00:02:42,480 in faith that pulled it to you. It doesn't happen by chance. 43 00:02:43,560 --> 00:02:47,120 It happens because faith's here. And let me just say this, it's 44 00:02:47,120 --> 00:02:51,000 so much faith that faith can carry beyond a person's 45 00:02:51,000 --> 00:02:52,560 lifetime. What do I mean by that? 46 00:02:52,720 --> 00:02:56,800 It's not by chance that Joseph's bones leave Egypt. 47 00:02:58,640 --> 00:03:04,840 It's because he said by faith, when you leave, carry my bones. 48 00:03:05,240 --> 00:03:09,280 So that faith statement could go through generations. 49 00:03:09,560 --> 00:03:11,880 And when someone had the thought, you know, we ought to 50 00:03:11,880 --> 00:03:15,360 take Joseph's bones with us now that we're leaving was not a 51 00:03:15,360 --> 00:03:20,800 coincidence. It was because faith was in the 52 00:03:20,840 --> 00:03:23,440 earth to cause it to come to pass. 53 00:03:23,640 --> 00:03:27,080 You may have had a great grandma praying for your generation 54 00:03:27,080 --> 00:03:29,800 right now and some of the blessings and things that are 55 00:03:29,800 --> 00:03:32,240 happening in your life is because of their faith is 56 00:03:32,240 --> 00:03:35,600 pulling it into your life. So you understand God's not 57 00:03:35,600 --> 00:03:38,480 mysterious in the context that he does what he wants to do, 58 00:03:38,480 --> 00:03:40,240 when he wants to do and we have no clue. 59 00:03:40,400 --> 00:03:45,600 No, somebody's active in faith somewhere at some season and 60 00:03:45,600 --> 00:03:49,880 you're benefiting from it now. The cool thing is, is once you 61 00:03:49,880 --> 00:03:52,760 learn how to live by faith yourself, you're not dependent 62 00:03:52,760 --> 00:03:56,720 on someone else's faith. Not only can you use faith for 63 00:03:56,720 --> 00:04:00,040 yourself, but in turn you can then activate your faith for 64 00:04:00,040 --> 00:04:02,320 others. But you understand your faith 65 00:04:02,600 --> 00:04:10,360 doesn't overcome everyone else's obstacles, so faith's required. 66 00:04:10,360 --> 00:04:15,000 In fact, in the prophecy it said that seed we would reap of seed 67 00:04:15,000 --> 00:04:19,040 planted in the earth, not because of what we did, but 68 00:04:19,040 --> 00:04:21,240 because we positioned ourselves as a body. 69 00:04:21,240 --> 00:04:25,960 I surmise that in Saint Augustine, which is considered 70 00:04:25,960 --> 00:04:28,280 the oldest city in our nation. Why? 71 00:04:28,280 --> 00:04:31,360 Because it's the oldest continuous city. 72 00:04:31,720 --> 00:04:34,520 Once it got established, it did not close. 73 00:04:34,680 --> 00:04:37,560 There were cities older than Saint Augustine, but they shut 74 00:04:37,560 --> 00:04:40,240 down even if they were reincorporated. 75 00:04:40,240 --> 00:04:42,960 There was a time it was off with Saint Augustine. 76 00:04:42,960 --> 00:04:46,560 It is the oldest. Because of that, and because of 77 00:04:46,560 --> 00:04:50,120 that, there are things that have happened in this community that 78 00:04:50,120 --> 00:04:52,960 we may be walking in that someone else prayed back in the 79 00:04:52,960 --> 00:04:59,760 1600s. Somebody else could have been 80 00:04:59,760 --> 00:05:03,800 talking about things. In the end, God has spoken to 81 00:05:03,800 --> 00:05:07,320 both men and women about future events beyond their lifetime. 82 00:05:07,720 --> 00:05:11,520 I mean, we have whole books dedicated to things like Daniel 83 00:05:11,520 --> 00:05:15,160 seeing things beyond his life, John seeing things beyond his 84 00:05:15,160 --> 00:05:16,760 life. Enoch saw things. 85 00:05:16,760 --> 00:05:18,840 And though we don't have tons of recording, here's a little bit 86 00:05:18,840 --> 00:05:21,200 Jude. He saw things beyond his life 87 00:05:21,320 --> 00:05:24,720 that hasn't even occurred yet, yet his faith has spoken it 88 00:05:24,720 --> 00:05:27,040 already. And we're going to walk into 89 00:05:27,040 --> 00:05:29,920 those things. We're going to begin to see in 90 00:05:29,920 --> 00:05:34,040 fact right now some very strong end time events are taking place 91 00:05:34,160 --> 00:05:42,440 because once again Israel is being attacked Hallelujah and as 92 00:05:42,440 --> 00:05:44,600 a result of that we need to pray for Israel. 93 00:05:45,080 --> 00:05:47,480 Some of these things are what's happening in the end. 94 00:05:47,920 --> 00:05:51,000 They've been more attacked now. In fact, this generation is not 95 00:05:51,000 --> 00:05:53,320 going to go before the the Kingdom returns. 96 00:05:53,320 --> 00:05:55,840 And that's those who were born in 1948. 97 00:05:57,600 --> 00:06:00,840 Are you hearing me? So we need to know what time it 98 00:06:00,840 --> 00:06:03,480 is and then we also need to know our season. 99 00:06:04,320 --> 00:06:06,480 And our season is a season of branching. 100 00:06:07,600 --> 00:06:10,880 The branches will go out. We saw this in Isaiah 61 verses 101 00:06:10,880 --> 00:06:14,240 one through 3. If you'll turn your attention 102 00:06:14,240 --> 00:06:19,040 there, I'm just going to read the 1st 3 verses today. 103 00:06:20,840 --> 00:06:22,760 It says this. The Spirit of the Lord is upon 104 00:06:22,760 --> 00:06:26,040 me because the Lord has. Anointed me to bring good news 105 00:06:26,080 --> 00:06:28,720 to the afflicted. He has sent me to bind up the 106 00:06:28,720 --> 00:06:31,080 broken hearted, to proclaim liberty to the captives and 107 00:06:31,080 --> 00:06:33,600 freedom to the prisoners, to proclaim the favorable year of 108 00:06:33,600 --> 00:06:37,080 the Lord and the day of vengeance of our God, to comfort 109 00:06:37,080 --> 00:06:39,280 all who mourn, to grant those who mourn. 110 00:06:39,400 --> 00:06:43,400 Enzyme giving them a Garland instead of ashes. 111 00:06:43,520 --> 00:06:46,600 The oil of gladness instead of mourning the mantle of praise 112 00:06:46,600 --> 00:06:49,520 instead of a spirit of fainting. So they will be called. 113 00:06:49,520 --> 00:06:54,480 Oaks of righteousness, the planting of the Lord that he. 114 00:06:55,000 --> 00:06:58,760 That he that he may be glorified. 115 00:06:58,960 --> 00:07:02,240 We said last week that this is take that Jesus quotes the 116 00:07:02,240 --> 00:07:04,720 Scripture in the Luke account concerning. 117 00:07:05,160 --> 00:07:09,960 He opened up the Isaiah 61 account of this and began to 118 00:07:09,960 --> 00:07:12,000 read this and said this Scripture has been fulfilled. 119 00:07:12,000 --> 00:07:16,120 Meaning you know he stopped obviously at the favorable year 120 00:07:16,120 --> 00:07:18,400 of the Lord and he said this scripture has been fulfilled in 121 00:07:18,400 --> 00:07:21,000 front of your eyes. But he said the good news will 122 00:07:21,000 --> 00:07:23,280 be preached. Now we went on and showed in 123 00:07:23,280 --> 00:07:27,080 scripture last week that the the good news is the gospel of the 124 00:07:27,080 --> 00:07:30,480 Kingdom. The good news is not isolated to 125 00:07:30,480 --> 00:07:32,800 the death, burial, resurrection of Jesus. 126 00:07:33,480 --> 00:07:35,800 The good news is actually about his Kingdom. 127 00:07:36,400 --> 00:07:39,400 The death, burial, resurrection of Jesus has access to that 128 00:07:39,400 --> 00:07:42,520 Kingdom because you cannot get there any other way. 129 00:07:42,520 --> 00:07:45,720 You must be born of God, and Jesus had to pay the price so 130 00:07:45,720 --> 00:07:50,440 you could become a child of God. Your sin has been paid for 131 00:07:50,440 --> 00:07:54,040 through the blood of Jesus. His assignment was to save you 132 00:07:54,160 --> 00:07:57,240 so he could get you back in the Kingdom and give you dominion 133 00:07:57,240 --> 00:07:59,040 again. He's not. 134 00:07:59,040 --> 00:08:01,080 He did not save you to take you to heaven. 135 00:08:01,240 --> 00:08:03,800 He saved you to bring heaven to earth through your life. 136 00:08:04,560 --> 00:08:07,560 Are you hearing me? And there's always going to be a 137 00:08:07,560 --> 00:08:10,640 heaven on earth, existence, because in the end there'll be a 138 00:08:10,640 --> 00:08:13,400 new heaven and a new earth, and the new Jerusalem will come down 139 00:08:13,400 --> 00:08:16,680 out of heaven to the earth, and God himself will take up 140 00:08:16,680 --> 00:08:21,240 residence on planet earth. Hallelujah. 141 00:08:22,080 --> 00:08:25,880 So with that being said, the gospel that Jesus is preaching 142 00:08:25,880 --> 00:08:28,120 is the good news of the Kingdom of God. 143 00:08:28,760 --> 00:08:31,160 And so that's what we preach here, the Kingdom of God. 144 00:08:31,160 --> 00:08:34,440 It's very important because the Kingdom of God is where life 145 00:08:34,440 --> 00:08:37,000 exists. Jesus is the king. 146 00:08:37,000 --> 00:08:39,760 He sits on the throne. His father sits on the throne. 147 00:08:39,760 --> 00:08:41,559 He sits at the right hand of his father. 