HOW TO BE RICH: PART 2 | Pastor Tim Gaddy

[Music] so welcome to new life my name is michaela and we are so glad you're worshiping with us today if you're watching online please take a moment to click on the virtual connect card link in the description or comments and let us know you are with us today if you are gathering with us today and you have a child present we have a nursery and special kids live service happening during service please see the connect center for directions and details allow me to tell you about a couple of important announcements before we begin to all the parents who have students attending the nexus retreat there is a mandatory parent meeting with our youth staff in the chapel immediately following this service please see pastor jace or sister lexi for more details this thursday evening at 6 30 pm we will have our weekly celebrate recovery service in the chapel located in the life center everyone is welcome to attend these life-changing services for more information on any of these announcements please stop by the connect center that's it for this week's announcements thank you again for joining us your great day starts now good morning and welcome to new life look at your neighbor tell them they're looking good tell them you're thankful to see them especially if it's your spouse hopefully you're happy to see him here uh just as a reminder today is family sunday which means that we're all going to be worshipping together as a family this morning so our usual schedule includes kids life which has classes from ages 5 through 6th grade which is next door in the life center and as always there is a staff nursery right outside these doors across the hall and a cry room available as well i've asked sister sonia to come and pray over this service here but i was i was reading this morning psalm 121 verses 1 and 2 and it says i will lift up mine eyes unto the heels from which comes my help my help comes from the lord which made heaven aren't you thankful to have a source greater than ourselves for that help [Applause] oh in jesus name church jesus redeemer healer king thank you jesus you are holy you are holy lord jesus with all the angels i cry out holy holy holy because you are holy you are our redeemer you are our protector you are our king jesus thank you jesus lord god you are good you are good you are so good when i'm afraid you're a good when i'm lonely you're good when i'm sick you're good lord god that you would help us lord jesus in these days in these times protect us lord jesus protect us from anxiety lord there are people that are sick they're confused and they're hurting where god protect them now in the name of jesus i pray oh god that we would see things and she would have us see them lord that we would see all things as you would have us see them through your eyes and not through the eyes of the world and the way the world would want us to see them lord jesus confuse almighty god any plans of the devil we are called by your name no weapons against us will prosper in the name of jesus let us have the eyes to see and the vision your kingdom lord jesus we thank you lord in jesus name amen let's stand in worship with them [Music] looking up i'm looking creator of the universe the one who never sleeps the ruler over all the earth he's taking care of me my shelter from the heat of day protector in the night no matter what may come my way i know i'm gonna be alright looking up to where my health comes from [Music] no i won't lose a single thing [Music] cause every time [Music] is [Music] [Music] is tell me [Music] [Music] [Applause] oh [Music] oh i can rejoice [Music] [Music] [Music] [Applause] lord we thank you god that's a promise we know our help is coming from you lord we thank you god lord you see us where we're at god you see every need and god we can count and we can depend on you i'm thankful for those faithful dependable friends but i am so thankful to have a god that is always there that has never let me down he has stepped in in every situation in jesus name i thank you and i praise you god for who you are jesus jesus jesus you can make your way back to your seat and be seated i'm loving what i'm feeling here today so thankful to come to the house of god and experience what we experience and feel what we feel and know that he is here waiting on us in jesus name i want to take a moment and for all of our guests that are visiting with us today thank you so much for making new life a part of your life that's right church family let's welcome them and on your way out if you haven't already please stop by the connect center uh there'll be someone there we'll just gather a little bit of information from you just so we can send you a thank you for making new life a part of your day and for all of those our online church family that's viewing online today thank you so much again for making new life a part of your family church family let's welcome our online church family and as our ushers make their way to the front one more way for us to give or one more way for us to worship rather is through our giving i'm so thankful again to serve a god that has always stepped in he's always blessed he's always kept his hand upon me and there are several ways to give uh you can bring your your giving forward they're also giving kiosks and giving envelopes uh in the the for your area there's also a couple of options on the screen behind me for you to give as well if you'll stand with me as we pray over the remainder of this service there's one more need and pray over this offering there's one more need that i would like to to bring before the church family and that is the lowry family for those of you many of you may know um but the pastor sorry the student pastor's wife and bibi just up the road from us passed away this week and i believe the funerals today and so i know that family is hurting and when one part of the body hurts the rest of the body hurts and so as we pray over this service and as we pray of this offering let's keep that family in our prayers as well so lord we thank you for this day god we thank you for everything that you've done we thank you lord for everything that we've felt here today i pray lord that you have blessed this offering lord god that you would use it lord to grow your kingdom use it god to be a blessing god to the work both locally and across this world god i pray over the remainder of