 Welcome to Pace assembly. We're glad that you're here tonight. Let's stand and have a word of prayer together So glad that you are joining us here, and those who either joining us online We're gonna go to the Lord in prayer and we want you to Know that we're praying for you that are watching online if you have a prayer request You can send that prayer request in we'll make sure we add it to the list So that we will pray for your needs as well and believe God for a Miracle to take place in your life. Whatever it may be. We pray that God will touch your life a number of names that are there in front of you to be sure to be holding up for Healing and for comfort for these families Also want to encourage you to pray for all the families involved in the tragic wreck that took place on the field today That really was we don't know all the details But one individual was killed and five were sent to the hospital So it was a really tragic situation locked down the traffic. In fact, there may be some that are still Trying to navigate their way here, but I know that God is able Because I've asked him before and he's done things that has blown my mind How many of you know what I'm talking about? So why don't we just jump right over into deep water and believe God for anything and everything and In doing so he can do what he wants to do. He can do his thing. Amen Come on, let's pray and let believe God together father in the name of Jesus We thank you tonight for the privilege we have to come before you in prayer and believing you Lord to Do what only you can do you're the great God who is able to do Exceedingly abundantly above whatever we ever ask her thing And so we ask you to send your word to wherever people are hurting God at home or in the hospital around the world Wherever they may be watching in this building tonight We pray God your healing virtue would flow through the lives of people and raise them up those that need comfort Lord, you're the only one who can speak peace to their soul and we're asking you to do that right now and in this service tonight Lord Let your manifest presence Be real inside of this place and let the word of God have liberty Lord and strength for our soul and we believe you for that right now in the mighty name of Jesus We praise you for it. We know that you're doing and working when we can't even see you working You're still doing the work God. We've trust you So we praise you in advance for everything that you're already doing come on lift your hands And would you open your mouth and offer up praise unto the Lord tonight for what he's doing even right now that you may Not even recognize father. We give you glory. We give you honor. We give you praise tonight for all things Lord You blessed us. You've touched us. You've anointed us You set our feet Lord in a strong place upon the rock and we give you glory for what you're doing in our behalf right now in The mighty name of Jesus. We praise your name Hallelujah, you love the Lord tonight That means you love one another so get across the aisle shake hands Let people know that you're glad to see them while I talk to all of you that are watching online Welcome to pace assembly on a Wednesday night Bible class. We're gonna ask you to just Share this out to all of your friends and neighbors. They're there on your social media site And we thank you for being a part of this Bible class You can download the study you follow on the app whatever you do get your Bible in it's going to the word of God and John 15 Tonight with lessons from the vine We're continuing that lesson here this evening and you get an opportunity to also share in the joy of giving and For all of our friends that are watching around the world. We welcome you We thank you for being a part of it You are a part of pace assembly and it means a lot to us for you to be here So may God bless you tonight for participating in this service. Praise God Praise God. I want our ushers to get ready to Serve you this evening and as they're doing that I want you to make sure that you're participating in the opportunity that you have to give you can do that on the app on Line you can do it with the envelopes that are provided whatever that it may be Honor the Lord in your giving. I promise you that you can never out give God How many of you know what I'm talking about? Have you tried the Lord? See I don't have to back up from this because I know it works. Have you proven the Lord before The Bible says prove me in the tithe now if you've never done that before here is a money-back guarantee I'm telling you right now that if in 30 days when you give your tithes If you haven't seen the hand of God bless you come see me I'll give you a tithe back because I'm just gonna tell you God will always do more than what you could ever think or imagine Amen and whatever that that may be if you'll honor the Lord God will do over and above so do that tonight And may God bless you for that privilege that you have to give father. Thank you now for the privilege We have to give into the kingdom. We recognize the Lord that your word is everlasting and true and you not fade on One of your promises so tonight Lord let your Let your blessings pour out upon your people tonight both here and those that are watching online And we give you praise for it in Jesus name Everybody said a good amen. Praise God so glad to have again all of you that are joining us here Those of you that are watching online I know I've always got a good Pentecostal crowd that sits more in the back than they do in the front But one day we're gonna turn you into Baptist and get you the front seat praise the Lord So It's just a joke it'll be all right breathe in breathe out everything's gonna be all right Hey, let me tell you this tonight today. We are already seeing the gathering gathering of Latinos far and wide and our number one Beloved pastor is arrived in town and I want you to welcome pastor Jose Would you stand up sir? Let him know how much you love and appreciate him Amen, we're so glad to have him and His lovely daughter Priscilla who's come in from Guatemala City to be of assistance. She and Jose, Jr. Are taking the tour upstairs right now. They may join us, so they may stay up there with pastor T they want to be able to see what's going on up there as well and This weekend is gonna be a tremendous weekend It's gonna start tomorrow night with all of you that are volunteers and you're want to assist in the Latino outreach for This weekend, I'm gonna ask you at 6 o'clock tomorrow night 6 o'clock tomorrow night To join in the chapel you can come in the sanctuary here. There'll be rehearsal going on here We've got most excellent way going on tomorrow night over the firehouse So in the chapel is where pastor Jose is gonna be meeting with all of you that are gonna be volunteering We'll need your assistance for this. It's gonna be a great time. We're going to we're believing God he was sharing with me some of the things that's been occurring already and The crowd that is gathering in fact we were in contact Already with a pastor who is here in Pensacola And from I believe it was Cuba is where he is from he has a congregation of about 100 and they are Methodist But in Cuba they are tongue-talking Methodists And so because of all that's going on with the Methodist church He is ready to opt out and to join in to the assemblies of God and wants to bring his whole church in We're excited about that possibility. Amen So there we're uh, I'm Listen, I'm gonna turn the tiger loose tomorrow And he's gonna make contact with them and invite them to be a part of the services And all that's taking place this weekend You will not want to miss it and if you can't be here the number one thing you can do is pray Because we're after souls, okay And I want to make sure you understand that those souls Don't have to speak our language and don't have to look just like you and me They need to be able to we need to throw the net and and get them all. All right When when dad took me fishing and we did cast net right down here on the beach down down the south Okalusian and Santa Rosa county he throw that net out there and we were allowed to get trophers minnows Any number of different things while we were fishing for one thing So I'm just gonna tell you when we throw the net We're gonna reap the harvest and I want you to pray that there'll be a great harvest reap this coming weekend This is the second latino fest that we will have done and all of it will be conducted inside of the building Here because of the elements outside So I want you to pray earnestly that god would give us a great victory for this And tomorrow night at six o'clock those of you that want to volunteer You can meet with pastor hosé in the chapel and get some needed information and your assignments on what you need to do To be ready to help us to reap the harvest. Amen. And and you don't have to be speaking spanish. It's quite obvious. I don't You know, all I have is is banjo And uh uno dose trace and that's as high as we go. I'm just gonna tell you right now that One of those words are extremely important. I learned that quickly And uh, but but to volunteer you don't have to have the the language or the dialect All you've got to do is be able