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Episode 89: Free Me Favor Me Part VII · End-Time Revival Ministries, USA

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Blessings, blessings, blessings. I will bless the Lord at all times,
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and his praise shall continually be in my mouth. My soul shall make her
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boast in the Lord. The humble shall hear thereof and be glad. Oh,
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magnify the Lord with me, and let us exalt his name together.
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Let everything that has breath praise ye the Lord. Amen, God bless you.
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We welcome you once again to this another edition of End Time Revival Ministries
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Us Say podcast and I am your host, Pastor al Zachary, and we
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uh want you to stay tuned for the next few minutes as we conclude this
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short series that we've been in over the past six sessions. In the title
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of this short series is free me, Favor Me, Lord. It is
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a prairie quest of mine. Free me and favor me. There are four
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things that I request of the Lord that I be free from, and we
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covered those and before we moved on to the things that I'm asking the Lord
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to favor, we favor me with amen. The first four things, or
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the first fourth parts of this series covered these four things that Amen, I
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certainly want the Lord to amen. Free me from Number one, Free me
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from fear. Number two, free me from folly, Number three, free
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me from falling. And number four, Lord, free me from foolishness.
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We certainly invite you, if you have not already, to listen to those
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a Man podcast episodes which a Man kind of detail, A Man with scripture,
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these very important things. I believe that it's necessary in order for our
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lives to be found pleasing to God, free from fear, free from folly,
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free from faltering, and free from foolishness. And then, of course
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I want the Lord to favor me also with his blessings that he has made
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available to all who will trust in and believe in his promises and his word.
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And number one, I ask the Lord to favor me with faith.
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Not just saving faith, ladies and gentlemen, but faith that, as Jesus
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says, move mountains, believing God for the impossible, the unthinkable, the
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unimaginable, the above, and beyond what we could possibly ask or think.
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I want that kind of faith. Amen. It is the gift of faith
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that the apostle Paul spoke of in First Corinthians chapter twelve. It is a
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spiritual gift a man. There are people a man in the kingdom who have
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this gift of faith. And I would love to have that same kind of
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faith, a man to believe God to do the impossible, the unthinkable,
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the unimaginable. Amen, that's where my faith. Amen. I would love
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for my faith to be. And so I asked the Lord to favor me
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with this kind of faith, the gift of faith. And by the way,
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the Apostle Paul said, we should covet the best gifts. And I
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believe that the gift of faith is one of the best of the gifts of
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the spirit, because it certainly a man helps others, because that's what the
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gifts are for in the body of Jesus Christ, to be a blessing and
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a help to others as well. Number one, Lord favored me with faith.
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And number two we covered in our last session, Lord favored me with
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focus. Oh, my God, the enemy. The strategy of this enemy
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of ours, the adversary of our souls, is to distract us and to
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keep us preoccupied with all of the mundane things, with all of the things
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of the world. Amen. It was that kind of a matha syndrome.
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Even for those of us who are saved. Of course, we can still
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have that kind of matha syndrome where we are certainly preoccupied with the things of
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the world and not focused. A man on the kingdom first, a man
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as Jesus, a man called us to Amen, seek the kingdom first,
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and all of the other things will be added. So I want focus in
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my life more and more. Amen. I want to be focused. I'm
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frustrated at times, and I know I'm angry at myself at times when I
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allow all of the distractions that we all have to deal with, of course,
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but I don't want these distractions to deter me from doing everything that God
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has a man called for me to do, has appointed for me to do.
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I want to a man finish the course, a man run this race
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with the patience, Amen, and be found pleasing to the Lord at the
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end of the day, hearing his voice, of course, as I say,
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often saying well done, good and faithful servant. Amen. And I
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believe that we will have to be focused, Amen, focused on the mission
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that God has for us in order Amen, to Amen reach that level of
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satisfaction. Amen. All right, today will find an installment on this for
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this series. Brother, it's going to be on Lord, favor me with
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fruitfulness. Amen. Lord favor me with fruitfulness. And by the way,
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Genesis, chapter number one of the Bible, you know it, Amen,
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how that the Lord Amen in the beginning created the heavens and the earth,
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and I just want to read. Let me just take you there and just
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read very quickly, amen, because I want you to see that the purpose
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of God's creation from the very beginning is for there to be fruitfulness. And
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God pronounced blessings in order for all of us, as well as the creation
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itself to be fruitful. Amen. All right, let's let's read from the
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very beginning. You're very familiar with this, hopefully you are, but I
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want you to just focus. Focus. There's our word again. Focus.
