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Episode 52: The Fruitfulness Proof · End-Time Revival Ministries, USA

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Lord Jesus Christ, we love you, We praise you. We thank you
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for your mercy new this morning. Thank you for your great faithfulness to us.
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Oh God, we thank you for the peace of God that surpasses all
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understanding. Lord, we thank you for calling us to this great, great
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salvation in which we now stand. We stand by faith. It is by
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your grace that we are saved through faith, not of works, not of
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ourselves, lest we should boast. It is of your goodness that leads us
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to repentance, that has brought us to this great joy in Christ Jesus.
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Lord, help us today to take the word, the living Word. Let
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it rest ruling abide within us. Our hearts, obedient Lord, our minds
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ready, Amen, to do that which you have a man spoken concerning us.
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Lord, be glory fighting your people. Today we give you the praise
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of glory nown in all things in Jesus name, Amen and Amen. All
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right, God, bless you again. We thank God again as always for
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this another day that he has allowed us to a man be partakers of this
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great great joy, a man, this joy that is in Christ Jesus,
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this joy of the Lord that is our strength, a man that keeps us
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a man going and motivated from day to day. Jesus was our example,
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and the Bible says the joy that was set before him, he endured the
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cross, despised the shame, and is set down at the right hand of
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the Majesty on high. So the joy a man that God has a man
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given to us, the peace that He has given to us. We must,
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as the people of God, allow a man the fruit of that spirit
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of the Holy Spirit to a man. Always. Amen, be in operation
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in our lives. Amen. Welcome. We welcome you again to another edition
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of In Time Revival Ministries USA Broadcast. I am your host, Pastor al
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Zachary, and today Amen, we continue in our series asking this very important
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question, are you saved? Amen? And of course we have been examining
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the biblical proofs of salvation. And as always again we thank God for all
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Amen. And we thank God again for allowing us this opportunity for a
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man, the expansion of this ministry. Amen. All right, today we're
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going to be thoroughly going through the scriptures the Word of God as we continue
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in this series on the question are you saved? This is the title question
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of this particular series that we are in and we are now in the process
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of examining the biblical truths proofs. Brother, the biblical proofs, which are
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truths a man, which a man give manifestation to our salvation. Amen.
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That anybody can say that they're saved, but they are Biblical proofs a man.
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And the first one that we examined was the change. There is a
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change that happens. The Bible says, if any man be in Christ,
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he is a new creation, the oldest passed away, and behold all things
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become new a man. Then, of course we looked at the love a
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man. No one, no one can be saved without the love of God.
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The Bible says, the love of God that is shared abroad in our
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hearts by the Holy Ghost, which is given to us. Or if the
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Holy Ghost is in you, the spirit of God is in you, the
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love of God is in you. Amen. And then of course we talked
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about the faith. Amen. Without faith, it is impossible to please God.
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He that comes to God must believe that He is. He is a
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reward of them that diligently seek him. We are in the faith. This
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is called the faith. This way is called the faith. The just the
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Bible says, shall live by his faith. Amen. Without faith as Amen,
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the Bible stresses it is impossible to please God. So if you are
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not pleasing to God, evidently you are lacking in faith. And if you
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don't have faith, you are not saved. Amen. Because faith is what
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saved us, saves us. The Bible says, it is by faith the
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grace of God. Amen. Through faith, wherewith we are saved. Amen.
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And so today we moved to number four on our list, Amen,
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of these biblical proofs of salvation, and that is fruitfulness, the fruitfulness.
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And we have done and I can't remember how long ago this was several years
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ago, did an entire series on fruitfulness. Amen. Amen, on fruitfulness.
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And today we're going to Amen. See what the Word of God has
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to say about fruitfulness. Amen. It begins all the way back in the
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book of Genesis, by the way, in the very first chapter. Amen,
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when the Lord created Adam and Eve. Amen. The Bible says God
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blessed them Verse twenty two, saying be fruitful. Or first of all,
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he blessed the animals the old animal kingdom. Amen. All that he had
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made. He said to the animals. First of all, Verse twenty two,
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God bless them, be fruitful, multiply fill the waters in the seas,
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and let foul multiply in the earth. Verse twenty eight. God bless
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them, that is Adam, and even said unto them, be fruitful,
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supply replenish the earth subdue it. Have dominion over the fish of the sea,
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over the foul of the air, and over every living thing that moves
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upon the earth. So God, from the very beginning a man wanted and
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desired and even commanded fruitfulness. Even after the flood, a man, after
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the Lord an Am, started the human race again with the second atom,
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that is Noah. In that sense, Noah, the Bible says, when
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they came forth from the flood, after the flood out of the ark,
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the Lord says in Genesis chapter eight, verses sixteen and seventeen, to Noah,
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go forth of the art, thou and thy wife, thy sons,
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and thy son's wives with THEE. Bring forth with THEE every living thing that
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is with THEE, of all flesh, both of foul and of cattle,
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and every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth, that they may listen what
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the Lord says, that they the animal Kingdom, may breed abundantly in the
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earth and be fruitful and multiplied on the earth. And then again in Genesis
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nine. Amen. The very next chapter, verse number one, God,
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the Bible says, blessed Noah and his sons. It was only eight of
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them, Noah, his wife, his three sons, and their three wives.