to be a servant and what we need more in the church now than ever before Our servant volunteers who will serve the kingdom in whatever capacity whatever you want me to do That's what my hands are ready to do. Amen. So tomorrow night six o'clock. Don't miss that. It's gonna be a great time And uh, I don't want you to miss it. So while you're turning in your bible to john 15 to get into this study Let me just mention to you. I want you to be praying earnestly for and expecting great things for Miracle sunday as well would be the last sunday of the month And we want you to make sure you write down your most urgent prayer requests on those Cards that are provided in the back of the auditorium and lay them right up here on the altar Our prayer team is going to be praying over and we're going to be praying over them as well And we're going to be believing god for miracle signs and wonders to transpire on On january 29th on miracle sunday And it doesn't mean that it has to be limited to that day god can do it whenever he wants to He can start this week. He can start now for his all for all I care. How many of you believe god with that? So I want to encourage you to pray get your needs on the altar. Let's believe god For miracle signs and wonders for that And I also want you to mark down on your calendar And you'll see the announcement that's coming on the screen right now And that is on january the 19th january the 19th We're going to be joined on that sunday night for a very special concert and a special time Is it up there january the night there? It's coming right there. There you go Jason crab is going to be our special guest on february the 19th I said january february the 19th in the pm service along with a Special guest that you won't want to miss mickey bell in the sunday morning service Kelly crab and the bowling girls are going to join us for some special music I'll be preaching and I don't want you to miss. It's going to be a great day When they were coming through the area and ask if they could stop by of course We always welcome them as a matter of fact We're already in line booking them for the upcoming November pace family fest the entire family will be with us on that saturday and sunday morning Perhaps even that sunday night the crab family. So they'll be part of pff this year So mark your calendars down. That's an upcoming event and I also want to just mention to you all of you parents grandparents aunts uncles whatever february the first They've been working very very diligently and hard for camp and kid con for this year and so ignite student ministries along with kid con You'll see the advertisement on social media to save the dates And I want you to save the dates now you save the dates for your so for your kid's soccer You save it for your kid's ball playing you save it for their ballet. You save it for the special stuff I want you to save the date block it out for your kids to be in a spiritually strengthening week of kid con and kid camp and Ignite student ministries fearless youth camp. I don't want you to miss that I want your kids to be involved in it. I'm telling you The evil is coming after our children And our grandchildren and I want to just tell you if we don't pack them full of the word of god They're facing a world that you and I have never seen in our lifetime That's the reason why it's so necessary and there are kids that are called into the ministry during camps There are kids that receive the not only the call of god upon their life, but a very special anointing that they get Unlike any other time and so I want to encourage you to save the date And then february the first you're going to be able to go ahead and register your kids For both the fearless youth camp and for kid cons. So don't miss that. Help us spread the word for that All right, are you ready to study the word? Amen, your bibles are open to john 15 Your hearts are open to what god wants to say tonight and we want to continue in lessons from the vine And believe that god is going to speak to us father. Thank you now For all that you are doing inside of this great church what you're doing in our hearts and lives and Reaching out further than ever before and we asked you tonight lord To be able to to let the word of god soak into our spirit and let us receive it lord Let us conceive it let it bring forth fruit as you say and let this fruit remain inside of our lives And we give you glory for it in jesus name. Everybody said a good amen john 15 Let's rehearse the word of god tonight jesus is speaking here and he says i am the true vine and my father is the husband Every branch in me that beareth not fruit. He'd take it away And every branch Every branch that beareth fruit. He purged it that it may bring forth more fruit Now you're clean through the word you should underline that we'll emphasize that a little bit more tonight Which i have spoken under you Abide in me rest in me and i in you As the branch cannot bear fruit of itself Except it abide in the vine no more can ye accept you abide in me i am the vine He are the branches he that abideth in me and i and him the same the same Bringeth forth much fruit now. That's an important line. I just want to emphasize that while it's right there in front of me The same you recall that the the word of god says in the book of genesis that the seed will bear The fruit of its kind the same so you can't expect something that is in christ And christ is in you to bear anything less Than what christ is Are you following what i'm saying the seed will bring forth fruit of its kind jesus in your life will bring forth the same fruit That he brought forth in character and indeed While you're in this world and so he says to us the same bringing forth much fruit, which is where god wants us to be For without me you can do nothing Okay, let's just stop right there. We may have some other verses that we go along with so last week We started talking to you about The details that are found and i won't go back you see them Filled in for you from last week's lesson of how that god is dealing with us and how that he Expects from us The vine to bring forth The fruit to bear the fruit that bearing deals with How we walk an open confession i won't go through all of these but that's on your paper How we fellowship with christ and how we fellowship with the church all of these are found in first john chapter 2 3 and 4 How we obey the the the word god's command and not walk in continuous sin and So forth so all of these things are letting us know what it takes in order for fruit To be brought forth and i want to say to you that When you plant a fruit tree, what do you expect from that fruit tree? That was a loaded question wasn't it? okay So for us if it's an apple or orange tree, whatever it may be We're expecting fruit to come from that tree Even pine trees have fruit of pine cones within side of them Are the seeds for the next tree or the next orchard whatever it may be But there are some trees that are not necessarily fruit bearing trees But if you plant a fruit tree You should have an expectation of fruit on the tree Are you with me right there? I know that may seem simplistic, but I want you to understand When when the lord plants you when he has Invested in you he is expecting a return from your life in what he declares to be as fruit fruit And the word of god has much to say concerning fruit and a fruitful vine and all of these things to let us know How important that it is that we're not just some tree out in the forest But we are a tree We are we're a we're a uh, uh connected to the vine. We're a branch connected to the vine That is inside of the perimeters Of a specific vineyard We are not a wild vine We are a groomed vine planted in a certain place for the purpose of bearing fruit That's important for you to understand Wild vines out there have no one to take care of them No one cares They may have some fruit that comes out there, but it very well could be bitter or whatever it may be But it's not fruit unto the lord But you have been planted notice he says That my father is the husband and all of that lets us know that this is a specific location that he has planted us in So let me jump to the chase you've been born again And now christ has come inside of you and you're in christ All right, and now you've been planted inside of his body called the church And you're not to be a tree that is Taking up the ground without bearing fruit Inside of the church otherwise there are consequences to that Now what you don't need to do is worry about whether or not someone else is getting their pruning because you felt a pruning yourself Just because somebody else doesn't get the the branch cut doesn't mean that you should stand there and judge them for Whatever it may be god has an expectation of you He has an expectation of me come on somebody and that expectation i can tell you right now across this auditorium and around the world is on different levels he says to those that He gives the law to us Concerning tithing and giving towards the towards the kingdom of god and and toward the upbuilding of the kingdom It's all throughout the bible But he says if you are at a place that you can give a bull a bull as an offering as a sacrifice then you