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We want to focus on what the Count tells us of in Genesis in the
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very beginning. The Bible says, in the beginning, God created the heaven
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and the earth. The earth was without form and void, and darkness was
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upon the face of the deep, and the spirit of God moved upon the
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face of the waters. And God said, let there be light. And
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there was light. And God saw the light that it was good. And
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God divided the light from the darkness purpose purpose, purpose, and God called
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the light day and the darkness he called night, and the evening and the
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morning wore the first day, verse number six. And God said, let
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there be a furnament in the midst of the waters, and let it divide
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the waters from the waters purpose. And God made the furnament and divided the
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waters which were under the furnament from the waters which were above the furnament.
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And it was so. And God called the furnament heaven. And the evening
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and the morning were the second day, verse nine. And God said,
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let the waters under the heaven be gathered together unto one place, and let
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the dry land appear. And it was so. And God called the dry
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land earth, and the gathering together of the waters called he sees. And
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God saw that it was good. And God said, let the earth bring
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forth grass, Oh, watch this. Let the earth bring forth grass,
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and the herb yielding seed, and the fruit tree yielding fruit after his kind,
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whose seed is in itself up on the earth. And it was so.
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And the earth brought forth grass, an herb yielding seed after his kind,
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and the tree yielding fruit, whose seed was in itself after his kind.
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And God saw that it was good. And the evening and the morning
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or the third day Verse fourteen. And God said, let there be lights
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in the furnament of the heaven, to divide the day from the night,
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and let them be for signs and for seasons, and for days and for
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years. And let them be for light in the furnament of the heaven,
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to give light up on the earth. And it was so. Amen,
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Thank you Jesus. Now listen, listen, listen carefully, because this is
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what God is doing. Amen, what God decreed from the very beginning.
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Amen. And it is still amen. Even though we have again sinned against
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God and brought the curse of sin upon the earth. Amen. Yet,
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and still we're going to see that some of these things that God did from
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the very beginning are still very much intact. God made two great lights verse
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number sixteen, the greater light to rule the day, the lesser light to
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rule the night. And he made the stars also, and God set them
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in the furnament of the heaven to give light up on the earth and to
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rule over the day and over the night, and to divide the light from
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the darkness. And God saw that it was good. And the evening and
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the morning were the fourth day. And God said, let the waters bring
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forth abundantly the moving creature that hath life and foul that may fly above the
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earth in the open furnament of heaven. And God created great whales and every
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living creature that moveth, which the water's brought forth abundantly after their kind,
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and every winged foul after his kind. And God saw that it was good.
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And God blessed them, saying, be fruitful, watch it, watch
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it, watch it, watch it. Listen, listen hear what the Lord
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did in blessing and pronouncing his blessing of fruitfulness, even upon the animals of
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the earth a man. God bless them and said, be fruitful and multiply,
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and fill the waters in the season, let the fowl multiply in the
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earth. And the evening and the morning were the fifth day fruitfulness, fruitfulness,
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fruitfulness, verse twenty four. And God said, let the earth bring
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forth the living creature after his kind, cattle, creeping thing, beast of
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the earth after his kind. And it was so. And God made the
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beasts of the earth after his kind, and cattle after their kind, and
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everything that creepeth upon the earth after his kind. And God saw that it
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was good. And then on the sixth day, the crowning glory of God's
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creation. Before he rested on the seventh day, God said verse twenty six,
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let us make man in our image after our likenings, and let them
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have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the
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air, and over the cattle, and over all the earth, over every
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creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth. And God created man in his image,
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in the image of God created him male and female created he them.
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God bless them. Look at this, Look at this. God blessed them.
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And God said unto them, be fruitful and multiply, and replenish the
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earth and subdue it, and have dominion over the fish of the sea,
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and over the foul of the air, and over every living thing that moveth
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upon the earth. And God said, behold, I've given you every herb
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bearing seed which is upon the face of the earth, every tree in the
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which of the fruit of a tree yielding seed to you it shall be given
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for meat. And to every beast of the earth, into every file of
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the air, to everything that creepeth upon the earth, wherein there is life.