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That was the amn the remnant that came out of the generation of the
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flood, the judgment that God brought upon the earth. Only eight. So
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God blessed them, the Bible says, and said to them, be fruitful
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and multiplied and replenish the earth. And so they did. Amen. Thank
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God for it. Amen. And then again I'm going to give you one
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more example. In the book of Genesis, Genesis chapter seventeen, a man
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the Lord speaks to Abraham, his servant, and he says, in verse
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number five, neither shall thy name anymore be called Abram, but thy name
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shall be Abraham four, a father of many nations. Have I made THEE?
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And I will listen what the Bible says. I will make THEE exceeding
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fruitful, and I will make nations of THEE, and kings shall come out
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of THEE. And as for Ishmael, even now, first of all,
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the promise to Abraham of him when he first heard the voice of the Lord
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a man, and the Lord sent him forth a man, to go to
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a land that he said, will show you. He said, the promise
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to Abraham was that he would make him a father of many nations. At
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that time, of course, Abraham had no seed. Now by this particulous
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time, he has a seed, one son, by the name of Ishmael.
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You know the story, who was born through Hagar, a man Hagar.
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But the Lord a man was in his a man, magnificent plan of
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redemption, and his a magnificent plan that we can sometimes even try to even
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though we may interfere in it. Rather, we can never mess it up.
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A man. God's plan was through Sarah, Abraham's old wife, a
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man that she, indeed, in her old age, at the age of
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ninety, would bear a son, a man. But prior to this,
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again, Ishmael was born by and through the slave woman. And so the
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Bible tells us in verse number twenty. Even with Ishmael, see, even
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though he was not the heir of the promise, the Bible says, because
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he was a son of Abraham, the Lord promised Abraham that he was going
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to bless and multiply Ishmael. Look what the Bible says in verse number twenty
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of Genesis seventeen, As for Ishmael, I have heard thee Behold, I
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have blessed him and will make him fruitful, and will multiply him exceedingly.
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Twelve princes shall he be get, and I will make him a great nation.
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Listen, please understand this biblical principle that the ability to be fruitful and
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the blessedness of fruitfulness can only come from God. Let me say it again,
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the ability to be fruitful and the blessedness of fruitfulness can only come from
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the Lord. He alone is the creator, He alone is the sustainer.
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A man of all things pertaining to this life. Life is of him,
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life is in him, and the Bible tells us in Him we live and
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move and have our being. We are incapable of producing anything without His blessing
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upon it. A man and anyone who has a cursory understanding of the Word
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of God concerning fruitfulness in the lives of God's people, a man certainly know
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that God has an expectation. God has an expectation of fruitfulness from his people.
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God is looking for a return. Ladies and gentlemen, Church of the
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Living God, God is looking for a return on his investment in all of
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us. No one who is saved can be an unprofitable, unfruitful servant in
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the Kingdom of Jesus Christ. No one who is saved can be an unprofitable,
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unfruitful servant in the Kingdom of Jesus Christ. And by the way,
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whatever fruitfulness does spring forth from us is by the working of His Holy Spirit
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that is within us. The Bible tells us it is God who works within
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us both to will and to do of his good pleasure. These attributes of
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the Spirit that I'm about to read to you Gallattions, chapter five. If
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you have your bibles, these astributes of the Spirit are collectively called the fruit
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of the Spirit. And these attributes are to be a part of everyone who
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is born of the Spirit. Again, if any man being Christ is a
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new creature creation, a creature a man, the change comes over them,
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and the fruit of the Spirit a man begins to work in them to transform
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them. Gallation five, verse twenty two. The Bible tells us that the
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fruit of the Spirit is love. We've talked about that already, Joy,
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peace, long suffering, gentleness, goodness, faith a man. You can't
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be saved without faith, meekness, temperance. The Bible says, against such
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there is no law, and they that are christ. If you belong to
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Jesus, you have crucified the flesh with the affections and lust. And if
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we live in the spirit, and if the Spirit lives in us, this
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is what the Bible says. If we live in the spirit, let us
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also walk in the spirit. If we live in the spirit, let us
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also walk in the spirit. God is expecting the demonstration of a man,
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the fruit of the spirit, bearing witness, manifestation in our lives. Love,
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joy, peace, long suffering, gentleness, goodness, faith, meekness,
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and temperance. The fruit of the Spirit. Amen, this is where
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fruitfulness begins. This is how fruitfulness will be manifested. This is how we
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as the people of God who have the Spirit of the Living God in us.
