 If you have your Bible let's go to John chapter 15 verse 2. It's a very famous verse in chapter about the vine and the branches one of my favorite Chapters and we're just gonna read two verses we're gonna read verse 2 and verse 5 verse 2 says the following Every branch in me that does not bear fruit. He takes away and every branch that does bear fruit He prunes that it may bear more Somebody say more fruit Somebody say more fruit and verse 5 says the following I Am divine and you are the branches whoever abides in me and I in him He is he that bears much fruit somebody say much fruit Somebody say much fruit For apart from me you can do nothing branch is Something that is an extension of the vine and the fruit is something that the branch bears not for itself But for its owner Fruit is the reason for existence of the branch fruit is the mark of the true branch and fruit is the Condition of being allowed to share the life of the vine and fruit is the Glory of the branch many times people say fruit is the character and it is so but for us as Christians We understand that the fruit that Jesus expects us to bear as a branch is Salvation of people and so the first point you can write it down fruit is something that the branch bears not for itself But for its owner if you have a tree in your yard the fruit That the tree will bear is for you. It's not for the tree's sake. It's for your sake Tree does not bear the fruit for itself The tree always bears the fruit for the owner who planted the tree there in the yard in the first place Branch and the vine are equally under the unchangeable law of fruit bearing as the reason for its being So the vine which is Jesus is on this earth He was on this earth and the branches which is we are which come from the vine We come from Jesus when we become Christians Jesus God places us under the same Unchangeable law of fruit bearing as the only reason for our being. I want you to see yourself as an extension of Jesus on this earth a Branch does not have a different color than divine Branch does not have a different address than divine. They are the same The difference only is the branch is the weaker and the vine is the stronger the branch is the channel and the vine is the source But otherwise, they're the same they have the same nature They have the same color and you can say that the branch is the extension of the vine as we are extension of Jesus's mission on earth When Jesus was on this earth a thousand years ago God the father placed a law for him He gave him a purpose on this earth and the purpose on this earth was to bring forth fruit What was that fruit was that fruit getting married having children Having a beautiful business having great financial status. No that fruit was to bring salvation to mankind and Jesus lived a good life like everybody did he wore clothes wore expensive clothes Because the people who gambled at it didn't cut it because it was woven in one place and it was expensive clothes the historian say He had a house we read in John chapter 2. We see that Jesus ate Jesus slept Jesus did everything that everybody else did But Jesus had a duty to his heavenly father, which was to live his life for the salvation of mankind He lived his life for the salvation of mankind He wanted to live that life so bad that at 12 years of age when he wanted to go away from his parents to already live that life He submitted himself up to the age of 30 and at the age of 30. It was the father's will He was released for that mission as the vine He bore fruit He went to heaven and today the extension of Jesus on this earth is his church. It's the Christians Which means the same law that applied for the vine applies now to the branches that are part of the vine Means you and I have a duty you and I have a mission you and I have a responsibility as Jesus had To bring other people into a relationship With Jesus Christ That is our main duty That is our main responsibility. We cannot afford to have anything else than Jesus This was the duty and the obligation that Jesus had chapter 15 of John let's us know that God wants to have fruit Then God wants us to have more fruit and God wants us to have much fruit God wants us to have fruit God wants us to have more fruit and then God wants us to have much fruit My question is why? Now I understand if you have a tree in your yard and you have a business And you have apple trees and you come to the apple tree and you bark the orders you say I want fruit more fruit Much fruit because I'm a wealthy businessman and your fruit give me money And the poor tree has no choice because you bought it and you can throw it out any time you want it Is going to bear your fruit Unless the tree has a debate with you and says well I'm sick and tired of obeying your orders You want the fruit go get it yourself You want so much fruit go make it yourself, but I'm not gonna do you fruit I'm gonna do whatever I want to do and what I want to do is soak up the rays of the sun Soak up the drops of the rain and enjoy my life in your backyard How many of you know that the lifespan of that tree is not gonna go very far? Because you're in somebody else's backyard and you have to fulfill their wishes and to some degree That is exactly who we are as christians are and here is a father who wants fruit He wants more fruit and then he wants much fruit Almost seems like god is ambitious Almost seems like god is needy Or perhaps greedy Maybe god has a competition with god of some other planet we don't know of Who can have more people? Maybe god Has been lacking attendance in the worship in heaven