WEBVTT 1 00:00:05.160 --> 00:00:09.759 Welcome Just Hindaway Tagalog Sermon podcast, your daily dose of inspiring, 2 00:00:10.039 --> 00:00:13.800 heartfelt tagalog sermons from different factors and speakers all over 3 00:00:13.839 --> 00:00:16.679 the Philippines. We hope that this podcast finds you in 4 00:00:16.800 --> 00:00:23.039 good shame and now here's your message. 5 00:00:23.879 --> 00:00:28.559 You're listening to a podcast from Victory. Beware of false 6 00:00:28.600 --> 00:00:32.000 prophets who hinder people from finding the narrow road that 7 00:00:32.159 --> 00:00:35.320 leads to Heaven. Learn more about entering the Kingdom of 8 00:00:35.359 --> 00:00:38.640 God in Week fifteen of our series Redefined. 9 00:00:42.880 --> 00:00:46.920 Let's read the verses in Matthew seven, verses thirteen to 10 00:00:47.000 --> 00:00:50.200 twenty three. Enter by the narrow gate. For the gate 11 00:00:50.320 --> 00:00:53.799 is wide, and the way is easy, that leads to destruction, 12 00:00:54.240 --> 00:00:57.359 and those who enter by it are many. For the 13 00:00:57.399 --> 00:00:59.759 gate is narrow, and the way is hard, that leads 14 00:00:59.759 --> 00:01:04.000 to and those who find it are few. Beware of 15 00:01:04.079 --> 00:01:07.519 false prophets who come to you in sheep's clothing, but 16 00:01:07.719 --> 00:01:12.239 inwardly are ravenous wolves. You will recognize them by their fruits. 17 00:01:12.719 --> 00:01:16.000 Our grapes gathered from torn bushes or figs from fizzles. 18 00:01:16.480 --> 00:01:19.640 So every healthy tree bears good fruit, but the diseased 19 00:01:19.640 --> 00:01:23.480 tree bears bad fruit. A healthy tree cannot bear bad fruit. 20 00:01:23.560 --> 00:01:27.239 Nor can a disease tree bear good fruit. Every tree 21 00:01:27.560 --> 00:01:30.840 that does not bear good fruit is cut down and 22 00:01:30.920 --> 00:01:34.959 thrown into the fire. You will recognize them by their fruits. 23 00:01:35.719 --> 00:01:39.040 Not everyone who says me to me, Lord Lord, will 24 00:01:39.159 --> 00:01:41.439 enter the Kingdom of heaven, but the one who does 25 00:01:41.480 --> 00:01:43.959 the will of my Father, who is in heaven. On 26 00:01:44.000 --> 00:01:47.480 that day, many will say to me, Lord Lord, did 27 00:01:47.519 --> 00:01:50.560 we not prophesy in your name and cast out demons 28 00:01:50.599 --> 00:01:53.640 in your name? And do many mighty works in your name? 29 00:01:54.000 --> 00:01:57.079 And then will I declare to them, I never knew 30 00:01:57.120 --> 00:02:05.719 you depart from me, workers of lawlessness choices. I found 31 00:02:05.760 --> 00:02:08.560 out that there's actually three types of people, and the 32 00:02:09.479 --> 00:02:12.319 three people are first those who don't know that they 33 00:02:12.319 --> 00:02:15.879 actually have a choice. They never knew that they have 34 00:02:15.960 --> 00:02:18.000 a choice. You know. That's why we also send out 35 00:02:18.000 --> 00:02:21.039 people not just hearing the field, even mission to the 36 00:02:21.080 --> 00:02:25.199 mission field to those countries that haven't heard about Jesus Christ. 37 00:02:25.479 --> 00:02:27.960 They might not know that they have actually have a choice. 38 00:02:28.159 --> 00:02:32.439 Sometimes they just they're just born into a religion, born 39 00:02:32.479 --> 00:02:34.960 into a tradition, and they thought that that was the 40 00:02:35.000 --> 00:02:39.639 creator of everything. That's why we have work your own 41 00:02:39.719 --> 00:02:41.960 church here in Victory Greens. We have work in Canberra, 42 00:02:42.039 --> 00:02:45.960 we have work in Central Asia precisely for that. For 43 00:02:46.039 --> 00:02:48.360 those people who don't know that they actually have a choice, 44 00:02:48.840 --> 00:02:51.439 for them to know Jesus Christ and make the choice. 45 00:02:52.360 --> 00:02:54.960 Then those people who are afraid to make a choice. 46 00:02:55.680 --> 00:02:59.039 Before that was me. I didn't know how, I didn't 47 00:02:59.080 --> 00:03:03.000 know the step one, step two. I hope as I 48 00:03:03.080 --> 00:03:05.800 go through this you try to figure it out. Oh, 49 00:03:05.800 --> 00:03:09.560 maybe that's me, or maybe that's me. Third kind of 50 00:03:09.599 --> 00:03:13.879 people are those who don't want to make a choice. 