Staying Fruitful

The Lord for another opportunity to be in the prayer and fasting service for today. Thank God for how far he has led us. I always like to start with a verse which is not. It's not the topic, but a verse that does allow us to ponder on from the book of Matthew, Matthew, chapter 13, verse 44, Matthew 13:44.

This is a prayer and fasting service. A time where we try to silence our flesh and try to hear from God and align ourselves to what God has for us. You know, God is always speaking, but the problem is that there's so much noise in the world. There's so much noise in our hearts that not doesn't allow us to hear what God is saying about time or part season.

So Matthew 13:44 is. He says again, the kingdom of God is like unto treasure hid in a field. That which when a man has found, he hide it. And for joy Jerome goeth and sell it all, all that he had and buy that field.

This, this Bible verse is just a reminder that the salvation that you have gotten, this thing that you are, you have right now. If you don't understand that it is like a gold field. It's like a field that gold is in it. If you don't understand that this is like crude oil inside in a land.

If you don't understand that this thing is so, so valuable that you can sell everything you have just so that that thing can be preserved. Because you know that if you have this thing, you are settled for life. If you don't understand by this, at this time in one's life, it means that there is a tendency for you to fall. The reason why many people still don't get it, the reason why many people still have not devoted their time to God is because they still can't understand that this salvation matter, this thing that you have received.

Saying that I'm a born again, I'm a new creature in Christ Jesus is because you don't. We still don't understand that this thing is as valuable as you having crude oil in this field. Just picture it. If you have crude oil here and they tell you that this thing is about maybe 10 million, just 10 million to get by this land.

And you now discover that the scooter here, you will make sure you sell everything you have just so that you can get this thing. If by now our jobs, our whatever we are doing is still looking as more important than our salvation, than the things, the, the work of the kingdom, it means that you still don't understand. And that is a Call to action for you to pray. Lord, open my eyes and my ears of understanding.

Help me to see what you are seeing. Help me to understand what I have currently. Because whatever you don't understand, I said this multiple times. Whatever we don't understand, the devil will steal it.

Whatever you don't understand, the devil will steal it. That's why the word of God is not working for many people. People have been praying so much and so much but you see as if there's no fruits. Some people are studying the scripture every day there they are reading the Bible but because there is a lack of understanding.

And I pray that God will help us. That's why you pray. The Lord help me to understand. Pray for understanding.

He said all you're getting, ensure you get understanding. Don't this scripture, I just put it out, don't just read it. Some of many people still don't understand this thing. Go and seek understanding.

Use different translations. Try to understand these things. The day you begin to understand the word of God, that's when power is going to be brought out. Don't just you I hear, say you heard it from someone.

You go and study. I said that just to help us to understand and give us, help us understand that there is need for we as Christians to know the value of what we have right now. I pray God will help us to understand that little church. Now the topic for today is we have to understand in context who we are talking to here.

This topic is for a particular set of people and I trust God that you are also that we all here are part of that particular set of people. This message is a message from Jesus Christ directly to the disciples. And the topic is staying fruitful. Staying fruitful.

Now and the key we are just focusing. I even like, like I said I, I usually prefer it it being called like a Bible study. We're just trying to focus on just two verses, two verses. John 15, verse 1 to 2.

John 15 verse 1 to 2. That's our uncle verses. And you know, sometimes we have read the scripture multiple times but it's as though that when you read it again you realize that ah, it's like I did not read this thing well that day, it was yesterday night that we're discussing it with some people. So John 15 verse 1 to 2.

This was Jesus talking to his disciples. And you know who a disciple. So let me give you context so you know if you are a disciple. A disciple is someone that is a follower of Christ.

A follower of Christ. A disciple disciple is someone that what Deny himself, take up his cross and follow Jesus. Many people have denied themselves, but they have not taken up the cross. Many people have taken up the cross, but they have not yet followed.

They are not yet following it. These three things has to be done before you can call yourself disciple. So which means that not everybody that gives light to Christ, Christ is a disciple. I'll prove it to you.

Simon the sorcerer that, that the Bible made it clear was a sorcerer. But when he saw what these people, Philip was doing, he desired it. And he what the Bible made it clear he believed and he got baptized. But guess what?