148 00:08:41,799 --> 00:08:44,280 And if you're born again, you've been raised up and seated 149 00:08:44,280 --> 00:08:47,680 together with him in Christ. You're in the king. 150 00:08:48,200 --> 00:08:50,920 You are a child of the king. Amen. 151 00:08:51,120 --> 00:08:55,800 You've been delivered, but you also have been appointed and 152 00:08:55,800 --> 00:08:58,480 anointed. Hallelujah. 153 00:08:58,800 --> 00:09:04,440 The same anointing that his own king Jesus has been conferred or 154 00:09:04,440 --> 00:09:09,040 transferred to you. Hallelujah. 155 00:09:09,440 --> 00:09:13,720 And as he is, so are we in this earth. 156 00:09:14,640 --> 00:09:18,520 Jesus didn't walk around depressed, worried, concerned, 157 00:09:18,640 --> 00:09:22,160 nor storing up treasures for himself on the planet. 158 00:09:24,000 --> 00:09:28,440 He wasn't trying to retire. All he was wanting to do was do 159 00:09:28,440 --> 00:09:31,200 the will of his father. And that's all we should want to 160 00:09:31,200 --> 00:09:36,320 do is the will of our father in the power of his spirit. 161 00:09:36,840 --> 00:09:40,560 Are you with me? So are you born again? 162 00:09:41,880 --> 00:09:44,840 If you're born again, then turn over to John chapter 15. 163 00:09:45,920 --> 00:09:48,760 John chapter 15. John chapter 15 has some things 164 00:09:48,760 --> 00:09:51,520 to say about branches. He says this. 165 00:09:51,560 --> 00:09:54,920 I am the true vine and my father is the vine dresser. 166 00:09:56,560 --> 00:10:06,040 Every what is that, Every what, every what Branch in me that 167 00:10:06,040 --> 00:10:11,960 does not bear fruit he takes away, and every branch that 168 00:10:11,960 --> 00:10:17,840 bears fruit he prunes so that it will bear more fruit. 169 00:10:20,040 --> 00:10:23,000 Jesus says you're already clean because of the word which I've 170 00:10:23,000 --> 00:10:28,280 spoken. You abide in me, and I in you as 171 00:10:28,280 --> 00:10:31,520 the branch. As the branch cannot bear fruit 172 00:10:31,520 --> 00:10:36,360 of itself unless it abides in the bond, so neither can you, so 173 00:10:36,360 --> 00:10:41,360 neither can you, unless you abide in me. 174 00:10:41,360 --> 00:10:43,360 I am the bond. You are the branches. 175 00:10:43,360 --> 00:10:48,120 He who abides in me and I in him, he bears much fruit. 176 00:10:48,480 --> 00:10:53,680 For apart from me. For apart from me you can do 177 00:10:54,320 --> 00:10:57,080 nothing. No thing, nothing. 178 00:10:57,880 --> 00:11:00,080 Verse six. If anyone does not abide in me, 179 00:11:00,080 --> 00:11:02,680 he is thrown away as a branch and dries up. 180 00:11:03,160 --> 00:11:07,840 They gather them, cast them into the fire, and they are burned. 181 00:11:08,320 --> 00:11:12,360 If you abide in me, and my words abide in you, ask whatever you 182 00:11:12,360 --> 00:11:14,360 wish, and it will be done for you. 183 00:11:14,600 --> 00:11:19,960 My Father is glorified by this, that you bear much fruit. 184 00:11:20,160 --> 00:11:21,920 So. And. 185 00:11:21,920 --> 00:11:28,720 So prove. To be my disciples, Hallelujah. 186 00:11:29,280 --> 00:11:31,280 Now, there's a lot in this passage scripture. 187 00:11:31,360 --> 00:11:33,080 We may or may not get through it. 188 00:11:33,080 --> 00:11:36,280 Today we'll find out. Hallelujah. 189 00:11:38,160 --> 00:11:43,240 Jesus said, I am the true bond. My father is the vine dresser. 190 00:11:43,720 --> 00:11:47,280 So the Father is the vine dresser because Jesus only does 191 00:11:47,280 --> 00:11:52,840 what the Father says. In essence, the vine can only do 192 00:11:52,840 --> 00:11:58,240 what the what the Father ordained for it to do. 193 00:11:58,560 --> 00:12:02,160 It's within itself to do that. When God spoke things into 194 00:12:02,160 --> 00:12:05,840 creation, they do what they do because it was within the 195 00:12:05,840 --> 00:12:08,000 design. Are you hearing me? 196 00:12:08,840 --> 00:12:12,960 So Jesus said, now I am the true vine, but you understand it's my 197 00:12:12,960 --> 00:12:18,840 Father who was addressing the vine itself. 198 00:12:19,720 --> 00:12:25,440 I am the source, the roots, I'm the foundation, and off of me 199 00:12:25,440 --> 00:12:29,280 are branches. Each branch in and of itself 200 00:12:29,280 --> 00:12:34,160 will bear fruit, or should bear fruit is, let's put it this way, 201 00:12:34,160 --> 00:12:44,880 is expected to bear fruit. God never intended for a person 202 00:12:44,880 --> 00:12:47,640 to be a branch and have no fruit. 203 00:12:49,680 --> 00:12:57,200 In God's Kingdom. He does not see branches alone. 204 00:12:58,280 --> 00:13:05,880 He sees fruitful branches because if all he sees is a 205 00:13:05,880 --> 00:13:10,520 branch. Then an axe is coming. 206 00:13:10,520 --> 00:13:15,240 Oh y'all, don't want to hear this, OK, an axe is coming. 207 00:13:16,560 --> 00:13:20,920 It's cut off. A branch connected to the true 208 00:13:20,920 --> 00:13:27,840 vine is not allowed to suck resource without producing the 209 00:13:27,840 --> 00:13:32,320 life of that resource. Amen. 210 00:13:33,280 --> 00:13:35,320 How many want to do it Jesus's way? 211 00:13:35,680 --> 00:13:39,680 Because Jesus is talking here. OK, just wanted to let me 212 00:13:39,680 --> 00:13:42,080 preface a few things before I go further because I know where 213 00:13:42,080 --> 00:13:43,640 we're going. Amen. 214 00:13:43,760 --> 00:13:47,120 Is Jesus talking? Are these his words? 215 00:13:47,600 --> 00:13:51,320 Is he the word? Does he have the right to define 216 00:13:51,320 --> 00:13:56,200 himself? So it's not our job to convince 217 00:13:56,360 --> 00:13:58,360 Jesus He's not saying what he's saying. 218 00:13:59,960 --> 00:14:02,960 It's our job to renew our thinking to what Jesus is 219 00:14:02,960 --> 00:14:05,560 saying. And Jesus says, now if a branch 220 00:14:05,560 --> 00:14:10,760 shows up on my bond that has no fruit, it's going to get cut 221 00:14:10,760 --> 00:14:13,640 off. Are you hearing me? 222 00:14:14,960 --> 00:14:26,200 So Jesus Never The vine dresser is an inspector and he comes 223 00:14:26,200 --> 00:14:29,480 down his vine because he knows the source is pure. 224 00:14:30,320 --> 00:14:36,400 There's nothing wrong with the root because the root's pure. 225 00:14:36,520 --> 00:14:39,320 The the true vine's pure. Jesus. 226 00:14:39,680 --> 00:14:43,520 But the branches are determining whether or not fruit or fruit 227 00:14:43,600 --> 00:14:48,240 are showing up or not because sources getting out to the 228 00:14:48,240 --> 00:14:52,840 branch to produce fruit. The question is, is the branch 229 00:14:52,880 --> 00:15:02,240 allowing the fruit to occur? If there's fruit in a season, 230 00:15:03,080 --> 00:15:06,240 what's going to happen after the fruit manifests? 231 00:15:07,000 --> 00:15:10,040 We're going to harvest it. The Bible says taste and see 232 00:15:10,040 --> 00:15:12,360 that the Lord is good. See, when people encounter you, 233 00:15:12,600 --> 00:15:16,080 they should taste and see that the Lord is good because your 234 00:15:16,080 --> 00:15:20,040 harvest would look like that. You're giving the fruits of the 235 00:15:20,040 --> 00:15:23,120 spirit away in the way you conduct in life. 236 00:15:23,360 --> 00:15:26,200 When you get in a line and all of a sudden something's going on 237 00:15:26,200 --> 00:15:29,280 and you want to be aggravated, instead, you pull off the fruit 238 00:15:29,280 --> 00:15:32,920 of patience and long-suffering and you feed everybody these 239 00:15:32,920 --> 00:15:37,080 things and then everybody tastes and sees that the Lord is good 240 00:15:37,240 --> 00:15:40,080 through you. And once you give your fruit 241 00:15:40,080 --> 00:15:43,320 away, then there's no more fruit on the branch and the Lord says 242 00:15:43,440 --> 00:15:48,280 that was a good season, Let's go to the next one. 243 00:15:48,880 --> 00:15:51,240 Well, how do you get more fruit in the next season? 244 00:15:52,000 --> 00:15:59,000 You going to get cut if you're coming to church and you're 245 00:15:59,000 --> 00:16:02,920 never getting cut? Oh y'all, don't want to hear 246 00:16:02,960 --> 00:16:06,640 this. If you can sit in a congregation 247 00:16:06,640 --> 00:16:10,360 year after year and never feel the prune. 248 00:16:16,560 --> 00:16:21,120 Hallelujah. Be like man that cut me today. 249 00:16:22,200 --> 00:16:24,520 You should just go ahead and start running and shouting and 250 00:16:24,520 --> 00:16:30,600 dancing instead of crying and whining because many people want 251 00:16:30,600 --> 00:16:33,920 to resist the prune. But then the next season comes 252 00:16:36,960 --> 00:16:41,880 because God never listen. He's not satisfied with a branch 253 00:16:41,920 --> 00:16:49,720 that only bears fruit or bears the same fruit every season. 