the service god that your anointing would rest upon pastor as he ministered your anointing would continue to rest upon this worship team god as they help us to turn our focus and our attention towards you and god i pray that you would step in god with the lowry family today god there are many of us in here today god that have experienced the peace god that can only come from you lord a peace in these kinds of situations god that can only come from you and i'm asking for that peace and that family today and in that church family today lord i pray your hand would be upon them god that you would shower them lord with love and kindness today god we thank you for who you are god lord for everything that you represent god in the name of jesus in the name of jesus and as they worship please come forward and give [Music] the promise of the shore [Music] beyond the ocean [Music] when i walk through the water i won't be overcome when i go through the river i will not be drowned my dog [Applause] here i will lift my arms [Applause] [Music] is [Applause] i am declaring victory [Music] [Music] my [Music] is no i am oh is [Applause] [Applause] me [Music] [Music] water oh i don't have to fear today cause he's always with me [Music] [Applause] [Music] in the presence of my enemy i raise a hallelujah [Music] my weapon is a melody [Applause] heaven comes to fight for me i'm gonna roar up from the will ashes [Music] [Music] hallelujah i will watch the darkness [Music] hallelujah [Music] is oh he's alive today so i can raise grace to him [Music] louder sing a little louder [Music] [Music] of my enemies [Music] me is in the middle of the storm [Music] [Applause] is oh he's alive today come on let's praise him right now let's praise him right now come on all across this house let's lift up the name of the lord jesus come on and make a joyful noise to the lord right now serve him with gladness enter his gates with thanksgiving we come into your courts with praise lord hallelujah hallelujah and all the church said amen how many of you know it does not make sense to our enemy when we praise god in the middle of a storm when everything looks like we should just shut it down and hold ourselves away but there's a praise in our spirit there's a lifted voice there's a lifted hand anybody feel a little bit of praise in your spirit today i'm going to praise him today i'm going to praise him today amen it is so good to be in the house of the lord with you and we welcome you on this sunday morning turn to somebody and just visually connect with them and wave at them fist bump with them let them know you're happy that they came to church today amen we are so so glad to have you in the house of the lord with us on a sunday morning amen praise god you may be seated amen it is just wonderful to worship god and to feel his great presence in the middle of the summer amen and here's the way i feel like it uh we have one more shot on a sunday to have church in july and we're in it so we might as well get everything out of july that we can on a sunday morning amen and i'm just thrilled to be worshiping with you and to just feel the presence of the lord we have just come out of a tremendous spanish camp meeting down in redfield the last several days now you talk about fun and i use that word intentionally it is wonderful to get together with god's people and to worship in the presence of god now one of the things that i have noted about spanish camp meeting is there is a lot of worship there is loud worship and there's fast music and i love it i walked in that tabernacle on friday morning and they were getting it they didn't pass go they didn't collect 200 they just got after it amen i want to give you a little a picture of what spanish camp meetings like this is from friday night watch this this is from friday night that was at spanish camp meeting people being water baptized in jesus name that's what camp meeting is all about do we have the video of the choir singing isn't that awesome [Music] oh it was awesome what you don't see on that video is me over there saying gracie senor gloria adios amen we were ever more having great church at spanish camp meeting and we are thrilled this morning to have elmer and renee lagos with us they are ministers give them a good hand of welcome to new life today they are ministers in greater vision ministries up in paraguay they were a part of the spanish camp meeting they were actually helping put that camp meeting on and we're going to be so blessed tonight in our service at iglesia nuevo vida to have brother lagos ministering the word of the lord and so we just made a deal i said brother lagos now you're going to be at spanish camp meeting through saturday you're going to be preaching for iglesia on sunday night why don't y'all just come sunday morning and be in church with us and worship with us i'm going to preach here in just a few minutes but i want to hear from the lagos would you welcome him to this pulpit right now brother logos we're glad you're here greet this congregation in jesus name gloria dios amen amen it's so good to be with you guys i told brother gary we couldn't miss being with you guys on sunday morning amen but he didn't tell you we we had three baptisms and eight filled with the holy ghost this past weekend gloria dios i was praying in this past week and in preparation for this sunday service and god spoke a word to me for the spanish church and for the churches of arkansas he said umbiento de avivanto multicultural yegoa arkansas yes don cabot he said a wind of multicultural revival is in arkansas and it's in cabot brother gaddy it's here it's here it's now it's now it's a horror yestaki i'm in and yesterday i was in the in my hotel room and my wife was in bed and man the presence of god just swept in there and put me on my face and he spoke to me he said the harvest is ready the la cosecha esta lista and he said it again it's now esaura there's no coincidence that we had three get baptized this weekend it's no coincidence that we had eight get filled with the holy ghost for the first time it's no coincidence revival is now that wind of multicultural revival is here and it's now a sake amen i guess that's all i have to say brother gaddy [Applause] praise god amen amen how many receive that word right there in jesus name thank you brother lagos come on i think we ought to stand and say lord i believe everything you just said