51 00:03:14.960 --> 00:03:17.000 Don't want to make a choice. I know, let me 52 00:03:17.159 --> 00:03:20.919 just play this religion card as I like. But I'm 53 00:03:20.919 --> 00:03:23.719 not gonna make a choice. Why Because I'm enjoying this 54 00:03:23.879 --> 00:03:26.280 is me, this is my life. That's your life. Don't 55 00:03:26.319 --> 00:03:31.240 bother with my life. But you know, if you count 56 00:03:31.280 --> 00:03:36.639 yourself as a citizen of God's kingdom, a choice has 57 00:03:36.680 --> 00:03:39.080 to be so visible. The choice that you make has 58 00:03:39.120 --> 00:03:40.840 to be so visible. The choice that you make has 59 00:03:40.840 --> 00:03:46.039 to be so fruitful and so clear. And John ad 60 00:03:46.120 --> 00:03:49.280 first of said again Jesus spoke to them, saying, I 61 00:03:49.360 --> 00:03:52.719 am the light of the world. Whoever follows me will 62 00:03:52.719 --> 00:03:55.639 not walk in darkness, but will have the light of life. 63 00:03:55.759 --> 00:04:00.479 If you are follower of Jesus, you follow follow the 64 00:04:00.599 --> 00:04:04.800 follow by faith, you obey him, you're under you submit 65 00:04:04.919 --> 00:04:08.599 to him. That's a choice. Maybe it's tough, Yes, it's 66 00:04:08.639 --> 00:04:10.639 kind of tough. That's why when you go through the 67 00:04:10.800 --> 00:04:15.800 different verses. Now it is very counter culture Galian and 68 00:04:15.840 --> 00:04:20.920 Jesus every time, every sermon, every message is it's really 69 00:04:21.199 --> 00:04:24.839 really hits hard. Why he's going against the culture. His 70 00:04:25.040 --> 00:04:27.800 counter culture is going against the norm how we do 71 00:04:27.920 --> 00:04:31.600 things like this versaid enter by the narrow Why would 72 00:04:31.639 --> 00:04:34.839 I enter the narrow gate when you're telling me there 73 00:04:34.879 --> 00:04:38.560 is actually a white gate? Naturally, what would you choose? 74 00:04:38.800 --> 00:04:44.079 White or narrow? White or naro? Can you imagine very 75 00:04:44.160 --> 00:04:51.839 narrow genes? But I'm narrowing up? Of course I would 76 00:04:52.600 --> 00:04:56.639 choose the white game. Why? Why? And and explained by 77 00:04:56.639 --> 00:05:01.720 furthering Jesus Why and easy? Of course, naturally will tend 78 00:05:01.759 --> 00:05:05.639 to go to the easier route because it's easier. But 79 00:05:05.759 --> 00:05:09.439 Jesus here is redefining our way of living, not choosing 80 00:05:09.480 --> 00:05:12.319 the easy, not choosing the easier route, not choosing the 81 00:05:12.319 --> 00:05:16.800 wider rout, but rather choosing something that is eternal. Why eternal? 82 00:05:16.879 --> 00:05:21.720 Because he said here this road leads to destruction, and 83 00:05:21.759 --> 00:05:26.399 the destruction here means death. Death means you go to 84 00:05:26.480 --> 00:05:32.439 Tanin misconception of people is that there are actually two doors, 85 00:05:32.639 --> 00:05:37.040 two doors, a white door and a narrow door, and 86 00:05:37.160 --> 00:05:41.000 both of them lead to one direction on one destination. 87 00:05:41.600 --> 00:05:46.480 That's not true. That's a lie. That's a lie. If 88 00:05:46.560 --> 00:05:49.160 somebody told you that, go get out here, first call 89 00:05:49.279 --> 00:05:51.360 him and said, if my pastor told me, you're a liar, 90 00:05:52.000 --> 00:05:56.639 because that's a lie. Two different destinations. One goes to heaven, 91 00:05:56.720 --> 00:05:59.480 one goes to hell. Which what would you choose? The 92 00:05:59.519 --> 00:06:03.480 white includes all religions of work and self righteousness, with 93 00:06:03.560 --> 00:06:06.720 no single way. It's easy, you know why it's easy. 94 00:06:06.759 --> 00:06:12.839 It's it's self centered. I'm happy, I'm comfortable. I can 95 00:06:12.839 --> 00:06:17.399 indulge in all my luho. It's worldly pressed pleasure. I 96 00:06:17.439 --> 00:06:19.720 remember in our home, in our in our home, while 97 00:06:19.720 --> 00:06:22.399 I was growing up. This is a very famous anecdote, Okay, 98 00:06:22.480 --> 00:06:25.759 of my of my parents to always tell me, you know, Larry, 99 00:06:25.800 --> 00:06:29.079 you have to work hard, Uh, Larry, what can happy 100 00:06:29.120 --> 00:06:31.160 go lucky? You know you have to work hard for 101 00:06:31.279 --> 00:06:33.600 stuff so that you can you can earn your way. 102 00:06:33.720 --> 00:06:46.879 You know, whatever you plant now speech, But I was 103 00:06:46.959 --> 00:06:49.839 even surprised that you told me about the stories story 104 00:06:49.920 --> 00:06:53.519 Longtau story about an aunt a diligent and do not 105 00:06:53.600 --> 00:06:56.439 be sloggered. Lo and behold, I found it in the Bible. 