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I have given every green herb for meat. And it was so God
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saw that everything that he had made. Behold, it was very good and
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even in the morning worth the Six day Genesis, Chapter one. God's purpose,
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Ladies and gentlemen, Church of the Living God. God's purpose for everything
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that he has made is for it to function in the way that He has
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designed it to be. He even those sin again has been devastating for man.
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Amen to the created order, to the good and the perfect original creation
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that was in the beginning. We still have more than enough of the greatness
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of God's original decrees and of his creations, because of his graciousness, because
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of his preservation, preserving, if you will, a man the created order
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enough for us, a man to still be fruitful and thrive, even in
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a world that is against him, that is hostile to him, that will
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not a man obey him. Even in this current environment in which we live,
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this world of darkness and delusion and confusion and lies and deception, God
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still is requiring of us fruitfulness, be fruitful, and multiply. Amen.
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The sun, the moon, the stars all remain in place, continue us,
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continuous in their obedience to God's will and purpose for their existence. Amen.
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The rain and the snow that we get from the heavens, the bodies
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of waters that are still here on the earth. They all serve in being
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fruitful and what God created and decreed for them to do. Even in the
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animal kingdom, as we saw, much of the original purpose and design remains
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intact. After the fall of man brought a separation that we now have for
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the most part between man and beast on the earth. But still yet and
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still God, Amen, in his original decree and its purpose, in Him
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giving us dominion in the earth. Amen, we steal can be fruitful a
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man and multiply in this earth. And in spite of our sinfulness, in
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spite of our rebellion against God, Amen, we are still under that blessing.
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Amen. God blessed that I mean blessed that man Adam and his wife
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Eve, Amen. And all the birds of the air, the fish of
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the sea, the cattle, a man, every creeping thing that creeps upon
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the earth. Amen. Much of these creatures, of many of these mammals,
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Amen, that God created they are still here. Amen. And it
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is God's desire for every one of us, Amen, all of us who
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breathe His breath of life. Amen. It is his desire, it is
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his design for us. To be fruitful creatures to his glory. I want
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you to hear this parable that Jesus used to illustrate to us the importance,
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Amen, the urgency, if you will, of being fruitful, not taken
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for granted, Amen, the opportunity that you have, the breath of life
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that is in your body, the purpose for which you are made. Chapter
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number thirteen. I want to read a few verses here, verses six through
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nine. Jesus is teaching, and he uses this illustration to again show to
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us a man, the necessity of fruitfulness. He also spoke this parable verse
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number six of Luke, chapter thirteen. A certain man had a fig tree
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planted in his vineyard, and he came seeking fruit on it and found none.
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Then he said to the keeper of his vineyard, look for three years
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I have come seeking fruit on this fig tree and find none. Cut it
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down. Why does it use up the ground? But he answered that is
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The keeper of the vineyard answered, and said to him, sir, let
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it alone this year also until I dig around it and fertilize it, and
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if it bears fruit, well, but if not, after that you can
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cut it down. Now. Jesus, of course, if you're familiar with
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the Bible, the Word of God. The nation of Israel was often referred
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to as a fig tree. And they were planted by God in his vineyard,
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that is the earth that belongs to him. They were supposed to be,
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They were designed to be, They were commanded to be. They were
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commissioned to be a light to the gentiles, an example to those who were
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outside of the household of faith, as it were a man. And so
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they were planet and placed and given all of the oracles of God, the
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blessings of God, the spiritual words, Amen, the commands, all of
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again, the blessings of Abraham were given to them, and and and and
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and God, I mean forbear with them for amen, decades, for centuries.
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And as he said to the keeper here of the vineyard, in this
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parable, for three years. Now ask yourself, how long has God been
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patient with you? How long has he been patient with me? I know
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how long he's been patient with me. He's been patient with me all my
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life. Amen, Thank you Jesus. And that's why I want to be
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fruitful. Amen. For three years, he says, I have come seeking
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fruit on this tree. It ought to be producing, it ought to be
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feeding. It ought to be doing what it has been designed to do.
