1
00:00:11,360 --> 00:00:12,720
The. 
Title of my message tonight is 

2
00:00:12,720 --> 00:00:14,840
this. 
I wanted you to see it with your

3
00:00:14,840 --> 00:00:17,280
eyeballs. 
All right, this is the title of 

4
00:00:17,280 --> 00:00:17,920
my message. 
See. 

5
00:00:17,920 --> 00:00:20,520
It's in the parentheses. 
All right, I want everybody to 

6
00:00:20,760 --> 00:00:22,440
say this word. 
All right, say it. 

7
00:00:24,360 --> 00:00:26,680
OK. 
Is it? 

8
00:00:28,360 --> 00:00:36,560
Or is it produce? 
Oh, so you think you know 

9
00:00:36,560 --> 00:00:39,360
something? 
I find it interesting that 

10
00:00:39,360 --> 00:00:47,680
produce and produce is spelled 
the same and technically has the

11
00:00:47,680 --> 00:00:52,880
same meaning. 
Produce is fruit or vegetables 

12
00:00:52,880 --> 00:01:00,520
that have matured in order to be
harvested so that people can eat

13
00:01:00,520 --> 00:01:06,160
and grow. 
But you have no produce if the 

14
00:01:06,160 --> 00:01:09,760
plant doesn't produce or the 
seed doesn't produce. 

15
00:01:11,640 --> 00:01:14,880
So if you're going to have 
produce in your spiritual life, 

16
00:01:15,840 --> 00:01:19,560
then you're going to have to 
produce the seeds sown in your 

17
00:01:19,560 --> 00:01:22,560
life. 
Are you hearing me now? 

18
00:01:22,560 --> 00:01:25,880
I am going to minister the 
beginning part of this that I 

19
00:01:25,880 --> 00:01:30,160
ministered to our leaders in the
Caribbean because when the Lord 

20
00:01:30,160 --> 00:01:32,440
put this in my. 
Spirit that we needed to go here

21
00:01:32,520 --> 00:01:36,080
this this evening. 
I had just did a leadership 

22
00:01:36,080 --> 00:01:38,280
lesson on Monday and I'm like, 
man, that is so good. 

23
00:01:38,280 --> 00:01:41,040
I think I'm going to pull that 
into this context. 

24
00:01:41,440 --> 00:01:43,560
So we're going to take a little 
journey together. 

25
00:01:43,840 --> 00:01:46,560
Look at Matthew Chapter 9 verse 
36 to 38. 

26
00:01:46,560 --> 00:01:49,640
It says this. 
It says seeing the people, and 

27
00:01:49,640 --> 00:01:54,120
this is Jesus seeing the people.
He felt compassion for them 

28
00:01:54,360 --> 00:01:58,440
because they were distressed and
dispirited like sheep without a 

29
00:01:58,440 --> 00:02:01,040
shepherd. 
Then he said to his disciples, 

30
00:02:01,040 --> 00:02:06,000
the harvest is plentiful, but 
the workers are few. 

31
00:02:06,520 --> 00:02:10,039
Therefore, beseech the Lord of 
the harvest. 

32
00:02:10,440 --> 00:02:15,320
Oh, thank you, Jesus. 
Just send out workers into his 

33
00:02:15,480 --> 00:02:19,600
harvest. 
Now Jesus in one comment talks 

34
00:02:19,600 --> 00:02:22,440
about the society that they were
living in. 

35
00:02:22,560 --> 00:02:26,280
There is livestock and then 
there's agriculture. 

36
00:02:26,920 --> 00:02:30,360
And so he starts when he's 
thinking about people, He first 

37
00:02:30,360 --> 00:02:34,840
goes to an analogy of livestock,
a shepherd and sheep. 

38
00:02:35,280 --> 00:02:38,160
Then the very next, he's still 
talking about the same group of 

39
00:02:38,160 --> 00:02:40,560
people. 
He has compassion for people. 

40
00:02:40,600 --> 00:02:43,280
And when he sees them, they're 
like sheep without shepherd. 

41
00:02:43,280 --> 00:02:46,480
But then he sees them like they 
are a harvest. 

42
00:02:46,600 --> 00:02:49,000
It's agriculture. 
And he said, man, we need to 

43
00:02:49,000 --> 00:02:51,560
pray to the Lord of the harvest 
that he'd send out workers. 

44
00:02:51,760 --> 00:02:54,360
Now, when you go out to a field 
to harvest, how many? 

45
00:02:54,360 --> 00:02:59,200
You know, harvesting is not just
pulling the fruit off the vine, 

46
00:03:02,040 --> 00:03:05,320
because if we went to Hastings 
and they started to pull the 

47
00:03:05,320 --> 00:03:11,360
fruit off the bott, by all 
rights they have harvested the 

48
00:03:11,360 --> 00:03:19,880
fruit and leave it in the field 
and walk off and there's no. 

49
00:03:19,880 --> 00:03:25,800
Other process What's going to 
happen to all the fruit that's 

50
00:03:25,800 --> 00:03:29,080
just been picked? 
It's going to rot in the same 

51
00:03:29,080 --> 00:03:31,680
field that they were harvesting.
Oh y'all don't want to? 

52
00:03:33,760 --> 00:03:39,440
So when we think of harvest, 
unfortunately we have a context 

53
00:03:39,560 --> 00:03:43,120
that we have been, you know, 
traditionally trained in. 

54
00:03:43,120 --> 00:03:46,720
But I'm I began to ask the 
question, what was Jesus seeing 

55
00:03:46,720 --> 00:03:48,440
when he said the harvest is 
plentiful? 

56
00:03:49,440 --> 00:03:54,640
Because again, it's very easy 
for us to go into scripture, 

57
00:03:54,800 --> 00:03:58,800
find a scripture, find two or 
three that kind of model that, 

58
00:03:58,800 --> 00:04:02,520
but still miss the big picture. 
This is why we wrote the book 

59
00:04:02,520 --> 00:04:07,880
The Forest, because again, 
sometimes we miss the context of

60
00:04:07,880 --> 00:04:11,520
God's truths within His 
Scripture because we don't see 

61
00:04:11,520 --> 00:04:13,680
the big picture of what's going 
on. 

62
00:04:13,680 --> 00:04:16,079
If you've never read our book 
The Force, you can get it at 

63
00:04:16,079 --> 00:04:17,640
Guest. 
Relations and it would our 

64
00:04:17,640 --> 00:04:21,920
welcome center it would be a 
great blessing to you OK. 

65
00:04:22,400 --> 00:04:24,720
And so, you know, there's a lot 
of truths in the Bible, but if 

66
00:04:24,720 --> 00:04:27,920
you don't have it in the right 
context, even if it's true, you 

67
00:04:27,920 --> 00:04:31,560
will not have the value or reap 
everything out of that 

68
00:04:31,560 --> 00:04:34,800
particular truth because you 
don't understand its context. 

69
00:04:35,240 --> 00:04:39,720
So when Jesus says the harvest 
is great, what is he looking at?

70
00:04:40,640 --> 00:04:43,040
Now? 
Many of us would just say, well,

71
00:04:43,040 --> 00:04:46,160
he's talking about, you know, 
people being born again. 

72
00:04:46,360 --> 00:04:49,960
I mean, this is technically the 
traditional thought that the 

73
00:04:49,960 --> 00:04:54,000
harvest is people who are lost. 
And they come into the Kingdom. 

74
00:04:54,120 --> 00:04:55,880
Well, is that what Jesus was 
seeing? 

75
00:04:58,120 --> 00:05:01,960
OK, let's do a little go through
scripture. 

76
00:05:02,520 --> 00:05:06,960
Now in Matthew chapter 28 verse 
19, obviously Jesus is concerned

77
00:05:06,960 --> 00:05:08,720
about. 
People's spiritual condition and

78
00:05:08,720 --> 00:05:10,960
he doesn't want them to stay in 
the place they are. 

79
00:05:10,960 --> 00:05:12,800
He wants them into another 
location. 

80
00:05:13,400 --> 00:05:15,960
As a result of that, he gives 
this command after his death, 

81
00:05:15,960 --> 00:05:17,920
burial, resurrection. 
He says that go therefore and 

82
00:05:17,920 --> 00:05:22,040
make what does he make him 
disciples of all nations, 

83
00:05:22,040 --> 00:05:24,520
baptizing them in the name of 
the Father, the Son and the Holy

84
00:05:24,520 --> 00:05:26,960
Spirit. 
So notice Jesus does not say 

85
00:05:26,960 --> 00:05:29,600
make converts. 
He doesn't say go get people 

86
00:05:29,600 --> 00:05:33,000
saved alone. 
He says go make disciples. 

87
00:05:33,000 --> 00:05:37,120
The word disciple means enroll 
as a student or a pupil, which 

88
00:05:37,120 --> 00:05:40,200
means in essence, if they're 
going to be trained because his 

89
00:05:40,200 --> 00:05:43,720
word his his preaching in 
Matthew 417 when he goes to the 

90
00:05:43,720 --> 00:05:49,480
public says repent, that's 
change your thinking. 

91
00:05:49,480 --> 00:05:52,320
Notice he did not say get a new 
spirit. 

92
00:05:53,360 --> 00:05:57,600
Do you need a new spirit? 
Yes, what I'm saying is your 

93
00:05:57,600 --> 00:06:01,600
spiritual change is not all that
God was going after. 

94
00:06:04,320 --> 00:06:08,600
God understands that we are not 
only spirit, but we have a soul 

95
00:06:08,600 --> 00:06:11,320
and a body, and He's here to 
redeem it all. 

96
00:06:13,400 --> 00:06:17,560
Because we can save our souls 
through the washing of the water

97
00:06:17,560 --> 00:06:19,600
of the world. 
We are to work out our salvation

98
00:06:19,600 --> 00:06:22,040
with what fear and trembling 
meaning renew in our mind. 

99
00:06:22,160 --> 00:06:26,080
But one day our mortal bodies 
that will go to the grave, 

100
00:06:26,080 --> 00:06:29,960
should the Lord tarry, will put 
on immortality, will be 

101
00:06:29,960 --> 00:06:34,560
glorified and will never die. 
So your body will never die, 

102
00:06:34,720 --> 00:06:38,720
never have sickness or disease. 
Your mind will be completely 

103
00:06:38,720 --> 00:06:45,080
open with no sin context, whoo 
Hallelujah. 

104
00:06:45,280 --> 00:06:48,960
And all of that will reflect 
your spirit being. 

105
00:06:49,440 --> 00:06:53,160
So when the Lord's like putting 
a new spirit in us, He expects 

106
00:06:53,160 --> 00:06:56,560
that spirit alone with the Holy 
Ghost in us to do a work with 

107
00:06:56,560 --> 00:06:58,160
the rest. 
Because you know, even though 

108
00:06:58,160 --> 00:07:01,880
your body today is mortal, He'll
heal it. 

109
00:07:03,080 --> 00:07:06,600
He'll cause it to be strong so 
that you can accomplish the 

110
00:07:06,600 --> 00:07:08,400
work. 
He didn't say, well, whatever 

111
00:07:08,400 --> 00:07:10,920
happens to your body, Oh well, 
I'm not really concerned about 

112
00:07:10,920 --> 00:07:12,800
that. 
Well, why'd he take stripes on 

113
00:07:12,800 --> 00:07:16,440
his back? 
So he's concerned about all of 

114
00:07:16,440 --> 00:07:19,560
us. 
So do not cheapen the the 

115
00:07:19,560 --> 00:07:24,360
finished work of Jesus to solely
being saved in your spirit 

116
00:07:25,320 --> 00:07:27,000
because it's way bigger than 
that. 

117
00:07:27,320 --> 00:07:30,280
Come on, say Amen. 
So Jesus said go and make 

118
00:07:30,280 --> 00:07:32,360
disciples. 
In essence, enroll the students,

119
00:07:32,360 --> 00:07:34,920
which means if they're going to 
repent, if I'm going to have 

120
00:07:34,920 --> 00:07:37,080
them change their thinking, I'll
change their spirit. 

121
00:07:37,080 --> 00:07:38,880
They can't do it. 
Only I can do that. 