He was not yet a disciple of Jesus Christ. Because few verses later, Peter and John they saw Simon and they said there is a. I think it's a son of the devil or something like that. That if you don't repent that you are going to perish your money perish with you and this thing. So what does that mean?

Not everybody in the church is a disciple of Jesus. Not everybody even wants to be a disciple. Many want the glory, but they don't want the cross. You can't get the glory without the cross.

You can't get that. He said, looking unto Jesus Christ, the author and finisher of our faith, who for the joy that was set before him endured the cross, despising the shame. And now he set, he's sitting down at the right hand throne of God. So Jesus Christ was.

He wanted the glory, but he also what endured the cross. Many Christians today want to skip that part. You just want to give your life to Christ and just what, go to heaven? You just want to enjoy the benefit of being a Christian, but it doesn't work.

That's why many people are not getting, they're not enjoying. If I tell you that if you, if every Christian here knows what is inside salvation, I'm telling you many Christians today unfortunately will live their whole life on earth and die and only enjoy like 1% of what it means to be saved. If we truly understand the concept of salvation, you understand that it's a serious package. It is a, it's a mega package.

In fact, nothing you can do can ever buy salvation. Because there's a lot of benefits that you can enjoy on earth because of the fact that you are just saved. And this scripture is loaded with so much benefit of salvation. But unfortunately many Christians because they are not ready to go deeper, they are not ready to pay the cost.

You just enjoy 2%. And that's why you see a lot of Christians struggling. Many people don't become Christians because they have seen many, unfortunately many people that give their life to Christ. The way they portrayed Christianity is not appealing to a non believer.

Many of them, unfortunately even many pastors children, they reject Christianity because they have seen how they are. Maybe their fathers or their parents look like because of their Christians. And it's because those people that give their life to Christ, they did not go deep. So they now portray the particular kind of Christianity that is not appealing to other people.

And that's why people don't want to go. Because people are not going deep. You're just, you're just staying on the surface. People are not studying in depth.

See Paul, the day he gave life to Christ. Look at the amount of things he did. That's the benefit of salvation for many Christians. They give their life and they just, they don't want to go deep.

They are afraid of going deep. So please, it's an encouragement to anyone that wants to be a disciple. You must go deep. Leave this shallow surface level Christianity.

Go deep. Now verse 15, verse 1 said I am the true vine and my father is a husband man. Let's just start there. I am.

I like to read different translations is it just helps so that you can understand better. He said I am the true vine and my father is the husbandman. Another translation says I am the true vine and my father is the vine dresser. Now let's look at this.

Now another one says I am the real vine and my father is the farmer. I think that one is very self explanatory. Now the fact that like I said, Jesus was talking to who his disciples. Now Jesus is saying that he is the true vine.

When someone tell you that he is the true of something, he is the true vine. Like I am the original vine, I am the actual one. It means they are what counterfeit? It means they are what fake vines.

And this is the thing that many people don't understand. Jesus is a true vine and my father is your husband man. Many people unfortunately are connected to the vine, but it's not the true vine. Get this clearly that's why you see a lot of counterfeit Christianity.

Jesus is the true vine. My father is the husband man. That's why you have what many religion people saying that what? There are different ways to go to heaven.

There is still a mountain. So I can go through here, I can go through here. It's all the same. I know the funny thing, many Christians believe that it is true that this one will still go to heaven one way or the other, even if not through Jesus.

Christ. That's why you see them, they are comfortable. If you don't understand and choose to believe that Jesus is the true vine, the only true way, you get it wrong. That's why many Christians are still behaving.

They just, they are double minded. They are just feeling that, oh, he is very devoted in praying. He's praying to his God very well. So I believe he will find those gun do interview.

Ask a lot of guys Christian, you hear what they are saying. I ask you, do you think this Muslim will go to heaven if he doesn't accept Jesus Christ? He's saying yes, I think so. He prays a lot.

He's doing his fasting right now. They're doing 40 days fasting. So you think that, please, we have to understand this thing. It's unfortunate.

Many Christians understand this thing. And my father is the husband man. Now next verse. Now said every branch.

Now this is the part that is very interesting. Every branch in me that beareth not fruit, he taketh away. And every branch that beareth fruit, he projects it that it may bring forth more fruit. Now when you see verses like this, you see this is low debt.

