Staying Fruitful 2

Brethren in Christ, we thank God for the opportunity he has given unto us to be here today. This morning we just have a short moment here. That's a 30 minute word before we pray. I will trust God to lead us.

Last week we dealt on staying fruitful. And as he praises the Lord, like I said, we only focused on two verses. And we can see how God was so intentional with those two verses. And as it pleases the Lord, he will have us to still dwell on that particular passage on staying fruitful.

Right. But we'll be looking at verse three to verse eight. And I always like to just start with a little verse the Bible. I want us what we need to understand that this race that we are in.

I'm sure elders and the fathers already understand this, but sometimes Paul usually emphasize and repeat certain statements not because they are not aware, not because they don't know these things. But sometimes there is a way that you can become too familiar with something and you lose sight of what it means. So, so the reminder is just that this race Christian is a marathon, is a marathon. Many people began in the Spirit and they have ended up in the flesh.

Many people that started this thing, they have ended up in the flesh. Right? So, and God will have us to understand this that maybe so it's not something of honor. Off on and off, back and forth.

When we understand that it's a journey, we understand that we cannot do it on our own. It takes the power of God. God says he's going to give us the power and this desire to do what pleases Him. So I cannot do it on my own.

So when you see yourself always desiring to be in God's presence, always pray. It shows that it's beyond you. It is God that has planted and gave you that hunger and test for righteousness. So never at any point should we think that it is because you are disciplined or because you are powerful.

It is the, the spirit of God that enabled you. It is a divine enablement for us to be able to continue to do the things of God without breaking down, without getting tired. Doing something repeatedly without. It takes, it takes a spirit.

It takes a spirit to be consistent. Even people that are drunkard, you see them. For you to be consistently drinking something has already taken over. For you to continue doing something.

Even people that are going to sin and all the same thing with the Spirit of God. For you to consistently continue with fency, praying, reading the scripture, just designed to know God is because God has given us desire and power to please him. So we should always continue to pray for that desire to continue in this path of righteousness. Because evil days are coming.

The last days are coming. The Bible says we should not neglect the garden of saints. We should not neglect the garden of saints. Even as some people have gotten into the habit of doing this.

As you see the day approaching, the end of time is near. And men, this is not the time for Christians to be withdrawing from gathering of saints. This is not the time for you to be going away. It's time for you to be coming closer.

In fact, you should be creating more gatherings, more. We should have more times where we meet regularly, regularly. Because the time now is a very crucial moment for Christians. So I pray the Lord will help us to understand that word might be for someone to maybe not here, but wherever.

And I trust God to deliver the Word. So we're talking about staying fruitful and we'll just continue from verse three of John, chapter 15, verse three. There is an emphasis on this because you see the way the Bible says the devil as a roaring lion is looking for whom to devour. He's here to kill, steal and destroy.

The devil knows that the time he has left, the time is so short and is working full time every single moment. He's not even resting like the way Christians are resting. He's working hard. He said, in the daytime, arrow flies by day.

In the afternoon, destruction wasted. In the night, pestilence worketh in darkness. So many activities of the devil. 2, 4, 7.

And Christians and Paul now also came to advise Christians pray without ceasing. Meditate on the word day and night. Observe to do all thy written needs. You see all these things, he said, pray in the Spirit.

Always do this, always rejoice always. He's also telling Christians to do these things always because the devil is also not sleeping. See what the devil is trying to do? He's trying to be fruitful.

And Christians are just trying to be stagnant. They just want to grow, but not bear fruits. Satan is trying to be fruitful in his own evil deeds. We Christians should also be fruitful.

They there is a clarion call for Christians to wake up. He said, awake, hold down their sleepers. Arise and shine, for the light has come and God glory upon you. All these things are just saying, be fruitful.

Let your light so shine that men may see your good work and glorify the Father in heaven. You must shine. That is how you become fruitful. God is not in the business of just blessing you and everything without him getting back.

See what Paul Said, my little children, let me just open that before we just quickly dive in there. He said, my little children, a move. I travail daily until Christ be formed in you. Paul is consistently laboring for the church every single moment.

I see the goal. Look at what Paul said, my little children in whom I travel again for you, you know what it means to travel. Travel is, you know, when a woman is trying to give birth, you know the pain that the woman goes through. That is labor.