through brother lagos right now come on that wasn't just a man saying that that was the word of the lord for this church i receive it lord i open up to it i say amen in my spirit i say yes lord hallelujah we say yes lord to that hallelujah amen amen amen praise god let's all just remain standing if you would thank you brother lagos we're so honored to have you and your good wife sister renee we're glad to have you with us today amen we look forward to a great time in the lord that starts tonight at 6 00 p.m and that service will be across the breezeway in bennett hall amen if you have your bible turn with me to the gospel of john chapter 15. perhaps it's already been stated but today is family sunday and our children and our students are in here with us today and it's good to all be together doesn't don't people look good around you right now be careful because your spouse is standing near you right now you need to agree to that amen garrett good to have you back home garrett thomas is back home from clc fresh off the preaching tour amen so good to have garrett back home and it's just good chandler good to see you amen this is what i get i start naming people and i'm surely going to miss somebody so if i don't call you out or introduce myself to you it's certainly not because i'm trying to i just am so thankful that everybody is here if you got john 15 in your bible would you say i'm there good that sounds like quite a few maybe we have a quorum maybe we have a majority here john 15 and for those of how many of you were here in church last sunday morning would you wave at me you were here last sunday morning do any of you remember and this is dangerous for a preacher to ask this question do any of you remember what the title of my sermon was last sunday morning how to be rich how to be rich now i have an idea that probably when we post that to youtube we're going to get quite a few clicks on that one right there maybe not because they want to watch the whole sermon but that's what you call click bait right there the pastor's going to tell us how to be rich well today and by the way uh when i was younger in ministry i used to try really really hard to come up with snazzy titles i think i probably told you this before but i'll say it again i preached one time brother oil a message called a horseshoe a grenade and a conquering brigade and the sermon was as lousy as the title oh i tried really real i preached another message brother ordo may remember that i preached another message one of the first conferences i ever preached at was a message entitled short people have every reason to live seriously that was my title do any of you remember that song from the 70s sure people got no reason sure people got no re how many of you remember that blasphemous song well i preached short people have every reason we've all come short of the glory of god but we got a reason to live because of the cross well i i'm not going to be creative today today i'm preaching how to be rich part two some of you are so excited right now here's the words of jesus in john chapter 15 and verse number five he says i am the vine you are the branches he who abides in me everyone say abides in me abides in me and i in him notice the prerequisite for him abiding in us is us abiding in him he will bear much fruit and then i love i don't like it because it sounds negative but i love because of the truth embedded in it the last part of verse number five for without me you can do nothing now if you have that in your bible or it's on the screen i want you to read that last phrase for without me you can do nothing amen how to be rich part two let's pray right now let's ask the lord to talk to our hearts would you do that lord thank you for this great great morning i feel your presence so real so strong we felt it in the prayer room lord we felt it and experienced it as sister lindsay and the praise team have led us in worship i ask in the name of jesus that you will let your glory fill this house give us ears and hearts to know your word to live by your word to walk after your word lord i pray that every distraction lord that would be in this house would be driven out by the authority of the name of jesus and lord in place of the distraction let there be a singularity of focus as we focus on your word speak to us in jesus name and everyone would you say amen amen god bless you you may be seated [Music] [Music] the words of jesus have always always amazed me the words are in red in a red letter edition of the bible and there's something about when you read those read letters and words that piques my curiosity because if i want to be a true disciple which means a follower of jesus christ then what he declares in his word is what i need to listen to it's the road map it's the template it's the pattern if you will for a successful christian life this is why when i read the text that we read just a few moments ago and jesus said unless you abide in me and i in you you can do nothing on your own now i i wish to just try with god's help to make that plane today jesus didn't say that if you are separate from him you won't exist jesus did not say if you don't abide in him that you won't live a life and you won't occupy space on the earth but jesus said if you are not abiding in him and he is not abiding in you then there is nothing lasting that will take place in your life i'm preaching this morning to people that i look out across this congregation and i think perhaps you're like me we want our life to count i don't want to live my life and be buried in a grave someday and the only thing said about my life is that i had a dash between my birthday and my death day but in that dash i want to live life to its fullest i want to be used by god i want his purpose to be done in my life how many of you have that desire today you want to do more than just exist and take up space jesus said you can do nothing and the inference here is nothing lasting when we are disconnected from jesus he goes on in the very next verse past our text to say it like this if anyone does not abide in me he is cast out as a branch and is withered and they gather them and throw them into the fire and they are burned i want you to see this in your bible i don't want you to take my word for it i want you to see it in your bible in verse number six he says if you are not abiding in him we'll talk about what that means in just a