Show Me The Receipts // Receipts: The Proof Is In The Fruit (Part 1) // Pastor Michael Todd

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Is a memory.

Now, what you're going to see here that you may

not see a lot of places is that there's all

different ethnicities, all different age groups. There was a nineteen

year old here down here jumping with a ninety one

year old. Do you understand what I'm saying? When people

try to put language to it, what we tell them

is it looks like Heaven. We prayed that God would

make this a diverse church that would look like Heaven.

And the fact that not one single role looks like

one person group that on the same road there could

be somebody that owns a business and somebody who needs

a job. Y'all should talk. Just grateful to be back

in the house, y'all. I I love it. What an

honor and a privilege it is. Surpassor this house. I

will never take this place for granted. God has done

so much transformation in my life here. And it wasn't

on this platform. It was when most of y'all didn't

know who we were. I wasn't Mike Todd. I was Michael.

And my wife called me alex that's my middle name, Alexander,

and my mama call me Mookie. And if you call

me Mookie, I got people to handle you. No, I'm

just like but I mean, I'm just grateful for the

dark room that God developed me in because today I

get the privilege to stand before you and hopefully bring

you just a little closer to Jesus. And so today

I'm going to get right into the word. I want

to let you know that I'm full as a tick. Now,

some of y'all ain't country enough to know even what

that is, but but my my family is from Louisiana

and Alabama, and and sometimes a tick could get on

to you into a dog or something like that, and

then you kill it and it would just bust because

it had so much that it had sucked out of

a moment. And on my sabat God, that's given me

time to just extract to rest my soul. The most

dangerous thing for me is to rest, because in the

chaos of life, sometimes you start to think that you

gotta do this. And I know some of y'all don't

have pressures on you, and you don't got kids to raise,

and you ain't got wives that have expectations of you,

and you just trying to live pure and all the

other stuff. But as for me, sometimes you think you

gotta do all of this. And sometimes when you take

a step back and you just sit at the feet

of Jesus as a son, when you cast your crown,

when you're not a pastor, when you're not whatever you are,

God reveals to you it's been Him the whole time.

Some of y'all just need a reality check. It's been

him the whole time. You ain't that good. He see

you before you put that makeup on. He knows what

you look like, soothing yourself, knows how you're in the

car right before the presentation, is still making the presentation

up on canvas. He knows you. And sometimes we get

it twisted that we did something, but it's been somebody say,

it's been him the whole time, And so I'm grateful

for this opportunity, and I know I have an assignment here.

I heard a preacher one say, I'm wearing a suit

because I mean business, and I'm gonna stand on business today.

I want you to get your word, your Bible out,

and i want you to get your notepads out. And

today I'm gonna wipe this sweat off to act like

I just didn't shout and thank God for his presence.

Holy Spirit. Here I am in front of all of

these people, asking you to empower me to do your will.

You are the one that get is both the desire

and the power to do what pleases you. And today, Father,

I have so many flaws standing up here in front

of these people, but I will not shrink back from

what you called me to do. So today anoint me

and Father, don't just use me dwelling me. Father, I

want something on me after this. I don't want to

be used so they can just be blessed. I want

to walk away with something. God. Would you just supersede

all of our expectations and would you start something in

this church that would change the trajectory of our lives forever?

Holy Spirit? Tag team back again. Let's do this thing

and may you get all the glory, honor and praise.

And everybody that agrees say amen, Amen. Well, today we

are starting a brand new series called receipt somebody shout

at me. Receipts. Now, this is a cultural term for

all of us because we know that anytime we buy something,

we get a receipt. But in the last probably three

to five years, people have been using it a lot

in relationships and business and and and really kind of disappointingly,

it's like people who keep tabs of other people's faults

and they'd be like, no, you a liar, and I

got receipts, and every like no, no, no, no, no, no,

show me the And it's almost given people a license

to be able to check people or hold them accountable

because they do something don't remember really how it went

or the facts or the actual intention around it, but

somebody was recording the whole time. Come on, y'all, we

know a few stories in the news right now that

whoa wish video cameras didn't exist, Wish that somebody wasn't

watching or seeing because now of what you say in

front of people, if there is something that is proving

otherwise it's what people go with and what they believe.