And that's what Paul is trying to describe. He describes what he's doing for us as believers, what he was doing for the church. He was traveling in the place of prayer. You know, there's a way you can pray that you feel a pain in your belly.

That's how. That's what it means to travel. Like, you are praying his groanings like fervent prayer. And you are just praying that, Lord, let Christ be formed in this sister, let Christ be formed.

See, the goal is not just for you to receive Christ. Now. Many people have received Christ, but Christ has not been formed in them. God's primary goal, he said, make disciples of me.

Making disciples of me means that it's not just to, oh, have you accepted Jesus Christ? Yes, someone will accept Jesus Christ. Received Jesus Christ today. That's not the end goal.

So that's what many people fail to think. That's why you see that many people have given their life to Christ. But you still see them saying, I may born again, I may born again, I'm a born again. But you look at their life, it doesn't look like Christ at all.

Because there's another problem now. Satan is not even afraid of you allowing this person to accept Jesus Christ. Satan can allow you to do altar call. Hundreds of people will come and give their Christ, but guess what?

They go back tomorrow to their old life because Christ has not been formed in them. Christ is in them, but he has not been formed in them. That's why Paul said, in whom I travel? Until Christ be formed, not until you find Christ.

He was talking to believers. He was saying, I am praying for you so that Christ will be formed in you. So the goal is Christ must be formed in you, in you, in every member of the church. That is the label, you see, that is what it means.

And how do you now make sure that Christ is formed in someone consistent? That's what you call discipleship. You are not. You are, you are.

You're not just preaching blessing, blessing. You are also trying to bring them home. It requires a lot of Work. When you sit down with one person, be talking every moment, praying for the person, every moment we see when you see the amount of work to be done, you can never be less busy.

You can't. It's very sad that you see a lot of Christians that still have time to be scrolling on TikTok Instagram and just behaving as if nothing is going on. They just go to church on Sunday, Monday to Friday, Saturday they are just normal going to work. They will just focus all their attention and energy, sweat, blood, all their resources is on their business.

That is all. Not thinking that there is something called the Father's business. And the reason why God gave you that your job is so that you can accomplish his own work. God is an investor.

Everything the Bible says the earth is the Lord, the financial everything in it and the world it is his. So he now handed it over to the Bible medically. He he handed over to the sons of men he has given. He said the earth is for us, Heaven is for him.

But do you know what happened now? Do you know why Satan could come to Jesus Christ and tell him that and bow down to me, I'll give you the whole earth, that the earth belongs to me. Do you know that right now the earth belongs to Satan? The day Adam and Eve pass the blame.

You know when they say who what have you done? Eve blame this, I mean Adam blame Eve, Eve blame devil. Guess what? Satan did not blame anybody.

And that's how he handed the power of the whole world to Satan. That's why he said there is a God of this age that blind eyes. Now Satan is not the prince of the world. That is what is happening right now.

So why did I even get here? So I am saying that there is need for us to be fruitful. There is need for us to be fruitful. And we're trusting God to help us in the short time.

So let's go back to our book. John. John chapter 15. John chapter 15 verse.

Now I really we read. Let me just read verse one to two again. I am the true vine and my Father is a vine dresser. Every branch in me that does not bear fruits he takes away.

And every branch that bear fruits he prunes that he may bear more fruits. We have talked extensively that. Verse 3 now said. Now see the part that is not shocking.

Remember when we are in the scripture, you ask questions. You are already clean because of the word which I have spoken to you. That's verse three. And now translation said, you have already been pruned and Purified by the message I have given you.

Jesus was talking to remember his disciples, and he made this statement. And we said that anyone that bears fruits, the father was pruned so that he can bear what, more fruits. And Jesus is now telling them that, okay, listen, you guys have already. You are already pruned by the message I have spoken.

That means the question is, how can I bear more fruits? If you are bearing fruits, maybe just times one. You know that scripture that said that some of them bore fruit 60 times 6, times some 30, some 60, some hundred, some do you know? So now let me tell you what's happening as I'm talking.

As the message of God is being passed, it is expected, ideally, depending on the push of your heart at the moment, is expected to prune you. That's why the Bible says the word of God is for instruction, reprove, rebuke, correction. So when the heart, when on Sunday, when the word is being passed, everybody's heart is like a soil, right? So the preacher is throwing the seed, strange.

