The. Title of my message tonight is
this. I wanted you to see it with your
eyeballs. All right, this is the title of
my message. See.
It's in the parentheses. All right, I want everybody to
say this word. All right, say it.
OK. Is it?
Or is it produce? Oh, so you think you know
something? I find it interesting that
produce and produce is spelled the same and technically has the
same meaning. Produce is fruit or vegetables
that have matured in order to be harvested so that people can eat
and grow. But you have no produce if the
plant doesn't produce or the seed doesn't produce.
So if you're going to have produce in your spiritual life,
then you're going to have to produce the seeds sown in your
life. Are you hearing me now?
I am going to minister the beginning part of this that I
ministered to our leaders in the Caribbean because when the Lord
put this in my. Spirit that we needed to go here
this this evening. I had just did a leadership
lesson on Monday and I'm like, man, that is so good.
I think I'm going to pull that into this context.
So we're going to take a little journey together.
Look at Matthew Chapter 9 verse 36 to 38.
It says this. It says seeing the people, and
this is Jesus seeing the people. He felt compassion for them
because they were distressed and dispirited like sheep without a
shepherd. Then he said to his disciples,
the harvest is plentiful, but the workers are few.
Therefore, beseech the Lord of the harvest.
Oh, thank you, Jesus. Just send out workers into his
harvest. Now Jesus in one comment talks
about the society that they were living in.
There is livestock and then there's agriculture.
And so he starts when he's thinking about people, He first
goes to an analogy of livestock, a shepherd and sheep.
Then the very next, he's still talking about the same group of
people. He has compassion for people.
And when he sees them, they're like sheep without shepherd.
But then he sees them like they are a harvest.
It's agriculture. And he said, man, we need to
pray to the Lord of the harvest that he'd send out workers.
Now, when you go out to a field to harvest, how many?
You know, harvesting is not just pulling the fruit off the vine,
because if we went to Hastings and they started to pull the
fruit off the bott, by all rights they have harvested the
fruit and leave it in the field and walk off and there's no.
Other process What's going to happen to all the fruit that's
just been picked? It's going to rot in the same
field that they were harvesting. Oh y'all don't want to?
So when we think of harvest, unfortunately we have a context
that we have been, you know, traditionally trained in.
But I'm I began to ask the question, what was Jesus seeing
when he said the harvest is plentiful?
Because again, it's very easy for us to go into scripture,
find a scripture, find two or three that kind of model that,
but still miss the big picture. This is why we wrote the book
The Forest, because again, sometimes we miss the context of
God's truths within His Scripture because we don't see
the big picture of what's going on.
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And so, you know, there's a lot of truths in the Bible, but if
you don't have it in the right context, even if it's true, you
will not have the value or reap everything out of that
particular truth because you don't understand its context.
So when Jesus says the harvest is great, what is he looking at?
Now? Many of us would just say, well,
he's talking about, you know, people being born again.
I mean, this is technically the traditional thought that the
harvest is people who are lost. And they come into the Kingdom.
Well, is that what Jesus was seeing?
OK, let's do a little go through scripture.
Now in Matthew chapter 28 verse 19, obviously Jesus is concerned
about. People's spiritual condition and
he doesn't want them to stay in the place they are.
He wants them into another location.
As a result of that, he gives this command after his death,
burial, resurrection. He says that go therefore and
make what does he make him disciples of all nations,
baptizing them in the name of the Father, the Son and the Holy
Spirit. So notice Jesus does not say
make converts. He doesn't say go get people
saved alone. He says go make disciples.
The word disciple means enroll as a student or a pupil, which
means in essence, if they're going to be trained because his
word his his preaching in Matthew 417 when he goes to the
public says repent, that's change your thinking.
Notice he did not say get a new spirit.
Do you need a new spirit? Yes, what I'm saying is your
spiritual change is not all that God was going after.
God understands that we are not only spirit, but we have a soul
and a body, and He's here to redeem it all.
Because we can save our souls through the washing of the water
of the world. We are to work out our salvation
with what fear and trembling meaning renew in our mind.
But one day our mortal bodies that will go to the grave,
should the Lord tarry, will put on immortality, will be
glorified and will never die. So your body will never die,
never have sickness or disease. Your mind will be completely
open with no sin context, whoo Hallelujah.
And all of that will reflect your spirit being.
So when the Lord's like putting a new spirit in us, He expects
that spirit alone with the Holy Ghost in us to do a work with
the rest. Because you know, even though
your body today is mortal, He'll heal it.
He'll cause it to be strong so that you can accomplish the
work. He didn't say, well, whatever
happens to your body, Oh well, I'm not really concerned about
that. Well, why'd he take stripes on
his back? So he's concerned about all of
us. So do not cheapen the the
finished work of Jesus to solely being saved in your spirit
because it's way bigger than that.
Come on, say Amen. So Jesus said go and make
disciples. In essence, enroll the students,
which means if they're going to repent, if I'm going to have
them change their thinking, I'll change their spirit.
They can't do it. Only I can do that.
But then once their spirits change and I put my spirit in
them, the Holy Spirit, they'll be the temple of the Holy Ghost.