And so as I was coming into this series and

I was on sabbatical, ask in the Holy Spirit, how

do I finish the assignment that you gave us for

this year? Because at Transformation Church, the word of the

year is what fruit? Can we give it up for

Transformation worship real quick? Y'all can do better than that.

We have a world class worship department. When y'all did

look at my fruit today, and then I start thinking like, oh,

we got a song that go with a series that's

cold bloody and like, thank y'all man, and they just

released an album called that Kingdom Come last week and

y'all have just I'm just super excited.

But when I.

Started to think about that song and look at my

fruit and we're gonna say, we're not talking about it,

we're gonna live it, I started to think like, oh,

that whole concept is about having proof. And right when

I actually thought about the word of the year being

fruit this year at Transformation Church, my wife sent me

to the store.

And one of your primary.

Jobs as a husband is not to just bring home

the bacon and not to just provide and all that

one of your primary responsibilities is to go do what

your wife.

Doesn't want to do.

I should have more amen's than that in this building.

So if she don't want to go to the store,

guess who gets to go to the store. And my

wife sends me to all kinds of stores. I mean,

when you've been in the game as long as we have,

we about to come up on fifteen years of being married.

When we came in that that means I can go anywhere.

Victoria's secret. Ain't no question.

She doesn't send me in there several times, the Sphinks store.

I buy Sphinks all the time.

See some of y'all ain't ya y'all, y'all ain't y'all

ain't graduated, You still care about what goes across the

I don't care. No more boom pads, fifty pack.

No, I'm just playing. I'm just playing kind of.

See some of y'all ceit Chersey passes bad. Okay, here

we go, I'm just saying. And she sends me to

this one store. I don't like that much. And the

only reason I don't like it is not because the

service is batter They don't have stuff. It's like every

time I finish purchasing whatever it is, I try to leave,

and it does not matter what I have on. It

doesn't matter how much I smile. I can have.

Watched fourteen people go in front of me.

With no problem, straight out the door, but some sweet

older person steps in front of the exit. And as

for my receipt, what is it about me that says

stop me?

Is it six ' two?

Is it black man? Is it brave?

Is it?

What is?

No?

And I used to get so frustrated about it because

it was like I just saw four people with six

carts connected to each other, and I got a bad

with gum and deoderant, and they're like, sir, hey, can

I see your And I started to think about it

that the power of a receipt actually is it is

proof of purchase. So when you have the receipt, you

ain't gotta worry because I can.

Prove that I purchased this.

But in the off chance that you left it at

the self checkout desk, or right when you did it,

you ran back into the store and you dropped it somewhere.

I don't know if you've ever been caught without a receipt,

But then all kinds of things start flooding your mind

because automatically you think they think you a thief and

you and one time that happened to me, and the

Holy Spirit said, wouldn't it be sad if you got

caught at the White Throne judgment in front of me?

When I ask you what did you do with this life?

And all the people who in church and believing in

tongue talking, hold on, hold on one second, hold on God,

hold hold.

On, I know it's here somewhere. If every believer.

In Jesus Christ does not have receipts of relationship with him,

you are actually out here counterfeiting what God has asked

all of us to walk around ready to show. When

I understood that those people were gonna stop me every

time I stopped putting my receipt in my pocket when

I start walking out the door, huh. Before before you

even question me, you want to see my mom say

do the people at your job do they know you

have relationship with God? Is there any proof that he

purchased you?

Oh?

God, okay, because the Bible says in Matthew chapter seven,

verse sixteen, you can identify the people who were mine

by their fruit, by the they don't understand what he's saying.

He clarifies it.

You can identify fight the real ones, the ones who

have relationship with meat, by their fruit. Well what is fruit?