The seed, that's the word into the sea. The problem is not the word, the problem is the heart. Now, if the heart is not open now, when the seed enters, I'm trying to explain what he said. I already pruned by the message.

So as the message is in part the message expected to prune you, right? It's meant to prune you. That's the pruning process. So the word of God is one of the ways by which you prune.

The reason why many people still are not fruitful enough is because they don't understand. They have not read the scripture enough. They have not heard so much about Jesus. You know, there's a way you can be reading scripture, but you have not read scripture because the Spirit of God has not opened your eyes to see this thing.

Many people know about the ministry of reconciliation, but yet they still don't find themselves seeing the need to do it. Many people have heard the Bible says that he that winneth souls is wise. But yet people still choose to be foolish by not winning souls. You don't feel that.

It doesn't look, it doesn't feel necessary to you. You feel like, no, it's not for me. And your mind is like, oh, it's not for me. It's for.

It's for the pastor, it's for the evangelist. The Bible says, do the work of an evangelist. And sometimes we think that all these things is just for people. It's not for them, it's for these ones.

It's for I know there are positions in this. But when Jesus was talking, he was saying, disciple, go and make disciples of all men. Baptizing in the name of the Holy Ghost, Name of the Father, Name of the Son, Name of the Holy Ghost, teach them my word, teach them how to obey me. That is it.

That is the mandate to be fruitful that he has passed on to us. So the word of God is what prunes us. That's one. Now I now ask myself, okay, is there any other way God can prune me?

Yes. And if you read through the scripture, many other scriptures talk about how the pruning takes place when whom the Lord loveth is chasteneth. And the reason for the chastisement is not so that you suffer. Some people think that God is weaker.

Why we allow him to suffer. Right? And we're not talking about the positive aspects where God actually allows certain things to go in your life. Because let me tell you the truth, and some people don't want to hear this thing.

Every person on earth is going to pass through a wilderness season. If Jesus Christ, the son of God in imagine. Some people don't like to hear this thing. Do you know that Jesus Christ was led into the wilderness by the spirit of God?

Jesus was led into suffering by the spirit of God. Some people would think that, oh, did they give that to Christ? God will lead you to green pasture like he needed me. He said, green pasture like living inside the still water.

I saw my soul in part of like you think that, oh, because it's God. So God will lead you to a place that you start earning. Maybe you think as you give your life to Christ today, some people, they promise people that, oh, when you give your life to Christ, you have a better job, you have a good wife, you have, you prosper, you live long. All of these things which are true to an extent, but that's not what God is promising you.

Exactly. He said, whoever believes in me will not perish, but have eternal life. So I can have eternal life. I may not.

I may and I may not enjoy riches on earth. Look at John the Baptist now. But yeah, the Bible made it clear that there's nobody greater than John on earth. But in heaven, John is the least.

So when we tell people some certain things and you make them come to Christ because of riches or you have children, when you give your life to Christ, when you start doing this, that is okay. But we have to make it clear because the devil can use that thing against them and make them confused. Why am I Saying this thing. I'm saying that we need to understand that the word of God basically prunes us.

And other certain things that God tries to prune us is our life, circumstances and challenges and things like that, tribulations and trials. And every of those things is to prune us, to keep us in check. So that when you bear fruit, your pride will not set in. And you have heard of many cases where God pruned a lot of people.

Even Paul himself was pruned. So verse 4. Now abide in me and I in you. As the branch cannot bear fruit of itself unless it abides in the vine.

Neither can you unless you abide in me. Now like I said, when you are reading every verse, ask yourself questions, abide in me, then I in you. That means it is possible for a Christian to abide in Christ. And Christ is not abiding in the person.

For example, Judas. Judas was abiding in Christ. Christ was not abiding in Judas. Some of us want to abide in Christ, but we don't want Christ to abide in us.

This is where many Christians having problems. So ask yourself, is Christ abiding in me? Now let me tell you what Christ abiding in you looks like. You become a slave to righteous living.

Romans chapter six was saying it. I was explaining to somebody, I'm no longer a slave to sin, I am a slave to righteous living. Some people don't want to be a slave to sin. Some people want to be delivered from drunkenness, want to deliver from fornication, whatever pride, jealousy, all these things.

You want to be free from it, but you don't want to be a slave to righteous living. This is where many Christians are getting wrong. That's why you see many Christians are born again. But you see their life, the way they dress does not match what they.