122
00:07:39,440 --> 00:07:43,080
But then once their spirits 
change and I put my spirit in 

123
00:07:43,360 --> 00:07:46,640
them, the Holy Spirit, they'll 
be the temple of the Holy Ghost.

124
00:07:46,720 --> 00:07:48,240
He'll bear witness with their 
spirit. 

125
00:07:48,240 --> 00:07:50,120
He'll teach them. 
He'll guide them. 

126
00:07:53,640 --> 00:07:55,800
Right now, what's He teaching 
and guiding? 

127
00:07:56,080 --> 00:08:00,880
He's there to renew your mind 
because he wants a disciple. 

128
00:08:01,360 --> 00:08:03,400
Well, what does a disciple look 
like? 

129
00:08:03,880 --> 00:08:09,160
Because again, a disciple is not
someone who is just born again. 

130
00:08:13,680 --> 00:08:16,880
That is not a Bible definition 
of disciples. 

131
00:08:17,960 --> 00:08:21,280
OK, Ephesians chapter 4 verse 11
and 12. 

132
00:08:21,280 --> 00:08:26,120
Look what Jesus said by the Holy
Spirit through Paul writing to 

133
00:08:26,120 --> 00:08:29,000
the church at Ephesus and he 
says and he that's Jesus gave 

134
00:08:29,000 --> 00:08:33,000
some as apostles and some as 
prophets and some as evangelist,

135
00:08:33,000 --> 00:08:35,159
some as pastors and teachers. 
Why? 

136
00:08:36,280 --> 00:08:41,039
This is their why for the 
equipment of the Saints. 

137
00:08:41,039 --> 00:08:44,800
So the FIFO ministry has a very 
serious assignment and that 

138
00:08:44,800 --> 00:08:49,280
assignment is not just to win 
the lost and go after the lost 

139
00:08:49,280 --> 00:08:53,840
alone. 
And many congregations are not 

140
00:08:54,000 --> 00:09:01,560
arriving to disciple level 
because the emphasis is on a 

141
00:09:01,720 --> 00:09:05,960
harvest of only the loss coming 
into the Kingdom. 

142
00:09:06,120 --> 00:09:12,760
But no, growing up we are heavy 
in discipleship. 

143
00:09:15,040 --> 00:09:17,160
This is why we have midweek 
services. 

144
00:09:17,160 --> 00:09:20,760
This is why we have men's group 
on a Monday night. 

145
00:09:20,760 --> 00:09:23,120
That's why we have faith 
Christian University. 

146
00:09:23,240 --> 00:09:27,760
I mean we have a plethora of 
opportunities for you to grow up

147
00:09:27,760 --> 00:09:30,200
spiritually. 
This is why our foundations on 

148
00:09:30,200 --> 00:09:35,480
Sunday morning is why to 
disciple you because it's not 

149
00:09:35,640 --> 00:09:38,040
enough that you're in his 
Kingdom. 

150
00:09:38,840 --> 00:09:44,600
God always saw you as a his view
of you was let him be a disciple

151
00:09:46,080 --> 00:09:48,320
and the five folds 
responsibilities. 

152
00:09:48,320 --> 00:09:52,760
I need to make sure I am feeding
them the word that they can grow

153
00:09:52,760 --> 00:09:59,560
by it, not hold on by it, not 
wait until they die by, you 

154
00:09:59,560 --> 00:10:04,280
know, and go to heaven by it, 
but to grow by it, to overcome 

155
00:10:04,280 --> 00:10:09,000
by it, to win, to conquer to. 
Crucify the flesh to overcome 

156
00:10:09,040 --> 00:10:11,680
obstacles, right? 
Trials and tribulations. 

157
00:10:11,680 --> 00:10:14,080
We're going to see this. 
That's the point. 

158
00:10:14,680 --> 00:10:19,400
So then we go over. 
So a pastor obviously is a type 

159
00:10:19,400 --> 00:10:21,240
and shadow of a shepherd, she 
said. 

160
00:10:21,240 --> 00:10:23,760
I have compassion for him to 
like sheep without a shepherd. 

161
00:10:24,520 --> 00:10:28,720
And a shepherd doesn't go to the
field and transfer them from 1 

162
00:10:28,720 --> 00:10:32,720
field into another field and 
then walk away or let him stay 

163
00:10:32,720 --> 00:10:34,520
in. 
He's always taking them. 

164
00:10:34,520 --> 00:10:39,080
To pastures to feed them. 
It's to develop and grow them 

165
00:10:39,080 --> 00:10:42,360
All right, so a pastor issue. 
Equip Saints. 

166
00:10:42,680 --> 00:10:45,400
For this purpose, look at John 
chapter 15, verse 8. 

167
00:10:45,600 --> 00:10:49,560
John 15-8 tells us very clearly 
what a disciple looks like. 

168
00:10:49,560 --> 00:10:54,040
He said, My father's glorified 
by this, that you what bear 

169
00:10:54,680 --> 00:11:02,360
much. 
And so, so confessing Jesus as 

170
00:11:02,360 --> 00:11:09,640
Lord, does that prove your 
disciple it it proves that 

171
00:11:09,640 --> 00:11:12,200
you're a child of God. 
I'll give you that. 

172
00:11:13,040 --> 00:11:16,680
Paul himself in the in in the 
Corinthian letter said. 

173
00:11:16,680 --> 00:11:19,200
Look, I I can't even speak to 
you about spiritual things. 

174
00:11:19,200 --> 00:11:22,720
Like we can't even go on to some
things because you're carnal. 

175
00:11:23,360 --> 00:11:27,160
You're like babes in Christ. 
I mean, God never intended you 

176
00:11:27,160 --> 00:11:32,400
to stay, baby, to just be out of
the domain of darkness into the 

177
00:11:32,400 --> 00:11:37,160
Kingdom of his beloved son. 
Live just as a babe until you go

178
00:11:37,160 --> 00:11:39,760
to heaven, so that when you 
stand before the Lord, it's as 

179
00:11:39,760 --> 00:11:42,520
if you were saved by fire, like 
you were plucked out of just 

180
00:11:42,520 --> 00:11:45,280
hell itself. 
That's about all you, all that 

181
00:11:45,280 --> 00:11:48,880
happened for you, the Lord's. 
Like I saw beyond that. 

182
00:11:48,880 --> 00:11:54,240
When I saw harvest, I saw fruit.
So when Jesus says the harvest, 

183
00:11:54,480 --> 00:11:58,280
he's saying this. 
I see the potential of someone 

184
00:11:58,280 --> 00:12:01,320
if they would come over into 
this Kingdom, would have a life 

185
00:12:01,320 --> 00:12:07,280
that would bear much fruit for 
me, not just be my child that 

186
00:12:07,360 --> 00:12:15,440
has no fruit, that's just 
holding on until they die. 

187
00:12:17,000 --> 00:12:21,360
That their only confession is 
that Jesus died on the cross and

188
00:12:21,360 --> 00:12:25,640
roast from the grave 1 to get in
and then the second one after 

189
00:12:25,640 --> 00:12:29,480
that is I'm going to heaven when
I die and that's it. 

190
00:12:30,880 --> 00:12:35,440
That's never was God intent and 
that's not what he saw when he 

191
00:12:35,440 --> 00:12:38,920
saw the harvest. 
When he saw the harvest, he saw 

192
00:12:39,720 --> 00:12:45,320
men and women coming back into 
the original purpose that God 

193
00:12:45,320 --> 00:12:48,440
had for man in the first place. 
In Genesis chapter 1. 

194
00:12:49,040 --> 00:12:51,200
Let us make man in our image 
according to our likeness and 

195
00:12:51,200 --> 00:12:53,480
let them have what demeaning or 
rule? 

196
00:12:53,480 --> 00:12:58,440
Well, you cannot rule or 
dominate your circumstances and 

197
00:12:58,440 --> 00:13:01,520
situations on the planet if 
you're staying a baby. 

198
00:13:03,920 --> 00:13:10,160
Babies just in the natural do 
not dominate their dominate 

199
00:13:10,160 --> 00:13:14,160
their bodies because you know 
when they 1st come out they'll 

200
00:13:14,160 --> 00:13:16,480
mess all over themselves and be 
fine with it. 

201
00:13:19,560 --> 00:13:21,560
And look at you like when you 
changing me. 

202
00:13:21,920 --> 00:13:25,040
If you do whatever, I don't care
because if you don't and he gets

203
00:13:25,040 --> 00:13:27,280
all nasty then I'm going to cry 
anyway and you're going to have 

204
00:13:27,280 --> 00:13:34,600
to deal with that right? 
They cannot of their own self do

205
00:13:34,600 --> 00:13:40,080
anything right now. 
Everything we do, we do because 

206
00:13:40,080 --> 00:13:43,920
we are following God and God's 
empowering. 

207
00:13:43,920 --> 00:13:45,520
US. 
All right. 

208
00:13:45,680 --> 00:13:48,600
Now here's the thing. 
When you're born of God, your 

209
00:13:48,600 --> 00:13:50,720
spirit man wants to produce 
fruit. 

210
00:13:51,560 --> 00:14:00,840
The question is, do you? 
Disrupt it in your soul so. 

211
00:14:00,840 --> 00:14:04,040
Harvest really has has. 
Has to do with. 

212
00:14:04,040 --> 00:14:06,440
Fruit. 
So when we acknowledge that 

213
00:14:06,440 --> 00:14:11,040
harvest is just salvation or 
being born again, that's not 

214
00:14:11,200 --> 00:14:16,280
what Jesus was saying. 
Because harvest is a salvation 

215
00:14:16,280 --> 00:14:21,640
itself is a just about a 
transfer from from one domain 

216
00:14:21,640 --> 00:14:25,040
into another domain. 
That's what salvation. 

217
00:14:25,040 --> 00:14:27,360
When I say salvation, I'm saying
born again. 

218
00:14:30,560 --> 00:14:39,880
That one time account of faith 
is a transfer from one domain to

219
00:14:39,880 --> 00:14:41,400
the next. 
That's why Colossians chapter 2 

220
00:14:41,400 --> 00:14:46,440
says you were transferred from 
the domain of darkness into the 

221
00:14:46,440 --> 00:14:50,000
Kingdom of his beloved son. 
Now you're transferred into the 

222
00:14:50,000 --> 00:14:53,960
Kingdom, and Kingdom is not 
heaven because when I was born 

223
00:14:53,960 --> 00:14:58,040
again, I didn't go to heaven. 
I was still on the planet. 

224
00:14:58,520 --> 00:15:01,840
I'm still on the planet, but I 
was transferred into His 

225
00:15:01,840 --> 00:15:04,880
Kingdom. 
I became a citizen, a royal 

226
00:15:04,880 --> 00:15:08,440
heir. 
Come on, I'm a peculiar people, 

227
00:15:08,600 --> 00:15:13,360
a holy nation, right? 
And you know, I'm, I'm working 

228
00:15:13,360 --> 00:15:15,800
with the Lord. 
So with that being said, look at

229
00:15:15,800 --> 00:15:19,200
Matthew chapter 13. 
Now in Matthew 13, what I'm 

230
00:15:19,200 --> 00:15:21,720
going to do when we do this is 
the parable of the sower. 

231
00:15:22,400 --> 00:15:24,840
But there are two other gospels 
that give this account. 

232
00:15:25,360 --> 00:15:31,240
And I am adding in at various 
verses the other Gospels 

233
00:15:31,240 --> 00:15:34,840
accounts because they say a 
couple of different things. 

234
00:15:35,360 --> 00:15:37,440
All right, Matthew and Mark are 
pretty. 

235
00:15:37,440 --> 00:15:40,600
Close together, not a whole lot 
of difference there. 

236
00:15:41,240 --> 00:15:43,880
Luke definitely has some 
additional things in there. 

237
00:15:44,000 --> 00:15:46,960
Mark does too, but you know Luke
a little bit more. 

238
00:15:47,120 --> 00:15:49,360
And so we're going to embed them
so that you can see them. 