Because technically fruit could be so many different things. Is

it intrinsic? Is it something that? And he knew all

of us would go deep and heady and all that

other stuff. He said, you can identify them by the

way they act. How you act is your fruit, not

how you pray, not how you believe, not how you work.

So how you is your fruit.

So you cut people out when you mad, that's your fruit.

You cut people off when you feel disrespected, that's your fruit.

I just need more grace. I just need more grace.

But how you acted, what's your fruit. And I know

this is kind of heavy, because most of us want

to be able to act anyway, ask God for forgiveness

and not bear the consequences of what we already produced.

After I bit your bitter fruit, it doesn't mean that

I'm gonna go away for you forever, but it doesn't remember.

I remember what nasty fruit tastes like. And so when

you try to come put your stinky hands on me

to pray, I remember how you treated me when we

were on.

That serve team together.

Oh see, the problem is many times, the same people

we need to invite to church we were short with

a week earlier. The same person that we need to

correct and integrity is the same person we made advances

at a year ago. Oh, I mean your business now,

you so look good in them tights. You so look

good in that li li limy. I like to see

that limit. And you saying those little perverted crazy thing

with yo, Mary Budd and four kids. And okay, y'all

gonna have to ease me back in, ease me back

in your nasty self over here talking to this twenty

two year old and you fifty years old. And Kat

Williams told y'all twenty twenty four, everybody getting exposed. You're

everybody getting exposed. He said it in January. Hear me,

hear me what I'm saying to you. The Holy Spirit

is done with people claiming him in public, but their

actions do not line up. There is no fruit, or

I could say it a different way. There's no proof.

So in this series today, all I can do is

set up. All I can do is set the series up.

You don't want to miss one week of this because

I gave myself a strict timeline to just help everybody

understand that fruit is important in your life. It's the

only thing that God counts at the end of the day.

And write this point down. Most believers have no receipts

for their relationship with God.

None.

All night prayers is not a receipt for a relationship

with God. I know that offended religious people right there,

but I'm tarrying.

We'll talk about it a little bit later.

But he said, but you don't have love, he said,

So you could prophesy speak, you can bring visions down,

but the fruit of the spirit is love. So if

you don't got love, he said, you sound like a

to me. You're annoying to me. Y'all not ready for

this series. Y'all are not ready for this. You think

you given money is a fruit of the spirit. But

because churches have maximized on the actions instead of the being,

the doing instead of the the fruit of the spirit

is not something you can just do. It has to

come out of your being who are you? And that's

why you don't pay for the fruit of the spirit.

You have to let the Holy Spirit working you.

You gotta let him do the work.

It might take two, three.

Four, five, six, seven, eight, nine, ten years to actually

get patients.

And we want to microwave patience.

Six to Okay, who should have patients in three weeks?

And that's why God gave you that wife.

You screaming too loud?

Over there?

What is brother? There will be praying for.

You at the end of service, Like do you hear

what I'm saying? To be able to really work out

your actual control? Self control? That don't happen in two weeks? Okay,

y'all being faith and so many people have sold you

that your full transformation happens at an altar. The altar

is usually the start of your transformation. No matter how

much you cry, no matter how many open visions, no

matter how many prophetic words, you.

Got to go out and act different.

Oh my god, you thought I was gonna come back

and just give you a hug.

We got to grow, baby.

I'm telling you right now, if we gonna see fruit

in our life, I'm getting happy. We gotta actually make

a decision to do something different than we've been doing.

And all I want you to know is that.

The proof is in the fruit. Stop talking to me,

show me your fruit. Somebody say the proof is in

the fruit.

Past.

Why do we need to show receipts? Why do we

need proof of purchase? Because Jesus, our example, had proof

of purchase for us, and he carried multiple receipts.

You can look at the cross. That's a receipt. His

blood was shed on that cross for.

Every one of our sins, even when we wasn't thinking

about him. The Bible says, it's like this, while we

were yet sinners, Christ died, but then you could use

the stone.

When the stone was.

Rolled away, and he resurrected that stone sitting on the

side when nobody pushed it, that's another receipt. So when

the two women came, they said where's He was like, well,

none of us could move his stone. He left the

receipt to say.

