1 00:00:20,200 --> 00:00:22,240 We'll turn over to Matthew chapter 13. 2 00:00:23,680 --> 00:00:28,240 Thank you, Jesus. Matthew, Chapter 13. 3 00:00:29,400 --> 00:00:34,040 Verses 24 to 30, you know, I was, while we were worshiping 4 00:00:34,040 --> 00:00:38,840 the Lord, the Lord showed me a game last night. 5 00:00:38,840 --> 00:00:44,920 Actually, I jumped over and watched Florida play Duke in 6 00:00:45,600 --> 00:00:50,560 basketball. And Pastor Darryl Huffman and 7 00:00:50,560 --> 00:00:54,000 his son Joshua, you know, their whole family are Duke fans. 8 00:00:54,720 --> 00:00:57,720 Recently, there's been a little bit of a challenge because 9 00:00:57,720 --> 00:01:01,840 again, his daughter Anna, all of them are big Duke fans. 10 00:01:01,840 --> 00:01:12,000 Well, his grandson and a son went to college and was not 11 00:01:12,000 --> 00:01:18,600 accepted to Duke but was accepted to North Carolina and 12 00:01:18,600 --> 00:01:23,480 he accepted it. Well, there's been a rift now. 13 00:01:24,400 --> 00:01:30,480 And so his youngest sister or only sister, you know, she don't 14 00:01:30,480 --> 00:01:33,600 want to want to have any conversation with him because 15 00:01:33,600 --> 00:01:37,920 she's she's die hard. And anyway, so I had text Joshua 16 00:01:38,160 --> 00:01:40,240 earlier in the day. I said go Gators tonight. 17 00:01:40,800 --> 00:01:42,480 And then I thought I'd watch it. You know, you don't have to 18 00:01:42,480 --> 00:01:44,800 watch basketball for the last two minutes anyway because 19 00:01:44,800 --> 00:01:48,440 everything changes. And so obviously it was a nail 20 00:01:48,440 --> 00:01:50,600 biter. Unfortunately, they got the last 21 00:01:50,600 --> 00:01:54,200 three before we could. And so we lost by 1:00. 22 00:01:55,000 --> 00:02:02,320 But when Florida went up by 1 or two, I think it was, man, they 23 00:02:02,320 --> 00:02:07,280 showed a guy on the stands and he was like screaming. 24 00:02:07,280 --> 00:02:09,919 And I told my wife, I said men know how to praise. 25 00:02:11,880 --> 00:02:15,520 They know how to praise. But man, the Duke, because they 26 00:02:15,520 --> 00:02:18,560 were at Duke, man, that whole stadium was like this. 27 00:02:19,440 --> 00:02:21,480 Now there's like 30 something seconds. 28 00:02:21,480 --> 00:02:24,320 That's the whole lifetime in basketball. 29 00:02:24,400 --> 00:02:27,640 It's just amazing how much you can do in 30 seconds. 30 00:02:28,200 --> 00:02:29,800 And so, you know, they're all stunned. 31 00:02:29,800 --> 00:02:34,080 Well, when their team dropped that three and went up by 1, I 32 00:02:34,080 --> 00:02:36,000 mean, the, the roof would have ripped off. 33 00:02:36,560 --> 00:02:39,760 I mean, it's pandemonium. Now, if you've been to any 34 00:02:39,760 --> 00:02:44,480 athletic events ever, whether you've played or you've been in 35 00:02:44,480 --> 00:02:49,040 it, everyone believes that the home team has an advantage. 36 00:02:50,240 --> 00:02:52,760 That's why Texas A&M calls it the 12th man. 37 00:02:53,440 --> 00:02:56,680 And you get into certain places, man, that crowd to start going, 38 00:02:56,680 --> 00:03:01,880 it will change the atmosphere. You know a lot of opposing teams 39 00:03:01,880 --> 00:03:05,000 when they come into those stadiums. 40 00:03:05,000 --> 00:03:08,600 I like what what I don't like. But again, it's. 41 00:03:08,600 --> 00:03:11,800 Just a reference point. I was watching a interview with 42 00:03:11,800 --> 00:03:15,120 our new head coach. The ESPN guy was like, you know, 43 00:03:15,560 --> 00:03:17,600 I'm excited. You're at the cathedral. 44 00:03:17,920 --> 00:03:20,840 The new cathedral. But well, what an interesting 45 00:03:20,880 --> 00:03:24,120 reference. That he made. 46 00:03:24,120 --> 00:03:29,040 For the Swamp anyway, they want you want to go into the opposing 47 00:03:29,040 --> 00:03:33,080 teams home field and get the crowd out. 48 00:03:35,840 --> 00:03:40,200 Why is it that something about the shout of the fans can 49 00:03:40,200 --> 00:03:43,240 motivate the players to do something different? 50 00:03:45,560 --> 00:03:51,080 But in those sports, right, obviously there's ups and downs. 51 00:03:51,080 --> 00:03:52,880 It depends on whether you're winning or losing. 52 00:03:53,360 --> 00:03:57,000 In the church, however, we are always victorious. 53 00:03:58,840 --> 00:04:01,000 We are in, we can never be defeated. 54 00:04:01,080 --> 00:04:06,080 We've we've our, our kings never lost the battle ever, period. 55 00:04:07,120 --> 00:04:11,440 And it wouldn't matter if this if your life seemed like you 56 00:04:11,440 --> 00:04:16,640 were 10 touchdowns behind, I mean, you walked into the 57 00:04:16,640 --> 00:04:21,120 stadium full of victory. I mean, you, you cannot lose by 58 00:04:21,120 --> 00:04:22,920 faith. Can't do it. 59 00:04:23,480 --> 00:04:26,920 But we all know that an atmosphere is created with the 60 00:04:26,920 --> 00:04:33,680 mouths of people in a stadium. So, you know, it behooves us to 61 00:04:33,680 --> 00:04:41,760 find the, the, the songs that cause us to connect, right? 62 00:04:42,040 --> 00:04:45,960 So one of the daunting task of, of us in praise is finding the 63 00:04:45,960 --> 00:04:49,840 songs that resonate with us in the spirit because we're not 64 00:04:49,840 --> 00:04:53,560 here just to sing a song. We're here to connect in the 65 00:04:53,560 --> 00:04:57,080 spirit where the atmosphere changes because we're in it in 66 00:04:57,080 --> 00:04:59,400 the spirit. And we're not just talking about 67 00:04:59,400 --> 00:05:01,960 it from a soulish perspective, because there's plenty of 68 00:05:01,960 --> 00:05:04,640 soulish worship out there. And they'll leave you on a high 69 00:05:04,640 --> 00:05:07,000 in the in the service and then you leave and then it doesn't 70 00:05:07,000 --> 00:05:08,240 help you in life. You got to be able to have 71 00:05:08,240 --> 00:05:10,240 something that's going to connect in the spirit so that 72 00:05:10,240 --> 00:05:13,080 when you get out somewhere else, it comes up in the spirit. 73 00:05:13,640 --> 00:05:14,720 Now, I'm going to be honest with you. 74 00:05:14,720 --> 00:05:18,560 You know, the praise that is out there is so soulish that, you 75 00:05:18,560 --> 00:05:22,040 know, I found myself singing more Force frank stuff than I do 76 00:05:22,040 --> 00:05:26,360 anything, which is crazy. But there's a purity about his 77 00:05:26,360 --> 00:05:33,360 stuff that, you know, it makes me sing lemonade, right? 78 00:05:33,800 --> 00:05:37,520 I mean, I can't tell you how many mornings I've come up from 79 00:05:37,520 --> 00:05:42,520 my sleep not singing some popular worship song, but 80 00:05:42,680 --> 00:05:46,840 lemonade, right? Because my God, to make some 81 00:05:46,840 --> 00:05:51,240 lemonade, man, it's good stuff. And then there's this new one on 82 00:05:51,240 --> 00:05:53,480 sunshine, and I'm all about the sunshine. 83 00:05:54,200 --> 00:05:59,480 So, you know, I'm just saying it's time to work, right? 84 00:06:00,800 --> 00:06:04,040 It's time to get to work, all right? 85 00:06:04,560 --> 00:06:11,080 So my point is, is man know that our praise has an atmosphere and 86 00:06:11,080 --> 00:06:17,720 and just like in the natural, a stadium is changed when the 87 00:06:18,800 --> 00:06:24,120 crowd or the fan base is loud and they're enthusiastic. 88 00:06:24,240 --> 00:06:28,520 How much more in the spirit when we are now it takes 89 00:06:28,520 --> 00:06:32,600 intentionality. And again, why is it easier for 90 00:06:32,600 --> 00:06:37,120 natural, carnal, even really lost people to yell to the top 91 00:06:37,120 --> 00:06:40,680 of their lungs? Yet when we come in here, we 92 00:06:40,680 --> 00:06:46,960 have a difficulty with the sacrifice of praise Hallelujah. 93 00:06:46,960 --> 00:06:49,320 Well, why don't we just stand up and practice at one time? 94 00:06:49,800 --> 00:06:53,440 Come on, let's just do a shout. Come on, stand up, give a shot 95 00:06:53,440 --> 00:06:56,960 of praise Hallelujah. Glory to God. 96 00:06:58,320 --> 00:07:03,080 Hey, Lord, we love you, Lord, Glory to your name. 97 00:07:03,600 --> 00:07:06,840 Glory to your name. Glory to your name. 98 00:07:07,440 --> 00:07:09,400 Hallelujah. Woo. 99 00:07:10,720 --> 00:07:18,480 Yeah. Glory, Hallelujah, Hallelujah. 100 00:07:19,800 --> 00:07:22,960 You worthy. Lord, you worthy. 101 00:07:24,040 --> 00:07:25,880 You worthy. Woo. 102 00:07:26,880 --> 00:07:30,520 He's never been defeated. Amen. 103 00:07:31,080 --> 00:07:33,160 Now for the men. I just want to let you know, how 104 00:07:33,160 --> 00:07:35,760 do you translate that? Just think of that one sports 105 00:07:35,760 --> 00:07:40,320 moment with your child. Well that game and you jump and 106 00:07:40,320 --> 00:07:46,400 then magnify that with Christ on the cross in the grave, out of 107 00:07:46,400 --> 00:07:50,280 the grave, all your sin forgiven. 108 00:07:51,360 --> 00:07:54,600 I mean that's monumental. You understand. 