239
00:15:49,360 --> 00:15:51,520
So we'll just start again. 
We're going to be in Matthew 

240
00:15:51,520 --> 00:15:54,520
chapter 13, verses 3 through 9, 
and then I'm going to insert 

241
00:15:54,520 --> 00:15:59,120
these sections of Mark and Luke 
into this. 

242
00:15:59,120 --> 00:16:01,160
It'll be Mark chapter 4 and Luke
chapter 8. 

243
00:16:01,160 --> 00:16:04,120
All right, Matthew, chapter 13, 
verse 3 through 8, because 

244
00:16:04,120 --> 00:16:06,840
again, we're talking. 
About harvest, we're talking 

245
00:16:06,840 --> 00:16:13,640
about produce. 
God saved you not to go to 

246
00:16:13,640 --> 00:16:17,320
heaven. 
He saved you to become a son 

247
00:16:17,320 --> 00:16:20,280
that will bear fruit, to be a 
disciple. 

248
00:16:22,280 --> 00:16:29,200
All right, And if fruit bearing 
was automatic, then we would not

249
00:16:29,200 --> 00:16:38,320
have the parable of the sower. 
All right, it's automatic in the

250
00:16:38,320 --> 00:16:40,520
Spirit. 
We can disrupt it. 

251
00:16:41,440 --> 00:16:43,960
All right, let's go on. 
Says And He spoke many things to

252
00:16:43,960 --> 00:16:50,440
them in parable, saying, Behold,
the sower went out to sow, and 

253
00:16:50,440 --> 00:16:53,600
as he sowed, some seed fell by 
the road. 

254
00:16:55,480 --> 00:16:59,000
Did y'all copy and paste this? 
Let me look at this. 

255
00:17:06,250 --> 00:17:08,369
Interesting. 
Feel like I've already missed a 

256
00:17:08,369 --> 00:17:11,050
section. 
It's probably in the second. 

257
00:17:11,050 --> 00:17:13,250
That's why I'm sorry. 
You're fine. 

258
00:17:13,730 --> 00:17:15,930
And he spoke these things in 
parable, saying, behold, the 

259
00:17:15,930 --> 00:17:19,650
sore went out to sow, and as he 
sowed, some seed fell by the 

260
00:17:19,650 --> 00:17:23,890
road, and the birds came and ate
it up, Luke 85 says. 

261
00:17:23,890 --> 00:17:28,890
And it was trampled under foot, 
and the birds of the air ate it 

262
00:17:28,890 --> 00:17:31,760
up. 
Others fell on the rocky places 

263
00:17:31,960 --> 00:17:33,600
where they did not have much 
soil. 

264
00:17:33,840 --> 00:17:36,880
Soil. 
And immediately they sprang up 

265
00:17:36,880 --> 00:17:39,560
because they had no depth of 
soil. 

266
00:17:40,280 --> 00:17:43,800
But when the sun had risen, they
were scorched and. 

267
00:17:43,800 --> 00:17:46,880
Because they had no root, they 
withered, Luke 86 says. 

268
00:17:46,880 --> 00:17:48,680
It withered away because it had 
no. 

269
00:17:48,680 --> 00:17:53,880
Moisture verse seven others fell
among the thorns and the thorns 

270
00:17:53,880 --> 00:17:57,280
came up and choked it out. 
Mark chapter 4 seven says and it

271
00:17:57,280 --> 00:17:58,720
yielded no. 
Crop. 

272
00:18:01,000 --> 00:18:06,120
And others fell on the good soil
and yielded A crop, some a 

273
00:18:06,120 --> 00:18:09,320
hundredfold, some 60, some 30, 
Mark 48 says. 

274
00:18:09,320 --> 00:18:13,880
And they grew. 
Up and increased he who has 

275
00:18:13,880 --> 00:18:15,320
ears. 
Let him hear. 

276
00:18:15,840 --> 00:18:20,880
Now, Matthew chapter 13, verse 
18 is the explanation of this 

277
00:18:20,880 --> 00:18:22,200
parable. 
All right? 

278
00:18:22,600 --> 00:18:24,360
And so we are going to look at 
this again. 

279
00:18:24,360 --> 00:18:27,760
I'm going to insert the Mark and
Luke account. 

280
00:18:28,280 --> 00:18:30,480
It says hearing the parable of 
the sower. 

281
00:18:30,480 --> 00:18:34,760
Mark says the. 
Sower shows the word Luke 8 says

282
00:18:34,760 --> 00:18:38,560
the. 
Seed is the word of God, Matthew

283
00:18:38,560 --> 00:18:40,920
verse 19 says and when anyone 
who hears the word of the 

284
00:18:40,920 --> 00:18:49,600
Kingdom. 
So Mark tells us that the sower 

285
00:18:49,680 --> 00:18:53,840
shows the word. 
Luke tells us that what he is 

286
00:18:53,840 --> 00:18:56,480
sowing is a seed. 
In that seed is the word of God.

287
00:18:56,680 --> 00:19:00,840
Matthew says this seed is the 
Kingdom of God. 

288
00:19:00,840 --> 00:19:07,200
It's the word of the. 
Kingdom OK, so this let me ask 

289
00:19:07,200 --> 00:19:09,120
this question. 
Are we? 

290
00:19:10,240 --> 00:19:14,280
Let me say this the The farmer 
has seed. 

291
00:19:14,960 --> 00:19:22,760
Does he have one? 
It's important because again, if

292
00:19:22,760 --> 00:19:27,400
this is only about being born 
again, then it's just one. 

293
00:19:27,400 --> 00:19:34,240
CI mean we are told to study the
word and everything we study are

294
00:19:34,240 --> 00:19:36,800
seeds. 
If you're going to have the 

295
00:19:36,800 --> 00:19:40,600
produce of healing, or the 
produce of provision, or the 

296
00:19:40,800 --> 00:19:45,280
produce of a fruitful marriage, 
or the produce of great 

297
00:19:45,280 --> 00:19:48,480
parenting, or the produce of 
being a good employee, or the 

298
00:19:48,480 --> 00:19:54,480
produce you know of overcoming 
an obstacle, you're going to 

299
00:19:54,480 --> 00:20:01,080
have to have that seed sown in 
you in order. 

300
00:20:02,240 --> 00:20:06,680
Because again, if just being 
born again alone was enough 

301
00:20:06,680 --> 00:20:10,600
without any other instruction, 
then I agree with you. 

302
00:20:10,600 --> 00:20:19,000
We're wasting our time here 
because it should just, well, it

303
00:20:19,000 --> 00:20:22,000
just comes up automatic. 
I'm born again and it 

304
00:20:22,000 --> 00:20:25,280
automatically shows up. 
Here it comes. 

305
00:20:27,080 --> 00:20:29,360
I know everything to do without 
even reading. 

306
00:20:35,280 --> 00:20:44,960
No, the word is sown, which 
tells us faith comes by as I'm 

307
00:20:44,960 --> 00:20:53,960
speaking, I'm sowing, and 
whatever subject I'm speaking, 

308
00:20:54,080 --> 00:20:56,920
I'm sowing. 
I'm sowing the word of God. 

309
00:20:56,920 --> 00:20:58,440
I'm sowing the word of the 
Kingdom. 

310
00:21:02,720 --> 00:21:07,040
Period. 
Now how this now let me just 

311
00:21:07,040 --> 00:21:18,560
say, this is all the seed good 
seed, yes, there's nothing wrong

312
00:21:18,560 --> 00:21:20,480
with the seed. 
Tell what's wrong with the word 

313
00:21:20,480 --> 00:21:23,640
of God. 
When is the word of God bad? 

314
00:21:24,920 --> 00:21:28,320
Thank you. 
So it's not a seed problem. 

315
00:21:30,640 --> 00:21:39,160
This is not a seed problem. 
So you can't have church hurt 

316
00:21:39,160 --> 00:21:45,000
'cause it's not a seed problem, 
it's not a seed problem, it's 

317
00:21:45,000 --> 00:21:49,760
not a seed problem. 
This is the environment the seed

318
00:21:50,640 --> 00:21:56,440
is entering. 
It's the environment the seed is

319
00:21:56,440 --> 00:22:02,120
entering. 
And I'm sowing seed now into 

320
00:22:02,120 --> 00:22:06,560
environments and OK, I mean, 
we'll just make it simple. 

321
00:22:07,520 --> 00:22:11,480
God made man He. 
Formed Adam out of what? 

322
00:22:13,600 --> 00:22:15,600
Thank you. 
The dust of the earth are dirt, 

323
00:22:15,600 --> 00:22:20,080
so you're just a bunch of dirt 
fields that I'm sowing seed in. 

324
00:22:22,720 --> 00:22:26,920
That God always expected a 
harvest out of you as his. 

325
00:22:28,200 --> 00:22:29,720
Now what's in your. 
Field. 

326
00:22:37,600 --> 00:22:42,520
Is up to you, say. 
Amen. 

327
00:22:42,520 --> 00:22:49,520
Anyway, see This is why some 
people can receive the seed on 

328
00:22:49,520 --> 00:22:55,320
certain subjects, but other 
subjects they do not receive the

329
00:22:55,320 --> 00:23:02,680
seed 'cause it goes on and says 
when anyone hears the word of 

330
00:23:02,680 --> 00:23:04,920
the Kingdom and does not 
understand it. 

331
00:23:05,440 --> 00:23:08,280
Now anyone in this room could 
fall. 

332
00:23:08,280 --> 00:23:11,720
Victim to this? 
Because if you're here without 

333
00:23:11,720 --> 00:23:16,560
intentionality to understand, 
then I will say I will sow a lot

334
00:23:16,560 --> 00:23:19,600
of seed that's going to fall to 
the wayside. 

335
00:23:20,440 --> 00:23:23,680
The person to your left and 
right could be getting it, but 

336
00:23:23,680 --> 00:23:27,120
you're not. 
So you actually have to have an 

337
00:23:27,120 --> 00:23:32,160
intentionality when you come. 
It's not my responsibility to 

338
00:23:32,200 --> 00:23:38,400
prepare your soil. 
It's yours. 

339
00:23:38,960 --> 00:23:41,160
Now. 
If you have no intention to come

340
00:23:41,160 --> 00:23:43,680
in, to understand, then you'll 
leave. 

341
00:23:43,680 --> 00:23:45,280
I didn't understand anything you
said. 

342
00:23:45,960 --> 00:23:51,800
And whose problem is that? 
Because there's nothing wrong 

343
00:23:51,800 --> 00:23:55,680
with the seed. 
Now I understand that there can 

344
00:23:55,680 --> 00:24:00,840
be people who preach wrong. 
I get that, but let's take that 

345
00:24:00,840 --> 00:24:03,880
off the table. 
We're obviously talking about 

346
00:24:04,280 --> 00:24:07,360
the intentionality that God saw.
I see the harvest. 

347
00:24:07,640 --> 00:24:10,960
It's ripe, you know. 
Are you know, there's a harvest 

348
00:24:10,960 --> 00:24:12,800
out there. 
It's plentiful. 

349
00:24:13,080 --> 00:24:16,240
There are plenty that can come 
into the Kingdom and bear fruit 

350
00:24:16,240 --> 00:24:18,680
for. 
Me as disciples, I see their 

351
00:24:18,680 --> 00:24:21,000
potential. 
We just need laborers. 

352
00:24:21,920 --> 00:24:25,480
Laborers who will do more than 
cut it off and leave it in the 

353
00:24:25,480 --> 00:24:29,360
field, but take it all the way 
through the process so that it 

354
00:24:29,360 --> 00:24:34,120
can benefit humanity, so 
somebody can grow by that fruit.

355
00:24:34,560 --> 00:24:36,360
Their life can be changed by 
that. 

356
00:24:36,360 --> 00:24:41,720
Fruit and we'll go through the 
whole process all right and so. 

357
00:24:42,440 --> 00:24:50,040
We are delivering based upon the
Jesus saw that listen fivefold 

358
00:24:50,040 --> 00:24:56,280
ministry, sow that seed, speak 
that word, give them the context

359
00:24:56,280 --> 00:25:00,440
of the Kingdom so that it can 
produce. 

