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The Tree/Powerful word from Apostle Al Simmons · Jesus Chosen Apostle Al

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  Jesus uses many metaphors, but we're gonna deal with one of the most complex metaphor he uses, but it's make- he tried to make it clear for us what he's trying to tell us in this life.
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  See, when we realize we can apply this to our life, it changes everything Let's, let's go straight to the word'cause I, it's gonna take me a minute to get through this one, so I really wanna dig into it.
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  Let's go to the Book of John.
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  Let's go to the Book of John 15:5.
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  John 15:5.
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  What is Jesus teaching us?
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  Jesus says,"I am the vine.
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  You are the branches." Don't miss that, now.
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  He's, I'm the vine, you're the branches.
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  He's now giving us a metaphor of a tree.
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  He is talking about connection of who we are.
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  Now, th- just to keep on with just this verse, he say,"He that abideth in me, and I'm in him, the same bringeth forth much fruit: for without me, ye can do nothing." Now, let's deal with that real quick.
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  I, I hope you got your thinking hat on,'cause I'm gonna take you deep into the word today now.
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  When we talk about a tree, we understand root depth.
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  A tree can handle a storm.
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  Why?
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  Because the roots are dug in to the ground.
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  When Jesus says he's the vine, he's talking about connection, that we're the branches so we gonna bring fruit.
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  Well, a tree brings fruits, but it's on the outside.
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  We produce fruits, because he calls us a tree, on the inside, character.
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  The, the title for the message today is Branches, which is a tree.
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  When we hear the word, uh, wood, we know that came from a tree.
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  Oh, we going all over the word today now.
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  We gonna dig in now.
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  The fruit that we're produ- ducing is inward character.
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  That's Galatians, uh, Galatians 5:22-23, talking about love, peace, joy, patience, loving, godliness, goodliness.
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  All of those are fruit that is produced from the inside with the Holy Spirit.
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  Oh, let's go ahead now.
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  See, now we're gonna dig into some things that the word was saying, and he uses this all through the word of God.
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  Why?
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  Because Jesus was a carpenter.
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  He's gonna connect all of these books, all of these character of people together because he's a carpenter.
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  This is how deep the word of God goes.
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  Hold onto your hat'cause we're about to deal with something.
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  When we're rooted in God, we are rooted in the word, so that's why we're digging in the word like we are today.
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  In the Book of Matthew 13:31-32, Matthew 13:31-32, he talks about herbs and becoming a tree.
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  We're talking about mustard seed now.
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  Mustard seed is a very small seed.
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  But when a mustard seed grows, it becomes a tree.
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  Wow.
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  Look at how God uses this metaphor in all of these different books, these different, with these different people, but now He's acknowledging He is the vine.
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  I'm the one connecting...
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  Remember now, a vine is part of a tree now.
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  I'm the one connected to you, and that's why you can produce fruit, because that's the Holy Spirit.
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  Let's go on now.
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  Let's go on.
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  In Psalms 1:3, it talk about trees firmly planted.
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  Why?
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  Because when you're firmly planted in God, he says nothing can move you.
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  In Exodus 37:1-5, it talk about the ark of, i- it talking about the arcadia, which is wood.
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  It's now bringing us together to show us it's about the tree.
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  It's about connection, that we're the branches.
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  In the Book of Jeremiah 1:11-12, it talks about a rod of almond tree.
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  Why?
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  Almond is where the spirit comes from, if you understand the Old Testament, of where anointing come from.
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  We going on now.
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  In the Book of Job 30:4, it talk about bushes.
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  Well, a bush starts out a bush, but it turns into a tree.
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  He's giving us the metaphor of being grounded and rooted in Him, and that's why if we're the branch, we gotta be connected to that vine.
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  In Isaiah 6:13, it talk about the holy seed.
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  It, it...
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  Now, watch this.
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  It's, it, it, it, we talking about the stump.
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  He said,"Even the stump, if it's still connected, it's still living." If the stump is still connected, the roots are still out there trying to let us know, even if you think it blows you down, don't worry, be the stump because long as you're still, still, your root is still there in Jesus, in the Word, it say you're gonna be fine'cause the tree can grow again.
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  Now, why am I telling you all of this?
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  Because it's, I've hinted all through my words, but the carpenter is bringing it all together.
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  In the Book of Ezekiel 17:5-6, it says spreading, it says spreading vine with his branches.
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  Using the metaphor again.