This is extremely low debt. You see the way to study scripture, I start asking questions. You can generate like 10 questions from these two verses. I already generated one that made me wonder.

So when Jesus said, I am the true vine, does that mean there are other vines? Yes. And you now say, my father is the husband man. That means there is somebody looking at the vine, watching over it, taking care of it, ensuring that it is what bearing fruits.

Now he now said, every branch in me, remember, let's say this is the tree, this is one vine. You know, vine, vines are what vines are. They call it this thing crawling crops are crawling branches. They usually crawl, they climb on other branches.

Just like is it ugu or witch tree that wound around this thing, right? So Bible is not saying that Jesus is the true vine climbing up, right? Every branch in that true vine there beareth not fruit, he cut away. Now take note to there are two things I'm saying here.

There is a true vine and there are other vines. Now Jesus is now saying that any branch that is in the true vine, not even the one that is not in other, not even the one that is in other vines. The one that is in the true vine, any branch that is in that true vine that is not bearing fruit, he take it away. This is extremely deep.

Remember I said he's what, talking to what disciples. That means there is a possibility that I can be Connected to Jesus Christ. But guess what? I'm not bearing fruits.

I'm not even saying that I connected to the false vine. You are connected to the. To Jesus Christ, the true vine, and yet you are not bearing fruit. You know, it is one thing that you are connected to the wrong or the counterfeit vine and you are not bearing fruit.

That one is understandable. But it's not another thing for you not to be connected to Jesus Christ, the true vine. I am no longer bearing fruits. Why are we talking about this today?

There is a generation of Christians that's coming up a kind of Christianity that we are portraying that. That we don't want to give back to the kingdom. We don't want to. We don't want Christ to gain from our salvation.

We don't want to give back. All we are always doing is what? Give me, give me. Give me, Lord, give me.

Bless me, bless me. I need a child. I need this. I need that.

Since all the time you have been receiving from God, how much fruits have you generated? How much fruits have you created? Ask yourself, since the day you give your life to Christ, what is your roi? They are putting fertilizer in you.

They are watching you. The Father is watching you. He is putting fertilizer, he's weeding. He's doing a lot of things to make sure you are fruitful.

But yet. Now see the funny thing. Every branch in me. Now let me tell you something about branch.

Now you can be a branch and guess what? You know branch. You want to consider your branches, that they have leaves, right? You know, you can.

It's possible that you can be a branch and you can be the biggest branch with so much leaves. But guess what? Not even a single fruit. I see.

This is very deep. Ask yourself. You begin to picture it. Like I said, when you see scripture, start asking yourself questions.

Who is the branch in this context? Who is me in this context? Where am I in this picture? What is the fruit?

What does it mean to be taken away? You see, when you start asking your question, you are already doing a Bible study. That's like one hour Bible study on those two verses. See, the Bible says, study to show yourself approved unto God.

Now we are going somewhere. That means this is a branch. So much leaves. Colorful, big.

Not even a single fruit. And this is what the master is saying. And every. He said not, not any.

Every, not so. Every branch, no matter how big you have grown, there is no bearing fruit is going to take it away. That means you have received salvation. Guess what?

Your life is not looking smoother, you are making more money. Good things are happening to you. You are flourishing. You are prospering.

But if there is no fruits, I'm going to go into the fruits part too. If there is no fruit, is no point. There's no point. There is no point.

So that means my goal should not be that I receive salvation. Because many people give their life to Christ because they heard, ah, there are many people in this category. I think I was even one of them. Because I heard that or I have seen that, and I know that.

And I feel that if I give my life to Christ, I will enjoy long life and prosperity. I will have good grades, I will have. I'll marry well. I. I have a good family.

I'll live long. All these kind of things which are good, which are those. These are the leaves, right? All those things.

That's the part everybody wants. So therefore I give my life to Christ. Right? You say when you give life to Christ, you'll be delivered.

You'll be free from addiction. You will no longer be struggling with all these things. Yes, that is the. That's good.

What I'm saying that if that's the only thing, if that's the only thing, that's why many people still go back to the world. Because when the devil find out, oh, that's what you're looking for, Abbey, he's going to create a counterfeit to give you all those things that you are looking for. And he now gives you all those things, and you lose it. Every branch that does not bear fruit is going to be taken away.