360
00:25:01,640 --> 00:25:05,440
But if they have no 
understanding, do not come in 

361
00:25:05,440 --> 00:25:09,200
ready, then in essence, the evil
1 comes and snatches away what 

362
00:25:09,200 --> 00:25:12,680
has been sown in his heart. 
He won't even let you get you 

363
00:25:12,680 --> 00:25:16,880
the front door. 
He may let you get you the car 

364
00:25:17,920 --> 00:25:20,720
only for an argument to happen 
with your children or your 

365
00:25:20,720 --> 00:25:26,760
spouse on the way home because 
the whole time you were here 

366
00:25:26,760 --> 00:25:31,440
anyway, you were checking your 
social media or every 

367
00:25:31,440 --> 00:25:34,880
notification that kept popping 
up and browsing through 

368
00:25:34,880 --> 00:25:36,920
Pinterest and looking at 
different things. 

369
00:25:38,520 --> 00:25:43,160
Right, you know, 'cause I love 
you all, but none of you have 

370
00:25:43,160 --> 00:25:45,440
photographic memories. 
I'm just telling you now, some 

371
00:25:45,440 --> 00:25:49,120
of you I will give this. 
I've had a few say fossil Earl. 

372
00:25:49,120 --> 00:25:51,680
I, I, I don't always take a 
whole lot of notes because 

373
00:25:51,680 --> 00:25:54,040
you're throwing so much and I 
know it's recorded and I go back

374
00:25:54,040 --> 00:25:55,040
and take notes and you know 
what? 

375
00:25:55,040 --> 00:25:56,600
If you're disciplined, do that. 
Great. 

376
00:25:58,600 --> 00:26:02,520
But there's a lot you can get by
taking notes. 

377
00:26:02,520 --> 00:26:05,840
And I use my electronic device 
too, you know, So sometimes you 

378
00:26:05,840 --> 00:26:08,320
have to turn off notifications 
so you don't get distracted, 

379
00:26:08,720 --> 00:26:12,960
especially if the game's on, You
want to get a score update. 

380
00:26:13,680 --> 00:26:18,400
These are all things that hinder
your understanding and God could

381
00:26:18,400 --> 00:26:24,240
drop something that now it's not
the seed problem, it was your 

382
00:26:24,240 --> 00:26:26,560
problem. 
All right. 

383
00:26:26,840 --> 00:26:31,280
So he goes on to say Luke 812 
says that he'll snatch the evil 

384
00:26:31,280 --> 00:26:34,040
and snatch so they will not 
believe and be saved. 

385
00:26:34,040 --> 00:26:38,040
Now this word saved is not the 
word for born again. 

386
00:26:39,360 --> 00:26:42,560
Now what do I mean by that? 
It's not isolated to only being 

387
00:26:42,560 --> 00:26:45,480
born again. 
This word saved, when you look 

388
00:26:45,480 --> 00:26:48,680
it up, not only deals with being
born again, but it deals with 

389
00:26:48,680 --> 00:26:53,040
any issue of life. 
Because what's the Bible say? 

390
00:26:53,120 --> 00:26:56,840
He will deliver you out of how 
many? 

391
00:26:57,400 --> 00:27:01,680
All of your plural not trouble. 
Well, you're in trouble. 

392
00:27:01,680 --> 00:27:03,480
The only trouble you have is 
that you're going to go to hell 

393
00:27:03,480 --> 00:27:05,160
when you die. 
But if you'll get born again, 

394
00:27:05,160 --> 00:27:07,280
then you won't have to worry 
about that and you have no more 

395
00:27:07,280 --> 00:27:09,920
trouble. 
No, he'll deliver you out of all

396
00:27:09,920 --> 00:27:12,520
your trouble. 
You're in financial trouble. 

397
00:27:12,520 --> 00:27:15,920
He'll, he will save you. 
He'll save your body from 

398
00:27:15,920 --> 00:27:18,080
sickness and disease. 
He'll save your marriage. 

399
00:27:18,400 --> 00:27:21,760
He'll save your, your job. 
He'll, I mean, he's, he's 

400
00:27:21,760 --> 00:27:25,520
constantly saving. 
I mean, everything he does is 

401
00:27:25,520 --> 00:27:30,000
about saving you so that the 
enemy doesn't get, you know, 

402
00:27:30,080 --> 00:27:32,640
something on you. 
We're not even ignorant of the 

403
00:27:32,640 --> 00:27:36,760
devil's devices. 
So you getting a pickle? 

404
00:27:36,960 --> 00:27:39,240
Guess what? 
You can go to the throne of 

405
00:27:39,240 --> 00:27:43,000
grace. 
He's extremely merciful and 

406
00:27:43,000 --> 00:27:47,600
he'll give you help in your time
of and that's not only to be 

407
00:27:47,600 --> 00:27:52,240
born again. 
So the devil he is, he is. 

408
00:27:52,600 --> 00:27:59,040
He is trying to distract you 
when seed is being sown. 

409
00:28:01,120 --> 00:28:05,760
This is why sometimes I have had
meetings in the past with people

410
00:28:05,760 --> 00:28:09,480
that have not been in church and
their life is going all kind of 

411
00:28:09,480 --> 00:28:11,800
crazy. 
They meet and then when we're 

412
00:28:11,800 --> 00:28:14,720
talking about their life, I'm 
like, oh man, if you had just 

413
00:28:14,720 --> 00:28:19,120
been in service, we have been 
talking about how to handle all 

414
00:28:19,120 --> 00:28:22,800
these obstacles. 
In essence, God knew this was 

415
00:28:22,800 --> 00:28:27,040
coming before you did. 
He put seed in you so that you 

416
00:28:27,040 --> 00:28:31,040
can bear the fruit in order to 
overcome. 

417
00:28:31,440 --> 00:28:35,280
But if you're not in the seat, 
let me say this, you can't sow 

418
00:28:35,280 --> 00:28:43,960
to your own life alone. 
You can't do it because if you 

419
00:28:43,960 --> 00:28:48,240
could sow to yourself the word 
alone, then there's no need for 

420
00:28:48,240 --> 00:28:52,280
the fivefold ministry. 
But the hand cannot tell the I 

421
00:28:52,280 --> 00:28:55,680
have no and God. 
Placed those gifts in. 

422
00:28:57,800 --> 00:29:01,240
And those gifts are to equip 
you, which means those gifts 

423
00:29:01,240 --> 00:29:06,560
have a huge responsibility to be
doing the greatest amount of 

424
00:29:06,560 --> 00:29:12,120
sewing into your life. 
Now here's the difference 

425
00:29:12,120 --> 00:29:18,920
between. 
A YouTube sewer and I'm sewing 

426
00:29:19,920 --> 00:29:22,680
because the YouTube. 
Sewer can sow seed and you can 

427
00:29:22,680 --> 00:29:26,320
get it and get excited. 
But I'm here saying Pastor 

428
00:29:26,320 --> 00:29:30,320
Danny, we've got some weeds. 
Well, how do you know? 

429
00:29:30,440 --> 00:29:32,360
Cuz I'm around you. 
I hear how you talk. 

430
00:29:32,360 --> 00:29:34,520
I see how you walk. 
I see how you do this. 

431
00:29:34,840 --> 00:29:36,800
The YouTube sewer doesn't see 
this. 

432
00:29:38,240 --> 00:29:40,520
So the YouTube sewer is not in 
your field. 

433
00:29:41,680 --> 00:29:44,800
They're just a commercial 
selling you some kind of product

434
00:29:45,200 --> 00:29:49,440
to try to help you. 
But yet me, I'm in your field. 

435
00:29:50,040 --> 00:29:55,560
I'm all up in your field, Don. 
I mean, you feel I'm like we're 

436
00:29:55,560 --> 00:30:01,160
going to have to deal with that 
because that's not the produce 

437
00:30:02,280 --> 00:30:07,240
that God intended. 
Hallelujah, y'all doing all 

438
00:30:07,240 --> 00:30:10,440
right. 
I think I just snatched my my 

439
00:30:10,440 --> 00:30:11,880
mic. 
All right, y'all can still hear 

440
00:30:11,880 --> 00:30:14,760
me. 
OK, let's go on. 

441
00:30:14,960 --> 00:30:18,960
So. 
The enemy again all listen. 

442
00:30:19,520 --> 00:30:26,360
Do you understand the devil 
himself, his number one target 

443
00:30:26,720 --> 00:30:29,440
in your life is to keep you from
the word. 

444
00:30:31,040 --> 00:30:34,680
I mean, that's such a profound, 
simple truth. 

445
00:30:35,920 --> 00:30:42,680
And yet we put less value on the
word because if he can, and 

446
00:30:42,720 --> 00:30:44,640
we'll see if he can do other 
things. 

447
00:30:45,800 --> 00:30:49,640
I mean, he knows what the 
objective is, all right, because

448
00:30:49,640 --> 00:30:55,680
he knows the power of the word. 
He knows the power all right. 

449
00:30:56,240 --> 00:31:01,160
Verse 20 so the one whom seed 
was sown on the rocky places. 

450
00:31:01,160 --> 00:31:07,160
This is the man who hears the 
word and immediately receives it

451
00:31:07,160 --> 00:31:08,960
with joy. 
We even run around the church. 

452
00:31:10,000 --> 00:31:25,160
Yet he, yet he. 
Has no firm root in himself, but

453
00:31:25,160 --> 00:31:28,120
is only temporary and when 
afflictions. 

454
00:31:28,400 --> 00:31:33,080
Or persecutions arise because of
the word immediately. 

455
00:31:34,760 --> 00:31:39,360
He falls away immediately. 
Are you hearing what I'm saying 

456
00:31:40,160 --> 00:31:52,840
now in the just parable portion 
talking about the the seed sown 

457
00:31:52,840 --> 00:31:57,360
on the rocky places? 
It says it's scorched, it 

458
00:31:57,360 --> 00:32:01,120
Withers away and Luke said it 
had no moisture. 

459
00:32:02,320 --> 00:32:08,120
You know moisture, right? 
It is the washing of the water 

460
00:32:08,120 --> 00:32:13,840
of the word. 
You cannot come here here and 

461
00:32:13,840 --> 00:32:18,480
shout and then have no 
additional watering with your 

462
00:32:18,480 --> 00:32:21,440
own personal life. 
You do not retain moisture. 

463
00:32:21,560 --> 00:32:26,200
If all you're doing is showing 
up once a week or two times a 

464
00:32:26,200 --> 00:32:31,800
month. 
There's no moisture retention 

465
00:32:33,160 --> 00:32:41,000
because Jesus said in this life 
you will have. 

466
00:32:43,640 --> 00:32:46,920
Trials and tribulations, right? 
Because again. 

467
00:32:48,880 --> 00:32:52,920
The devil just does not want you
to release who you are in 

468
00:32:52,920 --> 00:32:55,920
Christ. 
And in order to release who you 

469
00:32:55,920 --> 00:33:00,640
are in Christ, you must be a 
doer of the Word, which is a 

470
00:33:00,640 --> 00:33:04,440
disciple that produces fruit, 
and he's afraid of your fruit. 

471
00:33:06,520 --> 00:33:11,480
So he's after your fruit because
he has no problem with carnal 

472
00:33:11,480 --> 00:33:15,240
Christians. 
He doesn't care if you're saved 

473
00:33:15,920 --> 00:33:19,320
as long as you don't produce the
fruit of the Kingdom, because if

474
00:33:19,320 --> 00:33:22,320
you act like everybody else, 
you're actually a better 

475
00:33:22,320 --> 00:33:30,880
billboard for him because you 
help people delay a response to 

476
00:33:30,880 --> 00:33:35,240
the Lord because they through 
your life expect that. 

477
00:33:35,240 --> 00:33:39,840
It's just an afterlife question.
And again, we've said it here at

478
00:33:39,840 --> 00:33:42,640
Anchor Bay Church multiple 
times, and that is this. 

479
00:33:44,040 --> 00:33:47,120
Jesus was not selling a deaf 
gospel. 

480
00:33:47,320 --> 00:33:49,160
Where are you going to go when 
you die? 

481
00:33:49,520 --> 00:33:53,520
That was never his intent, nor 
was it his question. 