He'll bear witness with their spirit.
He'll teach them. He'll guide them.
Right now, what's He teaching and guiding?
He's there to renew your mind because he wants a disciple.
Well, what does a disciple look like?
Because again, a disciple is not someone who is just born again.
That is not a Bible definition of disciples.
OK, Ephesians chapter 4 verse 11 and 12.
Look what Jesus said by the Holy Spirit through Paul writing to
the church at Ephesus and he says and he that's Jesus gave
some as apostles and some as prophets and some as evangelist,
some as pastors and teachers. Why?
This is their why for the equipment of the Saints.
So the FIFO ministry has a very serious assignment and that
assignment is not just to win the lost and go after the lost
alone. And many congregations are not
arriving to disciple level because the emphasis is on a
harvest of only the loss coming into the Kingdom.
But no, growing up we are heavy in discipleship.
This is why we have midweek services.
This is why we have men's group on a Monday night.
That's why we have faith Christian University.
I mean we have a plethora of opportunities for you to grow up
spiritually. This is why our foundations on
Sunday morning is why to disciple you because it's not
enough that you're in his Kingdom.
God always saw you as a his view of you was let him be a disciple
and the five folds responsibilities.
I need to make sure I am feeding them the word that they can grow
by it, not hold on by it, not wait until they die by, you
know, and go to heaven by it, but to grow by it, to overcome
by it, to win, to conquer to. Crucify the flesh to overcome
obstacles, right? Trials and tribulations.
We're going to see this. That's the point.
So then we go over. So a pastor obviously is a type
and shadow of a shepherd, she said.
I have compassion for him to like sheep without a shepherd.
And a shepherd doesn't go to the field and transfer them from 1
field into another field and then walk away or let him stay
in. He's always taking them.
To pastures to feed them. It's to develop and grow them
All right, so a pastor issue. Equip Saints.
For this purpose, look at John chapter 15, verse 8.
John 15-8 tells us very clearly what a disciple looks like.
He said, My father's glorified by this, that you what bear
much. And so, so confessing Jesus as
Lord, does that prove your disciple it it proves that
you're a child of God. I'll give you that.
Paul himself in the in in the Corinthian letter said.
Look, I I can't even speak to you about spiritual things.
Like we can't even go on to some things because you're carnal.
You're like babes in Christ. I mean, God never intended you
to stay, baby, to just be out of the domain of darkness into the
Kingdom of his beloved son. Live just as a babe until you go
to heaven, so that when you stand before the Lord, it's as
if you were saved by fire, like you were plucked out of just
hell itself. That's about all you, all that
happened for you, the Lord's. Like I saw beyond that.
When I saw harvest, I saw fruit. So when Jesus says the harvest,
he's saying this. I see the potential of someone
if they would come over into this Kingdom, would have a life
that would bear much fruit for me, not just be my child that
has no fruit, that's just holding on until they die.
That their only confession is that Jesus died on the cross and
roast from the grave 1 to get in and then the second one after
that is I'm going to heaven when I die and that's it.
That's never was God intent and that's not what he saw when he
saw the harvest. When he saw the harvest, he saw
men and women coming back into the original purpose that God
had for man in the first place. In Genesis chapter 1.
Let us make man in our image according to our likeness and
let them have what demeaning or rule?
Well, you cannot rule or dominate your circumstances and
situations on the planet if you're staying a baby.
Babies just in the natural do not dominate their dominate
their bodies because you know when they 1st come out they'll
mess all over themselves and be fine with it.
And look at you like when you changing me.
If you do whatever, I don't care because if you don't and he gets
all nasty then I'm going to cry anyway and you're going to have
to deal with that right? They cannot of their own self do
anything right now. Everything we do, we do because
we are following God and God's empowering.
US. All right.
Now here's the thing. When you're born of God, your
spirit man wants to produce fruit.
The question is, do you? Disrupt it in your soul so.
Harvest really has has. Has to do with.
Fruit. So when we acknowledge that
harvest is just salvation or being born again, that's not
what Jesus was saying. Because harvest is a salvation
itself is a just about a transfer from from one domain
into another domain. That's what salvation.
When I say salvation, I'm saying born again.
That one time account of faith is a transfer from one domain to
the next. That's why Colossians chapter 2
says you were transferred from the domain of darkness into the
Kingdom of his beloved son. Now you're transferred into the
Kingdom, and Kingdom is not heaven because when I was born
again, I didn't go to heaven. I was still on the planet.
I'm still on the planet, but I was transferred into His
Kingdom. I became a citizen, a royal
heir. Come on, I'm a peculiar people,
a holy nation, right? And you know, I'm, I'm working
with the Lord. So with that being said, look at
Matthew chapter 13. Now in Matthew 13, what I'm
going to do when we do this is the parable of the sower.
But there are two other gospels that give this account.
And I am adding in at various verses the other Gospels
accounts because they say a couple of different things.
All right, Matthew and Mark are pretty.
Close together, not a whole lot of difference there.
Luke definitely has some additional things in there.
Mark does too, but you know Luke a little bit more.
And so we're going to embed them so that you can see them.