moment but if i am not abiding in him then that branch will be withered everybody say withered wither speaks to the present state apart from the vine the present state and then the end result will be that those branches will be gathered together and they will be thrown into the fire that is the ultimate state of being apart from the vine so there is this progression when i am disconnected from the lord there is this progression when i am disconnected as a branch from the vine i will first wither the word wither means to dry up there's no life-giving power coming in that branch any further that's the present state of being separated from the vine but then ultimately those branches will be gathered together and they will be cast into the fire that is the ultimate state of being separated from the vine yesterday because of the beauty of the day and the no rain in the forecast i decided to do some yard work and i was cleaning up around our yard and as i was kind of trimming hedges and going through the the yard work routine i came across several branches that were in the grass just had fallen off of trees and i gathered them together and us preachers can get sermons from anything and so i'm all hot and sweaty i have these branches tom gathered together and i threw him down on the driveway and i didn't have my phone with me so i said i went inside and i said stacy can you bring your phone out here and she came outside and i want to show you what i took a pet or take a picture of that was on my driveway yesterday that is an impressive picture of branches is it not they were just laying here there there was no rhyme or reason to the branches and so i decided just to pull them together and then i had a thought i said you know tim there is a pile in the backyard that you've been meaning to burn for a long time this would be a good collection to take to the burn pile and to burn and so i gathered those sticks that impressive group of sticks right there and i brought them back to the burn pile and i lit them on fire and james when i lit him on fire the holy ghost spoke to me and said remember what you are preaching tomorrow morning at new life i said oh my goodness lord you let me live this sermon out 24 hours before i preach it at new life here's the thing there's nothing really impressive about that pile of branches right put that back on there brother corey if you would there's nothing really impressive about that pile of branches here's why because they are totally separated from their purpose they are totally disconnected from any life-giving source can i tell somebody in this house and i feel it in my spirit to make sure we know this today there really is little hope for you and for me when we're disconnected from jesus it's why life doesn't make sense it's why we get disgruntled it's why we wake up grumpy and we go to bed grumpy and we can't seem to find the thrill like we used to find it's not because the thrill isn't a thrill anymore it's because we're not connected to the source of power oh i'm praying that something will happen inside of us on this sunday morning that will say if i'm disconnected i got to get reconnected if i've been separated from jesus i gotta plug back in i must let him give me life and remember what jesus said without me apart from me you can do nothing everybody say nothing now i want to give you two points and just so you know kind of how my brain works which is a little scary sometimes in my notes i put above these two points huge points so i don't think they're going to put huge points above it on the screen but just know that what i'm getting ready to tell this church on this sunday morning are huge points look at someone and say this is going to be really big right here first of all god does not allow things in our lives to make us comfortable he allows to make us fruitful that's huge now that's tough but that's huge that's so good i'm going to say that again god does not allow things in our lives to make us comfortable he allows to make us fruitful ready nod your neighbor and say here's number two number two the purpose of my fruitfulness is to nourish others you know there's a there's a virus going around right now and it's it's uh acronym is not covid that's going around too but there's another virus going around and it is called me itis where it's about me it's about my comfort i live my best life right now it's me me me me me me i come to church and he makes me feel good i go to prayer and it scratches that itch that lets me know i'm doing what i'm supposed to be doing and living for god it's about me when really if you and i really look at it intently we will find that what god does in our life and better than that what he allows in our life is to produce something in us that helps somebody other than ourselves oh i want to pray i want to preach to some saved folks right now we are billboards to the world of what the lord is for us we are signposts to somebody we when he brings something in our life can i say it right when he allows something to happen it's not because he's some cosmic bully he's trying to produce something in us that will be useful to somebody else are you hearing what i'm saying today now i want you to see this in the scripture because this is this is very very powerful there are four levels of fruitfulness in this passage and i want you to see this so if you have your bible look at it it's it's good sometimes to see it in your bible so you're like yeah that is there verse 2 john chapter 15 and verse 2. every branch in me that does not bear fruit everybody say no fruit he takes away more on that in a minute every branch that bears fruit everybody say bears fruit he prunes more on that in just a moment that it may bear more fruit everybody say more fruit now look at verse number eight by this my father is glorified that you bear much fruit so you will be my disciples in the span of eight verses jesus talks about no fruit he talks about bearing fruit he talks about more fruit and he talks about much fruit now i did a little looking because this agricultural theme is wound all the way through scripture it's one of the most predominant themes in the bible is an agricultural theme and we live in an agricultural state we got farmers all from one side of the state to the other so i think it's quite appropriate for us to look at this today according to the clemson college of agriculture if there