Now, he said every branch that bear fruits, he projects it that it may bring forth more fruit. Now I get it somewhere. Now let's look at the fruits. What does this fruit look like?

Since we gave your. Since I gave my life to Christ, what is the impact to the kingdom now? What does the impact look like? The Bible says that there's something called what?

The ministry of reconciliation. He has given every one of us the ability to partake in the ministry of reconciliation. The ministry of reconciliation. Now, if I give my life to Christ now, because you cannot give what you don't have.

You get my point? Jesus Christ died so that he gave his life for us. And guess what Jesus said? He said that you love people, that you should also give your life for others.

In First John, he said that. Yet God expect us, Jesus Christ, expect us to also give our life for other people since we were born. Since you give your life to Christ, I did give you life for other people. What does giving your life other people look like?

Not necessarily meaning killing yourself, but I mean you can get to that point. But if he demands it, you know you have to do it. But what does it look like today? It looks like you giving your time, your resources and all the things you have for the kingdom of God to ensure that God's kingdom is advanced, to ensure that lives, people are coming back to the kingdom.

Let's stay here. He said, let's look at 2 Corinthians 5:18, he said, and all things are of God. 2Nd Corinthians 5:18. And all things are of God who has reconciled us to himself by Jesus Christ.

So God is the one that reconciled us to himself by his Son Jesus Christ. That is salvation. So the pure and the primary goal of salvation is this is so that we can get connected back to God. And that's not all.

And has given us the ministry of reconciliation. That is the mandate. Get connected back to God. Start the ministry of reconciliation.

That is what it means to bear fruits. That is what it means to be a fruit. I'm saying this because many people are going to be caught up. He said every will be taken away.

Now I was asking myself, ah, sir, what does it mean to be taken away? Is it that I'm connected to Jesus Christ? I'm a Christian, see, Let me tell you what the person. Let me tell you what someone pointed Jesus Christ look like.

The person looks like this. He's always praying, he's always reading the Bible, he's always going to church, he's fasting, he's doing those four things. He's a good Christian. Well guess what?

No fruit. Ha. This thing is deep. That means it's not enough for me to have this kind of self righteousness or me just doing all these things for myself.

And I'm not giving back to the kingdom of God. All those things edify you. Though I speak in tongues of angels and everything, but I don't have love for my neighbor, I'm not there yet. That means I'm praying, I'm fasting, I'm doing all this if my neighbor is, if other people are not being drawn to Christ because of all those things.

I'm not bearing fruits. This is what the Pharisees were doing. They were praying, they were doing all these things. They were keeping all the doctrine, keeping all the laws.

They were holy, they were looking holy. I mean per se, they were dressing well. But all of these things, no soul was being added, no one was being added. I'm not being Fruit.

And he said so. When you understand this, you will know that my resources, my business, my job, everything, my family, everything that God has blessed me with is because God wants me to be what? Fruitful. So if God sees that he has given me this job and nothing is being added to the kingdom since you joined that company, no soul has been added to the kingdom.

That means there is a problem. That means I am a. I mean I'm a very big branch with so much leaves. But I'm not bearing fruit. Eventually the vine dresser is going to cut me away.

So this one is wasting this thing. Go and stay one place. Pray about no. Now if you.

I don't want to go to the other portion. Maybe next week we trust God, we'll look at the other portion because we now ask, okay, what is the fate of that branch that's being taken away? There is a possibility that that branch can be added back. Remember we're talking about the true vine.

There's a possibility that can be added back. There's a possibility that can be cut off so that another branch from another tree can be joined to the true vine. That's the Gentiles. I hope we understand this thing.

That's Gentiles. May not be that they cut us out to go and pick another branch from somewhere else to come. Say this one is not distant. You have.

Let me tell you what it looks like. You have been born and brought up in the church. You have known God all your whole life. But there no fruits.

There are people like that. They are very constant in service. But they have never impacted one soul in their life. Go like this one is wisdom and resources horses.

Since I. In fact I didn't make sure that she was born into a Christian and everything. She just caught you up. Go and bring a Muslim that was killing Christians.

A thousand Christians. The one who gave his life to Christ suddenly met him there. And that one is winning thousands of souls. Millions of people are coming to Christ because of him.