109 00:07:54,600 --> 00:07:57,720 It's like that's it's last second stuff when all of a 110 00:07:57,720 --> 00:08:05,000 sudden here comes Jesus out, the Holy Ghost comes and gets him. 111 00:08:05,520 --> 00:08:08,040 There's a rumbling going on, man. 112 00:08:08,040 --> 00:08:12,280 You know, that's pandemonium. And you know, when one person 113 00:08:12,280 --> 00:08:15,640 that's lost comes into the Kingdom, it says the angels 114 00:08:16,160 --> 00:08:20,280 throw a shout of praise that we've never even seen on this 115 00:08:20,280 --> 00:08:23,280 planet yet. Yeah, Yeah. 116 00:08:23,280 --> 00:08:25,080 Now. But again, it's intentionality, 117 00:08:25,600 --> 00:08:27,800 right? We have to make it a habit. 118 00:08:28,240 --> 00:08:30,960 Again. What's amazing is the church has 119 00:08:30,960 --> 00:08:34,480 to be trained, but yet the world doesn't have to be trained 120 00:08:35,280 --> 00:08:37,600 because you don't have to go into a football stadium and 121 00:08:37,600 --> 00:08:43,240 train them to shout. But, yeah, we have to come and 122 00:08:43,240 --> 00:08:45,960 say, well, you know, notice we have been shouting recently, 123 00:08:47,080 --> 00:08:48,960 Right. Amen. 124 00:08:49,000 --> 00:08:50,680 Well, let's say law. All right. 125 00:08:50,680 --> 00:08:53,120 Have a seat. Matthew 13. 126 00:08:53,120 --> 00:08:55,040 Thank you for participation. But didn't you sense an 127 00:08:55,040 --> 00:08:58,000 atmosphere difference even then? Yeah. 128 00:08:58,200 --> 00:09:00,200 Now, if you're like, well, but if there was a guest, you know, 129 00:09:00,200 --> 00:09:02,720 they may think we're weird. No. 130 00:09:03,000 --> 00:09:05,840 No, they won't because they'll actually get in an environment 131 00:09:05,840 --> 00:09:07,320 they're like, I've never been in this. 132 00:09:07,520 --> 00:09:09,680 They can, they'll go. Now, I've been to games before, 133 00:09:09,680 --> 00:09:13,280 but this is different. I've been in stadiums where they 134 00:09:13,280 --> 00:09:17,720 shout, but this shout has something else in it, right? 135 00:09:17,720 --> 00:09:20,360 Because we're not of this world. And when we're connected to the 136 00:09:20,360 --> 00:09:22,760 Spirit, it brings in a spiritual atmosphere that's way different. 137 00:09:23,320 --> 00:09:25,640 It is not the same. All right. 138 00:09:25,640 --> 00:09:26,760 And I'm going to prove that tonight. 139 00:09:27,000 --> 00:09:29,960 Matthew 13 verses 24 to 30 says this. 140 00:09:30,360 --> 00:09:33,120 Jesus presented another parable to them, saying The Kingdom of 141 00:09:33,120 --> 00:09:38,480 heaven is like or maybe compared to a man who sowed good seed in 142 00:09:38,480 --> 00:09:40,000 his field. What kind of seed did he sow? 143 00:09:40,920 --> 00:09:45,320 Good? OK, verse 25 But while his men 144 00:09:45,320 --> 00:09:49,080 were sleeping, his enemy came and sowed tares among the weed 145 00:09:49,120 --> 00:09:53,160 and went away all right. But when the wheat sprouted and 146 00:09:53,160 --> 00:09:56,680 bore grain, then the tares became evident. 147 00:09:56,680 --> 00:10:00,040 Also. The slaves of the landowner came 148 00:10:00,040 --> 00:10:05,360 and said to him, Sir, did you not sow good seed in your field? 149 00:10:05,720 --> 00:10:10,040 How then does it have tares? And he said to them, An enemy 150 00:10:10,040 --> 00:10:12,120 has done this. The slave said to him, Do you 151 00:10:12,120 --> 00:10:14,800 want us to go and gather them up? 152 00:10:14,800 --> 00:10:18,480 But he said, No, for while you are gathering up the tares you 153 00:10:18,480 --> 00:10:24,520 may uproot the wheat with them. Allow both to grow together 154 00:10:25,280 --> 00:10:29,040 until the harvest, and in the time of harvest, I will say to 155 00:10:29,040 --> 00:10:33,320 the reapers first gather up the tares and bind them in bundles 156 00:10:33,560 --> 00:10:37,200 to burn them up, but gather the wheat into my barns. 157 00:10:37,360 --> 00:10:40,240 All right? Now we don't have to speculate 158 00:10:40,240 --> 00:10:45,200 what he meant by this because he goes on in verse 36 to actually 159 00:10:45,960 --> 00:10:48,760 communicate exactly what this parable is. 160 00:10:48,880 --> 00:10:50,600 All right, so we're going to jump down there and look at it. 161 00:10:50,600 --> 00:10:53,640 Then we'll expound just a tad in verse 36. 162 00:10:53,640 --> 00:10:56,120 He said. Then he left the crowds, so he's 163 00:10:56,120 --> 00:10:57,640 not talking to the crowds anymore. 164 00:10:58,280 --> 00:11:02,880 All right, And he went to the house, and his disciples came to 165 00:11:02,880 --> 00:11:05,640 him and said, explain to us the parable of the tares of the 166 00:11:05,640 --> 00:11:08,000 field. And he said, the one who sows 167 00:11:08,000 --> 00:11:11,720 the good seed is the son of man. All right, who's the son of man? 168 00:11:12,280 --> 00:11:14,200 What's his name? OK. 169 00:11:15,680 --> 00:11:20,560 And the field is the world. And As for the good seed, these 170 00:11:20,560 --> 00:11:26,640 are the sons of the Kingdom, and the tares are the sons of the 171 00:11:26,640 --> 00:11:30,160 evil. 1 The enemy who sowed them is the devil. 172 00:11:30,640 --> 00:11:33,480 Who is he? He's the devil, and the harvest 173 00:11:33,480 --> 00:11:37,600 is the end of the age, and the reapers are angels. 174 00:11:37,920 --> 00:11:40,000 All right, then he goes on. He says. 175 00:11:40,000 --> 00:11:43,240 So just as the tares are gathered up and burned with 176 00:11:43,240 --> 00:11:46,440 fire, so shall it be at the end of the age. 177 00:11:46,440 --> 00:11:49,640 The Son of Man will send forth his angels and they will gather 178 00:11:49,680 --> 00:11:56,400 out of his Kingdom all stumbling blocks and those who commit 179 00:11:56,480 --> 00:12:01,400 lawlessness, and we'll throw them into the furnace of fire. 180 00:12:01,760 --> 00:12:04,400 In that place there will be weeping and gnashing of teeth. 181 00:12:04,920 --> 00:12:08,640 Then the righteous will shine forth as the Son in the Kingdom 182 00:12:08,640 --> 00:12:12,920 of their father. He who has ears, let him hear. 183 00:12:13,280 --> 00:12:15,400 All right, so let's go back and look at a few things. 184 00:12:15,400 --> 00:12:19,280 We're going to jump from 24 all the way down through 43. 185 00:12:19,280 --> 00:12:22,720 Let's go back to just the parable portion of it and some 186 00:12:22,720 --> 00:12:27,240 of the Scriptures that are here. First and foremost, we know that 187 00:12:27,240 --> 00:12:30,240 the Son of Man or Jesus sowed the good seed and that the devil 188 00:12:30,240 --> 00:12:34,080 is the one who sows the bad seed, and the seed represents 189 00:12:34,080 --> 00:12:38,360 people, OK? The good seed are those who are 190 00:12:38,360 --> 00:12:42,000 sons of the Kingdom, or we would say those who are born of God. 191 00:12:42,360 --> 00:12:46,480 All right, the bad seed, or is those that are not born of God 192 00:12:46,560 --> 00:12:51,480 at this point. All right, now the seed is sown. 193 00:12:52,440 --> 00:12:55,720 No one knows that there are two, two different seeds at this 194 00:12:55,720 --> 00:12:59,400 point, and they do not even know there's two different seeds. 195 00:12:59,560 --> 00:13:04,040 When they break out of the ground and begin to grow, at 196 00:13:04,040 --> 00:13:08,640 first it's the same. They're so they look so much 197 00:13:08,640 --> 00:13:11,720 alike that you cannot tell the difference. 198 00:13:12,960 --> 00:13:20,160 But there becomes a qualifier, a qualifier, and the qualifier is 199 00:13:20,360 --> 00:13:23,400 the fruit, the fruits, the qualifier. 200 00:13:23,920 --> 00:13:29,440 The tares do not produce wheat. They don't produce that fruit. 201 00:13:29,760 --> 00:13:35,400 So once fruit started to manifest, then those who were 202 00:13:35,400 --> 00:13:38,800 taking care of the field realized this. 203 00:13:39,640 --> 00:13:43,920 It's not all wheat. There's bad plants in here. 204 00:13:44,880 --> 00:13:47,440 They identified them as tares at that point. 205 00:13:47,600 --> 00:13:54,000 So there's a season that you don't tell the difference, and 206 00:13:54,000 --> 00:13:56,400 you would never tell the difference if it wasn't for 207 00:13:56,400 --> 00:13:59,040 fruit. So fruit is the indicator of 208 00:13:59,040 --> 00:14:01,400 difference. Are you hearing me? 209 00:14:02,360 --> 00:14:05,320 This is why we've said before Jesus say go into all the world 210 00:14:05,320 --> 00:14:09,840 and make disciples. Disciples are to bear fruit. 211 00:14:10,720 --> 00:14:13,200 It's a it's a product of discipleship. 212 00:14:13,480 --> 00:14:16,880 This is why God never intended the church to make converts. 213 00:14:16,880 --> 00:14:21,200 Only conversion is when you leave seed state and become a 214 00:14:21,200 --> 00:14:25,080 plant because a seed. Jesus said unless a kernel of 215 00:14:25,080 --> 00:14:29,080 seed falls into the ground and dies, it remains a seed alone. 216 00:14:29,280 --> 00:14:33,760 But if it obviously breaks forth what's in it, it can produce 217 00:14:33,760 --> 00:14:37,720 after its own kind. Now, again, farmers do not farm 218 00:14:37,720 --> 00:14:41,840 for the sake of plants. They farm for fruit. 219 00:14:43,440 --> 00:14:46,560 So you can have a field full of plants, but if it never produces 220 00:14:46,560 --> 00:14:50,640 any fruit, you have a lost crop, right? 