July 30, 2025 • 67 mins
The Porch examines John 15, emphasizing that believers must remain connected to the Lord through faith, obedience, and love to be fruitful. The Holy Spirit sustains and empowers them to live fruitful lives that honor God.
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Speaking of prayer, pray for our persecuted brothers and sisters
that are being slaughtered around the world right now in
numbers that are staggering. Pray for the peace of Jerusalem
because that means the return of the Prince of Peace. Father,
We praise you, We praise you, and we love you,
and we thank you. We thank you for being Abbah
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Papa Daddy. We thank you for loving us When we
were unlovable. We thank you for sending your shoe to
die on our behalf, to pay for our sins with
his blood, so that your children could come home to you.
The father's heart was so great that you looked at
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your only begotten son and said, you're going to have
to do it for them. Thank you, Lord, Thank you
for doing that, for enduring the pain, the shame, everything
that they did to you that day. There's no way
to describe the horror of it except to say thank you,
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and we love you. Thank you for sending back the
Holy Spirit, the Rua kak Kadesh, to walk with us,
to teach us, the guide us, to comfort us. We
so desperately need it in this hour. So we take
our thoughts captive to the obedience of Messiah. We claim
the mind of Messiah, casting down every vain imagination, every
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demonic interference, every false teaching, claiming your thoughts, your intent,
your heart, everything that would exalt itself above the knowledge
of l and God Most High, our Father, We reject it.
We open our hearts and our minds to you. We say,
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Holy Spirit, have your way with us. Protect us, Lord,
protect all that we have, Protect this technology. Let your word,
go forth, let it do what you desire to do.
Holy Spirit. It's your time. Whatever you want to do,
we say yes and amen, and you shoe his name.
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in your spirit, because I believe the signs of the
times are blaring to us to be ready, for we
do not know the hour that the Master will return.
We must be ready.
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And that's why I believe he's teaching what he's teaching
on for us to be filled with the Holy Spirit,
to be fruitful. Go with me to John fifteen, starting
verse one. This is the Lord I am, the true
vine Father, is the vine dresser. Every branch in me
that does not bear fruit he takes away, and every
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branch that bears fruit he prunes that it may bear
more fruit. You are already clean because of the word
which I've spoken to you. Abide in me, and I
in you. As the branch cannot bear fruit of itself
unless it abides in me, neither can you unless you
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abide in me. Let me go back to that. Sorry,
even before we got started, even before anything, I just
the presence of the Lord is so strong in this
room right now. Abide in me and I in you.
As the branch cannot bear fruit of itself unless it
abides in the vine, neither can you unless you abide
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in me. I am the vine. You are the branches.
He who abides in me and I in him bears
much fruit. For without me you can do nothing. If
anyone does not abide in me, he is cast out
as a branch and is withered, and they gather them
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and throw them into the fire, and they are burned.
If you abide in me and my words abide in you,
you will ask what you desire, and it shall be
done for you. By this, my Father is glorified that
you bear much fruit. So you will be my disciples.
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Remain in me, and I will remain in you. How
how is that going to happen? By the abiding presence
of the Holy Spirit in us? The Life Application Bible
commentary says the grapevine is a prolific plant. A single
vine bears many grapes. In the Old Testament, grapes symbolized
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Israel's fruitful in doing God's work on earth. The prophets
had written of Israel as God's vine, carefully planted and
cared for. But the vine was a disappointment because it
yielded only rotten fruit. That is, they refused to give
him love and obedience. We see this in Isaiah chapter five,
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verses one through seven. Now let me sing to my
well beloved a song of my beloved regarding his vineyard.
My well beloved has a vineyard on a very fruitful hill.
He dug it up and cleared out its stones, and
planted it with the choicest vine. He built a tower
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in its mist, and also made a wine pressed in it.
He expected it to bear forth good fruits, but it
brought forth wild grapes. He expected good grapes and got
wild grapes. Oh, and now, ow, inhabitants of Jerusalem and
men of Judah, judge, please between me and my vineyard.
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What more could I have done to my vineyard that
I have not done in it?
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Why?
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Then, when I expected it to bring forth good grapes,
did it bring forth wild grape. And now please let
me tell you what I will do to my vineyard.
I will take away its hedge that means its protection,
and it shall be burned, and break down its wall,
and it shall be trampled down. I will lay at waste.
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It shall not be pruned or dug, but there shall
come up briars and thorns. I will also command the
clouds that they will reign no more reign on it.
For the vineyard of the Lord of Hosts is the
house of Israel, and the men of Judah are his
pleasant plant. He looked for justice, but behold oppression for righteousness,
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but behold a cry for help. And I speak this
to you, and I feel the presence of the Lord
on this and the spirit in it. I can say
that's a word to the church. He looked for justice
and found oppression. He looked for righteousness, and all he
can hear his cries for help of the sheep that
have wandered off, of the pastors that are too busy
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fleecing the flock and doing they're doing what they're doing
to go out there and look for them. So instead
he has to find sheep dogs that he has raised
up to go rescue his little lambs. Doesn't anyone care.
Doesn't anyone care that the flock isn't being fed, Doesn't
anyone care that they're being fleeced and left unprotected to
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the wolves that are just walking in and taking them.
So there are barriers to fruitfulness. One is a lack
of proper nourishment, which in the natural was a poor
supply of water or nutrients. When that happens, the vine
is destroyed. Well. Spiritually, that means if the Holy Spirit
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does not flow in us, we will be unproductive. Then
there's disease insects and disease move from dead wood into
healthy plants. You see that all the time if you
try to have a garden or plants outside well. Spiritually,
ongoing sin and unresolved past issues will lead to spiritual
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and effectiveness. That's why you always need to pray. Lord,
search me. If there's anything unclean in me, take it out.
I repent of all sins known and unknown, of acts
of comission or omission. Cleanse me. Then there's immature branches.
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New branches require several years of pruning before they can
produce use any fruit. We need time to grow and
growth involves suffering improper pruning. Well, guess what it takes
a wise gardener to know what to remove in order
to bring about fruitfulness. Our priorities and the focus of
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our energies must be guided by the Lord and his word,
not our own wisdom or desires the man made teachings.
The other thing is that if there's no gardener, then
the vines are not being tended to well. In our case,
we know that there is a gardener. But if we're
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resistant to God's guidance and pruning again, we're unfruitful and
the worst thing of all to become separated from the vine.
Branches must be attached to a healthy rootstock. We cannot
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We cannot think for a moment that we can survive
apart from Yeshuah, from Jesus the Messiah. He is the
giver and sustainer of life. Our Abbah, God is the gardener.
He's the cultivator of the vine and the branches.
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That's us.
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So to be fruitful, the vine has to have his attention,
and wild vines are unproductive. And in Israel's case, they
had his attention, but they didn't want to listen. They
didn't want to do what he said. Is the church
any different these days to the things that we allow,
to the things that we condone we call sin? Okay,
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we need to be pruned Colossians won starting verse nine,
Paul says, for this reason, we also, since the day
we heard it, do not cease to pray for you
and to ask that you may be filled with the
knowledge of His will in all wisdom and spiritual understanding,
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that you may walk worthy of the Lord, fully pleasing Him,
being fruitful in every good work, and increasing in the
knowledge of God, increasing in the knowledge of God, growing, studying, praying, praising, worshiping.
If we don't do that, complacency sets in. And we
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know clearly from Revelation chapter three to the lukewarm Church
and Laodicea darning verse fourteen. These things, says the Amen,
the faithful and true witness the beginning of the creation
of God. I know your works that you are neither
cold nor hot. I could wish you were cold or hot.
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So then, because you are lukewarm and neither cold nor hot,
I will vomit you out of my mouth. Jactile will
spew you away from me because you say I am rich.
I've become wealthy, and I have need of nothing, and
do not know that you are riched, miserable, poor, blind,
and naked, And counsel you to buy from me gold
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refined in the fire, that you may be rich in
white garments, that you may be clothed, that the shame
of your nakedness may not be revealed. And anoint your
eyes with eyesalbs, so that you may see as many
as I love. I rebuke and chasten. Therefore, be zealous
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and repent. Be zealous and repent, behold, says the Lord.
I stand at the door knock. If anyone hears my
voice and opens the door, I will come in to
him and dine with him, and he with me. To
him who overcomes, I will grant to sit with me
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on my throne. I also overcame and sat down with
my father on his throne. Of those who my dearly
and tenderly love, I rebuke in discipline, showing them their
faults and instructing them, so be enthusiastic and repent. Change
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her in herself, your old way of thinking, your sinful behavior.
Seek God's will. See if complacency sets in, that's exactly
how we become see Paul understood this, and he tried
to impart that to the church in corinth and first
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Corinthians three starting verse five. And he's dealing with the
factions in the church which we talked about last week,
which led to its ultimate not demise but disruption. What then,
is apollo us? What is Paul ministering servants, not heads
of parties through whom you believed, even as the Lord
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appointed to each his task. I planted Apollos watered, but
God all the while was making it grow, and he
gave the increase. So neither he who plants is anything,
nor he who waters, but only God who makes it
grow and become greater ties. Exactly to what the Lord
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is saying the parables and the allegory about the wine.
Every branch in me that does not bear fruit he
takes away, and every branch that bears fruit he prunes
the he being his father, that it may bear more fruit.
That's what it's all about. It's about bearing more fruit.
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It's about being fruit full. All believers are the branches.
Fruitful believers produce fruit because of their union with the Lord. Lord.