So we'll just start again. We're going to be in Matthew
chapter 13, verses 3 through 9, and then I'm going to insert
these sections of Mark and Luke into this.
It'll be Mark chapter 4 and Luke chapter 8.
All right, Matthew, chapter 13, verse 3 through 8, because
again, we're talking. About harvest, we're talking
about produce. God saved you not to go to
heaven. He saved you to become a son
that will bear fruit, to be a disciple.
All right, And if fruit bearing was automatic, then we would not
have the parable of the sower. All right, it's automatic in the
Spirit. We can disrupt it.
All right, let's go on. Says And He spoke many things to
them in parable, saying, Behold, the sower went out to sow, and
as he sowed, some seed fell by the road.
Did y'all copy and paste this? Let me look at this.
Interesting. Feel like I've already missed a
section. It's probably in the second.
That's why I'm sorry. You're fine.
And he spoke these things in parable, saying, behold, the
sore went out to sow, and as he sowed, some seed fell by the
road, and the birds came and ate it up, Luke 85 says.
And it was trampled under foot, and the birds of the air ate it
up. Others fell on the rocky places
where they did not have much soil.
Soil. And immediately they sprang up
because they had no depth of soil.
But when the sun had risen, they were scorched and.
Because they had no root, they withered, Luke 86 says.
It withered away because it had no.
Moisture verse seven others fell among the thorns and the thorns
came up and choked it out. Mark chapter 4 seven says and it
yielded no. Crop.
And others fell on the good soil and yielded A crop, some a
hundredfold, some 60, some 30, Mark 48 says.
And they grew. Up and increased he who has
ears. Let him hear.
Now, Matthew chapter 13, verse 18 is the explanation of this
parable. All right?
And so we are going to look at this again.
I'm going to insert the Mark and Luke account.
It says hearing the parable of the sower.
Mark says the. Sower shows the word Luke 8 says
the. Seed is the word of God, Matthew
verse 19 says and when anyone who hears the word of the
Kingdom. So Mark tells us that the sower
shows the word. Luke tells us that what he is
sowing is a seed. In that seed is the word of God.
Matthew says this seed is the Kingdom of God.
It's the word of the. Kingdom OK, so this let me ask
this question. Are we?
Let me say this the The farmer has seed.
Does he have one? It's important because again, if
this is only about being born again, then it's just one.
CI mean we are told to study the word and everything we study are
seeds. If you're going to have the
produce of healing, or the produce of provision, or the
produce of a fruitful marriage, or the produce of great
parenting, or the produce of being a good employee, or the
produce you know of overcoming an obstacle, you're going to
have to have that seed sown in you in order.
Because again, if just being born again alone was enough
without any other instruction, then I agree with you.
We're wasting our time here because it should just, well, it
just comes up automatic. I'm born again and it
automatically shows up. Here it comes.
I know everything to do without even reading.
No, the word is sown, which tells us faith comes by as I'm
speaking, I'm sowing, and whatever subject I'm speaking,
I'm sowing. I'm sowing the word of God.
I'm sowing the word of the Kingdom.
Period. Now how this now let me just
say, this is all the seed good seed, yes, there's nothing wrong
with the seed. Tell what's wrong with the word
of God. When is the word of God bad?
Thank you. So it's not a seed problem.
This is not a seed problem. So you can't have church hurt
'cause it's not a seed problem, it's not a seed problem, it's
not a seed problem. This is the environment the seed
is entering. It's the environment the seed is
entering. And I'm sowing seed now into
environments and OK, I mean, we'll just make it simple.
God made man He. Formed Adam out of what?
Thank you. The dust of the earth are dirt,
so you're just a bunch of dirt fields that I'm sowing seed in.
That God always expected a harvest out of you as his.
Now what's in your. Field.
Is up to you, say. Amen.
Anyway, see This is why some people can receive the seed on
certain subjects, but other subjects they do not receive the
seed 'cause it goes on and says when anyone hears the word of
the Kingdom and does not understand it.
Now anyone in this room could fall.
Victim to this? Because if you're here without
intentionality to understand, then I will say I will sow a lot
of seed that's going to fall to the wayside.
The person to your left and right could be getting it, but
you're not. So you actually have to have an
intentionality when you come. It's not my responsibility to
prepare your soil. It's yours.
Now. If you have no intention to come
in, to understand, then you'll leave.
I didn't understand anything you said.
And whose problem is that? Because there's nothing wrong
with the seed. Now I understand that there can
be people who preach wrong. I get that, but let's take that
off the table. We're obviously talking about
the intentionality that God saw. I see the harvest.
It's ripe, you know. Are you know, there's a harvest
out there. It's plentiful.
There are plenty that can come into the Kingdom and bear fruit
for. Me as disciples, I see their
potential. We just need laborers.
Laborers who will do more than cut it off and leave it in the
field, but take it all the way through the process so that it
can benefit humanity, so somebody can grow by that fruit.
Their life can be changed by that.
Fruit and we'll go through the whole process all right and so.
We are delivering based upon the Jesus saw that listen fivefold
ministry, sow that seed, speak that word, give them the context
of the Kingdom so that it can produce.