better bring that But if you are in a state where you are Impoverished you still have to bring at least a handful of meal and offer it up Because you don't appear before the lord empty-handed there better be some fruit There better be something that you are bearing in your life. Does that make sense? Sure it does So he says to us every branch in me that beareth not fruit He takeeth away now we started talking about that last week and that's where i want to pick up Because we related to you That there are sometimes in our lives as a believer And i can tell you as a as a preacher as a minister as a pastor There have been dry times that i have walked through I don't understand them some of them have not been explained to this day It just happened to be a desert Does anybody know what i'm talking about a place where you pray and it feels like it doesn't get off the ground A place where you pray and there's nothing that's coming back. You feel like lord. Have you forgotten me? Are you there? What's going on? And it's especially bad for a pastor about 11 30 on a saturday night when he don't have nothing to say on a sunday morning Now that'll make you cry out in humility if you've got any sense at all And for some it's much easier now. I I I thank god that That before the internet I was called into the ministry and started my collection of library books and Commentaries and and concordness and all that kind of stuff. So so if they shut the internet down I I still know how to find what I need to find Because some folks are finding their sermons online Come on now Some folks are harvesting in another person's vineyard I love how you're salting me down now Why because it's much easier after everybody else has done the hard work To cross over and start picking corn out of the place that you offered no labor And if those scriptures at you, you know, you're gonna reap where you didn't so Well It's a thief in a robber that jumps over the wall and then comes through the door Besides that I'm liable to get that shama spirit on me Anybody read about shama before Nobody's read about shama before you know, you're afraid to raise your hand Oh shama got tired of everybody coming in the filstines and picking his peas Stealing his peas he worked hard for that. He plowed the ground. He removed the rocks He did everything he planted the seed. He waited for the great harvest and in comes the filistines Oh, am I preaching right now income the filistines to take away his harvest and he watched it take place To start with Until the day he said I am fed up to hear there'll be no more of that and stood out in the middle of his field And and was ready the next time they came I'm just gonna say to you once you have bore the burden Of what you had to go through to get the fruit on the tree Whatever you do don't forfeit quit or let down at that moment because after you've had to walk through what you've had to Walk through to get that fruit. Nobody needs to come in and steal your fruit I think 10 of you clapped your hands. I think the rest of you need to do that. That's pretty good right there So with that being said There's times when we don't bear fruit and we dealt with this last week But I think it's worth I think it's worth dealing with just a little bit more here tonight as we press on because he speaks here And he says to us that the branch verse 2 Every branch in me that beareth not fruit he taketh away Better translation is to lift up. I don't know if that's there or not, but Uh It's there somewhere So he taketh away means to lift up. So this is a picture of the vine dresser that comes around and finds that the vine Or a branch has grown or whatever And it's now somehow gotten itself Down in the dirt If you'll find that back there for me, then I can track along with the Um with this little clicker up here and and then you won't have a frustrated uh, man who pushes the button and Doesn't find the channel. Anyway, um, there you go. There you go. Look at there. Thank you back in the back. All right, so So he lifts it up. It really should be translated lifts up So what's the point that that branch gets down in the dirt and it gets dirty We see this as being taken away as if the lord is going to Demolish us he's gonna cut us out of there But really it's a lifting because there are times When we don't bear fruit and there are times when sometimes we get a little dirty spiritually speaking I wish I had three more people that would join in with the four that said that The rest of you adjust your halos will never have to deal with you because you're so good But just in case you might fall on the ground and get dirty Listen carefully The loving gracious heavenly father the husbandman Of the vineyard because you're not way out there somewhere outside of his protective care Part of the father's duty and job part of the father's calling any father for that matter is to be the protector Come on the teacher. There's about six things that the father is To us a physical father those attributes are the same as our heavenly father And he doesn't take us away in the sense that he cuts us off and rejects us because the bible says in every branch in me So you must still be in him, but you've you've gone astray. What's the what's the point? The point is this He says Go back go back go back Yeah, so this lifting process just remember that that's fine I got it just remember that the lifting process is sanctification. I'll touch that again some more because here's where I want you to see new branches Have a natural tendency our old sinful nature Always trails downward Sin takes you down it never lifts you so look at the look at the dichotomy here. Look at the pendulum swing Sin takes you down our old nature our old sinful nature takes us down our old ways All of that takes us down down down. We have a tendency to trail downward But here comes the husband man here comes the vine dresser here comes the owner of the vineyard Who says you're not just anybody you're not just you're not outside of the vine You're connected to the vine you're in the vine and the vine is in you What's in the vine is in you and what's in you is in the vine you are now made one And so i'm not going to let you just keep on do i've got too much Invested in this vine to let you do whatever you want to do So in my mercy, I could cut you off But in my mercy and loving kindness i'm going to pick you up off of the ground And i'm going to clean your leaves off before mold and mildew gets in there and you get Discontented and you get depressed and you get despondent and all that kind of stuff and feel like nobody loves you I'm telling you i love you with a never-lasting love. That's the reason why i'm going to clean you off And i'm going to put you back up into the vine and if there's a little something that needs to be Pruned or whatever i can do what i need to do But i'm going to put you back up into the place off of the ground So that you can be able to bear the fruit that i'm expecting out of your life now ladies and gentlemen I want to let you know this for sure Just because you fell down today or last week or you will sometime in the future God is not going to let you stay on the ground. He's going to send a word He's going to send someone if you'll embrace it as he comes now i'm not telling you it's going to be easy Because he tells us that is the washing of the water of the word that causes us to be sanctified set apart So you're not just any vine You do know that when you gave your life to jesus christ That you are now not your own you have been bought with a price I wish i had some help in here. I feel like preaching in other words. I'm not my own I have been bought with a price. I have taken his name. I've taken his action. I have said to the lord I am now giving my life to you I'm not calling the shots anymore. I'm not going to tell you what I will and what I won't do I'm going to abide in the vine I'm going to rest in the vine i'm going to stay in the vine And you do what you want me to do i might only bear fruit every other year But because you love me you're not going to take me away from the vine You're going to you're going to work with me and you're going to deal with me But you can deal with me. Listen when you said lord jesus coming to my heart forgive me of my sins I want to be in the vine. I want to be in the body you gave up your rights to your own decisions That's the reason why you've got to read this book to find out what rights you do have What am I supposed to do lord? Well, he said i've given you 66 books I've given you all this inspiration to tell you what i'm like and if i'm the vine And you're the branch Then what you're to be and how you're to act and all those kind of things is what the vine is So he's you don't have to be shocked when he deals with you with the word Here's what happens whenever the word of god is preached The bible says in the last days one of the signs was that when the word of god is preached people are going to become offended by that Now i can't resist this because I'm not sure exactly when i'm going to do a prophecy files, but i just want to let you know where we're headed Because this jesus that you say you're in love with and you worship on sundays and you come out here on wednesday