Episode Transcript
[00:00:02] Welcome to the Karma Chaj podcast.
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[00:00:12] It's so funny.
[00:00:14] We're such a faith house that for a few weeks we've been like, you know, we're gonna, we're getting this building, this is the Lord's provision. And then people have come to me and said, so when are you like moving? Are you guys packing up? And we're like, we actually haven't got it yet. So we do. We are a faith people. We believe the Lord is giving it to us. But like Joel said, pray. We need to pray. We need to pray for a miracle. There is nothing impossible for God and we believe he has spoken. But pray with us.
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[00:00:43] I'm going to be speaking today on a topic that I just feel like the Lord has put on my heart for a while actually. And so you can get your bibles ready to John chapter 15. That's where we're going to be heading this morning is a famous scripture where Jesus speaks to his disciples.
[00:01:02] But I wanted to start with a story. So Joel and I, Joel Bannu, my husband, we went for dinner recently and we don't get out that much, we've got three kids and two full time jobs, but we managed to make it for dinner. Miracle.
[00:01:16] And we went to this restaurant and there was a waiter who was serving us and he was just this wine connoisseur, like he knew everything about wine. And do you ever find yourself in a conversation where someone's like so, so passionate about the subject, like you don't really care, let's be honest. But like someone is so passionate about the subject that you're like, okay, okay, I'll just listen, I'll go along with it. And then you end up getting really passionate about it ever happened. Anyway, we were like having this long conversation about wine. And anyway, this waiter was telling us about this wine that he had that he was storing under the sea. You didn't know that you could do that? You can store wine under the sea apparently. And, and anyway, he was getting up and knocking off all the barnacles and stuff and it was like a crazy story. And then he was telling us about the most expensive wine that has ever been sold.
[00:02:06] And it was quite recently in an auction in New York.
[00:02:10] I mean, can you guess how much this wine was sold for? This one bottle. Okay, one bottle was sold for. I don't know what you would guess. Like in my head I was thinking like, you know, 10 grand, 20 grand, like that would be a lot for A bottle of wine. Do you know how much it was?
[00:02:26] $800,000.
[00:02:32] Seriously, $800,000? I was like, that's like, two really nice houses for one bottle of wine.
[00:02:41] Are you mad? And probably no one's ever even going to open it. It's just going to go from cellar to cellar and just, like, appreciate. In fact, I don't know. I don't know about wine, but I was like, that is ridiculous how valuable that wine is.
[00:02:52] Well, this morning I want to speak about a wine that is even more valuable, a wine that is even more precious than that one bottle.
[00:03:03] I don't know if you're going to believe me, but it's the wine of those who have lived their lives for Jesus.
[00:03:10] A wine that has been a life poured out for the One who is the Name above every other name.
[00:03:19] I can tell that you're not convinced yet. It's okay. Would you stand? We're going to read about the wine that is produced through life in Christ.
[00:03:29] John, chapter 15. Are we there?
[00:03:32] You good?
[00:03:33] Yeah, it's great. When we hear back from you guys to respond this morning, chapter 15, I'm going to read. I am the truth. This is Jesus. I am the true vine, and my Father is the gardener. He cuts off every branch in me that bears no fruit, while every branch that does bear fruit, he prunes so that it will be even more fruitful.
[00:03:56] You are already clean because of the word I have spoken to you. Remain in me, and I will remain in you.
[00:04:03] No branch can bear fruit by itself. It must remain in the vine. Neither can you bear fruit unless you remain in me.
[00:04:11] I am the vine, you are the branches. If a man remains in me and I in him, he will bear much fruit apart from me. You can do nothing.
[00:04:20] If anyone does not remain in me, he is like a branch that is thrown away and withers. Such branches are picked up, thrown into the fire, and burned.
[00:04:31] If you remain in Me and my words remain in you, ask whatever you wish and it will be given to you.
[00:04:39] This is for my Father's glory, that you may bear much fruit, showing yourselves to be my disciples.
[00:04:47] Amen. Amen. You can grab a seat. I mean, this whole scripture is just.
[00:04:53] It's the words of Jesus. So of course it's incredible. But go home and read it. Just before I get into what I want to say, I'm just going to pray. Holy Spirit.
[00:05:03] God, I thank you for your word to us this morning.
[00:05:06] And God, I pray that we would have hearts to receive it in all its fullness.
[00:05:11] That you would bring deep revelation to our lives. And that Holy Spirit, you would speak through your word this morning in a way that transforms our lives for your glory.