No wonder I said the first shall be the last. This is why I say the kingdom of God is like God in a field. Guard it. See, the Bible said that since the day of John the Baptist the kingdom of God suffered violence.

Violence. And guess what? Only the violence taken it by force. That means it's something that you have to.

It's like a warfare. So the good people and the bad people, they are fighting for the kingdom of God. Some people are trying to pull it down. Why Christians are meant to guard it because Satan is trying to pull it down.

Why you see so easy? But some people are just lackadastic. They just think it's just like, oh, thank God, I'm a Christian. You know, this kind of truth is just.

It's very sad. God wants to help us. That's why you see, churches are being filled. It's not a matter of Mumbai again.

Churches are being filled, but there's no content. There is no content. It is just noise. It's just noise.

You can sing praise. You can hear choir singing the loudest. And you hear people say, ah, I so much love this song. He said, what drew me to the joy is this song.

Now guess what? You can sing a very powerful hymn and very powerful choir. You can render a powerful ministration or song. But if that, if people are not being drawn to cry, if they are just coming because of the voice and there's no transformation, they are not bearing fruits.

That's what we have to be careful. Just because he's loud, just because it's beautiful, just because he's in fact even preaching. If I preach and it's just, ah, that brother, that thing was powerful. He said was powerful.

And it does not bear fruits. It just lives. You know that people that can preach, people that can, they know theology very well. They know Bible very well.

Satan can preach. Satan can preach. Satan can preach. What I'm saying is he bearing fruits.

So that should be my measure. Every day I should measure. I should check. How many lives have I impacted?

How many souls have I built up? Now let's look at something very profound that Jesus Christ said before he left. But the last thing Jesus. The last instruction that Jesus gave before he went to.

Before he went back to the Father. And you wonder what is going on with the church. Like, wait, is it that we don't know? Is it that.

Wait, you're trying to understand. What are we doing? What is. What are we at?

Let's be frank. Are we. What are we doing? Let's know what we are doing here.

What is our mission? What are we. Where are we driving us with all these things? All these things we are doing?

To what end is all of this thing? How do we know that succeeding? Is it that? That okay, we have added another flat to this thing?

We are making progress. Is it that, okay, we are now. We're like 70 before. Okay, we're now 120.

Does. Is that the. What is your. What is your arrow?

How do you know? What's your KPI? They call it key performance index or indicator. How do you know you are making Progress by their fruits you shall what move them.

What fruits have you yielded since this thing, since this foundation was erected? What is the fruit? 28:13 Matthew 28:19 says now me, I always thought that the goal was just to go into the world and preach the gospel. You know the funny thing, it doesn't end there.

I was asking myself. He said we should bear fruit. I'll tell you what bear fruit. Look like I've mentioned already a little bit.

He said, go therefore and make Matthew's. This is Matthew's own description or explanation of what it means. He said, go therefore and make disciples of all the nation. Not some nations, not few of the nation.

And like I said, when you hear this thing, you ask yourself, who was he talking to? He was studying disciples. And before the disciples, you know, the church started from disciples. Disciples came together and they formed the church.

So they were first disciples there before they now became the church. He said, go therefore make disciple of all the nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father, in the name of the Son and the Holy Ghost, teaching them to observe all the things that I've commanded. You are lo. I am with you always, even to the end of the age.

Age. This was J's instructions to disciples who later became the church. Now you see that the goal is not just to preach. The goal is to what, make disciples.

You can't give what you don't have. So I'm a disciple now. My goal is to see this person preach the gospel to him, make sure he becomes a disciple of Jesus Christ. So that means is not enough for me to see.

Let me tell you the reason why. Many people are still going back to their old ways. Because you just preach the word of God to them and that is all they answer. Jesus Christ.

Guess what? You do not ensure that they enter into a system that will make sure that they grow. Because if you don't grow, if you don't give your life to Christ today, the tendency for you to go back, in fact you might even go back and become worse. You hear people saying they have given your life to Christ seven times, eight times, anytime.

It's outer core daily scrum. You know, when they combine altar call. There are some people that come there every time. I'm not saying people that come there for that thing, but there's people that come there to give their life to Christ every time.