Because they don't want to be a slave to sin. That's why they gave their life to Christ. But now they don't want to be a slave to righteous living. They want to be in the middle.

So they create their own religion. They create their own type of Christianity. Oh my Christianity is not that deep, you know, I don't want to be too. I don't want to be praying too much.

I just want to be normal. I just want to easy. That is the problem. You must be See, every person is a slave to something.

You become a slave. Anything you give yourself to obey, you are a slave to. That thing is a scripture can read Romans 6. If you do a deep study on Romans 6.

Paul was talking about slavery because that was the easiest way for him to explain the concept of salvation and concept of bondage to sin. If I continue to obey this sin, I'm a slave to it. Ah, who do you obey? You obey your words master.

And if someone is your master, that means you are a word slave. See, some people don't understand that we are slaves to. Right. See, if you, if you choose not to be a slave to righteous living, you will continue to be a slave to sin now because you have freedom in Christ.

I am free, you see, I am free. Praise the Lord for his that he has made me forever free. Free, free from the power of sin. Now, as much as we enjoy those hymns, I am free.

Glorious peace within. Now many people are saying that they want to be free. And yes, they are free. But you can never be free until you become a slave to another thing.

There's nothing like pure freedom. Even freedom in Christ is still bondage. No human being on earth, nobody can ever be empty. Anybody.

You see, you see, atheism, people that say, I'm atheist. Whether you are atheist or is that not the spirit of God is in you, the spirit of the devil. You cannot be free. You cannot be empty.

You cannot be empty. Man was never designed to be empty. Knowing not that your body is the temple of the Holy Ghost, which means that you are a slave towards righteous living. That's why Paul always describes I, Paul, a bond servant of Jesus Christ.

He understood that he's a slave. He said, he said, he. He said something that was very shocking. He said, even if I say I don't want to preach, who unto me if I don't preach the gospel?

Because he understand that is an obligation. See, that's why, you see, we're having a lot of problem in Christianity. A lot of Christians don't get it. You see, a lot of them complacent.

Many people don't still understand why they are going to church because they don't understand the concept of being a slave to righteous living. You must, you. It's not. You should, you know, you can't.

You must be. If you, if you don't become a slave to righteous living. But you are still slave to the devil. I know that's what the devil wants.

He wants us to have this. Look, see, Devil prefers you to be lukewarm than for you to even be wicked. Because he knows that if someone is purely wicked, see, it's better to be a full prostitute, 100% prostitute that you know you're pro. You Know, like, it's not that you are.

I'm a prostitute? Yeah. You don't know Christ at all. See, a prostitute is even better than somebody that's going to church daily.

Boy is living a hypocritical life, trying to fit into the two ways. Do you know why? Let me tell you why. Because that person that is uni, that person that think that he's saved at the end of the day, imagine spending 50 years in church because you are living in hypocritical, lukewarm life.

You are trying to please the church. You are trying to please the world. So you are living. Living lukewarm lives so nobody can ever know that you need help.

It's only those that need help that will receive help. That's why the Bible says that the sick has no need for the doctor because they clearly identify themselves as sick. Jesus can now go and meet them. But when you are claiming that's why the Pharisees will not see the light, you see the worst set of people were the Pharisees.

Notice that Jesus was never attacking the one that is killing people, but maybe it's all broke around there. They are murdering people. Jesus did not attack them. He came to attack the Pharisees that were going.

Pharisees were the one that knew Bible passed. Now they read the Bible every day. They were always in the synagogue preaching. They were always dressing modestly.

They were always talking about the Bible, the law of Torah, don't do this, do this, do that, do this, do this. They were paying their tithes. They were doing all those things. But guess what?

Jesus was. Even John the Baptist attacked them, said, what are you doing, you brood of vipers? He did not attack all the other unbelievers. They were coming to come and hear those that were innocent.

You see, the one that have killed many people, the one that has committed so much adultery, fornication. Those are the ones that were coming to hear. John did not say, what are you doing here? He came to Plutarch when they came with the address.

What are you doing, you brood of vipers? You see, that's why. And see, the devil is very strategic. He said he comes as angel of light.

He doesn't mind us having 5,000 members. Let it just be that 80% of them are lukewarm or 95% of them are lukewarm. That's fine. In fact, it can even help you to make sure that you grow bigger.

Everything is there. Service is going well. Just make sure they are lukewarm. Because at the end of the day.