But if they have no understanding, do not come in
ready, then in essence, the evil 1 comes and snatches away what
has been sown in his heart. He won't even let you get you
the front door. He may let you get you the car
only for an argument to happen with your children or your
spouse on the way home because the whole time you were here
anyway, you were checking your social media or every
notification that kept popping up and browsing through
Pinterest and looking at different things.
Right, you know, 'cause I love you all, but none of you have
photographic memories. I'm just telling you now, some
of you I will give this. I've had a few say fossil Earl.
I, I, I don't always take a whole lot of notes because
you're throwing so much and I know it's recorded and I go back
and take notes and you know what?
If you're disciplined, do that. Great.
But there's a lot you can get by taking notes.
And I use my electronic device too, you know, So sometimes you
have to turn off notifications so you don't get distracted,
especially if the game's on, You want to get a score update.
These are all things that hinder your understanding and God could
drop something that now it's not the seed problem, it was your
problem. All right.
So he goes on to say Luke 812 says that he'll snatch the evil
and snatch so they will not believe and be saved.
Now this word saved is not the word for born again.
Now what do I mean by that? It's not isolated to only being
born again. This word saved, when you look
it up, not only deals with being born again, but it deals with
any issue of life. Because what's the Bible say?
He will deliver you out of how many?
All of your plural not trouble. Well, you're in trouble.
The only trouble you have is that you're going to go to hell
when you die. But if you'll get born again,
then you won't have to worry about that and you have no more
trouble. No, he'll deliver you out of all
your trouble. You're in financial trouble.
He'll, he will save you. He'll save your body from
sickness and disease. He'll save your marriage.
He'll save your, your job. He'll, I mean, he's, he's
constantly saving. I mean, everything he does is
about saving you so that the enemy doesn't get, you know,
something on you. We're not even ignorant of the
devil's devices. So you getting a pickle?
Guess what? You can go to the throne of
grace. He's extremely merciful and
he'll give you help in your time of and that's not only to be
born again. So the devil he is, he is.
He is trying to distract you when seed is being sown.
This is why sometimes I have had meetings in the past with people
that have not been in church and their life is going all kind of
crazy. They meet and then when we're
talking about their life, I'm like, oh man, if you had just
been in service, we have been talking about how to handle all
these obstacles. In essence, God knew this was
coming before you did. He put seed in you so that you
can bear the fruit in order to overcome.
But if you're not in the seat, let me say this, you can't sow
to your own life alone. You can't do it because if you
could sow to yourself the word alone, then there's no need for
the fivefold ministry. But the hand cannot tell the I
have no and God. Placed those gifts in.
And those gifts are to equip you, which means those gifts
have a huge responsibility to be doing the greatest amount of
sewing into your life. Now here's the difference
between. A YouTube sewer and I'm sewing
because the YouTube. Sewer can sow seed and you can
get it and get excited. But I'm here saying Pastor
Danny, we've got some weeds. Well, how do you know?
Cuz I'm around you. I hear how you talk.
I see how you walk. I see how you do this.
The YouTube sewer doesn't see this.
So the YouTube sewer is not in your field.
They're just a commercial selling you some kind of product
to try to help you. But yet me, I'm in your field.
I'm all up in your field, Don. I mean, you feel I'm like we're
going to have to deal with that because that's not the produce
that God intended. Hallelujah, y'all doing all
right. I think I just snatched my my
mic. All right, y'all can still hear
me. OK, let's go on.
So. The enemy again all listen.
Do you understand the devil himself, his number one target
in your life is to keep you from the word.
I mean, that's such a profound, simple truth.
And yet we put less value on the word because if he can, and
we'll see if he can do other things.
I mean, he knows what the objective is, all right, because
he knows the power of the word. He knows the power all right.
Verse 20 so the one whom seed was sown on the rocky places.
This is the man who hears the word and immediately receives it
with joy. We even run around the church.
Yet he, yet he. Has no firm root in himself, but
is only temporary and when afflictions.
Or persecutions arise because of the word immediately.
He falls away immediately. Are you hearing what I'm saying
now in the just parable portion talking about the the seed sown
on the rocky places? It says it's scorched, it
Withers away and Luke said it had no moisture.
You know moisture, right? It is the washing of the water
of the word. You cannot come here here and
shout and then have no additional watering with your
own personal life. You do not retain moisture.
If all you're doing is showing up once a week or two times a
month. There's no moisture retention
because Jesus said in this life you will have.
Trials and tribulations, right? Because again.
The devil just does not want you to release who you are in
Christ. And in order to release who you
are in Christ, you must be a doer of the Word, which is a
disciple that produces fruit, and he's afraid of your fruit.
So he's after your fruit because he has no problem with carnal
Christians. He doesn't care if you're saved
as long as you don't produce the fruit of the Kingdom, because if
you act like everybody else, you're actually a better
billboard for him because you help people delay a response to
the Lord because they through your life expect that.
It's just an afterlife question. And again, we've said it here at
Anchor Bay Church multiple times, and that is this.
Jesus was not selling a deaf gospel.
Where are you going to go when you die?