221 00:14:51,120 --> 00:14:54,480 And so for farmers, it's more important to have fruit on their 222 00:14:54,480 --> 00:14:59,760 crop, not just to have crop. As a believer, the only 223 00:14:59,760 --> 00:15:03,320 difference between US and the world is not how we look. 224 00:15:06,560 --> 00:15:08,680 It's not in our outward appearance. 225 00:15:09,960 --> 00:15:12,040 Now that doesn't mean our outward appearance won't be 226 00:15:12,040 --> 00:15:15,280 affected by our inward change. I'm not saying that. 227 00:15:15,600 --> 00:15:18,680 What I am saying though is that when you're born again, your 228 00:15:18,680 --> 00:15:21,400 skin suit doesn't technically does not change. 229 00:15:21,400 --> 00:15:24,120 Now when I say technically, what I mean by that is if you had 230 00:15:24,120 --> 00:15:26,680 sickness, it can't be healed, right? 231 00:15:26,920 --> 00:15:29,760 And you can do some things to yourself to make yourself maybe 232 00:15:29,760 --> 00:15:33,280 look better than what you did technically before you were born 233 00:15:33,280 --> 00:15:37,240 again. However, your outward is not 234 00:15:38,280 --> 00:15:41,520 what's making you difference. It's your fruit that's showing 235 00:15:41,520 --> 00:15:46,640 this inward change. And so if conversion was all 236 00:15:46,640 --> 00:15:50,240 that matters, then once the plant came out of the seed, 237 00:15:50,400 --> 00:15:53,000 that's conversion. It's converted from seed state 238 00:15:53,000 --> 00:15:56,880 to plant state. But the farmer doesn't want 239 00:15:56,880 --> 00:15:59,760 plant, he wants fruit, and so does God. 240 00:16:00,800 --> 00:16:05,520 So in US is the ability to make fruit right? 241 00:16:06,000 --> 00:16:12,280 OK, now here's the thing God, because again the Kingdom of of 242 00:16:12,520 --> 00:16:16,440 heaven is like the Lord. Then the owner of the field is 243 00:16:16,440 --> 00:16:21,720 saying do not tear out the wheat with the tares while the wheat 244 00:16:21,840 --> 00:16:32,240 is not mature. So a a lack of maturity, does it 245 00:16:32,560 --> 00:16:38,640 make you intimidated by the tears that are around you if 246 00:16:38,640 --> 00:16:41,520 you'll just continue to allow yourself to be what you are? 247 00:16:44,120 --> 00:16:48,560 There's a process here that if you will just be what you are at 248 00:16:48,560 --> 00:16:52,920 your born again experience. This is the natural progression. 249 00:16:53,520 --> 00:16:58,440 It is not natural for a person who says they're born again to 250 00:16:58,440 --> 00:17:03,560 not produce fruit of the Spirit, nor to move to maturity. 251 00:17:04,319 --> 00:17:13,599 Now, if all of a sudden we start taking out tears while our fruit 252 00:17:13,599 --> 00:17:19,520 is not mature, it can hinder us. So there's something about how 253 00:17:19,520 --> 00:17:25,839 we handle tears that will affect the maturing of Saints. 254 00:17:31,480 --> 00:17:34,840 I mean, there's a lot of religion out there that will 255 00:17:34,840 --> 00:17:37,760 tear down the loss. The loss is already condemned by 256 00:17:37,760 --> 00:17:41,440 themselves. Now, again, a good doctor would 257 00:17:41,440 --> 00:17:48,360 never tell a patient if they discovered they had cancer, you 258 00:17:48,360 --> 00:17:51,320 know, and they had high blood pressure and like, you know 259 00:17:51,320 --> 00:17:54,360 what, I don't want them to feel bad, don't want to ruin their 260 00:17:54,360 --> 00:17:56,080 day. So, you know, we're, you know, 261 00:17:56,080 --> 00:17:57,720 we're going to just deal with their high blood pressure 262 00:17:57,720 --> 00:17:58,840 because they have a high blood pressure. 263 00:17:59,000 --> 00:18:01,080 You know, hey, you want to deal with your high blood pressure, 264 00:18:01,160 --> 00:18:02,720 but we're not even going to talk about the cancer. 265 00:18:02,720 --> 00:18:05,120 You know, how are you feeling trying to get them to discover, 266 00:18:05,200 --> 00:18:08,720 but they don't know. See, we have to communicate what 267 00:18:08,800 --> 00:18:13,080 God says is sin. That's not condemnation. 268 00:18:13,080 --> 00:18:15,120 You're just communicating what is sin. 269 00:18:15,760 --> 00:18:20,440 But there is a remedy. Unfortunately, the church has 270 00:18:20,440 --> 00:18:25,160 gotten so far over in some places where we do not even want 271 00:18:25,160 --> 00:18:29,360 to address sin because we just want to look all look alike. 272 00:18:32,840 --> 00:18:35,200 So looking alike is not what God's looking for. 273 00:18:35,720 --> 00:18:39,360 God's looking for the fruit. Are you hearing what I'm saying? 274 00:18:40,120 --> 00:18:46,400 OK, so in essence, if we don't watch out, we can start tearing 275 00:18:46,400 --> 00:18:51,040 down the lost, boycotting, doing certain things at such a level 276 00:18:51,040 --> 00:18:54,520 that an immature person, basically we're trying to tear 277 00:18:54,520 --> 00:18:59,120 them out or tear them up in such a way that it can hinder the 278 00:18:59,120 --> 00:19:16,980 maturing of the wheat. OK, In the end, there will be 279 00:19:16,980 --> 00:19:23,520 more and more lawlessness. OK, I'll say that we currently 280 00:19:23,520 --> 00:19:35,800 have an atmosphere in the spirit to be calling things out. 281 00:19:37,920 --> 00:19:41,000 We see this specifically in the realm of the government arena, 282 00:19:41,240 --> 00:19:44,680 specifically to where we want to call out things. 283 00:19:45,440 --> 00:19:48,480 And if we don't watch out, there's a righteous stand you 284 00:19:48,480 --> 00:19:51,160 need to make. But there's a way you make a 285 00:19:51,160 --> 00:19:55,040 righteous stand so that you're not tearing out the lost at the 286 00:19:55,040 --> 00:19:57,280 expense of losing the young believer. 287 00:20:00,920 --> 00:20:05,720 Does that make sense? Because there's something here. 288 00:20:05,720 --> 00:20:07,680 And again, I cannot tell you exactly. 289 00:20:07,680 --> 00:20:12,880 All I know is there's a way that if you're uprooting tears at a 290 00:20:12,880 --> 00:20:21,440 time while a immature. Fruit bearing believer is there, 291 00:20:21,680 --> 00:20:25,360 it can hinder them from coming to full maturity. 292 00:20:28,120 --> 00:20:31,520 Hallelujah. Because we'll see that there are 293 00:20:31,520 --> 00:20:34,240 fruits we get to bear. And the fruits that we get to 294 00:20:34,240 --> 00:20:38,960 bear are pretty amazing fruits that help us #1 continue to 295 00:20:38,960 --> 00:20:41,520 grow. But at the end of the day, the 296 00:20:41,520 --> 00:20:48,600 tear is going to be dealt with by the Lord. 297 00:20:50,680 --> 00:20:55,320 Because here's the thing, Your fruit alone testifies that 298 00:20:55,320 --> 00:20:58,160 you're different. Let's say it that way. 299 00:20:59,440 --> 00:21:04,240 I don't have to tear out a tear in order for me to be fruitful, 300 00:21:04,680 --> 00:21:09,040 OK? I don't have to tear down the 301 00:21:09,040 --> 00:21:12,360 lost in order for me to be better. 302 00:21:14,240 --> 00:21:17,920 I am going to be fruitful because I am what I am by the 303 00:21:17,920 --> 00:21:21,960 grace of God and I, if I continue to allow the water, 304 00:21:22,160 --> 00:21:25,360 because both of us are receiving what God does. 305 00:21:25,360 --> 00:21:30,720 He reigns on the and the just and the unjust. 306 00:21:30,720 --> 00:21:35,560 So the tares are getting the provision of God to a degree, 307 00:21:35,680 --> 00:21:41,480 but again, no fruit. The farmer is going to deal with 308 00:21:41,480 --> 00:21:47,400 that ultimately, but we are receiving the washing of the 309 00:21:47,400 --> 00:21:51,760 water with the word and it transforms us to where we are 310 00:21:51,760 --> 00:21:57,560 producing the fruit to maturity that in essence, when we leave, 311 00:21:57,840 --> 00:22:00,560 we've left a legacy. OK. 312 00:22:01,120 --> 00:22:04,000 So this is important because as we get into these last days, 313 00:22:04,000 --> 00:22:08,400 when there's so much turmoil, when you're having to say what 314 00:22:08,400 --> 00:22:13,600 sin is, you have to say it in such a way that it's not tearing 315 00:22:13,600 --> 00:22:17,880 out, but it's, I live this way because it's my fruit. 316 00:22:17,880 --> 00:22:21,080 Well, why is that? Well, because this is what the 317 00:22:21,080 --> 00:22:23,440 word says. Now you're identifying their 318 00:22:23,440 --> 00:22:26,440 lifestyle or whatever they're going through, but you're not 319 00:22:26,440 --> 00:22:29,440 there to tear it out because at the end, you can be different. 320 00:22:30,920 --> 00:22:33,400 It's your choice at the end of the day. 321 00:22:33,400 --> 00:22:35,440 I'm not judging you. I'm just telling you what the 322 00:22:35,440 --> 00:22:39,280 word says. The only judging we do is fruit 323 00:22:39,280 --> 00:22:41,320 judgment. I, I can judge that you're not 324 00:22:41,320 --> 00:22:43,680 bearing the same fruit that I am. 325 00:22:43,680 --> 00:22:44,960 All right. And they can bear. 326 00:22:45,520 --> 00:22:48,240 They can judge and bear see that we're bearing a particular fruit 327 00:22:48,240 --> 00:22:50,360 that they're not bearing. OK? 328 00:22:51,000 --> 00:22:54,080 So we've got to be careful how we pull it out because again, 329 00:22:54,080 --> 00:22:59,040 you need to understand this. Being in the world where the 330 00:22:59,040 --> 00:23:02,600 lost is does not hinder you from maturing. 