Abide in Christ: From Leaves to Lasting Fruit

``and and I want to to make this connection to to why you guys are here because I think it it it sometimes we forget this. You didn't simply just show up to to to to check box something. Like, that is not your primary objective as a follower of Christ. Your primary objective, I would say is this, is we are made to bring glory to god or bring god glory and make him known. [00:32:20] (29 seconds)  #BringGodGlory

But do not come with some weak watered down version of the great commission. It's not something we only talk about around Lottie Moon or at Annie Armstrong. We talk about it all the time because you've been called to know god and to make him known. That's it. Give god glory and then go make him known. You know what we're doing in our spare time in an Ecuador in worship? We are giving god glory with people around us because we want to make him known. [00:34:48] (34 seconds)  #LiveTheGreatCommission

The fig day I'm sorry, the fig tree reveals a modern day problem that we in our society want to look like a Christian instead of being a Christian. We want to look like a fig tree, buying out no figs. We're on a fruit. And see, at the beginning, this was Jesus is looking for the production of fruit. We know the story of the good soils in the gospel seed that hits on those soils and that two of em produce some type of plant, some type of tree but no fruit ever. They are ate up or choked out by sin and they are burned up by the sufferings of this world. [00:36:19] (43 seconds)  #FruitNotLeaves

In salvation, you don't get to come with any worldly thought of authority. And claim to it at the end of meeting Jesus. It says, you come, you trust the gospel, believe, and then then you trust and confess his authority. You say Jesus Christ is lord. You say it. You say now, I am the servant. Jesus, you are my lord and I'm going to live for you and it's your authority over mine. I give you all of the any command that I had to my life, you now have. [00:55:03] (40 seconds)  #SubmitToJesus

I'm talking to a church this morning with the heart and reminder that we can look like a healthy tree If we don't have any fruit, if we're not being challenged by the gospel to move in such shape, form, or fashion to love out loud, to share. It's going to cost. It's going to cost you time, effort, energy, all those things. Discipleship's gonna cost you. You're give up some sports. You're give up some practices here and there. You're going to have to give up some time. You hear me? You those are things that are important because they're drawing us closer to the lord. Do not be the generation of church in this time where we're okay with just showing up and looking like a Christian but not being one. [01:07:39] (50 seconds)  #CostOfDiscipleship

We want to teach them all that god has encompassed in our hearts and our lives because that gives him glory. I'd ever want to apologize for being so energized by the idea of the great commission. Church work is not to build the best building. Church work is not to have the coolest events and church work is not to have the best music. Healthy church work is to get your people to glorify god and then for them to go and share in some capacity. [00:35:47] (31 seconds)  #GlorifyAndShare

We don't get rolled over or steamrolled like you may feel like your life is just pounding and pounding and pounding to you, and there's no relenting. But I'm telling you right now, in Christ Jesus, there is victory. You may not see it yet but there is victory that had already been claimed on the cross of Jesus and church, that have been a great spot to say, amen. [00:26:46] (21 seconds)  #VictoryInChrist

And so the confession part comes in and and and confession is admitting your sins and asking for god's overflowing forgiveness and mercy in your life. First John one nine says, if we confess our sins, he is faithful and he is just to forgive us our sins and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness. Now, this is not a new salvation. This is not confession for salvation. This is confession for your sanctification and your growth because every day we float towards something worldly and we have to get that out. We have to get it it gone from us. We can't focus on that anymore and so, it's us getting out the junk. It's us getting out the the things that block our way or distract us. [00:45:27] (46 seconds)  #DailyConfession