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It is a fig tree, and it ought to be producing figs. It's
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not going to produce grapes. It's not going to produce tomatoes. It's not
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going to produce pears. It's not going to produce apples. You and I
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have been designed to do what God has designed for us to do. You
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and I have been a commissioned to go and to produce what God has given
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to us to do, and whatever ability of talent a man. And by
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the very fact that you have the breadth of God in your life, in
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your lungs, in your body, while you are living, you are obligated
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to be fruitful, amen, and to bear fruit. Otherwise, as Jesus
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teaches in this parable, after a period of time, if you are not
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producing, if you are not bearing fruit, what is the command that's given
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to the keeper of the ground cut it down? Why does this tree?
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Why does this tree? Why should this purpose of fruitlessness continue? In this
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purpose and this person rather, when they are not doing, when they're not
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operating, when they are not obeying the word of the Lord, Amen,
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when they are not heeding the voice of God calling unto them, Why should
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they continue to live on God's green earth. That's the picture here, ladies
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and gentlemen. Why should anyone be given additional time when they refuse to bring
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forth fruit? Cut it down? Why does this tree continue on the earth.
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But he answered and said to him, sir, Oh, this is
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interceding. Thank God for intercession. This is why it is so important for
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us, all of us, Amen, to be just as Jesus is an
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intercessor. Amen, we intercede for those that are lost, and we just
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pray, Lord, have mercy. Lord opened their eyes. Lord opened their
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ears, Lord touched their hearts. Amen, let them see that they are
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blind, Amen, that they are dead and their trespasses and sin, and
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that they need the savior they need, Amen, the Cross. And to
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understand that the blood that you shed is for the remission of their sins.
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Amen, for the renewing of their mind, your word, your power,
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your anointing, your Holy Spirit to regenerate and renew them. They need to
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know it. So he said, give it one more year, Give it
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one more year. Going to dig around it. I'm going to fertilize it.
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I'm going to cultivate the soil. I'm going to see to it that
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it is water. I'm going to witness to it. I'm going to pray
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for it. Oh help us, Jesus, Help us, Jesus. And
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if it bears fruit, well, well that's what God wants. God has
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no pleasure in the death of the wicked. God wants you to turn from
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your wickedness. Why die when you can live? Why be cut down in
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your prime? Why die even in your old age, after giving all of
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this time, and you die in your bitterness, emptiness, and never bore
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fruit for the kingdom of heaven. On another occasion, we see a fruitless
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figure that was condemned to death by Jesus in the Gospel of Matthew, chapter
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twenty one, just three verses here eighteen through twenty In the morning, the
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Bible says, as Jesus returned to the city, he was hungry, and
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seeing a fig tree by the road, he came to it and found nothing
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on it, but leaves. This fig tree obviously should have been producing,
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it should have had figs upon it. Amen. And so Jesus comes to
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this fig tree, he finds nothing on it, but leaves, and said
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to it, let no fruit grow on you ever again. Immediately the fig
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tree withered away. Jesus is not talking about this is no Let me finish
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verse twenty. And when the disciples saw it, they marveled, saying,
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how did the fig tree wither away so soon? Please understand that this was
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not an impetuous act on the part of Jesus out of frustration in his hunger,
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in his humanity, but rather it was a symbolic act again demonstrating God's
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divine judgment again upon that nation Israel, his own people, by the way,
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whom he had been sent to amen for her unfruitfulness, even though she
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had been favored again with all of the spiritual blessings, with the oracles of
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God sent prophets, Amen, prophet after prophet. Amen, God's a man
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divine intervention on her behalf over and over again. And ladies and gentlemen,
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this is this is not just about Israel. Please understand, Please understand,
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and man again, the Bible just spoke of Israel again in the Old Testament,
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as the fig tree in Jesus came a man speaking directly to them for
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their spiritual blindness. Amen. When we have been blessed, Church of the
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Living God, people of God, anyone who was alive and living and thriving
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and breathing a man the breath of God on this earth. When we have
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been blessed and endowed with God's spiritual gifts, those of us in the Church,
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his Holy Ghost, power, with his authority, in the great commission
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that He's given to us to go and to be fruitful in this world.
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When we fail to do so, why should we be allowed to continue,
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ladies and gentlemen, being unfruitful for the kingdom to which we have been called
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and by the way, given the keys to along with the guarantee that the
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gates of hell shall not prevail against us, I give you power over all
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the works of the darkness, Jesus told his disciples. We have the ability.