And you wonder why they always come every time. Some people have become making their routine. They give their lives. They don't know whether they are born again.

Every time they are coming. Where in the scripture do you say you give your life to Christ 10 times it is once, you can't be born again. 2 Times it's once more. It's because there is no system that have been placed to make them.

So the goal is not just preach the gospel, is to make disciples. And that is one of the core things of what it means to be fruitful. If so, I was asking myself one day that when he say heaven rejoices over the salvation of one soul, there are 99 that have been saved. I ask myself, if I preach and someone give life to Christ.

Today heaven is rejoicing. What if that person goes back to the world next tomorrow, will heaven still be rejoicing or what? What is the end? Is it counted as plus one for me?

Is that plus one for me? Or is it going to be added to me when I ensure that that person becomes a disciple of Jesus Christ? You see that when you understand that the most hard working people on this earth should be Christians, you know that there's no time to be playing. You see a lot of Christians, it's as if they feel that there's time.

When you see the way Paul was laboring for souls, he said he travailed, he said he cried out, he said he always in prayer, he's always traveling in prayer. Until there is a betting. I don't, I'm trying to paraphrase it. He's always traveling until Christ is formed in you.

That is a model Christian. That is, that is God's expectation for what it means to be disciple. That means I am on a mission. You have to understand that in your family you are on a mission.

In your office, you are on a mission. In your workplace, you are on the mission. You are not behaving like a normal Christian. You are just trying to make ends meet.

You are just hustling so that you make money, make sure your children go to school. And all this, all these kind of, these are mundane things. There is a deeper reason for those things. If all of those things you are doing, you are prospering, but you are not being fruit.

Your children have not become a disciple of Jesus Christ. You have not done well. Some people are raising children, but they're not raising disciples. You conceive a Christian, you are raising children.

The children have not become disciples of Jesus Christ. You know what disciple is? He has denied himself, take up his cross and follow Jesus. You are not trying to raise people that will enter church and become ministers of God inside church.

No it's beyond church. It's beyond church. You know, that's a sad thing. When somebody comes to disciple of Jesus Christ.

You now feel the person is not meant to be inside church. And becoming maybe prophet or whatever it is inside church you is beyond church. In fact, our Christianity is meant to show outside the church, not inside. People are just displaying their Christianity inside the church.

Outside the church. They are not Christians is inside. You not start looking like pastor. Looking like whatever it is you are then outside nobody even knows you.

I am saying that if you are not fruitful, no sooner or later you be caught off. Now let me tell you what's being cut off from the. You know how many people have been taken away according to the scripture, he said anyone that does not bear fruit is taken away. Let me tell you what taken away.

It looks like. Do you know that you can be a Christian? Take note though, that person is still going to be a Christian. Most likely you'll still be a Christian.

But let me tell you what it looks like. The person will not enjoy the full benefit of salvation. You know, I can cut a branch today and that branch can stay on the floor for like weeks. Pending sun can stay longer, I'm telling you.

And it should still be looking green. I try it now. Cult mango tree. Mango tree is not a vine per se.

It's not a branch of a vine. But look for a vine to cut it down. It might be. Let's say a day is like a thousand years in the sight and thousand years like a day in sight.

So time in. In terms realm of the kingdom is different, right? So I'm not sure there's been like time. So what am I trying to say there?

It's possible that they can cut you off from the vine and you'll be on the floor for, you know, in sight of God, it can be longer. You can be on the floor for like 30 years and you won't know that you have been cut off from the vine. God forbid. Let me tell you what that looks like.

It looks like this. You still be going to church, you still be praying, you still be fasting, still be attending church. Do you know those things? Take notes like naming those gobats so that you understand what I'm trying to point out.

I said that we are talking about the true vine. I'm talking about the branch that is cut off from the true vine that is Jesus Christ. I'm not talking about a vine that is not the true vine. You are not a branch of that vine that is the false vine.

That one is different one. That one is already doomed. That is doomed. Don't let that one come to Christ now.

The one that is now in true vine has now cut off. A Christian that has been cut off on the true vine. It looks like this he is just going to be doing normal Christianity, no fruits. He will, he will be struggling more than the one that is caught up.