are no flowers on a plant then there can be no fruit that is formed flowering precedes fruit now please listen clue in with me right now when we are connected to jesus christ our lives by virtue of that connection will begin to produce evidence of that connection and if it continues fruit will come a plant doesn't start off shooting fruit out a plant starts off putting flowers out and when the flower comes the fruit will come when there is the initial evidence of connection there it will naturally if healthy produce the fruit if there is no fruit then god will intervene to do whatever is necessary to produce that fruit but this is something i said at the close of last sunday's sermon god always acts with redemption in mind that's huge point number three by the way i didn't put huge point over that one but that's huge right there god always acts with redemption in mind everybody say that with me god always acts with redemption in mind have you ever come into the house of the lord and the service goes on the praise team is singing the preacher gets up and preaches and all the while there's a little gnawing inside of you going um i need to get right with god oh yeah hmm you ever had that oh moment with god now the truth of the matter is if i was to have people raise their hands that have ever felt that in a church service there'd be a lot of hands go up in this room right now do you know what that is that's a good old-fashioned word called conviction now we don't hear a lot about that word anymore i don't preach a lot with that word a lot anymore convict your conviction is conviction is our friend conviction doesn't just make us feel bad in the service there are people across this world today that want to go to church just simply to feel good but if i'm apart from god i don't need god to make me feel good i need him to stir me up to get right with him and when he stirs me up when he allows conviction when he allows that gnawing inside of me that propels me and pushes me to prayer it's because he has redemption in mind he has something of redemption in mind now again i think it's important for us to understand if there is no fruit god will intervene and he will discipline us he'll come alongside and he will act with redemption in mind look in your bible at that second verse again he says in in verse number two every branch in me that does not bear fruit he takes away you see that now if we're not careful we can read that verse that's in the new king james version we can read that verse and we can think in terms of our mindset if you're not bearing fruit tough luck you're out of here but that's a western mindset i want you to go in your bible to the book of matthew chapter number four please the first book of the new testament matthew chapter number four and i want to show you something in the scripture this is going to be good for us as we learn to study god's word as well matthew chapter four and verse number six this is the first time that that term or that word take away is used in the new testament and those of you that have been a part of this church for a while you know that there's a principle in studying scripture called the principle of first mention the principle first mentioned says if you want to understand the the premise behind a topic or a subject in scripture go to the first time it's mentioned and it will many times give you context for how it's to be understood in the rest of the bible so the first time that take away or taking away is mentioned in the new testament is in matthew chapter four and verse six and here's what the scripture says the the devil has jesus and he's on a high place and he says this if you are the son of god throw yourself down for it is written he shall give his angels charge over you watch this here it comes and in their hands they shall bear you up lest you dash your foot against a stone it is in this passage that we see the definition or the real example of what takeaway means in john chapter 15. the lord is not speaking here and saying if you don't bear fruit tough luck you're out of here what he's saying is if someone does not bear fruit in their life the vine dresser our heavenly father will come along and he will bear you up he will pick you up he will position you maybe in a better place to begin to produce a flower which will then produce fruit that's the goal of a good vine dresser to make sure that those plants have the best chance possible to grow oh i feel it today i want someone to understand this your heavenly father is on your side he's on my side he wants us to bring forth good fruit and so if we're going through our life and we're not bringing forth fruit he will do what is necessary to bear us up to lift us up and bring us where we need to be to produce fruitfulness that speaks of the character of the one to whom we are connected when we consider this lifting process we go to isaiah chapter 42 and verse 3 and we see the character of this great god who does the lifting here's what isaiah the prophet said a bruised reed he will not break and a smoking flax he will not quench he will bring forth justice for truth how many of you have been at the place where you needed the lord to lift you just a little bit anybody been there before anybody ever disappointed yourself and you didn't need the vine dresser to come and take you away and throw you in the rubbish pile somewhere you needed someone with loving arms to get up underneath you and to reposition you to where something could happen that would bring forth fruit come on he's a god of restoration today he's a god that knows where he's not willing that any should perish but all should come to repentance when there is no fruit he'll lift us up he'll reposition us that's the way he does and so as we consider this and i know we've got some people in this room i'm amazed by your green thumb ability i don't have that i don't have a green thumb i have a black thumb i i can touch it and it really get bad but as i was studying through this i thought we got to get a little bit into this agriculture what is it that causes a plant not to flower in other words it's connected but it's not producing a flower that will then produce fruit how does that happen and as i'm looking at this the first thing right out of the gate that gardeners say happens when something doesn't produce flower or flowers is they're in too much shade and so the vine dresser will