106 00:06:57.920 --> 00:07:03.639 It's it's there in the Bible. But what we often 107 00:07:03.680 --> 00:07:07.800 pick is the easy road, even though we know, we 108 00:07:07.959 --> 00:07:12.240 know that that's not the right road. We do cut corners, compromise. 109 00:07:12.279 --> 00:07:16.319 Why to make my life a bit comfortable, turn an 110 00:07:16.319 --> 00:07:21.000 extra buck there, I can cheat my way to school 111 00:07:21.000 --> 00:07:30.959 to usually graduate, And then that that's not it, that's 112 00:07:31.000 --> 00:07:34.560 not it. It does something in your heart, It does 113 00:07:34.600 --> 00:07:37.399 something in your person. There's something in your being that 114 00:07:37.480 --> 00:07:42.399 affects you. Jesus is pointing us to this, to this road, 115 00:07:43.439 --> 00:07:47.399 the narrow road, the narrow road where there's less people, 116 00:07:47.800 --> 00:07:52.480 few people. Why because it is the road less traveled. 117 00:07:53.639 --> 00:08:00.199 Why less traveled? Because it's hard. It's not easy. What 118 00:08:00.040 --> 00:08:03.920 what's hard? Maybe there's after taking that road, there's actually persecution. 119 00:08:04.000 --> 00:08:08.160 Why there's no people? Why? Actually no people? And that's 120 00:08:08.160 --> 00:08:13.720 why there's leads to there's few few people. Why because 121 00:08:13.759 --> 00:08:16.560 it's a hard road. But it's the right road that 122 00:08:16.720 --> 00:08:20.279 leads to life, not destruction, leads to not just your 123 00:08:20.279 --> 00:08:23.439 temporary life, but it turned a life. You know, the 124 00:08:23.480 --> 00:08:26.839 grace that God gave us for salvation, it's not just 125 00:08:26.839 --> 00:08:30.439 for salvation, it's actually redeeming our life right now until 126 00:08:30.480 --> 00:08:33.720 we reach Jesus Guy for our glorification. It's step one, 127 00:08:34.120 --> 00:08:39.200 two and three. That's the same grace. There might be persecution, 128 00:08:39.320 --> 00:08:41.799 hard the hard road. Nobody's there, you're you're you're the 129 00:08:41.840 --> 00:08:45.039 only one there, and there's persecution. Sometimes you can be unpopular. 130 00:08:45.639 --> 00:08:47.879 If you turn around from if you get if you 131 00:08:47.919 --> 00:08:54.759 get so convicted, turn around from sin. Oh, you you're 132 00:08:54.799 --> 00:08:57.879 on your own. You're now the least popular. Before you're 133 00:08:57.919 --> 00:09:01.559 the you're the most popul You're always in the center, 134 00:09:01.679 --> 00:09:03.919 the center of attraction. Now you're in the center of 135 00:09:03.919 --> 00:09:06.559 attraction because people try to get away from you. It's hard, 136 00:09:07.039 --> 00:09:09.159 it's not easy. But what do you do. Do you 137 00:09:09.200 --> 00:09:11.879 make a stand, do you make a choice, or you 138 00:09:12.000 --> 00:09:14.759 just follow the norm? You just be like the tumble 139 00:09:14.759 --> 00:09:21.480 with tumble tumble and tumble tumbatumba and you just follow people. Yes, 140 00:09:21.600 --> 00:09:27.240 sometimes it can be hard. The crowd is there, yourself 141 00:09:29.600 --> 00:09:32.360 your road that small. But checks a Facebook b F 142 00:09:32.559 --> 00:09:41.360 forever does a group shot that you know it's against 143 00:09:41.960 --> 00:09:45.000 the holiness of Jesus Christ that you follow. Would you 144 00:09:45.120 --> 00:09:50.559 stand up for it? It's also true that not all 145 00:09:50.600 --> 00:09:55.080 who choose the narrow way end up being blessed. Maybe 146 00:09:55.120 --> 00:10:00.559 not not yet Hebrews eleven. All of our father of faith, 147 00:10:01.000 --> 00:10:04.639 they never see the promises. But it's not about the promises. 