I purchased you.

Oh my god, I can take you to one more.

That makes me real happy.

Remember when Thomas missed Jesus coming back, and Thomas was like,

I don't believe it. I don't know, and Jesus said,

he come here, Thomas, here's a receipt. The nail pierced

that puts your hand. Jesus had multiple receipts to prove

that he purchased us. Now the question is on this earth,

what are your receipts? Okay, you starting to hear me.

Ephesians two eight nine. God saved you by grace when

you believed, and you take credit for this, And you

can't take credit for this. It is a everybody say gift.

It is a gift from God. Salvation is not watch

this a reward for the good things we have done.

I could preach that for a year.

Well, I served yesterday with the team, so God should

do something good for me. Sorry for the church you

came from, who told you that this was a chores system?

Do your chores get a treat? That's not what this is.

He said, already gave you the ultimate gift before you

did anything for me, because I'm God like that. And

he literally said the reason I did this Verse nine

He said is salvation is not a reward for good

things that we have done. So none of y'all can

boast about it, because if it would be how good

we are and how much we've done, we would all

make ranking systems. And he said, no, no, no no, And

that's when I started to follow this analogy. Salvation, I

need to say something that you're gonna have to critically

think about. Salvation is not a receipt. Salvation is a

gift because well, I'm saved. You know, we have got

God keep praying for me, because God, I'm done with

me yet, but I'm saved. Yes, it is a gift

from God. What have you done with that gift? It's

almost like the salvation is the transaction of grace. When

you standing out the self checkout and you're like.

Bib, I do receive who Oh my goodness, Yes, something

is made newing me.

And I don't know if you've ever thought about it,

but when when you scan whatever you scan, there's a

system at work behind that whole thing that it goes

into the clouds and the ethernet and all the different things,

and somehow it's already made transactions known in other places.

I'm not at.

God, So when I'm down here on earth and I

give my life to Jesus, it's already done in heaven.

The transaction. My name is written in the Lamb's Book

of Life.

My sins are forgiven.

He throws them as far as the east is from

the web. It's done in heaven, but I still look

like this on earth. So what the Bible says is,

when you get this gift, you need some receipts that

are given by the Holy Spirit, because that then will

be proof on earth. It's done in heaven. Somebody say

it's done in heaven, but we ain't got no proof

on earth. So how do you get proof on earth?

You receive the gift of the Holy Spirit, and you

let him work out in you everything that's not like

God until you start to look like God.

Let me just help you.

Could you bring me that gift real quick, because some

of y'all don't understand. This salvation is simply receiving a gift.

And today some of y'all just need to receive this gift.

And some of y'all do this y'all. Oh my goodness,

look at salve ation. Oh and the angels crime and

we do this whole thing around salvas. Hey, y'all, y'all

seen my salvation twenty years and never opened it up.

I'm talking to you. Fifteen years.

You done build a whole YouTube channel off of having this,

but never opened it up. This comes with the Holy Spirit.

He said, it's better if I leave, because when when

I leave, I'm gonna send you the comforter, the one,

the teacher, the one that's gonna show you what to do,

and he's going to give you. According to Galatians five

twenty two, he's gonna work in you these things called

fruits of the spirit. Somebody say, open it up.

For the rest of this year.

I want you to open up what the Holy Spirit

can do in your life. If you would just open

up that, it's not weird and crazy and you about

to just be having convulsions. People that do that want

to do that. That is not what the Holy Spirit is.

A gentleman, he's wise, he understands what's going on. He

knows what needs to happen, and what some of us

need to do is open him up, because if you

let him do the work, what comes out.

Naturally. This is not forced.

This is not me trying to make something happen. This

is not me trying to.

Prove to you.

Godess, that is a blessed grave. Wow, I don't.

Even know what this is. What is it?

Holy Spirit? God stuff you don't know about. See y'all

don't hear me? What is this? Pomegranted you study through

your fruodologist. We only have oranges, apples and grapes and bananas.