move the plant into the light david said it like this in psalm 139 search me oh god and know my heart try me and know my anxieties and see if there is any wicked way in me and lead me in the way everlasting i am so thankful that when i'm not bearing fruit he repositions me and puts me in the light he takes me out of the shadows he takes me out of the ship but can i tell you something we have to be willing to come out from the shade we have to be willing to not tuck ourselves in the corner and say i'm just going to go about life and and kind of go go away no we've got to come out and be honest with god we've got to be honest with one another let the light shine [Music] this is how he lifts up a plant so that flowers can come and fruit will remain everybody say get out of the shade look at someone and say get out of the shade how do we do this we invite god's word into our lives because the psalmist said it like this your word is a lamp to my feet and it is a light to my path i want the flowering process to grow in my life so that's what causes no flowering what causes no fruit the thing that causes no fruit predominantly is no cross pollination now we're going to have a little agricultural lesson this morning you ready here we go everybody put your agricultural hat on right now one of the ways that plants can produce offspring is by making seeds seeds contain the genetic information to produce a new plant flowers are the tools that plants use to make their seeds seeds can only be produced when pollen is transferred between flowers of the same species watch this it's on the screen how does pollen get from one flower to another flowers must rely on vectors to move pollen these vectors can include wind water birds insects butterflies and other animals that visit flowers we call animals or insects that transfer pollen from plant to plant pollinators so with that in mind let me re-read part of that paragraph these vectors can include wind water birds insects butterflies other people in the church other saints of god and other people in your small group see some of you got that right there some of you were saying i didn't see that on the screen do you know what happens week after week after week after week after week after week in a local church there's a whole lot of cross-pollinating going on we're all of the same dna holy ghost species but when fruit comes it only comes when there is pollination from one to the other and so everything i go through in the body of christ is an opportunity to let something germinate in my spirit that would produce more fruit in my there's a whole lot of vectors in this room right now there's a whole lot of cross-pollinating potential in this room right now i say let the body be the body let the church be the church help each other grow and produce fruit oh i'm having a ball i don't know if you're getting this but i'm having fun right now you know thank you brother tim there's something that happens when you're in the body of christ can i say it like this there's something that happens only when you're in the body of christ my interactions with you and your interactions with me and your interactions with someone else are not just happenstance they are god's way of producing something in us that will produce fruit that helps someone else is this making sense today look at your friend next to you and say hello vector paul spoke to the romans and said it for as we have many members in one body but all the members do not have the same function so we being many are one body in christ and individually members of one another and so i'm just going to get right down where the rubber meets the road when god wants to produce fruit in me and it's not being produced sometimes he will lift me up by allowing me to have interaction with what i call a grace builder testing one two three check someone who rubs me the wrong way someone that i just don't get along with and it might be easy for me to hightail it out of that and say i want nothing to do with that person i'm gonna sit on this side of the church they sit on that side of the church when really god may be using that person as a vector to perfect something in me to produce fruit in me that can help somebody else praise god now in the second verse i mean got past verse two every branch of me that does not bear fruit he takes away he lifts up every branch that bears fruit he prunes that it may bear more fruit now on the surface when i read that verse when i s sister lexi when i see jesus say everybody that bears fruit initially i start thinking isn't that what he's wanting is that good enough but according to the vine dresser everyone that bears fruit the vine dresser's goal is more fruit and so he takes an action and he begins to prune oh my bruce wilkerson wrote a book years ago called secrets of the vine it's on this exact chapter in the bible he tells the story of a man coming home from traveling and he had a gardener that worked at his house and this man had a beautiful fence row full of roses and this man arrived back home from a trip to see the gardener standing at the fence row cutting away at the vines and the homeowner was aghast screeched into the driveway jumped out and said stop you're ruining the fence row what are you doing look how beautiful those roses are and the gardener looked at him probably with a little disdain and he said this do you want a pretty fence row or do you want more roses because you can't have both do you want something that just looks good to people or would you want more roses and the only way you get more roses is you got to prune that thing every once in a while you got to get in there and cut some things away every once in a while but if you will do that with discretion and care it's going to produce something that goes far beyond what you even see to your eye right now how many of you in this house you don't want just fruit in your life you want more fruit in your life well that desire that desire produces at times the pruning process that the lord brings us through and i will just tell you something that is not fun it's not comfortable but his purpose for pruning in our life is to cut away immature commitments cut away lesser priorities to make room for even greater abundance of glory in our lives see without a pruning process we will only be able to live up to a fraction of our potential but pruning listen listen to pastor right now