Staying Fruitful!

You're listening to the Cross Kingdom Sermon of the Week,

we helped you enjoy this message from Justin Carpenter. Oh,

lots of lots of things we want to see. It's

it's not surprising to me that as we have felt

led to really start at going after healing and and

the Lord moving on people's hearts to really pursue healing,

that we're starting to see more and more breakthrough. Y'all.

It's anytime you start to try to take ground in

the Kingdom, there's gonna be resistance. And if you study

some of the healing generals of the past and and

even current folks like Randy Clark. I think Randy Clark

prayed for a thousand people before he saw a single

person and get healed. And I loved what Haley said.

She goes, I've known Jesus for a month, and I

just said, Okay, I'm taking it. And you know, we

understand that there are folks in this room that have

been pursuing healing and pursuing it with faith, and there's

this mystery and healing that sometimes we don't have the answer.

I just want to encourage you, not shame you, not

condemn you like. I think it's stupid when leaders of

the past would pray for people and I'm and stupids

in the Bibles and proverbs. When when leaders of the

past would shame people because they didn't get healed in

that moment, that's nonsense. If anything, the person who initiated

it should go say Lord, what's in me? Not shame

the other person. So you look more spiritual. Okay, I'm

off my soapbox. So we just went after it today,

didn't we. I love it. I you know, I ministering

unto the Lord, doing communion, hearing testimonies, releasing the prophetic,

these are all aspects that should be a part of

us gathering. And you know, for the longest time in

church history, communion was way more important than just the teaching. Right,

if we're gonna be, if we're gonna be, if we're

gonna gather around the presence of Jesus, it's more than

just a teaching. I'm not minimizing teaching. I love teaching.

We got to have it. But what I'm saying is

there should be a full expression of the things. Paul

talked about on what New Covenant gathering looks like, whether

we're together in a larger building or in a smaller house,

it should all look the same. Are y all with me? Okay?

All five of you? Well, let's go. So I want

to talk to you about out staying fruitful, because I

think that we have enough warnings in these last days,

especially you know from so many things that Jesus said

in Matthew twenty four and Paul and that it would

be very easy for us to get comfortable and begin

to doze off spiritually. And as we are pursuing the

Lord and going deeper this year and not trying to

add more stuff or go wider, but go deeper, we

want to be aware of the spiritual road bumps that

could get in our way from going deeper in the Lord.

Y'all with me? So if you're taking notes, my first

point is producing fruit Genesis one twenty two, and God

bless them saying be fruitful and multiply, and fill the

waters in the sea, and let birds multiply on the earth.

And then in Genesis one twenty seven and twenty eight,

so God created man in his own image, in the

image of God. He created him male and female. He

created them, and God blessed them and God said to them,

be fruitful and multiply, and fill the earth and subdue it,

and have dominion over the fish of the sea, and

over the birds of the heavens, and over every living

thing that moves on the earth. And this is what

he told man. So y'all have to understand something. So

many times when we talk about the Gospel of the Kingdom,

we talk about the gospel, we stay focused on the

issue of sin, which is important, right. I mean, without forgiveness,

we can all go home. But you have to understand

that at Calvary, God redeemed us back to Eden. So

it was not only us getting free of sin, right

being given and being born again, but it was also

God's original intent of Eden, meaning that you have authority

over the earth. It says the heavens, even the heavens

are the lords. But He's given the earth to the

sons of men. So you have dominion over this earth.

You have dominion over every animal, over every fish, over

every bird. Man has dominion. And I think that one

of the biggest things that keeps us unfruitful is that

we are scared to death of our responsibility over this

earth and the Kingdom. I think we're afraid of it

because we would rather many times sit back and yell

at a TV. That's why I stopped watching news, because

I'll lose tennis shoes and televisions because I get fired

up with the stupidity that comes through that thing. And

it says television, it doesn't mean it's a good one.

And I will set there and everyone we can get

in this trap where we want to talk about the

problems but not actually be a reason for a solution.