And he needs to recruit new worshipers because his self-esteem goes down I mean, what is the reason god why so many people to be saved? Is it because god has some certain sheets and it makes him feel better when he has a lot of people following him Why does god expect me To make it my priority To bring many people to jesus and when I do it He says let's prune some things in your life so you can bring more people to jesus when I do that He says let's abide more in me so you can bring much people to jesus and when I do that He says let's raise up other disciples so that your fruit can remain even when you die so they can do what you started to do Why is god so obsessed With the fruit From us Is that his ambition? Is that his need? Is that his greed? What is his motive? Why does he wants me to bring people to church? Why does he want me to bring people to jesus? If you don't discover god's motive you will always struggle with the motivation to do that God's vision is mega God does not want us to have little fruit. God does not want one person getting saved God says I want more I want much and I want fruit that remains God's vision is mega most of us we limit our vision to mini vision We like mini vision if I bring one person a month to jesus and we feel so proud And god in here goes in and says I have a mega vision And many times we come to the lord with a small spoon and god has this fire hydrant hose Ready to pour out the blessings on us and we come and say lord Oh, you don't have to get all busy and worked up right here. I just got a spoon Because I just want to fill the spoon lord I just want to have that one family member You know sometimes I wouldn't mind I think if he doesn't go to heaven with me how annoying he is But I really think that he should go to heaven So that fill me with one spoon lord and we should be fine and god looks at you and says it's not about The smallness of your vision. It's about the bigness of my vision God comes to moses and says moses. I'm sending you to the nation to deliver a nation and moses says god I'm delivered Aren't you happy I can't speak god I stutter even when I talk to you and plus my reputation in Egypt. Let's not go there. It didn't finish really well When I left her I didn't leave on a good note. I don't have any good connections And by the way your people they don't want to be free. They're not gonna accept me god And god comes to a man who has a mini vision And god has a mega vision What is the source of god's mega vision? It's his mega love god has no needs That you and I can supply Yes When people get saved we bring glory to god, but in reality the bible says god is self-sufficient That means his self-esteem doesn't get based on nothing outside of him. He is his own self-esteem He does not depend on how many friends like him how many people don't like him He is god all by himself and he was before your tiny little peanut brain came to this earth He's god all by himself and he created galaxies billion of galaxies And you and I are in a small little dust part of one galaxy There are billion of them and all of that he calls just under his feet. It doesn't even get to his hands He's god all by himself. He has no needs that you and I can fulfill Why is he have this mega vision to see many and many people saved? Not because he's ambitious or because he's greedy, but because he has a mega love that screams for that mega vision And if we be very honest the reason why our vision is mini. It's not because we are small It's because our love is weak Many times because our love Is consistent with the size of our vision God has no luxury of thinking in percentages Most of us we think in percentages when it comes to people If 80 percent of our city would come to church Most of us would probably roll up to go into all the world make disciple scripture say well, this was done B plus God doesn't think like that. You don't think like that. I remember when I'm one of my brothers Who was kind of not doing well with the lord? Well, not just not kind of doing well going really bad with the lord Many years ago and this particular time. I remember when my parents were extremely troubled for him they were so troubled that Me and my wife I remember one time actually rolled up to my parents house And we didn't go inside because I knew They would be sad because of decisions that my brother was making He still lived in the house But he was making very poor decisions and they broke my parents hardware We would come in and we would sit down at the table and you could see this grief this Pain and I hated my brother for that I was like just for the sake you making my mom and dad feel so bad And I was so mad And when I saw that you know, I remember talking to my mom and my dad was I'm like mom You got five siblings of the siblings five children. I got five siblings. You got five children I'm like, okay. I'm doing somewhat. Okay, not the best. I'm doing right. I'm like the other sister. She's doing okay The other brother he's doing good. It's doing okay. The other sister. She's doing. I'm like just one knucklehead I'm like mom. That's 80 of success in the family You can let go of that joker. Let just just let him go. I mean let's just maybe change his last name Get rid of him so we can have a happy family. I mean, we don't have to worry about my brother Let's let's be happy about four siblings and let's not worry about that one I mean, okay, he's struggling But let's worry about the fact that we have four that are doing good. It's amazing how my mom couldn't think like that It's amazing how the four who are doing