pruning is how god answers our prayers that our life will please him and have a greater impact in eternity you know i'm beginning to learn more and i don't have this figured out but you know i'm beginning to learn more some of the most mightily used people if you look in their life you won't see a silver spoon that they were born with but you will see some pruning times in their life that they handled correctly and they yielded to god and they didn't get offended by that but they said lord i'm gonna choose to trust you right now that what you brought me to you can bring me through and i'm gonna give my life to you i'm gonna learn the lessons i need to oh i feel the holy ghost right now i'm going to learn the lessons i need to learn right now i'm not going to get all emotional about it i'm not going to live up here trying to figure everything out but this jesus that brought me to this will bring me through it i'm going to give myself to his purpose i'm going to let this process work in my life sometimes he's got to cut some stuff out of me because if he doesn't cut it out of me i can't get to that next place in him i want you to stand with me if you would when i'm connected but i'm not bearing fruit he lifts us he pulls us into the light he allows people in our lives to pollinate us to produce fruit but then if we are connected and we are producing fruit in order to go to more fruit he prunes but i just want to say this and i feel compelled in the holy ghost to declare it like this we can trust the one with the pruning shears he's not trying to kill us he's trying to grow us his goal is more fruit not just fruit now you will notice if you've been paying attention in this sermon that there were two other types of fruitfulness that i will not discuss today other than just to make a cursory comment about it jesus says this once more fruit comes and it is yielded to the lord it will produce much fruit do you know what has to happen to produce much fruit in our lives i'm talking about the highest level of fruitfulness ready and this is probably not gonna be real popular with people in this room but i'm gonna go ahead and say you know what we'll produce go take us from more fruit to much fruit ready time oh no come on pastor give me the magic wand just come over me and rub all over me and let that anointing drip down on me and come on just impart it i believe in impartation just imp no no it doesn't happen like that folks if you've ever seen a prayer warrior that looks like they have a direct line to heaven you ever met anybody like that they're the kind of people that when you have a need you call them first do you want to know how that happens in someone's lives you want to know how someone has a direct line to heaven how they're producing much fruit in their life that takes time but we have to commit to that listen i i just i got i got spiritual antennas up today i feel a lot of stuff happening in the holy ghost right now but the reason why there's flippancy sometimes in the bi in in church out of church in in with god out of god is because we haven't settled the issue i'm in this thing for the long haul listen it makes total sense in living for god if you will settle the lordship issue settle the ish he's going to be lord of my life what is in this book is going to be what i live by once we settle that fruit can start being produced in our life but it's absurd for me to not settle that issue and then hope to be like jesus amen i want fruit that remains in my life i want fruit i want much fruit in your life i want us to be able to look back 15 20 25 years from now when some of you have grandkids that you just have little kids right now but you got grandkids toddling around you and i want you to say you know what it's sweeter today than it was 25 years ago i've been letting that fruitfulness work in my i've been letting the pruning process i haven't got angry at god i haven't always understood the pruning process but i trust who is doing the pruning and it's producing something in my life here's what i want to ask us to do we're going to come together as a church family right now for prayer we'll do it with respect in mind we don't have to wad all up on each other but if you're here and you just want to signify to the lord jesus that you are hearing what is being preached today and you want to respond by stepping out and coming and standing as a family and praying together with us today you don't have to be a member of this church to respond right now but if that's you if you feel that call in your spirit i want you to step out quickly if you would and come and just stand along the front here of this church we're going to pray together we're going to pray together hallelujah who i feel the holy ghost helping us right now you know what i'll have more to say in just a moment but i want us to feel after the lord right now someone is someone's receiving the word right now go ahead and pray just say whatever you want to to the lord right now as you step out and you come up to the front right now or maybe you're standing where you're at i want you just to open your spirit to the lord right now thank you jesus thank you jesus come on this message has resonated with somebody here today i feel it in the holy ghost right now come on we're praying right here at new life those of you that are watching online right now let the holy ghost minister to you right now let the word that's been preached marinate in your spirit right now go ahead and pray in your living room wherever you're wherever you are watching right now let the holy ghost minister to you right now some of these points are resonating in our spirits right now we can trust you lord we can trust our heavenly father we can trust the vine dresser we can trust you lord that when you cut something away it's not because you're being mean to us but you always have redemption in mind oh god you always have redemption in mind praise god praise god praise god praise god those of you that are here at the altar i wish you'd pray specifically with me right now we don't always do this but i want to put on the screen something i want you just to gather your hearts and your minds around right now this is the way that i felt it when i was putting this sermon together it's just simply jesus help me to produce fruit with my life is that your prayer right now if that's your prayer i want you to pray that to the lord right