Many times when we come up against issues, we just say, oh,

let's somebody else will fix it. But that's not what

the Lord said. He gave us a great commission. He

gave us authority over the earth. And so when we

see issues, anything that we see in front of us

in our region that does not look like the Kingdom

of Heaven is absolutely an assignment to see it change.

But if you don't have apostolic vision and foresight, and

you're just navel gazing and and you're full of self love,

you're never going to see the advancement of the kingdom

because you're going to be more focused on self than

actually loving others. And and one of the greatest things

is that in the last days. It says they that

men will be lovers of self. So there's a counterfeit love.

And you have to understand that when it's says that

this is inside the church, he's addressing the church. He's

addressing what the body of Christ is going to look

like in the last days. He's not addressing the world.

Y'all you with me, And so it's going to be

extremely easy to become unfruitful in the last days because

as humanism has crept in, as religion is crept in.

I think it was Kim Clement he released a word

some years ago and he said that the church was

being crucified between two thieves, the religious spirit and humanism.

And if you really understand the definition of humanism, then

you'll quickly understand how it is absolutely infiltrated today's culture

in the church. That's for another teaching. But in Matthew

three to eight, it says bear fruit. This is John

the Baptist. I said this first serve. Could you imagine

what he looked like. The dude lived in the wilderness.

His clothing was not necessarily gq like, he had animal

skins on him. He's eating locus and honey, he's probably

got locust legs sticking out of his teeth while he's

telling you all the repent. He's got this crazy long hair,

probably not dreadlocks, but who knows. Maybe maybe he kind

of looked like Todd White a little bit. And all

of a sudden he's there and he's telling everyone to repent,

and specifically, specifically, specifically the religious. He says, you brought

a vipers who told you to flee the rat to come. Oh,

you talk about a motivational speaker. You talk about ruffling

feathers and not saying things politically correct. That was John

the Baptist. He had that belt and skin and eating

locus and honey. Looked like he just woke up hairs,

probably in fifteen different directions. I don't have that problem.

My hair may just go and wonder all four hairs.

But he says, bear fruit and keeping with repentance. You

can't tell someone that you've repented if there's no fruit.

Just like being in a garage, Yeah, all three of you,

no plan. Just like being in a garage doesn't make

you a car. Believing in God means we are trusting him,

and trust looks like something faith without works is dead,

James says, can such faith save you? And so in

a world full of social media and stardom. By the way,

if you haven't noticed, God is absolutely judging the celebrity

preacher status. He's dealing with the church, he's dealing with

his leaders, and yet somehow we always seem surprised. It says,

he who covers his sin will not p whatever a

man sells at Also, Shelley Reap, and not many of

you should consider yourselves to be teachers, because you are

what more accountable. And so it says Judgment starts first

with the House of God before the world, and he

always starts with his elders. He always starts with his leaders. See,

this is the mercy of the Lord right now and

the season we're in being pruned and leaders being exposed

for sins that they refuse to deal with in private.

It's the mercy of the Lord because he's coming back

for a bride, a warrior bride without spot or blemish.

And it's his mercy and his grace and his love

that he's stepping in for his namesake in some of

these areas to clean things up. But make no mistake,

the church has a great responsibility in this hour that

we navigate in righteousness and in holiness. And it says

with the issue of restoration and confronting, it says, take heed.

You do it with humility, with gentleness, and take heed

lest you also be what tempted. So that means we're

all in need of a savior, and every one of us,

put into the wrong place at the wrong time, could

get a spirit, a stupid and a heartbeat. Don't forget that.

We're all human, y'all, We're all in process. That was

good justin Matthew seven seventeen. So every healthy tree bears

good fruit, but the diseased tree bears bad fruit. A

healthy tree cannot bear bad fruit, nor can a diseased

tree bear good fruit. Y'all. Don't forget this. You will

always eat the fruit of the tree that you sit under.

That's why it's so important to be careful who you

listen to. And again, back to this whole issue of

platforms and social media. Two thousand years ago, you couldn't

get online and promote yourself as a self appointed expert,

could you. We couldn't do it. But you can get

online today, and everybody and their uncle is an expert.

And the thing is if you don't know them, it says,

know those that labor among you. You need to be

extremely careful who you listen to, because a gift will

always work. He goes on to say, Matthew twelve thirty three.

