Becoming Produce People: Living by the Spirit
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### Quotes for Outreach
1. "The Scripture teaches that there are two basic ways that we can live according to the passage of Scripture. We can be driven by the flesh. Which comes out of that, you know, hatred and anger, envy, all those wicked things. Or we can be led by the Holy Spirit, which shows up as love, joy, and peace. And all those beautiful things that we just read. And unfortunately, our default mode, what comes naturally for us, is to live by the flesh. That's our default mode. So if we want to overcome that default mode, and to live the beautiful, beautiful kind of life, then we're going to need supernatural help. In other words, like we've said every week, the pole of sin is strong. But the living Christ is stronger. So open yourself to His Spirit, and you will bear His fruit." (59 seconds)(Download raw clip | Download cropped clip)
2. "You see, if you want to be a produce person, it all starts with Jesus. It begins with him when he starts from the inside. When you ask him to become your Savior, he comes into your life. And then the Holy Spirit, from the inside out, will become produce person. Here's the question for you. What are you? Maybe you're here today, you're a plastic person, or you've got the game down. on the inside, you're empty. Maybe today you need to know Jesus as your Lord and Savior. Humble yourself." (51 seconds)(Download raw clip | Download cropped clip)
3. "You see, we're not to produce this and just eat it. See, there's a lost and dying world that needs the fruit. They need to see your fruit. But some of you sit and you eat. It becomes spiritual. You're spiritually obese. In fact, some of you say, man, I feel so tired. I feel like I'm dragging a barge, spiritually speaking. I don't know what's wrong with me. I go to 25 Bible study a week. Right? I listen to Kayla from sunrise to sunset. And I just feel, I just feel so full. You're not plastic, by the way. You're the peel people." (52 seconds)(Download raw clip | Download cropped clip)
4. "Jesus said in Matthew chapter 7, verse 19. Every tree that does not bear good fruit is cut down and thrown into the fire. And by the fruit, you will recognize them. Jesus said our faith should produce visible, practical outcomes. He said don't sit, soak, and shower. Man, when I was in Africa, the faith of believers, man, they were so evident. You see the joy in their face? I mean, they're seen everywhere. We're walking through the village. We're singing, going to a baptism. I mean, they're singing as they're going to church. They're singing as they're leaving. I mean, they're just evident of not being peel people. So don't be a peel person. It's not for your self-conception." (47 seconds)(Download raw clip | Download cropped clip)
5. "The way you live should always honor and please the Lord. By the way, that's a great question. It's the way that you live, not just on Sunday, but on Monday. It's the way that you live that should honor and please God. That should honor Him. And you've got to ask that question to yourself. But what you hear, what you hear about what you do, about what you listen to, does it honor? Does it please the Lord? And then he said, and your lives will produce every kind of good fruit. All the while, you will grow as you learn to know God better and better." (47 seconds)(Download raw clip | Download cropped clip)
### Quotes for Members
1. "We get to our destination, and it's kind of hilly where we're staying, and about the Smoky Mountains, size mountains, and beautiful landscape, and we get there, and the next day, we visit churches, you know, we go and see these new church plants that just started, you know, by the organization that we're working with, and we go and see these new church plants, and we go and see these new church plants, and we go and see these new church plants, and the organization that we're partnering with is called the Timothy Initiative, and they are just doing some incredible stuff, not just in Africa, but really, in the unreached countries of the far side of the world, the uttermost, you know, the far reaches, the Timothy Initiative, they want to fulfill the Acts 1-8, we figured out Judea, Samaria, and Jerusalem, they want to get to the far reaches of our planet, with the gospel, and so we go there to see what they're doing, their plan, their strategy, and seeing, you know, nationals, Africans, coming to know Christ, and then they turn around, get trained, they've got a two-year training program, teach them if they're interested in being a pastor, they would train them to be pastors or church planters, and then within two years, they're out there, back to their villages, starting churches." (89 seconds)(Download raw clip | Download cropped clip)