148 00:10:05.879 --> 00:10:08.399 My prayer is not about the promise. My prayer is 149 00:10:08.440 --> 00:10:12.440 that when you come here, it's not an ends it's me. No, 150 00:10:12.600 --> 00:10:16.639 it's not. My prayer is that your goal is setting 151 00:10:16.679 --> 00:10:20.759 up something in heaven. In Hebrews thirteen, verse fourteen said, 152 00:10:20.919 --> 00:10:24.120 for this world is not our permanent home. We are 153 00:10:24.120 --> 00:10:28.759 looking forward to a home yet to come. If your 154 00:10:28.799 --> 00:10:30.600 goal is to stay here, to remain here, to be 155 00:10:30.639 --> 00:10:33.320 famous here, to be rich here, to be here on earth, 156 00:10:33.559 --> 00:10:37.639 by see ya, because we're going to heaven. If you 157 00:10:37.679 --> 00:10:40.559 feel like this is your your permanent this is it. 158 00:10:40.679 --> 00:10:44.759 This is your destination, this is your goal. Bye, because 159 00:10:44.799 --> 00:10:48.799 that's our goal with our creator in heaven. This is temporary. 160 00:10:49.360 --> 00:10:53.000 This is temporary. Everything, everything that we have right down 161 00:10:53.000 --> 00:10:56.360 is temporary. We can't even bring them with us when 162 00:10:56.440 --> 00:11:00.480 Jesus finally takes us. You know, kingdom living. Talking about 163 00:11:00.519 --> 00:11:04.159 kingdom living, the whole Sermon of the Mouth. Kingdom living 164 00:11:05.759 --> 00:11:12.279 needs redefining in our thinking. If you are kingdom living, 165 00:11:13.399 --> 00:11:17.480 you have to be forward thinking. Forward thinking means you're 166 00:11:17.519 --> 00:11:20.240 not thinking of the temporary, the now, three, five, ten 167 00:11:20.279 --> 00:11:23.080 years from now. No, no, no, What you're thinking is eternal life. 168 00:11:23.120 --> 00:11:26.159 What you're thinking is eternity. That's why when you approach 169 00:11:26.200 --> 00:11:29.240 a brother you help her brother. It's not because you 170 00:11:29.240 --> 00:11:31.039 want to be famous now, just to help him. Know 171 00:11:33.159 --> 00:11:35.759 you want to be able to minister and love him 172 00:11:36.080 --> 00:11:38.879 as Christ has love you, and set him even him 173 00:11:39.240 --> 00:11:43.960 for eternity. We are just here, but temporary. But what 174 00:11:44.080 --> 00:11:47.480 choices are you making? Narrow gate? This is the narrow gate, 175 00:11:48.120 --> 00:11:52.399 short term sacrifice, but then the promise is eternal life. 176 00:11:54.600 --> 00:12:00.720 The white gate short term gratification, short term loan, famous, now, happy, gung, comfortable, 177 00:12:01.279 --> 00:12:05.440 but then it leads to death or destruction. Take a pig. 178 00:12:07.399 --> 00:12:10.440 Choose the narrow way and redefine your living. Choose the 179 00:12:10.519 --> 00:12:14.279 narrow way and redefine our living. Let's continue. Matthew seven, 180 00:12:14.600 --> 00:12:17.039 verse fifteen said, beware of false prophets who come to 181 00:12:17.120 --> 00:12:22.360 you in sheep's clothing, but inwardly are ravenous wolves. You 182 00:12:22.399 --> 00:12:25.000 know they say that a sheep would know the very 183 00:12:25.039 --> 00:12:27.600 tone of the voice of the shepherd, he would know. 184 00:12:28.559 --> 00:12:31.200 That's why Jesus here is warning us. Are you so 185 00:12:31.559 --> 00:12:36.320 established in the word, in prayer, in your church community 186 00:12:36.480 --> 00:12:41.080 that you cannot be dissuaded by anyone? Because false prophets 187 00:12:41.120 --> 00:12:43.559 would come out, not just before, not just in the 188 00:12:43.840 --> 00:12:48.000 Old Testament or in the New Testament, even now, even 189 00:12:48.039 --> 00:12:52.440 in our time. They're everywhere. False prophets were prevalent before 190 00:12:52.559 --> 00:12:57.159 and even prevalent now. Jesus said, beware of those words. 191 00:12:57.200 --> 00:13:00.679 Who's trying to entice you? As we live now in 192 00:13:00.720 --> 00:13:06.120 this in this world, in this temporary world, temptations are everywhere, 193 00:13:06.200 --> 00:13:13.759 left and right, open kon open, k actually open by temptation. 