I didn't know.

What if there are things that the Holy Spirit wants

to reveal in you, through you, with you, to you,

for others, for you first that you haven't even opened

up the gift and what the church will many trying

something to do.

We don't do all that. We got thirty five minutes

on Sunday.

No, no, no, no. You can give eight hours a

day to that job, but don't give no time to

the Holy Spirit. We can spend sixteen hours in kids

sports activities on a Friday and a Saturday, but we're

not gonna make nobody uncomfortable with the Holy Spirit. No no, no, no, no, no,

no no no. Let's just no no no, Holy Spirit,

just in case you do something crazy.

But I'm saved.

Walking with him, doing good things, doing good works. You're

missing out on the nourishment something you are like, Dang,

I'm hungry, thirsty for relationship, thirsty for accolades. We every

time you talk, we know you thirsty for a compliment. Okay,

y'all know the people I'm talking about.

And if you don't know, it's.

You see see the receipt clears up confusion on earth.

Whenever there's a conflict on earth, it's like, no, no, no,

I have a receipt of love. I have proof of joy.

And what I found out about those beautiful people at

that store that I have not named, that actually has

a logo of blue and yellow and it kind of

rhymes well Hallmark, not calling no names. But is that

the truth of the matter is those people are actually

doing their job. Because it's it should be okay for

you have to for you to have to prove that

you purchased it. Let me say it a different way.

It should be okay that non believers need to know

if there's fruit in your life. You see them golf collapse,

Like why I'm offended. Why you claim to be a Christian,

But we have no proof through your Instagram, Facebook, Twitter,

We have no proof through your relationships, how you talk

to your kids, how you treat people that do you wrong.

We have no proof in your activity in your church

and the way you talk about the pastor we have

no proof. Somebody say show me the receipt. For you

get in business with somebody, you better ask them to

show you the receipts. Show me what you did with

that last business. I know we hype about this business,

but why did that one? Did it fail because of

a lack of integrity? Show me, somebody shout at me,

show me the receipts. Momo Tom, somebody say, show me

the receipts. Okay, because people who do not have receipts

or proof that they're in relationship with God. I found

out something and I just want to tell you. This

may be you, it may not be you, but I

just want to let you know, because that's my job

to inform you. You're being led by the flesh. The

Bible is clear those who are led by the spirit

are actually sons of God. If you are led by

your flesh, something else is about to be produced in you.

Because everybody got fruit, everybody got proof, everybody got receipts.

It just depends what type of proof fruit receipts that

you actually have. That's why I want to give you

that reference to some of y'all that gonna go back

and study this afterwards.

Romans eight fourteen.

For as many are led by the spirit of God,

these are the sons of God. These are my sons

and daughters. These are the people that rock with me.

These are the people, because there'll be plenty that say, oh, God,

but I've talked in your name, prophesied in your name,

can't sit out, demons, did business in your name. God,

I always Oh Jesus loves you shirt? Why you was

taking it off to lay down wear her? Oh gosh,

y'all gave me too much time off. You continue to

use Christianity as a luer. I want a good godly man.

I'm a good godly man until eleven pm. Okay, I

need to get off somebody's case. But somebody's pulling me

and stop following for that foolishness. Ask him why he's

twenty nine years old and ain't never had a prospect.

It's because he didn't want one. Show me.

You just so naive. You're about to get bought up, use, crumbled.

Up and taken.

I'm just trying to if we're not.

Asked in people, show me that you walk in joy.

I know you're cynical and you've been hurting your Jaden.

I'm just not I'm just gonna I'm just I'm just

not gonna let nobody play me like that no more.

That's miserable. You look miserable. You wake up.

Does your face being like that? Does it not hurt?

That don't hurt?

To walk into every room like that doesn't hurt. You

don't get noo spasms, no muscle spasms. Tell me you

walk in gentleness, and then show me you walk in gentleness.

Show me the.

Okay Galatians five twenty two, let's read it. But the

Holy Spirit the gift we get at salvation for free.