Either make the tree good and it's fruit good, or

make the tree bad and it's fruit bad. For the

tree is known by its fruit. Remember, and Daniel says

that he has the vision Nebukaneza, and the tree is

cut down and he's the tree. And throughout scripture, trees

represent leaders from Genesis to Revelation. The Lord has been

interested in multiplication, us being fruitful. It's not. In fact,

even if you look at the pair Bull of the talents,

the one who said, oh I knew you were a

jerk and you're a heavy task master, I'd master. He

buried his talent because he was afraid of his boss.

And what happened? What that one talent that he was given.

It's getting hard up here, Wayne, that one talent that

he was given, what happened? It was taken from him.

I want to tell y'all we're in an hour that

you're in danger of losing talents and it will be

given to someone else. Time is short. Time is short.

I think time's way shorter than what we think. Now.

I'm not gonna go tell y'all get your helmet and

go hide, but I do believe that we're gonna see

some epic Last Day events over the next few years.

I mean, I'm talking epic. It's gonna be huge. Nobody

does in times. Sorry, all right, moving on? Ah okay,

Acts two forty one. So those who received his word

were baptized, and they were added that day, about three

thousand souls. This happened right around thirty one AD, right

on the cuffs of the Resurrection of Jesus. They were added. Y'all,

when was the last time anybody ever been in a

big meeting, maybe in another country, and thousands of people

come to know the Lord in a meeting. I personally

have never been able to see that. Could you imagine

all of a sudden, three thousand people in a moment

come to know the Lord. We see those things happening

throughout the earth, and things are happening, the harvest is happening.

But imagine for a moment, because you have to understand something.

In twenty nine to thirty one AD when this is

all taking place right around that timeframe. The economic system,

most of the people were poor, and I mean so

poor that the majority of them were either just at

poverty or under poverty level. So you have a lack

of resources, a lack of ability to be able to

do a whole lot. Why do you think when Jesus

multiplied the food, he looks back at them and says, hey,

you're not following me because of what I'm teaching you.

You're following me because I'm feeding you. Because with the

Roman Empire, the elite had money, had land. They would

give land to the Sadhedron, the Pharisees, and the Sadducees

to essentially bribe them to bid their Roman Empire rules

over the Israelis or the Jews. And so there was

the small haves and the majority of the have nots.

And this is important because as we see this issue

of addition and multiplication in the Book of Acts, with

the kingdom expanding and people becoming fruitful, it begins to

make a lot more sense on why certain things were

done the way they were in Acts two forty two

to forty seven. And they devoted themselves to the apostles

teaching and the fellowship, to the breaking of bread and

the prayers, and all came upon every soul, and many

wonders and signs were being done through the apostles, And

all who believed were together and had all things in common.

And they were selling their possessions and belongings and distributing

the proceeds to all as any had need. And day

by day, attending the temple together and breaking bread in

their homes, they received their food with glad and generous hearts,

praising God and having favor with all the people, and

the Lord added to their number day by day, those

who were being saved. Maybe we should maybe up our

expectation of fruitfulness in our lives and specifically the harvest.

How many people in Kirk County of fifty five thousand people,

how many of those fifty five thousand people they can

tell you about Jesus, but they actually may not know him.

They actually they may be able to talk a good talk,

but there is no fruit. Now, I'm not calling you

all to become fruit inspectors and heresy hunters, But the

point is is that just because it says even the

demons believe in tremble y'all with me, okay, Acts four.

But many of those who had heard the word believed,

and the number of the men came to about five thousand.

So now in Jerusalem you got five thousand believers of

the Way. Because it wasn't until later in Antioch they

were called Christians. It was the way in the beginning.

They're becoming a force to be reckoned with fruit is happening.