254 00:16:55,080 --> 00:16:58,520 Hallelujah. I mean, I'm not been planted in 255 00:16:58,520 --> 00:17:03,280 this place for 20 years to not have more fruit, and you're not 256 00:17:03,280 --> 00:17:06,000 my fruit. Just to let you know, how many 257 00:17:06,000 --> 00:17:08,200 people attend this church are not my fruit. 258 00:17:08,760 --> 00:17:12,200 OK, The number of people are not my fruit. 259 00:17:12,280 --> 00:17:14,920 How many people I preach in front are not my fruit? 260 00:17:15,319 --> 00:17:19,640 You can't define my fruit because my fruit's spiritual 261 00:17:26,920 --> 00:17:32,680 Hallelujah. No, I produce my own fruit, and 262 00:17:32,680 --> 00:17:38,400 man, I get cut in seasons upon seasons upon seasons so I can 263 00:17:38,400 --> 00:17:41,080 bear more fruit. Will it ever end? 264 00:17:41,440 --> 00:17:44,160 Nope. Not while I remain in the earth. 265 00:17:44,200 --> 00:17:50,160 But I enjoy it because I know well, if I do that, that's more 266 00:17:50,160 --> 00:17:52,600 fruit. I said that's more fruit. 267 00:17:53,480 --> 00:17:56,520 More people have lost out with God because they will not go 268 00:17:56,520 --> 00:18:03,080 through the pruning season. The pruning season, you run the 269 00:18:03,080 --> 00:18:07,120 risk of bearing no fruit in the next one and then the vine 270 00:18:07,120 --> 00:18:10,480 dresser comes down. It was like, how come there's no 271 00:18:10,480 --> 00:18:12,240 fruit on this branch like last year? 272 00:18:17,760 --> 00:18:19,840 Now you understand he's patient. I'm going to give you another 273 00:18:19,840 --> 00:18:24,080 one. Jesus said No, I don't remember. 274 00:18:24,080 --> 00:18:26,440 If it was a parable in and of itself, I'd have to go back 275 00:18:26,440 --> 00:18:27,880 because it just came to me in the spirit. 276 00:18:29,080 --> 00:18:32,120 He said he the the farmer came and there was a particular tree 277 00:18:32,120 --> 00:18:35,280 bearing no fruit and he says cut the thing down man, just cut it 278 00:18:35,280 --> 00:18:37,800 down. And the servant says hold on a 279 00:18:37,800 --> 00:18:41,880 second, I know it's been 3. Years, Two years or three years, 280 00:18:41,880 --> 00:18:43,080 I can't remember. Now we're off the top of my 281 00:18:43,080 --> 00:18:45,320 head, he said. Whatever the year was, Two or 282 00:18:45,320 --> 00:18:48,520 three, he says. Let me dig a trench around it, 283 00:18:48,840 --> 00:18:52,680 put some fertilizer. Just go one more time if it 284 00:18:52,680 --> 00:18:54,640 doesn't bear fruit. We'll cut it down. 285 00:18:54,640 --> 00:18:58,480 Come on. So you know, the Lord can go 286 00:18:58,480 --> 00:19:04,920 past you in a season, can go past you in a season unfruitful, 287 00:19:05,400 --> 00:19:07,600 and you think that you're all right with God. 288 00:19:09,680 --> 00:19:13,440 He swing through a second season, you doing the same thing 289 00:19:13,440 --> 00:19:15,720 you've always been doing, not bearing any more fruit. 290 00:19:15,920 --> 00:19:18,760 And he's like sums up with that branch. 291 00:19:21,000 --> 00:19:26,200 He come through a third year you up here worshiping act like you 292 00:19:26,200 --> 00:19:31,800 got everything right with God. But he know you know He knows 293 00:19:33,120 --> 00:19:36,520 God knows it all. We only deceive ourselves. 294 00:19:38,720 --> 00:19:40,960 He could pass through and be in a season. 295 00:19:40,960 --> 00:19:44,440 We'll just cut that off that the true vine, say, let's give it 296 00:19:44,440 --> 00:19:49,520 one more. But that doesn't stop the 297 00:19:49,520 --> 00:19:54,320 inevitable if fruit doesn't come because even the the, the 298 00:19:54,320 --> 00:20:00,000 servant doesn't say, God forbid it, let's just keep it, it 299 00:20:00,000 --> 00:20:08,230 produces shade, he said. That thing was not designed to 300 00:20:08,230 --> 00:20:11,110 just produce shade, it was produced designed to produce 301 00:20:11,390 --> 00:20:19,590 fruit. Jesus had a problem with things 302 00:20:19,590 --> 00:20:23,750 that look like they're bearing fruit but aren't. 303 00:20:27,720 --> 00:20:33,120 Jesus himself took care of one tree in particular and did a. 304 00:20:33,520 --> 00:20:38,040 King's decree on it. Well, nobody ever eat figs from 305 00:20:38,040 --> 00:20:41,400 you again. And the next day it was withered 306 00:20:41,400 --> 00:20:45,840 up at his roots. Quit sucking from the resources 307 00:20:45,840 --> 00:20:51,320 if you're not producing fruit. Hallelujah, I said. 308 00:20:51,320 --> 00:20:54,640 Hallelujah. Come on, are y'all with me? 309 00:20:55,440 --> 00:20:56,840 All right. But let me break this down a 310 00:20:56,840 --> 00:20:58,120 little bit, because I need to help you. 311 00:20:59,520 --> 00:21:04,440 Who's the Truvon Jesus? Who are the branches we are? 312 00:21:04,640 --> 00:21:10,400 Every branch is to be in him, In him, I said. 313 00:21:10,400 --> 00:21:14,120 In him means you have. To be attached. 314 00:21:19,240 --> 00:21:23,680 Notice the branch that did not produce fruit was cut off. 315 00:21:24,240 --> 00:21:27,480 It's still a branch, but it's no longer attached. 316 00:21:31,800 --> 00:21:36,320 You can be a branch, but that doesn't mean you're an attached 317 00:21:36,440 --> 00:21:39,760 branch. And there's a difference. 318 00:21:39,760 --> 00:21:47,640 I said there's a difference. We've got to be attached. 319 00:21:48,520 --> 00:21:52,800 Now I'm going to have to expand this a little bit because again, 320 00:21:53,440 --> 00:22:01,640 we try to interpret based upon our own personal preference and 321 00:22:01,640 --> 00:22:05,880 as a result of that we misinterpret many things because 322 00:22:05,880 --> 00:22:08,560 we do not take the Bible in full context. 323 00:22:09,480 --> 00:22:11,760 Are you? Hearing me OK. 324 00:22:14,200 --> 00:22:16,640 Verse five. I am the bind, You are the 325 00:22:16,640 --> 00:22:18,840 branches. He who abides in me, He who 326 00:22:18,840 --> 00:22:25,000 abides in me and I in him he bears much fruit, for apart from 327 00:22:25,000 --> 00:22:31,160 me you can do nothing. I am the bind, you are the 328 00:22:31,160 --> 00:22:34,680 branches. He who abides in me and I in him 329 00:22:34,800 --> 00:22:39,480 he bears much fruit, for apart from me he can do nothing. 330 00:22:39,480 --> 00:22:41,880 Verse 7 If conditional statement. 331 00:22:43,920 --> 00:22:55,040 If you abide in me conditional statement, who's determining 332 00:22:55,040 --> 00:23:01,400 who's abiding you are? So you can't say, Well, you know 333 00:23:01,400 --> 00:23:03,360 the scripture says he'll never leave you nor forsake you. 334 00:23:03,360 --> 00:23:04,960 Well, he'll never leave you nor forsake you. 335 00:23:04,960 --> 00:23:15,000 But you can leave him because number one, we say it's a 336 00:23:15,000 --> 00:23:18,400 relationship no one would consider A1 sided. 337 00:23:18,680 --> 00:23:21,000 One person doing it all and the other doing nothing. 338 00:23:21,000 --> 00:23:24,720 A relationship. Yet we treat Jesus this way. 339 00:23:24,880 --> 00:23:26,720 Well, he did it all. I could do nothing. 340 00:23:26,720 --> 00:23:28,680 I can still do nothing now that I'm saved. 341 00:23:29,600 --> 00:23:32,480 Well that's not what Jesus says. He said you were created for 342 00:23:32,480 --> 00:23:34,760 good works. If you actually read past where 343 00:23:34,760 --> 00:23:36,920 it says you were saved by grace through faith. 344 00:23:39,040 --> 00:23:41,920 It's not your work to please God and tell him, look what I did. 345 00:23:41,920 --> 00:23:44,680 You have to accept me. It is his work that he did that 346 00:23:44,680 --> 00:23:46,960 you accepted that. He said now that you're like me, 347 00:23:46,960 --> 00:23:50,080 now walk like me, do like me, perform like me. 348 00:23:50,080 --> 00:23:52,640 I've got some things prepare for you to walk with me, because 349 00:23:52,640 --> 00:23:55,640 we're going to go labor together. 350 00:24:03,040 --> 00:24:06,800 You cannot find anywhere, even in the old covenant, where God's 351 00:24:06,800 --> 00:24:09,760 doing everything independent of man and man doesn't have some 352 00:24:09,760 --> 00:24:13,160 layer of responsibility. Who brought manna in the 353 00:24:13,160 --> 00:24:16,280 wilderness? God did. 354 00:24:17,400 --> 00:24:21,600 But who had to pick it up if they were going to eat it 355 00:24:21,600 --> 00:24:23,320 doesn't say. God brought manna. 356 00:24:23,560 --> 00:24:26,520 Then the Lord sent angels to pick it up, and while they laid 357 00:24:26,520 --> 00:24:29,640 in their tents, laid down in their tents, waiting for the 358 00:24:29,640 --> 00:24:32,920 angels to come, and they would come and feed them the manna. 359 00:24:36,680 --> 00:24:40,320 We have some more. I mean, this is how we're 360 00:24:40,320 --> 00:24:43,040 treating Jesus. He does everything. 