Unfruitful believers are not in union with the Lord due
to their superficial commitment that gets them removed again. Church
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and lady to see at the lukewarm church there as
good as dead unless they repent and regain their union
with the Lord. The Life Application commentary said, fruit is
not limited to soul winning in this chapter, answered, prayer
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is a fruit of your relationship with Him. Let me
point out here. Remember I've said over the weeks, if
you have a question about anything I teach, anything I say,
ask me. Well. I was asked to explain this concept
of fruitfulness and soul winning?
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Is that all there is?
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If I don't produce that kind of fruit? Am if?
Am I not a good believer of my There's more
to it than that. Fruit is not just limited to
soul winning. It's about you. It's about behavior, how you
treat treat others, how you treat your brothers and sisters
in the church. It's your relationship with the Lord. Prayer
is a part of that fruit. He said in verse seven.
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If you abiden me and my words abide in you,
you will ask what you desire, and it shall be
done for you. John fifteen seven. If you abide me,
if you take permanent residence in me, if we are
bound in this constant union, and my words abide in you,
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which means you got to know his word. You will
ask what you desire, and it'll be done for you,
because it'll lign up with his word. It'll lign up
with his will, and it'll lign up with his best
for you in your life. We know that joy and
love are mentioned as fruit John fifteen, verses eleven and twelve.
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These things I've said spoken to you that my joy
may remain in you, that your joy may be full.
This is my commandment, that you love one another as
I have loved you. So love is the fruit of
the spirit. His love is a fruit of the spirit.
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We see that in Galatians chapter five, verses twenty two
through twenty four. But the fruit of the spirit is love, joy, peace,
long suffering, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness, self control. Against such
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there is no law. And those who are messiahs have
crucified the flesh with its passions and desires. And why
does he add that too, though? Why does Paul add that,
because your passions and your desire, the lust of the flesh,
the lust of the eyes, and the pride of life
kill the fruit of the spirit. And create the fruit
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of the flesh, love, joy, peace, long suffering, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness,
self control. Do you exhibit that, then you have fruit.
Peter talks about this in Second Peter, Chapter one, verses
five through eight. But also for this very reason, giving
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all diligence, add to your faith, virtue, di virtue, knowledge
to knowledge, self control, to self control, perseverance, to perseverance, godliness,
to godliness, brotherly kindness, and to brotherly kindness love. For
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if these things are yours and abound, you will neither
be barren nor unfruitful. In the knowledge of our Lord
Jesus the Messiah, everything about the teachings, especially through the
Disciples through the Apostles, is about being fruitful, producing fruit
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for the kingdom. But that means you're going to have
to be pruned and truoning may seem severe, but it
helps grape finds produce more fruit by redirecting their energy.
Excess growth wastes resources that could be used for fruitfulness.
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If you don't prune a plant, especially a fruit tree
or a fruit plant, it grows out of control. Controlled
growth brings proper fruit, and God removes certain parts of
our lives to boost our productivity. And boy is that
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uncomfortable and the process feels tough, feels severe, But it's
intended to help us, to help us focus on what
truly matters and therefore become more fruitful. What truly matters,
that's what you have to figure out, what's going on
in your life, what's growing in your life that needs
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to be pruned. If we're born again and the spirit
is flowing in us, we are cleansed, we are purged,
we are pruned, and the combination of sin and sinful
thinking has to be taken away. Judas wasn't he got pruned? Sadly?
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Abide in me and I in you. That verse offers
us a very important theme to this whole concept we're examining.
Believers are too abide to remain in yashua, to remain
in the vine, to be attached to the vine. And
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the Greek word for abide is spoken as a command.
It's not an option, and it's an ongoing emphasis. That
command is to continue to abide. It's not just a
single act, it's an ongoing action. It's an ongoing experience
abiding in the vine. Abide for the disciples and for
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the believers of today means to make a constant, moment
by moment decision to follow Messiah, to follow the Lord,
to walk with him, to listen to him, to spend
time with him. And you can't do that if the
world has pressed in. If you can't do that, if
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you are unwilling to get into that word, you can't
do that, if you're unwilling to take the time to pray.
It's one of the great things I love about working
out in the pool and doing my treading and doing
my thirty minutes of exercises. I spend the whole time praying.
And there's something about praying and water that connects me
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to him. And I know right next to the street
people walking by, they hear me praying. They hear me
praying in my prayer language. I don't care. It's my
time with him. I am abiding constant, moment by moment
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decision union with him. We can't be passive believers. Don't
just sit and abide until we die. Don't just hang
on the vine. Got to be active, got to be flowing.
The spirit has to be flowing through you. We've got
a lot to do. Oh and I know some of
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you just went, oh, no, here we go. I don't
have anything to do. I'm not I'm not in ministry.
Yeah you are. You may not have gotten credentials or
made the commitment I've made, but you're in ministry. We
all are. The minute we made him lord of our life,
we accepted the great commission to tell others about him,
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and to do that we abide. We stay put in him.
We remain in union with him, a long term commitment. Constantly.
Abide in me. Hear his words every day when you
get up here his words. Abide in me, abide in
the vine. Abiding him. Messiah means we're leaving his Son
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of God one John four point fifteen. Whoever confesses that
you're sure is the son of God God abides in him,
and he in God, receiving him as your Lord and Savior.
John one, twelve and thirteen. But as many as received
him to him, he gave the right to become children
of God to those who believe in His name, who
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were born not of blood, nor of the will of
the flesh, nor of the will of man, but of God.
Firse John fourth, fifteen and sixteen. Whoever confesses that you
show as the son of God, God abides in Him
and he in God. And we have known and believed
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the love that God has for us. God is love,
and he who abides in love abides in God and
God in Him. Lying upon line, precept upon precept, I
take these scriptures and I build upon them. Sometimes I'll
take apart. Then I'll bring the whole thing. But the
constant speaking of the word faith comes by hearing, hearing
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by the word of God. Abiding means doing what God says. Whoops,
I'm gonna lose a lot of people on that one.
Don't want to do what he says. Verse John three,
verse twenty four. Now he who keeps his commandments abides
in Him and he in him. And by this we
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know that He abides in us. By the Spirit, the
Holy Spirit through Rako Kadesh, whom he has given us.
Is the spirit in you, then he's abiding in you.
Is the spirit flowing through you, then you should be productive.
John fourteen fifteen. He said, the Lord says, if you
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love me, keep my commandments. Do what he says. The
other thing about abiding is continuing to believe the Gospel.
It's an ongoing belief. That's why you got to open it.
It's why you got to read it. It's why I
got to study it. It's why I'm glad you hear
each week hearing me say what I say. Some of
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you listen to these Bible studies more than once. Get
it in your spirit. In the days ahead, people are
going to want to hear, Hey, why do you believe?
Why do you have hope? Why are you so happy?
First John chapter two, verse twenty four. Therefore, let that
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abide in you what you've heard from the beginning. If
what you heard from the beginning abides in you, you
will also abide in the sun and in the Father.
The other way to abide is to relate in love
to the community of believers, family of God, Messiah's body.
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That's what he was saying in John fifteen twelve. This
is my commandment that you love one another as I
have loved you. And I'll tell you that's not easy,
not easy. Gotta work at it. Got to ask the
Holy Spirit for his help. So each of these activities
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begins at some point. But the long term branch to
vine practice is abiding. It's constant. The minute you make
him lord of your life, the minute that spirit abides
in you, you are in the vine and the fruit.
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This fruit that we're talking about being fruitful, the Holy
Spirit in you. Being fruitful is the practical expression of
the indwelling of the Holy Spirit in our lives. And
the purpose of that fruit is to attract others to Messiah.
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You don't have to know how to share the gospel,
you know. I've seen the tracks seven points and closing.
Follow this, say this, lead them this, ask this question.
That never worked for me. It seemed too ritualistic for me.
It just comes from sharing what He has done in
my life for me and what he can do for them,
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and then offering that to them. But if we don't,
if we cut ourselves off from the vine, look again,
I'll say this part again Isaiah five, verses five through
sevens and the amplified. This is the prophet prophesying to Israel.
What will happen to them when he cuts them off?
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When he sees that they're being unfruitful and righteous, unholy?
And now I will tell you what I will do
to my vineyards, says the Lord. I will take away
its hedge, and it shall be eaten and burned up.
And I will break down its wall no protection, and
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it shall be trodden down by enemies. And I will
lay at waste that shall not be pruned or cultivated.
But there shall come up briars and thorns, which we
know is a representation of the enemy. And I will
also command the clouds that they rain no more rain
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upon it. For the vineyard of the Lord of Host
is the house of Israel, and the men of Judah
his pleasant planting, the plant of his delight. And he
looked for justice, but behold he saw oppression and bloodshed.
He looked for righteousness, for uprightness and right standing with God.
But behold he heard a cry of oppression and distress.
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Justice has fallen in the streets. Brothers and sisters. There
is no justice in this world. There's no justice in
the religious system. And cries out for it, but it's
not there now. The Home and Treasury of key Words
explains that destruction did not mean eternal pradition for all Israelites.
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It meant to a withdrawal of God's blessings, so that
a remnant of Israelites would seek the Lord again. On
the positive side, you sure assures His disciples of the
fruitfulness of each branch that continues to abide in him
to abide in the vine. Now, there are going to
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be people that are going to separate themselves. They are
going to be people that are going to break away.
Because abiding in the vine means abiding in God's word
and following his commands. If you abide in me and
my words abide in you, you will ask what you desire,
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and it shall be done to you. If you keep
my commandments, you will abide in my love, just as
I've kept my father's commandments and abide in his love.
John fifteen, Verses seven and ten. We need to abide,
We need to hold on. Spirit needs to float through us.
