The Rejected Cornerstone: Produce Fruit Before It's Taken

Once you are not a people, now you are god's people. Once you were not not once you had not received mercy, now, but now, you have received mercy. You get a reminder that you have been called again not to be silent but to proclaim his excellent mercies. Proclaim the goodness of god not to fall silent on it but to make much of the lord. It's not your home. It's you making the gospel your home and making it known everywhere that you possibly can. To proclaim him. Because he has called you out of darkness and into marvelous light. [00:56:34] (44 seconds)  #ProclaimHisMercy

I'm going to argue with you. These religious leaders are as close as they possibly can to Jesus and they are missing every minute. And my secondary argument is going be for this for you guys. Don't don't get so close in here to Jesus. So close to the gospel. So close to to living for him and doing what he's called you to do and you miss it. You you you bypass it. You you you just become content with looking like a fruitful fig tree but there's no fruit whatsoever. [00:33:59] (37 seconds)  #DontBeFruitlessFaith

Jesus died for all outside the gate so that we would go to all outside the gate. It's it's not comfort but it's a call from comfort. He says, therefore, let us go to him outside the camp and bear the reproach he endured. So, he says, so so let's not stay comfortable. Let's go and bear all of the reproach. Bear all of the persecution. Bear all of the suffering. Bear all of the the issues that come with that. Listen, he says, you are not looking, you're not looking for this city anymore. You're looking for one to come. [00:46:35] (41 seconds)  #GoOutsideTheGate

And then I got a big reality check. The lord don't. The lord gives you opportunities. He can use somebody else. You don't want to get to a place where god is looking past you because you ain't even being faithful anymore. Do do you understand? Like, have we been so for so long? Naive, ignorant to it, that that that we're just going, man, just Jesus, just just give us our little home. Give us our peace. Give us our retirement. Give us give us that. Let that be joy and Jesus is going, the joy is in the fruit. [01:02:00] (47 seconds)  #JoyIsInTheFruit

Listen, in a couple weeks, we're going have people up on stage talking about will you fight for the unborn child? Will you fight when an unborn child is born and has no parents? Will you fight for when that born child now has parents but they can't get it right and so they need somewhere else? Hey, will you fight for the fact that when those now they're up for an adoption of some sort and they need a forever home. Will you fight for that? [01:05:07] (39 seconds)  #FightForTheVulnerable

So so there's a two fold thing here like if you come to the beauty of the chief cornerstone, he'll break you down in humility. If you don't, that's the same stone that can crush you. The same stone that you won't survive when you put everything else up to it. Jesus will either break that pride in you or you'll keep on in rebellion and Jesus will crush you. [01:03:31] (33 seconds)  #CornerstoneHumblesOrCrushes

He didn't come and they they they just clothe them all in white and go, oh, this is going to be the perfect sacrifice. No, let's throw em out there with the trash where where where we don't want to to have anything clean. It's all unclean out there where we throw lepers and and sinful people and Gentiles. They're all out there. We'll go handle him outside the gate. And we know Jesus suffered outside the gate. He was crucified outside the gate. [00:44:21] (33 seconds)  #WithTheOutcasts

And and we what we have to do over and over at least in our our time is combat back this idea that that Jesus just wants you to do whatever makes you happy because if you do whatever makes you happy, you're going to get yourself in a whole lot of trouble. The Bible says nothing of doing what makes you happy. The Bible talks all of of giving up your life and following Jesus fully focused on him. [00:27:44] (32 seconds)  #CrossOverComfort