good It's almost didn't matter If one wasn't doing bad God has no luxury Of looking at tracities in percentages The bible says he leaves 99 Because one is not doing well The heart of the father is not the heart that you and I have and when you and I get closer And you see the sadness or you see that love that he has for people sooner or later If you love god enough, you're gonna try to do something just to kind of say, you know what god I don't feel like that but because I love you. I am gonna start sharing that I'm gonna do something about people that you care about so much Does somebody say amen And I remember, you know numerous times I would meet with my brother and honestly not because I was his youth pastor But because my parents were troubled I remember praying and fasting for that reason not necessarily because he wasn't doing so well But it's because I would see the grief on my parents' hearts and I was so close the interesting part most of you never knew that grief My parents would come here and you would see them. You would never know that this was going on in their heart Because you were not close to them and when we're not close to god We would come to worship many times we would think everything is fine Until you get closer to the heart of god And you will begin to see why the cross happened in the first place You begin to see why the holy spirit was sent in the first place You begin to see why that god established the church and gave us these commands to bring other people to jesus christ And something will begin to ache you begin to realize that the purpose of your whole life is not really for yourself It is for the heart of god the reason god wants many people to be saved is not to just keep you busy as a church It's not just to give you something to do. It's not because god wants big churches It's the fact that god's love is so big and god cannot afford to have a small vision having a big heart Somebody say amen God cannot afford to have a small vision having a big heart God's heart is so big if it's the whole universe. It's so big He was willing to let his son come on this earth and actually die by this rebellious sinful heathens So that few of them perhaps by the grace of god will hear this message be saved and have their lives changed That's how big this heart is. He stretches his hand and says if east to south north and west come He says all of you i'll wipe all of your records clean forgive all of your sins And we start fresh you'll be my children i'll be your god. This is how big his heart is So don't blame him for wanting too much He gave in too much He sacrificed too much he loves too much and i'm glad he loves too much because if he would not love that much I and you would make it in part of the plan because somebody say amen Just want to take a moment say thank you jesus come on somebody say thank you jesus for that love Thank you jesus for the grace. Thank you jesus for that love the father has given to us You cannot afford i cannot afford our church cannot afford to have a vision that is consistent with our personality Consistent with our self-esteem or our ambition Many times people say oh the reason why they want many people to be saved is because they want to have a big church It's true. Some people want to have a big church For us the drive has to be not our ambition But our vision that is fueled by the magnitude of the love of the father I may not be able to speak properly perfectly, but it's not about my speech moses It's about the heart of the father for the israelites. I may not be so well germaya you're too young But germaya it's not about your youth. It's not about you your name or your status It's about the love that I have for israelites and when I will speak you will speak God said Many times people say well, I am so shy Vlad. I can't invite people It's not about you. It's not about your disorder personality disorder. Well, I'm just very very reserved I'm just really this and God looks at us today and he says it's not about you He says it's about how much I love people It's about my vision and then what I am willing to do through you for my glory You're a branch You have no agenda of your own your agenda has been set for you when you became a christian You're an extension of jesus christ on this earth jesus who came on this earth planted himself on this earth Went to heaven. He left us as branches who supposed to continue the same work. He did You know, I sometimes I look at our youth group and I see guys like louis Who many times people would come up to me and say louis is so shy He barely says a word and within the last three months. I think he brought more people to church And someone was within the last 10 years And you would talk to louis and he's literally his answers like yes. No. Yes. Mm-hmm Yet i'm like, how does he get a chance? I think all the workers at chicos tacos have came to our church I did not know chicos tacos had that many employees I mean every single week you see louis somebody's coming in somebody's getting saved and last wednesday He used to give her life to jesus christ and you see one by one family is coming into the lord because of a young man who says Yes, I may not be able to and you ask him about theology. You ask him about the different certification regeneration and all other Asian the most of us know what it is. He used to say what One thing louis knows is this is I was blind now I can see I was dead now my life and jesus changed my life And that is more and anything that most of us know And that's the most important part is to have a testimony Is to