2. "I met Pastor Alex, man, this guy's one of the sharpest dressed African men in all of Africa, he's got nice black shiny shoes, I mean, polished, I mean, this guy was, you know, Mr. GQ, okay, I mean, this guy is it, and I'm talking to him, and he was sharing me a story, you know, one of the, one of the leading, well, first of all, Tanzania is 17% of believers, 17% of the population, the number one religion is paganism, witchcraft, it's very prominent, you know, and I when you get to Dar es Salaam in some of the bigger cities, it's more Muslim, so there's a, there's a different pocket, but when you get out of the city and out into the villages, it's pagan demon, demon worship, and, and, and Pastor Alex was sharing a story of a man that he came across, and his dad, this man's dad, was the leading witchcraft, or the witch doctor, Tanzania, he was famous, and he had passed away, and, and, and the young man, young man, the father who passed away, the witch doctor, was assumed that he would become the next witch doctor, the, the witch doctor of Tanzania, and so they, they would tie his body, the dead, dead father, the dead witchcraft, or the witch doctor to the son, they would tie them up for seven days, for seven days it was tied to his dead body, for the purpose of the transfers of power from the dead body to his son, and then after that happened, he had to do something that it's unfathomable, unfathomable in the way we think, and what we could even imagine, that he had to sacrifice his entire family, his wife and kids, and that's just, well, it's just unheard of here, so this young man named, we call him Jacob, Jacob, it's his real name, but Jacob, and Alex had come across Jacob, he had been drinking, grieving, because he had to do the thing that he didn't want to do, but he didn't have a choice, well, he had a choice, but in his mind, he didn't have a choice, well, Pastor Alex talked to him, over time led him to Christ, and now somewhere in the middle of Tanzania, Jacob is not a witch doctor, he's now a pastor, that can only be by the grace and mercy of God, so these guys right here, they're just doing it, just getting it done." (218 seconds)(Download raw clip | Download cropped clip)
3. "I saw the book of Acts unfolding in ways I've never seen before. It was an amazing experience. Thank you, church, for letting me go and to bring you that report of what God is doing, what God is doing on the other side of the world. And so Galatians chapter 5, we started the series 10 weeks ago, 9 weeks ago. And so, Galatians chapter 5, verse 16 to 23. And I don't have time to read all of this, but I wanted to look at verse 22. But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, and faithfulness, gentleness, and self-control against such things. There is no law. And the Scripture teaches that there are two basic ways that we can live according to the passage of Scripture. We can be driven by the flesh. Which comes out of that, you know, hatred and anger, envy, all those wicked things. Or we can be led by the Holy Spirit, which shows up as love, joy, and peace. And all those beautiful things that we just read. And unfortunately, our default mode, what comes naturally for us, is to live by the flesh. That's our default mode. So if we want to overcome that default mode, and to live the beautiful, beautiful kind of life, then we're going to need supernatural help. In other words, like we've said every week, the pole of sin is strong. But the living Christ is stronger. So open yourself to His Spirit, and you will bear His fruit." (103 seconds)(Download raw clip | Download cropped clip)
4. "You know, the world is dying for some fresh fruit that's coming out of your life. You say, how do you become a produce person? I'll close with this. Paul prayed this, and he said, this is my prayer. Ready? It's on the screen. This is my prayer, that your love may abound more and more in knowledge, in depth of insight, so that you may be able to discern what is best and may be pure and blameless for the day of Christ, filled with the fruit of righteousness that comes. Here's the key. It comes through Jesus Christ, through the glory and praise of God. You see, if you want to be a produce person, it all starts with Jesus. It begins with him when he starts from the inside. When you ask him to become your Savior, he comes into your life. And then the Holy Spirit, from the inside out, will become produce person." (80 seconds)(Download raw clip | Download cropped clip)
5. "You see, knowledge without application is condemnation. It's not enough to just know it. We've got to live it out. And God's calling us to be produced people. He wants us to get it out. And people need us. People need us. And as you walk out in this world, He wants you to take the fruit and it out. Here, you can have an apple. The Honeycrisp. Good apple. I'm going to have an orange. Who wants a banana? Who wants a banana? Oops. Someone wants a banana. You know, this is what we're called to do. Not to self-consume. You want something? What do you want? You want an apple? Apple? There we go. All right. I have to find an apple. By the way, I got that from Nino's. You know it's good. We're all stressed. Isn't it? This one here. You can have an orange. Oh, somebody wants something. There you go. She wants a banana. Okay. There we go. You want a banana. Look. This is what God." (73 seconds)(Download raw clip | Download cropped clip)