331 00:23:06,520 --> 00:23:11,720 So what we don't want, This is why some places have gotten off 332 00:23:11,720 --> 00:23:14,160 because they wanted to have their own communities. 333 00:23:15,680 --> 00:23:18,320 They didn't want to be separate themselves from the world. 334 00:23:18,760 --> 00:23:20,760 And Paul was like, that's not what I meant when I said 335 00:23:20,760 --> 00:23:22,240 separate and come out from among them. 336 00:23:22,400 --> 00:23:24,840 It's not what I meant when I you're going to be around 337 00:23:24,840 --> 00:23:27,400 people, you're going to live in it, you're on the planet, you're 338 00:23:27,400 --> 00:23:30,000 going to pass by people that are not a part of the same Kingdom, 339 00:23:30,200 --> 00:23:32,000 but that's not going to hinder your maturity. 340 00:23:34,480 --> 00:23:40,400 So the power of the world cannot hinder your maturity. 341 00:23:40,960 --> 00:23:44,280 The only thing that can hinder A believer's maturity is if we 342 00:23:44,280 --> 00:23:50,320 tear down the lost, tear them out, uproot them in the wrong 343 00:23:50,320 --> 00:23:53,520 season. Let's put it that way, in the 344 00:23:53,520 --> 00:23:55,720 wrong seat. Because again, you understand 345 00:23:55,720 --> 00:23:57,840 God is going to take care of that aspect. 346 00:23:58,440 --> 00:24:03,240 Anyone who sows to His flesh will reap of His flesh 347 00:24:03,240 --> 00:24:05,680 destruction. I don't even have to be a part 348 00:24:05,680 --> 00:24:07,400 of the process. It's going to be its own 349 00:24:07,400 --> 00:24:09,560 process. And the Lord's going to be a 350 00:24:09,560 --> 00:24:11,760 part of that process because God is not mocked. 351 00:24:12,000 --> 00:24:14,760 Whatever man soweth that he will, He'll reap. 352 00:24:15,080 --> 00:24:18,640 And you can grow in seasons of maturity where you bear fruit 353 00:24:18,840 --> 00:24:21,120 and then you're coming into a next one of bearing fruit and 354 00:24:21,120 --> 00:24:22,480 you can be around some of the same people. 355 00:24:22,480 --> 00:24:25,400 But as you go through life, these people are falling off 356 00:24:25,400 --> 00:24:29,360 Why? Because they are not in those 357 00:24:29,360 --> 00:24:32,560 seasons of harvesting, they've been taught, thrown to the 358 00:24:32,560 --> 00:24:36,200 wayside per SE, because they're not part of the Kingdom of God. 359 00:24:36,200 --> 00:24:37,760 But you just continue to bear fruit. 360 00:24:38,240 --> 00:24:41,800 So being in this world does not hinder you from coming to full 361 00:24:41,800 --> 00:24:48,000 maturity, which tells us being in this world God expects the 362 00:24:48,000 --> 00:24:50,040 church or believer to mature still. 363 00:24:51,080 --> 00:24:54,640 So no matter how bad the environment gets, maturity is 364 00:24:54,640 --> 00:24:59,440 important and God if he knew that you being around the world 365 00:24:59,440 --> 00:25:02,280 could hinder your maturity, don't you think he'd pull them 366 00:25:02,280 --> 00:25:08,200 out of the way? So this once again identifies 367 00:25:08,520 --> 00:25:14,120 greater is he that is in us than he that's in the now if you're 368 00:25:14,120 --> 00:25:17,920 not giving yourself to the watering of the word, obviously 369 00:25:17,920 --> 00:25:21,280 you can dry your own root system out and have A and there'll be 370 00:25:21,280 --> 00:25:22,760 an issue. But again, that'll be your 371 00:25:22,760 --> 00:25:25,200 challenge. Not because it's God's fault. 372 00:25:25,200 --> 00:25:28,440 God has given us a ample supply of watering. 373 00:25:28,640 --> 00:25:30,840 We can go to the well anytime we want to. 374 00:25:30,840 --> 00:25:34,200 We can run to the river. We have a well we can go to and 375 00:25:34,200 --> 00:25:39,320 we have a river that can come up so we can be fully refreshed no 376 00:25:39,320 --> 00:25:41,640 problem. And it doesn't matter how bad 377 00:25:41,640 --> 00:25:44,440 the world's getting. It doesn't hinder your maturity 378 00:25:44,880 --> 00:25:48,080 at all. If it was if, if they what they 379 00:25:48,080 --> 00:25:52,200 did stopped you from being all that God wanted you to be, he 380 00:25:52,200 --> 00:25:57,400 would deal with them. But we see even in a lack of 381 00:25:57,400 --> 00:26:03,320 maturity, God says let them grow together because those who are 382 00:26:03,320 --> 00:26:07,360 mine are going to mature. Are you going to mature? 383 00:26:08,280 --> 00:26:10,200 Hallelujah. All right, so let's go on then. 384 00:26:10,880 --> 00:26:13,440 So he goes on then and says this. 385 00:26:14,200 --> 00:26:23,600 Let's look at verse 40, 41. It says he gathered, the angels 386 00:26:23,600 --> 00:26:27,200 obviously gather and they gathering out of his Kingdom all 387 00:26:27,200 --> 00:26:29,320 stumbling blocks of those who commit lawlessness. 388 00:26:29,320 --> 00:26:33,000 Lawlessness is those who are not following God with all their 389 00:26:33,000 --> 00:26:35,880 heart, all their soul, all their mind and all the strength, OK? 390 00:26:36,160 --> 00:26:40,520 And so he removes that. God is the one that ultimately 391 00:26:40,520 --> 00:26:44,240 knows the heavens and the earth are mine, right? 392 00:26:45,000 --> 00:26:48,240 And he's going to have a new heavens and new earth and he 393 00:26:48,240 --> 00:26:51,040 will extract that which is not a part of his Kingdom. 394 00:26:51,240 --> 00:26:52,800 We don't have to be concerned about that. 395 00:26:53,080 --> 00:26:56,160 God's going to do that. All we need to do is just grow, 396 00:26:56,760 --> 00:27:02,040 grow, grow and produce fruit, the fruit that's been planted in 397 00:27:02,040 --> 00:27:05,240 us because we are children of God. 398 00:27:05,840 --> 00:27:08,960 Can I get an Amen? So with that being said, look 399 00:27:08,960 --> 00:27:11,440 over Matthew chapter 12, verse 33. 400 00:27:13,240 --> 00:27:18,520 Matthew 1233 says either make the tree good and its fruit 401 00:27:18,520 --> 00:27:21,240 good, or make the tree bad and its fruit bad. 402 00:27:21,960 --> 00:27:27,560 For the tree is what known by its fruit. 403 00:27:28,760 --> 00:27:31,880 All right? It's the tree is known by its 404 00:27:31,880 --> 00:27:35,440 fruit. So again, how do I know you're a 405 00:27:35,440 --> 00:27:42,920 believer? That's how I know I don't know 406 00:27:42,920 --> 00:27:44,720 you're a believer because you attend church. 407 00:27:46,120 --> 00:27:48,280 I do not know you're a believer because you're telling me you're 408 00:27:48,280 --> 00:27:51,560 a Christian. I don't know that you're a 409 00:27:51,560 --> 00:27:53,240 believer because you quote Scripture. 410 00:27:53,960 --> 00:27:56,000 I don't know you're a believer because you can sing a praise 411 00:27:56,000 --> 00:28:00,680 song. I know you're a believer by your 412 00:28:00,680 --> 00:28:03,280 fruit. Hallelujah. 413 00:28:03,800 --> 00:28:08,720 Fruit is something someone else can eat and taste. 414 00:28:10,040 --> 00:28:13,880 Taste and see that the Lord is the reason why we can taste and 415 00:28:13,880 --> 00:28:18,240 see that He's good because his fruit is good and only good 416 00:28:18,240 --> 00:28:23,200 because he's only a good God. Now, good doesn't mean God can't 417 00:28:23,200 --> 00:28:26,960 be angry and cannot respond. In rap. 418 00:28:27,400 --> 00:28:33,080 Good people can be angry. Anger is not associated with 419 00:28:33,080 --> 00:28:39,640 evil, all right. Anger is not a good or evil 420 00:28:39,640 --> 00:28:44,320 issue. Evil people can be angry, that's 421 00:28:44,320 --> 00:28:46,760 true, but good people can be angry. 422 00:28:48,880 --> 00:28:52,760 Hallelujah. And we could go on further 423 00:28:52,760 --> 00:28:55,760 there, but I won't because I'm not going to take that kind of 424 00:28:55,760 --> 00:28:58,440 time. So they're known by its fruit. 425 00:28:58,600 --> 00:29:04,880 How did the workers of the Owners field know that Bad Seed 426 00:29:04,880 --> 00:29:09,160 had gotten in the ground? It was only until they saw the 427 00:29:09,160 --> 00:29:13,440 fruit of the wheat and then they recognized not every plant is 428 00:29:13,440 --> 00:29:18,840 bearing and they should be. Which means this actually isn't 429 00:29:18,840 --> 00:29:22,440 a wheat, it's a tear. Now the thing about tears is 430 00:29:22,440 --> 00:29:25,280 they look so much like wheat. It's only with the fruit that 431 00:29:25,280 --> 00:29:27,920 you would distinguish them again. 432 00:29:27,920 --> 00:29:31,240 That's why Jesus will say, many will say on that day, Lord, Lord 433 00:29:31,240 --> 00:29:33,640 did not. And there's other passage of 434 00:29:33,640 --> 00:29:36,360 scripture that says that they'll come in, you know, with all 435 00:29:36,360 --> 00:29:39,720 their pomp and circumstance, but they are clouds without water. 436 00:29:39,840 --> 00:29:42,720 And there's a lot of scriptures that talk about people that have 437 00:29:42,720 --> 00:29:45,760 a form of godliness but deny the power thereof. 438 00:29:45,960 --> 00:29:50,440 So again, there's something different about fruit that we 439 00:29:50,440 --> 00:29:55,440 need to get grab hold of because even a tear can mask for quite 440 00:29:55,440 --> 00:30:01,880 some time, something that looks very similar to the wheat plant. 