482
00:33:54,640 --> 00:33:59,080
What he was giving was sonship. 
And that's available now. 

483
00:34:01,880 --> 00:34:04,920
And the Kingdom can manifest in 
our lives today the full 

484
00:34:04,920 --> 00:34:07,640
benefits of it. 
Hallelujah. 

485
00:34:08,679 --> 00:34:12,960
I mean, I don't understand why a
believer will want to delay when

486
00:34:12,960 --> 00:34:18,280
they do not have to. 
All right, so here we have the 

487
00:34:18,280 --> 00:34:22,760
rocks. 
There's no moisture, pressure or

488
00:34:23,440 --> 00:34:26,480
the heat of life, right? 
You're going to get in a hot 

489
00:34:26,480 --> 00:34:28,159
spot. 
Let's say it that way. 

490
00:34:28,880 --> 00:34:31,760
Everybody gets in a hot spot. 
All right? 

491
00:34:31,960 --> 00:34:37,800
The question is, how are you 
going to handle it? 

492
00:34:38,199 --> 00:34:43,800
Because again, running around on
a Sunday, lifting your hands on 

493
00:34:43,800 --> 00:34:47,880
a Sunday, shouting on a Sunday 
is not fruit. 

494
00:34:47,880 --> 00:34:51,840
That's right. 
If it never replicates on 

495
00:34:51,840 --> 00:35:00,560
Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, I 
mean, singing unto the Lord, 

496
00:35:00,560 --> 00:35:03,360
praising Him is not a religious 
exercise. 

497
00:35:03,520 --> 00:35:08,040
It's an outflow of gratitude. 
And that's in any circumstance, 

498
00:35:10,000 --> 00:35:14,080
but again when people do not 
have a root system and the 

499
00:35:14,080 --> 00:35:17,640
reason why many do not have root
systems or a person wouldn't 

500
00:35:17,640 --> 00:35:20,240
have. 
Colin, would you please bring me

501
00:35:20,240 --> 00:35:22,560
another piece of tape? 
I have ripped this and it is 

502
00:35:22,560 --> 00:35:27,400
just going crazy and I am like 
hating life and I'm glad we're 

503
00:35:27,400 --> 00:35:29,880
not filming tonight so we can 
fix this problem. 

504
00:35:30,840 --> 00:35:36,880
Say Amen. 
So the reason why many people 

505
00:35:36,880 --> 00:35:42,080
aren't producing fruit is 
because, honestly, they don't 

506
00:35:42,080 --> 00:36:01,120
get planted, Yeah. 
Just put it back on. 

507
00:36:05,960 --> 00:36:08,000
We've been here for 22 years. 
This has happened. 

508
00:36:09,240 --> 00:36:11,240
I don't know, only a couple 
times maybe. 

509
00:36:14,680 --> 00:36:22,720
Thanks, Colin. 
All right, I feel way more 

510
00:36:22,720 --> 00:36:27,280
secure now. 
Let me just let me just unpack a

511
00:36:27,280 --> 00:36:31,120
couple things. 
OK, so. 

512
00:36:37,000 --> 00:36:41,320
I love it when people come to 
Anchor Faith Church because all 

513
00:36:41,320 --> 00:36:43,360
of a sudden they start hearing 
stuff they've not heard and 

514
00:36:44,960 --> 00:36:47,320
they're like, wow, this is 
amazing, right? 

515
00:36:47,800 --> 00:36:48,840
Sabrina, how long you been here 
Now? 

516
00:36:50,160 --> 00:36:50,720
Three. 
Oh, yeah. 

517
00:36:51,160 --> 00:36:53,720
There's a lot in the three. 
Three to five year. 

518
00:36:54,680 --> 00:36:58,760
Can we tell you where you're at?
You're at the place where. 

519
00:36:59,000 --> 00:37:02,720
The enemy's like, let's see if 
they know what they think they 

520
00:37:02,760 --> 00:37:10,800
know. 
And it's amazing as an apostle 

521
00:37:10,800 --> 00:37:13,320
and pastor, you start hearing 
all these little challenges 

522
00:37:13,320 --> 00:37:18,040
happening. 
Well, it's to find out, are you 

523
00:37:18,040 --> 00:37:22,720
a disciple or are you just a 
Amen? 

524
00:37:22,720 --> 00:37:26,840
As long as there's no issue 
because the minute the pressure 

525
00:37:26,840 --> 00:37:32,280
comes, do you stand up 
underneath and bear or do you 

526
00:37:32,280 --> 00:37:36,680
wither away and die? 
You get swept out of the church 

527
00:37:37,040 --> 00:37:38,920
you'd like this thing really 
ain't working. 

528
00:37:39,080 --> 00:37:42,040
This don't work for me. 
Everybody's saying that you 

529
00:37:42,040 --> 00:37:43,920
could have and I this is not 
happening. 

530
00:37:44,040 --> 00:37:46,240
It's because you start saying 
something contrary to what you 

531
00:37:46,240 --> 00:37:50,080
were taught. 
You have no firm root. 

532
00:37:50,720 --> 00:37:53,480
You're only response because 
here's the thing, they hear the 

533
00:37:53,480 --> 00:37:55,360
word. 
They receive it with joy, but 

534
00:37:55,360 --> 00:37:58,280
what they're doing is it's 
temporary because all their 

535
00:37:58,280 --> 00:38:02,520
experience is just technically 
emotional. 

536
00:38:03,600 --> 00:38:06,280
And they have these emotional 
responses because you get in the

537
00:38:06,280 --> 00:38:08,280
presence of God, you're going to
have emotions. 

538
00:38:10,760 --> 00:38:15,080
But God's more than emotion. 
He's spirit and he will affect 

539
00:38:15,080 --> 00:38:17,040
your emotion, but he wants to 
affect your spirit. 

540
00:38:17,720 --> 00:38:20,800
And a firm persuasion is, it 
doesn't matter what I'm going 

541
00:38:20,800 --> 00:38:26,080
through, I know my God will. 
But someone who just hears 

542
00:38:26,240 --> 00:38:28,640
recedes with joy. 
But it's temporary. 

543
00:38:28,640 --> 00:38:32,240
They're not really meditating. 
They're not allowing it to seep 

544
00:38:32,240 --> 00:38:33,840
in. 
They're not allowing their their

545
00:38:33,840 --> 00:38:35,720
roots. 
They're jumping all over the 

546
00:38:35,720 --> 00:38:38,400
place, going to this conference,
going to this one, maybe jumping

547
00:38:38,400 --> 00:38:40,720
from this church to this church,
you know, cuz hey, we're all the

548
00:38:40,720 --> 00:38:42,440
body of Christ. 
Well, I'm glad we're all the 

549
00:38:42,440 --> 00:38:44,280
body of Christ. 
But you're not producing any 

550
00:38:44,280 --> 00:38:48,040
fruit in any of the places 
you're going because you're 

551
00:38:48,040 --> 00:38:51,200
dancing and shouting and saying 
Hallelujah and being nice isn't 

552
00:38:51,200 --> 00:38:54,800
enough to produce the fruit when
the heat happens. 

553
00:38:58,400 --> 00:39:01,760
And again, it's not a seed 
problem because here's the thing

554
00:39:01,760 --> 00:39:04,240
about this. 
The seed has turned into a 

555
00:39:04,240 --> 00:39:10,400
plant. 
But God's not trying to have a 

556
00:39:10,400 --> 00:39:14,440
plant. 
He wants the fruit of the vine. 

557
00:39:15,600 --> 00:39:19,720
Are you hearing me? 
OK, so let's go on, says in the 

558
00:39:19,720 --> 00:39:22,080
one in whom the seed was sown 
among the thorns. 

559
00:39:22,080 --> 00:39:25,720
This is the man who hears the 
word and the worry of the world 

560
00:39:26,000 --> 00:39:29,840
and the deceitfulness of wealth,
Mark 4 says, and the desire for 

561
00:39:29,840 --> 00:39:34,320
other things. 
Enter in Luke 8 says, pleasures 

562
00:39:34,320 --> 00:39:38,040
of this life. 
Oh my goodness, choke the word 

563
00:39:38,080 --> 00:39:42,600
and it becomes unfruitful. 
Chokes the word. 

564
00:39:43,600 --> 00:39:47,160
And what's crazy about this? 
I years ago, I preached a 

565
00:39:47,160 --> 00:39:49,080
message called the choke 
conspiracy. 

566
00:39:49,360 --> 00:39:53,960
Because what the devil does in 
this is that everything you go 

567
00:39:53,960 --> 00:39:58,760
after yourself without God, with
God you can actually have. 

568
00:39:58,960 --> 00:40:01,880
And he deceives you that you 
can't have it with him. 

569
00:40:02,080 --> 00:40:03,880
You've got to go out on your 
own. 

570
00:40:05,040 --> 00:40:06,680
Look how much you're 
sacrificing. 

571
00:40:06,840 --> 00:40:08,600
Look how much better everyone's 
living. 

572
00:40:08,680 --> 00:40:10,560
Look how much more money you can
make. 

573
00:40:11,240 --> 00:40:13,360
You know, this is the thing that
happens, what people call the 

574
00:40:13,360 --> 00:40:25,560
ministry because they don't know
how to actually add up how much 

575
00:40:25,920 --> 00:40:32,680
God is doing. 
I would love to put my life up 

576
00:40:32,680 --> 00:40:37,160
against a corporate person. 
I would like to find out how 

577
00:40:37,160 --> 00:40:42,560
much they're paying into their 
healthcare from their paycheck 

578
00:40:44,040 --> 00:40:49,360
and all that money they've done.
And then every time they've had 

579
00:40:49,360 --> 00:40:53,720
to go and every prescription 
they've had a co-pay, but every 

580
00:40:53,720 --> 00:40:55,960
surgery they've had everything 
because again, they're subject 

581
00:40:55,960 --> 00:41:05,310
to all that. 
And then me, I don't go to the 

582
00:41:05,310 --> 00:41:11,150
hospital and it is because I am 
in the will of God, staying in 

583
00:41:11,150 --> 00:41:12,950
his plan. 
Looking back at the faithfulness

584
00:41:12,950 --> 00:41:17,640
God, I'm like wow, God knows 
knows how to keep you healthy. 

585
00:41:19,760 --> 00:41:24,000
He's the best healthcare system 
ever and when certain symptoms 

586
00:41:24,000 --> 00:41:27,920
came. 
I went to the to the Kingdom 

587
00:41:28,360 --> 00:41:31,120
asked the Lord, how do you want 
me to handle this and when I did

588
00:41:31,120 --> 00:41:37,800
it his way every time I 
recovered and most of the time 

589
00:41:37,920 --> 00:41:45,160
within 24 hours. 
Now, if I equated that to just 

590
00:41:45,160 --> 00:41:50,240
spending money in the natural, 
are you hearing me again? 

591
00:41:50,680 --> 00:41:52,440
I say this, and we've done this 
before. 

592
00:41:52,440 --> 00:41:55,320
We've done the Corps of 
Engineering. 

593
00:41:55,480 --> 00:42:00,160
Engineers could build a bridge 
across the Red Sea. 

594
00:42:00,560 --> 00:42:04,920
It can be accomplished and money
can do it. 

595
00:42:06,080 --> 00:42:10,480
But how much money did the Lord 
do at a word? 

596
00:42:11,440 --> 00:42:18,440
Not even a word Moses raised. 
And so he parts the sea, he goes

597
00:42:18,440 --> 00:42:21,320
on dry ground. 
And yet we're. 

598
00:42:21,320 --> 00:42:26,800
Chasing Can I give you one small
nugget that I gave the king the 

599
00:42:26,800 --> 00:42:32,840
first business alliance? 
It's a rich young ruler goes to 

600
00:42:32,840 --> 00:42:35,440
Jesus. 
What must we do to inherit 

601
00:42:35,440 --> 00:42:40,440
eternal life? 
The poor go to the rich, but the

602
00:42:40,440 --> 00:42:47,600
rich go to Jesus. 
The poor is always trying to get

603
00:42:47,600 --> 00:42:53,160
rich, but the rich in their 
wealth already knows it doesn't 

604
00:42:53,160 --> 00:42:56,440
satisfy for life, so they go to 
Jesus. 