That was never his intent, nor was it his question.
What he was giving was sonship. And that's available now.
And the Kingdom can manifest in our lives today the full
benefits of it. Hallelujah.
I mean, I don't understand why a believer will want to delay when
they do not have to. All right, so here we have the
rocks. There's no moisture, pressure or
the heat of life, right? You're going to get in a hot
spot. Let's say it that way.
Everybody gets in a hot spot. All right?
The question is, how are you going to handle it?
Because again, running around on a Sunday, lifting your hands on
a Sunday, shouting on a Sunday is not fruit.
That's right. If it never replicates on
Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, I mean, singing unto the Lord,
praising Him is not a religious exercise.
It's an outflow of gratitude. And that's in any circumstance,
but again when people do not have a root system and the
reason why many do not have root systems or a person wouldn't
have. Colin, would you please bring me
another piece of tape? I have ripped this and it is
just going crazy and I am like hating life and I'm glad we're
not filming tonight so we can fix this problem.
Say Amen. So the reason why many people
aren't producing fruit is because, honestly, they don't
get planted, Yeah. Just put it back on.
We've been here for 22 years. This has happened.
I don't know, only a couple times maybe.
Thanks, Colin. All right, I feel way more
secure now. Let me just let me just unpack a
couple things. OK, so.
I love it when people come to Anchor Faith Church because all
of a sudden they start hearing stuff they've not heard and
they're like, wow, this is amazing, right?
Sabrina, how long you been here Now?
Three. Oh, yeah.
There's a lot in the three. Three to five year.
Can we tell you where you're at? You're at the place where.
The enemy's like, let's see if they know what they think they
know. And it's amazing as an apostle
and pastor, you start hearing all these little challenges
happening. Well, it's to find out, are you
a disciple or are you just a Amen?
As long as there's no issue because the minute the pressure
comes, do you stand up underneath and bear or do you
wither away and die? You get swept out of the church
you'd like this thing really ain't working.
This don't work for me. Everybody's saying that you
could have and I this is not happening.
It's because you start saying something contrary to what you
were taught. You have no firm root.
You're only response because here's the thing, they hear the
word. They receive it with joy, but
what they're doing is it's temporary because all their
experience is just technically emotional.
And they have these emotional responses because you get in the
presence of God, you're going to have emotions.
But God's more than emotion. He's spirit and he will affect
your emotion, but he wants to affect your spirit.
And a firm persuasion is, it doesn't matter what I'm going
through, I know my God will. But someone who just hears
recedes with joy. But it's temporary.
They're not really meditating. They're not allowing it to seep
in. They're not allowing their their
roots. They're jumping all over the
place, going to this conference, going to this one, maybe jumping
from this church to this church, you know, cuz hey, we're all the
body of Christ. Well, I'm glad we're all the
body of Christ. But you're not producing any
fruit in any of the places you're going because you're
dancing and shouting and saying Hallelujah and being nice isn't
enough to produce the fruit when the heat happens.
And again, it's not a seed problem because here's the thing
about this. The seed has turned into a
plant. But God's not trying to have a
plant. He wants the fruit of the vine.
Are you hearing me? OK, so let's go on, says in the
one in whom the seed was sown among the thorns.
This is the man who hears the word and the worry of the world
and the deceitfulness of wealth, Mark 4 says, and the desire for
other things. Enter in Luke 8 says, pleasures
of this life. Oh my goodness, choke the word
and it becomes unfruitful. Chokes the word.
And what's crazy about this? I years ago, I preached a
message called the choke conspiracy.
Because what the devil does in this is that everything you go
after yourself without God, with God you can actually have.
And he deceives you that you can't have it with him.
You've got to go out on your own.
Look how much you're sacrificing.
Look how much better everyone's living.
Look how much more money you can make.
You know, this is the thing that happens, what people call the
ministry because they don't know how to actually add up how much
God is doing. I would love to put my life up
against a corporate person. I would like to find out how
much they're paying into their healthcare from their paycheck
and all that money they've done. And then every time they've had
to go and every prescription they've had a co-pay, but every
surgery they've had everything because again, they're subject
to all that. And then me, I don't go to the
hospital and it is because I am in the will of God, staying in
his plan. Looking back at the faithfulness
God, I'm like wow, God knows knows how to keep you healthy.
He's the best healthcare system ever and when certain symptoms
came. I went to the to the Kingdom
asked the Lord, how do you want me to handle this and when I did
it his way every time I recovered and most of the time
within 24 hours. Now, if I equated that to just
spending money in the natural, are you hearing me again?
I say this, and we've done this before.
We've done the Corps of Engineering.
Engineers could build a bridge across the Red Sea.
It can be accomplished and money can do it.
But how much money did the Lord do at a word?
Not even a word Moses raised. And so he parts the sea, he goes
on dry ground. And yet we're.
Chasing Can I give you one small nugget that I gave the king the
first business alliance? It's a rich young ruler goes to
Jesus. What must we do to inherit
eternal life? The poor go to the rich, but the
rich go to Jesus. The poor is always trying to get
rich, but the rich in their wealth already knows it doesn't
satisfy for life, so they go to Jesus.