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1. "The Scripture teaches that there are two basic ways that we can live according to the passage of Scripture. We can be driven by the flesh. Which comes out of that, you know, hatred and anger, envy, all those wicked things. Or we can be led by the Holy Spirit, which shows up as love, joy, and peace. And all those beautiful things that we just read. And unfortunately, our default mode, what comes naturally for us, is to live by the flesh. That's our default mode. So if we want to overcome that default mode, and to live the beautiful, beautiful kind of life, then we're going to need supernatural help. In other words, like we've said every week, the pole of sin is strong. But the living Christ is stronger. So open yourself to His Spirit, and you will bear His fruit." (59 seconds)(Download raw clip | Download cropped clip)
2. "You see, if you want to be a produce person, it all starts with Jesus. It begins with him when he starts from the inside. When you ask him to become your Savior, he comes into your life. And then the Holy Spirit, from the inside out, will become produce person. Here's the question for you. What are you? Maybe you're here today, you're a plastic person, or you've got the game down. on the inside, you're empty. Maybe today you need to know Jesus as your Lord and Savior. Humble yourself." (51 seconds)(Download raw clip | Download cropped clip)
3. "You see, we're not to produce this and just eat it. See, there's a lost and dying world that needs the fruit. They need to see your fruit. But some of you sit and you eat. It becomes spiritual. You're spiritually obese. In fact, some of you say, man, I feel so tired. I feel like I'm dragging a barge, spiritually speaking. I don't know what's wrong with me. I go to 25 Bible study a week. Right? I listen to Kayla from sunrise to sunset. And I just feel, I just feel so full. You're not plastic, by the way. You're the peel people." (52 seconds)(Download raw clip | Download cropped clip)
4. "Jesus said in Matthew chapter 7, verse 19. Every tree that does not bear good fruit is cut down and thrown into the fire. And by the fruit, you will recognize them. Jesus said our faith should produce visible, practical outcomes. He said don't sit, soak, and shower. Man, when I was in Africa, the faith of believers, man, they were so evident. You see the joy in their face? I mean, they're seen everywhere. We're walking through the village. We're singing, going to a baptism. I mean, they're singing as they're going to church. They're singing as they're leaving. I mean, they're just evident of not being peel people. So don't be a peel person. It's not for your self-conception." (47 seconds)(Download raw clip | Download cropped clip)
5. "The way you live should always honor and please the Lord. By the way, that's a great question. It's the way that you live, not just on Sunday, but on Monday. It's the way that you live that should honor and please God. That should honor Him. And you've got to ask that question to yourself. But what you hear, what you hear about what you do, about what you listen to, does it honor? Does it please the Lord? And then he said, and your lives will produce every kind of good fruit. All the while, you will grow as you learn to know God better and better." (47 seconds)(Download raw clip | Download cropped clip)
### Quotes for Members
1. "We get to our destination, and it's kind of hilly where we're staying, and about the Smoky Mountains, size mountains, and beautiful landscape, and we get there, and the next day, we visit churches, you know, we go and see these new church plants that just started, you know, by the organization that we're working with, and we go and see these new church plants, and we go and see these new church plants, and we go and see these new church plants, and the organization that we're partnering with is called the Timothy Initiative, and they are just doing some incredible stuff, not just in Africa, but really, in the unreached countries of the far side of the world, the uttermost, you know, the far reaches, the Timothy Initiative, they want to fulfill the Acts 1-8, we figured out Judea, Samaria, and Jerusalem, they want to get to the far reaches of our planet, with the gospel, and so we go there to see what they're doing, their plan, their strategy, and seeing, you know, nationals, Africans, coming to know Christ, and then they turn around, get trained, they've got a two-year training program, teach them if they're interested in being a pastor, they would train them to be pastors or church planters, and then within two years, they're out there, back to their villages, starting churches." (89 seconds)(Download raw clip | Download cropped clip)