night Is now becoming the offense of a nation So a man walks down the mall of america with a t-shirt on that says jesus is the way Yeah, he's got on the back back there It's a cross through all the rest of him because he's declaring jesus is the way this is his personal t-shirt He's purchased this t-shirt, but the security guards are telling him you either take it off or you can't shop here anymore Why because jesus has become an offense Well pastor just tell the guy to take the shirt off. I mean make peace and all that kind of stuff My dear friends It's not about the shirt It's about the vine You want some more? I know you do He said if you don't confess me before men I will not confess you before my father, which is in heaven. Well pastor, uh, should we not embrace? Should we not love? Let me just say this to you if my little grandson is running out in the in the road And I yell at him and scream and run over and snatch him out. Am I loving him? Pastor, that's not what jesus would do. Oh, he said Over and over again how he would do I mean the very thought let me just throw it a little bit more scripture on here Here's the here's the thought we we have an idea over here that we're doing right Simon peter by saying You don't need to go the cross Pity yourself lord, you don't need to go the cross And he says to him get behind me Satan But he says to judas Friend do what you got to do quickly Let's get it on Now that doesn't mean that you have to go out and purposely offend somebody But i'm going to tell you if they've got a right In this world to wear their t-shirt you have a right to wear a great big t-shirt jesus all over it Some of y'all don't like that, but that'll be all right That'd be all right You can deal with it you can deal with it with the lord when you get there if you get there They bear no fruit on the ground. They just get dirty and mildew and sick and useless But the lord lifts us up and cleanses us It's all part of the sanctification process big theological word to tell us that he's separating us from the world And the secondary part is separating us unto god It's not enough to just come out of the world because a lot of preaching is just come out of the world Come out of the world touch not the unclean thing. Well, he wants you to be holy unto him, but Drawing near to him sanctification too full process All right Why is it so important because he says to us you're clean through the word now? There's a key factor right there in bearing fruit And the process of sanctification right here They don't bear any fruit because they've naturally trailed down. That's the natural thing to do But he picks us up and puts us back in there by his grace Are you with me? If you bear no fruit then He is going to sanctify us. He's going to discipline us Now he tells us very clearly that nobody likes discipline But afterward It will bear The peaceable fruit of righteousness Y'all all right out there I never liked it when when daddy whipped me In fact, I always thought that I was in the right And if you want to know what is in the nature in our in our old man nature If you want to know what's in our old nature that always winds up coming out When he asked me the one and only time to go out to the plum tree and cut my own switch I came back with one about that long Now if he was going to whip a mouse that'd be one thing But the ones he liked had a little had a little whip in on the other end and he go Now why is that? Well, that is gone That's gone He's in heaven So he's not here to give me a whip anymore and I'm I'm supposed to be years old this year. I don't even know what that means but But if he not dealt with me Like he should have in discipline early on I'm not sure where I'd be right now And I'm going to add this in here it will come up again in just a few moments If the lord doesn't deal with us In a disciplinary way Then we become bastard children the bible says And we become useless no no fruit Where we're wild out of control Thank god he disciplined me when I was a child Now I mean it may seem simplistic to you But now with all the help and grace that I need and you too I actually Drive in the lanes between the lines There are some undisciplined people I watched them on the way here tonight They're all over the page Because even in their driving habits, they're all over the lines are here. They're there And you say well that doesn't have anything to do with it. Oh it does my friends Because if you don't teach it early on While the stay with me while the branch is still young If you don't get the branch where it needs to be while it's still young The chances of it getting cut off and thrown into the fire are greater because you didn't take it Well pastor, I've done everything I know to do and they're still going that direction. Oh hold on the promise of god I said hold on to the promise of god If you put it in them, it's gonna come back Did you hear what I said? Trust me it will come back Whatever you put in them. I mean, we're on our way here tonight. We got henry in the back seat And he starts singing this little light of mine now. He's making up all kind of words. I couldn't understand But I knew what he was singing Because it's already been imparted into his heart There's a sanctification process a discipline process that's taking place I want to remind you of what I said last week because I feel like it's extremely important The devil Is not in this text So what's happening to you in discipline? And in pruning and in all the things that god the husbandman the vineyard dresser is doing You cannot blame it on the devil You can't say the devil made me do it or or that's devil. I tell you we got to get together and pray We got to have a prayer meeting man This is the lord's doing I said this is the lord's doing Everybody wants a blessing, but nobody wants the discipline I get it But remember this On your paper the branch is too valuable to allow it to go in its own direction Which is the tension That takes place all the time in our life roman's chapter roman's chapter seven The tension in our life is us wanting to do what we want to do and god's saying listen You don't own yourself. You don't own the vine. You're in me And if you'll let me If you won't rebel against me if you won't resist me I'm going to bring something out of you that you had no idea was even on the inside of you Come on somebody Now what does this lifting involve it involves two things? It involves repentance And discipline Well, bless god. I don't need to repent. I've been I'm in christ Yeah that pride Right there would be the first thing you need to repent of And I'm reminded in in recent days of this same passage of scripture in the book of james where he tells us That if we are In so many words I'm paraphrasing a little bit If we resist The lord's discipline if we resist the lord and what he's wanting to do in our life we get law We get law But if we humble ourselves james says we get grace It's the difference between you getting a ticket and being let go So they ask you the question how fast were you going? Do you know how fast you were going? You got to answer the question If you get all been out of shape and stiff with them The chances of you getting the law Come on somebody I had to talk about something you knew I know nobody out here has ever gotten a ticket Some of us have a little bit more experience than others come on I'm just going to tell you that it is necessary for us to stay humble in our spirit, especially in the time we're in right now I said especially in the time we're in right now Because what is taking over this world is a spirit of pride like we have never seen before Because it's all about me and god says I I resist that proud person Not only that but don't even let that look come on your face I wish I had three more people with that but that'll be all right Because even a proud look god says I listen god don't say hate for no reason People that so discord and that old ugly face of pride on he said that's something I hate I hate it Why do I hate it because that's exactly what I dealt with in the garden and that is of satan That is of a different vine You know that satan is growing his own vine with his own branches. Don't you? Some of you used to be in that vine some of us used to be in that vine But the lord opened up a place in the vine and we were grafted into a new vine I think it preaches well So here's what he says. Why do I say this because I'm using this scriptural reference and you can you can draw it there for yourself Here's what he says in Deuteronomy chapter 8 verse 4 and 5 Your clothes this is the niv your clothes did not wear out and your feet did not swell during these 40 years Verse 5 no then in your heart that as a man disciplines his son so the lord your god disciplines you Wait a minute. How does that deal with? clothes not wearing out and Feet swelling and all that 40 years and now you're talking about discipline He's saying listen, I've been I've been god in your life since the day since before you came out of Egypt I've taken care of every detail of your life And I've disciplined you when you needed it And I've blessed you when you needed it and I've encouraged you when you needed it And I rained out manna from heaven when you