[00:05:23] Amen.
[00:05:24] Amen.
[00:05:26] We love you, Jesus.
[00:05:29] You know, this is such an encouragement to us. Today. Jesus is speaking to his disciples. So it's really important that we know, you know, he's not speaking to everyone, not speaking to the world. He's speaking to people who have chosen to follow him. And so if you have chosen to follow Jesus, there is good news for us today. And he's saying four things. He's using this analogy, right? To say four things, that the Father is the gardener.
[00:05:56] The Father is the one who looks upon the world, looks upon his children. He is the gardener. Then you have the vine. Who is Jesus, The Son of man who came from heaven to earth, who died on the cross. He is the establishment of the vine he hung on the tree. On a tree, like the vine, it was established on the day that he died on the cross.
[00:06:23] And then the branch is us.
[00:06:26] We. We are drafted in to his family.
[00:06:31] We are in Christ when we give our lives to him. When we're disciples of Jesus, we are the branches that come forth from the vine in Christ. And then the fruit is what we produce by being attached to him.
[00:06:46] By being in him, abiding in him. We then produce fruit out of that.
[00:06:53] Jesus is saying, I'm the vine. As you remain in me, people of God, you will bear much fruit and you will taste like the best wine in the world ever.
[00:07:07] As you live this life attached to the one true vine, you're going to produce this fruit, this kingdom, fruit that not only brings glory unto the name of Jesus, but also shows the world what he tastes like.
[00:07:21] You are the most precious, valuable wine, Chroma Church and the bride of Christ.
[00:07:28] As believers in him, we are so valuable unto him and unto this world. And my prayer is that we leave him knowing that today, in greater measure, there is good news for us. He's saying, as you stay connected to me, you can do all things.
[00:07:45] There is no limit to what you can do when you are in Christ Jesus.
[00:07:50] As you remain in me, you're going to bear so much fruit as you abiding me. There's no human striving and straining to just get it right all the time, but instead you operate out of the overflow of who you are attached to. Yes, that we get to live in this connection with him. And the truth is, our lives as disciples of Jesus Christ is less about effort and more about connection. To him, do I. Am I saying that we don't work hard? No. For Jesus, we do everything in excellence.
[00:08:26] But that's not where our foundation lies. As we prioritize his presence, as we stay connected to the vine, everything else flows out of that place.
[00:08:37] I think it's really funny. As you like, think about an apple tree or a vineyard or whatever. You don't see a branch straining and straining and straining. Like, produce fruit. I will produce fruit. If I just get it right, I will produce fruit. Like it's a natural outworking. An apple tree just produces apples because of the tree, the identity it has. Yes.
[00:09:01] So actually we. It's the outworking of this relationship with the vine because we are in him, that we naturally have this fruit that is produced. It is so refreshing. It is so freeing to understand this.
[00:09:18] And I want to say, what is the fruit then?
[00:09:22] The Bible talks about lots of different kind of kingdom that is produced in us. Galatians 5 is. Is our famous scripture about this, the fruit of the Spirit. Right. So Paul. Paul declares in. In Galatians 5 that. And the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness, self control.
[00:09:48] Anyone want any of those fruits?
[00:09:50] I'm like, yes, please, Lord.
[00:09:53] And. And I don't believe that that list covers all of them. I believe that that's a taste of some of the fruit of the Spirit. But as we live in him, every fruit that we bear is. Is his kingdom being established. It's the fruit of the kingdom of God who. Not just in us, but the fruit that multiplies out as believers. We're not just people who are now in the kingdom. We are believers who reproduce the kingdom wherever we go.
[00:10:22] You know, Jesus's favorite subject was the kingdom of God.
[00:10:26] Now, of course, we. Our favorite subject as well is the gospel now, because we're talking about Jesus. We're talking about, hopefully to lots of people, you know, Jesus, Jesus died for your sin. There's forgiveness for you. Come and live for him.
[00:10:39] But the thing that Jesus spoke tons about was the kingdom of God.
[00:10:43] Why? Because we are now drafted into the kingdom of God. And wherever we go, we shift the room to see Jesus, to bring his kingdom on earth. He teaches us to pray on earth as it is in heaven. Lord, we look to heaven and we call it onto earth. We're not waiting to get to heaven. We're here to bring heaven on earth. Today.
[00:11:05] That's the fruit that we're producing as we live connected to the vine, to Jesus.