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We need to get up every day desiring Lord, use
me today. Let me be fruitful. Holy Spirit, help me.
Help me to be fruitful. Clean me of anything that's
blocking my fruitfulness. In you and for some and I'm
speaking this out to you, it's unforgiveness, not just of others,
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but of yourself. Sometimes we have to forgive ourselves for
our mistakes, for our choices. Sometimes we have to let
go of the past to move forward. We can learn
from it, but we can't keep beating ourselves up over it.
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And also forgiving others, letting go some people are just
the way they are, and how they treated you or
what they did to you was all that they were
capable of. They weren't capable of love, they weren't capable
of compassion, they weren't capable of caring. I had to
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learn that in dealing with the rejection of my earthly father.
He did what he did for whatever reason, and that
was all he could do. But I finally found the
love of a father that I was looking for from Abbah,
from my Papa in heaven. First John, chapter two, verse six.
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Lady out something for us that I want you to contemplate.
I want you to contemplate all of this. Believe me.
If I'm offering this to you, if I'm feeding this
banquet to you, I want you to feed from it.
But this one is in a plate. I'm going to
separate it. But I want you to think about this.
It's First John, chapter two, verse six. He who says
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he abides in him to him being this jewa ought
himself or herself also walked just as he walked. You
know that song walked his way, walk as he walked.
Whoever lives in Messiah, that is, whoever says that they
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have accepted him as God and Savior, ought as a
moral obligation to walk and conduct themselves just as He
walked and conducted himself. I know, I know, I know
how difficult that is, but it's worth trying. It's worth
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the effort, and you can only do that with the
help of the Holy Spirit who is walking with you.
Every believer who remains in Yashua, who is careful to
learn from God's word and to obey his commands, will
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be fruitful. And so many people hungry right now spiritual fruit.
They're hungry to know the truth. They've seen the lies,
they've seen the Dog and Ponies show, They've seen the
smoke and mirrors, which is all just Coughton candy looks good,
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very colorful, but offers no nutritional sustenance. They're looking for
real fruit, and I want us to be able to
offer it to them.
Speaker 3 (38:07):
If ever.
Speaker 1 (38:09):
There's a goal for the porch and what I do
every week, beside to get the remnant ready for what
is coming, to raise up that part of the remnant
that will be a part of the resistance force, it's
also to get you prepared spiritually, personally, corporately, to create
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a family doesn't matter where we are. We are connected.
If I know you by name, I pray for you
by name. If I know your family by name, I
pray for them by name. And I know not everybody
that listens is a part of the community. But you're
here to learn. You're a part of another family somewhere, church, family, fellowship,
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whatever you you want to call it. But I'm going
to say this, if wherever you're going is too big
and they don't know you by name and don't know
your family by name, if wherever you're setting down the
leadership doesn't pray for you and your family by name
every day, standing in the gap for you, go find
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someplace else. That's not what shepherds do. Shepherds care about
their flock. Shepherds stand in the gap for their flock.
You need someone who is going to do that for you.
It's too dangerous right now to not have that. And
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of course the men of the families should be the
high priests of the home. He should be doing it too.
But if you're collectively plugged into a place, you want that.
You also don't want to be subject to their sin.
If there's corporate sin in the camp, you are subject
to it, and I've seen people die from that, from
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being someplace where the enemy had the right to be there,
which made them fair game, and they didn't understand that,
they weren't prepared for it, and to cost them their lives.
Every believer needs to remain in Yashia, every one of us.
We need to learn from the Word. We need to
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obey his commands and be fruitful, because he designed it
in such a way that all believers should live in
union with his son. That's what the father intended. This
is the gardener, this is the one who owns the vineyard.
To be fruitful, because that glorifies him and shows a
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changed heart and a changed life, which is your witness.
The Homan Bible Dictionary says the care was very important.
Stone walls or hedges were usually built around the venue
to protect the grapes from thirsty animals and from thieves.
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You need a stone wall, you need a hedge around you.
You should be praying that for yourself. You should have
someone praying that over you. Song of Solomon two, verse fifteen.
Catch us the foxes, the little foxes that spoil the vines,
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for our vines have tender grapes. What are the little
foxes that spoil the vine. Those are the little sins,
the besetting sins, the constant thing that come in and
eat away at you, eat away at the fruit. They
don't give the grapes a chance to grow. They're the
ones you can't see. They cling to the ground as
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they crawl through, and they steal the grapes. They steal
your fruit. And the watchtowers, the walls, the hedges were
built to provide further protection. It's what SRT does. We
go into areas, we destroy the enemy's watch towers, and
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we set up redeemed land where those things can be placed.
And the further goals in the future are to do that.
I always selves permanently all over the world. So if
you're gonna pray for us, pray for the provision to
fulfill the calling. See, the planting and the care of
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a vineyard required constant and intensive care. Wasn't something casual.
I'm just gonna put some grapes over here and they're
gonna grow all by themselves, you know, And that's not
gonna happen because then you got to pay attention to
the grapes. You have to seem on the branches. You
got to prune the vines, and then periodically you have
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to give a bit of sabbath rest, meaning you have
to let it a season go by, not cut anything,
not take anything, not harvest any fruit. The biggest thing
that can kill a vine is the constant harvesting of fruit,
never giving a time to rest, never giving the sap
a chance to flow and to build up. Because when
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the vines are pruned, stronger branches and greater fruit is yielded.
I can attest it that in my life. Once I
understood the vineyard, the pruning of the branches has to
be careful. You can't casually just break it off. You
get to trim it in such a way that it
can grow, because if you break it wrong, it'll never
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grow again. I know I've shared the story with you
book that's no longer in print. I wish I could
figure out a way to get copies of it. Maybe
I'll see if there's a PDF of it somewhere and
share it with you. Called the Vineyard written by somebody
whose father grew grapes, and he talked about every summer
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he and his cousins would work in the vineyard for
the father to save money, he wouldn't have to hire people.
And this one particular summer, he and his cousins each
had their own row and decided to race to see
who could grab the most grapes off the vines. So
in their zeal, in their haste, they broke branches that
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would never bear fruit again. And he said he got
to the end of one of the rose, turned back
and looked at all the branches that were either laying
on the ground or just hung from the vine broken,
and then saw his father's face. He said, my father
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didn't say a word.
Speaker 2 (44:55):
He didn't have to.
Speaker 1 (44:57):
I saw the tears in his eyes when he realized
those branches would never bear fruit again on that vine.
And at that moment, the Lord showed me all the
people that, in my zeal to serve him I had
carelessly pruned and broken and harmed. And it broke me,
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I mean literally broke me on my knees on the
carpet in the family room that we had in Tallarhasseie,
sobbing my eyes out.
Speaker 3 (45:40):
And at that moment I could see in the spirit
the Lord walked into the room, laid his hand on
my shoulder. He looked up at the father and said,
I think he gets That was the beginning of the
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change for me. Other things happened in that same period
of time, but that was one of the biggest things
that broke me, changed me, took religion off from me
and made it more about relationship of.
Speaker 1 (46:20):
Love of caring. So this process for Israel, this process
and the natural producers stronger branches and break a greater
yield of fruit, and the brune branches that offered nothing,
that were useless, which just became fuel. They burned them.
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And during biblical times vance the vines were allowed to
run on the ground and occasionally they would climb a
nearby tree, but they were never up in the air. Now,
later on we see in First Kings four twenty five
them mentioning about each man under his vine and his
fig tree. So maybe that's because it grew up on
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the trees, but that was not the plant. And it
was only in the Roman period between the first and
second centuries that artificial trellises were introduced. Another interesting thing
about the harvest of grapes takes place in August or September.
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Gee is there a festival that takes place around that time?
Hm hmm. Yeah, it could be the Feast of Tabernacles,
the harvest festival, the first fruits of the field, the
d gathering of the harvest, which is why I believe
that the harvest of the Church of his vine will
come at that time, during the feast of Tabernacles one Corinthians,
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fifteen twenty. Now Messiah has risen from the dead and
has become the first fruit of those who have fallen
asleep James one, seventeen and eighteen. For every good thing
given and perfect gift is from above. It comes down
from the Father of lights, the creator and the sustainer
of the heavens, in whom there is no variation, no
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rising or setting or shadow caste by his turning, for
he is perfect and never changes. It was of his
own will that he gave us birth as his children,
by the Word of Truth, so that we would be
a kind of first fruit of his creatures, a prime
example of what he created, set apart to himself, sanctified
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made holy for his divine purposes. I believe the harvest
for the vine will come during that period of time.
Abide in me and I in you, says the Lord.
As the branch cannot bear fruit of itself unless it
abides in the vine, either can you unless you abide
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in me. Maybe you need to take that verse and
put it up somewhere. Put it on your phone, put
it on your iPad, your tablet, maybe on your computer
as a screen saver. I don't know. A grape vine
branch can survive and produce foliage for a while while
it's been severed, but it cannot produce fruit unless it's
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still connected to the root. Just as Yeshua had a
living dependence on the Father, believers in Yeshua need to
have a living dependence on him. As the Father sent me,
I will live because of the Father, So he who
feeds on me will live because of me. John six,
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verse fifty seven. See as John had this message down
just as the living Father sent me, says Lord, I
live by through and because of the Father. Even so,
whoever continues to feed on me, whoever takes me for
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his food and is nursed by me, shall in his
turn live through and because of me. Don't you want
to live through and because of him? Our life, presently
and eternally is in Him, through his word and his
Holy Spirit. That's why this message, I believe is so
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important and so timely because we're plugged in, and if
the Spirit's flowing through us, no matter how dark it gets,
no matter how crazy it gets, no matter what the
chaos and the calamity that comes, He's flowing through us.