needed it and I took care of you and all these 40 years You didn't have to go to pay less and get some new shoes Because there wasn't no pay less out here in the wilderness You maintained the same clothes. I kept them provided for you all these years I took care of you all of these years and I want you to know that is the sign Of a good good father So don't ever sing that song again and not think about what I just said to you Because when you say he's a good good father, that means I'm embracing everything that he wants from me Both the blessing and the burden both the discipline and the blessing that comes into my life Don't say amen right there What does that mean? This is what it means It means disciplined then is the act of god faithfully committing his love toward us So when you when you holler at your child while they're standing in the middle of the road before the car gets there I am so faithfully committed to the child That I'm going to do what I need to do In a drastic way to get that child out of harm's way because I'm committed to that child God said I'm committed to you so much that when you get into harm's way I may have to take some necessary action that may seem abrupt to you, but because I love you I care about you and I'm faithfully committed to you See it's hard for us to wrap our mind around in the world that we're in right now faithful committed People it's hard for us to wrap our mind around God's example of that because because so many times we get connected with people that are not faithfully committed to the situation To god or whatever they let us down whatever that it may be all this kind of So it's hard for us to wrap our mind around the fact that god loved me before I was ever even born again Before I ever said yes to jesus. He loved me more than I could ever imagine In fact, it was the goodness of god That led me to repentance He was so good to me that there was no other place I could go He was so good to me that he dropped barriers in my way. He made my mama tell me I'm praying for you and I didn't want her to pray for me He made my spouse get in the way of going out in the middle of the night and getting in a car and wrecking because I was too drunk out of my mind all these things the discipline and the loving caring committed faithful god that he is every day One just a thought just throwing this out here wonder what he Faithfully was so faithfully committed in your life just today that he did that you don't even know that he did Could it be that he delayed you from coming across the field? That you could have been right in the middle of that Come on somebody Could it be that god's in faithful in his faithful committed God that he is and so good that he is that the thing that I thought Was rubbing me the wrong way Was actually not the devil but god working All things together for my good Is anybody getting this here tonight? I want you to know god is for you and he will never be against you All right, don't let anybody tell you the difference God is for you. He's never against you So even in his loving discipline, he's still for me Here's what he brews chapter 12 says I think it's on your paper Says this and you have forgotten the exhortation Which speaketh unto you as under children my son despise not despise not The chastening of the lord nor faint when thou art rebuked of him Do you know that you can't actually today You can't actually It's so hard to be able to talk to somebody and and and give them a loving rebuke because they somehow feel like They take it personal You hate me. No, I don't hate you. I didn't like what you did So because you're my son you're my daughter or whatever that it may be I'm going to tell you this is what needs to take place Don't get mad Embrace it I lost them right there. Jesus. Let me just give some more word right here. He said don't faint when thou aren't rebuked For whom the lord loveth What's he do? Come on, it'll be all right. Just say it out of your mouth chasing it Come on now. So so whom the lord loveth he chasing it and what else does he do and scourge it? Oh Every son whom he received it Now watch this Because I if I would have known this as a as a boy It might have it might have helped me in my scourging In in in the in the wash in the laundry room with my daddy one-on-one If ye endure Chasing him god dealeth with you as with sons For what son is he whom the father chasing it's not? Come on now. I'm talking to you about parenting right now Not just what god's doing in us, but I'm talking to you about how to deal with your children and your children's children If you don't deal with them like this, look what the bible says But if ye be without chastisement, where of all our partakers Then are ye bastards and not sons Furthermore I got something else to say he said we have had fathers of our flesh which corrected us and we gave them reverence Shall we not much rather be in subjection to the father of spirits and live? What a powerful passage of scripture that is, huh? So we're not talking about some god who's got a baseball bat who's ready to conk you on the head We're talking about a loving disciplining father who doesn't want us to fall off of the edge or get ourselves in a bad situation plus He's got to train us teach us so that we can grow up And bear fruit because here's the deal after mom and dad are gone and you're sitting in the driver's seat And they're not there to show you anymore Why are people rebelling even in the church today because jesus said it over in john next chapter He said he said it's it's expedient for you that I go away If I go not away the comforter will not come And what's the comforter going to do the comforter is going to come and he's going to he's going to deal with you in righteousness I've got to read it Let me read it He said He said when he the comforter the holy spirits come all right So jesus is gone back to heaven sit down at the right hand of the father and he sends his spirit the christ the comforter the holy spirit And when he is he he has come he will approve the world of sin and of righteousness and judgment watch this And of sin because they believe not on me Of righteousness because I go to my father and you see me know more in other words You know you know what i'm talking about when daddy walked in the room everything straightened up When mama walked in the room everything straightened up why? Because you could see them But now that my father and mother are gone All I have left is their words So now I've got to discipline my own self out of what they have trained me to do as a human being Provide for my family take care of my home et cetera et cetera et cetera Come on somebody Put gas in my wife's car And all the ladies said Why is it important? I know I'm trying to be nice I'm moving along now. Um, I lost my place. I'm sorry Some of these guys know exactly what I'm talking about. You're reading between the line Maybe I should just give a message in tongues and you could interpret it on your own that would have probably been bad Why is that so important? Well because that's what dad taught me Right That's what he taught me So he says now he said jesus says I'm gone and you do not see the physical model in front of you Of what righteousness looks like nevertheless the comforter has come To tell you and instruct you on the inside of what I showed you in a physical version on the outside So in other words, he's disciplining us. He's instructing us. He's growing us all of these things Why would you why would you send your child to 12 years of school? And then hand a diploma over to them and they don't even know how to read and write That takes discipline does it not Come on. It's not trick question Takes discipline on their part. Why do you do that? Why why why don't we go through all these calisthenics get up make the sandwich put it in the bags send them off to school What you know do their homework blah blah blah all of that kind of stuff Why and then you got all this period of time because in that young formative years while the branch is still young The chances of them going downward is very easy. So you got to keep them lifted I'm just preaching right here. I'm just saying So so then the question begs why does god then discipline us? Well, he bruised chapter 12 gives us a straight up answer for they verily for a few days chasing us after their own pleasure, but he for our profit That we might be partakers of his holiness Now no chastening for the present seems to be joyous I I promise you whenever dad took me into the laundry room Or that first principle I had into the book room The book room at that school I'll never forget it It was like a soundproof room because all the books were stacked up. So nobody heard anybody screaming Now I know this is so foreign because they don't do that kind of That kind of Punishment today in school. I mean are you kidding me? We put everybody in jail, but for me My parents offered up my hide as a sweet smelling sacrifice every first of the year If you need to whip him whipping and then call me and I'll have one waiting on him I spit out of the school bus one day Going home It got on her school bus I thought I was gonna die Because she came back stopped that school bus and came back there to me