361 00:24:43,040 --> 00:24:44,800 We just sit back. We're no good. 362 00:24:44,800 --> 00:24:47,320 Sorry sinners, man. We just lucky to get in. 363 00:24:47,320 --> 00:24:49,240 We can't do anything. I'm not going to do anything. 364 00:24:49,440 --> 00:24:52,360 God forbid I put forth any effort. 365 00:24:53,520 --> 00:24:56,800 The Lord's like. And I put my spirit in you. 366 00:24:56,840 --> 00:24:58,760 And you go out like you can't do something. 367 00:25:03,120 --> 00:25:04,720 Well, I expect you to do like I did. 368 00:25:04,720 --> 00:25:06,640 I obey Dad. You obey dad. 369 00:25:09,360 --> 00:25:11,480 I follow the spirit. You follow the Spirit. 370 00:25:12,880 --> 00:25:16,960 Amen. No, There's a part we have to 371 00:25:17,480 --> 00:25:21,360 do. And doing is our faith in action 372 00:25:22,000 --> 00:25:24,200 because we trust the word. Come on. 373 00:25:24,200 --> 00:25:27,240 Y'all with me. I am the bond. 374 00:25:27,240 --> 00:25:29,400 You are the branches. He who abides in me and I and 375 00:25:29,400 --> 00:25:31,040 him. He bears much fruit apart from 376 00:25:31,040 --> 00:25:33,920 me. He can do nothing if you abide 377 00:25:33,920 --> 00:25:36,960 in me. Conditional statement, verse 7. 378 00:25:36,960 --> 00:25:41,160 If you abide in me, if you abide in me, now go, he goes. 379 00:25:41,160 --> 00:25:47,040 On verse seven he says, and my notice he doesn't say, and I 380 00:25:47,040 --> 00:25:54,360 abide in you. Here in verse five he says, If 381 00:25:54,360 --> 00:25:59,960 you abide in me and I in him, meaning if you abide in me, and 382 00:25:59,960 --> 00:26:03,320 I abide in you. But Jesus goes on and says, OK, 383 00:26:03,320 --> 00:26:08,600 let me do another qualifier. If you abide in me and my words 384 00:26:09,080 --> 00:26:11,920 abide in you. So He's giving you indication. 385 00:26:12,000 --> 00:26:14,560 How am I abiding in you if you abide in Me? 386 00:26:14,560 --> 00:26:18,160 But how am I abiding in you? It's my words. 387 00:26:19,480 --> 00:26:21,160 Well, why? What's the big deal about His 388 00:26:21,160 --> 00:26:26,680 words? Sure they are, but many people 389 00:26:26,680 --> 00:26:33,600 know His word and have no life. So abiding in His word doesn't 390 00:26:33,600 --> 00:26:39,560 mean that you know His word, 'cause many people by trivia 391 00:26:39,600 --> 00:26:46,800 know the word. So there's something else about 392 00:26:46,800 --> 00:26:49,400 this abiding. This abiding is more than just 393 00:26:49,520 --> 00:26:54,240 being connected. It's about where the source or 394 00:26:54,240 --> 00:26:58,640 the action or the governance or the behavior or the way you do 395 00:26:58,640 --> 00:27:02,240 things. So again, if I'm in you and 396 00:27:02,240 --> 00:27:06,120 you're in me, then my words in you and you're doing my word 397 00:27:09,320 --> 00:27:14,280 correct. Well, what has His word said? 398 00:27:16,400 --> 00:27:19,240 Because for some people, you would think the only thing Jesus 399 00:27:19,240 --> 00:27:22,760 said was accept me as your savior. 400 00:27:22,960 --> 00:27:25,920 That I died on the cross and rose from the grave asked me to 401 00:27:25,920 --> 00:27:29,680 come into your heart so I'll save you, so that when you die 402 00:27:29,680 --> 00:27:33,080 you get to go to heaven and that's all you need to abide. 403 00:27:33,080 --> 00:27:36,160 In because that's all I'm talking about. 404 00:27:38,400 --> 00:27:40,800 But does Jesus say more than just be born again? 405 00:27:43,320 --> 00:27:52,160 Verse 7 If you abide in me and my what's that plural? 406 00:27:58,300 --> 00:28:01,140 There are a lot more words. Jesus gave instruction well 407 00:28:01,140 --> 00:28:04,920 beyond just be born again. In fact, he only communicated 408 00:28:04,920 --> 00:28:09,000 being born again one time in John chapter 3, and that was at 409 00:28:09,000 --> 00:28:11,880 2:00 in the morning. To a religious man, that wasn't 410 00:28:11,880 --> 00:28:17,120 even a public preaching, but he had a lot to say about the 411 00:28:17,120 --> 00:28:20,080 Kingdom of God and what it was like and how you're to behave 412 00:28:20,080 --> 00:28:21,720 and how you're supposed to function, how you're supposed to 413 00:28:21,720 --> 00:28:24,560 live and how you're supposed to move after God and what God's 414 00:28:24,560 --> 00:28:26,720 done for you, but what you're supposed to do for God. 415 00:28:35,120 --> 00:28:38,400 There are many things that he said beyond just being born 416 00:28:38,400 --> 00:28:41,400 again. He made statements like this. 417 00:28:41,480 --> 00:28:44,040 Well, if you're born again and I forgave you, well, then you got 418 00:28:44,040 --> 00:28:46,800 to forgive others. So you can't say, well, I'm born 419 00:28:46,800 --> 00:28:48,120 again. I'm going to heaven when I die, 420 00:28:48,120 --> 00:28:51,080 but I can't forgive this person. Well, then his word doesn't 421 00:28:51,080 --> 00:28:55,080 abide in you. And are we saying that word's 422 00:28:55,080 --> 00:28:57,360 not Is optional? So how can you say you're 423 00:28:57,360 --> 00:28:59,480 bearing fruit and not doing forgiveness? 424 00:29:04,720 --> 00:29:08,440 That's just one example. I believe the word talked about 425 00:29:08,440 --> 00:29:12,280 is being healed. I think the word happened to say 426 00:29:12,280 --> 00:29:14,160 this. Listen, don't even go witness to 427 00:29:14,160 --> 00:29:22,720 nobody till the power comes. There was much instruction that 428 00:29:22,720 --> 00:29:26,080 comes from his word, so there's much we are to do. 429 00:29:30,720 --> 00:29:36,200 Well, what else about Jesus does it say? 430 00:29:36,720 --> 00:29:44,280 It says he. Let's go to Isaiah. 431 00:29:44,280 --> 00:29:47,320 Isaiah 96 says this says the child will be. 432 00:29:47,320 --> 00:29:51,800 Born a son will be given and the government will rest on his on 433 00:29:51,800 --> 00:29:56,200 his what shoulders? There'll be no end to the 434 00:29:56,200 --> 00:29:58,560 increase of his government, which is in his shoulders. 435 00:29:58,880 --> 00:30:01,240 Bible says that Jesus Christ is the head. 436 00:30:02,640 --> 00:30:05,240 And we are his. What are we? 437 00:30:05,680 --> 00:30:10,520 We're His body. And again, a head cut off from 438 00:30:10,520 --> 00:30:15,120 the body is not living. The body is definitely not 439 00:30:15,120 --> 00:30:18,920 living without the head. So the context he's trying to 440 00:30:18,920 --> 00:30:24,520 tell us is that Jesus and his body should be inseparable. 441 00:30:24,520 --> 00:30:31,560 They should abide just like Jesus saying the vine and the 442 00:30:31,560 --> 00:30:40,880 branch should be intimately connected, Paul said. 443 00:30:40,880 --> 00:30:45,120 In Him we live and move and have our being. 444 00:30:45,600 --> 00:30:49,200 But most people are only interpreting this as in Jesus, 445 00:30:50,040 --> 00:30:54,400 or in His word that I read myself when I read it. 446 00:31:04,960 --> 00:31:09,320 Jesus is the head of the body. Well, what's the body? 447 00:31:09,320 --> 00:31:11,320 We are. We are. 448 00:31:11,520 --> 00:31:13,680 But there's another description of the body. 449 00:31:14,920 --> 00:31:20,400 It's His church, so if you're going to bind His word, He has 450 00:31:20,400 --> 00:31:22,640 the word He says. Do not forsake the assembling of 451 00:31:22,640 --> 00:31:23,600 yourselves. Together. 452 00:31:30,120 --> 00:31:39,280 You equally abide by being continually connected to the 453 00:31:39,280 --> 00:31:49,160 church he assigned. You to Now we're gonna get 454 00:31:49,160 --> 00:31:50,600 quiet, OK, That's. Fine. 455 00:31:51,640 --> 00:31:54,080 Everybody wants their personal Jesus. 456 00:31:55,920 --> 00:31:58,000 Let me tell you, he's not just personal. 457 00:32:00,120 --> 00:32:03,640 He's personally aware of you. He personally cares for you. 458 00:32:03,760 --> 00:32:07,160 He personally has a destiny for you, but it's not for yourself. 459 00:32:11,120 --> 00:32:12,480 You've got to go bigger than you. 460 00:32:13,440 --> 00:32:15,600 So it says my words are to abide in you. 461 00:32:15,600 --> 00:32:17,960 And one of my words is you need to connect with a brother. 462 00:32:17,960 --> 00:32:20,360 And in fact, if we were to go back and read this passage of 463 00:32:20,360 --> 00:32:23,240 scripture because I omitted some, I went from 8 and jumped 464 00:32:23,240 --> 00:32:26,640 on down to verse to we're going to jump to verse 16 here in a 465 00:32:26,640 --> 00:32:28,520 minute. But if you read beyond eight, it 466 00:32:28,520 --> 00:32:31,200 starts talking about how you're to love the brother. 467 00:32:36,240 --> 00:32:39,960 Well, you learn about the brethren are your brothers and 468 00:32:39,960 --> 00:32:44,240 sisters in Christ by connecting to His church. 469 00:32:48,200 --> 00:32:49,520 Now this is no problem and really. 