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This is how we must grow, develop and mature all the way to
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perfection, as Jesus commanded us to be be. Ye, therefore perfect mature,
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grow up in Him. That's what the Bible tells us. Amen,
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That's what the Bible is the teachers, that's what the New Testament is all
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about us growing up a man, maturing in the faith. A man,
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Paul said, when I was a child, I spake as a child,
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I thought as a child, I acted like a child. But when I
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became a man, I put away childish things. We are all to grow
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up into mature in the faith and fruitfulness. Again, is what this is
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all about. Now. One distinction that we must point out from the word
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of God and the teaching of Jesus, as we're going to see, is
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that everyone is like trees. The Bible likens us as to trees all the
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way back in the psalms. Psalm number one is a matter of fact,
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one of my favorite, all time favorite psalms. A man blessed is a
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man who walks down the council of the ungodly, nor stands in the way
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of centers, nor sits in the seat of the scornful. But his delight
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is in the law of the Lord and his law. Does he meditate,
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the Bible says, day and night, and he shall be like a tree
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planted by the rivers of water, bringing forth, Oh my God, fruit,
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fruit, fruit bearing fruit in season. Amen. There are seasons,
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as we are fully aware. If you are know. If you know anything
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about agriculture, If you understand anything about agriculture, there are seasons of fruitful
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a man, and God likens men to trees, and he is looking for
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us to bear fruit. Amen. Everyone brings fruit to one of two tables.
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One of two tables. Everyone brings fruit. Everybody bears fruit. Everybody
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is a fruit bearer, Make no mistake about every single person who comes into
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this world is a fruit bearer. And they bring fruit to one or the
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other table, the Lord's table or the table of devils. The Bible tells
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us we the people of God cannot eat from the Lord's table and the table
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of devils a man. So you bear fruit, and you bring fruit to
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one of the other. It is good fruit or it is bad fruits.
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And Jesus is going to make that very clear. And that's why I'm going
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to go straight to the word of Jesus that he taught concerning good and bad
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fruit. So you're either going to be a good fruit bearer or a bad
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fruit bearer. And no one who is saved can be bearing bad fruit.
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Oh, my God, help us Jesus. All right, this is what
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Jesus teaches y'all, we're gonna get to a justiment. By the way,
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if you have a Bible, go to Matthew chapter number three. We're gonna
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begin there. First. The very first fruits that must be brought is the
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fruits of repentance a man. That's the very first fruits that must be brought,
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a man to the table, if you will, to the cross,
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if you will, the fruits of repentance. Amen. Because we were all
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at some point. First of all, we were born and sin and shaping
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a nickel. But we were at some point in our lives at the table
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of the devils, as the Bible reminds us, such worth some of you,
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we all ate at the Amen, the table of the devils. And
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now amen, we brought and we brought fruit to the table of the devils,
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Amen, participating, Amen, and all of the abominable things. A
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man of the Bible says that those who practice such things shall not inherit the
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kingdom of Heaven. Amen. So we have to bring forth fruits of repentance.
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And no repentance. If there is no repentance, there is no good
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fruits, No acceptable fruits can come from us. Amen. Because that is
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the way of Cain. If you come your own way, with your own
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amen, idea or religion, or worked or whatever. That's the way of
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Cain. A man who came amen to the Lord, a man, and
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I'm sure it was some very good looking and probably the best of what he
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could find fruit that he brought to the Lord. But he was unacceptable.
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We cannot come in our own way, amen. That's the way of Cain.
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So we've got to come with repentance, the way the Bible prescribes that
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we come to Jesus. John the Baptists warned the religious crowd. These people
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were a man, so called law abiding citizens of the kingdom. So they
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thought a man, and John the Baptist says to them Matthew chapter number three,
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a man. Beginning verse number seven, the Bible says, when he
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saw men and the Phariseeaes and sadducies coming to his baptism, he said to
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them, boot of vipers, who warned you to flee from the raft,
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to come, therefore, bear fruits. Listen what he says, bear fruits.