194 00:13:14.399 --> 00:13:17.919 You get tempted. But Jesus also tells us that we 195 00:13:17.960 --> 00:13:22.799 will be known for our fruits. In verse sixteen said 196 00:13:22.879 --> 00:13:26.399 you will recognize them by their fruits, our grapes gathered 197 00:13:26.399 --> 00:13:31.600 from torn bushes, or figs from fizzles. Fruits. Would would 198 00:13:31.600 --> 00:13:34.600 you know? Would you recognize if if you know that 199 00:13:34.679 --> 00:13:37.080 you are a son and a daughter or a daughter 200 00:13:38.120 --> 00:13:41.840 of God, you would know his voice? Would you recognize 201 00:13:41.919 --> 00:13:45.639 if that's a false teacher or that's a truth teacher. 202 00:13:46.600 --> 00:13:49.639 If it's a false or good teacher, you would know, 203 00:13:49.919 --> 00:13:52.639 you would recognize a good fruit from a bad fruit. 204 00:13:53.559 --> 00:13:57.279 Here the analogy is for grapes. You know torn bushes, 205 00:13:57.320 --> 00:14:01.200 torn bushes are are are see the plants black seeded 206 00:14:01.240 --> 00:14:05.039 plants parapum doua that when they sprout from afar, it 207 00:14:05.240 --> 00:14:10.799 seems like they're grapes. Would you recognize true fruit? Would you? 208 00:14:11.039 --> 00:14:15.600 Would we? So it's important as you grow deeper in 209 00:14:15.639 --> 00:14:18.639 your relationship with God, you grow with a community as well. 210 00:14:19.039 --> 00:14:23.120 The more you get into His word, put them, tie 211 00:14:23.120 --> 00:14:25.480 them upon your your your neck, put them in your heart. 212 00:14:25.600 --> 00:14:27.600 Meditate on it day and night so that it will 213 00:14:27.639 --> 00:14:30.279 grow in you. If you penetrate your penetrate your heart 214 00:14:30.320 --> 00:14:34.279 and make you grow and fruitful. Grow. Also in your 215 00:14:34.320 --> 00:14:36.440 church community. My prayer is that you're not just a 216 00:14:36.679 --> 00:14:40.799 tumbleweeding every Sunday in and out, that you're part of 217 00:14:40.840 --> 00:14:44.080 a church community. Being part of a church community, you 218 00:14:44.120 --> 00:14:46.720 are also accountable to each other. It helps you grow, 219 00:14:47.120 --> 00:14:50.720 helps us grow. The temporary world that we live in 220 00:14:50.840 --> 00:14:56.000 is full of temptation. It's full of temptation, and there 221 00:14:56.000 --> 00:14:58.840 are times that we would forget those teachings and hear 222 00:14:59.240 --> 00:15:03.200 falsely from our their prophets. Remember my mom would always 223 00:15:03.759 --> 00:15:06.120 tell us this, this, this story about the story of 224 00:15:06.159 --> 00:15:09.279 the moth, and a long story of the moth in 225 00:15:09.399 --> 00:15:14.279 story and remember that. Yes, okay, I'll show you a 226 00:15:14.320 --> 00:15:20.919 short video, younger one, okay, what's going on? It's the dialogue? 227 00:15:21.480 --> 00:15:22.639 Can you just play it there in the back? 228 00:15:31.480 --> 00:16:00.759 And I took only one. One is an Arab boy, 229 00:16:01.279 --> 00:16:01.919 the Lapp. 230 00:16:10.519 --> 00:16:11.159 I'm billing in. 231 00:16:12.600 --> 00:16:17.279 But the lab it's a boy, the mapam in it. 232 00:16:18.080 --> 00:16:18.919 I'm set up. 233 00:16:26.799 --> 00:16:27.399 The mapp. 234 00:16:29.159 --> 00:16:29.799 A boy. 235 00:16:32.320 --> 00:16:41.480 Alloy alright, so many baton go matin. 236 00:16:48.440 --> 00:16:50.840 Blano or for me it wasn't a boy. 237 00:16:51.080 --> 00:16:56.039 But did you do you know the moral of the story? 238 00:16:57.600 --> 00:16:59.919 Do you know the moral of the story? A more 239 00:17:00.080 --> 00:17:06.920 is is a month? That would be funny, but I 240 00:17:07.079 --> 00:17:10.480 don't know. We've heard of that story. But most of 241 00:17:10.559 --> 00:17:13.680 the time we we just a flicker of those stuff 242 00:17:14.839 --> 00:17:20.559 we forget. If the word of God is just temporary 243 00:17:20.599 --> 00:17:24.559 in our hearts. You reading them word in Pakistan dai 244 00:17:25.119 --> 00:17:29.880 or picture oh yeah, no verse for the week? Back 245 00:17:29.960 --> 00:17:33.519 then the verse of the week, young picture in pastor 246 00:17:37.480 --> 00:17:41.640 that's that's the verse of the month. For me. If 247 00:17:41.680 --> 00:17:45.720 it doesn't actually recide. You get attracted to so many 248 00:17:45.799 --> 00:17:51.200 things and then you become that that month that become burned. 