Rooted in Christ: Bearing Lasting Spiritual Fruit

1. "The people of footpath represent those. So footpath is some category of people in the house of God. Some children of God. He said, This category of people are those who hear the word of God only for Satan, only to have Satan come at once and take it away. I didn't know Satan was interested in stealing the word of God from our hearts. I thought Satan was just interested in taking our health, or just taking our money, or just taking our joy. But this scripture, Jesus says in the vine, there's something that happens in the vine. One of the things is that sometimes some of us act as footpaths. Rather than acting as good soil or fertile soil, we act as footpaths." [37:40] (48 seconds) (Download raw clip | Download cropped clip)


2. "And what happens is, whenever we are behaving as footpaths, we are not holding on to the word. We allow Satan to take the word from our hearts. Let's continue. And another, this instance, verse 16 says, The seed on the rocky soil represents those who hear the message, and immediately receive it with joy. Continue. But since they don't have deep roots, Oh, say, Mercy, mercy, mercy. So there are some people, they receive the word of God, they say, Hey, today the pastor preached though. Today he might preach. But they receive it with joy. But by the time they get out, he asks them, What happened? They forgot it. Mercy." [38:08] (39 seconds) (Download raw clip | Download cropped clip)


3. "Jesus said, the good news is that some of us, by the grace of God, we can get to experience the vine when we have good soil. Tell someone, I see you as a good soil. Oh, tell another person, you are a good soil, in the name of Jesus. You are a good soil. Sometimes when I'm giving, and people don't want to take the money, or receive whatever, I say that, I'm sorry because you are a good soil. Hallelujah. You are a good soil. Tell yourself, I am a good soil. Any good seed sown in me, germinates. Tell yourself, any good seed sown in me, Hallelujah. And best roots. Hallelujah." [41:04] (43 seconds) (Download raw clip | Download cropped clip)


4. "We hear the word. We accept God's word. We do not look at our condition to define the word. We use the word to define our condition. And we accept it. And we produce a harvest. I see someone producing a harvest. In the mighty name of Jesus, in this ninth month of the year, from this month to the rest of the year, and for the rest of our lives, we are people who are producing harvest. We are producing harvest. It is true there is seed time and harvest. But every word of God, that comes to us, best fruits. It germinates, it blossoms, in the name of Jesus." [42:08] (39 seconds) (Download raw clip | Download cropped clip)


5. "God is saying that the kind of investment he has made in us, I don't know if you have. It's like the manufacturer of this phone that's not expected to behave as a remote. He expects this phone to be able to receive calls, to make calls. When every manufacturer produces a product, he tests it. A farmer knows the kind of seed he is sowing he knows the kind of ground, he knows the fertilizer he has put in. He knows that this is a sure process. The product and the output is sure. And God is saying that in his vineyard he prepared everything. He put the thorns, he placed it on the best location and was expecting sweet grapes but he gave bitter grapes." [44:20] (40 seconds) (Download raw clip | Download cropped clip)


6. "The thing about vineyards is that for us there are different experiences in the vineyards where sometimes we are branches, sometimes we are manifesting as soils. We, we get to experience different emotions. So, for instance, because of when we read John 15, we saw that Jesus said there are times when we feel like we are being pruned. Did you see that? And he said those who prune are those who are bearing my fruit. So sometimes you ask yourself, you are praying, you are keeping tight, you are not living an unrighteous life. You don't know why things are not going for you. It may just be a pruning season." [48:23] (43 seconds) (Download raw clip | Download cropped clip)


7. "The thing about vines or wines by the grace of God today happens to be communion as well is that they are symbolic of Jesus himself. They are symbolic of the life in Christ. They are symbolic of the blood of Jesus. The Bible says in Leviticus that the life of the creature is in the blood. You see, these realities in the kingdom of heaven it is when we are conscious of them. It is when our mind has grasped those revelations. Otherwise, we go through the processes. We will walk or we fight like people fighting with the air. Hallelujah. Are you getting me? Hallelujah." [50:08] (41 seconds) (Download raw clip | Download cropped clip)


8. "I'm saying that when Jesus said this parable of the sower he said that if you don't understand this parable you can't understand the rest. God told me that he wants his people to appreciate what is divine experience. There is a certain intimacy a certain communion between God the Father the Holy Spirit and Christ himself and we are partakers of his divine nature. God wants us to remember that we are connected to him. We are grafted to him. The life that flows through God the Father that flows through Christ Jesus our Savior that flows through the Holy Spirit is flowing through us." [51:06] (35 seconds) (Download raw clip | Download cropped clip)


9. "So we are not just living souls we are life-giving spirits. When we go to a place and people are dying they receive life. When we go to a place and there is more hope hope springs forth. When we are going through a procedure and everybody is being found because the life of Christ is flowing through us we are favored. It is a consciousness. We must come to that reality. You must see that about yourself. Why do you not define yourself by the color of your skin? Do you not define yourself by how fluent you are? Do you not define yourself by your age? By your gender? How educated you are? By defining yourself by God's word? By divine experience?" [51:29] (38 seconds) (Download raw clip | Download cropped clip)


10. "So it is not that we don't go through crashing processes. In the mind crashing goes on. Pooling goes on. But we are conscious that when we are being proved it because we are bearing fruit. People may not see our fruit but we understand from God's word that the reason why I am feeling like I am being proved is so that I will bear more fruit. We understand from God's word that the reason why I am feeling crushed is because God is distilling new wine." [52:26] (29 seconds) (Download raw clip | Download cropped clip)