470 00:32:49,520 --> 00:32:51,560 I should get a lot more amens right now for everybody who 471 00:32:51,560 --> 00:32:53,160 comes to church all the time. I mean, you should be 472 00:32:53,160 --> 00:32:55,920 championing this concept right now, you know, and don't get 473 00:32:55,920 --> 00:33:00,840 quiet with the ones that are going with the Oh my gosh, OK, 474 00:33:01,040 --> 00:33:03,560 leave that for online people. That's why they're online. 475 00:33:04,720 --> 00:33:06,560 OK, we. Assemble. 476 00:33:07,240 --> 00:33:09,040 Why? Because again, how do you expect 477 00:33:09,040 --> 00:33:12,520 to produce grapefruit and be separated from the church? 478 00:33:16,160 --> 00:33:18,880 Because at the end of the day, you can't talk to me about 479 00:33:18,880 --> 00:33:24,600 church and it be the real church that Jesus is building. 480 00:33:24,680 --> 00:33:26,240 Jesus said I will build. That's right. 481 00:33:27,800 --> 00:33:31,920 Jesus did not say I will come and just save individuals so I 482 00:33:31,920 --> 00:33:33,200 can take him to heaven when I die. 483 00:33:33,320 --> 00:33:36,360 He said Peter upon the rock that I am the Christ, the revelation 484 00:33:36,360 --> 00:33:38,760 that I'm bringing the Kingdom back because the Kingdom of 485 00:33:38,760 --> 00:33:41,480 heaven is at hand. Upon this revelation I will 486 00:33:41,480 --> 00:33:45,680 build my church. It includes people, and he wants 487 00:33:45,680 --> 00:33:48,480 all of us to come into it. But at the end of the day, he 488 00:33:48,480 --> 00:33:51,160 wants us to assemble, He wants us to come together. 489 00:33:51,280 --> 00:33:58,840 He wants us to abide together, and so when he's talking about 490 00:33:58,840 --> 00:34:00,480 I'm the bond, you're the branches. 491 00:34:00,560 --> 00:34:03,960 If a man abides in me, he's equally saying if he abides in 492 00:34:03,960 --> 00:34:06,960 me, because again, you can't really abide in Jesus other than 493 00:34:06,960 --> 00:34:13,120 his word or in his recreation. But then you abide in his church 494 00:34:13,360 --> 00:34:15,159 because he's the head of the church. 495 00:34:15,960 --> 00:34:19,320 You abide there. That means it's a life source, 496 00:34:21,880 --> 00:34:27,639 because if you think you can live outside the church, the 497 00:34:27,639 --> 00:34:34,320 devil's got the first step of deception and is weakening your 498 00:34:34,320 --> 00:34:44,260 fruit. When does a branch tell the vine 499 00:34:44,260 --> 00:34:47,020 or the tree I'll connect with you next week. 500 00:34:52,340 --> 00:34:57,020 Have you ever gone to a forest and seen a branch off the tree 501 00:34:57,300 --> 00:35:00,060 and the next week see the same branch back in the tree? 502 00:35:01,720 --> 00:35:05,120 Like, wow, wasn't wasn't that branch on the ground yesterday? 503 00:35:06,520 --> 00:35:11,680 Oh, it went to church. I don't want to hear this. 504 00:35:17,320 --> 00:35:23,000 Branches come from the source. I mean, we have created 505 00:35:23,480 --> 00:35:25,360 churches. I'm going to use that term very 506 00:35:25,360 --> 00:35:28,840 loose, where we are accommodating. 507 00:35:33,880 --> 00:35:36,640 We had someone want to utilize them all. 508 00:35:37,280 --> 00:35:40,200 They wanted to do some kind of fundraiser, of which I was open 509 00:35:40,200 --> 00:35:43,800 for that, but they wanted a particular individual, a 510 00:35:43,800 --> 00:35:47,360 fictitious character, to show up at the event of which that 511 00:35:47,360 --> 00:35:49,160 fictitious character is not allowed. 512 00:35:49,160 --> 00:35:52,720 To show up at the event, and so I gave them options without the 513 00:35:52,720 --> 00:35:56,560 fictitious character being able to come to the event. 514 00:35:57,080 --> 00:36:01,840 I'm being very general, I know. However, so they write back and 515 00:36:01,840 --> 00:36:04,680 say, well the fictitious character has to come because 516 00:36:04,680 --> 00:36:10,440 the community expects it. And So what we do is we're 517 00:36:10,440 --> 00:36:16,200 building within our churches things to accommodate branches 518 00:36:20,680 --> 00:36:24,360 and say instead of saying you you can't produce unless you're 519 00:36:24,360 --> 00:36:27,480 connected. The vine doesn't come to the 520 00:36:27,480 --> 00:36:32,040 branch. Let me just say this way the 521 00:36:32,040 --> 00:36:36,920 vine didn't come because of you. The vine came because the father 522 00:36:36,920 --> 00:36:38,920 spoke. Let man have dominion. 523 00:36:39,520 --> 00:36:43,240 And so the father said I'm obligated to create a pathway so 524 00:36:43,240 --> 00:36:46,040 man can have dominion. Since I said let man have 525 00:36:46,040 --> 00:36:48,920 dominion, he'll have dominion over the all the things in 526 00:36:48,920 --> 00:36:51,280 Genesis 126. And when Adam fell from 527 00:36:51,280 --> 00:36:55,040 dominion, God said I will bring myself in the form of man to 528 00:36:55,040 --> 00:36:58,520 give a pathway back So my word can come to pass for all the 529 00:36:58,600 --> 00:37:01,560 those who choose. So the obligation to His word 530 00:37:01,600 --> 00:37:04,640 was more powerful than his personal relationship with you. 531 00:37:08,560 --> 00:37:12,120 God does not let personal relationship violate His word, 532 00:37:12,720 --> 00:37:26,210 and He is not compromising what He says Church is How did dead 533 00:37:26,210 --> 00:37:36,080 things tell life how to live? So what's happening is is the 534 00:37:36,080 --> 00:37:39,400 branches are telling the vine what it was, and the fungus and 535 00:37:39,400 --> 00:37:42,480 the disease that's on it is starting to spread to the vine. 536 00:37:43,480 --> 00:37:45,600 Well, the Vine already bore that price once. 537 00:37:45,600 --> 00:37:46,880 Oh y'all, don't want to hear this. 538 00:37:47,880 --> 00:37:50,480 He's not bearing that anymore. He's already done that. 539 00:37:50,480 --> 00:37:55,000 He's like, I'm just a life source now. 540 00:37:55,000 --> 00:37:58,560 We'll talk about this next week, but you were engrafted in. 541 00:38:01,640 --> 00:38:04,400 Why in the world would you want to be cut off? 542 00:38:05,040 --> 00:38:08,240 Or why would you personally allow yourself to be separated? 543 00:38:16,080 --> 00:38:18,640 You want to give a demonstration of how vitally important 544 00:38:19,080 --> 00:38:21,320 branches are. Everybody hold their breath 545 00:38:21,320 --> 00:38:22,080 right now. I'll tell. 546 00:38:22,080 --> 00:38:23,200 You When to breathe. Ready. 547 00:38:23,200 --> 00:38:26,080 Hold your breath. Do it. 548 00:38:27,240 --> 00:38:28,600 Oh, see, you're not. You're laughing. 549 00:38:29,400 --> 00:38:37,560 Hold your breath. You know the world records like 550 00:38:37,560 --> 00:38:39,480 20 minutes, so we'll see if we can do 21. 551 00:38:39,480 --> 00:38:48,990 OK, once you breathe, raise your hand. 552 00:38:54,510 --> 00:39:00,870 Keep it up. I'm not intimidated by any of 553 00:39:00,870 --> 00:39:02,230 y'all right now. Unless you know that. 554 00:39:09,200 --> 00:39:10,440 Just keep them up. Put them up. 555 00:39:10,600 --> 00:39:12,600 Huh? Yeah, there you go. 556 00:39:12,600 --> 00:39:13,920 Because I'm looking around. Uh huh. 557 00:39:21,800 --> 00:39:26,400 Wow. Keep them up. 558 00:39:26,400 --> 00:39:27,800 Some of y'all keep your hands up. 559 00:39:27,800 --> 00:39:29,240 I got a few over here holding out. 560 00:39:39,740 --> 00:39:44,520 Wow. Y'all y'all must practice at the 561 00:39:44,520 --> 00:39:52,520 House. Oh, there they go. 562 00:39:54,640 --> 00:39:56,440 Because it's husband and wife. That's what I'm saying. 563 00:39:56,440 --> 00:39:58,480 They're like, must sit in the bed at night and go. 564 00:39:58,640 --> 00:40:00,440 Let's see how long we can hold our breath tonight is. 565 00:40:02,120 --> 00:40:06,800 That what y'all do. I can hold it longer than you. 566 00:40:07,840 --> 00:40:10,360 Whoever breathes first has to take care of the kids tonight. 567 00:40:10,840 --> 00:40:12,880 That's what it is. I got it now. 568 00:40:12,960 --> 00:40:14,840 That's how it is. All right, you can put your hand 569 00:40:14,840 --> 00:40:18,600 down. Breathing's important, in fact, 570 00:40:18,600 --> 00:40:21,840 if you to hell long enough for you to past out, right? 571 00:40:22,280 --> 00:40:25,280 We know this. That's how important church is. 572 00:40:26,200 --> 00:40:36,100 But we treat it like it's not. And I understand that hinders 573 00:40:36,100 --> 00:40:39,700 our doctrine because we want to stay American. 574 00:40:39,700 --> 00:40:42,460 We want to pick and choose when we come, what we do, how we do 575 00:40:42,460 --> 00:40:51,000 it. Jump down to verse 16. 576 00:40:51,000 --> 00:40:53,240 John 1516. A little salon moment real 577 00:40:53,240 --> 00:40:57,080 quick. You did not choose me. 578 00:40:57,080 --> 00:40:57,520 That's good. That's. 579 00:41:04,280 --> 00:41:09,440 Good, you did not choose me, but I you didn't come by and say 580 00:41:09,440 --> 00:41:10,160 look at that. Mine. 581 00:41:10,160 --> 00:41:13,880 I think I'll jump on it. That's not how it worked. 