We're secure, was strong, We're in his word, We're in
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his presence. John six the three. It is the spirit
who gives life. The flesh prophets nothing. The words that
I speak to you are spirit, and they are life.
He was telling them that eternal life was not gained
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by flesh and blood, but by the work of the
Holy Spirit of God, the r Ka Kadesh. Flesh cannot
give life. Only the spirit can do this. That which
is born from above is spirit. That which is born
flesh is flesh. You must be born again. I am
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the vine. You are the branches. He abides in me,
and I and him bear as much fruit. But without
me you can do nothing. If anyone does not abide
in me, he is cast out as a branch and
is withered. They gather them and throw them into the fire,
and they are burned. Can do nothing apart from believe
it cannot accomplish accomplish anything of permanent spiritual value. That's
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why you see these people that looks like they've got
it all. They've got the show, they've got the crowds,
they're exciting and look at this, listen to this. But
there's no spiritual there's no permanent spiritual value there, there's
no long term fruit there. They come and go and
now it's the next person, next person. A living branch
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produces clusters of grapes and connections with the vine allows
the life of Yeshua to flow fruitfully through the disciple.
And the cluster of grapes I believe is the community
of believers. It's the small groups, the home churches, the
small fellowships, those who claim to be attached to Messiah
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but yield no fruit. I hate to say, this is
harsh or useless, and they'll be burned. Nelson's study Bible
says not abiding a Messiah has serious consequences. The person
is cast out as a branch, indicating loss of fellowship.
The person is withered, indicating a loss of vitality, and
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the person is burned, indicating a loss of reward. The
fire here is figurative, symbolizing either fiery trials, which we
see in First Peter one verses three and nine through nine.
Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord, Jesus
the Messiah, who, according to his abundant mercy, has begotten
us again to a living hope through the resurrection of
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Jesus the Messiah, from the dead, to an inheritance incorruptible
and undefiled that does not fade away, reserved in heaven
for you, who are kept by the power of God
through faith for salvation, ready to be revealed in the
last time. You ready to be revealed in this see
greatly rejoice, though now for a little while, if need be,
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you have been grieved by various trials, that the genuineness
of your faith, being much more precious than gold that perishes,
though it is tested by fire, may be found to
praise honor and glory at the revelation of Jesus the Messiah, whom,
having not seen you love, though now you do not
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see him yet believing you rejoice with joy inexpressible and
full of glory, receiving the end of your faith the
salvation of your souls again. In First Peter four twelve
through thirteen, he talks about these fiery trials. Don't think
it's strange concerning the fiery trial, which is to try you,
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which means it's not happening yet, which is to try
you as though something strange happened to you. But rejoice
to the of you partake, that you partake of Messiah's sufferings,
that when his glory is revealed, you may be glad
with exceeding joy. But there's another aspect of fire. It's
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at the judgment seat of Messiah one Corinthians three, starting
verse eleven. For no foundation can anyone lay then that
which is laid, which is Jesus the Messiah. Now, if
anyone built on this foundation with gold, silver, precious stones, wood, hay,
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and straw, each one's works will become clear. For the
day capital d death, the Lord will declare it, because
it will be revealed by fire. And the fire will
test each one's work of which sort it is. If
anyone's work, which he built on it endures, he or
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receive a reward. If anyone's work is burned, he will
suffer loss, but he himself will be saved. Yet, so
as through fire, it's important. I believe what I'm telling
you is important. That's because I'm telling you because the
Spirit wants you to hear it, because failure to abide
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leads to spiritual disaster. I think everyone I've ever ministered
to in his church since I got saved in nineteen
eighty eight, their disasters will led to the fact that
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they were not abiding in him. They were not attached
to him, they were not in his word, they were
not in his presence. And this disaster leads to what
the Lord says, they gather them. You notice that the
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movement went from he the Father who is the vine dresser,
to you, the believer who does or does not abid
to abide, to they unbelievers looking for signs of life.
If you abide me and my words abide in you,
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you will ask what you desire, and it shall be
done for you. By this, My Father is glorified that
you bear much fruit, so you will be my disciples.
Speaker 2 (57:40):
By this.
Speaker 1 (57:42):
You will produce fruit full circle. Love each other as
being fruitful. But it's also a way to evangelize the lost.
They shall oh, they shall know that you are My
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disciples by how you love one another. Good fruit. One
thing about good fruit. It has seeds, seeds that lead
to more fruit. And when you're living this way, when
you're living in harmony with him, when you're living in
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union with him, when you're living in right relationship with him,
you'll ask for anything because what you ask for will
line up with his word, and with his will. Your
prayers will be controlled by his word, and those prayers
get answered, and when they do, they glorify God. And
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that's what this is all about. Everything leads back to
the Lord, which leads back to the Father. Good John fourteen,
starting verse seven. If you had known me, you would
have known the Father also, And from now on you
know him and have seen him. Philip says, Lord, show
us the Father, and it is sufficient for us. And
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she doesn't pull any punchers. He said, I've been with
you so long, and yet you have not known me. Philip,
he who has seen me has seen the Father. How
can you say, show us the Father? Do you not
believe that I am in the Father and the Father
and me. The words that I speak to you, I
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do not speak on my own authority, but the Father,
who dwells in me does the work. Believe me that
I am in the Father and the Father and me,
or else believe for the sake of the works themselves.
Most assuredly, I say to you, he who believes in me,
the works that I do, he will do also, And
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greater works than these he will do because I go
to my Father, And whatever you ask in my name,
that I will do. That the Father may be glorified
in the Son. If you ask anything in my name,
I will do it now. Like what the Believer's Study
Bible says about this section, he does not simply show
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the way. Speaking of you, Shuah, he is the way.
He does not merely reveal truth. He is the truth.
He does not merely give life. He is the life.
All the concepts and abstractions are turned into a person,
not a thought, not an abstract. It's a person, and
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that person is Jesus, is just Shua. The way, the
truth and the life of the principal aspects of Exodus,
the way out of bondage, the truth which guides us
into the living Kingdom of God. And the life is
the power to live a life pleasing to God, which
is settling into the promised Land. That's what being saved is.
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You're living in the promised land in this union. This
relationship requires something to sustain it. For that promise to
be effective. That's why John fourteen, verse fourteen then takes
us into If you love me, keep my commandments, and
I will pray the Father, and he will give you
another helper that he may abide with you forever, the
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Spirit of truth, whom the world cannot receive because it
neither sees him nor knows him. But you know him,
for he dwells with you and will be in you.
I will not leave you orphans. I will come to you,
just like this sap. Inside the vine, which brings the
nutrients to grow grapes, has to be there. It's vital
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for the grapes to grow. But it's also hidden from sight.
You see the vine, you see the see the grapes
of the leaves, but you don't see the sap. The ministry
of the work of the Holy Spirit is not visibly prominent,
not as the Father and the son, because as he
said in John sixteen, verses thirteen fourteen, the Spirit will
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never draw attention to himself. He will not speak on
his own authority. Whatever he hears, he will speak, and
he will tell you things to come. He will glorify me,
for he will take of what is mind and declare.
Speaker 2 (01:02:35):
It to you.
Speaker 1 (01:02:37):
The point of the vine, this branch is vine allegory
is that you show His purpose in the believer's life
is to produce fruit. And in this section. Fruit is
mentioned eight times in this chapter, and we see a
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progresses verse two fruit more fruit versus five and eight
much fruit, fruit, more fruit, much fruit. There is a
progression you grow in him? Are you growing? Are you
growing in him? If not, you got to figure out why.
Speaker 2 (01:03:20):
You gotta.
Speaker 1 (01:03:21):
You have to ask the Lord Holy Spirit, show me
prune what needs to be prune, Remove from me what
is hindering me from growing. And currently the vine dresser
his purpose is not to judge yet, but to produce fruit,
to render aid to a faltering vine. Because the coming
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harvest is his focus should be our focus too, and
he's continually cleansing the branches to maximize maximize fruit. As
long as I've been saved, I've always been in process,
uncomfortable at times. Sometimes I've resisted it. Sometimes I've thrown
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my tantrums about it. But it's always been meant for growth.
To be without fruit means that you shoe His goal
for their life has been frustrated. I have found a
new way of living I've a new life, Divine, I've
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got the fruit of the spirit. I'm abiding, abiding in
the vine, Abiding in the vine, Abiding in the vine, love, joy, health, peace.
He has made the mine. I've got prosperity, power and victory. Abiding,
abiding in the vine. Abiding in the vine is the
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key to being fruitful in your life. So let the
Holy Spirit flow through you. Letting him flow through you
is vital to making this happens of right now for
myself and for you. For all my brother's insists. I pray, Lord,
search us if there is any anything hindering this free
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flow of the Spirit in us to produce fruit. Remove it,
any thing, Spotlight it so we can learn from it
and remove it. Because we want to bear fruit for you.
We want to see more clusters of grapes. Protect it,
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protect us from the enemy. Put up a hedge around us. Lord,
be the shield about us, the glory in the lift
of our head. Let us walk as you walked, with peace,
with confidence, with love, with purpose. Shine down upon us,
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surround us in your glory. Let us be what you
need us to be in this hour. Let us do
everything that each one of us, individually and collectively, have
been ordained to do in this hour. Have your way
with us. Do as you will, and I pray all
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these things in your shoe his name. Amen. May the
Lord bless you and keep you. May the Lord may
I don't I make his face to shine upon you
and be gracious to you. May the Lord, I don't
know your shoe a hummer sheep. Jesus the Messiah, lift
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up his countenance upon you and give you peace. Give
you shallam. I'm Richard Grun. This has been the porch
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that are being slaughtered around the world right now in
numbers that are staggering. Pray for the peace of Jerusalem
because that means the return of the Prince of Peace. Father,
We praise you, We praise you, and we love you,
and we thank you. We thank you for being Abbah
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Papa Daddy. We thank you for loving us When we
were unlovable. We thank you for sending your shoe to
die on our behalf, to pay for our sins with
his blood, so that your children could come home to you.