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  Jesus says,"I'm the vine, and you're the branches." What is He telling us?
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  A tree is one of the most remarkable things that has been granted to the earth because there are trees that was here when Jesus walked the earth.
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  It's still here.
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  It's still living Thousands of years later.
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  In the book of Joshua, chapter 24, verse 26, it talks about under the oak that was by, now watch this, by the sanctuary of the Lord.
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  He, he says,"If you pay attention to the word of God, trees are always someplace where God is.
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  Trees are always with the man and the woman of God that's making the move of God.
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  Tree is always symbolic somewhere in the story of every major character." Oh, we gonna deal with some of them in a minute.
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  Just hold on now.
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  In the book of Psalms, chapter 52, verse eight, it talk about a green olive tree in the house of the Lord.
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  You see, we know that no matter what's going on in the world, if you're connected to Jesus, you will prosper.
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  Why?
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  You have to.
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  He said,"You're connected to me." In 1 Kings, chapter 10, verse 11 through 12, it talk about trees and precious stones.
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  Why do you think he hide the word trees all through his scriptures?
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  He says,"Most people will never get it." He said,"But the ones I've called, they will explain these." Now, go on, hold on now.
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  In the book of Genesis, chapter 13, verse eight, it talk about oaks of Mamre.
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  Now, Abraham moved his tent where?
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  In Mamre.
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  And what was he showing us?
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  He was showing us the significance of the oak tree.
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  The oak is a type, but it was about the tree because we are the branches, and he is the vine.
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  Now, that was showing us Abraham.
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  Now, let me, let me show you now.
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  People, he's showing us that you are to produce either godly character or non-godly character.
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  He said,"A corrupt tree cannot bring forth good fruits." Those are character.
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  Uh,"A righteous tree cannot bring forth corrupt fruit." He said,"It won't work." I look at people For the fruits that they possess because that's their character.
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  In 2 Samuel 5:22-25, it talk about, uh, the tree of bela- balsam.
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  And balsam is a tree.
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  This is where it tells David to go on the other side.
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  Why?
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  Because the tree's gonna let you recognize my spirit of when to attack.
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  In the Book of Isaiah 44:4, it talk about cedar and cypress of an oak tree.
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  Whoa.
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  All through the word, it's teaching us about tree, the branches, the vine.
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  In Isaiah 6:13, it talk about the box tree and the cy- cypress tree.
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  What is he showing us?
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  Well, guess what?
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  It's gonna get even deeper because we gonna go back into Genesis, and we gonna, we gonna also finish up in the Book of Revelation where tree's gonna even be where?
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  In heaven.
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  Come on.
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  Tree was in the Garden of Eden.
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  Let me, y'all, I'm, I'm getting ahead of myself.
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  I'm too excited now.
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  I gotta calm down because you're getting something that most people never get every day.
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  We're revealing these mysteries of God.
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  You know, a lot of people don't know, Jesus said,"I wanna build my house upon the rock." Well, the rock was not Peter, the rock was on revelational knowledge, and revelational knowledge is what my people need today.
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  This what God was trying to show us.
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  He says,"I'm building my church on revelational knowledge." In the Book of Genesis 30:37, it talk about almond trees.
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  And I want you to hear me now.
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  It talk about almond trees, but who was there?
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  Jacob.
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  What was he showing us?
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  Jacob had to be a tree.
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  You remember when Jacob wrestled with the angel of the Lord, and he said his hip came out?
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  What y'all don't realize is Jacob had to use a tree from that point on.
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  Why?
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  Not only is he a shepherd, it need to balance him.
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  Now we see the tree is helping him stand to be Israel, which is what the children of Israel is named after.
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  In Ezekiel 31:3, it talk about cedar in Lebanon.
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  Why is God showing all of this?
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  He says,"I wanna bring some things that have never been taught before.
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  I wanna bring some things to you so you can understand who you are." See, when you start off like a mustard seed, you're small.
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  Your faith is small.
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  He said,"But if you allow it to grow in the word," it says, guess what,"You'll be a tree that can stand no matter what storm come your way." In the Book of Micah 4:4, it talk about under his vine and under his fig tree.
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  Uh, fig tree is a metaphor that Jesus told us,"Learn the parable of the fig tree." Why is that important?
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  He said because fig tree shows us a relationship with the Gentiles and the children of Israel.