In fact the person. You see how the person, the person will be struggling to pray like it will be still be mechanical. Do you know there's a way you can go deeper and go that praying becomes exciting. You get to the point that it will be like David that said, I was glad when they said unto me to go to the house of the Lord.

Do you know that there's a way you can serve God and connect it to divine that you'll be excited like yes, yes, let's go, let's go, let's go to church. You'll be running to church because there's this kind of joy that I cannot explain to any human being. You cannot explain it. You're just so excited.

You can stay in church for from 8 o' clock to 6 o' clock in the evening. I say in my school, like you see people stay, they come to church 5:30 in the morning and stay till 6 in the evening every Sunday. And that's not all. On Monday they are gathering Wednesday, Thursday.

And I'm like, and guess what? These people are sit up in their class. You'll be wondering. But now let me tell you, somebody else that looks like this now the one that is cut off when he tries to do all those things, he breaks down.

He burns out. You begin to experience burnout because you are not drawing from the true vine which is your source of strength. You will be struggling to break. You will just be experiencing some kind of thing.

You're not going to experiencing. That's why. Because you are disconnected from the vine because you're not be able to. You'll be experiencing some kind of attack that you are not meant to be experiencing.

It's because you're not connected. You'll be expressing some kind of challenges that you are meant to be above. By now you will not grow. You just be at the same level.

People still know you as a Christian but you know deep down your heart you feel that. Ah, I, to be honest, I know there's more about me where I am currently. I know that something is wrong. You sense it, your spirit.

Sometimes you don't sit down on your chair and be Looking and be crying. Sometimes you'll be crying in time and you like, ah, I knew that there is more about me. I'm meant to be lending to nations by now. I'm not meant to be borrowing.

I'm meant to be giving to. I'm not meant to be lacking by now. I'm meant to be able to sponsor 50 children. I'm meant to be able to bring you know fully whether ah, something is wrong, something's lacking.

You feel that this is where I am. You will know that sometimes you'll be having dreams and you see yourself in far places, but you see yourself still here. You feel a barrier like this, that ah, I'm meant to be beyond this by now. And sometimes you'll be weeping.

And there are many people in the church are like this, especially this today. It's because you're not fruitful. God was like the time we are fruitful, sorry, the time we are connected to ban God was like giving hints or God, go and talk to this person, do this, do this. You were like ah, you were just.

You kept on praying, you kept on fasting, you kept on doing your things on your own, on your own, on your own, on your own. And God is saying it's time. Use what I've given you. You have enough.

Go and do, do, do, do something with it. But when wasting time, no, no, no, say this guy is wasting my time. Put it don't. Now you try to do it.

It's like you struggle. I remember I said you can still be in Christ. Guess what? You know the funny thing?

You can even make heaven. You can make heaven even the fact that you have been cut out. But guess what? Many will go to heaven and you'll be shocked because they fail to realize that heaven is another kingdom on its own, that there are levels of government.

Is it not Paul that said he went to the third heaven? You see that levels you have the second heaven, the first heaven, the third heaven. There are layers. You might even spend eternity.

You cannot spend eternity. You might be in eternity. And you might never even see where the throne of God is because of the level of fruits you bore when you on earth. Many people in this country, they have never seen Buhari before.

Is it not true? You have never been seen the government house before. But you in the country, that's how things going to be. You, you know, you wish heaven will be full of surprises.

Because people think that see the goal is beyond making heaven. Now the first thing is when you give your life to Christ, you're already sure you're making heaven. It's sure for you. Now go deeper.

But some people are still remaining on that part of just saying, my goal is to make heaven. Heaven is the goal. Heaven at last, please. That is the goal.

But I'm telling that once you start utilizing what God has given you and start working, align yourself with the spirit of God. Heaven is sure for you. When you make sure you bear fruit, bring other people to heaven, but also ensure that what you don't just be a signboard that lead people to heaven and you be a castaway. Moses was almost like that.

He led people to this thing. And because of the frustration he got from the people, you see, the devil is a very bad devil because of the. I was reading Deuteronomy yesterday and you see how many times Moses blamed the people of Israel for the fact that he did not enter the promised land. He kept on blame.

They said, because of you people. Because of you people frustration, I did not enter the kingdom. He was on you. Chapter one, chapter two, chapter three.