Ah, depart from me. I know you not you workers of iniquity. Sir, how come I don't understand? I paid my tithes.

I saved you diligently. I was always coming to church. I was doing this. But the problem is that you were doing this fine, but you were not a slave to righteous living.

You see, Staying fruitful. I was saying all of this to explain that it is possible that I can abide in Christ. But Christ is not abiding in me. Judas is.

Christ was an example. Judas was abiding in Christ. Why did I say that? He was always with Christ.

Everywhere he went to, he was the one keeping the pause. He was making sure that every the ministry was booming. Even though he was stealing. He was doing everything to the end.

On the last day, he said, some of you here, one of you here would betray me. And he was like, master is he. I even him, he said, ask. And he told him that he wants to go and do it.

The Bible declared Satan entered him. He permitted. That means for Satan. I told you.

Now, for Satan to enter you means something is you can never be empty. You can never be empty. So you know, when you see a lot of Christians, you see them, they are not. They are not too deep.

You see, that thing about you are not true. You are not see the most dangerous, I always say this thing, the most dangerous place to be is when you are not deep in something, you can easily be swayed. Better to read the Bible. Exactly said it now.

He said, I rather that you be wicked than for you to just be doing like this. Like this, like this. You are just moving. Stay one place.

Jesus, even the Bible says, I rather you are cold or hot than for you to be in the middle. Stay one place. Let us know your God. Today said I was reading Deuteronomy how that the Bible may declare that they put two mountains.

They put two mountains here. One was mountain of blessing. Mountain, of course, Mount Ever. And God told Moses that you should read out the blessings and curses in Jerusalem.

28. And some people stood at the one side of the mountain and the one stood at the other side of the mountain. And he read all the blessings. And that one, they read all the curses.

And he asked them, choose who you will serve this day, Blessing or curse. Choose. You will save this day. And.

And that was. That was how they explained it there. So I'm saying that there is no room for this middle Christian ground where some people say, I don't want to be praying too much. I don't want to Be too distant.

I don't want to. We need to abide in Christ and let Christ abide in us. When Christ abide in us, it means that we are fully surrendered. We have become a vessel unto honor that God can use.

That's why I say, walk in the Spirit and you will not fulfill the laws of the flesh. The best way for you not to save the devil. The best way for me not to walk in the flesh. The loss of the flesh is like pride, fornication, loss, and all this.

Adultery, wickedness, witchcraft, and all these things. The best way for me to overcome those things is when I walk in the Spirit. Just walking. That means.

And if I walk in spirit means. And let me give you an example, walking in spirit. Paul walked in the Spirit. How did he walk in the Spirit?

The Bible, you know, here, wherever, it was very clear. The Spirit of the Lord told Paul, I should do this, do that, do this. The Spirit restrained him from going to one town to go and pray and to go and preach. He restrained him like three times.

He said, he said, he said as he was going to the town, his spirit restrained me like he could not just go. As if there was a barrier. He could not just go. He went to have the Spirit restrained him.

He could not just go. He. He had to go to this part. So that's what it means to walk in the Spirit.

You, the Spirit of leading you do this, do that, do this, do this, do that. That is the best way. And that means he has become a slave to this thing. So be led by the Spirit, not by your emotion.

Be led by the Spirit, not by your doctrine, not by what you heard. Be led by the Spirit of God, as many that are led, these ones are the true sons of God. I believe that is just clear on what it means to abide in Christ. Now verse 5 said, and now you see this concept of fruitfulness.

I said something. We started. Some people began in the Spirit, now they are now using their flesh. Paul was asking this question.

You people started in the Spirit. That means you started with the grace of God. Now you think that you can use your flesh to do my work and do the work of God. No.

You see, some people now, they are trying to use their energy to do the things of God. No, no, no, no, no. You must allow the Spirit of God to help you say, not by power, not by might, but by my words. Spirits, you are trying to use your human understanding to run the Father's business.

It can't work. That's why many people are Frustrated. See when you, you this is how people get frustrated in church, in things of God. It's because they are trying to use their energy.

You see them do not give up. They get frustrated and give up. It's because you are using your strength. Do you think that you just say you want to do and people allow you?

No. Ah, Jesus wanted to do so many good things. There was so much restriction. Paul was in as he was doing the right thing throughout.