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  He said,"I'm gonna graft you in, Gentiles, so you can be a part of my body just like the children of Israel." In Isaiah chapter 41, verse 19 through 20, it talk about cedar in the wilderness.
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  Well, first of all, if you really understand the wilderness, uh, there's not a lot of trees, so do we know these trees are significant.
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  In the Book of Numbers, chapter 33, verse 9, it talk about 70 palm trees.
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  It's about the trees.
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  He said,"I want you to have godly fruits, but it has to grow on the inside." Those are process that you must go through understanding who God is.
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  In 1 Kings chapter 10, verse 27, it started talking about the cedars as plentiful as the sycamore.
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  It's giving you understanding.
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  I, I, I wanna give you this one for free because you've heard of it, but when we talk about Zacchaeus, Zacchaeus is where?
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  In the sycamore tree, and Jesus saw him and said,"Come down, Za- Zacchaeus.
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  I'm gonna have dinner at your home." We're going on.
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  We're going on.
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  In Genesis 1:12, it talk about trees bearing fruit.
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  I know you've read it before, but now I'm giving you some understanding.
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  It says,"I wanted to release this even in Genesis even when you didn't understand." In Romans chapter 11, verse 24, it talk about the wild olive trees.
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  I know I'm bringing some things now, but I'm bringing things that you never even put together before because the wisdom of God is speaking of the knowledge of God so we can have some understanding of how accurate God is in His Word When we talk about Romans 11:24, the wild olive trees.
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  We go on to Genesis 18:4, it's a under the tree.
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  Who was under the tree?
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  Abraham told the Lord,"Go rest yourself under the tree, and I'll fetch you some water for your feet." I'll-- it said,"Relax under the shade of the tree that's in by, that's by my house." In Genesis 35:18, Deborah, which is Rebekah maid, when she died, guess what?
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  She was buried where?
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  Under the oak tree.
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  Why is this important?
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  Because it shows us the significance of the tree.
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  In Deuteronomy 20:19, it says,"Do not destroy the trees." When they destroy the city, it says,"Now, I know you're go- gonna destroy the city, but do not destroy the trees." Why?
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  That's how accurate the word of God is.
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  He said,"I've hid this all through my word, but it's now being revealed by my prophets." But in the Book of Acts 5:30, Jesus hang on a cross, which is a tree.
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  If you see wood, you gonna see trees.
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  When Noah built the ark, he's built it out of wood, which came from trees.
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  When they built the Ark of the Covenant, they built it out wood, which was trees.
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  In the Book of Deuteronomy 8:8, it talk about vines and fig trees.
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  We understand the parable of the fig trees because we understand God word now about trees.
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  We are to produce godly fruit.
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  Godly fruits, that's why he keep calling us the branches.
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  In 2 Samuel 6:5, it talks about all kinds of instruments made by what?
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  Wood.
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  And now, now you talking about the word now.
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  See, all these instruments that was made was made by what?
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  Trees Judges 9:9, it talk about the olive tree said to them.
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  Well, who the olive tree?
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  That's God.
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  That's Christ if you, if you w- want a better understanding.
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  In the book of Exodus 15:27, it talk about 70 date palm trees.
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  In Hosea 4:13, it talk about under the oaks.
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  What is it telling us?
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  If we get ourself under God, He'll be that oak tree that's protecting us.
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  If we bring ourself to understand who we supposed to be, we'll be that branch that's connected to the vine, which is Jesus Christ, and He says,"You have to produce fruit." And he goes on and says,"The Father is the husbandman, and He will prune you to bring forth," what?
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  More fruits.
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  In the book of Amos 7:14, it talk about the sycamore figs.
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  In Psalms 1, chapter 1 verse 1 through 3, it say,"Like a tree firmly planted." He says,"If you stay in my word, you will be firmly planted like a tree by the, beside water." In the book of, uh, Proverbs 11:30, it talk about the fruit of righteousness is a tree of life.
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  Ah, don't, don't miss that, don't, don't miss that now.
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  He, He's now giving us understanding about these righteous trees, these characters of God.
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  In Proverbs 3:18, it says,"She is a tree of life." Why do you think it does that?
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  Because He wants you to understand character.
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  It wants you to understand, if you say you connected to God, He said,"If you are following Christ, and you are not walking in this," He says,"you're a liar, and the truth not in you.
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  Because there's no way you can be connected to Me and be my branch and walk in sin." Well, we going on.