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Come with the right offerings, ladies and gentlemen. That's what God requires,
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coming with the right offerings. A broken heart. He says, in
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a country spirit, I wouldn't know wise despise. Therefore, he says,
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bear fruits worthy of repentance. And do not think to say to yourself,
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we have Abraham as our father. For I say to you that God is
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able to raise up children of Abram, of children to Abraham, from these
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stones. So don't think again because of your lineage, your heritage a man,
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that you are an automatic, that you are a shoe in. No,
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no, no, John the Baptist says, don't don't, don't don't
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think it for don't think it even for a moment. Don't even begin.
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I'm gonna cut you off at the past, basically before you begin to conjure
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up in your mind that you don't need to repent, that you don't need
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to come to Jesus in this way, because He is the Way, the
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truth, and the life. If you for one moment think that you can
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bring Abraham a man mentioned Abraham, rest in Abraham, hoping Abraham because he's
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your father. According to the flesh, you're you're you're wrong, John the
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Baptist tells them. He says, is even now Verse number ten, the
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axe is laid to the root of the trees there, it is there,
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It is what trees. He's not talking about the trees of the forest,
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the natural trees that God created. He's talking about men people. The axe
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is laid to the root of the trees. Therefore, listen what he says.
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Every tree which does not bear good fruit is cut down and thrown into
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the fire. Every tree, every person, every man, which does not
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bear good fruit is cut down and thrown into the fire. Indeed, he
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says, I baptize you with water into repentance. But he speaking of Jesus,
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who is coming after me, is mightier than I, who sandals I
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am not worthy to carry. He will ties you with the Holy Spirit and
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fire. Amen. Now that was that was the That was the words of
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John the Baptist. Now we're going to go to the words of Jesus also,
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and first and foremost, let me go to this the Gospel of John.
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Because Jesus taught his disciples that in order to be fruitful, in order
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for them to be fruitful, they must be in Him, abiding in him.
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Listen what he says, John, chapter fifteen, verses one through six.
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And then I was dipped down in verse number sixteen. Jesus says,
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I am the true vine, and my father is the husbandman. Every branch
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in me, he likens us to branches. Amen. Every branch in me
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that beareth not fruit, he taketh away, And every branch that beareth fruit
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he may bring forth more fruit. God is expecting fruit from us. If
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you are a branch, if you are naming the name of Christ, if
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you are professing to be saved. Amen. The Lord has an expectation,
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a right expectation of fruitfulness from every one of us. Every branch in mean
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that he's listening to what he says. Every branch in me that beareth not
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fruit, he taketh away, And every branch that beareth fruit, he purgeth
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it that it may bring forth more fruit. You see, God wants he
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wants continual, Amen, fruitfulness from us. He wants continuous He's affecting ongoing
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growth, maturity, progress, perfection. Amen. He fruit. The Bible
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says, he purgises us that we may bring forth more fruit. God is
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in expectation of his people bearing fruit, being fruitful. Listen what he says
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verse three. Now you are cleaning through the word which I've spoken unto you.
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Abide in me, and I in you as the branch. We are
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the branches. As the branch cannot bear fruit of itself. We cannot produce
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on our own. People of God, you cannot. You cannot if you're
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not in Jesus. You cannot be fruitful. If we're not abiding in Him,
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abiding in his word. Is worried abiding in us, As he's going
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to say, as Jesus Clearity teaches here, we cannot bear fruit. Listen
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again, Abide in Me and I in you. As the branch cannot bear
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fruit of itself, accept it. Abide in the vine. Nor more can
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you accept you Abide in me. I am the vine. Jesus teachers,
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you are the branches. He that abideth in Me and I in him the
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same bring it forth much fruit, For without me you can do nothing.
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If a man abide not in me, he is cast forth as a branch.
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Are you listening and is withered? And men gather them and cast them
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into the fire, and they are burned. Listen what he says. Go
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down to verse sixteen. He says to his disciples, you have not chosen
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me, but I have chosen you and ordained you that you should go to
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heaven. Ha ha that's what most people think this is all about. That's
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all they think this is. That's not what the Bible says. By the
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way, I'm just I'm no, no, no, no, ladies and
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gentlemen, That's not what Jesus says. He says, you have not chosen
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me, but I have chosen you and ordained you that you should go and
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bring forth fruit. See this isn't see a lot of people think this is.
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This is all I got my ticket to heaven and that's all that matters.
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And I can just do how I can live, how I want to
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live. I can do what I want to do. The Lord wants fruitfulness
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from your life, your mortal life in this world. Amen. He says,
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I have ordained you, I've chosen you. I am sending you for
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that you should go and bring forth fruit, and that your fruit should remain.
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Oh. Oh, I I don't. I don't, I don't.
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I don't think anybody should be confused about that at all. As always to
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me anyway, I don't see any ambiguity in anything that Jesus has spoken here.