And then she said I'm gonna make you wash this entire bus and I'm telling your daddy I'll wash the bus. Just don't tell my daddy You say well spitting out of the school bus Yeah It's the little things, isn't it? Come on somebody You're good at staying out of the big sand, but it's those little foxes that spoil. I think I'm preaching right now Why does he discipline us if god did not discipline us? This is powerful if god did not discipline us We would doubt his love for us Do you love me? Do you know what kids are looking for today? They're looking for a parent a grandparent that's going to tell them this is the way we're going to do Come on somebody They don't want a parent that's just going to let them run all over the place. They want someone to tell them Get dressed at this time. I promise you I'm just thinking about the last hour As rita and I were preparing to come here and we had little henry I know I'm using my own example, but you know When we were when we were youth pastors here in the early 90s Rita was singing the choir And right over there on that first bench Taylor would sit there Now she'd bring him a little something to do. Guess what? It wasn't an ipad Wasn't no iphone didn't have none of that She didn't bring a television over here for him and sit in front of him while everybody's worshiping Right But she did bring a little wooden spoon Now i'm gonna tell you something we've transferred that into our children and and and now Tonight as we were getting henry ready. I'm saying henry come over here and let me put your socks and shoes on I said henry come over here Come over here sit up on the bed. He's gone I said, oh you want the spoon? Oh, no Not the spoon See some of y'all are even straightened up because the spoon was used on your legs too I'm liable to get thrown. Listen. We're living in an environment right now where i'm liable to get off I'm liable to have people come up here and call me abusive and all that kind of stuff But if the lord doesn't chasing us like we need to be chasing then we are running And people are shooting one another and killing one another who were raised in church But they forgot the way because their parents said i don't love you anymore. Do what you want to do The devil is a liar. He run all over the place Does it sit up here on this bed? You want the spoon? Not a spoon He was waiting on me When I got done. He was perfectly fine. You know how it is I love it when parents get all up in their kids stuff Their kid dates someone and then that person drops them And they're like 10 which they shouldn't be dating then anyway Please I wish I had some help up in here Oh now give them the keys to the car at 10. Yeah go on out. We're gonna triple date. Are you kidding me? You just dumb You need some instruction You need to hold back on the 10 year old date and the 12 year old date Come on somebody. Oh pastor. You're so old-fashioned. Mm-hmm when they all get knocked up and come back. Oh mama. I'm pregnant I'm 13 Oh pastor. You gotta do something Got 18 years Before they hit the door You do everything you can in those years including with your grandchildren Come on somebody If you'll do that, they're gonna love you So he knows I'll talk straight to him I mean when I see him I see taylor Come on And when I see taylor I see me Come on somebody Mama said don't leave the yard I got on my bicycle Because me and my buddy steve we're gonna go down and do some pup hunt down on highway 98 Got down there and it got dark That shwin was flying I was moving Because he getting darker by the minute. I couldn't see. Oh lord I roll up in that in that driveway and the car's gone You know how you do That's when you don't just throw the bike down in the yard You actually put the kickstand down and stand it up in its rightful place because every I know you don't understand what i'm saying. Let me say it like this When the when this trooper is driving suddenly you Put the blinker on For an hour before that you didn't have no seatbelt on you ain't giving no signals. In fact, you was telling everybody get out Now when the law shows up Oh, yes officer I pulled back up in there run up in the house. Your daddy's been looking for you He rolls back up in there. I see them car lights I was inside doing my homework by then Come on How many of you know what i'm talking about I'm inside doing my homework by then. I forgot all about the homework, but suddenly I got totally interested in school It's amazing salvation has come Are you hearing me? Here we are He didn't let me off He said didn't I tell you Yes, or you did I mean, what else am I gonna say? I am busted And i'm about to be busted We go into laundry. Why did he do that? Because he wants to abuse me? No Because he loved me Now here's the problem He ain't here to do that no more So there's time when I have to whip my own self Anybody know what i'm talking about right here? That boy wouldn't be a youth pastor right now If he didn't have the discipline in his life to do it Why does god discipline us because he does not want us to doubt that I am your father And I love you when you're good and I love you when you're not do good But you'll never be able to doubt my love. Hebrews 12 and eight tells us that very clearly. All right So what happens right here? There's three degrees of discipline that come number one. There's a rebuke. What is that? That's a verbal statement Can you handle rebuke? Three of you I love it Hebrews Hebrews 12 and five tells you about that. What is chastening chasing is a little bit more severe Okay, so the first I told you don't that you shouldn't be doing that don't do that. Okay I've been rebuked You do it. He comes back It says I told you not to do that Now i'm gonna have to take your iphone away You didn't get a whip him anymore I mean Time out time out. What did that ever accomplish? My time out was getting the yard and don't come back till dark Get a stick make it a gun and play with your friends in the backyard right time out So now it's got to be more severe. So chastisement is more severe But what does he do if if we don't get it? This is so politically incorrect right now I might get kicked off of youtube for this But he scourges us Have you ever been whipped by god before? I would like to see your hands if you've ever been whipped by god before Okay now Have you ever been whipped by god before and then you went out immediately and posted it out there for everybody to know Why do we do that now? I didn't want everybody to know in my in my in my little yard in my little road right here. Hey, I just got a beating Why do we do that now? Why do we post all of our junk and stuff out there? Why because it's a private deal between you and the lord You don't have to boast about how yeah, well the lord whipped me today, but I needed it. I sure needed it Well, you need it again Because now you're boasting that you got a whip in there. You're closer to god because of that. No, is there more fruit? No Come on I'm saying to that because we're in such a world that we cannot receive it of our own father You know that it's the one thing it dad took me out of church one time to correct me one time That's all it took In all my life. It was one time now for the Reverend Glenn Lowry. He went out multiple times as a job There are trees in here in this yard right over here It's got limbs growing on them that have never seen limbs and branches before because his father used them all I'm just kidding. That was all a joke. It was all a joke Your mother that's exactly right So he scourges us and he calls the sons if we receive it How did you receive your last one? And by the way, it won't be the last one And you know what paul started saying things like Bring it on jesus Whenever i'm in this place. I need you to I need He prayed three times take this thorn away and god says no Okay, so there's a rebuke. There's a chase and there's a scourge and then the lord opened up this passage of scripture to me When I it was It was in my devotion. I had to share it with you because there's three things about joseph's faithfulness That brings out godly character now. Here's what the bible says In 49 22 of genesis joseph is a listen. Okay, let me stop right here Jacob is got all of his sons his 12 sons there and he's getting ready to bless them all And when he blesses them he's blessing them based upon their character that he already knows So he's prophesying over them and he's declaring these things over them and he says to his son joseph joseph is a faithful bow or a branch Even a fruitful branch watch this buy a well Now friends in this particular verse you're seeing the three things that's necessary for you to bring forth fruit He's a fruitful branch even a fruitful branch by a well whose branches run over the wall Okay joseph's name means increase addition okay, so joseph went through years of a cutback We only see it from the end of the story when he's when he's riding in the second chariot and wearing the ring and all the Nice clothes and the nice shoes and he's got control over the entirety of the world and in the middle of a famine But the process to get him there Is exactly what we've been talking about concerning the vine And yet jacob prophesies over his son. You are a fruitful branch You're