249 00:17:55.039 --> 00:17:58.200 Make we we ought to make that choices. It has 250 00:17:58.240 --> 00:18:00.960 to be free with something. Have it be evident. It 251 00:18:01.039 --> 00:18:06.720 has to be seen talking about fruitfulness. Healthy tree cannot 252 00:18:06.759 --> 00:18:10.079 bear bad fruit nor disease. Tree bear good fruit, and 253 00:18:10.200 --> 00:18:14.720 talk about the fruit. Imagine with me this this apple tree. 254 00:18:15.440 --> 00:18:19.440 It's a flourishing apple tree. From the outside, the fruits, 255 00:18:19.599 --> 00:18:23.400 the greenness, but we don't see what's under the roots 256 00:18:23.519 --> 00:18:27.440 that's holding the tree so that any any strong wind, 257 00:18:27.720 --> 00:18:30.599 any typhoon, it won't fall. And those fruits are very 258 00:18:30.960 --> 00:18:34.279 roots are very vital because the nutrients go up. There 259 00:18:34.960 --> 00:18:40.519 your main source of water, main source of everything except 260 00:18:40.519 --> 00:18:45.440 also this. Of course, the sun leaves boyon, but it 261 00:18:45.559 --> 00:18:49.559 holds you firm down, it makes you grow, makes you fruitful. 262 00:18:50.079 --> 00:18:52.519 They won't be a good fruit or a bad fruit. 263 00:18:53.359 --> 00:18:56.559 I remember that one of the verses in some our 264 00:18:56.599 --> 00:18:58.880 prayers should be like we should be like trees planted 265 00:18:58.920 --> 00:19:01.839 by the stream of water that never runs dry, for 266 00:19:02.039 --> 00:19:04.519 us to be fruitful, for us to be used, for 267 00:19:04.680 --> 00:19:07.759 us to fulfill the very purposes of God in our lives, 268 00:19:08.079 --> 00:19:11.079 or you want to be like this tree. It's the 269 00:19:11.119 --> 00:19:14.200 same apple. It's it's an apple tree. But look look 270 00:19:14.240 --> 00:19:17.200 at that apple tree. Diseased, bad fruit or actually no 271 00:19:17.279 --> 00:19:20.279 fruit at all? What is it? What is it good for? 272 00:19:20.640 --> 00:19:24.519 Cut down and thrown it can be even used for 273 00:19:24.680 --> 00:19:28.200 for for for firewood. Cannot why because it's so brittle, 274 00:19:28.400 --> 00:19:33.200 it's so dry. They had useless. All you can do 275 00:19:33.359 --> 00:19:39.200 is throw it away. Let Jesus redefine our way of life. 276 00:19:40.680 --> 00:19:44.039 Let's make a choice. What is the choice that you're making. 277 00:19:44.519 --> 00:19:48.119 Good fruit? Good food is something that's fruitful. Good food 278 00:19:49.079 --> 00:19:53.920 is a healthy tree or bad fruit, disease tree, cut 279 00:19:54.039 --> 00:19:59.880 down and thrown to the fire. Let me let me 280 00:20:00.039 --> 00:20:03.519 past here before I continue to the next part. I 281 00:20:03.559 --> 00:20:07.359 don't know what season you are in right now. Maybe 282 00:20:07.440 --> 00:20:11.279 seemingly you look like you're a good fruit may contin bua, 283 00:20:11.680 --> 00:20:14.079 may contin green green, But met you on the side, 284 00:20:14.319 --> 00:20:19.640 it's turning brown a bit. Maybe there's disease. Are actually 285 00:20:19.680 --> 00:20:23.079 starting to creep in one root at a time. We 286 00:20:23.160 --> 00:20:26.079 don't know. Only God knows, but maybe you know, you know, 287 00:20:26.200 --> 00:20:32.640 ask the Lord as that means you have to see God, 288 00:20:33.079 --> 00:20:37.720 because God can revive even dead plans that's his promise. 289 00:20:38.440 --> 00:20:41.480 And those relationships that you're in, if they're seemingly they're 290 00:20:41.559 --> 00:20:44.880 kind of dead or dying, commit them to the Lord. 291 00:20:45.000 --> 00:20:47.440 Put it under his feet and say, Lord, you are 292 00:20:47.519 --> 00:20:50.839 the Lord over everything. You're sovereign about anything. But you 293 00:20:51.039 --> 00:20:54.559 have to make a choice. You have to hear from God. 294 00:20:55.720 --> 00:20:58.440 You have to know that you're in that relate right 295 00:20:58.559 --> 00:21:04.000 relationship with God. Third point here is two followers. What 296 00:21:04.160 --> 00:21:07.160 are you? Are you a true follower or a nominal follower. 