441 00:30:03,280 --> 00:30:07,200 This is why through the years I picked up this thought process, 442 00:30:07,680 --> 00:30:12,280 which is different than what you know, most people have said or, 443 00:30:12,280 --> 00:30:14,880 and I've said in my past, you get around people that I don't 444 00:30:14,880 --> 00:30:18,480 really know and I'll say, man, they're but but what little bit 445 00:30:18,480 --> 00:30:20,200 I've been around them, I say, man, they're really a good 446 00:30:20,200 --> 00:30:23,040 person. But then I realized maybe 447 00:30:23,040 --> 00:30:24,640 they're not a good person because I really don't know 448 00:30:24,680 --> 00:30:30,320 them, but they are really nice. Because an evil person can be 449 00:30:30,320 --> 00:30:41,200 nice, a manipulator can be nice, right? 450 00:30:41,480 --> 00:30:43,520 I mean, you can be extremely nice. 451 00:30:43,760 --> 00:30:50,200 In fact, selfish people with selfish ambitions are extremely 452 00:30:50,200 --> 00:30:57,480 nice because niceness can get what they want and they'd be 453 00:30:57,480 --> 00:31:01,240 extremely nice. Nice. 454 00:31:01,520 --> 00:31:11,040 They can be helpful, they can serve, they can do all that but 455 00:31:11,040 --> 00:31:14,960 still have bad fruit, can still have bad fruit. 456 00:31:15,320 --> 00:31:21,320 However, a good person can be nice, can be nice. 457 00:31:21,680 --> 00:31:24,880 Just like a bad person can be angry, a good person can be 458 00:31:24,880 --> 00:31:27,120 angry. All right. 459 00:31:27,480 --> 00:31:31,280 So there's something about the fruit we carry that has to be 460 00:31:31,280 --> 00:31:33,640 different, that the world cannot mask. 461 00:31:34,760 --> 00:31:38,200 That's really important for us to recognize that. 462 00:31:39,400 --> 00:31:42,640 And again, it's so important for all of us because it seems to me 463 00:31:43,040 --> 00:31:47,560 that the more you get around believers that if we don't watch 464 00:31:47,560 --> 00:31:50,640 out, we become too departmentalized in our thinking 465 00:31:51,120 --> 00:31:55,560 and we're losing the the holistic side of God. 466 00:31:56,120 --> 00:32:01,080 We are a spirit, we have a soul, we live in a body, but we are 467 00:32:01,080 --> 00:32:04,800 those three as well. See, we say God is spirit and 468 00:32:04,800 --> 00:32:10,840 God is spirit, but you know, he has a body and when is he 469 00:32:10,840 --> 00:32:17,760 separated from that? Now this is difficult because we 470 00:32:17,760 --> 00:32:20,040 don't think of God because we've been taught for so many years 471 00:32:20,240 --> 00:32:22,480 God is Spirit and you're going to worship him in spirit and in 472 00:32:22,480 --> 00:32:25,080 truth. But he still has a spiritual 473 00:32:25,080 --> 00:32:29,320 body. So he's a spirit with a body and 474 00:32:29,320 --> 00:32:33,640 he's not separated from that. Because when when Moses said I 475 00:32:33,640 --> 00:32:35,480 want to see your glory, what did he say? 476 00:32:36,120 --> 00:32:41,640 He said, now you can't see my face, which tells me God our 477 00:32:41,640 --> 00:32:46,040 Father has a face. He does not get in a suit. 478 00:32:48,440 --> 00:32:51,760 But once again, because of teaching, we've separated these 479 00:32:51,760 --> 00:32:57,600 elements and we act like we can be something without the rest 480 00:33:01,760 --> 00:33:06,520 and we cannot be even us. We will not be without a body 481 00:33:07,760 --> 00:33:12,000 all for all eternity. It would be called a glorified 482 00:33:12,000 --> 00:33:14,520 body. Hallelujah. 483 00:33:15,040 --> 00:33:19,640 I said, Hallelujah, Amen. But he puts him in the cleft of 484 00:33:19,640 --> 00:33:21,480 the rock. He passes by and he said you can 485 00:33:21,480 --> 00:33:25,000 see my back parts. Now what did that look like? 486 00:33:25,120 --> 00:33:29,200 I'm going to assume it looked a lot like man because he was 487 00:33:29,200 --> 00:33:32,920 created in his image. So I speculate that God looks 488 00:33:32,920 --> 00:33:39,480 like us with a spiritual body that has a spiritual soul and is 489 00:33:39,480 --> 00:33:43,960 a spirit, and they're not separated from each other, 490 00:33:44,240 --> 00:33:51,080 although they're different. And because we are a spirit soul 491 00:33:51,080 --> 00:33:56,640 and body, we had a spirit that was separated from God, still a 492 00:33:56,640 --> 00:33:59,840 spirit nonetheless. When we're born again, we 493 00:33:59,960 --> 00:34:03,280 receive a new spirit that's created in the likeness of 494 00:34:03,280 --> 00:34:08,280 Christ, but yet we maintain the same soul that we had previously 495 00:34:08,719 --> 00:34:10,800 and the same body we had previously. 496 00:34:11,239 --> 00:34:14,280 And then we are to be responsible because now we've 497 00:34:14,280 --> 00:34:18,040 been empowered with this new spirit that we are, that has the 498 00:34:18,040 --> 00:34:23,880 Holy Spirit that's inside us, bearing witness with us and 499 00:34:23,920 --> 00:34:27,360 communicating with us that now we can renew our minds. 500 00:34:28,360 --> 00:34:33,000 And our physical bodies, although decaying in the sense 501 00:34:33,000 --> 00:34:39,000 they're breaking down, can still walk in healing and be made 502 00:34:39,000 --> 00:34:42,639 whole. Hallelujah, Hallelujah. 503 00:34:42,840 --> 00:34:45,120 And I don't see myself separate from that. 504 00:34:45,280 --> 00:34:48,360 But again, because we've said, well, we're really a spirit and 505 00:34:48,360 --> 00:34:52,280 the rest doesn't matter, then This is why we disregard other 506 00:34:52,280 --> 00:34:54,639 aspects. And This is why Paul said, now 507 00:34:54,639 --> 00:34:59,000 look, the problem why some believers who are spiritually 508 00:34:59,000 --> 00:35:02,680 alive to God sleep early, It's because they don't judge their 509 00:35:02,680 --> 00:35:06,080 body correctly. And that judgment came because 510 00:35:06,080 --> 00:35:10,320 they weren't judging their mind right, how they were thinking or 511 00:35:10,320 --> 00:35:14,640 how they were even eating, and because they did not empower 512 00:35:14,640 --> 00:35:19,760 themselves by faith in the finished work of Jesus so that 513 00:35:19,760 --> 00:35:23,680 the other two areas could be all that God needs them to be. 514 00:35:23,760 --> 00:35:29,240 In essence, as Paul wrote to the church in thesson Thessaloniki, 515 00:35:29,360 --> 00:35:33,960 which is may your spirit, soul and body remain blameless until 516 00:35:33,960 --> 00:35:37,520 the day of Christ because again, well, it doesn't matter about 517 00:35:37,520 --> 00:35:38,680 this. I'm leaving anyway. 518 00:35:38,680 --> 00:35:43,320 So we have all these health issues, but I'm a spirit, but 519 00:35:43,320 --> 00:35:46,160 the Lord's like, but I've empowered your spirit so that it 520 00:35:46,160 --> 00:35:50,680 can renew your mind and you can take control of your body and 521 00:35:50,680 --> 00:35:53,400 your body can be as healthy as it needs to be to finish the 522 00:35:53,400 --> 00:35:55,680 work. Glory to God, Amen. 523 00:35:55,880 --> 00:35:59,560 So as a result of that, that's means that we should not 524 00:35:59,560 --> 00:36:04,880 separate these aspects. Well, if we don't watch out, we 525 00:36:04,880 --> 00:36:11,880 do it with maturing. We do it with how we interact 526 00:36:11,880 --> 00:36:13,520 with the lost. This is why. 527 00:36:13,640 --> 00:36:16,880 Well, it doesn't really matter. And I've heard people say that 528 00:36:16,960 --> 00:36:19,120 all that matters is that you're born again. 529 00:36:19,680 --> 00:36:21,440 Well, if that's all that mattered, then why did Paul 530 00:36:21,440 --> 00:36:22,920 Wright have the stuff he wrote anyway? 531 00:36:23,840 --> 00:36:26,680 That's not all that matters, right? 532 00:36:26,680 --> 00:36:28,960 So it's not all that matters, God. 533 00:36:28,960 --> 00:36:32,480 What matters is that God wants you to mature and expects 534 00:36:32,480 --> 00:36:35,240 maturity. And it's a it is a natural, when 535 00:36:35,240 --> 00:36:39,560 I say natural, supernatural byproduct of the believer who 536 00:36:39,560 --> 00:36:41,760 will just be who God says they'll be. 537 00:36:42,760 --> 00:36:45,000 And no matter what's going around them in the world does 538 00:36:45,000 --> 00:36:49,280 not affect their maturing, they can still mature anyway. 539 00:36:49,600 --> 00:36:54,080 Which tells us we can't be a victim in the Kingdom of God. 540 00:36:55,360 --> 00:36:58,720 Can't happen, right? Can't happen. 541 00:36:58,720 --> 00:37:00,840 We're not a victim. We're a victor. 542 00:37:02,920 --> 00:37:05,280 Hallelujah. Matthew 3/8 through 10 says 543 00:37:05,280 --> 00:37:06,600 this. Therefore bear fruit. 544 00:37:08,520 --> 00:37:13,000 How? Therefore bear fruit? 545 00:37:13,000 --> 00:37:17,440 How? In keeping with repentance. 546 00:37:17,840 --> 00:37:21,880 Now John the Baptist is calling out religious people in this 547 00:37:21,880 --> 00:37:25,720 particular passage. These are ones on the outside 548 00:37:25,720 --> 00:37:31,360 are saying that they're good, but Jesus identified them. 549 00:37:32,360 --> 00:37:34,640 He said you are full of dead man bones. 