So why don't you just cut out the rich?
Go to Jesus because he is prosperity.
OK. I'm just saying a lot of times
people don't. I mean, when I think about the
blessings in my life, I mean, how do you, how do you calculate
that? I mean, if you did an honest
assessment, I do try to develop us as critical thinkers because
a lot of times we have these fantasies of things instead of
realities. Because what happens is here's a
person who can hear the word and then starts getting distracted
about what's going on out here outside the church.
Because the world sells itself, and what good?
Is it a man to gain the whole and forfeit your SO?
It's not worth it, but yet he will work on it.
He'll get you worried about things.
Are you being worried about all the wars and rumors of wars?
Jesus happened to let us know this is going to happen.
So. Don't wring your hands and be
worried. Just stay with the king.
You'll be protected. Run into his fortress and you'll
be. Those are real words.
See, this is what a person will produce fruit because they'll be
confident in the word of God, not in their own ability, and
they'll know that God will do what he says he'll do.
So the worry of the world, the deceitfulness of wealth.
I mean, God has no problem with you being wealthy.
He has no problem with that. There's plenty of wealthy people
that followed God. But yet if you're looking to it,
if you think, well, if I could just get some more, we can
finally get out, you're wrong. That's a deception because
money's not your real problem. I mean, you understand God can
drop provision like nobody's business.
I mean, it's really no problem. There's other issues that are
going on. Then the next one is the desire
for other things. All of a sudden you desire what
somebody else has or what something else or a different
type of life instead of the plan and purpose God has for your
life or just the pleasures in life.
And let me tell you, when you live a.
Life unto the Lord to where you are thankful for what God's
done, but you realize life is bigger than me and I'm supposed
to invest and bear fruit so that I can give off to someone else.
So you're always, you know, thinking about others as well.
Then there comes It's easy to see so many selfish people doing
things for their own, coming and going when they want to, right?
And they make it sound so glorious, but it's not.
It's called deception. The only glorious place to be is
in the slap will of God. The rest of it is actually a
fantasy and a fairy tale. But what will it do it It chokes
the word because in these three cases, the first thing if he can
get you to come to church or not.
Basically, you have no desire to understand.
I mean, I'll even go further because I have to deal with when
I talk with our business people, I actually gave them a pop quiz
and I said, name these four things that I said out of this
they couldn't do. And I said, why should I give
you something else if you haven't even got that down yet?
Once again, what will they do with their business strategy?
They'll go to the world and people in their market learn all
that stuff, pay money to learn it.
Yet God has all the answers. But we really don't value that
because again, the rich young ruler comes to Jesus, because
again, God forbid that the Church can actually give you a
plan. Jacob received a plan of
prosperity from the Lord, and so did Joseph.
Joseph. Didn't say we need to have a
seminar, you know, you know, of any other countries that have,
you know, say a strategic, you know, crop accumulation so that
we can save it, You know, you know anybody who's an expert in
that. I mean, if the church has just
fallen into a left, it's the deceitfulness, because again,
the world knows how to make its money because the devil knows
how to distribute to keep you from what?
Being fruitful because your wealth is not fruit.
That's right. I'm going to show you that the
fruit of disciple Nowhere is one of our fruits, finance being.
Prosperous does not prove you're a disciple.
I'll say Amen anyway. OK, so it chokes the word, It
becomes fruitful. Luke 8 says and brings.
No fruit to maturity, man. So what's worse about this
particular one is that your seed will turn into a plant and
actually fruit will show up on your vine, but before we can
harvest. It it never ripens, it never
matures. And you've heard me tell the
story about the banana, right? I'll say it again because some
haven't been here, have a banana tree in my yard.
And, you know, it was green and it just kept doing green, you
know, and I was waiting. On it, I didn't know the sign.
I've since learned the sign, but I did not know the sign.
And it did turn a little yellow. And I'm like, OK.
And I pulled that thing off and I opened it, you know, and it's
a little, you know, you know how some of the Publix ones are
like, right? And I was expecting Publix,
right? It's, you know, not real soft,
but that's OK. I don't know what to expect.
I've never technically eaten a banana off the actual tree,
right? It was a small. 1 So I peeled it
and I'm expecting it's going to be like one of those act and
I've been into it and it had no moisture.
It sucked all of the saliva. I mean it was worse than peanut
butter. It was crazy.
I was like, I mean, I, I. Felt like I was getting stuck,
my mouth was getting stuck. I was like.
It was so disgusting. It was so deceptive.
I've been waiting on this doggone thing to turn yellow and
finally get a little bit yellow on this thing.
I mean, it was enough. It covered it.
And it's probably when he's like, you know, Publix ones,
that's not really ready, but it's yellow.
And here we go. And man, it was nasty.
So at that point, I just thought they were all bad.
I did not know how to harvest the bananas correctly.
And again, if your fruit doesn't come to maturity, you're going
to leave a bad taste. Cause fruit bearing isn't just
for you to taste and see that the Lord is good because the
farmer gets a part of the harvest.
The, the, you don't muzzle the ox that treads out the corn.