605
00:42:56,440 --> 00:42:59,440
So why don't you just cut out 
the rich? 

606
00:42:59,640 --> 00:43:02,160
Go to Jesus because he is 
prosperity. 

607
00:43:05,080 --> 00:43:08,120
OK. 
I'm just saying a lot of times 

608
00:43:08,120 --> 00:43:10,400
people don't. 
I mean, when I think about the 

609
00:43:10,400 --> 00:43:16,400
blessings in my life, I mean, 
how do you, how do you calculate

610
00:43:16,400 --> 00:43:19,000
that? 
I mean, if you did an honest 

611
00:43:19,000 --> 00:43:21,880
assessment, I do try to develop 
us as critical thinkers because 

612
00:43:22,040 --> 00:43:27,960
a lot of times we have these 
fantasies of things instead of 

613
00:43:27,960 --> 00:43:31,040
realities. 
Because what happens is here's a

614
00:43:31,040 --> 00:43:34,360
person who can hear the word and
then starts getting distracted 

615
00:43:34,440 --> 00:43:38,960
about what's going on out here 
outside the church. 

616
00:43:40,680 --> 00:43:44,960
Because the world sells itself, 
and what good? 

617
00:43:44,960 --> 00:43:48,960
Is it a man to gain the whole 
and forfeit your SO? 

618
00:43:48,960 --> 00:43:51,920
It's not worth it, but yet he 
will work on it. 

619
00:43:52,080 --> 00:43:54,160
He'll get you worried about 
things. 

620
00:43:54,560 --> 00:43:57,360
Are you being worried about all 
the wars and rumors of wars? 

621
00:43:57,680 --> 00:43:59,720
Jesus happened to let us know 
this is going to happen. 

622
00:44:02,400 --> 00:44:04,280
So. 
Don't wring your hands and be 

623
00:44:04,280 --> 00:44:08,080
worried. 
Just stay with the king. 

624
00:44:08,080 --> 00:44:11,040
You'll be protected. 
Run into his fortress and you'll

625
00:44:11,040 --> 00:44:14,160
be. 
Those are real words. 

626
00:44:15,120 --> 00:44:19,280
See, this is what a person will 
produce fruit because they'll be

627
00:44:19,280 --> 00:44:23,880
confident in the word of God, 
not in their own ability, and 

628
00:44:23,880 --> 00:44:26,600
they'll know that God will do 
what he says he'll do. 

629
00:44:29,640 --> 00:44:32,520
So the worry of the world, the 
deceitfulness of wealth. 

630
00:44:33,120 --> 00:44:35,240
I mean, God has no problem with 
you being wealthy. 

631
00:44:36,880 --> 00:44:39,600
He has no problem with that. 
There's plenty of wealthy people

632
00:44:39,600 --> 00:44:43,760
that followed God. 
But yet if you're looking to it,

633
00:44:45,800 --> 00:44:48,400
if you think, well, if I could 
just get some more, we can 

634
00:44:48,400 --> 00:44:53,880
finally get out, you're wrong. 
That's a deception because 

635
00:44:53,880 --> 00:44:57,400
money's not your real problem. 
I mean, you understand God can 

636
00:44:57,400 --> 00:45:00,280
drop provision like nobody's 
business. 

637
00:45:00,880 --> 00:45:03,480
I mean, it's really no problem. 
There's other issues that are 

638
00:45:03,480 --> 00:45:05,600
going on. 
Then the next one is the desire 

639
00:45:06,480 --> 00:45:11,000
for other things. 
All of a sudden you desire what 

640
00:45:11,000 --> 00:45:13,800
somebody else has or what 
something else or a different 

641
00:45:13,800 --> 00:45:17,360
type of life instead of the plan
and purpose God has for your 

642
00:45:17,360 --> 00:45:20,360
life or just the pleasures in 
life. 

643
00:45:20,360 --> 00:45:22,200
And let me tell you, when you 
live a. 

644
00:45:22,440 --> 00:45:27,920
Life unto the Lord to where you 
are thankful for what God's 

645
00:45:27,920 --> 00:45:30,560
done, but you realize life is 
bigger than me and I'm supposed 

646
00:45:30,560 --> 00:45:34,080
to invest and bear fruit so that
I can give off to someone else. 

647
00:45:34,080 --> 00:45:36,840
So you're always, you know, 
thinking about others as well. 

648
00:45:37,080 --> 00:45:40,560
Then there comes It's easy to 
see so many selfish people doing

649
00:45:40,560 --> 00:45:44,760
things for their own, coming and
going when they want to, right? 

650
00:45:45,960 --> 00:45:50,000
And they make it sound so 
glorious, but it's not. 

651
00:45:50,480 --> 00:45:54,000
It's called deception. 
The only glorious place to be is

652
00:45:54,000 --> 00:45:57,680
in the slap will of God. 
The rest of it is actually a 

653
00:45:57,680 --> 00:46:01,600
fantasy and a fairy tale. 
But what will it do it It chokes

654
00:46:01,600 --> 00:46:05,360
the word because in these three 
cases, the first thing if he can

655
00:46:05,360 --> 00:46:07,160
get you to come to church or 
not. 

656
00:46:07,560 --> 00:46:10,440
Basically, you have no desire to
understand. 

657
00:46:14,560 --> 00:46:16,760
I mean, I'll even go further 
because I have to deal with when

658
00:46:16,760 --> 00:46:21,000
I talk with our business people,
I actually gave them a pop quiz 

659
00:46:21,000 --> 00:46:23,200
and I said, name these four 
things that I said out of this 

660
00:46:23,200 --> 00:46:24,560
they couldn't do. 
And I said, why should I give 

661
00:46:24,560 --> 00:46:29,600
you something else if you 
haven't even got that down yet? 

662
00:46:29,600 --> 00:46:32,200
Once again, what will they do 
with their business strategy? 

663
00:46:32,200 --> 00:46:36,360
They'll go to the world and 
people in their market learn all

664
00:46:36,360 --> 00:46:38,800
that stuff, pay money to learn 
it. 

665
00:46:40,000 --> 00:46:44,000
Yet God has all the answers. 
But we really don't value that 

666
00:46:44,280 --> 00:46:50,680
because again, the rich young 
ruler comes to Jesus, because 

667
00:46:50,680 --> 00:46:54,840
again, God forbid that the 
Church can actually give you a 

668
00:46:54,840 --> 00:46:58,600
plan. 
Jacob received a plan of 

669
00:46:58,600 --> 00:47:01,440
prosperity from the Lord, and so
did Joseph. 

670
00:47:02,000 --> 00:47:03,440
Joseph. 
Didn't say we need to have a 

671
00:47:03,440 --> 00:47:06,360
seminar, you know, you know, of 
any other countries that have, 

672
00:47:06,360 --> 00:47:13,760
you know, say a strategic, you 
know, crop accumulation so that 

673
00:47:13,760 --> 00:47:16,400
we can save it, You know, you 
know anybody who's an expert in 

674
00:47:16,400 --> 00:47:19,560
that. 
I mean, if the church has just 

675
00:47:19,560 --> 00:47:23,520
fallen into a left, it's the 
deceitfulness, because again, 

676
00:47:23,520 --> 00:47:26,680
the world knows how to make its 
money because the devil knows 

677
00:47:26,680 --> 00:47:29,320
how to distribute to keep you 
from what? 

678
00:47:29,480 --> 00:47:38,240
Being fruitful because your 
wealth is not fruit. 

679
00:47:38,240 --> 00:47:41,600
That's right. 
I'm going to show you that the 

680
00:47:41,600 --> 00:47:51,680
fruit of disciple Nowhere is one
of our fruits, finance being. 

681
00:47:51,680 --> 00:47:54,200
Prosperous does not prove you're
a disciple. 

682
00:47:58,640 --> 00:48:05,080
I'll say Amen anyway. 
OK, so it chokes the word, It 

683
00:48:05,080 --> 00:48:07,720
becomes fruitful. 
Luke 8 says and brings. 

684
00:48:07,720 --> 00:48:13,800
No fruit to maturity, man. 
So what's worse about this 

685
00:48:13,800 --> 00:48:18,920
particular one is that your seed
will turn into a plant and 

686
00:48:18,920 --> 00:48:22,760
actually fruit will show up on 
your vine, but before we can 

687
00:48:22,760 --> 00:48:30,320
harvest. 
It it never ripens, it never 

688
00:48:30,320 --> 00:48:32,760
matures. 
And you've heard me tell the 

689
00:48:32,760 --> 00:48:36,000
story about the banana, right? 
I'll say it again because some 

690
00:48:36,120 --> 00:48:38,840
haven't been here, have a banana
tree in my yard. 

691
00:48:39,120 --> 00:48:42,840
And, you know, it was green and 
it just kept doing green, you 

692
00:48:42,840 --> 00:48:45,480
know, and I was waiting. 
On it, I didn't know the sign. 

693
00:48:46,080 --> 00:48:49,080
I've since learned the sign, but
I did not know the sign. 

694
00:48:49,240 --> 00:48:51,360
And it did turn a little yellow.
And I'm like, OK. 

695
00:48:51,360 --> 00:48:54,720
And I pulled that thing off and 
I opened it, you know, and it's 

696
00:48:54,720 --> 00:48:57,200
a little, you know, you know how
some of the Publix ones are 

697
00:48:57,200 --> 00:49:00,720
like, right? 
And I was expecting Publix, 

698
00:49:00,760 --> 00:49:02,720
right? 
It's, you know, not real soft, 

699
00:49:02,720 --> 00:49:05,280
but that's OK. 
I don't know what to expect. 

700
00:49:05,280 --> 00:49:09,040
I've never technically eaten a 
banana off the actual tree, 

701
00:49:09,480 --> 00:49:11,800
right? 
It was a small. 1 So I peeled it

702
00:49:11,800 --> 00:49:14,440
and I'm expecting it's going to 
be like one of those act and 

703
00:49:14,440 --> 00:49:17,080
I've been into it and it had no 
moisture. 

704
00:49:17,720 --> 00:49:23,200
It sucked all of the saliva. 
I mean it was worse than peanut 

705
00:49:23,200 --> 00:49:25,440
butter. 
It was crazy. 

706
00:49:25,960 --> 00:49:29,280
I was like, I mean, I, I. 
Felt like I was getting stuck, 

707
00:49:29,280 --> 00:49:31,360
my mouth was getting stuck. 
I was like. 

708
00:49:31,560 --> 00:49:34,800
It was so disgusting. 
It was so deceptive. 

709
00:49:35,440 --> 00:49:38,800
I've been waiting on this 
doggone thing to turn yellow and

710
00:49:38,800 --> 00:49:40,520
finally get a little bit yellow 
on this thing. 

711
00:49:40,600 --> 00:49:41,880
I mean, it was enough. 
It covered it. 

712
00:49:41,880 --> 00:49:45,720
And it's probably when he's 
like, you know, Publix ones, 

713
00:49:45,720 --> 00:49:48,400
that's not really ready, but 
it's yellow. 

714
00:49:48,800 --> 00:49:51,160
And here we go. 
And man, it was nasty. 

715
00:49:51,920 --> 00:49:53,760
So at that point, I just thought
they were all bad. 

716
00:49:53,760 --> 00:49:58,640
I did not know how to harvest 
the bananas correctly. 

717
00:49:59,280 --> 00:50:03,120
And again, if your fruit doesn't
come to maturity, you're going 

718
00:50:03,120 --> 00:50:12,120
to leave a bad taste. 
Cause fruit bearing isn't just 

719
00:50:12,120 --> 00:50:15,880
for you to taste and see that 
the Lord is good because the 

720
00:50:15,880 --> 00:50:19,920
farmer gets a part of the 
harvest. 

721
00:50:20,400 --> 00:50:24,880
The, the, you don't muzzle the 
ox that treads out the corn. 