No extra things you have to do to get the

Holy Spirit. Let me clear this up. Church has tried

to create levels to how you have access to the

Holy Spirit. But the Holy Spirit is a person, not

a tongue. You've been saved, feel with the Holy Spirit

with the evidence of speaking in tongue. Don't say that

no more, cuz speaking in tongues is not evidence according

to the Word.

It's a benefit. According to the word.

Evidence of the Holy Spirit is what we are about

to read. Love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, self control.

These are fruits. McCoy said, this is Sunday School. I

love it. And a lot of us have believed the

lie that the Holy Spirit is not with us because

maybe we have not accessed the benefit of speaking in

our heavenly language. Yet that is a lie. Now, Now,

why in the world would you not want the maximum

benefit of this Christian life.

I don't know.

You want to stay on the second floor when you

could stay on the fifty second floor in the penthouse?

Do you?

But as for me, in my house, we going up.

Like like like Reba Kayashi and dabos all day. I'm like, Paul,

I speak a tongues more than you are. I'll be like,

what's up there on myk Like that's me. I was

raised by Brenda Tad. You understand. Sometimes we say hello

in tongues radak like with that. No, I'm just playing.

I'll just playing.

I'll just playing. Mama won breakfast with robocosday day day.

No, no, no, I just lay.

But I love that starts. Okay. So what I'm saying

to you, though, is that at the end of the day,

at the end of the day, it is a benefit,

but it's not proof. It's not a receipt because people

can speak in tongues that aren't kind. People can speak

in tongues who are not faithful. Okay, there's some people

getting up and walking out, they're mad at me. It's okay,

it's the truth anyhow. So those nine things. What I'm

believing through this series is by the time we get

to the end of the year, you would develop a

value system around carrying these receipts. Watch this daily. This

is not a oh I use love that one time

in nineteen sixty four when I really had to forget

in white people for doing that to the black people.

If nineteen sixty four was the last time you walked

in love, you have denied the very power of the

Holy Spirit. So I want you to just see the receipts,

and this is what I'm gona I'm gonna put all

the receipts on the screen. I'm gonna put all the

fruits of the spirit, all the proof that the Holy

Spirit wants us to have, and I want you to

as they come up. I believe something significant is gonna happen.

I want you to identify or allow the Holy Spirit

who is inside of every believer, anybody who's accepted Jesus.

I want you to identify where the Holy Spirit is

drawing you to focus your life, because we need all

of them. But let me not just bite off a

be like there may be one that the Holy Spirit

is like this the one. And if you get that,

if you have that inkland, if you're watching online, if

you're in the road, I just want you to write

it down.

Some of y'all gonna write all nine down, and I

know some of y'all is.

Like I need all of them. But at the end

of the day, I believe the Holy Spirit is going

to allow us to start a journey of progression and

not perfection. So many of us need love, and many

of us need joy, and many of us need what peace? Patience?

We need patience? How many people need? We hate waiting? Hey,

waiting on people? Hey, waiting on God? Hey waiting for

our food. We went to a place to celebrate my

baby Avera's birthday. Shout out to avas she turned seven.

This we went to We went to one of her

favorite places. I ain't calling no names in here, but

they really should make another location in Tulsa, because this

is ridiculous. That woman had the nerve to tell me

it was a two and a half hour wait.

Osi I could go kill a chicken.

Pluck that mup.

Nah, two and a half.

Hours to wait to eat. But something in me is

working against waiting at all times. I mean, right now,

if my WiFi doesn't seamlessly connect what I'm doing to

wherever it's connected, you don't even know where it's connected to,

you'll be ready to throw away the system. You'll be

ready to throw away you don't hit the restart. But

why is it so hard for us to wait? I

heard it said like this with the enemy. Can't get

in front of and stop, he gets behind and rushes, oh,

that's nasty.

Some of y'all wait.

He can't wait to get married, can't wait to start

the business, can't wait to do this. And the enemy

is literally pushing you because he knows you'll make a

mistake because you will not wait on God. You won't

develop the fruit, open it up and get the food

of the spirit of patience. And some of us you

may have gotten patience, but we actually need kindness, goodness.