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I'm almost done. We have the ability, we have the power,
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we have the freedom, we have the authority. We have all of the
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weapons. The Bible says the weapons of our warfare are not carnal. We
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have the living world of God that cannot return, that shall not return to
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Him void. By the way, we have all of the hosts of heavens,
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the armies of heaven on our side. We have even a great cloud
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of witnesses who have gone before us. We have the whole armor of God
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Ephesian six, that we have been a man given granted by God, that
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we just simply have to put it on. We have the whole armor of
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God. We have the assurance of victory. When the Bible tells us when
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the enemy would come in like a flood, the spirit of God will lift
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up a standard. We abide under the shelter of the wings of the Almighty.
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We have protection from God. We have all of this. We have
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the assurance, the blessed assurance of victory reach We cannot lose. We will
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not lose because Jesus has already won for us victory. But the problem that
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is plaguing us and being I believe in being fruitful in the Kingdom of God
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to the glory of God is our lack of focus that I dealt with in
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our previous podcast. By the way, I believe it is our lack of
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focus because we are in love with this world more than we love Jesus.
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We have lost, as it was written to the church in the Book of
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Revelation, we have lost our first love. I'm going to close with John
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chapter number fifteen. A few verses here that Jesus speaks to his disciples,
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and this instructs us, ladies and gentlemen, Church of the Living God,
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how we can always remain fruitful. Jesus speaks these words John chapter fifteen.
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I am the true vine, and my father is the husband Man. Every
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branch in me, that's all of us who are saved in the Church of
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the Living God. Every branch in me that beareth not fruit, he taketh
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away. If you are professing. If you are professing but not producing,
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oh help us Jesus. In the church, there's a branch. All of
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us are branches. That's what Jesus describes us. Ys. He says,
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I am the vine. You are the branches. But there are branches in
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the church that are not producing, that are not bearing fruit. So every
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branch in the church that is not producing, the Bible says, he take
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away, And every branch that beareth fruit, he purges it that it may
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bring forth more fruit. You see what God wants. He wants fruitfulness from
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us. Now you are clean, Jesus says, through the word which I
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have spoken unto you, abide in me. That's the ladies and gentlemen.
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That's the winning amen. That's the winning weapon. That's the winning formula.
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If you will, that's how we win. Just remain in Jesus. Amen,
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he says, abide in me. An eye in you, as the
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branch cannot bear fruit of itself except it abide in the vine. No more
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can you accept. You abide in me. I am the vine. You
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are the branches. He that abideth in Me and I in him, the
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same bringeth forth much fruit. Listen what Jesus says, For without Me you
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can do nothing. If a man abide not Amen, he is he asks
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forth as a branch and is wither, and men gather them, cast them
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into the fire, and they are burned. But if you abide in Me
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verse seven, and my words abide in you, you shall ask what you
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will, and it shall be done unto you. Herein Jesus says, is
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my Father glorified that you bear much fruit. So shall you be my disciples.
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If we are to be true disciples of Jesus, ladies and gentlemen according
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to the words of Jesus, according to the teaching of Jesus here in the
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Gospel of John chapter fifteen, if we're to be bringing glory and honor to
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God, he desires that we bear much fruit. And we need only to
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abide in Jesus and keep our eyes gazed upon Him, focused on the mission
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of the Church. That He is given to us. And we are guaranteed,
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ladies and gentlemen, guaranteed to be fruitful in this world, in this
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present world, in such a time as this, and God knows that we
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need it. So, Lord, I pray favor me with fruitfulness. I
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want to be fruitful, a man of fruitful good and faithful servant. Lord,
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be our help as we love you more, as we live for you
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daily. Lord, as we love one another, as we forgive and forbear
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with one another, as we seek your kingdom. First, Lord, as
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we are to be the living examples, the salt and the light in this
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earth, a man examples to the unbelievers. Lord, we then can bring
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forth fruit, even in this season, even in these last and evil days.
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Help us Jesus, Lord, favor all of your people with fruitfulness to
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your glory. For your great namesake, we pray and ask it, and
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we thank you now in advance in Jesus' name, Amen and Amen. M