The father's heart was so great that you looked at
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your only begotten son and said, you're going to have
to do it for them. Thank you, Lord, Thank you
for doing that, for enduring the pain, the shame, everything
that they did to you that day. There's no way
to describe the horror of it except to say thank you,
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and we love you. Thank you for sending back the
Holy Spirit, the Rua kak Kadesh, to walk with us,
to teach us, the guide us, to comfort us. We
so desperately need it in this hour. So we take
our thoughts captive to the obedience of Messiah. We claim
the mind of Messiah, casting down every vain imagination, every
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demonic interference, every false teaching, claiming your thoughts, your intent,
your heart, everything that would exalt itself above the knowledge
of l and God Most High, our Father, We reject it.
We open our hearts and our minds to you. We say,
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Holy Spirit, have your way with us. Protect us, Lord,
protect all that we have, Protect this technology. Let your word,
go forth, let it do what you desire to do.
Holy Spirit. It's your time. Whatever you want to do,
we say yes and amen, and you shoe his name.
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in your spirit, because I believe the signs of the
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We must be ready.
Speaker 1 (05:46):
And that's why I believe he's teaching what he's teaching
on for us to be filled with the Holy Spirit,
to be fruitful. Go with me to John fifteen, starting
verse one. This is the Lord I am, the true
vine Father, is the vine dresser. Every branch in me
that does not bear fruit he takes away, and every
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branch that bears fruit he prunes that it may bear
more fruit. You are already clean because of the word
which I've spoken to you. Abide in me, and I
in you. As the branch cannot bear fruit of itself
unless it abides in me, neither can you unless you
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abide in me. Let me go back to that. Sorry,
even before we got started, even before anything, I just
the presence of the Lord is so strong in this
room right now. Abide in me and I in you.
As the branch cannot bear fruit of itself unless it
abides in the vine, neither can you unless you abide
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in me. I am the vine. You are the branches.
He who abides in me and I in him bears
much fruit. For without me you can do nothing. If
anyone does not abide in me, he is cast out
as a branch and is withered, and they gather them
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and throw them into the fire, and they are burned.
If you abide in me and my words abide in you,
you will ask what you desire, and it shall be
done for you. By this, my Father is glorified that
you bear much fruit. So you will be my disciples.
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Remain in me, and I will remain in you. How
how is that going to happen? By the abiding presence
of the Holy Spirit in us? The Life Application Bible
commentary says the grapevine is a prolific plant. A single
vine bears many grapes. In the Old Testament, grapes symbolized
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Israel's fruitful in doing God's work on earth. The prophets
had written of Israel as God's vine, carefully planted and
cared for. But the vine was a disappointment because it
yielded only rotten fruit. That is, they refused to give
him love and obedience. We see this in Isaiah chapter five,
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verses one through seven. Now let me sing to my
well beloved a song of my beloved regarding his vineyard.
My well beloved has a vineyard on a very fruitful hill.
He dug it up and cleared out its stones, and
planted it with the choicest vine. He built a tower
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in its mist, and also made a wine pressed in it.
He expected it to bear forth good fruits, but it
brought forth wild grapes. He expected good grapes and got
wild grapes. Oh, and now, ow, inhabitants of Jerusalem and
men of Judah, judge, please between me and my vineyard.
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What more could I have done to my vineyard that
I have not done in it?
Speaker 2 (09:12):
Why?
Speaker 1 (09:13):
Then, when I expected it to bring forth good grapes,
did it bring forth wild grape. And now please let
me tell you what I will do to my vineyard.
I will take away its hedge that means its protection,
and it shall be burned, and break down its wall,
and it shall be trampled down. I will lay at waste.
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It shall not be pruned or dug, but there shall
come up briars and thorns. I will also command the
clouds that they will reign no more reign on it.
For the vineyard of the Lord of Hosts is the
house of Israel, and the men of Judah are his
pleasant plant. He looked for justice, but behold oppression for righteousness,
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but behold a cry for help. And I speak this
to you, and I feel the presence of the Lord
on this and the spirit in it. I can say
that's a word to the church. He looked for justice
and found oppression. He looked for righteousness, and all he
can hear his cries for help of the sheep that
have wandered off, of the pastors that are too busy
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fleecing the flock and doing they're doing what they're doing
to go out there and look for them. So instead
he has to find sheep dogs that he has raised
up to go rescue his little lambs. Doesn't anyone care.
Doesn't anyone care that the flock isn't being fed, Doesn't
anyone care that they're being fleeced and left unprotected to
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the wolves that are just walking in and taking them.
So there are barriers to fruitfulness. One is a lack
of proper nourishment, which in the natural was a poor
supply of water or nutrients. When that happens, the vine
is destroyed. Well. Spiritually, that means if the Holy Spirit
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does not flow in us, we will be unproductive. Then
there's disease insects and disease move from dead wood into
healthy plants. You see that all the time if you
try to have a garden or plants outside well. Spiritually,
ongoing sin and unresolved past issues will lead to spiritual
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and effectiveness. That's why you always need to pray. Lord,
search me. If there's anything unclean in me, take it out.
I repent of all sins known and unknown, of acts
of comission or omission. Cleanse me. Then there's immature branches.
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New branches require several years of pruning before they can
produce use any fruit. We need time to grow and
growth involves suffering improper pruning. Well, guess what it takes
a wise gardener to know what to remove in order
to bring about fruitfulness. Our priorities and the focus of
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our energies must be guided by the Lord and his word,
not our own wisdom or desires the man made teachings.
The other thing is that if there's no gardener, then
the vines are not being tended to well. In our case,
we know that there is a gardener. But if we're
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resistant to God's guidance and pruning again, we're unfruitful and
the worst thing of all to become separated from the vine.
Branches must be attached to a healthy rootstock. We cannot
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We cannot think for a moment that we can survive
apart from Yeshuah, from Jesus the Messiah. He is the
giver and sustainer of life. Our Abbah, God is the gardener.
He's the cultivator of the vine and the branches.
Speaker 2 (13:20):
That's us.
Speaker 1 (13:22):
So to be fruitful, the vine has to have his attention,
and wild vines are unproductive. And in Israel's case, they
had his attention, but they didn't want to listen. They
didn't want to do what he said. Is the church
any different these days to the things that we allow,
to the things that we condone we call sin? Okay,
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we need to be pruned Colossians won starting verse nine,
Paul says, for this reason, we also, since the day
we heard it, do not cease to pray for you
and to ask that you may be filled with the
knowledge of His will in all wisdom and spiritual understanding,
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that you may walk worthy of the Lord, fully pleasing Him,
being fruitful in every good work, and increasing in the
knowledge of God, increasing in the knowledge of God, growing, studying, praying, praising, worshiping.
If we don't do that, complacency sets in. And we
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know clearly from Revelation chapter three to the lukewarm Church
and Laodicea darning verse fourteen. These things, says the Amen,
the faithful and true witness the beginning of the creation
of God. I know your works that you are neither
cold nor hot. I could wish you were cold or hot.
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So then, because you are lukewarm and neither cold nor hot,
I will vomit you out of my mouth. Jactile will
spew you away from me because you say I am rich.
I've become wealthy, and I have need of nothing, and
do not know that you are riched, miserable, poor, blind,
and naked, And counsel you to buy from me gold
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refined in the fire, that you may be rich in
white garments, that you may be clothed, that the shame
of your nakedness may not be revealed. And anoint your
eyes with eyesalbs, so that you may see as many
as I love. I rebuke and chasten. Therefore, be zealous
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and repent. Be zealous and repent, behold, says the Lord.
I stand at the door knock. If anyone hears my
voice and opens the door, I will come in to
him and dine with him, and he with me. To
him who overcomes, I will grant to sit with me
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on my throne. I also overcame and sat down with
my father on his throne. Of those who my dearly
and tenderly love, I rebuke in discipline, showing them their
faults and instructing them, so be enthusiastic and repent. Change
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her in herself, your old way of thinking, your sinful behavior.
Seek God's will. See if complacency sets in, that's exactly
how we become see Paul understood this, and he tried
to impart that to the church in corinth and first
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Corinthians three starting verse five. And he's dealing with the
factions in the church which we talked about last week,
which led to its ultimate not demise but disruption. What then,
is apollo us? What is Paul ministering servants, not heads
of parties through whom you believed, even as the Lord
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appointed to each his task. I planted Apollos watered, but
God all the while was making it grow, and he
gave the increase. So neither he who plants is anything,
nor he who waters, but only God who makes it
grow and become greater ties. Exactly to what the Lord
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is saying the parables and the allegory about the wine.
Every branch in me that does not bear fruit he
takes away, and every branch that bears fruit he prunes
the he being his father, that it may bear more fruit.
That's what it's all about. It's about bearing more fruit.
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It's about being fruit full. All believers are the branches.
Fruitful believers produce fruit because of their union with the Lord. Lord.
Unfruitful believers are not in union with the Lord due
to their superficial commitment that gets them removed again. Church
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and lady to see at the lukewarm church there as
good as dead unless they repent and regain their union
with the Lord. The Life Application commentary said, fruit is
not limited to soul winning in this chapter, answered, prayer
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is a fruit of your relationship with Him. Let me
point out here. Remember I've said over the weeks, if
you have a question about anything I teach, anything I say,
ask me. Well. I was asked to explain this concept
of fruitfulness and soul winning?