The farmer gets his share of the crop so that he can taste and
see. But then he has so much fruit
that he's able to give it out. You know, if all you can do is
produce fruit for your wife and your children, but you can't do
it for no other family, You're you don't have a very big
harvest. I mean you should produce enough
fruit in your. Life you're like I can't consume
this all myself I'm just going to give it away Mr. Berry comes
in here a lot of times during the harvest season for his what
are those calm quam quads So what is whoo man them things can
smell when they're ripe I mean they're.
Like or guavas. The Guavas.
Bro, you know when he brings the guavas in the church, it's like,
wow, they leave a smell, right? But he has so many, he has to
give it away. Don't you want to walk in so
much fruit? You're just giving it away.
All right, Verse 23 And the one whom the seed was sown in the
good soil. This is the man who hears the
word and understands that indeed bears fruit and brings forth
some 100, some 60, some 3030 Mark says.
And they hear the word and accept it.
So it's not just hearing, but it's accepting it.
That means you're putting it in practice.
You're a doer of the word because everybody's hearing
right now, but is everyone doing?
Are you accepting meaning I? Accept God's way of doing it,
not my way. I accept that because if I
accept God's way, then I'll bear the fruit of God.
So the. Fruit production of the Kingdom
in your life is still dependent on you.
It's all dependent on you, Luke 8 says one who have heard the
word in an honest and good heart.
And hold it fast and bear fruit with perseverance, which tells
us when Jesus says the field is right with harvest, the harvest
is plentiful. He could, he was having an
imagination of what's the word if, if we can have people to.
Labor to sow were the word into their lives.
It can bring them into another Kingdom by which it can produce
a fruit and 3060 and a hundredfold can be moving in
their lives. And everyone can begin to see,
because they bear fruit and prove, prove that.
They are my disciples. Prove prove all right, let's do
a few more things. Luke chapter 3 verse 8 says
therefore bear fruit in keeping with so if you've really
repented may Jesus the Lord of your life and want the Kingdom
of God you seek first the Kingdom, then you should bear
fruit in keeping with repentance and a repentance is not a
religious word. It means change your thinking.
So you have to change your thinking about how you're
healed. You have to change your thinking
and how your marriage is. You need to change your thinking
and your relationships with you know all your relationships.
You need to change your thinking and you know how you pursue life
a career. You need to change your thinking
and all that, and you need to do it God's way because you're
going to encounter those in the other Kingdom and the enemy is
coming after you to determine is it really sewn in you in
something good? Have you held that thing?
Because when you hold that thing, he can't take it out,
can't snatch it away, and it doesn't matter how hard he
tries. No weapon formed against you can
prosper. It doesn't matter if he sows
tears with you. You can continue to grow and
you'll pull out the bad at the harvest time, and all you're
going to do is the good. Because it's really not a part
of you in the first place. So that that tear has been
slapping up against you the whole time in the field.
But you were like, I know I'm wheat.
I'm only wheat. I'm never going to go to a tear.
I'm never going to act like a tear.
I'm not going to think like a tear.
I'm not going to be a tear. And the harvest is coming.
And when the harvest comes that that's been trying to beat
against me, counterfeit me at life, want me to, to, to be
become it. It'll be pulled away, cast and
burned. And then here I am producing the
fruit. I'm doing it.
And in these last days, when it says some will fall away from
the faith and Minnie's heart will wax cold, that means
there's going to be a lot of unfruitfulness.
Yet they're going to say I'm saved and we have to say good.
Now let's bear fruit in keeping with repentance, right that way
your life in in others you don't leave a bad taste.
Look what it says in John 15 got about three more scriptures,
maybe 4 John 15 one and two. It says this, I am the true vine
and my father is a vine. Dresser every branch in me that
does not man bear fruit. He takes away and every branch
that bears fruit he prunes so that it What now?
This. Is very powerful.
So again, let's just be hypothetical.
I mean, let's not be hypothetical.
Let's use the scripture. The scripture says the seed is
the word of God. So the seed produces a vine.
The vine is the Lord. We become a branch where we are
engrafted in, but we are part of the branch.
So the vine looks at the branch that is in it and examines, not
its union. Oh y'all don't?
It's not saying Oh yeah, but it's in me being in doesn't
guarantee fruit production. See everyone and I it's.
Troubling, guys. Listen, the Bible, it we say
theology, it is the study of God.
We're not even studying God. But when we talk about God, you
know, we get on such a tangent about God doing everything and
we do nothing. You're not going to see that in
Scripture where God does everything and man does nothing.
You'll see in Scripture where God does what God does and man
does what man does because God is not having you in union with
him without producing the fruit of his nature.
Because again and and listen, this lets us know these are not
one time events because there's fruit seasons pruning for more
fruit. So, so we already see the first
one. If you don't even bear fruit,
this is problematic because who's doing the cutting of the
branch off? The Lord.
I can say a lot more there, but I won't.
But every branch in me Jesus says that does not bear fruit.
It's not a fake branch, guys. This is not like a branch that
was taped on and never engrafted in.
This is actually of God. So that means they're born
again. They're in me.