People are being saved day by day, and something very

interesting is happening within this kingdom community. The issue of

lack and poverty is all of a sudden beginning to

be demolished. It goes on to say, no one said

that any of the things that belonged to him was

his own. But they had everything in common and with

great power. The apostles were giving their testimony to the

resurrection of the Lord Jesus, and great grace was upon

them all. There was not a needy person a mi

among them, for as many as were owners of the

lands or houses, sold them and brought the proceeds of

what was sold. So we're seeing this new covenant being

ushered in. We're saying radical, radical examples of generosity God

moving upon people's hearts to sell land, and they're all

they're doing all of this not for the apostles, but

for the Gospel. Their eyes are on Jesus and not

the people. And and all of this is being distributed,

and it says, and there was not a needy person

among them. Now think about it if the if culturally

in that time, the majority of the people could barely

make it. They didn't know where their next meal was

coming from. And all of a sudden, they're looking at

this community of five thousand people in this area and

there's no one feeble, I mean, no one in need

in that community. It's grabbing their They have all things

in common. There is a genuine biblical love first Corinthians

thirteen by definition, and there's the fruit of the spirit

being displayed within this community. And then they're on top

of all of that, there's this issue of signs and

wonders taking place that you cannot scientifically explain away. And

this is the kingdom of Heaven. This is the kingdom

that is inside of us that we're told to advance

everywhere we go. So every place that we look that

does not look like heaven, you do not need an

angelic visitation to figure out, Hey, here's my assignment. I

get to partner with the Holy Spirit today and bring

glory to Jesus. Acts five. And when they had called

in the apostles, they beat them and charge them not

to speak in the name of Jesus and let them go.

Why Because all of a sudden they're seeing this kingdom

of people of five thousand beginning to go from addition

to multiplication. That poverty is being eradicated, and all of

the hooks of the Roman Empire that we're in, these

people are being removed because where the spirit of the

Lord is, there is freedom. They're being set free of

their sin. Poverty is being demolished. They're not worrying about

where their meals coming from because they're seeking first the

kingdom of an end. I'm trying to talk so fast,

can't come out. See, they're seeking first the Kingdom and

his righteousness, and all these other things are being added

unto them. Y'all, this is the same kingdom, this is

the same Jesus, And if anything, we should have a

greater expectation for these things to continue to crescendo until

he comes back. I'm not okay with seeing all these

amazing things happening in other countries. It's time for us

to realize that we have been like the Church of Leadicea,

that we are naked, that we are blind, we are starving,

and we need true spiritual food, and recognize the reality

that we need Him way more than we need the

comforts of this community of our culture. Acts sixty seven

and the Word of God continue to increase, and the

number of disciples multiplied greatly in Jerusalem, and a great

many of the priests became obedient to the faith. So

now even the priests are coming and saying, oh, my goodness,

he is the Messiah, he is the Christ, and they're

starting to put together all of these messianic prophecies and

realize that he fulfilled all of these and how the

world he do this. There's no mathematical way that this happened.

Do you think the enemy sat by, stayed quiet, gave up. Well,

I guess it's all over, because it said if they'd

known he was the King of Glory, they never would

have crucified him. See the principalities and powers removing and

influencing the religious The Pharisees and the Sadducees and and

even to the point where Satan himself filled Judas. Y'all,

when you get oppressed, when we've been oppressed, it's not Satan,

trust me, it's not him. He is dealing with way

you're just dealing with a little foot soldier. He's dealing

with a little demon minion. That's why I've I envisioned

demons like the little minions, the little he just that's

what I think about that. So you fast forward Acts eight.

We just were watching the fruitfulness of the kingdom go

from addition to multiplication. And now the enemy is getting

nervous because he didn't succeed in the garden. He didn't

succeed at Genesis six, trying to corrupt the DNA with

Nephelim and they and even the fallen divine counsel was

not successful when God split him up in Deuteronomy thirty two,

and he brought him into judgment in Psalm eighty two.

Every prayer that you do, in some way, shape or form,

is spiritual warfare, because the moment you petition the Lord

to act, then he releases his angels to be obedient

according to his word. So Acts eight, Saul approves of

the execution of Stephen man, I wish we had some

waiters deacons that were moving. You look at the signs

and wonders that Stephen moved in. He was a deacon,

he was waiting tables, y'all, Hey, hi, would you like

a rabbi medium rear or you're limb to grow back?