Speaker 2 (18:54):
Is that all there is?
Speaker 1 (18:54):
If I don't produce that kind of fruit? Am if?
Am I not a good believer of my There's more
to it than that. Fruit is not just limited to
soul winning. It's about you. It's about behavior, how you
treat treat others, how you treat your brothers and sisters
in the church. It's your relationship with the Lord. Prayer
is a part of that fruit. He said in verse seven.
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If you abiden me and my words abide in you,
you will ask what you desire, and it shall be
done for you. John fifteen seven. If you abide me,
if you take permanent residence in me, if we are
bound in this constant union, and my words abide in you,
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which means you got to know his word. You will
ask what you desire, and it'll be done for you,
because it'll lign up with his word. It'll lign up
with his will, and it'll lign up with his best
for you in your life. We know that joy and
love are mentioned as fruit John fifteen, verses eleven and twelve.
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These things I've said spoken to you that my joy
may remain in you, that your joy may be full.
This is my commandment, that you love one another as
I have loved you. So love is the fruit of
the spirit. His love is a fruit of the spirit.
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We see that in Galatians chapter five, verses twenty two
through twenty four. But the fruit of the spirit is love, joy, peace,
long suffering, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness, self control. Against such
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there is no law. And those who are messiahs have
crucified the flesh with its passions and desires. And why
does he add that too, though? Why does Paul add that,
because your passions and your desire, the lust of the flesh,
the lust of the eyes, and the pride of life
kill the fruit of the spirit. And create the fruit
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of the flesh, love, joy, peace, long suffering, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness,
self control. Do you exhibit that, then you have fruit.
Peter talks about this in Second Peter, Chapter one, verses
five through eight. But also for this very reason, giving
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all diligence, add to your faith, virtue, di virtue, knowledge
to knowledge, self control, to self control, perseverance, to perseverance, godliness,
to godliness, brotherly kindness, and to brotherly kindness love. For
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if these things are yours and abound, you will neither
be barren nor unfruitful. In the knowledge of our Lord
Jesus the Messiah, everything about the teachings, especially through the
Disciples through the Apostles, is about being fruitful, producing fruit
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for the kingdom. But that means you're going to have
to be pruned and truoning may seem severe, but it
helps grape finds produce more fruit by redirecting their energy.
Excess growth wastes resources that could be used for fruitfulness.
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If you don't prune a plant, especially a fruit tree
or a fruit plant, it grows out of control. Controlled
growth brings proper fruit, and God removes certain parts of
our lives to boost our productivity. And boy is that
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uncomfortable and the process feels tough, feels severe, But it's
intended to help us, to help us focus on what
truly matters and therefore become more fruitful. What truly matters,
that's what you have to figure out, what's going on
in your life, what's growing in your life that needs
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to be pruned. If we're born again and the spirit
is flowing in us, we are cleansed, we are purged,
we are pruned, and the combination of sin and sinful
thinking has to be taken away. Judas wasn't he got pruned? Sadly?
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Abide in me and I in you. That verse offers
us a very important theme to this whole concept we're examining.
Believers are too abide to remain in yashua, to remain
in the vine, to be attached to the vine. And
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the Greek word for abide is spoken as a command.
It's not an option, and it's an ongoing emphasis. That
command is to continue to abide. It's not just a
single act, it's an ongoing action. It's an ongoing experience
abiding in the vine. Abide for the disciples and for
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the believers of today means to make a constant, moment
by moment decision to follow Messiah, to follow the Lord,
to walk with him, to listen to him, to spend
time with him. And you can't do that if the
world has pressed in. If you can't do that, if
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you are unwilling to get into that word, you can't
do that, if you're unwilling to take the time to pray.
It's one of the great things I love about working
out in the pool and doing my treading and doing
my thirty minutes of exercises. I spend the whole time praying.
And there's something about praying and water that connects me
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to him. And I know right next to the street
people walking by, they hear me praying. They hear me
praying in my prayer language. I don't care. It's my
time with him. I am abiding constant, moment by moment
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decision union with him. We can't be passive believers. Don't
just sit and abide until we die. Don't just hang
on the vine. Got to be active, got to be flowing.
The spirit has to be flowing through you. We've got
a lot to do. Oh and I know some of
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you just went, oh, no, here we go. I don't
have anything to do. I'm not I'm not in ministry.
Yeah you are. You may not have gotten credentials or
made the commitment I've made, but you're in ministry. We
all are. The minute we made him lord of our life,
we accepted the great commission to tell others about him,
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and to do that we abide. We stay put in him.
We remain in union with him, a long term commitment. Constantly.
Abide in me. Hear his words every day when you
get up here his words. Abide in me, abide in
the vine. Abiding him. Messiah means we're leaving his Son
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of God one John four point fifteen. Whoever confesses that
you're sure is the son of God God abides in him,
and he in God, receiving him as your Lord and Savior.
John one, twelve and thirteen. But as many as received
him to him, he gave the right to become children
of God to those who believe in His name, who
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were born not of blood, nor of the will of
the flesh, nor of the will of man, but of God.
Firse John fourth, fifteen and sixteen. Whoever confesses that you
show as the son of God, God abides in Him
and he in God. And we have known and believed
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the love that God has for us. God is love,
and he who abides in love abides in God and
God in Him. Lying upon line, precept upon precept, I
take these scriptures and I build upon them. Sometimes I'll
take apart. Then I'll bring the whole thing. But the
constant speaking of the word faith comes by hearing, hearing
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by the word of God. Abiding means doing what God says. Whoops,
I'm gonna lose a lot of people on that one.
Don't want to do what he says. Verse John three,
verse twenty four. Now he who keeps his commandments abides
in Him and he in him. And by this we
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know that He abides in us. By the Spirit, the
Holy Spirit through Rako Kadesh, whom he has given us.
Is the spirit in you, then he's abiding in you.
Is the spirit flowing through you, then you should be productive.
John fourteen fifteen. He said, the Lord says, if you
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love me, keep my commandments. Do what he says. The
other thing about abiding is continuing to believe the Gospel.
It's an ongoing belief. That's why you got to open it.
It's why you got to read it. It's why I
got to study it. It's why I'm glad you hear
each week hearing me say what I say. Some of
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you listen to these Bible studies more than once. Get
it in your spirit. In the days ahead, people are
going to want to hear, Hey, why do you believe?
Why do you have hope? Why are you so happy?
First John chapter two, verse twenty four. Therefore, let that
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abide in you what you've heard from the beginning. If
what you heard from the beginning abides in you, you
will also abide in the sun and in the Father.
The other way to abide is to relate in love
to the community of believers, family of God, Messiah's body.
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That's what he was saying in John fifteen twelve. This
is my commandment that you love one another as I
have loved you. And I'll tell you that's not easy,
not easy. Gotta work at it. Got to ask the
Holy Spirit for his help. So each of these activities
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begins at some point. But the long term branch to
vine practice is abiding. It's constant. The minute you make
him lord of your life, the minute that spirit abides
in you, you are in the vine and the fruit.
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This fruit that we're talking about being fruitful, the Holy
Spirit in you. Being fruitful is the practical expression of
the indwelling of the Holy Spirit in our lives. And
the purpose of that fruit is to attract others to Messiah.
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You don't have to know how to share the gospel,
you know. I've seen the tracks seven points and closing.
Follow this, say this, lead them this, ask this question.
That never worked for me. It seemed too ritualistic for me.
It just comes from sharing what He has done in
my life for me and what he can do for them,
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and then offering that to them. But if we don't,
if we cut ourselves off from the vine, look again,
I'll say this part again Isaiah five, verses five through
sevens and the amplified. This is the prophet prophesying to Israel.
What will happen to them when he cuts them off?
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When he sees that they're being unfruitful and righteous, unholy?
And now I will tell you what I will do
to my vineyards, says the Lord. I will take away
its hedge, and it shall be eaten and burned up.
And I will break down its wall no protection, and
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it shall be trodden down by enemies. And I will
lay at waste that shall not be pruned or cultivated.
But there shall come up briars and thorns, which we
know is a representation of the enemy. And I will
also command the clouds that they rain no more rain
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upon it. For the vineyard of the Lord of Host
is the house of Israel, and the men of Judah
his pleasant planting, the plant of his delight. And he
looked for justice, but behold he saw oppression and bloodshed.
He looked for righteousness, for uprightness and right standing with God.
But behold he heard a cry of oppression and distress.
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Justice has fallen in the streets. Brothers and sisters. There
is no justice in this world. There's no justice in
the religious system. And cries out for it, but it's
not there now. The Home and Treasury of key Words
explains that destruction did not mean eternal pradition for all Israelites.
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It meant to a withdrawal of God's blessings, so that
a remnant of Israelites would seek the Lord again. On
the positive side, you sure assures His disciples of the
fruitfulness of each branch that continues to abide in him
to abide in the vine. Now, there are going to
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be people that are going to separate themselves. They are
going to be people that are going to break away.
Because abiding in the vine means abiding in God's word
and following his commands. If you abide in me and
my words abide in you, you will ask what you desire,
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and it shall be done to you. If you keep
my commandments, you will abide in my love, just as
I've kept my father's commandments and abide in his love.
John fifteen, Verses seven and ten. We need to abide,
We need to hold on. Spirit needs to float through us.
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We need to get up every day desiring Lord, use
me today. Let me be fruitful. Holy Spirit, help me.