[00:11:13] I want to give Some really clear examples of this. Let's take peace, you know, have you ever felt, you know, life's ups and downs and you just feel like somewhere I lost my peace somewhere I'm just feeling this anxiety or this worry or this fear.
[00:11:30] You think, well, maybe, you know, maybe a spa day will do it. I don't know. That's my first thought, Joel. I think a spa day would really help me with my peace, you know, And I'm not saying it doesn't, but that peace doesn't last.
[00:11:45] That's not the kind of kingdom peace that lasts. You know, maybe I'll just get my peace if I avoid the storm. You know, I'll just avoid that confrontation. I won't go into work that day or I won't forgive that person. I'll just, you know, I just lock it in my mind and put it to the back. That always works, right? I'll just avoid the. Avoid the storm. I'll take more control.
[00:12:05] That's not a peace that lasts. That's a peace that comes by this human wisdom and. And it's not even wisdom, this human striving.
[00:12:15] In fact, when I look back at my life, the times I've been through the storm, I have found peace.
[00:12:23] When I've encountered the Prince of peace, when it's not about getting everything under control, it's not about fixing it and just waiting for the peace to come when everything else is sorted, no, it's in the midst of the storm. I have met face to face with the Prince of Peace, and it's not been about the circumstances. It's about the person who lives in me. And I've looked back and gone, man. It's when I've yielded to him, when I've sought his presence above all else, I've encountered his peace that lasts, his peace that surpasses understanding. That's the kind of peace fruit I want.
[00:13:01] How many of us have tried to produce patience?
[00:13:04] Anyone try to produce patience by just be better tomorrow? You know, we've got six weeks with the kids coming up. It's summer holidays. It's time to pray for parents, church.
[00:13:20] Six. Amen. Six weeks is a lot of days. That's a lot of days. I love my children. They are a gift from God. Amen. But that's a lot of, like, patience fruit that I need.
[00:13:32] And I, like, sometimes go to bed and I'm like, you know, you think about maybe you've snapped at them. If you've raised your voice a little bit. Just be better tomorrow. Rachel, you Just bite your lip a little bit more.
[00:13:43] Just smile and nod or turn away or sing Let it go. Like, let it go, let it go. You know, like sometimes I don't know if anyone else, I. Maybe I'm on my own. I sing that song sometimes. Maybe it's not biblical, I don't know. I just try and let it go. It's fine. The chaos is going on. Just be better, be more patient.
[00:14:00] How many of us know that works?
[00:14:02] No, Maybe for a second, a life of patience. I do know that when I've remained in him, when I've woken up earlier than my kids and I've spent time praying, that's the kind of peace that lasts and the patience that lasts. The kind of patience fruit that I want to produce is understanding that he is my source and they are my target, that I can't do it in my own strength. But as I remain in him, as I feel connected to him, as I have worship on in the background, as I keep my eyes fixed on the One who sustains me, who is my source, the One who means that I lack nothing in his presence. That's how I establish peace and patience. I can't even say the word, can I? Patience, the patience fruit.
[00:14:49] What about faith?
[00:14:51] I can't just produce faith by thinking up this wild idea on my own. And you know, maybe just speaking in a really faith filled, authoritative voice, you know, you know those things in Jesus name, I will don't. You know, there's like, I'm not mocking it, I'm saying it's great to speak with authority, but I'm just saying sometimes if we're just striving up on our own, it's not attached to the vine. Our faith is by this human great idea and it's actually outside of the will of God.
[00:15:21] Faith outside of being attached to the vine is foolishness.
[00:15:25] It's foolishness. Like I can just think up, I can fly, I can fly in the name of Jesus. Like, no, that doesn't work. We have to be attached to the vine. We have to feel like we know his heart, his desire, his will. And as we're attached to him, we see things from his perspective. And then we can walk out in faith knowing that the Lord has spoken and I'm a branch of his and I'm going to bear fruit that looks like faith.
[00:15:53] It's so hard and exhausting to do this outside of God. You know, faith grows as I'm connected to his heart because his ways are higher, his thoughts are higher, he sees things from a different perspective. And so we tap in and we yield to Jesus and then we get to live out faith.
[00:16:17] We need to give up our eyesight to receive his insight.
[00:16:22] We need to give up what we earthly see, what we see with our, with our eyes, and actually step in to how he sees things. His heavenly insight for us.
[00:16:35] Teenage Rachel wrote a song. You know, royalties can come my way.
