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Episode 199 - Fruitless Is Useless · End-Time Revival Ministries, USA

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  Speaker 1: Bless the Lord, oh my soul, and all that is
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  Speaker 1: within me. Bless it be his holy name. From this
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  Speaker 1: time forth and forevermore. Our Lord, our God, our Savior,
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  Speaker 1: our Redeemer, is worthy to be praised, and we bless
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  Speaker 1: him on this glorious day. We welcome you once again
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  Speaker 1: to this another edition of End Time Reviable Ministries USA Podcast.
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  Speaker 1: I am your host, Master al Zachary, and today we
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  Speaker 1: continue a man, all about Jesus, All about Jesus. That's
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  Speaker 1: what we are focusing on. A man until the Lord returns.
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  Speaker 1: It's all about him, from Genesis to Revelation. He is
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  Speaker 1: the Alpha, the Omega, the beginning, the end, the first
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  Speaker 1: than the last. He is God, God manifested in the flesh,
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  Speaker 1: a man. He is a man, redeemer, the Savior, and
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  Speaker 1: the keeper of all them that put their trust in him.
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  Speaker 1: He came that we might have life, have it more abundantly.
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  Speaker 1: And we are to be a man seeking the Lord
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  Speaker 1: while he may be found. The Bible tells us Isaiah
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  Speaker 1: chapter fifty five, call upon him while he is near.
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  Speaker 1: Let the wicked forsake his way and the unrighteous man
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  Speaker 1: his thought. Let him return or turn to the Lord.
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  Speaker 1: He will abundantly pardon. He said, my ways are not
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  Speaker 1: your ways. My thoughts are not your thoughts. A man.
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  Speaker 1: So God is not like man. He is not a
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  Speaker 1: man that he should lie. The Bible tells us, nor
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  Speaker 1: the son of Man that he should repent a man.
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  Speaker 1: So God is holy, he is righteous, I mean, and
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  Speaker 1: he is in it expectation of a people. Amen. And
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  Speaker 1: he will have a people that are called by his name,
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  Speaker 1: who will obey, love, trust, and walk up right before him. Amen.
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  Speaker 1: So today a man, we continue talking about Jesus. First
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  Speaker 1: of all, again want to thank each and every one
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  Speaker 1: of you who pray for and or support the work
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  Speaker 1: of this ministry. Amen. We are grateful to the Lord
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  Speaker 1: for again allowing us the opportunity to be a spokesperson,
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  Speaker 1: a man for a man, the Kingdom of Heaven for
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  Speaker 1: the amen, the work of the ministry for the Amen.
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  Speaker 1: Discipleship of souls, Amen. This is what the Church is
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  Speaker 1: all about, going and making disciples of all nations, teaching them,
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  Speaker 1: teaching them to observe all things that I have commanded you.
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  Speaker 1: So we thank God Amen, for his great grace Amen,
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  Speaker 1: that he had and this great mercy that he showed
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  Speaker 1: towards me. Amen, you know, saving me and calling me
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  Speaker 1: Amen for such a time as this. Today, we're going
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  Speaker 1: to focus on a topic, Fruitless is Useless. Fruitless is
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  Speaker 1: Useless is the subject title of our podcast for today.
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  Speaker 1: Gospel of Luke chapter thirteen. The Gospel of John chapter
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  Speaker 1: fifteen is where we're going to be. We're going to
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  Speaker 1: read a couple of other passages later from the Gospel
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  Speaker 1: of Matthew as well. It's all about Jesus. What he taught,
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  Speaker 1: his doctrine, his words. We are to hear them. We
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  Speaker 1: are to build our houses upon what Jesus has said. Amen.
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  Speaker 1: What Jesus has taught God, who has hundred times and
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  Speaker 1: in divers manners, spoken time passed to the fathers by
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  Speaker 1: the prophets. The Bible tells us, has in these last
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  Speaker 1: days spoken to us by his son, here him. That's
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  Speaker 1: what the voice from heaven said. Hear him. Amen. So
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  Speaker 1: let's bow just a moment and invoke as we invoke,
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  Speaker 1: rather than presence of the Lord and his blessing upon Amen,
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  Speaker 1: the hearers and doers of his word. Father, Again, thank
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  Speaker 1: you that you've spoken, Thank you that we have heard. Lord.