297 00:21:08.599 --> 00:21:11.000 Matthew seven, verse twenty one said, not everyone who says 298 00:21:11.039 --> 00:21:13.200 to me, Lord Lord will enter the Kingdom of heaven, 299 00:21:13.400 --> 00:21:16.039 but only the one who does the will of my Father, 300 00:21:16.319 --> 00:21:20.160 who is in heaven. Most often times we use religion 301 00:21:20.480 --> 00:21:26.079 as our ticket to heaven. Son, I need to church, 302 00:21:27.039 --> 00:21:30.839 may favorite seat, may may. Maybe you're victory group, maybe 303 00:21:30.880 --> 00:21:33.759 you're serving in different ministry ministries, and we use that 304 00:21:34.359 --> 00:21:38.240 as our ticket to heaven. I'm sorry, that's not a 305 00:21:38.319 --> 00:21:42.359 ticket to heaven. Only a right relationship founded by that 306 00:21:42.640 --> 00:21:45.319 love that Jesus gave on us a that cross and 307 00:21:45.440 --> 00:21:49.920 promises because he lived after three days, that eternal life, 308 00:21:50.559 --> 00:21:54.119 embracing him as our Lord and savior. That assures us 309 00:21:55.000 --> 00:21:59.839 of our ticket to heaven, not religion, not playing religion. 310 00:22:02.119 --> 00:22:04.079 Not every one of us here are going to heaven. 311 00:22:04.240 --> 00:22:10.079 Do you realize do you realize that? Do you realize 312 00:22:10.119 --> 00:22:15.279 that not everyone? I would love everybody of us here 313 00:22:15.359 --> 00:22:17.680 to be in heaven. I pray even for my children 314 00:22:18.200 --> 00:22:21.839 that they would obey God, they would submit to the 315 00:22:21.920 --> 00:22:24.559 lordship of God, so that we'll see each other in heaven. 316 00:22:26.000 --> 00:22:29.319 But it has to start from you making a choice. 317 00:22:30.119 --> 00:22:33.480 Would you make that choice? It's a bold choice. It's 318 00:22:33.519 --> 00:22:36.720 saying turning away from sin. It's saying I don't want 319 00:22:36.759 --> 00:22:51.000 to compromise, even though sayang or BAHAMAI chan Spain Christians 320 00:22:51.119 --> 00:22:56.400 and to follow God into relationship not men. You have 321 00:22:56.680 --> 00:23:03.279 to make those hard choices. We ought to make those 322 00:23:03.319 --> 00:23:07.440 hard choices, you know our heart. For God to send 323 00:23:07.519 --> 00:23:11.079 his son to die for us on that cross, it's hard, 324 00:23:11.240 --> 00:23:15.359 but he said yes because he loves us, So you 325 00:23:15.440 --> 00:23:19.000 know how hard. I'm just thinking, how hard is it 326 00:23:19.440 --> 00:23:24.480 for Jesus to say that I'm willing to be crucified 327 00:23:27.599 --> 00:23:30.640 for us? It u was hard, but he did it 328 00:23:30.720 --> 00:23:34.160 anyway because Daniel that that's the only way for us 329 00:23:35.200 --> 00:23:37.759 to get to God, to get to heaven. We ought 330 00:23:37.880 --> 00:23:40.720 not to be like those Pharisees, that we're just doing religion, 331 00:23:40.799 --> 00:23:45.200 praying religion for nothing Verse twenty two. On that day, 332 00:23:45.480 --> 00:23:48.720 many will say to me, Lord Lord, did we not 333 00:23:48.880 --> 00:23:51.880 prophesy in your name and cast out demons in your 334 00:23:51.960 --> 00:23:56.119 name and do many mighty words in your name? He's 335 00:23:56.160 --> 00:23:58.440 telling us here, not because you did in my name? 336 00:23:58.759 --> 00:24:03.720 Said it three times, emphasizing not. I'm not after religion. 337 00:24:03.799 --> 00:24:06.559 I'm not after all the works of your hand. I'm 338 00:24:06.680 --> 00:24:11.359 after your heart. I'm after what's inside your heart. It's 339 00:24:11.440 --> 00:24:13.400 not what you have done, what we have done in 340 00:24:13.519 --> 00:24:17.319 his name, but what He has done for you and 341 00:24:17.480 --> 00:24:21.559 how you have committed your life to him. If it's 342 00:24:21.559 --> 00:24:23.720 all about what we can do, maybe we fal there 343 00:24:23.720 --> 00:24:29.599 in a while, Lord, but it's after our heart, commitment 344 00:24:29.640 --> 00:24:32.880 of our heart. What is that choice? Choice to be 345 00:24:32.920 --> 00:24:36.640 a nominal follower, nominal follower you, we say, Lord Lord, 346 00:24:36.720 --> 00:24:46.799 it's but lip service you do otherwise, or many works 347 00:24:47.039 --> 00:24:51.960 just religion going with the flow, or workers of lawlessness, 348 00:24:52.319 --> 00:24:55.559 I say, hypocrites. Or we want to be true become 349 00:24:55.640 --> 00:25:01.160 true followers, submits to Jesus lordship and does the will 350 00:25:01.519 --> 00:25:05.759 of God the Father as he did as Jesus did 351 00:25:05.799 --> 00:25:10.400 on that cross, you know, Church, he started with this 352 00:25:10.559 --> 00:25:15.039 about choices and what what choice do you have to make? 353 00:25:15.240 --> 00:25:18.559 Which one? Which one? Looking at it now, it's it's 354 00:25:18.680 --> 00:25:25.799 more than a choice. It's absolutely about lordship, and sad 355 00:25:25.839 --> 00:25:31.599 to say it shouldn't be left to us to choose. 