a fruitful branch that's been planted by a well of water And you're a fruitful branch that is going to increase and expand Even beyond the borders of what you think Your influence is going to go Now i'm going to tell you when I read that I was I was getting happy Because my name is joseph And i'm here to help you okay So let me just give you a little bit before we get out of here tonight There is the evidence here of of the fruitfulness now Bearing fruit ladies and gentlemen You can't just say hey i'm a fruit bearing Branch and there's no fruit out there. You can't you don't have any cred Are you hearing me? If your attitude and your actions and everything else is the same of that world out there You're you're not bringing the fruit that's pleasing and good for the lord You can't claim being a part of this vine Right And stay with me so jacob Begins to describe Joseph and all of his sons for that matter Dealing with their character and for joseph. He says joseph. You're a fruitful individual with character And when when you back up and look at joseph's life Even listen even in affliction Joseph was still bearing fruit I'm gonna tell you something You know you've got some evidence and cred when even in the middle of your trial, there's still fruit coming out on the tree Anybody with me right there watch this in his home as a little boy What was going on? He was bringing the fruit of love and obedience to his father. Did he not? Before his brothers he brought the fruit of patience And longsuffering and gentleness with them He brought him some cheese and crackers out there Even though he knew he hated they hated him here comes that dreamer before pot of her He's a he's he's bearing the fruit of faithfulness in pot of her's house. Wait a minute He's a slave in pot of her's house. And yet he's bearing fruit of faithfulness to an ungodly man Are y'all with me out here on your job you may be working a job and you may be treated Uh Unfairly whatever that it may be but let me just tell you something This is not about them Could this be the moment of your discipline where you've got to be faithful in that particular job before the lord rewards you in a different way To the wicked wife pot of her There was a few fruit of purity that came Right To the prisoners he showed the fruit of faith in god no matter what I'm not quitting in this prison Remember me when you left when you go back up there Oh, you forgot me for another 15 years 12 years right He stayed faithful to god Fruit was in joseph's life Like we as genuine christians should have That is the evidence The evidence coming out on the branches of our life In other words, you can talk a good talk, but if there's no evidence That's that's the reason why the world is disillusioned with the church right now Because we talk a good talk, but the evidence is not always there Now it doesn't mean we're not going to fall down from time to time Okay But there better be enough fruit and enough evidence in our life that that world can tell that we are different Come on say amen right there Otherwise we become phonies The second thing is the energy for fruitfulness that comes the energy for fruitfulness that comes What is that all about the energy of fruitfulness is the fact that he was planted By the bible says buy a well Go to psalm chapter one He shall be like a tree Planted by the rivers What does he say of the woman in john four out of your belly shall flow Rivers not a river rivers There's multiple streams Of of the of energy that's coming and what is that word? What is that what is this this this water represent it represents the word of god in us for strength for today I've been planted in the word of god and i'm drawing my strength from the word of god as my energy source Come on somebody Water is the energy of the fruit Without water there would be no fruit But with water fruit Can be able to abound and grow inside of our life So water in the word of god often speaks of the word of god itself And it is essential. It's an essential essential ingredient for good fruit Inside of our life and not to be far away from it. He's planted by a well Listen when you get to a place where there's good word coming you better stay planted right there There's fruit that's going to come on your tree if you stay planted He says abide in me and I and you rest in me. You're in christ. I'm in you You can't pick the fruit tree up and keep moving it around and bear good fruit You're stunting your own growth. Come on somebody But when we drink in the water of god's word There will be fruit that comes now what i'm about to quickly To just give to you is not a biblical definition This is straight from a fruit tree And there was so much preach in this paragraph. I just wanted to bring it to you you preach it for yourself Here's what it says if you want to have good fruit And the correlation between water if you want your fruit tree to produce juicy fruit And i'm not talking about gum You need to make sure it receives plenty of water To wherever I say water think word Most of the time you'll notice when fruit trees need extra water for instance Young trees need extra water to grow while all fruit trees need additional water during periods of hot dry weather I wish you would preach a little bit y'all don't want to preach this is it However, he says it's also important to consider the shallow soaking On a regular basis tends to stimulate the development of shallow root stems and systems Which may not be sturdy or healthy enough to support the fruit tree once it reaches full maturity Soaking the soil around the fruit tree every other week is a much smarter plan Ladies and gentlemen If you want fruit on the tree You got to get in this book and let the word water the roots Thoroughly and you will have fruit like you have never had before Here's what first Corinthians 3 6 says not in your paper. I planted Apollos water and god gave the increase So if you drink of the defiled waters that are outside It's going to leave you empty. In fact, it has the potential to poison your soul But this is good water in a good place Here's the third thing the extent of fruitfulness What is the extent? Now there's certain Commentaries that deal with the fact that people were standing on the wall looking at the fruitfulness, but When we're talking about the tree here and joseph's life being That kind of a tree planted by the water that's bearing fruit The branches sometimes Would reach over the wall Because the growth was so tremendous That it reached beyond its own border Think about it Joseph was so fruitful that he touched so many lives so far away. Look at him. He has become the head of the distribution Of egypt to food for the entirety of the world My prayer has been as i've studied joseph and taught joseph multiple times We're headed into a time when the world is looking at serious recession and all kinds of things and food needs and all that kind of stuff God let the church in this hour Be that that that envoy that joseph in the middle of the deal that they're not going and searching for all places And we don't wind up eating bugs because they produced them in canada It's because the church is already prepared from its giving soul to be able to touch the lives of people Not just in pace, but all the way around the world right now The branches of this tree are reaching into kenya and they're reaching into all multiple different locations all around the world Places that i have no idea. That's the influence of this house that you're sitting in right now It's a fruitful place. Come on somebody So what was joseph doing? I love the fact that the bible tells us that even in affliction he was fruitful And please note this and i conclude here tonight joseph is a fruitful branch But he's only a branch. He's not divine So get this that means that our life is not our own We're the branch, but he clearly tells us without the vine the branch can do nothing So I find my life in the vine as a branch I don't find my life in me Disconnected from the vine. I have no life But connected to the vine. I know who I am Do you know who you are? No, I don't want to know what you do Because multiple times whenever you ask somebody who are you they'll tell you well. I'm I'm I work at IBM I don't want to know what you do I want to know who you are When you know who you are nobody can tell you anything different Are you hearing what i'm saying you're not easily you're not easily swayed away when you know who you are When you don't what is all this drug addiction and killing of kids and all that kind of stuff with fentanyl's because they don't know who they are You've been created in the image and in the likeness of god almighty They've taken that out of there They're growing up now to believe that they're nothing more than animals So people are killing one another have you seen have you seen the videos on the streets of people that are absolutely Out of their mind on drugs. It is it is a heart-wrenching Weeping I saw a video a few weeks ago was a as they were literally driving down in philadelphia down the street And people are literally standing there bent over Because the the branch trails downward Some are are are completely and i'm not making fun my heart my soul breaks While they're