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It's crystal clear. And then, of course, as he taught later
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or should I say furthermore in the Gospel of Matthew chapter seven. We're going
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there next. Jesus again, talking about fruit fruitfulness, makes the distinction again
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a man in warning us to be aware of those who produces poison, who
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produce poison, rather those who produce poison poison fruit. He identifies them as
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the false prophets that they are. Amen, listen when the bodyle says Matthew,
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chapter number seven, Beginning at verse number fifteen, Jesus issues this warning,
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Beware of false prophets which come to you in sheep's clothing. They look
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apart, they dressed apart, they act apart. They got the lingo,
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they got all of the church. Everything, they've got it. Jesus says,
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beware of them, because they are false prophets, and they are dressed
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up to look like a sheep. But inwardly, inside of them their true
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nature is that of a ravening wolf. This is what Jesus says again,
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beware false prophets which come to you in sheep's clothing, but inwardly they are
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ravening wolves. Ho Ho, Now a wolf among sheep. You know what
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the result of that is? If you have a wolf among sheep, what
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do you think is going to happen, Ladies and gentlemen. The wolf will
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devour as many of the sheep as he can. Amen. And so Jesus
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warns us that there will be false prophets. And the apostles warned us that
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there would be false prophets in the churches amongst the sheep, dressed up,
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looking like the sheep, talking like the sheep, talking to the sheep,
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fellowshipping with the sheep. But inside wolves. Now, listen what Jesus says.
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How do you identify? How do you know? How can we distinguish?
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I mean, how can we know if they look like they look like
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one one of us? Amen? They they're talking, they sing, they
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got the gifts. Amen, they write music. Amen, they're famous.
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Oh help us Jesus. Verse sixteen, Jesus says, you shall know them
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by their fruits. You shall know them by their fruits. How do you
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know a true believer from a professor. You will know them, Jesus says,
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by their fruits. To men, gather grapes of thorns or figs of
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thistles. Listen to what Jesus says. Even so, every good tree bring
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it forth good fruit. But a corrupt tree bring it forth evil fruit.
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Oh, they can play the part. They eventually, eventually their nature will
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show. Amen. Oh, the truth, the truth always comes. The
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truth always comes out. Amen, it does, It always comes out.
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The true nature of a person always comes to the surface. Listen, Jesus
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says to us again verse seventeen. Let me go back. Even so,
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every good tree bring it forth good fruit, good tree, good fruit.
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But a corrupt tree, he says, bring it forth evil fruit. Corrupt
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tree, evil fruit. Amen. Verse eighteen. Listen what Jesus says.
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A good tree cannot bring forth evil fruit. I hope you're here. I
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hope you're hearing that. If you are truly saved, you cannot produce evil
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fruit. A good tree cannot produce or bring forth evil fruit. Neither can
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a corrupt tree bring forth good fruit if the tree is rotten, if the
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tree is corrupt, it cannot. Ladies and gentlemen, Church of the Living
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God, it cannot produce good fruit. A corrupt tree can't do that,
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and a good tree can't produce will not produce evil fruit. This is what
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Jesus says, every tree, very much like what John the Baptist says,
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every tree that bringeth not forth, good fruit is hewn down or cut down
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and cast into the fire. What is he talking about? Of course she's
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talking about the judgment. Of course he's talking about the Lake of fire.
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Of course he's talking about eternal damnation. He's not talking about trees of the
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forest. He's talking about many people, every tree, and bring it not
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forth. Good fruit is hewn down, cut down, cast into the fire.
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And Jesus says in verse twenty, wherefore by their fruits, what they
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produce, what comes out of their mouth, what comes out of their heart.
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Jesus said this word, put it this way. Out of the heart
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proceeds all of these things. It's not what goes in what deviles a man.
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It's what comes out. And what's really in the heart will come out.
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It will come out. Amen, Adulteries, fornications, thefts, all
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of those things, Jesus listen, if it's in the heart evil, the
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evil fruits, what they practice, what they do. Again, God knows
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this, and He's made provision for it already. Amen. True Saints of
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God, from time to time will sin and fall short. But the Bible
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says, we have an advocate with Father Jesus Christ and righteous and will to
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come boldly to the throne of grace, that we may obtain mercy and find
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grace to help in the time of need. But we are not to practice
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to wallow in sin. That is evil, that is evil production of fruit.
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If you are wallowing in sin and naming the name of Christ, there
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is something amiss. Amen, every son, everyone who belongs to Jesus.
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The Bible says, he chastens them. But if you're not receiving any chastening,
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any correction, and you are just practicing sin, Jesus said it,
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no good tree can produce evil fruit. Amen. Ah, He's not finished.