582 00:41:17,600 --> 00:41:20,880 No, the bond said. You look pretty dead. 583 00:41:22,320 --> 00:41:25,840 I can give you a life. How about how about you come and 584 00:41:25,840 --> 00:41:27,280 let me in, graft you in right now. 585 00:41:28,760 --> 00:41:30,720 Let me start letting some life flow through you. 586 00:41:30,720 --> 00:41:35,520 This. Is what's so awesome about God. 587 00:41:35,520 --> 00:41:43,080 You can be a rotten, dead, lifeless branch, but God can cut 588 00:41:43,080 --> 00:41:46,440 a piece of you off, which is called self. 589 00:41:47,800 --> 00:41:51,720 That's what lordships about Let's cut self off. 590 00:41:52,960 --> 00:41:56,520 Now I'm going to engraft you in and what seemed like there was 591 00:41:56,520 --> 00:42:01,800 no hope, he resurrects you. Life starts flowing through you. 592 00:42:01,800 --> 00:42:05,520 All of a sudden you're not brittle, brittle, like 593 00:42:05,520 --> 00:42:09,960 everything hurts you. You're easily bruised. 594 00:42:11,080 --> 00:42:18,840 He'll he'll get you hard, full of SAP, Vigor put bark on you. 595 00:42:19,800 --> 00:42:21,920 He'll put you right back in there and then 'cause your fruit 596 00:42:21,920 --> 00:42:24,240 to start showing up. He said you. 597 00:42:24,320 --> 00:42:26,240 I did not. You did not choose me, but I 598 00:42:26,240 --> 00:42:29,120 chose you and appointed you. Now look at this choosing, he 599 00:42:29,120 --> 00:42:30,520 said. Now you didn't choose me, but I 600 00:42:30,520 --> 00:42:32,240 chose you. But I didn't choose you. 601 00:42:32,240 --> 00:42:35,880 Just so you look pretty. You're not supposed to be on the 602 00:42:35,880 --> 00:42:39,720 bond looking pretty. Look at me. 603 00:42:39,720 --> 00:42:44,600 Woo Hoo, wee, that's not you. That's not what God's like, man. 604 00:42:44,600 --> 00:42:47,520 We don't look good. Let's put them in, right. 605 00:42:47,880 --> 00:42:51,280 No. He chose you and appointed you 606 00:42:51,440 --> 00:42:53,320 that you would go. And what? 607 00:42:53,600 --> 00:42:57,720 Bear fruit. The reason you're getting 608 00:42:57,720 --> 00:43:00,880 engrafted in is so fruit production can manifest. 609 00:43:01,280 --> 00:43:04,640 And he's already said earlier, if I come through and fruit 610 00:43:04,640 --> 00:43:07,880 production is not happening, well man, I'll just cut you back 611 00:43:07,880 --> 00:43:18,280 off. He said that you would bear 612 00:43:18,280 --> 00:43:21,800 fruit and that your fruit. Would remain so that whatever 613 00:43:21,800 --> 00:43:25,680 you ask the Father in my name, he will give it to you. 614 00:43:30,960 --> 00:43:38,120 When we read this scripture, we assume that it becomes obvious 615 00:43:38,120 --> 00:43:44,120 when a branch has no fruit on it, but Jesus does talk about. 616 00:43:44,680 --> 00:43:48,560 When he says no fruit, he's not saying fruitless. 617 00:43:54,870 --> 00:44:01,350 This is why you have to read the Bible in context, because if the 618 00:44:01,350 --> 00:44:03,870 branch does not stay with the. Bond. 619 00:44:06,320 --> 00:44:15,520 It's its source. When you're born again, the Lord 620 00:44:15,520 --> 00:44:20,600 will always instruct you to get to an assembly place. 621 00:44:21,360 --> 00:44:30,760 And here's the thing. In our nation, to have one is 622 00:44:30,760 --> 00:44:34,720 not difficult. But in other. 623 00:44:34,720 --> 00:44:39,480 Nations, when they hear the opportunity to assemble, they 624 00:44:39,480 --> 00:44:43,080 risk their lives. They don't go well in America. 625 00:44:43,080 --> 00:44:44,640 Those just people watching on TV. 626 00:44:45,520 --> 00:44:53,040 Even if when they are not allowed, they look for ways to. 627 00:44:57,520 --> 00:45:00,800 Because in every nation, because in every believer, God says if 628 00:45:00,800 --> 00:45:03,600 you're going to bind the vine, you're going to #1, you're going 629 00:45:03,600 --> 00:45:06,400 to know me, you're going to be in my word, you're going to flow 630 00:45:06,400 --> 00:45:08,720 with my spirit and you're going to be connected to my body. 631 00:45:09,520 --> 00:45:13,760 That's what it means to abide. You cannot abide in His word 632 00:45:13,760 --> 00:45:17,880 without coming to church unless there's not a place to assemble. 633 00:45:17,880 --> 00:45:20,040 But you know, I have found that God has found places. 634 00:45:20,040 --> 00:45:24,680 All over the planet. And at the end of the day, 635 00:45:27,000 --> 00:45:33,520 there's no excuse in the US. So if you want it difficult to 636 00:45:33,520 --> 00:45:36,320 assemble 'cause you hate going to church, then move to the 637 00:45:36,320 --> 00:45:46,840 countries where it's illegal, leave so that you can stand 638 00:45:46,840 --> 00:45:50,120 before your Lord one day and say, you know, I went to that 639 00:45:50,120 --> 00:45:53,960 place, there was no churches there, Lord 'cause you know I'd 640 00:45:53,960 --> 00:46:04,840 have done it. You cannot say you're abiding 641 00:46:05,440 --> 00:46:14,560 and not. Be habitual in the Church 642 00:46:20,920 --> 00:46:25,600 because tree branches that do not bear fruit doesn't mean 643 00:46:25,600 --> 00:46:34,480 they're fruitless. Hallelujah, the same Jesus says 644 00:46:34,480 --> 00:46:40,080 this in Matthew 7, Matthew 7. Just so you'll know, starting in 645 00:46:40,080 --> 00:46:44,000 verse 15, he said. Beware of false prophets who 646 00:46:44,000 --> 00:46:49,160 come to you in sheep's clothing but inwardly are ravenous 647 00:46:49,280 --> 00:46:56,240 wolves. You will know them by their by 648 00:46:56,240 --> 00:46:58,280 their what? By their fruits. 649 00:46:59,080 --> 00:47:02,520 Grapes are not gathered from thorn bushes, nor figs from 650 00:47:02,560 --> 00:47:08,640 thistles, are they? Verse 17 Every good tree bears 651 00:47:09,480 --> 00:47:14,400 good fruit, but the bad tree bears do. 652 00:47:14,400 --> 00:47:21,360 They both bear fruit. A good tree cannot bear bad 653 00:47:21,360 --> 00:47:26,080 fruit, nor can a bad tree bear good fruit. 654 00:47:26,880 --> 00:47:31,120 But they both produce fruit. How do you know if one's good or 655 00:47:31,120 --> 00:47:35,160 bad? Every tree that does not bear 656 00:47:35,160 --> 00:47:37,680 good fruit is cut down and thrown in the fire. 657 00:47:39,600 --> 00:47:43,200 Let's read that verse together. Every tree that does not bear 658 00:47:43,200 --> 00:47:47,000 good fruit. So that tells me there are trees 659 00:47:47,000 --> 00:47:50,360 that are bearing fruit, but there's a condition that makes 660 00:47:50,360 --> 00:47:53,680 it not good. And if it's bearing fruit that's 661 00:47:53,680 --> 00:47:58,560 not good, it's the same as when the vine said to the branches, 662 00:47:58,680 --> 00:48:02,360 if I come through and you're bearing no fruit, you're cut off 663 00:48:02,480 --> 00:48:08,600 and you're thrown into the fire. Here, bad fruit gets the same 664 00:48:08,600 --> 00:48:18,680 treatment. What's interesting about this 665 00:48:18,680 --> 00:48:28,320 passive scripture is it starts out with false prophets, the 666 00:48:28,320 --> 00:48:32,560 ones that have the illusion that they're right with God, but on 667 00:48:32,560 --> 00:48:37,640 the inside they're full of self-interest. 668 00:48:38,640 --> 00:48:42,520 In essence, they know how to speak things that have the 669 00:48:42,520 --> 00:48:45,960 ability to produce good fruit, but they themselves don't have 670 00:48:45,960 --> 00:48:54,480 the capacity. Are you hearing me? 671 00:48:55,280 --> 00:48:58,680 And this is problematic, especially in our last days. 672 00:48:58,680 --> 00:49:00,880 Look what it says here in Hebrews just to help you out. 673 00:49:01,200 --> 00:49:06,720 In Hebrews chapter 895, verses 13 and 14, it says every for 674 00:49:06,720 --> 00:49:11,160 everyone who partakes only of milk is not accustomed to the 675 00:49:11,160 --> 00:49:17,720 word of righteousness. He is an and that's a born again 676 00:49:17,720 --> 00:49:23,080 believer that sits in the place called church that only teaches 677 00:49:23,520 --> 00:49:25,680 elementary principles. You want to know what elementary 678 00:49:25,680 --> 00:49:28,440 principles are? Go on to the next chapter. 679 00:49:28,560 --> 00:49:31,640 It starts in verse one and it tells you that things being 680 00:49:31,640 --> 00:49:36,000 preached that are elementary. That's milk, it's milk, it's 681 00:49:36,000 --> 00:49:37,880 milk. And if all you hear is milk, 682 00:49:38,040 --> 00:49:40,800 then we have a problem with what happens in verse 14. 683 00:49:40,960 --> 00:49:44,920 Verse 14 says, But solid food is for the mature who? 684 00:49:45,000 --> 00:49:47,960 Because of what? Practice, Practice. 