[00:16:41] I'm not going to sing it for you, but I did find my journal the other day. I found a journal that I made. Maybe I was like 13, 14 and I wrote this song.
[00:16:49] Pretty sure it's just scripture, but I wrote this song and I wrote this. Your thoughts are far above my thoughts. Your ways are far above my ways. You see so much more than I see. Would you take me there, Lord? Would you take me there?
[00:17:05] And I was proud of 13 year old me because I was like, I don't think that I was having a good time when I was writing that based on the other things I wrote.
[00:17:14] But don't worry, I'm not going to share it any else, anything else with you, you know, 13, like your world is collapsing and everything is wrong, right? With every 13 year old girl. And that's how you feel in the moment because of hormones. But I'm literally like saying I'm writing this song. Your ways above mine. Your thoughts are above mine. Lord, take me there. I want to see things how you see them. I want to produce the faith fruit that is our heart's cry.
[00:17:45] As we depend just on our flesh. We'll only see the natural. And we have 140 children that come to church pretty much every Sunday morning, which is just incredible. And we've been on this building journey for a while now. We've, we've known that we can't stay here much longer. So the past couple of years we have been looking at lots of different places and, and I remember just praying to the lord like, well, 140 kids. We need like five rooms. We need five rooms. And so we would go to these different venues and look at different places. And when we went to College Court there was like 60 rooms.
[00:18:20] And suddenly I realized, oh, maybe your vision is way bigger than my vision. Maybe you want to fill this place with hundreds and hundreds and hundreds of people, children.
[00:18:35] Maybe your plan, your blueprint for the next 20, 30, 50 years in this city is so much bigger than I could even imagine. Maybe I'm stepping in and yielding to how you see things. God. As we walked around the pastures and just the beautiful forest, all I Could think of. This is like a school.
[00:18:54] What if all of the children came here and also ministry school and a worship school and all the other things, but an actual school where our children could grow up. Maybe we could do forest school.
[00:19:05] No one else knows what that is. Parents know what forest school is, right? Send your kids and they go and like make a campfire in the woods or whatever. Maybe not an actual fire, but they. They look at nature. What if we had a forest school where they actually acknowledge the Creator, not just creation.
[00:19:20] Maybe he has a bigger plan than we have.
[00:19:23] Maybe we, as we yield to him, he's going to show us things that are way beyond our eyesight and all about his insight in us to show us what heaven looks like. You know, as we looking at venues, I'm like, well, we need at least two or three youth rooms. And then we go to College Court. And I'm like, there's a whole youth house. There's a whole house for our teenagers. I know Joel said that it's a studio for the writing songs and stuff, but I'm claiming it as a youth house chosen on campus.
[00:19:52] What if. What if God has a plan for this city that is way beyond Leicester, but that actually is a plan for the nations. For the nations. What if he's going to do something so much bigger than we could even imagine on our own? When we are attached to the vine, we start to see things how he sees them. And we speak in faith, yes, but not on our own accord.
[00:20:16] We're so in tune with what he is saying.
[00:20:20] We're to remain in this place. It's not a. It's not a place that we go to, but we live there, we abide there. We abide in Him. I want to get really, really practical this morning. So Jesus really says three things. Firstly, he says to remain in Him. And I want to be really clear that actually, as believers, as disciples, the truth is, you do remain in Him. We're just on a journey of becoming more and more aware of that and tapping into that. I don't know, you know, if you're looking out for your child in a playground, often, you know, you know exactly where they are. You're watching them. But sometimes they kind of. They've been so busy that they don't know where you are. And they start to look around and Harper's often like, look at that. Where's Mummy? I can't see her and I've never taken my eyes off her. And she catches my eye and we realize we know where Each other are. And I believe we're, we're on this journey of realizing that he has never taken his eyes off us.
[00:21:15] But sometimes we get distracted and we need to keep looking back. What are you saying?
[00:21:21] Where are you taking me? How do you see things? And we keep coming back to that.
[00:21:27] But I want to say, to remain in him, we must be intentional.
[00:21:32] We must be intentional.
[00:21:34] Trust me, you don't accidentally have time for the Creator of the universe. Like that's not enough now. Yes. He can interrupt me at any point. And I love it. I love the spontaneity of his presence just meeting me. Unexpected.
[00:21:50] But so many times when I've had deep encounters, it's because I've been intentional at seeking him, drawing close to him, and then he draws close to me.