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Matthew chapter number twelve, Listen with a He says, either make the
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tree good and his fruit good. In other words, as John the Bapper
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says, bring forth fruits, meat for repentance. Repent. Repent, repent
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of your funication, your theft, your sorcery, Repent of your unbelief,
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of your jealousy and envy and strife and malice and wickedness. Repent. Either
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make the tree good and his fruit good, or else make the tree corrupt
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and his fruit corrupt. It's either or it always has been. Ladies and
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gentlemen with God. It's either or. You're either with him or you against
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him. There is no in between. There is no on defence. The
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double minded man, the Bible says, is unstable in all his ways.
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Either or either you are a good tree or you are a corrupt tree.
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Else else, he says, Let me, let me start, let me
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read it again, Matthew twelve thirty three. Make note. Take note.
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Either make the tree good and his fruit good, or else make the tree
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corrupt and his fruit corrupt. For the tree is known by his his,
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the Bible says his. He's talking about people, not a tree. The
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tree is known by his fruit. Oh, Jesus, Jesus, Jesus,
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will you help us? Jesus, will you help us? Lord? You
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know them that are yours? Amen, That's what the Bible says. The
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foundation of God stands. You're having this ill. The Lord knows them that
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are his, and that everyone who names the name of Christ depart from iniquity.
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But in the Great House there are all kinds of vessels, some to
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honor and some to dishonor. And if a man purge himself from these,
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from these dishonorable vessels, from these rules. In Sheep's clothing. The body
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says, he will be a vessel of honor, sanctified and meet for the
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master's use. Amen. God has come to cleanse us, to make us
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new creations in him. There is the change that happens. Amen. These
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are the biblical proofs of our salvation. Amen. I'm not here to condemn
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anybody. I'm not here to judge anybody. But the Bible speaks for itself.
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The word of God speaks for it. Jesus has spoken, Amen,
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you're either or you can't be both. James Ruld and his epistol nor fountain
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can bring forth both salt water and sweetwater or bitter water and sweetwater. Amen.
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Luke warm, luke, Oh my God, help me Jesus. All
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right, let me move on. Matthew chapter twenty one. Jesus is teaching
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through parables, and I'm gonna read. We're gonna a couple of three parables
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here very quickly, beginning in Matthew chapter number twenty one, at verse number
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thirty three. Again, I'm I'm giving you the words of Jesus. I'm
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giving you what Jesus has to say about fruitfulness and his expect This is his
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expect This is not about me. Oh no, you got to prove anything.
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I don't. I don't listen. I'm not out to I'm listen.
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I'm trying to, by the grace of God every day, Amen, work
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out my own as the Bible says, salvation with fear and trembling, with
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fear and trembling. Amen, that's what I'm doing. Aman. I'm not
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the judge. I don't have the ability to power, the authority to put
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anybody in heaven nor send anyone to Hell. Amen. I'm not the judge.
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I'm just a messenger. Amen. I'm just reading what Jesus said,
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and that's it. These are the words of Jesus. Amen. And if
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we don't if we don't believe, I mean, listen, it's up to
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It's up to us where not we believe, Amen, God, And we've
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talked about that extensively. Amen. Unbelief is the major problem for these folks
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that you know again, can't be saved, won't be saved. You cannot
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be saved if you don't believe God. Without faith, as I said last
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session, I believe was it's impossible to please him. And so these are
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the words of Jesus who makes it Crystal clear about his expectations of us,
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of all men, and so he demands of us fruitfulness, in other words,
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evidence, evidence of your salvation. Anybody can as he Jesus said of
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those Jews, and that they honor him with their lips. They talk a
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good gain. These people honor me with their lips would Jesus had, but
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their heart is far from me. Amen. Here another parable Matthew twenty one,
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verse thirty three. Jesus is speaking. He says, there was a
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certain householder which planted a vineyard and head it round about, and dig the
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wine press in it, and built a tower, and let it out to
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husbandmen, and went into a far country. And when the time listen what
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the Bible says, when the time of the fruit drew near, he sent
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his servants to the husbandmen, that they, the servants, might receive the
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fruits of it. What is he talking about? This is a vineyard that
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is planted by that is owned and planted by the husbandman. Now, of
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course, Jesus in this parable speaking of the nation of Israel, who should
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get to that just a moment. But the world itself, by the way,
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is his. He owns it all. And God has an expectation,
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as I said from the very beginning, a fruitfulness from every one of us.
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Be fruitful and multiplied. That's what we're that's what the disciples were sent
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forth to do. Going to all the world and preach the gospel. Amen,
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go to Sumaria, go to the uttermost parts of the go everywhere,
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Jews and gentiles alike. Amen. God is expecting fruitfulness from us. So
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here in this parable, Amen, the husband a householder, other plants a
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vineyard, hedge it around, Amen, dig the wine press in it.