722
00:50:25,040 --> 00:50:29,840
The farmer gets his share of the
crop so that he can taste and 

723
00:50:29,840 --> 00:50:32,160
see. 
But then he has so much fruit 

724
00:50:32,280 --> 00:50:35,920
that he's able to give it out. 
You know, if all you can do is 

725
00:50:35,920 --> 00:50:39,120
produce fruit for your wife and 
your children, but you can't do 

726
00:50:39,120 --> 00:50:44,800
it for no other family, You're 
you don't have a very big 

727
00:50:44,800 --> 00:50:49,760
harvest. 
I mean you should produce enough

728
00:50:49,760 --> 00:50:51,880
fruit in your. 
Life you're like I can't consume

729
00:50:51,880 --> 00:50:57,560
this all myself I'm just going 
to give it away Mr. Berry comes 

730
00:50:57,560 --> 00:51:00,240
in here a lot of times during 
the harvest season for his what 

731
00:51:00,240 --> 00:51:06,160
are those calm quam quads So 
what is whoo man them things can

732
00:51:06,160 --> 00:51:07,640
smell when they're ripe I mean 
they're. 

733
00:51:07,640 --> 00:51:10,480
Like or guavas. 
The Guavas. 

734
00:51:10,640 --> 00:51:13,320
Bro, you know when he brings the
guavas in the church, it's like,

735
00:51:15,120 --> 00:51:22,400
wow, they leave a smell, right? 
But he has so many, he has to 

736
00:51:23,080 --> 00:51:25,520
give it away. 
Don't you want to walk in so 

737
00:51:25,520 --> 00:51:27,320
much fruit? 
You're just giving it away. 

738
00:51:30,160 --> 00:51:33,960
All right, Verse 23 And the one 
whom the seed was sown in the 

739
00:51:33,960 --> 00:51:35,920
good soil. 
This is the man who hears the 

740
00:51:35,920 --> 00:51:39,200
word and understands that indeed
bears fruit and brings forth 

741
00:51:39,360 --> 00:51:42,240
some 100, some 60, some 3030 
Mark says. 

742
00:51:42,240 --> 00:51:43,800
And they hear the word and 
accept it. 

743
00:51:44,400 --> 00:51:46,480
So it's not just hearing, but 
it's accepting it. 

744
00:51:46,680 --> 00:51:48,680
That means you're putting it in 
practice. 

745
00:51:49,080 --> 00:51:52,520
You're a doer of the word 
because everybody's hearing 

746
00:51:52,520 --> 00:51:55,640
right now, but is everyone 
doing? 

747
00:51:55,960 --> 00:51:59,880
Are you accepting meaning I? 
Accept God's way of doing it, 

748
00:51:59,880 --> 00:52:04,800
not my way. 
I accept that because if I 

749
00:52:04,800 --> 00:52:06,880
accept God's way, then I'll bear
the fruit of God. 

750
00:52:07,320 --> 00:52:09,760
So the. 
Fruit production of the Kingdom 

751
00:52:09,760 --> 00:52:12,160
in your life is still dependent 
on you. 

752
00:52:14,600 --> 00:52:20,000
It's all dependent on you, Luke 
8 says one who have heard the 

753
00:52:20,000 --> 00:52:22,480
word in an honest and good 
heart. 

754
00:52:24,400 --> 00:52:33,840
And hold it fast and bear fruit 
with perseverance, which tells 

755
00:52:33,840 --> 00:52:40,120
us when Jesus says the field is 
right with harvest, the harvest 

756
00:52:40,120 --> 00:52:44,920
is plentiful. 
He could, he was having an 

757
00:52:44,920 --> 00:52:50,200
imagination of what's the word 
if, if we can have people to. 

758
00:52:50,200 --> 00:52:53,320
Labor to sow were the word into 
their lives. 

759
00:52:53,680 --> 00:52:57,520
It can bring them into another 
Kingdom by which it can produce 

760
00:52:57,520 --> 00:53:01,680
a fruit and 3060 and a 
hundredfold can be moving in 

761
00:53:01,680 --> 00:53:06,280
their lives. 
And everyone can begin to see, 

762
00:53:06,640 --> 00:53:11,880
because they bear fruit and 
prove, prove that. 

763
00:53:11,880 --> 00:53:21,520
They are my disciples. 
Prove prove all right, let's do 

764
00:53:21,520 --> 00:53:24,000
a few more things. 
Luke chapter 3 verse 8 says 

765
00:53:24,000 --> 00:53:27,760
therefore bear fruit in keeping 
with so if you've really 

766
00:53:27,760 --> 00:53:31,160
repented may Jesus the Lord of 
your life and want the Kingdom 

767
00:53:31,160 --> 00:53:33,880
of God you seek first the 
Kingdom, then you should bear 

768
00:53:33,880 --> 00:53:36,440
fruit in keeping with repentance
and a repentance is not a 

769
00:53:36,440 --> 00:53:37,960
religious word. 
It means change your thinking. 

770
00:53:38,080 --> 00:53:40,000
So you have to change your 
thinking about how you're 

771
00:53:40,000 --> 00:53:41,840
healed. 
You have to change your thinking

772
00:53:41,840 --> 00:53:44,760
and how your marriage is. 
You need to change your thinking

773
00:53:44,960 --> 00:53:48,600
and your relationships with you 
know all your relationships. 

774
00:53:48,600 --> 00:53:52,200
You need to change your thinking
and you know how you pursue life

775
00:53:52,880 --> 00:53:55,160
a career. 
You need to change your thinking

776
00:53:55,160 --> 00:54:00,960
and all that, and you need to do
it God's way because you're 

777
00:54:00,960 --> 00:54:06,880
going to encounter those in the 
other Kingdom and the enemy is 

778
00:54:06,880 --> 00:54:11,840
coming after you to determine is
it really sewn in you in 

779
00:54:11,840 --> 00:54:14,920
something good? 
Have you held that thing? 

780
00:54:16,120 --> 00:54:19,760
Because when you hold that 
thing, he can't take it out, 

781
00:54:21,160 --> 00:54:25,800
can't snatch it away, and it 
doesn't matter how hard he 

782
00:54:25,800 --> 00:54:27,440
tries. 
No weapon formed against you can

783
00:54:27,440 --> 00:54:29,240
prosper. 
It doesn't matter if he sows 

784
00:54:29,240 --> 00:54:32,280
tears with you. 
You can continue to grow and 

785
00:54:32,280 --> 00:54:35,320
you'll pull out the bad at the 
harvest time, and all you're 

786
00:54:35,320 --> 00:54:37,520
going to do is the good. 
Because it's really not a part 

787
00:54:37,520 --> 00:54:41,120
of you in the first place. 
So that that tear has been 

788
00:54:41,160 --> 00:54:44,040
slapping up against you the 
whole time in the field. 

789
00:54:44,120 --> 00:54:45,880
But you were like, I know I'm 
wheat. 

790
00:54:45,960 --> 00:54:48,640
I'm only wheat. 
I'm never going to go to a tear.

791
00:54:48,640 --> 00:54:50,000
I'm never going to act like a 
tear. 

792
00:54:50,040 --> 00:54:51,520
I'm not going to think like a 
tear. 

793
00:54:51,560 --> 00:54:53,880
I'm not going to be a tear. 
And the harvest is coming. 

794
00:54:53,880 --> 00:54:56,520
And when the harvest comes that 
that's been trying to beat 

795
00:54:56,520 --> 00:55:01,240
against me, counterfeit me at 
life, want me to, to, to be 

796
00:55:01,240 --> 00:55:04,880
become it. 
It'll be pulled away, cast and 

797
00:55:04,880 --> 00:55:07,520
burned. 
And then here I am producing the

798
00:55:07,520 --> 00:55:11,640
fruit. 
I'm doing it. 

799
00:55:13,800 --> 00:55:18,760
And in these last days, when it 
says some will fall away from 

800
00:55:18,760 --> 00:55:25,800
the faith and Minnie's heart 
will wax cold, that means 

801
00:55:25,800 --> 00:55:29,000
there's going to be a lot of 
unfruitfulness. 

802
00:55:30,520 --> 00:55:36,320
Yet they're going to say I'm 
saved and we have to say good. 

803
00:55:36,520 --> 00:55:42,800
Now let's bear fruit in keeping 
with repentance, right that way 

804
00:55:42,800 --> 00:55:46,040
your life in in others you don't
leave a bad taste. 

805
00:55:47,520 --> 00:55:50,240
Look what it says in John 15 got
about three more scriptures, 

806
00:55:50,320 --> 00:55:54,800
maybe 4 John 15 one and two. 
It says this, I am the true vine

807
00:55:55,520 --> 00:55:59,120
and my father is a vine. 
Dresser every branch in me that 

808
00:55:59,120 --> 00:56:08,560
does not man bear fruit. 
He takes away and every branch 

809
00:56:08,560 --> 00:56:12,160
that bears fruit he prunes so 
that it What now? 

810
00:56:12,160 --> 00:56:13,280
This. 
Is very powerful. 

811
00:56:13,280 --> 00:56:15,240
So again, let's just be 
hypothetical. 

812
00:56:15,640 --> 00:56:16,760
I mean, let's not be 
hypothetical. 

813
00:56:16,760 --> 00:56:18,920
Let's use the scripture. 
The scripture says the seed is 

814
00:56:18,920 --> 00:56:23,440
the word of God. 
So the seed produces a vine. 

815
00:56:23,960 --> 00:56:29,360
The vine is the Lord. 
We become a branch where we are 

816
00:56:29,360 --> 00:56:31,720
engrafted in, but we are part of
the branch. 

817
00:56:33,000 --> 00:56:39,360
So the vine looks at the branch 
that is in it and examines, not 

818
00:56:39,360 --> 00:56:41,600
its union. 
Oh y'all don't? 

819
00:56:42,880 --> 00:56:50,320
It's not saying Oh yeah, but 
it's in me being in doesn't 

820
00:56:50,320 --> 00:57:00,320
guarantee fruit production. 
See everyone and I it's. 

821
00:57:00,320 --> 00:57:05,600
Troubling, guys. 
Listen, the Bible, it we say 

822
00:57:05,600 --> 00:57:07,840
theology, it is the study of 
God. 

823
00:57:07,840 --> 00:57:12,240
We're not even studying God. 
But when we talk about God, you 

824
00:57:12,240 --> 00:57:16,640
know, we get on such a tangent 
about God doing everything and 

825
00:57:16,640 --> 00:57:19,520
we do nothing. 
You're not going to see that in 

826
00:57:19,520 --> 00:57:22,640
Scripture where God does 
everything and man does nothing.

827
00:57:23,360 --> 00:57:26,920
You'll see in Scripture where 
God does what God does and man 

828
00:57:26,920 --> 00:57:32,880
does what man does because God 
is not having you in union with 

829
00:57:32,880 --> 00:57:36,440
him without producing the fruit 
of his nature. 

830
00:57:42,040 --> 00:57:45,440
Because again and and listen, 
this lets us know these are not 

831
00:57:45,440 --> 00:57:53,640
one time events because there's 
fruit seasons pruning for more 

832
00:57:53,640 --> 00:57:56,240
fruit. 
So, so we already see the first 

833
00:57:56,240 --> 00:57:57,800
one. 
If you don't even bear fruit, 

834
00:57:58,840 --> 00:58:05,160
this is problematic because 
who's doing the cutting of the 

835
00:58:05,160 --> 00:58:10,800
branch off? 
The Lord. 

836
00:58:13,360 --> 00:58:14,920
I can say a lot more there, but 
I won't. 

837
00:58:16,680 --> 00:58:20,360
But every branch in me Jesus 
says that does not bear fruit. 

838
00:58:20,400 --> 00:58:26,400
It's not a fake branch, guys. 
This is not like a branch that 

839
00:58:26,400 --> 00:58:28,560
was taped on and never engrafted
in. 

840
00:58:28,920 --> 00:58:31,480
This is actually of God. 
So that means they're born 

841
00:58:31,480 --> 00:58:37,160
again. 
They're in me. 

842
00:58:37,160 --> 00:58:41,240
We use this term all the time 
here in Christ, in Christ, in 

843
00:58:41,240 --> 00:58:44,680
Christ, in Christ. 
You are the righteous of God in 

844
00:58:44,800 --> 00:58:46,600
Christ. 
Well, if you're the righteous of

845
00:58:46,600 --> 00:58:48,880
God in Christ, you should 
produce the fruit. 