have the gospel and have the love You don't have to be able to speak super well. You don't have to argue so well You have to love so well And you have to know why god loves and why god wants so much fruit god's big vision Is not based on his ambition, but based on his big love can somebody say amen And then the lord tells us he says that now because I have this big vision. I want you guys He says I want to prune you See there's five levels of fruitfulness if you can put up that that slide five levels of fruitfulness There is the first level no fruit second level where there is fruit Third level more fruit fourth much fruit five fruit that remains And god wants always for us to go from one level to another one level to another One of the ways we go from one level to another is through pruning is through pruning God cannot produce more fruit without pruning when we are pruned god can produce more fruit You must understand something about pruning is that when your life is pruned you can see more people come to jesus Like a rose like a garden or like a vineyard Many times the life that comes from the vine Not only goes to produce fruit, but it goes to produce shoots They grow really high But they don't produce any fruit the shoots are not bad these branches They're not horrible But they're not Why the branch exists in the first place And what the good husband man would do is he would take scissors and trim the shoots not cut them completely But trim them so that the fruit will have more sap and more energy and more juices to be produced Trim it so that what's really important can have more energy to be produced We can see one person getting saved two people getting saved, but if we really want to see more people getting saved sooner or later You and I will have to trim the success and the mission of our life And line it up to the one of jesus What does it trimming mean that means you redefine what success looks like for you So it will match what success looked like for jesus When your success is to grow a long shoot Instead of produce a beautiful rose Your success definition is different and it needs to be trimmed Where you define the success of your life not based on the size of your chest Biceps triceps or the size of your rings or the size of your paycheck Or how handsome beautiful or the make and model of your car or the who designs your clothes But where you define success and how many people are coming to jesus and being discipled and everything else serves that purpose We must redefine our success and trim our life so that our focus will have opportunity to grow In the churches where everything is done all the programs are functioning And then there's the evangelism program evangelism doesn't work like that People don't get saved if evangelism is one of the things we do people get saved is the evangelism is the only thing We do and everything else builds for it Bringing people to jesus will never work in your life if it's one of the things that you do when you have free time and the desire Evangelism will only work if it's the main thing and everything else works for it When school college and working out and going to starbucks and hanging out all of that works toward one goal and jesus says I see you're producing fruit. I want more fruit from you But I cannot give you one more hour to your clock to you for you to produce fruit because I see your schedule is busy I see your budget is busy. Everything is busy. I cannot add anything of my grace We gotta start trimming some things for you to have more fruit Most of us what we want to do is this is one god to add one more hour to our day We want god to add one more thousand to our budget and then we'll have enough time and opportunity to reach out to people But most of the time that's not how it's going to happen It's the lord who's going to be trimming things in our life So that instead of waking up in the morning and scrolling through facebook you wake up in the morning and scrolling through the pages of the bible Instead of knowing all the hollywood stars that you will know all the disciples of jesus who got murdered to bring the gospel of jesus Instead of knowing all of the movies that you will actually for god's sake learn all of the books of the bible The most of us don't know at least two And instead of being all so involved in the things of this world like entertainment and all of these things that we trim That so that we can be focused more and more productive in the grace of god You know remember i was watching a few days ago one of our one of our leaders who Kind of sits and always scrolls with this phone and always fascinates me when i see people Scrolling through their phone because 99.999 times they're scrolling through instagram or facebook And there is nothing wrong with that, but if you keep scrolling once very soon We'll be praying for arthritis of your of this It's gonna hurt and i come into that young man and kind of seeking in and i see he's scrolling through the pages of the scripture Scrolling in and he doing secretly He's scrolling it through and he's scrolling through the notes of prophet tb jasha I caught him second time and he really encouraged me even myself. I'm like, you know what? There's nothing new on facebook god bless facebook And instagram and it's okay to check facebook and instagram, but not 350 times a day And then come and say i've been so busy don't have time to read the bible cool, who are you talking to? Yeah, what are you doing? What are you smoking? This is not right We can't check instagram 358 times and check one verse in the bible