550 00:37:34,680 --> 00:37:41,680 You're a white washed tombs. That's tough talk, but that's 551 00:37:41,800 --> 00:37:45,640 love talking. That's honesty and that is 552 00:37:45,800 --> 00:37:47,840 there. There's hope for you if you 553 00:37:47,840 --> 00:37:51,200 would repent. So in essence, John says, well, 554 00:37:51,200 --> 00:37:59,480 if if you're masquerading as something holy, then I should 555 00:37:59,480 --> 00:38:04,400 see fruit. So if we say we've repented 556 00:38:07,400 --> 00:38:12,480 Jesus is our Lord, then we are to bear fruit in keeping with 557 00:38:12,480 --> 00:38:16,320 repentance. So in verse 9, I do not suppose 558 00:38:16,320 --> 00:38:20,200 that you can say to yourself, we have Abraham for our Father. 559 00:38:20,200 --> 00:38:22,840 For I say to you, from these rocks God is able to raise up 560 00:38:22,880 --> 00:38:27,640 children to Abraham. He said the axe is already laid 561 00:38:27,640 --> 00:38:30,400 at the root of the trees. Therefore every tree that does 562 00:38:30,400 --> 00:38:33,160 not bear good fruit is cut down and thrown into the fire. 563 00:38:33,560 --> 00:38:38,440 So again we are to bear fruit in keeping with repentance when we 564 00:38:38,440 --> 00:38:42,880 confess Christ as Lord. We repented of our sins. 565 00:38:43,120 --> 00:38:48,720 We've we received by faith the finished work of Jesus that only 566 00:38:48,720 --> 00:38:52,640 he could do, He and the only and we could never do this. 567 00:38:52,840 --> 00:38:58,120 He changed our spirit man to come be alive to God, of which 568 00:38:58,120 --> 00:39:00,320 the Holy Spirit bears witness with our spirit. 569 00:39:00,320 --> 00:39:04,360 We're children of God and now we are part of the process with the 570 00:39:04,360 --> 00:39:09,800 Holy Ghost to make sure our fruit comes to maturity. 571 00:39:11,960 --> 00:39:15,880 Amen. So we are to keep bear fruit in 572 00:39:15,880 --> 00:39:20,480 keeping with repentance. So if I've repented, that means 573 00:39:20,720 --> 00:39:25,920 there's there's fruit from the old source that I don't bear 574 00:39:25,920 --> 00:39:29,760 anymore. That's dead to me. 575 00:39:31,080 --> 00:39:34,160 I do not let it get to maturity. OK? 576 00:39:34,320 --> 00:39:37,720 I have a whole new fruit system that I'm functioning in. 577 00:39:37,920 --> 00:39:41,920 All right. Galatians 522 to 23 tells us the 578 00:39:41,920 --> 00:39:48,000 fruit we have, but the fruit of the Spirit is OK. 579 00:39:48,760 --> 00:39:51,880 Now, this is really important because again, fruit is not 580 00:39:51,880 --> 00:39:57,640 emotional. It's not emotional. 581 00:39:58,720 --> 00:40:02,000 And so this is something that can be a challenge to our minds 582 00:40:02,160 --> 00:40:06,240 because, you know, in our soul realm where we're having to 583 00:40:06,240 --> 00:40:09,840 renew our minds through the word of God, You know, there are 584 00:40:10,120 --> 00:40:15,840 things we see people do every day that when you look at it, 585 00:40:16,560 --> 00:40:22,440 you could conclude certain things, but they're really only 586 00:40:22,680 --> 00:40:26,280 soulish, period, Because the fruit of the. 587 00:40:27,720 --> 00:40:31,120 So that means then I'm not bearing fruit from my soul, 588 00:40:34,080 --> 00:40:36,000 we're bearing fruit from the Spirit. 589 00:40:36,400 --> 00:40:38,600 Now, the fruit of the Spirit, which is what Spirit? 590 00:40:39,560 --> 00:40:44,240 Obviously the Holy Spirit. But again, the Holy Spirit is 591 00:40:44,240 --> 00:40:46,400 like Jesus. Jesus said I'm going to send you 592 00:40:46,400 --> 00:40:53,520 another comforter or a carbon copy of who I am. 593 00:40:54,920 --> 00:40:58,720 So he's not different than me. Well, but we've been created in 594 00:40:58,720 --> 00:41:01,440 the likeness of Christ, so we're not different from Christ. 595 00:41:01,960 --> 00:41:06,360 Hallelujah, Amen. So our identity is in Christ, 596 00:41:06,680 --> 00:41:10,520 and we are like Christ, and the Holy Spirit is like Christ. 597 00:41:10,720 --> 00:41:14,600 And so if this is the Spirit's fruit, then it's going to be my 598 00:41:14,600 --> 00:41:17,480 fruit. And that fruit comes from the 599 00:41:17,480 --> 00:41:25,040 Spirit, not the soul. So love is not predicated on 600 00:41:25,040 --> 00:41:30,000 feelings. Love is not a feeling. 601 00:41:30,520 --> 00:41:36,040 Joy is not a feeling. Peace is not a feeling. 602 00:41:36,280 --> 00:41:40,880 It's these are states of being. Patience is not a feeling. 603 00:41:45,320 --> 00:41:53,000 Kindness is not a feeling, goodness is not a feeling, 604 00:41:53,280 --> 00:41:55,880 faithfulness is not a feeling, gentleness is not a feeling, 605 00:41:56,040 --> 00:42:00,680 self-control, it's not feelings. These are. 606 00:42:00,800 --> 00:42:03,840 And when you're bearing these fruit, it's impossible for the 607 00:42:03,840 --> 00:42:08,600 world to bear these fruits. So again, here's the thing, if 608 00:42:08,600 --> 00:42:17,780 you know someone is lost and they say man, I'm at peace, how 609 00:42:17,780 --> 00:42:21,460 can they be at peace? Because they don't have the same 610 00:42:21,460 --> 00:42:26,200 spirit we have, which means they have a counterfeit to peace. 611 00:42:26,920 --> 00:42:30,520 And it's really something in the soul realm that they're equating 612 00:42:30,520 --> 00:42:32,600 it as peace, but they don't actually have peace. 613 00:42:34,880 --> 00:42:38,840 And we have to become wise enough to know there's a 614 00:42:38,880 --> 00:42:41,360 difference. And the reason I say that is 615 00:42:41,360 --> 00:42:44,520 because this is what gives you confidence when you're growing 616 00:42:44,960 --> 00:42:49,040 in the fields that God has placed you because the fields 617 00:42:49,040 --> 00:42:52,000 that you're in are full of tears because you're in the world, 618 00:42:52,000 --> 00:42:54,480 you're not up. And you have to know that when 619 00:42:54,480 --> 00:42:58,400 you're around people that you know does not know God and say, 620 00:42:58,400 --> 00:43:00,480 you know, man, that just set me a great piece. 621 00:43:01,080 --> 00:43:05,440 Well, if it's something you've said, then you have to identify 622 00:43:05,600 --> 00:43:10,440 well, this piece I give because it comes from the Spirit is what 623 00:43:10,440 --> 00:43:14,600 you're experiencing now. Someone lost can eat the fruit 624 00:43:14,600 --> 00:43:16,760 you have. That's true because it says 625 00:43:16,760 --> 00:43:19,440 taste and see the Lord's good. But again, they themselves 626 00:43:19,440 --> 00:43:24,800 cannot produce peace because it's it's from the Holy Spirit 627 00:43:25,200 --> 00:43:30,120 of production. So again, joy. 628 00:43:30,120 --> 00:43:33,160 All these are states of being. They're not emotional. 629 00:43:33,600 --> 00:43:38,560 They're not emotions. And I think the church, if we 630 00:43:38,560 --> 00:43:40,720 don't watch out when I say the church, you know, people who go 631 00:43:40,720 --> 00:43:44,200 to church, if if they're not really renewing their mind and, 632 00:43:44,200 --> 00:43:50,440 and, and and asking questions, OK, then what happens is, is 633 00:43:50,440 --> 00:43:54,240 that you assume certain feelings are fruit. 634 00:43:56,880 --> 00:43:59,400 You wake up one day and you're excited because you have good 635 00:43:59,400 --> 00:44:01,080 news. Like, man, the joy of the Lord 636 00:44:01,080 --> 00:44:03,360 is my the joy of the Lord is your strength when you're having 637 00:44:03,360 --> 00:44:11,200 the worst day of your life. I mean, joy manifests in any 638 00:44:11,200 --> 00:44:13,080 environment, and it's not laughing. 639 00:44:14,000 --> 00:44:18,680 Laughing is not a byproduct of joy, although you can laugh, 640 00:44:18,680 --> 00:44:22,760 don't get me wrong, but there is a strength that comes with joy. 641 00:44:23,920 --> 00:44:26,360 All right? Peace, man. 642 00:44:27,720 --> 00:44:31,280 Peace comes by the Spirit. You can be going through the 643 00:44:31,280 --> 00:44:37,080 worst storm ever, yet be at perfect peace and the waves 644 00:44:37,080 --> 00:44:40,280 continue to crash, but you're not moved. 645 00:44:41,160 --> 00:44:46,360 Your situation's changed not but you are sleeping in up on the 646 00:44:46,360 --> 00:44:50,880 top of the boat in your pillow, and you have no thought 647 00:44:51,120 --> 00:44:56,280 concerning it, right? These are states of being. 648 00:44:56,800 --> 00:45:00,360 And when you live those kinds of existence, then all of a sudden 649 00:45:01,000 --> 00:45:05,240 everyone in your field is going to know they're, they have 650 00:45:05,240 --> 00:45:10,120 something different. Now, that doesn't mean we're 651 00:45:10,120 --> 00:45:14,880 emotionless. I just want to say that I think 652 00:45:14,880 --> 00:45:23,760 sometimes, especially in the Word of Faith circles, is that 653 00:45:24,080 --> 00:45:29,520 we, we crush our emotions to where we become emotionless, 654 00:45:31,000 --> 00:45:32,320 right? Because, well, we're not moved 655 00:45:32,320 --> 00:45:34,840 by what we see. We're moved by faith only by the 656 00:45:34,840 --> 00:45:40,440 word, you know, And then we almost become robotic and that's 657 00:45:40,440 --> 00:45:44,040 we shouldn't be that way. We emotions are fine. 658 00:45:44,080 --> 00:45:47,520 Crying is fine. When when you grieve with your 659 00:45:47,520 --> 00:45:50,400 brother, crying is an acceptable response. 