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  Speaker 1: May we be obedient, May the word work in us.
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  Speaker 1: May we conform, amen, and be transformed by the power
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  Speaker 1: of your word, by the power of your spirit, as
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  Speaker 1: only you can do. So we thank you now in advance,
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  Speaker 1: for those who will bow the knee, now open their mouths,
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  Speaker 1: come to repentance, come to know that You are the
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  Speaker 1: Truth and living God and the savior of all them
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  Speaker 1: that believe. Bless it be your name. From this time
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  Speaker 1: forth and even forevermore, we say, Amen and Amen. Jesus
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  Speaker 1: spoke a parable of a fig tree that should have
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  Speaker 1: been producing fruit but was not yielding a return on
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  Speaker 1: the investment that the owner was expecting. He's found in
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  Speaker 1: Luke chapter thirteen, verse number six. The Bible tells us
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  Speaker 1: he also spoke this parable. A certain man had a
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  Speaker 1: fig tree planted in his vineyard, and he came seeking
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  Speaker 1: fruit on it and found none. Then he said to
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  Speaker 1: the keeper of his vineyard, look, for three years I
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  Speaker 1: have come seeking fruit on this fig tree and find none.
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  Speaker 1: Cut it down. Why does it use up the ground.
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  Speaker 1: But he answered and said to him, sir, let it
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  Speaker 1: alone this year also until I dig around it and
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  Speaker 1: fertilize it. And if it bears fruit, well, but if not,
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  Speaker 1: after that you can cut it down and let me
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  Speaker 1: say this crystal clearly, hopefully from the outset here at
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  Speaker 1: the very beginning, God is an investor of sorts, if
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  Speaker 1: you will. God has made an investment in all of creation.
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  Speaker 1: God is in expectation and by the way he will
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  Speaker 1: get his return. But he is in expectation of a man.
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  Speaker 1: A return on his investment be fruitful and multiplies both
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  Speaker 1: the blessing and the command that was spoken by God
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  Speaker 1: over not only the animal kingdom, but the man Adam
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  Speaker 1: and his wife Eve a man when he created man
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  Speaker 1: and woman, male and female in his image and in
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  Speaker 1: his likeness. And the Bible tells us a man, and
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  Speaker 1: it teaches throughout by the way this is woven throughout
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  Speaker 1: the scriptures, a man. God has enabled us a man.
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  Speaker 1: He has even after the fall of man, He has
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  Speaker 1: consistently been with us a man. He enables us. It
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  Speaker 1: is he who works in us, the Bible tells us
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  Speaker 1: in the New Testament, by the way to will and
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  Speaker 1: to do of his good pleasures. So God enabled us
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  Speaker 1: from the very outset to be fruitful creatures, and he
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  Speaker 1: now empowers us a man. Those of us, of course,
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  Speaker 1: who are obedient, to be even more fruitful a man
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  Speaker 1: in the work of the kingdom, and in so doing
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  Speaker 1: there is a purging that is now necessary, of course,
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  Speaker 1: because we are contaminated by sin. Sin in our Dna.
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  Speaker 1: Paul speaks about this very very descriptively. How evil is
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  Speaker 1: with us even when we know to do good. We
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  Speaker 1: know the law of God we ought to obey. The
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  Speaker 1: law of God is with us. The word of God
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  Speaker 1: is embedded in us. We know what we ought to do.
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  Speaker 1: There's a sense of aught that it's built into our Amen.
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  Speaker 1: We know. In other words, when Adam and Eve sined
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  Speaker 1: eight of the fruit of the forbidden tree, Amen, the
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  Speaker 1: Bible says, Amen, their eyes were opened. Amen. We know
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  Speaker 1: what we ought to do, knowing good and evil. Amen.
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  Speaker 1: But however, of course, in our fallen state we prefer
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  Speaker 1: we lean to we are gravitated toward doing what is evil. Amen.