2. "I met Pastor Alex, man, this guy's one of the sharpest dressed African men in all of Africa, he's got nice black shiny shoes, I mean, polished, I mean, this guy was, you know, Mr. GQ, okay, I mean, this guy is it, and I'm talking to him, and he was sharing me a story, you know, one of the, one of the leading, well, first of all, Tanzania is 17% of believers, 17% of the population, the number one religion is paganism, witchcraft, it's very prominent, you know, and I when you get to Dar es Salaam in some of the bigger cities, it's more Muslim, so there's a, there's a different pocket, but when you get out of the city and out into the villages, it's pagan demon, demon worship, and, and, and Pastor Alex was sharing a story of a man that he came across, and his dad, this man's dad, was the leading witchcraft, or the witch doctor, Tanzania, he was famous, and he had passed away, and, and, and the young man, young man, the father who passed away, the witch doctor, was assumed that he would become the next witch doctor, the, the witch doctor of Tanzania, and so they, they would tie his body, the dead, dead father, the dead witchcraft, or the witch doctor to the son, they would tie them up for seven days, for seven days it was tied to his dead body, for the purpose of the transfers of power from the dead body to his son, and then after that happened, he had to do something that it's unfathomable, unfathomable in the way we think, and what we could even imagine, that he had to sacrifice his entire family, his wife and kids, and that's just, well, it's just unheard of here, so this young man named, we call him Jacob, Jacob, it's his real name, but Jacob, and Alex had come across Jacob, he had been drinking, grieving, because he had to do the thing that he didn't want to do, but he didn't have a choice, well, he had a choice, but in his mind, he didn't have a choice, well, Pastor Alex talked to him, over time led him to Christ, and now somewhere in the middle of Tanzania, Jacob is not a witch doctor, he's now a pastor, that can only be by the grace and mercy of God, so these guys right here, they're just doing it, just getting it done." (218 seconds)(Download raw clip | Download cropped clip)
3. "I saw the book of Acts unfolding in ways I've never seen before. It was an amazing experience. Thank you, church, for letting me go and to bring you that report of what God is doing, what God is doing on the other side of the world. And so Galatians chapter 5, we started the series 10 weeks ago, 9 weeks ago. And so, Galatians chapter 5, verse 16 to 23. And I don't have time to read all of this, but I wanted to look at verse 22. But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, and faithfulness, gentleness, and self-control against such things. There is no law. And the Scripture teaches that there are two basic ways that we can live according to the passage of Scripture. We can be driven by the flesh. Which comes out of that, you know, hatred and anger, envy, all those wicked things. Or we can be led by the Holy Spirit, which shows up as love, joy, and peace. And all those beautiful things that we just read. And unfortunately, our default mode, what comes naturally for us, is to live by the flesh. That's our default mode. So if we want to overcome that default mode, and to live the beautiful, beautiful kind of life, then we're going to need supernatural help. In other words, like we've said every week, the pole of sin is strong. But the living Christ is stronger. So open yourself to His Spirit, and you will bear His fruit." (103 seconds)(Download raw clip | Download cropped clip)
4. "You know, the world is dying for some fresh fruit that's coming out of your life. You say, how do you become a produce person? I'll close with this. Paul prayed this, and he said, this is my prayer. Ready? It's on the screen. This is my prayer, that your love may abound more and more in knowledge, in depth of insight, so that you may be able to discern what is best and may be pure and blameless for the day of Christ, filled with the fruit of righteousness that comes. Here's the key. It comes through Jesus Christ, through the glory and praise of God. You see, if you want to be a produce person, it all starts with Jesus. It begins with him when he starts from the inside. When you ask him to become your Savior, he comes into your life. And then the Holy Spirit, from the inside out, will become produce person." (80 seconds)(Download raw clip | Download cropped clip)
5. "You see, knowledge without application is condemnation. It's not enough to just know it. We've got to live it out. And God's calling us to be produced people. He wants us to get it out. And people need us. People need us. And as you walk out in this world, He wants you to take the fruit and it out. Here, you can have an apple. The Honeycrisp. Good apple. I'm going to have an orange. Who wants a banana? Who wants a banana? Oops. Someone wants a banana. You know, this is what we're called to do. Not to self-consume. You want something? What do you want? You want an apple? Apple? There we go. All right. I have to find an apple. By the way, I got that from Nino's. You know it's good. We're all stressed. Isn't it? This one here. You can have an orange. Oh, somebody wants something. There you go. She wants a banana. Okay. There we go. You want a banana. Look. This is what God." (73 seconds)(Download raw clip | Download cropped clip)
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