We use this term all the time here in Christ, in Christ, in
Christ, in Christ. You are the righteous of God in
Christ. Well, if you're the righteous of
God in Christ, you should produce the fruit.
But yet we see very clearly Jesus, the head of the church
says there's some in me that when I'm examining that branch,
no fruit production. And we had another parable that
that we see the same thing. The master comes in and says
this tree has not bear fruit for three years, cut it down.
He says, master, give me another year.
I'm gonna dig around. I'm gonna fertilize it, go water
it, put a tint to it because God's not at God never intended
for you to hang out as a branch and not produce.
So again, when people like man, if you go to church that's
always wanting you to produce, be productive, that's called the
Bible. The rest is called a branch that
he himself is cutting off. But the one that does bear
fruit, look at this, what's he do?
He proves This is why you're going to come to service.
You're going to be here for three years, Sabrina, you're
going to go through something. You're going to be like, thank
God I had that word because that word is coming to stand up.
And when this hit me and that hit me, man, I was able to stand
and I didn't yield and I didn't go to my emotions and I didn't
fall apart and I didn't complain.
I stayed with the word. And then you produce that fruit
and he's like, wow, that was really awesome.
Look at all that I did through you because you believe me, your
roots were in good soil. Look at how you produced in this
tribe. Tribulation, this test.
Now guess what we're going into the next season because you ate
the fruit to get through and you gave the fruit away to go
through. Now there's no fruit.
So now he proves you. He says now we could, we could.
Do a little more. How about let's cut this weight
off because that says every weight and sin that so easily.
You know what, this is not a sin.
But, you know, let's let's just get that out your life.
And why am I doing? It's going to be more fruit
production for you. So technically we should.
As we mature and cry, we should have more fruit being produced
season after season. You need to learn how to
discern. Are you being unfruitful in a
season? I mean, you better get something
on the branch. You do not want to go through
multiple seasons where there's no fruit.
It's just, well, I'm going to go to heaven when I die.
John 15 five says I'm the bond. You are the branches.
He who abides in me and I and him he, he bears what much fruit
for apart from me he can do nothing.
Galatians 522 to 23. What fruit are you going to
produce but the fruit? That the Spirit produces of the
Holy Ghost in you in a person's life is Lovejoy, peace,
patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness and
self-control doesn't say a big bank account.
Now the Spirit in you owns the planet, but the fruit we are
going to be eating ourselves. I'm going to be eating the love
of God here. I'm going to eat the joy of the
Lord. I want to cry, but I'm going to
get over and joy. I am going to get into joy,
right? The morning may last for the
night, but joy comes in the morning and I'm going to give
myself enjoy how to get yourself enjoy.
You begin to read all the scripture about joy and when
your situation makes you want to, you're like, yes, God, yes,
you're so good. Oh my God, you're so good and
you got to get yourself there. It produces for you.
But then you get around people at work.
Now you're like, oh man, you're so happy today.
You know, this ain't happy. This this joy that I have.
The world didn't give it to me, right?
I mean, it's some like, you know, you're beyond happy.
I mean, there's something different about well, let me
you're just giving it away and you're going through the worst
trial and tribulation of your life.
And everybody work then they find out and they're like, we
didn't, we never. And you were giving away joy.
And they're like, how did you stay like that during that?
I mean, y'all, some of you have siblings.
Their whole life is a mess and yet God wants you to give them
the fruit of how to handle the situation so that they're like,
how can you be at peace? Why?
Because I have a root system of victories of the Lord overcoming
in life and we go overcoming this one.
No problem. It's going to happen.
So I close with this verse, Matthew 720.
It says this so then you will know them by their fruits.
Notice it doesn't say you'll know them by their confession
that Jesus is Lord. You'll know them by their fruit.
The reason why a lot of times people aren't going to the
Lord's because the Lord will talk to you about your fruit.
That's what he's going to do Lord, I'm the he said, well, I
want you to do this. Why?
Can't. Alright, you do something.
Like you do something, do what I'm saying because I'm going to
come through, right? And again, pastor, I need to
meet with you. I got this challenge, OK.
And then we say, well, what does the word say?
Because we're sowing a seed, because we want the fruit of
this to manifest in your situation.
Now hold to it. Don't let go of it.
But you don't. That's irrelevant.
This works. It works every time.
And then you get around and you start hearing a little chatter
here and letting you're like, hey, hey, hey, you're bringing
the wrong things into your field.
You're losing moisture, you're having anxiety.
You're that's not don't put that in your field.
That's to try to. Get you so you can't bear fruit.
Well, you know, we got so many child.
I'm going to have to take a fourth job.
I need to get two or three more. I can't come to church.
You're going to have to understand.
So God wants you to go get 3 or 4 jobs to work this out and not
come to church. Oh man, you know you've got a
man. Don't work, you're already
working. That's not your problem.
You need to get a plan from actually God because sometimes
I'm like, well are you giving? How can I give?
I'm so how can you not? Because that is the spiritual
principle. Give and it shall be.
But again, God's ways are contrary to the world's ways.
But it's fruit the world doesn't have.
So we are produce because we produce the word of God in our
lives.