And his face shone like an angel as they stoned him,

and he goes, Father, please don't hold the sin against them.

How many stones had we taken? And if you were

taking a stone, you know, being stoned back then was

different than today. You know what I'm saying, You're welcome.

And so Saul's execution and there's arose on that day

a great persecution. This is the diaspora. This is the

moment Acts eight, where literally the body of Christ, those

five thousand people are dispersed over the lands, except for

the disciples didn't leave, and in the very beginning Jesus

said go, But they stayed, and they were scattered throughout

the regions of Judas Samario, except the apostles. Devout men

buried Stephen and made great lamentations over him. But Saul

was ravaging the church and entering house after house. He

dragged off men and women and committed them to prison.

You have to understand during this time, you know, we

just read they were meeting in the temple and in homes.

But think about this, come seventy a d. The temples destroyed,

Acts eight massive persecution hits, and you still have this

issue of poverty. You have the poor, a lack of resources.

It's not like today when you start up a you

do a church plant and you gather in a building

and then everybody, you know, very quickly you ended up

with another building and you're able to build. They were

just the level of poverty was so intense. And the

church continue to multiply in this season or in this time.

In fact, even today where the persecution is the heaviest,

like in Iran, the church, the body of Christ itself

is growing the greatest in that place. And the Church

continue to multiply while meeting in homes, often in the

homes of wealthy Christians. Why because they had bigger homes

where people could gather. Are y' all with me? And

the New Testament describes many instances of house churches, including

the homes of Aquilla and Prisca, Nympha, Phileman and a fea. Interestingly, enough,

you hit this persecution and all these people are scattered.

But thank god they were scattered by persecution, because now

they could actually begin to fulfill the great commission because

he said go. Yeah. There was a time when fishermen

dropped their nets and never looked back because they knew

they recognized the one in front of them. And yet

we're so polished in today's culture. When we feel called,

we put together a beautiful twelve month plan and nice

and easy begin to move. Now, I'm not saying that's

wrong every time, but how many times that we missed

out on the Holy Spirit, Like when the waters are

stirring in the first one in is healed. See, you

can miss your visitation, and it's in the scriptures. We

can lean on our own understanding and think our version

of our calling is better and we can miss our visitation.

That should bring a very sober mindset to all of us.

So they're dealing with this persecution, and yet the kingdom

is still multiplying. We go from addition to multiplication. Interestingly,

in two thirty three, there was a home in Syria

and it's called the Dura Eroposts Church and it's considered

the oldest surviving Christian church building in the world. It

was original a private home that they actually added on too,

and they said this became an official church building and

it was converted around two thirty three. You're never going

to stop the advancement of the Kingdom. You're never gonna stop.

Jesus was given a government without end. So whether there's

freedom to gather or not freedom to gather, the Kingdom

of Heaven is advancing because we are taking responsibility over

this earth and preaching the eternal gospel of the Kingdom.

And you have saints of old like the Moravians who

sold themselves off into slavery and said, may the Lamb

receive the reward of his sufferings as they sailed off,

knowing they would never see their family again. See what

would it be like if we raised up a community

of radical beliefs that truly will not love their lives

even unto the end. And what does that look like today?

Because guess what, y'all. Even our poor people in the

United States have cell phones. Our poor people in the

United States have electricity, have clothes, have food food banks.

Even our poor people are massively rich compared to what

they were dealing with twenty twenty five years ago, a

lack of resources, persecution because Jesus wants fruit that lasts

in your life. He wants us to be fruitful, y'all.

But we've got to embrace the pruning John fifteen one

to five. I'm the true vine, and my father's the

vine dresser. Every branch of me that does not bear

fruit he takes away, and every branch that does bear

fruit he prunes that it may bear more fruit. So

what's he saying. He's saying that he rewards your fruitfulness

with pruning. Anybody ever been like, you know, just really

rocking it, living for the Lord, and oh what was that?

That's pruning? The Lord says, hey, you're doing awesome, let

me help you. Bam. Oh, he rewards your faithfulness with pruning.