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  Speaker 1: And so it is necessary for a purging to take
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  Speaker 1: place a man because of sin in our Dna. Again,
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  Speaker 1: let me go back very quickly to what the apostle
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  Speaker 1: Paul says. You can read it Romans chapter seven. When
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  Speaker 1: I would do good, evil is present with me. I
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  Speaker 1: have the law of God, I know the law of God,
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  Speaker 1: and there is somewhat of a desiring me, and I
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  Speaker 1: again a sense of altness. But how to do it?
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  Speaker 1: I don't find it, and I find myself doing what
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  Speaker 1: is wrong when I know that I ought to be
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  Speaker 1: doing what is right. The word purge purge in our
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  Speaker 1: culture today may have a negative connotation in the psyche
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  Speaker 1: of a majority of people who perhaps associate purging with
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  Speaker 1: the harsh meaning of getting rid of something or someone
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  Speaker 1: that is considered undesirable. When a cleansing, if you will,
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  Speaker 1: has been undertaken, and the Christian in name only culture
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  Speaker 1: of carnality today, and it's always been there, I mean,
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  Speaker 1: the word purge is repulsive to those who have no
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  Speaker 1: desire to be purged from their old sins in becoming
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  Speaker 1: new creations in Christ Jesus. But if you are in Christ,
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  Speaker 1: Jesus called by his name, and you call upon his name,
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  Speaker 1: and you call him Lord Lord, then the purging process
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  Speaker 1: is none negotiable. In order for us to be cleansed,
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  Speaker 1: the children of God must be purged from their old
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  Speaker 1: sins in order to become fruitful followers of Jesus Christ.
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  Speaker 1: God has invested, and he is demanding a return on
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  Speaker 1: his investment. He's especially required and by the way. This
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  Speaker 1: is for all men, everybody. God invested life in you.
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  Speaker 1: He brought you into this world for purpose, and he will.
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  Speaker 1: By the way, again, let me be crystal clear about this.
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  Speaker 1: God is going to get glory out of every life,
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  Speaker 1: whether we obey him or not. God will be glorified.
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  Speaker 1: That's that's that's that's biblically. A man Uh taught a
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  Speaker 1: man in the scriptures. God will be glorified. Amen. He's
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  Speaker 1: going to get the glory. A man, you can, you
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  Speaker 1: can bow the knee. Now every is going to bow.
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  Speaker 1: Every tongue is going to confess that he is Lord.
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  Speaker 1: He's going to be glorified. He's going to get the
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  Speaker 1: glory because it belongs to him, but he is especially
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  Speaker 1: requiring it in those whom he has called and chosen
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  Speaker 1: to be his children, his saints. Amen. So here the
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  Speaker 1: teaching of Jesus and the Gospel of John chapter number fifteen.
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  Speaker 1: If you have everybody, but just go with us very quickly,
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  Speaker 1: the Gospel of John chapter number fifteen. I'm going to
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  Speaker 1: be reading from the King James version, beginning that version
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  Speaker 1: of the one hear the words of Jesus. This is
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  Speaker 1: tip crystal clear teaching. Amen. I am the true vine.
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  Speaker 1: And my father is the husbandman. Every branch in me
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  Speaker 1: that beareth not fruit, he taketh away, And every branch
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  Speaker 1: that bareth fruit, he purgeth it that it may bring
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  Speaker 1: forth more fruit. Now ye are clean through the word
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  Speaker 1: which I have spoken unto you. Abide in me, an
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  Speaker 1: I in you, as the branch cannot bear fruit of
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  Speaker 1: itself except it abide in the vine. Nor more can
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  Speaker 1: ye except ye abide in me. I am the vine.
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  Speaker 1: Ye are the branches. He that abideth in me, and
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  Speaker 1: I in him, the same bringeth forth much fruit. For
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  Speaker 1: without me, ye can do nothing. If a man abide
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  Speaker 1: not in me, he is cast forth as a branch
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  Speaker 1: and is withered, And men gather them and cast them
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  Speaker 1: into the fire, and they are burned. If you abide
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  Speaker 1: in me and my words abide in you, you shall
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  Speaker 1: ask what you will, and it shall be done unto you.