Yet they beat this guy 40 strokes three times in his life. They have arrested him. They did everything. And yet the Father was still telling people, you guys rejoice always.

I say rejoice. Do you know when he wrote that thing when he was in prison, somebody is inside prison, he's telling you to build an outside that are free. Telling them to rejoice. It takes the spirit of God for you to just do things like that.

So for you to be fruitful, you have to understand that the formula for fruitfulness is you abiding in Christ and Christ abiding in you. It's not your works. That's what you don't understand. So sometimes it looks stressful.

You, you'll be wondering, you'll be hearing all these fathers. Oh, like one of the fathers of faith that just recently had his birthday last day, last month, sorry, yesterday everybody. The whole nation is celebrating with the president, celebration and everything. If you look at his track record, you'll be like, huh?

For the amount you still be standing to today. And he said, what's the secret? He said, don't be humble. In summary, abide in Christ and let Christ abide in you.

It's not by, because some people can start with energy. First two years. Ah, energy, energy. First three years, four years, five years, six years.

You can go ahead 10 years, 20 years, start reducing 30 years because you were doing it with your flesh. You thought that it's by. Is by the Spirit of God. So we must abide in Christ.

Verse 5. He said, I am divine, you are the branches. He who abides in Me and I in Him. You see, whenever the Bible is making emphasis on something, this is another repetition.

He has repeated it again. The same thing he said before. He's saying it again. I am divine.

Know you are the branches. He who abides in me is not just say he who abides in me, but he who abides in me and I in Him. The, the fact that he repeated this thing twice, it means there's something that is then trying to tell us. Disciple, you must allow me to abide in you also.

Don't just abide in me. I must abide in you also. You will bear much fruits, for without me you can do nothing, nothing, nothing, nothing. Until Christians understand this thing that without God we can see.

This morning I was just praying and I was crying because I was like, God, help me, help me because, ah, I cannot do this thing on my own. I can't. You go open your eye to see the things that he wants you to do. You understand that this thing is not human.

You can't do it with your flesh. You can't. You cannot. You just can't.

If anyone does not abide in me, he's cast out as a branch and is withered. And they gather them and throw them into the fire and they are burned. You know when the question I asked the first time last week while we're asking the Bible said that anyone that not abide in me will be cut off. He'll be taken away.

Right? And I was wondering, taken away to where? See what he said there? The person will first be cast out as a branch, number one.

Number two, he's going to what? Wither. So that means the process of withering. Now that's the part people think that some people now feel that, oh, they are still abiding in Christ before because is a.

Like you can't easily know unless God open your eye because our time is up. You can't open your eye because when you are cut off, you might not easily. Just read that instantly, like immediately you read that you can continue to flourish, you can have good family, good children, every. Everything is just flourishing.

You look, everything is looking golden, nice. There's no issue in your house and everything is just prospering, you see? And I tell you something, the devil can bless you with this thing. Have you not seen people in the world that are flourishing?

In fact, David was complaining to God, God, why did the wicked prosper and the righteous suffer? He said, why is this happening? He said, the affliction of the righteous is so much, many are the affliction of the righteous. He did not say, many are the affliction of the unrighteous.

But he was confused. He was like, God, please, why is the wicked prospering so much and your children are suffering? Why are we just struggling? Look at Egypt.

Egypt was flourishing. Israelites were the one walking wilderness for 40 years. I'm saying that if you think that Satan cannot bless people, understand your why you are serving God. If it's because of riches, Satan can give you this thing and he can make you just make sure that just take riches.

Oh yeah, take. Just don't, don't seek God, just take it. Take these riches. Some people are looking for Babylon.

They are not looking for God and they are not praying so that they can get Babylon. And when they get Babylon, they settle in Babylon and leave. And they will not relax. Babylon looks like you have good family, good marriage, good children, everyone.

You have a good job, you have earning millions of dollars during exploit. But anything that is outside God is still not God. It's still rubbish. It's just you are just wasting your time.

And that's a very hard truth. Until we come to realize that don't measure God's blessing by your bank account or your prosperity on it. You see, Is it a flaw? I'm not saying God cannot bless us, God going to bless us.

But if that is your basis, that that's how you measure somebody that is spiritual. That's how you measure someone that loves God. Oh, he's going to church and he's making money. May God help us.

Because if you read the scripture, you understand what I'm saying. The person is cast out as a branch and is withered. And they gathered them and threw them into the fire and they are born. So you get withered.

