March 29, 2026 | Palm Sunday | Pastor Jim Kilmartin | Sunday Service | Rock City Church

We have made church a consumer mentality. Come on, preacher. Give me another message. Come on, worship team. Give me another song that gives me the little goosebumps and the feel goods. Consumer church has to die. What do I mean by consumer church? That means I'm gonna go check out the next church. Does it fit my needs? Does it fill my needs? Does it give me what I need? See, church isn't about you. Come on. Amen. Jesus. See, I I love hospitality. I love pastoring. I love discipleship. But here's the deal. Church isn't about you. [01:30:19] (41 seconds)  #ChurchIsNotAStore

Do you got any fruit? How's the fruit right now in your life? Well Amen. And if you don't have any fruit right now, it's okay and say, God, I repent. Woman, where are your accusers? They're not here. Okay. Go and sin no more. We need to change and deal with where we've been, what we've been doing. And I go back to the question, if you ask somebody to come to church with you, what are they gonna say? I would love to meet the God that you serve. Would love to see this Jesus that you talk about because he's one that sees the woman at the well and restores her. [01:56:55] (59 seconds)  #MeetTheRealJesus

Listen to the voices. Pay attention to the agendas. Yeah. Ready? So now they they come and they they use the word of God, and there are many people that will use the word of God for their agenda. Now Moses in the law commanded us that such should be stoned. Alright. Where's the man? Where's the man at in this? This was a setup. She was caught in the very act. This was a setup. [01:14:18] (38 seconds)  #DontUseGodForYourAgenda

This Palm Sunday, crowds came speaking and shouting and chanting and yelling and and even using scripture in that very moment, but they were not discerning. They were loud voices. And I'll say, loud voices do not mean they're the right voices. Religious voices of accusation, they they chant law without mercy. They're pride driven. I'm gonna lose my notes here. So I wrestled with this message. It's Palm Sunday. It could be an exciting message. It could be like, so, God, why are you talking to me about this woman that's caught in adultery? Because I wanna see a pure church. [01:54:42] (63 seconds)  #DiscernTheLoudVoices

Jesus had to go in and flip that very thing upside down. Why? In the middle of the triumphal entry to the entering the temple into the next couple days, why did he have to curse the fig tree? Because it showed a form of godliness, but it had no fruit. I call the church and I call the people of God to stop playing the religious game that you you look the part, you can say the part, and you can walk in, and you're like, here I am. But God wants to see you on Monday, and God wants to see you on Tuesday, and God wants to see you on Wednesday. [01:40:15] (45 seconds)  #FruitOverForm

Leaves, they symbol an outward appearance, a covering, a display, a visibility, fruit. It it represents a result, a pro a produce, or an evidence of life, usually spiritually used spiritually throughout the New Testament. Well, we read from Galatians six, but that's Galatians five verse 22 where he talks about the fruit of the spirit. But then he says it's cursed, and Jesus speaks judgment. It's a prophetic declaration. It's not an emotional reaction. He was hungry. He didn't curse the thing because he was hungry. It was very prophetic. It was very pointed. [01:34:22] (41 seconds)  #LeavesDontEqualFruit

The woman at the well, the gate called Beautiful. See, if the woman at the well, she was rejected by society, she encountered Jesus, and she becomes a voice of revival. The man at gate beautiful, whose false identity was at the gate, but breakthrough happened, new identity happened, and a new voice came out of that individual. This woman at the woman caught in adultery, she was silenced, and she was shamed by the religious voices, but Jesus restored her dignity. He redefines her future. [01:54:11] (32 seconds)  #RestoredAndCalled

He says, I got more for you. The pruning isn't a bad thing. The pruning is a beautiful thing because it says, Shannon, you brought a word. That was a really good word. Fantastic. But there's more Hey. That it may bear more fruit. You know, this this church will be filled when you bear fruit. It's not just about you bringing somebody. That's beautiful, but it's you making disciples. See, do people wanna come to church because of what they see in you, the fruit that is inside of you, or do you repulse people? [01:42:23] (38 seconds)  #MakeDisciplesNotFans