that showed up on your screen when you woke up and you say i read my bible today It's like man. I wonder why is the lord not moving through me? Why is god This seems like me and jesus are not close Maybe there is a reason what if you would replace and give facebook as much time as you've given the bible And give god as much time as you give facebook in one month mark my word You will feel better you will have more time Some of you will actually make more money others of you you will sleep better your day will be more productive and most important thing You won't miss nothing Can somebody say amen Pruning brings more fruitfulness when you prune your life it brings more fruitfulness Amen But there is one more thing that jesus says is that when we abide That we have we that we will have much fruit God cannot produce much fruit without abiding So pruning brings more fruit abiding in god brings much more fruit I would go on the limp to say that until you prune your life you can't abide in god Sometimes our abidings are so beautiful When we have every single device in our hands and the wireless data is turned on And then there is a text message notification Then the email came in and then there's that phone call that came in Oh, and then there's the news on tv you're walking around praying and you're so distracted and you walk out more depressed out of that abiding Than being fruitful because it's full of distractions If you want your relationship with god to go to another level give it honor By trimming everything in your life That is not supposed to be there or putting it in its place Without pruning there will be no abiding. What is abiding abiding is more than just spending a time in prayer Abiding is before prayer after prayer during prayer that you are remaining conscious of the fact god the holy spirit Lives in you right now Not 20 years down the road not five years ago when you came to the church first times and the butterflies went through your spine And it felt so good, but right now at this moment god the holy spirit lives in you He has feelings. He has thoughts. He understands your thoughts He understands your feelings and as you're praying as you're reading the bible as you are there They're changing the tires on your car. You're ordering coffee as you're doing that that you as much as you can You are consciously aware of the fact god The holy spirit Is not many miles away from you right within you That is called abiding When his word you meditate on his word when you think about it before you go to sleep When you wake up in the morning and you go throughout the day, you know what abiding is. It's what you do with facebook You constantly abide on facebook. It's amazing how we work Eight hours yet. We abide on facebook. How do you abide on facebook? I don't know but you abide You don't have time to abide on facebook But you find time and you constantly your finger is constantly scrolling through and you constantly present there Even though you don't get everything there and you don't post much but you constantly abide imagine This is exactly what jesus meant when he said abide in me It's the first thing you do when you wake up and the last thing you do before you go to sleep some Some of us today need to do a switch Because jesus did not say abide in facebook and the facebook abide in you And you will bear much fruit. He said abide in me and my words to abide in you and then you will bear much fruit Facebook has its place instagram has its place YouTube has its place twitter has its place Snapchat has its place all other things have their place But can I tell you what's the most important thing that you have to abide in Is in the one who promises to give you much fruit if you abide in him Abide in him. What happens when you abide in god? Holy spirit who lives in you? Will begin to take through a spoon the love from the father Which gave him the big vision and will begin to bring that into your heart Much to pay attention for a moment in the beginning we bring souls because we're told to But when we abide with god, we begin to bring souls Because we want to God wants you to do what he wants you to do But he also wants you to do it for the reasons he wants you to do it And that's exactly what the holy spirit wants us to do. We want what god wants for the same reason god wants it When you prune things in your life and you start evangelizing that is great But when you begin to abide and walk in conscious presence of the holy spirit You will begin to feel the love that heavenly father has in his heart and something will begin to happen That love will come in your heart and you will feel now that love for people that you previously Did not have and that love Will drive you lead you Make you do crazy things and the most beautiful part is this love has power inside Because god's power Has love and god's love has power God's power is not without love And god's love is not without power your outlet socket has power, but no love It doesn't care whether you're an infant or an electrician if you put your two fingers there, it'll kill you It doesn't care who you are. It only has power satan only has power you come close and his power will shock you But god's love Is different power and god's power is different power It's like the power of the man's arms when he lifts his little infant baby It's strong arms, but these arms this power also has deep love for the baby that the power is lifting And god's love is mighty power I heard a powerful testimony this week of a friend of mine roman He shared how him and his pastor went to kiev I