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  Speaker 1: Here it is my Father glorified that ye bear much
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  Speaker 1: fruit soul. Shall ye be my disciples. Now I'm not
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  Speaker 1: going to delve deep, deep, dive if you will, into
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  Speaker 1: these words, because they are crystal clear. I just want
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  Speaker 1: to point out very very very distinctly here written here
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  Speaker 1: recorded for us uniquely in the Gospel of John, these
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  Speaker 1: points a man we can extract from these words of Jesus.
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  Speaker 1: Number one, we must be in Jesus. We must be
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  Speaker 1: abiding in him. We must be in Jesus. Number two.
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  Speaker 1: Purging takes place when there is fruit, there is a purging.
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  Speaker 1: Why is purging necessary because there are undesirable traits and ways.
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  Speaker 1: Our will is not the will of God. Our ways
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  Speaker 1: are not his ways. So God has to purge us.
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  Speaker 1: We have to be cleansed. We have to be decontaminated.
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  Speaker 1: If you will from our old man, put off the
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  Speaker 1: old man, put on the new man. If any man
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  Speaker 1: be in Christ, he becomes a new creation. The oldest
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  Speaker 1: passed away. And behold, all things become new. But this
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  Speaker 1: is an ongoing process. Purging Number three. Purging continues in
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  Speaker 1: order for us to produce more fruit a man. That's
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  Speaker 1: what God does a man. The Bible says, every branch
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  Speaker 1: listen is what Jesus said. I mean, let me just
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  Speaker 1: every branch that bury fruit. Jesus says, he purgeth it
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  Speaker 1: that it may bring forth more fruit. Purging continues because
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  Speaker 1: God desires a return, and he will get it on
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  Speaker 1: what he has made an investment in. Amen. We are
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  Speaker 1: cleansed Number four through the Word of God. That's what
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  Speaker 1: Jesus said. Now you are clean through the Word. I
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  Speaker 1: don't know how it is that anyone can call themself
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  Speaker 1: a child of God and live with that. The word
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  Speaker 1: of God, How do you survive without the word of
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  Speaker 1: the Word of God is life. You cannot separate. And
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  Speaker 1: I've said it, and I keep saying, and I'm gonna
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  Speaker 1: say it again. God and his Word are inseparable. We
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  Speaker 1: are cleansed through the Word. That's what Jesus said. Now
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  Speaker 1: you are clean through the word that I have spoken
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  Speaker 1: unto you. The Word of God is life. That's what
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  Speaker 1: Jesus said. The word that I speak unto you is
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  Speaker 1: spirit and life. The Word of God. Where with all
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  Speaker 1: the Bible says in the Old Testament, wherewithal shall a
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  Speaker 1: young man cleanse his way by taking heed to the word?
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  Speaker 1: Your word? The Psalmon says, I have hidden in my
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  Speaker 1: heart that I might not what sin against you. So
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  Speaker 1: this purging, this cleansing comes through the word. Amen. The
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  Speaker 1: blood of Jesus Christ wash is away our sins. But
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  Speaker 1: we are cleansed, Amen, we are sanctified through the Word Amen.
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  Speaker 1: All right, Number five, we cannot bear fruit apart from
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  Speaker 1: being in Jesus, which goes hand in hand with number six.
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  Speaker 1: Without Jesus, we are powerless to do anything. He said,
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  Speaker 1: Without me, you can do nothing. Amen. So we cannot
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  Speaker 1: bear fruit unless we are in him. You are fruitless
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  Speaker 1: and you are useless without Jesus. That's what the Bible
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  Speaker 1: teaches here. Because Jesus said again, every branch that abides
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  Speaker 1: not in me, or every branch that does not bear fruit,
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  Speaker 1: is cast forth gathered sticks on the ground. Branches broken off.
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  Speaker 1: You see them all the time. You have them in
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  Speaker 1: your yard. You have a tree in your yard, you
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  Speaker 1: see them. If you don't have it, you see them
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  Speaker 1: broken branches at break off. What are they good for? Nothing?