660 00:45:52,040 --> 00:45:53,800 No problem. If you hear news that is not 661 00:45:53,800 --> 00:45:56,320 good news and you cried. I don't know. 662 00:45:56,360 --> 00:45:57,840 I didn't mean to cry. I don't want to be. 663 00:45:58,400 --> 00:46:01,560 It's a natural response. In essence. 664 00:46:01,560 --> 00:46:04,000 It can console other people some. 665 00:46:04,120 --> 00:46:08,400 Sometimes it's extremely like in the realm of gentleness or even 666 00:46:08,400 --> 00:46:12,760 in the realm of kindness. Though tears could manifest 667 00:46:13,360 --> 00:46:16,080 during traumatic times. And you're showing gentleness 668 00:46:16,080 --> 00:46:19,600 towards someone else. Well, now it's going to be all 669 00:46:19,600 --> 00:46:23,400 right. You know what the word says. 670 00:46:23,400 --> 00:46:26,240 Let's get it together. Come on now, don't we cry? 671 00:46:28,040 --> 00:46:29,280 I mean, you got to be led by the sphere. 672 00:46:29,280 --> 00:46:34,040 Better than that, but my point is, is that we have a lot of a 673 00:46:34,040 --> 00:46:38,960 lot of Word of Faith have shut off their emotions and you don't 674 00:46:38,960 --> 00:46:41,760 want to do that. We have a soul, we have emotion. 675 00:46:41,880 --> 00:46:45,480 You just want your emotions tied to your spirit because again, 676 00:46:45,600 --> 00:46:48,720 Jesus was an emotional man. He just wasn't led by his 677 00:46:48,720 --> 00:46:50,640 emotions. He was always led by the spirit 678 00:46:50,760 --> 00:46:52,560 and his emotions followed his spirit. 679 00:46:52,760 --> 00:46:55,280 That's why when he went into the House of the Lord, that was the 680 00:46:55,280 --> 00:46:59,720 House of prayer. Something manifested with his 681 00:46:59,720 --> 00:47:07,760 emotions because his fruit was intact, but his demonstration 682 00:47:07,760 --> 00:47:11,600 was something. I mean, This is why he could 683 00:47:11,600 --> 00:47:17,680 come in a moment and weep. And those around think he's 684 00:47:17,680 --> 00:47:23,640 crying because Lazarus is in the grave, dead. 685 00:47:24,120 --> 00:47:26,840 But really he's got tears for another purpose. 686 00:47:28,960 --> 00:47:33,240 OK, so these are states of being which is really powerful, and 687 00:47:33,240 --> 00:47:35,960 these can only come by the Spirit, and they're only 688 00:47:35,960 --> 00:47:40,520 available to the believer. So when Jesus said the Kingdom 689 00:47:40,520 --> 00:47:44,240 of heaven is like a man who sowed seed in his field, and yet 690 00:47:44,240 --> 00:47:48,240 the enemy came and sowed some and now we have a good plant and 691 00:47:48,240 --> 00:47:51,000 a bad plant and we know the difference because of their 692 00:47:51,000 --> 00:47:57,880 fruit that that maturing of the good plant isn't stopped because 693 00:47:57,960 --> 00:48:03,080 a bad plant is around or even if the plants root system 694 00:48:03,080 --> 00:48:07,360 intertwines. Because again, you know, 695 00:48:07,360 --> 00:48:11,600 believers get this fear that you know, well, it's going to get on 696 00:48:11,600 --> 00:48:13,880 me. I mean, why don't you be 697 00:48:13,880 --> 00:48:15,280 confident? I'm going to get on you. 698 00:48:17,120 --> 00:48:19,240 You understand, because you were that plant. 699 00:48:20,240 --> 00:48:24,560 You're not that plan anymore. You became a good plan and you 700 00:48:24,560 --> 00:48:27,160 have more power now. And you're like, man, you're 701 00:48:27,160 --> 00:48:29,960 going to want to rub with me. You're going to want to get 702 00:48:29,960 --> 00:48:32,640 around me, right? You're going to want to get 703 00:48:32,640 --> 00:48:36,200 around me because again, as long as you're watering yourself and 704 00:48:36,200 --> 00:48:39,680 you're allowing what's already in you to come out by faith, you 705 00:48:39,680 --> 00:48:41,480 just released, these are fruits that are there. 706 00:48:41,560 --> 00:48:44,000 So again, when challenges come, you know what? 707 00:48:44,080 --> 00:48:45,480 I've got something here called joy. 708 00:48:45,480 --> 00:48:48,880 I need to get to that now. Again, as you grow and develop 709 00:48:48,880 --> 00:48:52,680 and depending on what stage or situation you're going through, 710 00:48:53,320 --> 00:48:57,680 all of us have to navigate this emotional realm to make sure 711 00:48:57,680 --> 00:49:02,480 this is coming OK and get that thing to pop up and begin to 712 00:49:02,480 --> 00:49:07,240 show up in this situation. We're like, wow, you know, when 713 00:49:07,240 --> 00:49:10,840 you become proficient at functioning and fruits of the 714 00:49:10,840 --> 00:49:14,160 spirit, people will begin to think you have no problems. 715 00:49:17,960 --> 00:49:20,920 Most of the time they think there will be very few people in 716 00:49:20,920 --> 00:49:22,680 your life that know you're going through something. 717 00:49:23,920 --> 00:49:29,600 Now, your spouse is going to know if you're married, they're 718 00:49:29,600 --> 00:49:32,760 going to know. Outside of that, very few may 719 00:49:32,760 --> 00:49:35,680 know. Now, if you're a person who has 720 00:49:35,680 --> 00:49:38,920 to tell somebody all the time, well, you need to examine that 721 00:49:40,520 --> 00:49:45,120 because that could be like emotional attachments, right? 722 00:49:45,120 --> 00:49:48,800 Because you're looking to help feed your emotion, which is not 723 00:49:48,800 --> 00:49:52,960 fruit. That's not the fruit we bear. 724 00:49:52,960 --> 00:49:54,920 We don't, we're not here to bear emotional fruit. 725 00:49:54,920 --> 00:49:56,440 We're here to bear spiritual fruit. 726 00:49:56,800 --> 00:50:01,800 That then changes our emotion, OK, because again, I you, I have 727 00:50:01,800 --> 00:50:05,640 no problem and the Bible is very clear that we can share things 728 00:50:05,640 --> 00:50:07,520 with one another. Now you got to be careful how 729 00:50:07,520 --> 00:50:09,320 you share because the Bible even talks about that. 730 00:50:09,680 --> 00:50:12,600 Sometimes you can't share certain things to some people 731 00:50:12,760 --> 00:50:15,240 that haven't developed some layers of mature as another 732 00:50:15,240 --> 00:50:20,720 believer because they can't handle that. 733 00:50:22,600 --> 00:50:26,120 So you have to be wise enough to know those boundaries where 734 00:50:26,120 --> 00:50:28,920 that's at. Jesus didn't tell everybody 735 00:50:28,920 --> 00:50:34,560 everything. He took divided into 3 people 736 00:50:36,760 --> 00:50:43,640 the most intimate things, right? So you have to understand that 737 00:50:43,680 --> 00:50:49,040 that's part of the process. However, these things as you're 738 00:50:49,040 --> 00:50:54,720 navigating them, ultimately the majority of people, if they ever 739 00:50:54,720 --> 00:50:58,000 catch wind of what you've been going through, they would be 740 00:50:58,000 --> 00:51:01,240 shocked because every time they were around you, they were 741 00:51:01,240 --> 00:51:08,480 tasting this. And these, when I say seasonal 742 00:51:08,480 --> 00:51:13,120 fruits, they are seasonal, but they are seasonal in both good 743 00:51:13,120 --> 00:51:17,760 and bad times. Because obviously you should 744 00:51:17,760 --> 00:51:19,560 walk in joy if there's nothing going on. 745 00:51:19,560 --> 00:51:23,000 I mean, you know, well, how come I don't see any joy? 746 00:51:23,000 --> 00:51:27,200 Well, everything's just great. I haven't had a trial or 747 00:51:27,200 --> 00:51:30,120 calamity, you know, it's so easy right now. 748 00:51:30,200 --> 00:51:33,440 Just so infuriated and nothing to strengthen me with. 749 00:51:34,680 --> 00:51:38,520 I mean, now we laugh. But in the world, some people 750 00:51:38,520 --> 00:51:42,160 live from chaos to chaos because they're they're codependent on 751 00:51:42,160 --> 00:51:45,000 it. Because if it's everything's 752 00:51:45,000 --> 00:51:48,920 going good, then they're like, I got to find chaos because that's 753 00:51:48,920 --> 00:51:53,640 their comfort, right? You know, it reminds me of a 754 00:51:53,640 --> 00:51:56,000 secular song. You know, you cut yourself to 755 00:51:56,000 --> 00:51:59,680 bleed just to know you're alive. And that's the reality in some 756 00:51:59,680 --> 00:52:01,160 people's lives. OK. 757 00:52:01,360 --> 00:52:02,880 But again, we have different fruit here. 758 00:52:03,080 --> 00:52:04,480 All right, Let's close with this verse here. 759 00:52:04,760 --> 00:52:08,920 First, Psalms 92 one through 12 through 15 says this last 760 00:52:08,920 --> 00:52:11,360 passage. The righteous man will. 761 00:52:12,240 --> 00:52:14,440 What's he going to do? He's going to flourish like the 762 00:52:14,440 --> 00:52:18,320 palm tree and he will grow like a cedar in Lebanon. 763 00:52:18,640 --> 00:52:21,680 Planted here. It is planted in the House of 764 00:52:21,680 --> 00:52:23,640 the Lord. They will what? 765 00:52:23,840 --> 00:52:27,720 Flourish in the courts of our God, Hallelujah. 