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He built the tower, and then he leased it out, if you will,
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to husbandmen, and went into a far country. This again speaks of
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the Lord going away only for a season and allowing us amen, to work
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in his vineyard. That's what we're called to do. That's what we're here
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to do. The Bible says. But when the time of the fruit drew
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near, God is the god of the harvest. He's expecting a return,
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He's expecting a prophet from what he has sown. Amen. The Bible says,
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when the time of the fruit drew near, he sent his servants to
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the husbandmen that they might receive the fruits of it. And the husbandman took
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his servants, beat one, killed another, and stormed another. Again.
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He sent other servants more than the first, and they did unto them likewise.
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But last of all, the Bible says, he said unto them his
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son, saying, they will reverence my son. But when the husbandmen saw
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the son, they said among themselves, this is the heir. Come,
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let us kill him and let us seize on his inheritance. And they called
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him, cast him out of the vineyard, and slew him. This speaks
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of Jesus being crucified, murdered, killed, Amen, by the husbandmen who
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were responsible, who were accountable, who were over the vineyard, Israel,
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the nation, Amen, the Jews, Amen, they killed the son.
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The Bible says, when the lord therefore of the vineyard, comment what will
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he do unto those husbandmen? So he asked these amen Jews, the question,
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what do you think the householder, the owner, the lord of the
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vineyard is going to do when he comes back. When he returns, so
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they answered, version numb before he won, he will miserably destroy those wicked
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men. Oh my god, you know what the lord does. But he's
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just like what David, when when when? When? When? Nathan the
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prophet was sent to him, as he had seen with Bathsheba. The judgment
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came out of his own mouth, out of his own mouth, out of
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his own lips. Judgment came forth out of their own lips. They spoke
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the judgment that they deserved. This is what he says. And this is
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not only applicable to the Jews, ladies and gentlemen. Oh no, no,
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no, Jesus spoke this parable to them. But it's again what I
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say into one, I say into all, we're all responsible and accountable,
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because that right now, as it stands, there's no difference between you or
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gentile Amen, he said, They said, rather, unto Jesus, he
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will miserably destroy those wicked men, and listen and let out his vineyard,
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unto other husbandmen, who shall render him the fruits in their seasons. Oh
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my God, See they understood that God expects a return. That God is
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his vineyard. He built it, he owns it. He built the tower,
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he built the wine press, he established it, and he simply allowed
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them to work there, labor there. They get to eat the fruit of
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it. Also. But what does God expect, amen, a return on
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his investment. So they out of their own mouths pronounced judgment upon themselves.
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He will miserably destroy those wicked men, and will let out his vignyard unto
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other husbandmen, who shall render him the fruits in their seasons. So Jesus
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said to them, did you ever read Did you never read in the scriptures?
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The stone which the builders rejected, the same has become the head of
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the corner. This is the Lord's doing. It is marvelous in our eyes.
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Therefore, I say into you, the Kingdom of God shall be taken
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from you and given to a nation. Listen, listen, listen, bringing
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forth the fruits there of God is in the business of getting a return on
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his investment what he has planted, what he is established. Now, this
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is not replacement. There A lot of people take this to mean this is
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replacement theology, as God has replaced Israel. This is not this is not
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that. Amen. Here another parable. Let me I don't at the time.
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I'm gonna deal with that right now. Let me move on here.
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Another parable, this is in Luke's Gospel, chapter thirteen, beginning verse number
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six. The Bible says he spoke also this parable. A certain man had
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a fig tree, Ah, a fig tree planted in his vineyard, and
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he came. The man who planted the fig tree came and salt fruit thereon
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and found none. So here you have a man who plants a fit a
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fig tree in his vineyard, and he comes looking for fruit. Now,
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this is a fruit bearing tree that is supposed to bring forth fruit, and
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so there is an expectation of fruit. Amen. Do you think farmers plant
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crops and soul in the ground with no expectation of a harvest. No,
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they expect something, a return from what they sow into the ground. This
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is what God has done. So the victory is planted. The owner comes
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looking for fruit, and he finds none. And so he says, unto
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the dresser of his vineyard, behold, listen, listen these three years three
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years, I come seeking fruit on this every season, every season, every
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harvest season, I have come. And this tree is mature. This tree
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has been here for a while. This tree has grown up. This tree
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has sucked up water, has has has been occupying the earth, has been
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drinking the rain that comes from heaven, has been abathing in the sun.
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Amen. And and for three years he says, I come seeking fruit on
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this victory, and find none. Cut it down, Cut it down?
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Why cumber with it the ground? Why should it? Why should it a
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body any longer? Ladies, I've cut down trees before. I have.