now jesus help me to produce fruit with my life i don't want to simply exist i don't want to simply go through the motions i don't want to just live and it'd be a dash in between a birthday and a death date help me to produce fruit in my life lord help me to produce fruit in my life come on let's go a little further jesus lift me up when i'm not producing fruit come on that takes a brave soul to pray that prayer right now jesus lift me up get me out of the shadows jesus i'm asking you to help somebody be send somebody in my life that's going to help produce some fruit in my life help me lord lift me up when i'm not producing fruit come on step on into it right now say jesus let me see pruning as necessary for more growth in my life somebody pray that out to the lord that's tough to pray that but i feel like spiritual maturity is trying to take place right now jesus help me to see pruning as necessary for more growth let's pray it right now jesus let my life produce much fruit so you will be glorified lord we don't want to just be connected we don't want to just produce fruit but we want much fruit lord we want to nourish somebody else through our life we want to have the richness of life not just to get by life in jesus name why don't you pray for someone that's near you right now the holy ghost is at work i want us to sing to the lord right now there is a move of god's spirit that is coursing through this altar right now here's what's happening this whole church is an altar right now this whole sanctuary is an altar right now this whole place is an altar right now come on sis there's a reason that he's been pruning in your life [Music] god's been working if we'll allow it it'll produce fruit in our life [Music] come on let the gifts of the spirit operate in your prayer right now somebody's identifying with it right now somebody's understanding it right now somebody's connecting with it right now [Music] overtake us we're living for you jesus our confidence is in you lord jesus you're the one we need god you're the one we anchor in today you're the one we anchor in today god we're gonna trust you we choose to trust you this morning we choose to trust you this morning lord we choose to put confidence in you today lord oh yes yes yes yes yes yes [Laughter] come on that's it there may be a breakthrough for that person that you're praying with right now this might be a day they look back on and say i remember when god touched me he changed my thinking he changed my mind he changed my mindset hallelujah [Music] thank you jesus thank you jesus holy spirit go ahead go ahead go ahead minister to one another right now minister to one another you're the one we're living for oh there is nothing we want more we want more oh yes we want more oh sing it out now sing it out yeah hallelujah thank you lord thank you lord thank you lord hallelujah thank you jesus thank you lord thank you lord oh yes [Music] come on we're not in a hurry today the holy ghost is at work right now we're not in a hurry this morning the holy ghost is working right now [Music] it's all about you lord it's all about you it's about being your disciple your follower lord walking after you lord jesus oh i decrees as you increase it's all about you yes i decrease as you increase oh it's all about you [Music] it's not about seeing that again i decree sign decrees it's not about me lord it's about your kingdom it's about your kingdom lord not about me i decrease i decree oh as a you increase oh it's all about you hallelujah hallelujah thank you lord jesus your word has been declared on sunday morning your people we have heard your word god by virtue of hearing your word we are all now accountable for your word and i pray in the name of jesus that you will let this seed that's been put forth in this house today go deep into our hearts lord don't let the enemy come and pluck it out lord don't let the cares of life crowded out lord jesus but i pray lord that you will do what is necessary to bring forth much fruit lord much fruit lord much fruit lord in jesus name in jesus name in jesus name hallelujah hallelujah hallelujah thank you jesus thank you jesus praise god hallelujah amen what a beautiful thing to be in the body of christ today what a beautiful thing i'm thankful for a body that has grace one toward another reason i say this today is because i'm not aware of any major contentions among people so i'll go ahead and speak it right now how we put up with each other really makes fruitfulness come or dissipate in our life reason why i can say this i don't have anybody in my mind right now but folks we're in this together look at somebody and say whether you like me or not this is what you got [Music] it's us so we might as well pollinate one another we might as well let the holy ghost use each other to produce something fruitfulness in our life amen amen god go with your people let your faith smile on this group this week lord whew i pray this last week of july that you'll do something in this church lord you that have begun a good work in this church you will complete it until the day of jesus christ i pray lord you'd go with us you let our steps be ordered by you lord jesus give us opportunity to share a testimony this week lord let the powerful gifts of the holy ghost operate in every family in this church lord keep us from offense lord keep us humble in your presence lord keep us walking after your word oprah oh god i pray a powerful visit to the holy ghost at iglesia tonight lord i pray that people will be filled with the holy ghost people will continue to be baptized in water in the name of jesus and we thank you we give you all of the glory and all of the honor lord in jesus mighty name in jesus name amen amen every time we come together we have water for those that are ready to be water baptized if you're ready you want to have the name of jesus called over you in water baptism the only saving name that is attached to baptism in the bible let us know wave at somebody we can baptize you today after you've repented may the lord bless you you're dismissed whenever you would like have a wonderful week this week don't miss wednesday night great time of prayer coming up [Music] this is a parent meeting for all the nexus students going to the retreat in the chapel would you please head to the chapel parents parent meeting next door

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