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  In the book of Matthew 7:17-19,"A good tree cannot bear bad fruits." Uh-oh, uh-oh, that's the word now.
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  I know I just got into it a little while ago, but He goes back and He reiterate it again.
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  In Matthew 7:17-19, it say,"A good tree," we talking about a tree of God, He said,"It cannot bear bad fruits." He says,"There's no way you could tell Me you have the Holy Spirit, and you walking in darkness or walking in sin." He said,"That does not line up, and even though you might can't understand that in the spiritual realm," He says,"Show Me a pear tree that produce bad fruits." Show me a apple tree that produce grapefruit.
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  It doesn't work.
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  He said,"If you can't see it in the natural, how can you see it in the spiritual?" Let me go on, let me go on.
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  In the Book of Isaiah 65:22, it says,"Lifetime of a tree." It's a timeline even for a tree.
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  In the Book of Luke 23:31, it talk about a tree is green.
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  Wow A tree is green.
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  That's why we're the branches and we connect to the vine.
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  In Revelation 22:14, which as I talked to you before, it said,"Have the right of the tree of life." He says,"Those who hold on, they will have," watch this now,"the right to the tree of life." Whoa, now this is the last chapter in the Book of Revelation.
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  It now took us back to the Garden of Eden.
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  The Garden of Eden tree of life has been removed from Garden, from Genesis, to the end, Revelation.
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  Now let me give you a revelation now.
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  So I, I, I know you want it now, so I wanna take you a little deeper.
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  We all know in the Garden of Eden, it was the tree of life in the center.
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  Well, let me help you out.
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  That tree was Jesus.
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  That's why when Jesus said,"If you eat of this tree, you shall never die." If Adam had eat of that tree, he would've never died.
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  That's why he put the cherubim there with the swirling sword, so he couldn't come back and taste of that tree.
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  Now, let me give you a revelation that the Lord showed me.
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  We always thought that the tree of knowledge of good and evil was always bad How about the revelation of understanding the tree of knowledge of good and evil was the tree of the Holy Spirit, and it was teaching us that you cannot get God Let me, let me break that down.
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  Let me, let me slow it down so I can really get that.
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  See, a lot of people want the Holy Spirit without Jesus.
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  Can't work.
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  He says,"You are trying to get this the wrong way." He says,"You gotta go the right way.
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  If you go to the tree of life, which is Jesus, then you can have the Holy Spirit." He said,"But the problem is people want the good and the blessing of God without God." Wow, there was a problem It was out of order.
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  But let me go on, let me go on.
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  We, we, we in it now.
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  You don't need to stop now.
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  In First Kings chapter five, verse 10, it talk about cedar and cypress timber.
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  We talking about trees now.
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  First Kings 19:4, it said under a Jupiter tree.
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  In Exodus three, verse two, it says the midst of the bush.
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  When Moses was talking to the angel of the Lord, which is Jesus He was where?
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  The Lord was in the midst of a bush, which is a tree.
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  Isn't it ironic that when the Lord first spoke to Moses, he spoke to Moses by a tree?
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  Come on.
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  In Genesis chapter six verse fourteen, it said Noah made arcs, the ark out of gopher wood, which is a tree He says, watch this now, he says,"In the end, Jesus, the carpenter, is gonna be nailed to the tree.
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  When he nailed, when he's nailed to the tree, he becomes the tree of life." Now, watch the revelation now.
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  When Noah builds the ark out of tree, he now show us the savior because the tree, the wood, has to lift up his family and protect them from the water.
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  Oh, come on now.
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  Now we recognize he's, the ark of the, the ark that Noah builds is showing us the savior.
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  Let me go on, let me go on.
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  In Genesis 2:9, he talk about the tree of life and the tree of knowledge of good and evil, and that's what I just taught you a little while ago, how the tree of life was Jesus, and the tree of knowledge,'cause if you understand knowledge, that's one of the spirits, the spirit of knowledge.
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  Oh, come on now, we talking about, we, we talking real stuff now.
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  See, most people don't even know there are seven spirits of God.
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  So if you don't know there's the spirit of the Lord, that's one.
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  If you don't know there's the fear of the Lord, that's two.
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  If you don't know there's a spirit of counsel, that's three.
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  If you don't understand there's a spirit of wisdom, that's four.
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  If you don't understand there's a spirit of knowledge, that's five.
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  And there's also the spirit of dudamos, that's six.
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  And the last one is the spirit of understanding.