You want to stop the spiritual momentum in your life

of negativity, then change the seeds you're sowing. You're not

a victim. Oh, I know that's not real popular in

our culture because everybody wants to embrace victimhood. I said

this first service. I went through seven years of mo

less station as a kid, starting at five years old.

I was victimized. I was a victim, but in my

healing process, I had to exchange that identity for a

new creation, for an overcomer. Because if I stayed stuck

back at five years old and never came out of that,

then I would be a victim, and that would be

my perception. Every action I did would be based out

of I can't change anything. I am helpless and it's

everybody else's fault. Yeah, And by the grace of God,

through a journey of healing, I told that. I said

this first service when Lisa and I started dating in

Pensacola Christian College in nineteen ninety six. I said, Hey,

I said, I came from a divorced home, my grandparents

raised me, and I was molested at as a child.

I said, but don't worry, none of that affected me.

And Lisa was like, oh, okay. And then fast forward

and we got married and all of a sudden, my

guardian lie, which is a guardian lie, which we all

have guardian lies? What are guardian lies? Guardian lies or

lies we tell ourselves so that we don't have to

go deal with the disassociated pain. And before we start

talking crazy, we all got a master's degree in disassociation,

because we want to put distance between our pain in

our present. And the problem is the moment we start

denying and suppressing and calling that spirituality, we're automatically going

to begin to live our lives at the expense of others.

And that's a counterfeit love, and it's being a lover

of self rather than lovers of others. And number one,

lovers of God. Give me grace here, just give me

a few minutes. I'm gonna land this, I promise. That's

not a preacher's few minutes of like thirty minutes. Okay,

So he rewards our faithfulness with pruning. Y'all know, Matthew

twenty four. We know that Jesus is on the Mount

of Olives. The disciples come to him privately, says tell us,

when all these things will be like the destruction of

the buildings and the temple, And what will be the

sign of the coming and of the end of the age.

So they ask three things, and Jesus answered them. See

that no one leads you astray, for many will come

in my name saying I'm the Christ. And they will

lead many astray. And you will hear of wars and

rumors of wars. See that you're not alarmed, for this

must take place, but the end is not yet. For

nation will rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom. Why

does it say that, because the Greek word for nation

is ethnos, ethnic wars, seeing them race wars nation, race

will rise against race, Kingdom will rise against kingdom. And

it says here wars and rumors of wars. Don't be alarmed.

These things must take place, but the end is not yet.

And it says, and there will be famines and earthquakes

in various places. All these are but the beginning of

birth pains. Then they will deliver you up to tribulation

and put you to death, and you'll be hated by

all nations for my name's sake. And then many will

fall away and betray one another and hate one another.

Many false prophets will arise and lead many astray, And

because lawlessness will be increased, the love of many will

grow cold. But the one who endures to the end

will be saved. And this Gospel of the Kingdom will

be proclaimed throughout the whole world as a testimony to

all nations. And then the end will come. I want

to say prophetically, I believe we're hello earthquakes, check wars,

check nation against nation. Check. All of these things have

been happening. But what I want to tell you that

we're going to begin to see an increase in and

we're already seeing it is lawlessness. And because lawlessness, the

love of many will grow cold. People will begin to

be lovers of self rather than lovers of God. They'll

be more consumed about saving their own lives and living

in comfort as everything else around them falls apart. That's

one of the dangers that we, as a body of

Christ need to be very careful that because of the

lawless acts of other people, we don't allow ourselves to

grow cold and lose our love. Are y'all with me

because two Timothy three to one to five, But understand

this that in the last days there will come times

of difficulty, for people will be lovers of self, lovers

of money, proud, arrogant, abusive, disobedient to their parents, ungrateful, unholy, heartless, unappleasable,

slander without self control, brutal, not loving good, treacherous, reckless,

swollen with conceit, lovers of pleasure rather than lovers of God.

Having the appearance of godliness but denying its power. Avoid

such people. Now here's the reality right here, he's talking

about the church. He's not talking about the world. He's

talking about what the church is going to look like,

having an appearance of godliness but denying its power. So,

in other words, lots of talk and know fruit, and

you will know them by their fruit. I don't care

how good your gift works. I don't care how good

you can articulate things. Where is the fruit in your life?