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I've cut down trees, I've cut down shrubs. I've I've done this before.
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And you can see and and and and listen. When a tree a
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man, when a tree is no longer productive, is dangerous, hazardous.
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It needs to be removed a man, especially if it's dead, if it's
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doing nothing but taking up the ground. Oh god, that's what he says.
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Cut it down. Why cumber with it? Now? This is a
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health by the way, this is a healthy looking fig tree. It looks
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the part a man. Again, it has been it has been sucking up
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the water. It has been soaking in the sun. And yet no fruit.
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Three years, three years into maturity, three years into the time when
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it ought to be bringing for fruit. Nothing cut it down, he says,
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Why does this thing continue to come to the ground? He answered,
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and settled to him, Lord, this is intervening, by the way,
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this is intercession. Rather, he's intervening. Now the servant intervenes. The
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servant intercedes, he said, let it along, give it want this?
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Oh my God. Do you see how good God is? Do you see
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how good, how faithful, how long suffering God is a man? He
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said, let it along this year also till I shall dig around it and
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done it. In other words, I'm gonna fertilize it. I'm gonna work
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with it, you know what. Let me have Let me give it,
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give it, give it, give it a little more time, give it
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it one more season. And if it bear fruit, well, and if
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not, if let me let me have one more crack at it. And
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if then it doesn't bear fruit, then after that thou shalt cut it down.
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Now again, here's the expectation. The expectation is that there should be
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fruit on this tree by now, by this time. Again, doesn't mean
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when you listen, when you first come into the kingdom instantly, and it
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may be that you start, but the motority has the leaves need to start.
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Something needs to be budding, something needs to be showing. Amen.
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If any man being christy's a new creation, don't don't don't tell me there
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is no change, amen, no growth, no leaves, no buds,
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no nothing. At some point we are to produce fruit. That's what Jesus
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said, y'all, we've got the producer fruit a man all right. Here
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another parable Matthew, Chapter twenty five. Going to Matthew again very quickly,
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version number fourteen for the Kingdom of Heavens. As a man traveling into a
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far country who called his own services, living unto him his goods. To
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one, he gave five talents, another two, another one to every man
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according to his ability. God is not gonna ask you. He's not required
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us to do anything more than what we can handle. He doesn't put more
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on the lust than we can bear. The Bible said, he had received
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the five talents, went and traded with the same and made other five talents.
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Likewise, the one who had two he also gained two. The one
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who had received one talent, the Bible says, went and digged in the
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earth and hid his lord's money. After a long time, the Bible said,
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the lord of these servants came and reckoned with them, and he wanted
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to know, You know, you're familiar with this parable. He wanted to
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know what had they produced. The one who had five had produced five more,
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the one who had two produced two more. But the one who had
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one, when it hid is lord's money in the ground, and the Bible
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says he in his excuse says, Lord, I knew either you are a
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hard man Verse twenty four, reaping where you have not sown, and gathering
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where you have not strong And I was afraid, fearful, Oh God,
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helpers Jesus, and I want to hit your money in the earth. Therefore
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here it is. And so the Lord's response to this man is, you
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are wicked and you are slothful. You knew what I read where sold not
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to gather weapon astral. You ought to have at least put my money to
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the exchangers. And then at my comming, I should have received my own
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with usury, should have at least put it in the bank. Take there
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for oh my God, watch it, watch it. Take there for the
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talent or the money from him, and give it to him which hath ten
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talents. No, no, no, he didn't say to the one who
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has four talents, give it to the one who has ten talents. Why
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because he is productive, he is fruitful. And then he says, cass
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ye, the unprofitable servant, into out our darkness, there shall be weeping
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and gnashing of teeth. Listen, God's purpose for calling us out of the
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darkness is for profitableness. God is expecting fruitfulness. Amen. Let me close
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with this. Colossians chapter one, verses nine and ten. The apostle Paul
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writing to the church, He says, for this cause we also since the
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day we heard it, do not cease to pray for you, Amen,
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and to desire that you might be filled with the knowledge of His will,
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that's the will of God and all wisdom and knowledge rather and spiritual understanding.
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Listen when he says verse ten, that ye may walk worthy of the Lord
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unto all pleasing, being fruitful in every good work, and increasing in the
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knowledge of God. Let that be our prayer to day a man, that
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we pray one for another a man, that we will be filled with God's
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knowledge, knowledge of His will, in all wisdom and spiritual understanding, so
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that we all will walk worthy of the Lord unto all pleasing, that we
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all will be fruitful in every good work, and increasing that is His expectation,
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increasing in the knowledge of God. A man and a man. God
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bless you in Jesus name.