766 00:52:28,000 --> 00:52:34,120 They will still yield fruit in old age. 767 00:52:34,120 --> 00:52:37,200 There's no such thing as a grumpy old man in the Kingdom of 768 00:52:37,200 --> 00:52:39,760 God. There's no such thing as a 769 00:52:39,760 --> 00:52:41,960 grumpy old woman in the Kingdom of God. 770 00:52:42,800 --> 00:52:44,800 No such thing. No such thing. 771 00:52:44,800 --> 00:52:48,200 We were at the county, and I won't say when because I want to 772 00:52:48,200 --> 00:52:51,520 identify, but there was a particular older person. 773 00:52:52,480 --> 00:52:55,360 They're grumpy, complaining about everything. 774 00:52:56,480 --> 00:52:59,440 Well, they're not producing the fruit, right? 775 00:52:59,440 --> 00:53:01,880 Fruit. Now. 776 00:53:01,880 --> 00:53:07,120 They think they're bringing a good 'cause they've convinced 777 00:53:07,120 --> 00:53:12,840 themselves, but you know, they're really not. 778 00:53:14,280 --> 00:53:19,320 They're just bringing turmoil. They have to live in chaos. 779 00:53:21,160 --> 00:53:24,480 But here the Bible tells in the Kingdom, they'll yield fruit. 780 00:53:24,560 --> 00:53:25,960 And what fruit are we talking about? 781 00:53:27,400 --> 00:53:33,360 The fruit of the Spirit. The fruit of the Spirit, which 782 00:53:33,360 --> 00:53:39,400 tells me this, the longer you've been in church, the more fruit 783 00:53:39,400 --> 00:53:48,680 production you should produce. This is why Washington or school 784 00:53:49,880 --> 00:53:53,600 or kindergarteners, you walk in their classroom, boom, they jump 785 00:53:53,600 --> 00:53:57,240 up, you know, first or kindergarten, first, second, 786 00:53:57,280 --> 00:53:59,480 third grade, really most of our lower grade. 787 00:53:59,960 --> 00:54:04,080 I mean, they'll get in the line. They'll be quiet, super orderly, 788 00:54:04,280 --> 00:54:07,600 absolutely compliant, doing everything that the teachers are 789 00:54:07,600 --> 00:54:10,000 saying. But then we need to get into 790 00:54:10,000 --> 00:54:15,920 that upper grade. All of a sudden, same order 791 00:54:15,920 --> 00:54:19,440 doesn't seem to manifest. And what's odd about that is 792 00:54:19,440 --> 00:54:22,320 that we've had them coming from the first second. 793 00:54:22,680 --> 00:54:25,160 Why are you not producing more fruit now? 794 00:54:25,520 --> 00:54:33,360 Why are you letting your hormones stop your fruit 795 00:54:33,360 --> 00:54:36,400 production? Because hormones do not stop 796 00:54:36,480 --> 00:54:42,280 spiritual fruit. That's why someone born of God 797 00:54:42,280 --> 00:54:44,360 can be patient and wait for that woman to come. 798 00:54:49,200 --> 00:54:54,040 We got teens growing up in church must be following God and 799 00:54:54,040 --> 00:54:56,000 then act like they got to get married and find the first 800 00:54:56,000 --> 00:54:58,360 person that's even kind of compatible. 801 00:54:58,720 --> 00:55:02,080 It's like, man, be patient. You got that fruit, wait till 802 00:55:02,080 --> 00:55:04,320 God brings the right one. And we I mean, you're going to 803 00:55:04,320 --> 00:55:05,840 have trouble when you get married anyway. 804 00:55:05,840 --> 00:55:07,320 So you make sure it's the right one. 805 00:55:09,720 --> 00:55:11,440 I mean, Paul said you're going to have trouble period. 806 00:55:11,440 --> 00:55:13,360 I mean, two free will moral agents is going to have some 807 00:55:13,360 --> 00:55:15,320 challenges. It's going to be friction. 808 00:55:16,040 --> 00:55:19,880 But get get the one that that God wants you to be with so that 809 00:55:19,880 --> 00:55:22,240 you know, you have the greatest advantage going in. 810 00:55:23,360 --> 00:55:25,520 Hallelujah. But you should bear fruit in 811 00:55:25,520 --> 00:55:29,160 your old age. They shall be full of SAP and 812 00:55:29,160 --> 00:55:31,480 Berry green. I mean, again, our older people, 813 00:55:31,480 --> 00:55:33,520 we you shouldn't be getting aggravated with kids running 814 00:55:33,520 --> 00:55:35,760 around. You should be the most patient. 815 00:55:36,840 --> 00:55:39,280 Where are these parents at? Their kids running around like 816 00:55:39,280 --> 00:55:41,080 they're crazy. I know. 817 00:55:41,520 --> 00:55:45,080 Yeah, they are. And that's why we do parenting 818 00:55:45,080 --> 00:55:47,360 workshops. We're trying to say, figure out 819 00:55:47,360 --> 00:55:49,440 where your children are at, right? 820 00:55:49,840 --> 00:55:52,960 I mean, we want them to be safe, too. 821 00:55:53,440 --> 00:55:56,520 All right? But again, you are full of SAP. 822 00:55:56,520 --> 00:56:00,120 You're very green to declare that the Lord is upright. 823 00:56:00,120 --> 00:56:02,480 Why are you full of SAP? Why are you very green? 824 00:56:02,480 --> 00:56:04,960 Why are you yielding fruit to declare that the Lord is 825 00:56:04,960 --> 00:56:08,000 upright? He is my rock and there and 826 00:56:08,000 --> 00:56:10,360 there is no unrighteousness in him. 827 00:56:10,360 --> 00:56:13,200 Isn't that amazing? So what do we see here tonight? 828 00:56:13,440 --> 00:56:17,640 Tonight we see that the Kingdom of God is like man, He sowed 829 00:56:17,640 --> 00:56:19,600 good seed. And did Jesus sow good seed in 830 00:56:19,600 --> 00:56:21,240 your heart when you became born again? 831 00:56:21,680 --> 00:56:24,520 Now He's giving you the access to the fruits of the Spirit that 832 00:56:24,520 --> 00:56:27,080 you're going to be able to yield season after season after 833 00:56:27,080 --> 00:56:29,000 season, Good days, you're going to have them. 834 00:56:29,080 --> 00:56:30,280 Bad days, you're going to have them. 835 00:56:30,440 --> 00:56:32,400 You're going to have it, and you're going to always get 836 00:56:32,400 --> 00:56:35,200 yourself in alignment. And anytime you get out, you're 837 00:56:35,200 --> 00:56:38,520 not a bearer of a bad fruit just 'cause you do something wrong, 838 00:56:38,640 --> 00:56:41,840 you can repent of that. Ask God to forgive you because 839 00:56:41,840 --> 00:56:44,560 that's not your heart, that's not your being, that's not who 840 00:56:44,560 --> 00:56:48,160 you are in Christ, but you'll recognize because the Spirit of 841 00:56:48,160 --> 00:56:52,280 God say, wait a minute, now you're because again, emotional 842 00:56:52,280 --> 00:56:59,880 responses are not fruit. Envy is not emotion. 843 00:57:01,160 --> 00:57:05,960 Jealousy is not an emotion. It's not an emotion because God 844 00:57:05,960 --> 00:57:10,000 is a jealous, but there is a evil jealousy. 845 00:57:12,240 --> 00:57:16,680 So these are not emotions, but they create emotions. 846 00:57:16,880 --> 00:57:20,640 So how you're acting emotionally is not the fruit. 847 00:57:21,840 --> 00:57:24,520 There's something else that's showing up. 848 00:57:25,040 --> 00:57:27,760 This is why I can be around the nicest people and walk out and 849 00:57:27,760 --> 00:57:33,720 say, man, they're a manipulator. Oh, they're greasy. 850 00:57:35,520 --> 00:57:39,360 Some ain't right there. Something is not right there. 851 00:57:40,800 --> 00:57:46,200 But yet they were so nice. But you can say it's beyond your 852 00:57:46,200 --> 00:57:50,040 niceness, this laugh that you have. 853 00:57:50,720 --> 00:57:53,280 There's something there and now it's tangible. 854 00:57:53,280 --> 00:57:56,520 This is not like subjective because you know, a lot of 855 00:57:56,520 --> 00:57:58,960 believers want to get over into, well, I just sent something. 856 00:57:59,080 --> 00:58:01,000 Well, brother, you're not the only one with the Holy Ghost. 857 00:58:01,600 --> 00:58:04,640 And again, we can have all kind of people come up to determine 858 00:58:04,640 --> 00:58:07,160 whether somebody's got fruit. Because again, if it's two or 859 00:58:07,160 --> 00:58:10,360 three witnesses alone in the old covenant, there was that. 860 00:58:10,360 --> 00:58:14,000 But you understand, Jesus had multiple witnesses come against 861 00:58:14,000 --> 00:58:16,480 him and they were all a bunch of liars. 862 00:58:16,640 --> 00:58:19,280 So don't think in your life people won't come against you 863 00:58:19,440 --> 00:58:21,600 and they'll all be a liar to your fruit. 864 00:58:23,480 --> 00:58:27,240 God will announce your fruit. So don't be afraid of that. 865 00:58:27,800 --> 00:58:35,160 But yet you can know now, just when I know doesn't mean This is 866 00:58:35,160 --> 00:58:40,840 why I'm kind and I'm good. I have goodness towards a lot of 867 00:58:40,840 --> 00:58:47,040 lost people because when when my wife and I come into a 868 00:58:47,040 --> 00:58:52,720 restaurant a week or somewhere when we leave a room, I want 869 00:58:52,720 --> 00:58:59,360 them to know that fruits different and it's spiritual. 870 00:58:59,360 --> 00:59:03,960 Now, it's not emotions, it's spiritual. 871 00:59:07,720 --> 00:59:11,720 It's spiritual. Whether or not they accept Jesus 872 00:59:11,720 --> 00:59:13,800 because of the fruit we're passing out. 873 00:59:14,520 --> 00:59:19,040 I can't control that, can't control that, but I sure don't 874 00:59:19,040 --> 00:59:20,680 want to give them rotten good fruit. 875 00:59:23,160 --> 00:59:26,120 Amen. Let's be planted in the House of 876 00:59:26,120 --> 00:59:30,120 the Lord, and let's grow and bear good fruit. 877 00:59:30,160 --> 00:59:30,400 Amen.