playing games in high places In the streets they're killing one another And in the middle of that is the church of the lord jesus christ and while we have time Let us bear fruit for the king not for ourselves for the king Because without him I am nothing Oh, you're such a great preacher. I'm a great nothing without him Oh, this is such a great church. We are nothing without him And until we get that in our mind we'll always raise up and say well, I do this and I do that Wait, wait, wait. I'm not asking you what you do I want to know who you are and when you can identify who you are then the rest of it will take care of itself Now I know what my purpose is now. I know what i'm supposed to be doing I'm not some i'm not some protoplasmic blob of nothing that they're just gonna Just just just use me as some kind of a rat Kind of experiment out here. I am made and created in the image of god I belong to my father. I am a fruitful branch attached to a vine and if it's not coming through the vine, I don't want it Now here's the consequences And we'll deal more with this next week What ultimately happens to a tree that's unfruitful? God help us Matthew three and ten says and now also the ax is laid to the root of the trees Therefore every tree which bringeth not forth good fruit Is hewn down cast in the fire? friends Please listen to me those of you that are watching on online We have a window Of time left I don't know what that is. I don't know how long that is Do you understand what i'm saying? You can now become a citizen of russia Just by signing up for the military Hey sign up and go get killed And people are gonna do it We're living in a world that doesn't care about you as an individual, but I have a father Who does not want me to suffer loss after all the time that I have To spend my life and not bear fruit god help me not to be a castaway But to use the time you've given me. I don't know how long that is My wife has been reminding me the day after today you're going to turn 60 this year Praise the lord You know what? I don't care I got up this morning said thank you god for a brand new day that you've given me to do something productive in the kingdom. Don't let me waste my time Whatever time I have left let I just have this mental picture Every time I've ever that when we were farming right out here at east gate dad's property out there and And and he used all of the kids as child labor There are times when I pulled up on that On that piece of property Charlie and I looked over those two Pear trees that he had planted years ago And sometimes we pulled over there and there wasn't a pear on the tree There's like a total disappointment. It's harvest time. We should be getting some pears And then the next year we came back And the branches were literally falling to the ground with so much fruit that we couldn't give it away Have you ever tried have you ever? Gotten so much fruit that you couldn't people are going. Please don't send me no more fruit. I got fruit It was bent over so much both trees just so I've never in my life seen so many pears on on a tree It was the limbs were breaking before The limbs break Before the storm comes It's harvest time and if the church doesn't collect that harvest while it is day I mean We all know this thing is wrapping up There are some people that are living any old way they want to or whatever Pastor why are you going to the expense and all that and and and and reaching out to the latino population? Because that's what we do Come on somebody Well, I want a church that's Well, then you're in the wrong place Because I want the church that looks like the book of acts 15 different nationalities all of them talking a different kind of language and yet when the holy ghost showed up It drew them all together and they said hey, we're part of the body of christ And friends I don't know when this marker is I know when I started out But the harvest is right And every person in this building who claims to be christians You must now take the burden of these last days Because he says pray the lord of the harvest Now we're talking about fruit here. That's harvest I mean why why get fruit if we're not going to harvest it? Come on somebody. I don't know which season is going to be the last one But I know right now The harvest is right Pray the lord of the harvest That he will send forth laborers Now everything's spiritual. I'm trying to quit right here Everything spiritual is manifest physically. So watch this I heard it on the news tonight They're opening up the fairgrounds In a few days for a job fair That is going to have over a hundred tables. They told people if you want a job Bring 30 resumes Per person Because jobs are going to be plenious and look where we are What happens spiritually happens physically what happens physically it's already been happening in the spirit So the lord is saying in the last days pray the lord of the harvest because Because there's not enough laborers to go out. There's not enough people to go out there and do the job And what are we having an american around the world? We've got a mentality that it's all about me and i'll stay home and collect my check And i'll not even go get me a job ladies and gentlemen Our work as a church if we call ourselves part of the body of christ Is to reap that harvest no matter what they look like where they come from how old they are or whatever that it may be God help us to do our job in our vineyard. Come on somebody. This is our vineyard right here If you're not doing your part in the kingdom of god right now Then you need to get up and do it And i'm gonna pray that your soul is burdened to such a degree That you'll not be comfortable just coming and receiving the word receiving the word receiving the word receiving the word And not bearing the fruit Because i'm telling you as a pastor i want to see fruit Let's come here weekend. We're not making this investment because we're just wanting to do something have an event We could we could do that and say show up at six flags right Everybody have a good time everybody eating all that's what no no i have a full intention There is an intentional Aspect to everything we do here and it all revolves around souls And when it's all said and done i want to stand before god and say lord i have done my best Now god forbid That the lord passes by pacing goes hey I was looking for fruit I'm listening to what he says I'm going to fertilize around it one More year i wonder how many people sitting in churches that this is their one more year Is this your one more year has god warned you that this could be your one more year because after this year if this doesn't bear fruit He's gonna cut it down and cast it into the fire Do not let it be said We were we were walking in the mall the other day On monday and two different people I we we went and sat down in a restaurant get something to eat and we I walked past this table and this this lady says hey I know who you are I'm like henry at that point i'm what what what either i pucker or i duck She said i know who you are i watch you on television Rita's checking out at the at the cash register and the guy standing beside said You you're the right y'all pastor that church pays assembly down and he said i watch the tv program all the time i'm gonna tell you something if if All we were doing Was broadcasting for my ego I would have already come off And if I was waiting on a response back even from television and radio, we would have already shut it down But I know there's more people watching right now online And more people watching tv and listen to the radio program and listen to the podcast Then I have ever seen or will ever know But when we all collect the fruit and we make it all the way to heaven We'll stand around there as one great big body and say you know what i'm in the kingdom today I'm in divine because of what pace assembly put down in the field Come on somebody stand to your feet lift your hands right now and say lord I want you to use my life the rest of this week. I don't know who i'm gonna come in contact with I don't know what's gonna take place. I don't know what situation i might run into But it helped me to be a fruitful branch The rest of this week let me bear fruit for your honor and for your glory And I give you the glory the the fruit doesn't glory on the branch or the branch on the fruit But i'll give you the vine the glory for all the fruit And we give you praise for it in the mighty name of jesus everybody believes it say a good amen Don't miss praying for latino fest the rest of this week And let me just say this right now in front of her because you hear me say this all the time Tomorrow my wife and I will celebrate their 38th wedding anniversary. I should have said that to start with I love her more today than I ever have Yes She's with my sweetheart and I I'm thankful and we have a great church and we thank you for all the Things that you've already said she posted out there. I wasn't very good at it, but she did it So i'm gonna ride on hers. Amen. I even liked it. Come on somebody. You know what I'm talking about I might should back up and say I love it. You know what I mean? All right shake hands to be friends God bless you. We love you. We'll see you sunday