[00:22:02] Joel and I, we came to Presence and Promise and we were just super convicted about some things. You know, like the Lord had spoken, but it meant being a bit more uncomfortable. We felt the Lord had spoken to us about getting up earlier than our children, getting up earlier than our children, and praying and reading His Word together, but we hadn't been putting it into practice. And so when we came to Presence and Promise, we just looked at each other and we were like, yeah, no, it's time to actually obey what he said. And I know some of you, you know, some of you really holy ones, you get woken up in the night by the Lord.
[00:22:38] Let me tell you, God is too kind to do that to me. He has been so kind to me.
[00:22:44] He has been the past seven years when I've been a parent. I have to say, God hasn't woken me up in the middle of the night. And Lord, you can. I will obey you. But I thank you that you haven't. Thank you for your kindness to me. Instead, we've just woken up to our kids playing the drums because we made the stupid decision to put drums in a seven year old's room. And so that's what we've often woken up to.
[00:23:06] But we knew that the Lord was speaking and we wanted to prioritize getting up before the kids. Now we don't get it right all the time. We've done it 80% of the mornings.
[00:23:17] Me more than you. That's all right, babe, we have done it together.
[00:23:22] But we have to be intentional. These things don't just spontaneously, accidentally happen. Maybe they do for you. Maybe God just wakes you up at 4am every morning. I don't know. But he doesn't. For me, I have to make that a priority.
[00:23:36] Some things that we've put in the diary. You know, Mondays, we're so fun, talk about budget and pray.
[00:23:42] Like we took on a. So sad. Are we.
[00:23:45] We have a life, we do lots of really fun things. But on a Monday, we talk about our budget and we talk about our money and we pray the Lord's blessing over that.
[00:23:54] I want to suggest to you that, I mean, Joel was just talking about a tithe jar for kids. That's a great idea.
[00:24:01] Communion. If you only ever take communion at church, I want to encourage you, take it as a family, sit round together, or in your marriage, take communion during the week. Remember often what the Lord has done and put it in the diary. I know it sometimes feels really religious and really structured, but you know what? It's intentionally prioritizing the presence of God. I'm going to stay firm to him. I'm going to be rooted in Him. I'm going to be yielded to Him. I'm going to remain in Him. And we put it in Saturday morning communion with the kids.
[00:24:35] And then we have to be consistent, be intentional, and then be consistent. Apparently you have to do something 60 times now to make it a habit. That's eight weeks. That's quite a lot.
[00:24:47] But as we make that decision to attach our. Maybe it's our prayer life to something we're already doing, we do it over and over again until it becomes part of our lives.
[00:24:56] You know, pray. I'm going to pray when I first wake up. I'm going to acknowledge the Lord and tell him I love him. I'm going to pray. This is honestly true. I pray in the shower. We pray on the way to school. Every single morning. I pray when I sit down at my desk in the office and make declarations over my day. We might pray when we eat. We pray before we go to bed. And those things might start as a habit, but then they become a place that you live, a place that is just so normal to you. And as you look into the next year, you know, summer 2027, where do I want to be with the Lord? We actually go, okay, I'm going to plan something. I'm going to be intentional about how I get there.
[00:25:36] I'm going to be consistent. I'm going to ask people to hold me to account.
[00:25:42] Many years ago, I. I learned that my mind often meditates on the last thing I've seen or the last thing I've spoken about. So, you know, if I was looking at my diary and I was really worried about something that week, often, then I Would, like, dream about it. I would just have this unsettled feeling.
[00:25:58] And the Lord just spoke to me about meditating on His Word as the last thing I do before I sleep. And it might be one verse, it might be something really small, but that's the last thing I'm going to consume so that my mind is meditating on good food as I sleep.
[00:26:15] It's making those things consistent.
[00:26:18] Is that okay? I'm just sharing with you some tips of how I've remained in him. And then be obedient. Ephesians 5, 10 is my favorite new verse. Find out what pleases the Lord.
[00:26:30] Find out. Find out the things that he likes and the things that he doesn't.
[00:26:36] And we're not going to go through them today. I mean, he actually talks about some of these things in. In this chapter, in. In chapter 15, loving others, being generous. We find out the things that he loves, and we do them because his presence always rests on those who are obedient in Him.
[00:26:55] And so we're to be intentional, we're to be consistent, and we're to be obvious obedient to His Word.