356 00:25:33.279 --> 00:25:36.359 Because of what Jesus did on that cross, it is 357 00:25:36.480 --> 00:25:40.559 only but natural for us to submit under his lordship. 358 00:25:41.359 --> 00:25:44.559 You want a successful life, you want a successful marriage, 359 00:25:45.200 --> 00:25:47.759 You want to you want your kids to be successful kids. 360 00:25:47.799 --> 00:25:50.160 You want to be successful in school, you want to 361 00:25:50.200 --> 00:25:52.519 have a successful business. You have to. You want to 362 00:25:52.559 --> 00:25:58.480 have success in life, Submit to his lordship. Submit to 363 00:25:58.559 --> 00:26:03.240 his lordship. That's the key. In One Peter three, verse 364 00:26:03.279 --> 00:26:06.400 fifteen said, but in your hearts, honor Christ the Lord 365 00:26:06.720 --> 00:26:13.000 as holy, because he is holy. Inclosures two verse six says, therefore, 366 00:26:13.160 --> 00:26:17.000 as you receive Christ Jesus the Lord, so walk in him. 367 00:26:17.319 --> 00:26:23.200 That's lordship. We walk because we do not see, but 368 00:26:23.359 --> 00:26:28.039 we walk by faith. We know what he has done, 369 00:26:28.440 --> 00:26:32.839 and his promises in us are true as in Just 370 00:26:33.079 --> 00:26:36.839 like as a symbol, you just hold your heart, touch 371 00:26:36.880 --> 00:26:43.960 your heart, say, Lord, is my heart for you? Is 372 00:26:44.200 --> 00:26:49.000 my heart being kept pure? And holy, because I only 373 00:26:49.119 --> 00:26:53.240 have you here. It's not about it more than conviction. 374 00:26:54.440 --> 00:26:58.000 It's about confessing that in our hearts, in our words, 375 00:26:58.039 --> 00:27:01.400 in our deeds, in our minds. It's all about you, Jesus, 376 00:27:03.279 --> 00:27:07.720 that your name is lifted. High Lord. We falter in 377 00:27:07.880 --> 00:27:12.559 so many ways, But Lord, we know, Lord God, that 378 00:27:12.720 --> 00:27:16.000 you don't count record of our wrongs, and your mercy 379 00:27:16.079 --> 00:27:19.839 is new every morning. So Lord, we repent. Lord, lead 380 00:27:20.000 --> 00:27:25.039 us to that narrow gait that assures us truth, repentance, 381 00:27:25.119 --> 00:27:29.319 and faith. Lord. I pray Lord for each one of us, 382 00:27:29.359 --> 00:27:33.759 Lord God, to submit to your lordship Father, not thinking, 383 00:27:33.880 --> 00:27:42.640 not looking at what's comfortable, what's confusing, what's very complicated, 384 00:27:42.720 --> 00:27:45.519 but rather look unto you, the author and perfector of 385 00:27:45.599 --> 00:27:50.559 our faith, whose grace we can rely on, who's true, 386 00:27:52.279 --> 00:27:55.559 never leave us, nor forsake us. Lord, I pray this 387 00:27:55.759 --> 00:28:01.920 right now. There's something that you have to submit to 388 00:28:02.000 --> 00:28:05.359 the lordship of Jesus Christ. And you know that he's 389 00:28:05.400 --> 00:28:08.759 been nagging and nagging and nagging you time and time 390 00:28:08.799 --> 00:28:12.000 and again. My prayer is that you would lay it 391 00:28:12.200 --> 00:28:17.000 at your feet right now. Let this day, let this time, 392 00:28:17.240 --> 00:28:22.519 let this place now be that author of yours that 393 00:28:22.640 --> 00:28:27.880 you're not looking at things that you would sacrifice, but rather, Lord, 394 00:28:28.279 --> 00:28:30.079 that you would rather look at the Lord as the 395 00:28:30.200 --> 00:28:35.519 ultimate sacrifice, to free us from anything, to free us 396 00:28:36.319 --> 00:28:43.079 even from sin, to save us. Lord, you even know 397 00:28:43.279 --> 00:28:46.680 R got the fears that we might be going through 398 00:28:47.000 --> 00:28:51.440 the anxiety as we release all of this. Father, But 399 00:28:51.599 --> 00:28:57.160 remain true, remain true to your promises that you're all 400 00:28:57.240 --> 00:29:00.359 I need, that you're all we need. Father, right now, 401 00:29:02.160 --> 00:29:05.200