He kept on saying it. Certainly he said, because of you people, I'm not going to enter the Promised land. Because of you people, I'll enter the promised land. So I'm saying that it's God has to help us.

Because in the bid for us to ensure that we are aligned with God, there is also a tendency that you may just be a signboard little bit to heaven. May that not be our portion in the name of Jesus. That's why you have to stay rooted. You have to keep staying rooted.

Stay rooted in Christ. So this is a call to action. Yes. You are a Christian.

I know you have given your life to Christ. You are born again. But please, in the name of God, bear fruit. I see the advantage.

The one that now bear fruit is going to purge that may bring forth more fruit. So that means if you have been able to. You are faithful little, maybe God gave you two people and you were able to raise them up to become disciples. Now those two people are not able to go and meet other people and set them on fire.

Set them on fire. God will entrust more you. He will help you. You increase your capacity by what?

Giving you more resources, Giving you more wealth, giving you more wisdom, more knowledge, more power. You give you more of everything to ensure that this one is okay to do my work. God will make sure that will make you comfortable so that you can continue doing the work. He will not make you put in a position where you'll be lacking resources.

Because let me tell you the gospel is expensive. Do you know how much it takes for you to propagate gospel? If you hear what, if you hear how much is spent to just organize the crusade, you know that ah, when you now see Christians trying to just, you hear them say, oh, I just want to earn 50k per month. How do you want to provide you gospel with just any, with this small mindset, when you understand that, to push.

Let me tell you what, let's say you want to propagate gospel to this whole area. I want to draw thousands or so. You don't just need, it's not just power. You need money.

You need money. Go and check how much you spend for this crusader. You see people all over, all over the world coming to Nigeria to a church in Nigeria, thousands of people. You know that they spend billions, okay?

When they invite a minister to go to another country to go and preach, how much the flight ticket alone, how much hotel, how much. You now bring all this team to go there, you see that you'll be earning millions to rent a hall that can accommodate 5,000 people. You know, that is where will the money come from? So what am I saying?

When you bear fruits, God will purge you so that he can bear more fruit and that bear more for purging. It looks like suffering. It might be suffering, it might be adding more. It's just going to be some disciplined process.

But it's just so that you can bear more fruit. I pray that when you live the service, you will not live with this mentality of oh my God is just to ensure that I make heaven and just every one of us this thing, you know that God expects you to do more else you can be cut off. Like I said, this is a series. You see, this was verse one and verse two.

If you go to verse three, four, five, six, seven, eight, down to yeah to eight to eight, you see, maybe next week you trust God to lead us. I rather call this a Bible study because it's important we study the scripture like this so I will know what we are doing. Because that I, I, to be honest and I, I said something, I learned something one time. The reason why many people are frustrated as Christians is because you're not working purpose.

Whenever you sense frustration in your life, it's because you're not doing what God has said you should do. I usually feel it. Sometime you just feel frustrated. You just wake up in morning, are you feeling frustrated?

It's because you're not doing what God wants you to do. Once you start working in purpose, you cannot be frustrated. You can't. I'm telling you, you will not even feel.

Whenever you feel overwhelmed, it's because they said something. I've forgotten that one. If you feel bored, another one is boredom. If you are feeling bored, it's because you are not doing what God says you do.

That. That means there's excess of things that is in you, but it's not being utilized. So because of that, you feel bored. I.

When I was saying every time I'm bored, I'm bored, I always tell her it's because you haven't yet figured out your purpose. You're not doing what you're meant to be doing by now. So I pray that God will help us to wake up. Not just for yourself.

The Bible says the whole of creation waited for the earnest manifestation of the true sons of God. If you don't wake up, if you don't manifest as the true son of God, thousands of people's lives are connected to yours are going to perish. Many people are going to perish because somebody did not wake up. Someone did not stand up to responsibility.

May God help us. Nobody is too small, nobody is too old to wake up. A responsibility. Moses was not 80 years.

Ah, he's not 80 years. He started this thing. They called him sin so. But he delayed.

But mercy stood up for him. Because God saw that ah, if Moses did not stand up, all these people will die. God even waited 40 years again. He still came back to that same assignment.

Nobody is too small for God to use. I pray God will help us and add his richest blessing to the world. Shall we go to God in prayer so that lead us in prayer?