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  And there lies the problem with the average Christian, they don't understand what spirit they have.
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  But we're not stopping there.
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  We're going on.
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  In Matthew 21:28-32, he talk about Jesus.
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  He's, Jesus cursed the fig tree.
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  Why did Jesus curse the fig tree?
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  See, a lot of times people don't understand the metaphor behind the story, because Jerusalem should've been ready for Jesus coming.
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  It was already prophesied by Daniel the prophet, but they wasn't ready, so he's showing it.
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  Let me keep it going.
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  Let me keep going.
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  See, in Matthew 24:32, now we learn the parable of the fig tree.
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  He said,"Learn the parable of the fig tree." He said,"This is important.
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  Learn the parable of the fig tree." In the Book of Mark 4:35-41, Jesus calms the storm.
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  Now, I know you're saying to yourself,"Okay now, Pastor, I'm confused now.
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  How is Jesus calming the storm have anything to do with what you just told me about branches and the vine, and how is the tree?" Guess what the boats are made of?
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  Wood, which is trees.
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  See, see how, see how, see how obscured the word can be?
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  So when he's calming the storm, the storm is trying to bring down the boat, but it can't bring down the boat because the vine is on the boat, and the vine is connected to branch, and Jesus is asking them,"How can you be so fearful when you're connected to the vine?
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  I'm in the boat with you, and there's no way you can go down'cause I can't go down." Oh, my goodness gracious All through the word of God, he's showing us the metaphor of the significance of the tree.
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  Why we gotta stay connected to him,'cause if he's the vine, and we're the branches, we gotta stay part of that tree.
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  We gotta be the tree, and we gotta produce godly fruit.
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  Now, I know you're saying to yourself,"Man, come on." Well, it gets even deeper than that.
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  When Aaron, the first priest, guess what he has?
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  He has a rod.
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  Guess what his rod is made of?
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  It's almond, and guess what it does?
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  It still bud, and it's already cut.
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  He's showing us the part of a tree.
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  Well, guess what?
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  When the Lord first called Moses, he told Moses,"What do you have in your hand?" He says,"It, it, it was a stick.
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  It was just a stick.
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  It was this walking stick.
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  I got that." And guess what he told him to do?
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  "Throw it on the ground." What happened?
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  It turned into a snake.
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  Then he did something that most people miss.
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  He said,"Grab the snake by his tail." He gave him instruction of how to deal with what's coming Why did he do all of this?
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  Because he wanted to show us he's the carpenter.
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  Carpenter builds things.
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  He said,"I'm gonna build from Genesis to Revelation, I'm gonna build in people in character, and I'm gonna show you some things that you need to understand." See, when you see David, and David is going behind the Ark of the Covenant or the Ark of the Testimony, David is worshiping, dancing, but guess what he's really following?
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  He's following Christ.
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  Why?
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  Because Christ is letting us know,"I'm the vine.
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  You're the branches." And guess what the Ark of the Covenant or the Ark of the Testimony is made out of?
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  Wood You, you, you gotta be serious.
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  The tabernacle, guess what it was made out of?
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  Wood.
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  When Solomon built the temple, guess what he brought?
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  Wood from Lebanon.
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  Why?
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  Because he was showing us the significance of we being the branches, which is the tree, a part of the tree of life You mean to tell me all of these years, most people have never even seen this?
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  Never even begin-- Now, I could even bring more scriptures, but I wanted to bring enough scriptures, uh,'cause I think it's like forty or fifty scriptures I brought.
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  But I wanted to bring enough scriptures so you can understand this book wasn't accidentally put together.
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  This book was put together by the wisdom of God and His power and His might to show us,"I'm as real as they come.
• 28:21
  The problem is you can only receive me if you seek me." Why you think He says,"First seek ye first the kingdom of God and His righteousness, and all these things will be added unto you"?
• 28:33
  The revelation of that, guys, you know why He gives this to me?
• 28:38
  Because He knew who I was gonna be before He even formed the world.
• 28:44
  He says,"I'm gonna send a man that's gonna give you an understanding of my word that has never been told before." That's the word.
• 28:54
  Are you the branch, and are you connected to the vine?
• 29:00
  Because you can't produce godly fruit without being connected to the vine.
• 29:05
  I'm telling you, I hope you understand, and I hope you hear that God is real, and He said,"If you're my branch and you're connected to the vine, you have to produce godly fruit."