don't know how long ago And they went to minister to one lady who was on a wheelchair Nutella Nutella or something with the with novella Lady's name. She was she was in kiev Ukraine she's on a wheelchair She was on a wheelchair and the pastor came to minister to her He was aware of her case and the reason why he was aware of her case is the long time ago when she had a Handsome boyfriend her life was so wonderful. She was beautiful. She was young ambitious And supposedly these friends came to pick her up to take her to some party And these friends supposedly were the friends over boyfriend She never met them But she let him come into her house. They all went to the car and then she realized she does not know them from adam They're not his friends And she's being kidnapped They took her to a special apartment. They brought her to a six-story apartment Locked her in a room They came to her and they gave her something to dress and they say you need to get yourself ready Because from now on you are going to be a sex toy and you are going to fulfill everything that we want you to do for us sexually She knew what that would mean and she knew that She will die in these Hands of these men and die very brutally and she will suffer excruciating pain being on the sixth floor She saw the window open the window and jumped She jumped through the sixth floor and she fell into a sewer broke every bone she had They picked her up unconscious And they said if she will ever survive She will be a completely paralytic and a crippled person because she broke her legs. She broke her ribs. She broke her spine She broke everything. She was immovable. They did surgeries upon surgeries just to make her be able to lift her hand And after a while she started to recover and she was on the wheelchair So this pastor from Vancouver whom I know personally pastor sergi He meets her on the wheelchair. He knows her story And he's trying to tell the that she needs to forgive this man who wanted to do these things and and she is so bitter She's so mad. She's so angry at god. She's so angry at christians She's because you look you guys don't understand You just have these slogans you throw at people But you don't even know about their situation and nothing and she just literally shuts them down And she already made up in her mind that she would commit suicide when her mother died Her mother was still alive and pastor sergi stood there. He knew that There's nothing he can say that will talk her into it But being conscious of the holy spirit who lived inside of him He asked the holy spirit that moment. He says holy spirit What would you do in this situation? And holy spirit who is connected to the deep love of god that has power deep love of god That's not just fluffy feelings not just hugs and kisses, but deep love of god that has genuine power At that moment, holy spirit put in his harness said Come up to her wheelchair And just ask her if you can hug her And like a father he came to her and he just hugged her and he wouldn't let her go Within a minute She started to cry Then she started to sob And then it seemed like bottles of pain Through her tears started to come out He laid hands on her and she walked out from the wheelchair why Because when you abide in holy spirit He takes the love that god had which caused god to have a big vision And slowly pours into you And that you love people no longer just because you care But because now god cares through you and that love Has the capacity to change somebody else's life because somebody say amen And they also showed a clip of a ministry there if you can just put that clip for now We're not going to play it for a second Um, this is dave roberson He is a man of god that god uses him in healings also He was in this is hispanic nation where he was praying for people and he sees people who are crippled They walk and everything has a very powerful testimony and saw the clip at the camp also there He notices this man who had who had crutches and will play that in a second because about a few seconds He noticed this man who had crutches who sat beside him and holy spirit leads him and he says pick that man up So he comes and the crutches before him and he's just literally At that moment he hugs him And so he hugs him and in the video we'll post it on facebook tomorrow Everybody starts to weep. I mean this is not normal. This is not natural. He didn't say anything anything emotional He just literally just hugged him holy spirits presents and even if you watch the video you will sense that Came into the room people just are balling everywhere the presence of the holy spirit just filled the room And then after that he just let him go and then what happens is that they started to walk that man if you could just watch That clip right now just click once And so he let that man go and somebody else is now helping him to walk and as the pastor Gets just literally overwhelmed by the love of god begins to kind of go away and this young man just literally began to take steps Few steps few steps. He came on crutches He barely walks and then he begins to leap it begins to jump He begins to run around and right and instant. It's a very poor recording and stuff right instantly this man Becomes healed on the spot I want us to know one thing there is power in the love of god And there is love in the power of god I want us to know that when we abide in jesus we feel the love from god in our spirit And then we begin to do what god wants us to do for the reason god wants us to do him And that love begins to change other people can somebody say amen