Then after you are withered, you will not be gathered. Then on day of judgment, all of them will not be thrown into the fire at once. If you are abiding me and my word abide with you, you will ask what you desire and it shall be done for you. That's one of the benefits of this thing now.

When you now abide in Christ and Christ abide in you, what now happens is that your desire aligns with his desire. So anything you ask is going to be in line with Christ. The reason why you don't receive because you ask amiss, I pray amiss. So if I abide in Christ and Christ abide in me, it gets to a point that anything I ask God is according to his will.

So it will be answered. This is why many people prayers are not being answered. It was not aligned with his will. You are not abiding him and he's not abiding you.

So whatever you ask is not given. Ask yourself not just you abiding in Christ is Christ abiding in me. Because you Christ will not force himself in you. You must permit him.

Lord, I surrender. Let your will be my will. I ask somebody, I think my bank account belongs to God. I surrender.

What he says is what our doors do so if I tell you what, how I spend, I want to know is what God. Until you get to the point and understand that everything you have is Christ for his own glory is for him. You will not be careless. You will not be spending money anyhow.

You will not be scared or afraid to give because you know, may God help us. So to close, he said, by this my Father is glorified that you bear not just fruits, much fruits. You know the funny thing that Jesus said, greater works will you do than I. Jesus, the Son of God, God himself is telling you and I, brother sister, you are going to do greater works than I did. Why?

Because I'm going to the Father. I don't have more time to do all of these things. And the Bible made it clear they cannot even record all the things that Jesus Christ did. They did it.

This book will not contain it. And it's not telling you. You know, sometimes when I hear that, I'm scared. I'm like ye, I'll do more works than Jesus Christ.

Do you know what Jesus did? And he's not telling you that you will do greater works than I did. But it first starts with you what abiding in him and him abiding you that you bear more fruit. So you will be my disciple.

That means nobody should call himself a disciple of Jesus Christ if the person is not bearing fruits. The criteria for you to be a disciple Sometimes I'm a disciple of Jesus Christ for where, where is the fruit? I am not qualified to call myself disciple of Christ if I'm not bearing fruits. I pray that God will help us.

This march to bear not just fruits, much fruit, much fruit. God is calling the church to come. I need to benefit from you guys. I, I this thing, I'm just giving you guys things.

Where is my, where is my roi. What is this benefit? What, what have you done? What I've given you so far?

I ask you for more. What have you done? The little I've given you. God wants us to bear fruits, build men, raise men that will stand for the gospel regardless, that will stay in their office and fight for the truth and contend for the faith.

You know, we are raising kind of Christians that they come. An average Christian unfortunately start to say an average believer in today cannot stand for the faith. They cannot contend for the faith. Many of them in this, in, in, in, in this place, it's hard to say.

You just talk to them, you know, when you are talking, you know that ah, this one, if temptation come or something very massive temptation come. This One will fall because you know that this one cannot contend. He cannot. He doesn't even know why he's a Christian.

Why you a Christian? Why do you believe in God? The Bible says be ready to give an account. Be ready to explain why you believe in Christ.

Many people just do an interview, do choir, do elders, do women, do children, do youth? Just ask them, why are you going to church? Why are you doing this thing you are doing? Why are you coming to church today?

They can't explain it. We must be ready. We must build people that are ready to contend for the faith and stand firm. I pray the Lord will help us in this world.

So this is a charge for us that God would. The prayer is God make me fruitful even in the days of my youth? The days of your youth does not. It's not an age barrier.

You know, even at the age of 80, the Bible medic Caleb said that he's still strong. He was still as strong as he was when he was like 20 or 30. I'm telling you in God some of the fathers of faith, you see the way they are working. 84 Years old, he's still praying.

He's still doing every all those things that he was doing when he was young. He's still going to preach in deep village, still doing crusade. And you be wondering, he's not just stick. Nobody's holding his hand, he's working on his own.

There is a possibility for a man to still be like a youth that in the days of youth. He's not saying in the days when you have energy that means you can still be a youth. He said you renew your strength like the youth. So it's an encouragement.

It's a charge for everyone. Nobody is exempted from this call. However, God wants you to be fruitful. Let Christ abide in us and pray that God make me fruitful.

In this month of March I pray Lord bless his word in Jesus name. Shall we go to God in prayer?