846
00:58:49,000 --> 00:58:52,120
But yet we see very clearly 
Jesus, the head of the church 

847
00:58:52,120 --> 00:58:57,960
says there's some in me that 
when I'm examining that branch, 

848
00:58:59,200 --> 00:59:02,520
no fruit production. 
And we had another parable that 

849
00:59:02,720 --> 00:59:05,200
that we see the same thing. 
The master comes in and says 

850
00:59:05,200 --> 00:59:09,800
this tree has not bear fruit for
three years, cut it down. 

851
00:59:10,000 --> 00:59:12,640
He says, master, give me another
year. 

852
00:59:12,640 --> 00:59:14,920
I'm gonna dig around. 
I'm gonna fertilize it, go water

853
00:59:14,920 --> 00:59:20,160
it, put a tint to it because 
God's not at God never intended 

854
00:59:20,160 --> 00:59:23,440
for you to hang out as a branch 
and not produce. 

855
00:59:26,960 --> 00:59:29,000
So again, when people like man, 
if you go to church that's 

856
00:59:29,000 --> 00:59:37,080
always wanting you to produce, 
be productive, that's called the

857
00:59:37,080 --> 00:59:43,200
Bible. 
The rest is called a branch that

858
00:59:43,200 --> 00:59:48,400
he himself is cutting off. 
But the one that does bear 

859
00:59:48,400 --> 00:59:49,800
fruit, look at this, what's he 
do? 

860
00:59:49,960 --> 00:59:52,120
He proves This is why you're 
going to come to service. 

861
00:59:52,120 --> 00:59:54,080
You're going to be here for 
three years, Sabrina, you're 

862
00:59:54,080 --> 00:59:56,360
going to go through something. 
You're going to be like, thank 

863
00:59:56,360 --> 00:59:59,080
God I had that word because that
word is coming to stand up. 

864
00:59:59,080 --> 01:00:01,640
And when this hit me and that 
hit me, man, I was able to stand

865
01:00:01,640 --> 01:00:03,920
and I didn't yield and I didn't 
go to my emotions and I didn't 

866
01:00:03,920 --> 01:00:05,440
fall apart and I didn't 
complain. 

867
01:00:05,480 --> 01:00:07,560
I stayed with the word. 
And then you produce that fruit 

868
01:00:07,560 --> 01:00:09,120
and he's like, wow, that was 
really awesome. 

869
01:00:09,280 --> 01:00:12,480
Look at all that I did through 
you because you believe me, your

870
01:00:12,480 --> 01:00:16,440
roots were in good soil. 
Look at how you produced in this

871
01:00:16,600 --> 01:00:18,480
tribe. 
Tribulation, this test. 

872
01:00:19,280 --> 01:00:23,520
Now guess what we're going into 
the next season because you ate 

873
01:00:23,520 --> 01:00:28,000
the fruit to get through and you
gave the fruit away to go 

874
01:00:28,000 --> 01:00:29,200
through. 
Now there's no fruit. 

875
01:00:29,840 --> 01:00:33,520
So now he proves you. 
He says now we could, we could. 

876
01:00:33,760 --> 01:00:37,760
Do a little more. 
How about let's cut this weight 

877
01:00:37,760 --> 01:00:40,520
off because that says every 
weight and sin that so easily. 

878
01:00:40,920 --> 01:00:42,240
You know what, this is not a 
sin. 

879
01:00:42,240 --> 01:00:44,400
But, you know, let's let's just 
get that out your life. 

880
01:00:45,400 --> 01:00:47,600
And why am I doing? 
It's going to be more fruit 

881
01:00:47,600 --> 01:00:54,000
production for you. 
So technically we should. 

882
01:00:54,200 --> 01:00:59,160
As we mature and cry, we should 
have more fruit being produced 

883
01:00:59,440 --> 01:01:03,480
season after season. 
You need to learn how to 

884
01:01:03,480 --> 01:01:05,840
discern. 
Are you being unfruitful in a 

885
01:01:05,840 --> 01:01:11,160
season? 
I mean, you better get something

886
01:01:11,160 --> 01:01:14,880
on the branch. 
You do not want to go through 

887
01:01:14,880 --> 01:01:18,800
multiple seasons where there's 
no fruit. 

888
01:01:19,320 --> 01:01:21,320
It's just, well, I'm going to go
to heaven when I die. 

889
01:01:24,400 --> 01:01:27,200
John 15 five says I'm the bond. 
You are the branches. 

890
01:01:27,200 --> 01:01:33,040
He who abides in me and I and 
him he, he bears what much fruit

891
01:01:33,240 --> 01:01:34,600
for apart from me he can do 
nothing. 

892
01:01:34,600 --> 01:01:37,920
Galatians 522 to 23. 
What fruit are you going to 

893
01:01:37,920 --> 01:01:43,600
produce but the fruit? 
That the Spirit produces of the 

894
01:01:43,600 --> 01:01:51,400
Holy Ghost in you in a person's 
life is Lovejoy, peace, 

895
01:01:52,080 --> 01:01:58,440
patience, kindness, goodness, 
faithfulness, gentleness and 

896
01:01:58,440 --> 01:02:02,560
self-control doesn't say a big 
bank account. 

897
01:02:07,240 --> 01:02:15,240
Now the Spirit in you owns the 
planet, but the fruit we are 

898
01:02:15,480 --> 01:02:17,680
going to be eating ourselves. 
I'm going to be eating the love 

899
01:02:17,680 --> 01:02:19,320
of God here. 
I'm going to eat the joy of the 

900
01:02:19,320 --> 01:02:20,960
Lord. 
I want to cry, but I'm going to 

901
01:02:20,960 --> 01:02:23,880
get over and joy. 
I am going to get into joy, 

902
01:02:25,000 --> 01:02:27,080
right? 
The morning may last for the 

903
01:02:27,080 --> 01:02:31,240
night, but joy comes in the 
morning and I'm going to give 

904
01:02:31,240 --> 01:02:32,920
myself enjoy how to get yourself
enjoy. 

905
01:02:32,920 --> 01:02:35,080
You begin to read all the 
scripture about joy and when 

906
01:02:35,080 --> 01:02:40,080
your situation makes you want 
to, you're like, yes, God, yes, 

907
01:02:40,160 --> 01:02:43,520
you're so good. 
Oh my God, you're so good and 

908
01:02:43,520 --> 01:02:47,040
you got to get yourself there. 
It produces for you. 

909
01:02:47,040 --> 01:02:48,840
But then you get around people 
at work. 

910
01:02:48,840 --> 01:02:50,520
Now you're like, oh man, you're 
so happy today. 

911
01:02:50,760 --> 01:02:53,840
You know, this ain't happy. 
This this joy that I have. 

912
01:02:55,240 --> 01:02:57,920
The world didn't give it to me, 
right? 

913
01:02:57,920 --> 01:03:00,600
I mean, it's some like, you 
know, you're beyond happy. 

914
01:03:00,600 --> 01:03:02,480
I mean, there's something 
different about well, let me 

915
01:03:02,600 --> 01:03:05,560
you're just giving it away and 
you're going through the worst 

916
01:03:05,560 --> 01:03:07,280
trial and tribulation of your 
life. 

917
01:03:07,400 --> 01:03:10,200
And everybody work then they 
find out and they're like, we 

918
01:03:10,200 --> 01:03:13,280
didn't, we never. 
And you were giving away joy. 

919
01:03:13,280 --> 01:03:19,160
And they're like, how did you 
stay like that during that? 

920
01:03:21,600 --> 01:03:23,520
I mean, y'all, some of you have 
siblings. 

921
01:03:23,880 --> 01:03:29,200
Their whole life is a mess and 
yet God wants you to give them 

922
01:03:29,200 --> 01:03:33,600
the fruit of how to handle the 
situation so that they're like, 

923
01:03:34,480 --> 01:03:36,920
how can you be at peace? 
Why? 

924
01:03:36,920 --> 01:03:42,600
Because I have a root system of 
victories of the Lord overcoming

925
01:03:42,600 --> 01:03:44,560
in life and we go overcoming 
this one. 

926
01:03:44,760 --> 01:03:47,080
No problem. 
It's going to happen. 

927
01:03:47,800 --> 01:03:50,160
So I close with this verse, 
Matthew 720. 

928
01:03:50,160 --> 01:03:58,400
It says this so then you will 
know them by their fruits. 

929
01:03:58,400 --> 01:04:01,280
Notice it doesn't say you'll 
know them by their confession 

930
01:04:01,680 --> 01:04:10,560
that Jesus is Lord. 
You'll know them by their fruit.

931
01:04:14,760 --> 01:04:17,000
The reason why a lot of times 
people aren't going to the 

932
01:04:17,000 --> 01:04:19,160
Lord's because the Lord will 
talk to you about your fruit. 

933
01:04:19,160 --> 01:04:21,720
That's what he's going to do 
Lord, I'm the he said, well, I 

934
01:04:21,720 --> 01:04:22,520
want you to do this. 
Why? 

935
01:04:22,640 --> 01:04:24,200
Can't. 
Alright, you do something. 

936
01:04:24,920 --> 01:04:28,320
Like you do something, do what 
I'm saying because I'm going to 

937
01:04:28,320 --> 01:04:33,880
come through, right? 
And again, pastor, I need to 

938
01:04:33,880 --> 01:04:35,680
meet with you. 
I got this challenge, OK. 

939
01:04:35,760 --> 01:04:38,120
And then we say, well, what does
the word say? 

940
01:04:39,080 --> 01:04:42,040
Because we're sowing a seed, 
because we want the fruit of 

941
01:04:42,040 --> 01:04:44,520
this to manifest in your 
situation. 

942
01:04:44,760 --> 01:04:46,520
Now hold to it. 
Don't let go of it. 

943
01:04:47,280 --> 01:04:49,320
But you don't. 
That's irrelevant. 

944
01:04:50,720 --> 01:04:52,640
This works. 
It works every time. 

945
01:04:53,960 --> 01:04:57,120
And then you get around and you 
start hearing a little chatter 

946
01:04:57,120 --> 01:05:00,920
here and letting you're like, 
hey, hey, hey, you're bringing 

947
01:05:00,920 --> 01:05:02,320
the wrong things into your 
field. 

948
01:05:02,320 --> 01:05:07,240
You're losing moisture, you're 
having anxiety. 

949
01:05:08,280 --> 01:05:11,280
You're that's not don't put that
in your field. 

950
01:05:12,080 --> 01:05:14,960
That's to try to. 
Get you so you can't bear fruit.

951
01:05:16,200 --> 01:05:17,600
Well, you know, we got so many 
child. 

952
01:05:17,760 --> 01:05:19,280
I'm going to have to take a 
fourth job. 

953
01:05:19,480 --> 01:05:21,960
I need to get two or three more.
I can't come to church. 

954
01:05:21,960 --> 01:05:23,000
You're going to have to 
understand. 

955
01:05:23,920 --> 01:05:30,160
So God wants you to go get 3 or 
4 jobs to work this out and not 

956
01:05:30,160 --> 01:05:34,080
come to church. 
Oh man, you know you've got a 

957
01:05:34,880 --> 01:05:36,160
man. 
Don't work, you're already 

958
01:05:36,160 --> 01:05:37,720
working. 
That's not your problem. 

959
01:05:40,840 --> 01:05:43,880
You need to get a plan from 
actually God because sometimes 

960
01:05:43,880 --> 01:05:47,080
I'm like, well are you giving? 
How can I give? 

961
01:05:47,080 --> 01:05:50,960
I'm so how can you not? 
Because that is the spiritual 

962
01:05:50,960 --> 01:05:52,480
principle. 
Give and it shall be. 

963
01:05:53,520 --> 01:05:57,720
But again, God's ways are 
contrary to the world's ways. 

964
01:05:59,000 --> 01:06:00,640
But it's fruit the world doesn't
have. 

965
01:06:02,160 --> 01:06:09,480
So we are produce because we 
produce the word of God in our 

966
01:06:09,480 --> 01:06:10,000
lives.