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  Speaker 1: Can they bear leaves any longer? Know? With the leaves
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  Speaker 1: that are on them, the fruit that is on them,
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  Speaker 1: what happens if there's fruit on them, If there's something
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  Speaker 1: on them, what happens dies? Why? Because it's no longer
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  Speaker 1: attached to the vine, to the tree. Amen. So Jesus says,
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  Speaker 1: I am the vine. You are the branches. You must
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  Speaker 1: abide in me. Without me. Apart from me, you can
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  Speaker 1: do nothing. Then he says. Number seven, those who are
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  Speaker 1: not in Jesus are castaways. They are castaways. Number eight,
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  Speaker 1: Those who are not in Jesus are withering away. That's
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  Speaker 1: what happens again, when you're broken off from the vine,
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  Speaker 1: when you are falling away from the vine, when you
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  Speaker 1: are on the ground, a man unattached, a man are
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  Speaker 1: not connected. If you will to Jesus, you have no life.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, you just simply have no life. There's no
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  Speaker 1: life in the branch that's lying on the ground. It
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  Speaker 1: is going to die now. If it is just falling off.
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  Speaker 1: It may look healthy, it may look alive. The leaves
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  Speaker 1: on it may be vibrant. It may look like it
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  Speaker 1: can produce, but it will not unless it is attached
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  Speaker 1: to the vine. Amen. So those who are not in
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  Speaker 1: Jesus are cast aways. Those who are not in Jesus
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  Speaker 1: are withering away. They are gathered together, the Bible says,
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  Speaker 1: and cast into the fire. And finally, Jesus says, God
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  Speaker 1: is glorified when we bear much fruit. And this, by
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  Speaker 1: the way, is terrifying to the kingdom of darkness. Amen, God, listen,
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  Speaker 1: when we are fruitful, when we are obedient, when we
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  Speaker 1: are living that abundant life that Jesus came for us
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  Speaker 1: to live. Amen. And I'm not talking about material possessions
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  Speaker 1: and all. I'm talking about being fruitful in what God
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  Speaker 1: has commissioned for the Church to do. And this, by
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  Speaker 1: the way, takes us. I want to go to Galatians
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  Speaker 1: chapter number five, Amen, because I'm of the mindset and
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  Speaker 1: I believe the scriptures bear witness to this. Amen that
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  Speaker 1: the most visible outward evidence of being a disciple of
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  Speaker 1: Jesus is the bringing forth of fruit. There is an
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  Speaker 1: outward manifestation of the inner transformation that the Holy Spirit
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  Speaker 1: has done and is doing in the life of the
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  Speaker 1: true child of God. The outward manifestation of the inward
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  Speaker 1: transformation will show. It's going to show up. It's going
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  Speaker 1: to show up in your attitude. It's going to show
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  Speaker 1: up in your demeanor. It's going to show up in
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  Speaker 1: how you conduct yourself from day to day. Now, that
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  Speaker 1: doesn't mean that we're all perfect and then we're all
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  Speaker 1: going to be on the same level at the same time. No, no, no, no.
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  Speaker 1: But we grow as we grow in the knowledge of Him,
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  Speaker 1: as we are being conformed, as we are being transformed.
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  Speaker 1: The Bible says by the renewing of our mind. Romans
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  Speaker 1: chapter twelve. Read it God to see you. Therefore, brethren,
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  Speaker 1: by the mercies of God, that you present your bodies
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  Speaker 1: a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable unto God, which is your
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  Speaker 1: reasonable service. We are not to be transformed by this world,
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  Speaker 1: but we are to be transformed by the renewing of
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  Speaker 1: our mind. If any man again be in Christ verse
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  Speaker 1: Corinthians five seventeen, he becomes a new creation, a new creature.
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  Speaker 1: The old things have passed away, and behold, all things
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  Speaker 1: become new. So there is a visible outward manifestation of
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  Speaker 1: the inward transformation that the Holy Spirit is doing inside
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  Speaker 1: of the true Child of God. Galatians chapter five, verse
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  Speaker 1: twenty two. But the fruit of the Spirit is love.
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  Speaker 1: See this is fruitfulness. This is what God. This is.
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  Speaker 1: By the way, this is not the fruits of the spirit.
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  Speaker 1: These are the attributes of the fruit of the Spirit.
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  Speaker 1: The fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, long suffering, gentleness, goodness, faith, meekness, temperance.