Help me to be fruitful. Clean me of anything that's
blocking my fruitfulness. In you and for some and I'm
speaking this out to you, it's unforgiveness, not just of others,
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but of yourself. Sometimes we have to forgive ourselves for
our mistakes, for our choices. Sometimes we have to let
go of the past to move forward. We can learn
from it, but we can't keep beating ourselves up over it.
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And also forgiving others, letting go some people are just
the way they are, and how they treated you or
what they did to you was all that they were
capable of. They weren't capable of love, they weren't capable
of compassion, they weren't capable of caring. I had to
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learn that in dealing with the rejection of my earthly father.
He did what he did for whatever reason, and that
was all he could do. But I finally found the
love of a father that I was looking for from Abbah,
from my Papa in heaven. First John, chapter two, verse six.
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Lady out something for us that I want you to contemplate.
I want you to contemplate all of this. Believe me.
If I'm offering this to you, if I'm feeding this
banquet to you, I want you to feed from it.
But this one is in a plate. I'm going to
separate it. But I want you to think about this.
It's First John, chapter two, verse six. He who says
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he abides in him to him being this jewa ought
himself or herself also walked just as he walked. You
know that song walked his way, walk as he walked.
Whoever lives in Messiah, that is, whoever says that they
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have accepted him as God and Savior, ought as a
moral obligation to walk and conduct themselves just as He
walked and conducted himself. I know, I know, I know
how difficult that is, but it's worth trying. It's worth
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the effort, and you can only do that with the
help of the Holy Spirit who is walking with you.
Every believer who remains in Yashua, who is careful to
learn from God's word and to obey his commands, will
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be fruitful. And so many people hungry right now spiritual fruit.
They're hungry to know the truth. They've seen the lies,
they've seen the Dog and Ponies show, They've seen the
smoke and mirrors, which is all just Coughton candy looks good,
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very colorful, but offers no nutritional sustenance. They're looking for
real fruit, and I want us to be able to
offer it to them.
Speaker 3 (38:07):
If ever.
Speaker 1 (38:09):
There's a goal for the porch and what I do
every week, beside to get the remnant ready for what
is coming, to raise up that part of the remnant
that will be a part of the resistance force, it's
also to get you prepared spiritually, personally, corporately, to create
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a family doesn't matter where we are. We are connected.
If I know you by name, I pray for you
by name. If I know your family by name, I
pray for them by name. And I know not everybody
that listens is a part of the community. But you're
here to learn. You're a part of another family somewhere, church, family, fellowship,
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whatever you you want to call it. But I'm going
to say this, if wherever you're going is too big
and they don't know you by name and don't know
your family by name, if wherever you're setting down the
leadership doesn't pray for you and your family by name
every day, standing in the gap for you, go find
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someplace else. That's not what shepherds do. Shepherds care about
their flock. Shepherds stand in the gap for their flock.
You need someone who is going to do that for you.
It's too dangerous right now to not have that. And
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of course the men of the families should be the
high priests of the home. He should be doing it too.
But if you're collectively plugged into a place, you want that.
You also don't want to be subject to their sin.
If there's corporate sin in the camp, you are subject
to it, and I've seen people die from that, from
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being someplace where the enemy had the right to be there,
which made them fair game, and they didn't understand that,
they weren't prepared for it, and to cost them their lives.
Every believer needs to remain in Yashia, every one of us.
We need to learn from the Word. We need to
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obey his commands and be fruitful, because he designed it
in such a way that all believers should live in
union with his son. That's what the father intended. This
is the gardener, this is the one who owns the vineyard.
To be fruitful, because that glorifies him and shows a
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changed heart and a changed life, which is your witness.
The Homan Bible Dictionary says the care was very important.
Stone walls or hedges were usually built around the venue
to protect the grapes from thirsty animals and from thieves.
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You need a stone wall, you need a hedge around you.
You should be praying that for yourself. You should have
someone praying that over you. Song of Solomon two, verse fifteen.
Catch us the foxes, the little foxes that spoil the vines,
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for our vines have tender grapes. What are the little
foxes that spoil the vine. Those are the little sins,
the besetting sins, the constant thing that come in and
eat away at you, eat away at the fruit. They
don't give the grapes a chance to grow. They're the
ones you can't see. They cling to the ground as
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they crawl through, and they steal the grapes. They steal
your fruit. And the watchtowers, the walls, the hedges were
built to provide further protection. It's what SRT does. We
go into areas, we destroy the enemy's watch towers, and
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we set up redeemed land where those things can be placed.
And the further goals in the future are to do that.
I always selves permanently all over the world. So if
you're gonna pray for us, pray for the provision to
fulfill the calling. See, the planting and the care of
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a vineyard required constant and intensive care. Wasn't something casual.
I'm just gonna put some grapes over here and they're
gonna grow all by themselves, you know, And that's not
gonna happen because then you got to pay attention to
the grapes. You have to seem on the branches. You
got to prune the vines, and then periodically you have
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to give a bit of sabbath rest, meaning you have
to let it a season go by, not cut anything,
not take anything, not harvest any fruit. The biggest thing
that can kill a vine is the constant harvesting of fruit,
never giving a time to rest, never giving the sap
a chance to flow and to build up. Because when
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the vines are pruned, stronger branches and greater fruit is yielded.
I can attest it that in my life. Once I
understood the vineyard, the pruning of the branches has to
be careful. You can't casually just break it off. You
get to trim it in such a way that it
can grow, because if you break it wrong, it'll never
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grow again. I know I've shared the story with you
book that's no longer in print. I wish I could
figure out a way to get copies of it. Maybe
I'll see if there's a PDF of it somewhere and
share it with you. Called the Vineyard written by somebody
whose father grew grapes, and he talked about every summer
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he and his cousins would work in the vineyard for
the father to save money, he wouldn't have to hire people.
And this one particular summer, he and his cousins each
had their own row and decided to race to see
who could grab the most grapes off the vines. So
in their zeal, in their haste, they broke branches that
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would never bear fruit again. And he said he got
to the end of one of the rose, turned back
and looked at all the branches that were either laying
on the ground or just hung from the vine broken,
and then saw his father's face. He said, my father
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didn't say a word.
Speaker 2 (44:55):
He didn't have to.
Speaker 1 (44:57):
I saw the tears in his eyes when he realized
those branches would never bear fruit again on that vine.
And at that moment, the Lord showed me all the
people that, in my zeal to serve him I had
carelessly pruned and broken and harmed. And it broke me,
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I mean literally broke me on my knees on the
carpet in the family room that we had in Tallarhasseie,
sobbing my eyes out.
Speaker 3 (45:40):
And at that moment I could see in the spirit
the Lord walked into the room, laid his hand on
my shoulder. He looked up at the father and said,
I think he gets That was the beginning of the
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change for me. Other things happened in that same period
of time, but that was one of the biggest things
that broke me, changed me, took religion off from me
and made it more about relationship of.
Speaker 1 (46:20):
Love of caring. So this process for Israel, this process
and the natural producers stronger branches and break a greater
yield of fruit, and the brune branches that offered nothing,
that were useless, which just became fuel. They burned them.
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And during biblical times vance the vines were allowed to
run on the ground and occasionally they would climb a
nearby tree, but they were never up in the air. Now,
later on we see in First Kings four twenty five
them mentioning about each man under his vine and his
fig tree. So maybe that's because it grew up on
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the trees, but that was not the plant. And it
was only in the Roman period between the first and
second centuries that artificial trellises were introduced. Another interesting thing
about the harvest of grapes takes place in August or September.
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Gee is there a festival that takes place around that time?
Hm hmm. Yeah, it could be the Feast of Tabernacles,
the harvest festival, the first fruits of the field, the
d gathering of the harvest, which is why I believe
that the harvest of the Church of his vine will
come at that time, during the feast of Tabernacles one Corinthians,
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fifteen twenty. Now Messiah has risen from the dead and
has become the first fruit of those who have fallen
asleep James one, seventeen and eighteen. For every good thing
given and perfect gift is from above. It comes down
from the Father of lights, the creator and the sustainer
of the heavens, in whom there is no variation, no
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rising or setting or shadow caste by his turning, for
he is perfect and never changes. It was of his
own will that he gave us birth as his children,
by the Word of Truth, so that we would be
a kind of first fruit of his creatures, a prime
example of what he created, set apart to himself, sanctified
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made holy for his divine purposes. I believe the harvest
for the vine will come during that period of time.
Abide in me and I in you, says the Lord.
As the branch cannot bear fruit of itself unless it
abides in the vine, either can you unless you abide
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in me. Maybe you need to take that verse and
put it up somewhere. Put it on your phone, put
it on your iPad, your tablet, maybe on your computer
as a screen saver. I don't know. A grape vine
branch can survive and produce foliage for a while while
it's been severed, but it cannot produce fruit unless it's
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still connected to the root. Just as Yeshua had a
living dependence on the Father, believers in Yeshua need to
have a living dependence on him. As the Father sent me,
I will live because of the Father, So he who
feeds on me will live because of me. John six,
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verse fifty seven. See as John had this message down
just as the living Father sent me, says Lord, I
live by through and because of the Father. Even so,
whoever continues to feed on me, whoever takes me for
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his food and is nursed by me, shall in his
turn live through and because of me. Don't you want
to live through and because of him? Our life, presently
and eternally is in Him, through his word and his
Holy Spirit. That's why this message, I believe is so
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important and so timely because we're plugged in, and if
the Spirit's flowing through us, no matter how dark it gets,
no matter how crazy it gets, no matter what the
chaos and the calamity that comes, He's flowing through us.