[00:27:01] And then we are pruned by the Father, so we've remained in Him. Then we're pruned by the Father. He cuts off the branches that bear no fruit, and then he prunes the branches that do bear fruit. And I want to say pruning is not punishment.
[00:27:17] Pruning. When the Lord speaks to you, we're going to cut that out. We're going to cut this out.
[00:27:22] That is not because he's cross with you, because he's angry with you. It's because you're bearing fruit. It's because you're starting to walk in step with His Spirit, because His kingdom is coming through your life. He's going, okay, well, now it's time to cut that section.
[00:27:37] We're going to cut this off.
[00:27:39] I have a story about this. There was a young girl, a student, who was coming to our church. And she's amazing. She's lovely. She loved the Lord.
[00:27:47] And just after a while, she started joining the youth team. And she was bearing fruit in our youth team. Like, we were seeing lots of teenagers around her and, like, wanting to understand the word of God. She was teaching them the Word. There was fruit in her life. And she came to us one day and she just said, you know, the Lord has convicted me on the fact that I steal.
[00:28:09] I sometimes take things from shops.
[00:28:12] And it's been something I've done on and off for my entire Life.
[00:28:16] And I think she thought that we were going to, you know, get really cross and take her off the youth team and all of that.
[00:28:23] We were like, this is amazing. God is pruning you because there's fruit in your life.
[00:28:29] Do we condone your sin? Absolutely not. Our sin sent Jesus to the cross, but he has forgiven us. And as we confess our sin, he is righteous and just to forgive us. And then he's pruning us so that we produce more fruit.
[00:28:44] And it was so funny because we sent her. We said, you know, we think you should go back to Tesco and just give them money. She was coming. She came back and told us. She was like, they did not know what to do. Like, those Tesco ladies, like, I basically gave them like £1 20. Like, a few weeks ago, I stole a Kit Kat Chunky. So here's my £1 20 or whatever it was. And they were like, they, like, didn't know how to register the cash and the draw, whatever. Got themselves into, like, a real stress because that wine tastes so good, they didn't know what to do with it.
[00:29:17] As we stay connected to the vine and we start to see the fruit of the kingdom of God coming in our lives, the world don't know how to respond. But they do know it's good fruit.
[00:29:26] They do know it reflects Jesus that we are set apart from the world. We taste different because of our lives being pruned by the Father.
[00:29:39] Remain in him. Be pruned by the Father. And I want to finish with now. We bear fruit.
[00:29:45] And as you go through this chapter, I encourage you to do it this week in your Bible study that you're going to plan and schedule. Right? Put it in your diary. You're going to plan a scheduled Bible study with the Lord. The fruit is answered prayer in verse seven. If you remain in me and my words remain in you, ask whatever you wish and it will be done for you.
[00:30:06] So the fruit of remaining in the vine is that he answers our prayers. Why? Because our hearts become so aligned with his hearts. Because we're so connected to his heart. Because we start to think how he thinks. We start to see things how he sees them. And his will becomes our will, our will becomes his will. And he answers the prayers of the saints when we stay connected to Him. Yes, the fruit is the completion of our joy. Verse 11. I've told you this so that my joy may be in you. Anyone want joy as we have the joy of the Lord.
[00:30:38] It's a natural outworking and natural fruit by Being connected to the vine, to Jesus, and the fruit, is friendship with God.
[00:30:48] I am a friend of God.
[00:30:51] Like, this is the promise.
[00:30:53] This is the promise that we're no longer servants because servants don't know their master's business. But now we do know his business because we're in the vine, because we're connected to him, and because we hear things, how he hears them, and sees things, how he sees them. We've become friends with him, we've become aligned with Him. He can trust us, and we get to walk out. This beautiful friendship with the Lord.
[00:31:19] Jesus explains that by the fruit, by their fruit, the world will know them, the disciples.
[00:31:27] As we live this life, totally immersed in the presence of Jesus, being obedient to him, being intentional, being consistent, remaining in him, we will bear good fruit. Fruit.
[00:31:43] And it says in this, in the scripture, Jesus says that it's fruit that will last, fruit that goes the distance. Do we really believe the fruit that we produce as we live a life laid down for Jesus will go past our earthly life? That it will. It will establish something for the generations to come? That the way that I stay connected to Jesus will not only impact my life, but will impact the church, the world, my children, for generations to come, as we live a life poured out for Him. Do we believe it, that this wine that we have in him is so precious, so valuable to him and to this world?
[00:32:25] I'm pretty much done. Do you want to stand?
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