Because that's what he says matters, because what we don't

want to do is fall into a counterfeit spirituality, become

lovers of self, and deceive ourselves into believing that we're

actually advancing His kingdom and loving people the way he

wants us to. So last point, it's only one o six,

I'm only six minutes past. So how do we know

how we're doing. If it says if you judge yourself,

you won't be judged, well, if you're examining yourself, you're

examining your life. How do you know of your being fruitful.

I'm glad you asked, thank you Galatians five twenty two

to twenty six. But the fruit of The spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness,

self control. How loving are you? How joyful are you?

Does it show on your face? What was it you

that said that to Uncle Jay when you were little?

Can't you see the joy on my face? Was that?

Micah Jay? Yeah, when Michael was really little. He was

when Michael's We're all driving in the car and we

were talking about joy and something about uh and I

think my brother said something about being joyful, but it

wasn't really on his face. And Micah in the back

seat as a little boy, can't you see the joy

on my face? He had the tenth fruit of sarcasm

at a very young age. How peaceful are you? What

does it take to wreck your peace? Not getting the

parking spot you wanted at AGB, getting cut off, somebody

takes your spa? Tell you what? What about patience? How

patient are you? How kind are you? How good to

others are you? If it's the goodness of God that

leads men to repentance, don't you think maybe, just maybe,

if we're good to others, there's an opportunity for them

to recognize the goodness of God in your goodness and

it nudged them towards repentance unto salvation. How faithful are you?

How gentle are you? Then? Do you have self control? Y'all?

At the end of the day, every one of us

is going to stand before the Lord Jesus, and you're

not going to give an account for anybody else's life.

Doesn't matter what you went through. You're going to stand

before him. You and him, the King of the universe,

the one that spoke you into existence, the one that

could literally have a thought. I wonder if what it

would be like if Justin never existed and poof I

was never here. Nobody knew that one. You're going to

give an account of your life and you're not, hear me,

You're not going to be able to bring any other

human being into your life for an excuse. How are

we loving? How are we forgiving? How are we dealing

with those around us that are made in His image?

How about this? Do we have a love for others

in other churches as much as we have a love

for each other in this community, Because that love that

we have for each other in this community should look

the same as outside the community. Anytime it's in our

power to do good. We should do good. We should

live a life of radical generosity. Okay, sir, as Wayne's

coming up and the prayer teams come up, I'm going

to read this last scripture. Everyone who believes that Jesus

is the Christ has been born of God, and everyone

who loves the Father loves whoever has been born of Him.

By this we know that we love the children of

God when we love God and obey his commandments. For

this is the love of God that we keep his commandments,

and his commandments are not burdensome. For everyone who has

been born of God overcomes the world. And this is

the victory that has overcome the world our faith. Who

is it that overcomes the world except the one who

believes that Jesus is the Son of God. You might

be here today. He might have come in and been like,

I don't know about this Jesus thing, but I'm gonna

come check out these wild people across Kingdom. Some of

them are a little extravagant worship a little wild. Some

of them hold the baby in worship. But some of

them are doing field golds. Y'all, Tim Hawkins, But I

want to give you an invitation this morning. I want

to invite you, if you don't know the Lord Jesus,

to come up here and surrender your life to him.

Any of these folks here can lead you in an

invitation to you to repent of your sin and put

your trust in Him. Fully. Some of y'all may need

to rededicate, recommit your life because you realize that you're

not on a path that's going to bring fruitfulness. That

you're not on a fruitful path. I just want to

encourage y'all don't leave here not knowing who he is.

All we've been given is today, y'all. We have no

idea what a day can bring forth. Don't gamble on eternity.

You've got a loving father who has absolutely proved his

love at Calvary and so and maybe y'all just need

to literally just be refreshed and start charging hell again.

I've got some water pistols for you. We'll charge it together.

So Father, I thank you for your love. Lord, I

thank you that for thank you for listening. For more

messages and other resources, please subscribe to this podcast or

go to our website at www dot Cross Kingdom dot

org