We're secure, was strong, We're in his word, We're in
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his presence. John six the three. It is the spirit
who gives life. The flesh prophets nothing. The words that
I speak to you are spirit, and they are life.
He was telling them that eternal life was not gained
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by flesh and blood, but by the work of the
Holy Spirit of God, the r Ka Kadesh. Flesh cannot
give life. Only the spirit can do this. That which
is born from above is spirit. That which is born
flesh is flesh. You must be born again. I am
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the vine. You are the branches. He abides in me,
and I and him bear as much fruit. But without
me you can do nothing. If anyone does not abide
in me, he is cast out as a branch and
is withered. They gather them and throw them into the fire,
and they are burned. Can do nothing apart from believe
it cannot accomplish accomplish anything of permanent spiritual value. That's
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why you see these people that looks like they've got
it all. They've got the show, they've got the crowds,
they're exciting and look at this, listen to this. But
there's no spiritual there's no permanent spiritual value there, there's
no long term fruit there. They come and go and
now it's the next person, next person. A living branch
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produces clusters of grapes and connections with the vine allows
the life of Yeshua to flow fruitfully through the disciple.
And the cluster of grapes I believe is the community
of believers. It's the small groups, the home churches, the
small fellowships, those who claim to be attached to Messiah
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but yield no fruit. I hate to say, this is
harsh or useless, and they'll be burned. Nelson's study Bible
says not abiding a Messiah has serious consequences. The person
is cast out as a branch, indicating loss of fellowship.
The person is withered, indicating a loss of vitality, and
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the person is burned, indicating a loss of reward. The
fire here is figurative, symbolizing either fiery trials, which we
see in First Peter one verses three and nine through nine.
Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord, Jesus
the Messiah, who, according to his abundant mercy, has begotten
us again to a living hope through the resurrection of
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Jesus the Messiah, from the dead, to an inheritance incorruptible
and undefiled that does not fade away, reserved in heaven
for you, who are kept by the power of God
through faith for salvation, ready to be revealed in the
last time. You ready to be revealed in this see
greatly rejoice, though now for a little while, if need be,
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you have been grieved by various trials, that the genuineness
of your faith, being much more precious than gold that perishes,
though it is tested by fire, may be found to
praise honor and glory at the revelation of Jesus the Messiah, whom,
having not seen you love, though now you do not
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see him yet believing you rejoice with joy inexpressible and
full of glory, receiving the end of your faith the
salvation of your souls again. In First Peter four twelve
through thirteen, he talks about these fiery trials. Don't think
it's strange concerning the fiery trial, which is to try you,
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which means it's not happening yet, which is to try
you as though something strange happened to you. But rejoice
to the of you partake, that you partake of Messiah's sufferings,
that when his glory is revealed, you may be glad
with exceeding joy. But there's another aspect of fire. It's
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at the judgment seat of Messiah one Corinthians three, starting
verse eleven. For no foundation can anyone lay then that
which is laid, which is Jesus the Messiah. Now, if
anyone built on this foundation with gold, silver, precious stones, wood, hay,
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and straw, each one's works will become clear. For the
day capital d death, the Lord will declare it, because
it will be revealed by fire. And the fire will
test each one's work of which sort it is. If
anyone's work, which he built on it endures, he or
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receive a reward. If anyone's work is burned, he will
suffer loss, but he himself will be saved. Yet, so
as through fire, it's important. I believe what I'm telling
you is important. That's because I'm telling you because the
Spirit wants you to hear it, because failure to abide
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leads to spiritual disaster. I think everyone I've ever ministered
to in his church since I got saved in nineteen
eighty eight, their disasters will led to the fact that
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they were not abiding in him. They were not attached
to him, they were not in his word, they were
not in his presence. And this disaster leads to what
the Lord says, they gather them. You notice that the
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movement went from he the Father who is the vine dresser,
to you, the believer who does or does not abid
to abide, to they unbelievers looking for signs of life.
If you abide me and my words abide in you,
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you will ask what you desire, and it shall be
done for you. By this, My Father is glorified that
you bear much fruit, so you will be my disciples.
Speaker 2 (57:40):
By this.
Speaker 1 (57:42):
You will produce fruit full circle. Love each other as
being fruitful. But it's also a way to evangelize the lost.
They shall oh, they shall know that you are My
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disciples by how you love one another. Good fruit. One
thing about good fruit. It has seeds, seeds that lead
to more fruit. And when you're living this way, when
you're living in harmony with him, when you're living in
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union with him, when you're living in right relationship with him,
you'll ask for anything because what you ask for will
line up with his word, and with his will. Your
prayers will be controlled by his word, and those prayers
get answered, and when they do, they glorify God. And
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that's what this is all about. Everything leads back to
the Lord, which leads back to the Father. Good John fourteen,
starting verse seven. If you had known me, you would
have known the Father also, And from now on you
know him and have seen him. Philip says, Lord, show
us the Father, and it is sufficient for us. And
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she doesn't pull any punchers. He said, I've been with
you so long, and yet you have not known me. Philip,
he who has seen me has seen the Father. How
can you say, show us the Father? Do you not
believe that I am in the Father and the Father
and me. The words that I speak to you, I
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do not speak on my own authority, but the Father,
who dwells in me does the work. Believe me that
I am in the Father and the Father and me,
or else believe for the sake of the works themselves.
Most assuredly, I say to you, he who believes in me,
the works that I do, he will do also, And
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greater works than these he will do because I go
to my Father, And whatever you ask in my name,
that I will do. That the Father may be glorified
in the Son. If you ask anything in my name,
I will do it now. Like what the Believer's Study
Bible says about this section, he does not simply show
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the way. Speaking of you, Shuah, he is the way.
He does not merely reveal truth. He is the truth.
He does not merely give life. He is the life.
All the concepts and abstractions are turned into a person,
not a thought, not an abstract. It's a person, and
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that person is Jesus, is just Shua. The way, the
truth and the life of the principal aspects of Exodus,
the way out of bondage, the truth which guides us
into the living Kingdom of God. And the life is
the power to live a life pleasing to God, which
is settling into the promised Land. That's what being saved is.
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You're living in the promised land in this union. This
relationship requires something to sustain it. For that promise to
be effective. That's why John fourteen, verse fourteen then takes
us into If you love me, keep my commandments, and
I will pray the Father, and he will give you
another helper that he may abide with you forever, the
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Spirit of truth, whom the world cannot receive because it
neither sees him nor knows him. But you know him,
for he dwells with you and will be in you.
I will not leave you orphans. I will come to you,
just like this sap. Inside the vine, which brings the
nutrients to grow grapes, has to be there. It's vital
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for the grapes to grow. But it's also hidden from sight.
You see the vine, you see the see the grapes
of the leaves, but you don't see the sap. The ministry
of the work of the Holy Spirit is not visibly prominent,
not as the Father and the son, because as he
said in John sixteen, verses thirteen fourteen, the Spirit will
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never draw attention to himself. He will not speak on
his own authority. Whatever he hears, he will speak, and
he will tell you things to come. He will glorify me,
for he will take of what is mind and declare.
Speaker 2 (01:02:35):
It to you.
Speaker 1 (01:02:37):
The point of the vine, this branch is vine allegory
is that you show His purpose in the believer's life
is to produce fruit. And in this section. Fruit is
mentioned eight times in this chapter, and we see a
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progresses verse two fruit more fruit versus five and eight
much fruit, fruit, more fruit, much fruit. There is a
progression you grow in him? Are you growing? Are you
growing in him? If not, you got to figure out why.
Speaker 2 (01:03:20):
You gotta.
Speaker 1 (01:03:21):
You have to ask the Lord Holy Spirit, show me
prune what needs to be prune, Remove from me what
is hindering me from growing. And currently the vine dresser
his purpose is not to judge yet, but to produce fruit,
to render aid to a faltering vine. Because the coming
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harvest is his focus should be our focus too, and
he's continually cleansing the branches to maximize maximize fruit. As
long as I've been saved, I've always been in process,
uncomfortable at times. Sometimes I've resisted it. Sometimes I've thrown
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my tantrums about it. But it's always been meant for growth.
To be without fruit means that you shoe His goal
for their life has been frustrated. I have found a
new way of living I've a new life, Divine, I've
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got the fruit of the spirit. I'm abiding, abiding in
the vine, Abiding in the vine, Abiding in the vine, love, joy, health, peace.
He has made the mine. I've got prosperity, power and victory. Abiding,
abiding in the vine. Abiding in the vine is the
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key to being fruitful in your life. So let the
Holy Spirit flow through you. Letting him flow through you
is vital to making this happens of right now for
myself and for you. For all my brother's insists. I pray, Lord,
search us if there is any anything hindering this free
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flow of the Spirit in us to produce fruit. Remove it,
any thing, Spotlight it so we can learn from it
and remove it. Because we want to bear fruit for you.
We want to see more clusters of grapes. Protect it,
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protect us from the enemy. Put up a hedge around us. Lord,
be the shield about us, the glory in the lift
of our head. Let us walk as you walked, with peace,
with confidence, with love, with purpose. Shine down upon us,
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surround us in your glory. Let us be what you
need us to be in this hour. Let us do
everything that each one of us, individually and collectively, have
been ordained to do in this hour. Have your way
with us. Do as you will, and I pray all
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these things in your shoe his name. Amen. May the
Lord bless you and keep you. May the Lord may
I don't I make his face to shine upon you
and be gracious to you. May the Lord, I don't
know your shoe a hummer sheep. Jesus the Messiah, lift
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up his countenance upon you and give you peace. Give
you shallam. I'm Richard Grun. This has been the porch
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