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  Speaker 1: Against such there is no law. And they that are Christ,
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  Speaker 1: those who belong to Him, have crucified the flesh with
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  Speaker 1: the affections and lust. If we live in the spirit
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  Speaker 1: that's abiding in Jesus. Let us also walk in the spirit.
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  Speaker 1: Let us not be desirous of vain glory, provoking one another,
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  Speaker 1: envying one another, Ladies and gentlemen. I mean again, that's
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  Speaker 1: crystal clear. Every true child of God in Christ Jesus,
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  Speaker 1: has been baptized into the body of Christ by the
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  Speaker 1: Spirit of God that has been sent down from above.
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  Speaker 1: If the Spirit of Christ is in you, all of
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  Speaker 1: the attributes of the Spirit love, joy, peace, long suffering, gentleness, goodness, faith, meekness, temperance,
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  Speaker 1: all of it, all of the fruit of the Spirit
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  Speaker 1: Amen begins his work in you to be manifested outwardly.
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  Speaker 1: It begins with repentance. It continues with our desire and
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  Speaker 1: our will to be more and more like Jesus. It
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  Speaker 1: manifests itself with our obedience when we say, like Jesus said,
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  Speaker 1: not my will, but Thine be done. Yes, Lord, Yes, Lord, Matthew.
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  Speaker 1: We're going to close here. Chapter number three. John the
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  Speaker 1: Baptist in his ministry, he knew it. He understood it too.
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  Speaker 1: This is Old Testament, New Testament. God demands fruit, fruit, productivity,
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  Speaker 1: a return on his investment. Therefore, verse number eight, he says,
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  Speaker 1: bear fruits worthy of repentance. And do not think to
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  Speaker 1: say to yourselves, we have Abraham as our father. For
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  Speaker 1: I say to you that God is able to raise
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  Speaker 1: up children to Abraham from these stones. And now even
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  Speaker 1: now the Bible says, the axe is laid to the
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  Speaker 1: root of the trees. Therefore, every tree which does not
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  Speaker 1: bear good fruit is cut down and thrown into the fire.
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  Speaker 1: Now Jesus, by the way, also metaphorically compared men to trees.
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  Speaker 1: Listening with this, I'm closing here with Matthew chapter seven,
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  Speaker 1: because he warns us. He warned his disciples to beware
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  Speaker 1: of false prophets verse fifteen. Beware of false prophets which
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  Speaker 1: come to you in sheep's clothing. But inwardly, see they
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  Speaker 1: had the outside look they oh man, they looked a part.
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  Speaker 1: They dressed apart. But Jesus says, inwardly they are ravening wolves.
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  Speaker 1: You shall know them by their fruits. Do men gather
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  Speaker 1: grapes of thorns or figs of thistles? Even so, every
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  Speaker 1: good tree bring it forth good fruit, but a corrupt
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  Speaker 1: tree bringing forth evil fruit. A good tree cannot bring
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  Speaker 1: forth evil fruit. Neither can a corrupt tree bring forth
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  Speaker 1: good fruit, every tree, every man, every woman, every boy,
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  Speaker 1: every girl. If you will, every tree, every person, every individual,
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  Speaker 1: a man that bringeth not forth good fruit is hewn down,
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  Speaker 1: that is cut down. That's what Jesus was talking about
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  Speaker 1: in John chapter fifteen. And cast into the fire. Wherefore
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  Speaker 1: by their fruits you shall know them. And not everyone
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  Speaker 1: that saith unto me, Lord Lord, shall enter into the
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  Speaker 1: Kingdom of Heaven. But he that doeth the will of
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  Speaker 1: my Father, which is in heaven. Obedience, ladies and gentlemen,
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  Speaker 1: Obedience is what brings about fruitfulness, productivity, a return on
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  Speaker 1: God's investment in you and me. Fruitless is useless for
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  Speaker 1: the Church's mission. Fruitless is useless for the Kingdom of Heaven.
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  Speaker 1: Fruitfulness is what Jesus died for. Fruitfulness is what salvation
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  Speaker 1: is all about. Fruitfulness is what God ordain in creation.
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  Speaker 1: Fruitfulness is what God has decreed to be. So and
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  Speaker 1: so shall it be, because fruitless is useless. God, help
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  Speaker 1: us today to be fruitful and multiply in your kingdom.