Most people don't understand that. One I cannot wait to

preach on goodness because everybody be like, just be good God,

we in the dark. Faithfulness, gentleness. Y'all know, gentleness does

not have a gender. Women aren't the only ones supposed

to be Okay, I know they gonna clip that up

and try to make it say I'm saying something else.

All I'm saying is men of God. To be able

to walk around with power, intentionality, to be able to protect,

and still.

Able to have a soft hand and soft words.

That's where we're getting messed up. I ain't never hit her.

You hit her every day with your words. She walks

in with headgear on as soon as you wake up. Okay,

this series is gonna be real, good, good good. Here

we go, and everybody in the room need this last

receipt self self control. Somebody say the proof is in

the fruit. Write it down, The proof is in the fruit.

Were almost done because today is just a setup. I

can't even like when I tell you. I told the

team in the back, I was like, I'm gonna just

do the intro and leaves, so if abruptly, I'd be like,

that's it. That's because I'm watching the time. I got

to be done, because if you let me, I will

unleash on you for three hours and not even and

not even think about it. But I ain't gonna do

that today because the proof of self control for me

is in my fruit. I wanna do something that the moment,

and God and my team has asked me not to do,

And the only person who can stop me from doing.

I'm in charge. I'm the balls, I'm the one doing.

The only person who can do that is the Holy

Spirit in me. That says, Michael, you gave them people

your word. You told her that you was gonna be

done in fifty minutes. You said at the wheel, you

said it the car. You told Natalie, You're gonna be

done in fifty minutes. So if I'd be like all

right and just walk off the stage, is because I'm

gonna be a man of my work, because I'm trying

to reel in my flesh. Oh you know, You're flesh

can raise up for good things. Huh. Well, I'm helping

people and I'm trying to get them the message. Gentlemen. No,

you're prideful and you're doing too much. Let the Holy

Spirit do the rest of the work. They got, y'all,

don't hear me. They got enough word to be able

to chew on this. Just prove they don't study the

scripture no way, so you can't do what the Holy

Spirit came all right, Somebody say the proof is in

the fruit, Okay, so at the end of the day,

I want you to realize, we know the receipts we

need to have put those receipts back up there. Okay,

these are the receipts that we need. Everybody say love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness,

self control. I'm believing that your appetite would change. Okay,

because when I read Galatians five twenty two, it starts

with the word I wasn't ec You know, sometimes when

you just click on to Google and look up a

certain scripture you got, you gotta read the whole chapter

so you can get everybody say context.

Because because Galatians twenty.

Two starts with the word but, everybody say but, so

that means it was contrasting something. So I ran it

back and it said, there's some other receipts that people

are actually showing to others. And I'm just gonna read

the list. It says, the fruit or the proof or

the receipts of living a life led by the flesh

is sexual immorality, impurity, debauchery, idolatry, witchcraft, hatred, discord, jealousy,

fits of rage, selfish, ambition, disunity, factions or clicks, envy, drunkenness, orgies,

and the likes. So if you look at these nine

fruits of the spirit and then listen to that list,

which one do you have more receipts of?

Which one can you say?

You know?

Oh yeah, I got that.

I mean, I'm kind, but hayten witch craft, I'm in

the astrology and the signs and the rocks, and Sagittaria

things and Sagittarius things you can't spell. Sagittarius couldn't spell

it if your life depended on it. The end of

that just says it says I warn.

You, as I did before.

This is Paul writing that those who live like this

will not inherit the Kingdom of God. That's why our

receipts are proof of a relationship with Christ and what

moves us forward in our relationships so we don't live

this mid mediocre life with God is maturity. Today, I'm

asking everybody for the rest of this year, could we

all together? This room is full of people with so

much purpose, and maybe the only thing keeping us from

the next open door is our ability to see this

moment of maturity that God has given us to allow

the Holy Spirit to work out of us, the things

that are not like him and work in us, the

things that He wants to see in our life. Somebody

say the proof is in the fruit. See write it

down in this point. Require I mean receipts are a

requirement for the next open door. Hear what I just said,

the receipt of love, joy, peace, patience. Could I submit

to you that maybe some of the reason why the

next thing that you know God told you to do

hasn't worked is because He can't sing you into the

open door. Those doors cannot open until you have proof

that you walk in love, because if you get into

that door with no love, you make him look bad.