685 00:49:47,960 --> 00:49:49,960 What's that mean? That means you're doing what 686 00:49:49,960 --> 00:49:53,080 you're hearing. You just don't hear it. 687 00:49:53,080 --> 00:49:55,760 You actually do it. It says don't get mad. 688 00:49:55,760 --> 00:50:01,240 So you don't get mad. You're in a situation that you 689 00:50:01,240 --> 00:50:04,160 could get mad, but instead you bear the fruit of self-control. 690 00:50:06,440 --> 00:50:10,280 You get in a situation where somebody's wronged you and the 691 00:50:10,280 --> 00:50:13,880 Lord says forgive. So you bear that fruit and then 692 00:50:13,880 --> 00:50:18,960 you treat them like they never blew it, and you bear that 693 00:50:18,960 --> 00:50:24,120 fruit. You're bearing the fruit of 694 00:50:24,120 --> 00:50:25,840 patience. You're bearing the fruit of 695 00:50:25,840 --> 00:50:27,720 kindness. You're getting around people 696 00:50:27,720 --> 00:50:31,960 that are not, that are always getting under your skin, yet you 697 00:50:31,960 --> 00:50:34,160 can constantly keep producing kindness. 698 00:50:40,120 --> 00:50:43,360 That's practice. Who, because of practice, have 699 00:50:43,360 --> 00:50:51,840 their senses trained to what. So if you are not mature, you do 700 00:50:51,840 --> 00:50:56,760 not know what's good or evil. Which tells me this you'll have 701 00:50:56,760 --> 00:51:03,120 a hard time discerning fruit. But the Lord knows fruit. 702 00:51:03,800 --> 00:51:08,280 He knows what's good and what's bad, I said. 703 00:51:08,280 --> 00:51:09,960 He knows what's good and what's bad. 704 00:51:11,000 --> 00:51:15,640 He knows. He knows because there are 705 00:51:15,640 --> 00:51:20,600 branches that are bearing fruit that are not connected to the 706 00:51:20,600 --> 00:51:30,620 bond. It's easy for a person to 707 00:51:30,620 --> 00:51:35,340 disconnect from the church and go do their own thing because 708 00:51:35,340 --> 00:51:38,380 there's plenty in the scripture to let you know what good things 709 00:51:38,380 --> 00:51:39,660 are. Oh, y'all. 710 00:51:39,660 --> 00:51:41,380 OK All right. Let's go on. 711 00:51:41,380 --> 00:51:44,180 Let me give you some more. Matthew, Turn over to Matthew, 712 00:51:44,180 --> 00:51:46,680 Chapter 19. Hallelujah. 713 00:51:47,760 --> 00:51:50,960 I mean, because we act like we can exist in the bond, and 714 00:51:50,960 --> 00:51:54,200 church is an option. Like we're really going to 715 00:51:54,200 --> 00:51:57,160 understand the word without the equipping of the Saints. 716 00:51:59,960 --> 00:52:03,440 Because again, I'm all excited about the prophecy of branches. 717 00:52:03,880 --> 00:52:06,160 But you got to understand what a branch is. 718 00:52:07,480 --> 00:52:09,880 So which means I this is who I'm looking for. 719 00:52:09,960 --> 00:52:12,240 This is how I determine whether you're a branch with Anchor 720 00:52:12,240 --> 00:52:14,360 Faith Church or not. You're not a branch. 721 00:52:14,360 --> 00:52:16,040 Well, that's just 'cause you say you are. 722 00:52:20,400 --> 00:52:22,480 Cause the minute I start preaching branches, everybody 723 00:52:22,480 --> 00:52:26,640 thinks they're a branch. But if I don't qualify what a 724 00:52:26,640 --> 00:52:36,560 branch is, they'll leave the church, do their own thing and 725 00:52:36,560 --> 00:52:42,320 say they're connected. Well, what church do you go to? 726 00:52:42,320 --> 00:52:45,800 Well, we don't. All right. 727 00:52:45,800 --> 00:52:46,720 Well, we go to Anchor. Fay. 728 00:52:46,720 --> 00:52:52,280 Well, I hadn't seen you forever. Oh, you know, we're just doing 729 00:52:52,280 --> 00:52:54,600 the work of the Lord and you can go. 730 00:53:03,480 --> 00:53:04,720 How are you doing? A work? 731 00:53:04,720 --> 00:53:12,280 And you're not abiding. Oh, well, me and Jesus were 732 00:53:12,280 --> 00:53:13,920 tight. Well, Jesus gave you a pastor. 733 00:53:16,640 --> 00:53:23,020 He did that. Yeah. 734 00:53:23,020 --> 00:53:24,780 I don't need a pastor. I just have the Holy Ghost. 735 00:53:24,780 --> 00:53:33,260 Well, the Holy Ghost tell you you need a pastor because this 736 00:53:33,260 --> 00:53:34,580 work you have is bigger than you. 737 00:53:49,400 --> 00:53:54,840 Got to identify the branch. Matthew 19 verse 16 says this 738 00:53:54,840 --> 00:53:59,800 and someone came to him and said teacher, what good? 739 00:54:00,120 --> 00:54:04,640 Thing shall I do that I may obtain eternal life? 740 00:54:05,040 --> 00:54:11,000 What good thing? And he said to him, Why are you 741 00:54:11,000 --> 00:54:19,560 asking me about what is good? There's only one who is good, 742 00:54:20,400 --> 00:54:22,240 but if you wish to enter into life. 743 00:54:22,240 --> 00:54:26,000 Keep. The commandments then he said to 744 00:54:26,000 --> 00:54:27,760 him. Which ones? 745 00:54:28,160 --> 00:54:30,520 And Jesus said, You shall not commit murder, you shall not 746 00:54:30,520 --> 00:54:33,080 commit adultery, you shall not steal, you shall not bear false 747 00:54:33,080 --> 00:54:34,600 witness. Honor your father and mother, 748 00:54:34,840 --> 00:54:36,360 and you shall love your neighbor as yourself. 749 00:54:36,360 --> 00:54:41,960 And the young man said to him, all these things I have kept, 750 00:54:44,640 --> 00:54:49,720 what am I still lacking? Jesus said to him. 751 00:54:50,320 --> 00:54:55,240 If you wish to be complete, notice what Jesus didn't say. 752 00:54:55,880 --> 00:55:04,800 You've got no. Fruit of that Jesus didn't say 753 00:55:05,320 --> 00:55:07,000 that's not true. You've not done that. 754 00:55:12,280 --> 00:55:20,110 No, he did it. It's how he was doing it, 755 00:55:20,110 --> 00:55:23,710 though. So Jesus says, let me talk to 756 00:55:23,710 --> 00:55:28,870 your trunk because you don't realize your branch ain't 757 00:55:28,870 --> 00:55:33,230 connected to me. Your branch is connected to 758 00:55:33,230 --> 00:55:36,400 another trunk. A different bond. 759 00:55:37,160 --> 00:55:41,640 Now if you want to be complete, since you are trying to, you're 760 00:55:41,640 --> 00:55:46,920 bearing fruit that looks like the fruit off of my branches. 761 00:55:47,720 --> 00:55:53,960 However, it's not actually good. Lest any man should boast 762 00:55:57,520 --> 00:56:01,200 they're fruit. But it's not my fruit, because 763 00:56:01,200 --> 00:56:05,360 it didn't come from, he said. If you want to be complete, go 764 00:56:05,360 --> 00:56:08,960 and sell your possessions, give to the poor, and you'll have 765 00:56:08,960 --> 00:56:10,360 treasures in heaven to come. Follow me. 766 00:56:10,360 --> 00:56:14,800 But when the young man heard this statement, he went away 767 00:56:14,800 --> 00:56:18,160 grieving, for he was one who owned much property. 768 00:56:18,160 --> 00:56:23,160 And Jesus said, Truly, I say to you, it's hard for a rich man to 769 00:56:23,200 --> 00:56:27,200 enter the Kingdom of heaven. What did he realize? 770 00:56:28,040 --> 00:56:33,200 He's cutting me off my tree? That's been my source. 771 00:56:35,040 --> 00:56:38,000 It's what makes my decisions. It's why I've been so 772 00:56:38,000 --> 00:56:44,440 benevolent. It's why I do what I do, and 773 00:56:44,440 --> 00:56:47,720 he's telling me to cut myself off from that and come to him, 774 00:56:47,720 --> 00:56:50,040 he said. Cut that off and let come and 775 00:56:50,040 --> 00:56:55,920 get engrafted to me. Let me sever you off your trunk 776 00:56:58,880 --> 00:57:04,160 and let me bring you into me. Now you need to in order to get 777 00:57:04,160 --> 00:57:06,440 full understanding. Look it over in the Luke Mark 778 00:57:06,440 --> 00:57:08,800 account. Mark chapter 10 verse 17 says 779 00:57:08,800 --> 00:57:13,640 this and he was setting on out on a journey and a man ran up to 780 00:57:13,640 --> 00:57:15,720 him and knelt down before. Him and said, Good teacher, what 781 00:57:15,720 --> 00:57:18,240 shall I do? And to inherit eternal life. 782 00:57:18,240 --> 00:57:21,080 And and Jesus said to him, why do you call me good? 783 00:57:21,640 --> 00:57:26,720 No one is good except God alone. So he's questioning his ability 784 00:57:26,720 --> 00:57:30,240 to determine what's good. OK? 785 00:57:32,080 --> 00:57:34,760 Isn't it amazing? This guy was confident, Good 786 00:57:34,760 --> 00:57:36,760 teacher. What shall I do to inherit 787 00:57:36,760 --> 00:57:39,840 eternal life now? Why does he call Jesus good? 788 00:57:41,360 --> 00:57:45,720 OK. He's calling Jesus good based 789 00:57:45,720 --> 00:57:52,480 upon certain things. Jesus says. 790 00:57:53,000 --> 00:57:55,520 Don't you know that I'm from the If you don't, if you don't 791 00:57:55,520 --> 00:57:59,040 believe that I came from the Father, at least believe what 792 00:57:59,680 --> 00:58:02,680 the works. And what were the works? 793 00:58:02,680 --> 00:58:06,400 It was the fruit of his obedience. 794 00:58:07,120 --> 00:58:09,800 So this guy knew that Jesus was doing something. 795 00:58:09,880 --> 00:58:13,160 He had some connection to God and he was able to determine it 796 00:58:13,160 --> 00:58:18,960 from Jesus's fruits. So he says good teacher because 797 00:58:18,960 --> 00:58:22,160 obviously I'm producing fruit, but I still feel like I'm 798 00:58:22,160 --> 00:58:26,440 lacking or I'm producing fruit and I want you to justify it. 799 00:58:27,200 --> 00:58:30,400 Because this is a question. Could it be that he was being 800 00:58:30,400 --> 00:58:33,840 kind of. I don't know the term for that, 801 00:58:33,840 --> 00:58:37,680 whether that's being ironic or what's the when you're asking 802 00:58:37,680 --> 00:58:39,160 the question without asking the question? 803 00:58:40,120 --> 00:58:44,040 Rhetorical, you know, good teacher, what shall I do to 804 00:58:44,040 --> 00:58:46,680 inherit eternal life? Like surely you're going to say 805 00:58:46,680 --> 00:58:53,000 I got it because all that I've done, right? 806 00:58:54,280 --> 00:58:55,800 Jesus says, why do you call me good? 807 00:58:55,800 --> 00:58:57,520 Only God's good alone. Then He goes, you know the 808 00:58:57,520 --> 00:58:59,840 commandments and he goes through the list, right? 809 00:59:01,280 --> 00:59:03,520 He gets in verse 20. And he said to him, teacher, 810 00:59:03,520 --> 00:59:05,600 I've kept all these things from my youth up. 811 00:59:06,280 --> 00:59:09,800 Looking at him, Jesus fell a love for him and said to him one 812 00:59:09,800 --> 00:59:13,000 thing you lack. So he was moved. 813 00:59:13,000 --> 00:59:18,560 He's like, man, this boy wants to produce fruit so bad, but 814 00:59:18,560 --> 00:59:24,400 everything he produces is bad, is rotten to the core because 815 00:59:24,400 --> 00:59:27,920 it's not connected to me. He's using me, he's using my 816 00:59:27,920 --> 00:59:31,280 word, he's using my methods. He's, but he's not connected to, 817 00:59:31,320 --> 00:59:33,960 you know how many people are born again and using God's word 818 00:59:33,960 --> 00:59:35,440 but are not connected to his church? 819 00:59:35,760 --> 00:59:36,920 They have nothing to do with his church. 820 00:59:36,920 --> 00:59:38,240 They are not connected to a source. 821 00:59:38,240 --> 00:59:39,760 They're not finding where their fit is. 822 00:59:39,880 --> 00:59:42,280 They're not trying to get connected somewhere and get 823 00:59:42,280 --> 00:59:45,120 submitted and get around other brothers and get around a vision 824 00:59:45,120 --> 00:59:47,520 that's bigger than themselves. To change and transform a 825 00:59:47,520 --> 00:59:49,320 community, they don't want to be around a vision. 826 00:59:49,320 --> 00:59:51,160 Now all they want to do is do their own thing. 827 00:59:51,160 --> 00:59:53,920 Their only vision is their only house and their one Jesus. 828 00:59:54,000 --> 00:59:55,640 And and then they're going to read their scripture and do 829 00:59:55,640 --> 00:59:57,320 their personal devotions whenever they want to. 830 00:59:57,320 --> 00:59:58,880 And they're not always producing the fruit. 831 00:59:58,880 --> 01:00:00,360 And then then when they don't produce the fruit in the 832 01:00:00,360 --> 01:00:02,760 highways, in the byways, then you know, they make excuses. 833 01:00:02,760 --> 01:00:05,560 Then they end up coming in misinterpreting God and saying, 834 01:00:05,560 --> 01:00:07,880 you know, that he does different things, that a pastor that's 835 01:00:07,880 --> 01:00:09,600 rightly divine. The word would help clean all 836 01:00:09,600 --> 01:00:11,600 your thinking up so that you wouldn't think like that. 837 01:00:12,800 --> 01:00:14,680 And then you get around a network of people that would 838 01:00:14,680 --> 01:00:19,560 hold you accountable because it's easy to say when no one's 839 01:00:19,560 --> 01:00:21,760 holding you accountable. And you're like, well, I'll just 840 01:00:21,760 --> 01:00:23,600 go to the Lord. Well, you understand you are. 841 01:00:23,600 --> 01:00:25,800 How come you keep going to the Lord when you could actually 842 01:00:25,800 --> 01:00:28,920 elevate beyond that and quit walking in that sin and in that 843 01:00:28,920 --> 01:00:31,520 stronghold all the time because you get around some people to be 844 01:00:31,520 --> 01:00:33,360 in a whole new accountable, like, I'm not going to do that 845 01:00:33,440 --> 01:00:37,600 because it will cost my team, my church, my the actions of my 846 01:00:37,600 --> 01:00:42,480 life reflect bigger than me. See, when you stay isolated, 847 01:00:45,080 --> 01:00:47,080 then you accept. Your own fruit. 848 01:00:47,360 --> 01:00:49,440 That, by all rights, God's saying is bad. 849 01:00:54,640 --> 01:00:58,280 We call it good, but the Lord doesn't. 850 01:01:00,120 --> 01:01:03,200 Oh, you got fruit there, I got it, but it's not in me. 851 01:01:08,580 --> 01:01:14,220 The rich young ruler Jesus, or the word he was doing, wasn't 852 01:01:14,220 --> 01:01:16,340 pulling from the source of who said it. 853 01:01:23,640 --> 01:01:27,360 Who's the branch? The one that's connected, the 854 01:01:27,360 --> 01:01:32,440 one that stays committed, the one that stays submitted, the 855 01:01:32,440 --> 01:01:35,520 one that says my life's not my own. 856 01:01:46,300 --> 01:01:49,820 Yeah. And I think one of the most 857 01:01:49,820 --> 01:01:53,980 exciting things about pastoring and being at this moment now and 858 01:01:54,020 --> 01:01:56,860 hearing what the Lord has said about anchor of a church is to 859 01:01:56,860 --> 01:02:00,260 say, man, there. There are a lot of committed 860 01:02:00,260 --> 01:02:08,040 people and the reason why some of you, your branches are going 861 01:02:08,040 --> 01:02:12,920 to get further out is because unfortunately not enough for 862 01:02:12,920 --> 01:02:18,800 staying connected. You could have reached here, but 863 01:02:18,800 --> 01:02:20,160 because. Someone leaves. 864 01:02:20,360 --> 01:02:24,520 You're going to have to go further and get into the sphere 865 01:02:24,520 --> 01:02:26,720 that was designed for them. Have you ever watched the Live 866 01:02:26,720 --> 01:02:27,880 Oak? How it starts to go out and then 867 01:02:27,880 --> 01:02:36,040 all of a sudden that limit just turn pop out in a different 868 01:02:36,040 --> 01:02:39,240 direction? And the reason it does that is 869 01:02:39,240 --> 01:02:42,160 because it's like this is where God wanted me to affect, but all 870 01:02:42,160 --> 01:02:44,280 of a sudden someone got disconnected. 871 01:02:44,560 --> 01:02:47,840 I'll go over here now to make influence where I never was 872 01:02:47,840 --> 01:02:51,040 designed to, but I'll just keep growing because I stayed with 873 01:02:51,040 --> 01:02:55,280 the source. I'm truly a branch. 874 01:02:55,680 --> 01:02:57,360 I'm not trying to do my own thing. 875 01:02:57,840 --> 01:02:59,440 I'm not trying to build my own name. 876 01:02:59,600 --> 01:03:02,560 I'm not trying to do my own thing without having submission. 877 01:03:13,600 --> 01:03:14,800 You say, well, you're the pastor. 878 01:03:14,800 --> 01:03:18,520 Who are you submitted to Pastor Kenneth Wayne Hagan. 879 01:03:19,600 --> 01:03:23,560 That's my pastor. And when he tells me to do 880 01:03:23,560 --> 01:03:28,880 something, I do it and I'm connected. 881 01:03:29,560 --> 01:03:33,240 And I actually work on stuff for him as well. 882 01:03:36,120 --> 01:03:38,960 I'm not talking casual here, knowing him. 883 01:03:39,480 --> 01:03:43,440 I'm talking about fully engrafted in. 884 01:03:50,020 --> 01:03:52,620 I'm talking about bringing resource. 885 01:03:52,820 --> 01:03:56,820 I'm talking about showing up. I'm talking about speaking out. 886 01:03:56,940 --> 01:03:58,540 I'm talking about bringing other. 887 01:03:58,540 --> 01:04:07,560 I'm talking about he can call and know even though he knows. 888 01:04:08,360 --> 01:04:17,280 I oversee this because this branch reached out from Raima 889 01:04:17,960 --> 01:04:21,480 and took a route right? Here and started to build. 890 01:04:25,240 --> 01:04:30,240 What you don't really understand is that I kind of came out and I 891 01:04:30,240 --> 01:04:34,840 dropped the acorn in Saint Augustine because I never left 892 01:04:34,840 --> 01:04:43,000 Raima and I built a foundation of which my branch gets 893 01:04:43,000 --> 01:04:57,150 engrafted in Hallelujah and I advance Rhema's cause. 894 01:04:58,750 --> 01:05:01,110 Equally as I advance Anchor faith. 895 01:05:02,030 --> 01:05:09,480 Equally because I'm a branch. I bear fruit. 896 01:05:12,640 --> 01:05:22,600 Hallelujah. Thank you so much for listening 897 01:05:22,600 --> 01:05:25,040 to this message. If you want more, subscribe to 898 01:05:25,040 --> 01:05:28,440 our Message podcast on iTunes, Google Play, Spotify, and 899 01:05:28,440 --> 01:05:30,440 SoundCloud. 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