When I'm at that one store that has all the

price cuts and the smiley face as the logo, and

they step in front.

They don't catch me at the register.

They step in front of me at the point of

an open door. They want to see the receipt at

the place where the atmosphere changes. They want to see

the receipt at the place that the climate changes, at

the place where I walk into something. It's automatic. If

I get close to it, I don't have to open it.

I can just walk through it. But they stop me

to see if I have proof before the door opens,

and could I submit to you that your kindness, your gentleness,

your faithfulness, the lack of having a receipt for that

maybe the reason why God will not let the next

door open. All right, how much time I got, I

can't see it. I can't see it. Okay, here we go.

Last point. Receipts. Watch this allow for returns without repercussions.

So I don't know if this has ever happened to you,

but in the off chance that you accidentally picked up

something that wasn't supposed to go with you, I have kids,

and my kids don't understand the purchasing process. Yet they

see it, they want it, They got it. They like,

what's the boy, Keith Lee?

You know what I'm saying?

Like, I see it, I got it. Let's try it

like and they just And I've ended up in the

car with things that I did not purchase, that maybe

even somebody else put into my cart, trauma that wasn't mine,

ways of thinking that did not originate with me, that

were passed on that somebody else's hands were on, and

they were given to me. And a lot of people

I'm not talking about whom, but A lot of people

think that everything that you get for free is a blessing.

Oh my god, how did it just end up in

my cart?

That's a test of your fruit.

Every one hundred dollar bill, twenty dollars bill, ten dollar

bill you found on the ground, that ain't always a blessing.

A lot of times it's a testing. Y'all missed it.

God is trying to test and see are you a

person of integrity? Will you be faithful enough and inconvenienced

impatience enough to get out of your car, walk it

back to the desk, tell them you found it in

the parking lot. Leave it when you need twenty. It's

quiet and here because y'all of them picked up other

people's stuff, saying God blessed you. Oh my god, I

just got out of Oh. Let me tell y'all story

about how God bless me and God said you failed,

you failed, horrible. Take that twenty dollars.

Take that, thank you twenty dollars. I was about to.

Give you a promotion that would have given you twenty

thousand dollars, but I can't open that next.

Door because you.

Will. Y'all stand all over the building, some of you

through this series are gonna take back things that were

not legitimately given to you by God. And when you

step up to that service counter and you say, hey,

this anger, this didn't come from me, this was passed down,

You're gonna be able to go back and return things

and not feel guilty about it because this wasn't part

of what.

Jesus gave me.

I got to give this back, this anxiety, this fear

of everything, I got to give this back. Today, if

you're in this building, I want to let you know

that you need the receipts so that you can give

them to other people. But everybody, listen to me, you

have to receive these receipts first.

It's hard to give what you don't have.

And so many people are so obsessed, specially in church,

of trying to produce fruit that they don't.

Eat it first.

So at the end of this sermon today, what if

today we made a decision that not just we're gonna.

Produce fruit so that we could give.

It to the world, if we start with producing the

fruit so that we can give it to ourselves once

the last time you gave your self love, because the

Bible's clear you only can love others to the measure

at which you love.

Uh.

Oh, you might need to bite this fruit. My wife

knows it's a thing between us since we were as kids.

If she bite a good orange her first thing.

Or a good apple, she said, you need to try this.

The only way she can do that is if she

tasted it first.

The reason we don't have patience with.

Other people is because we don't got patience with ourselves.

The reason we can't be kind to others is because

we won't be kind. And I found out in my

own life the way that you show the fruits of

the spirit is you fight less and fruit more.

You're what I just said so many times.

I'm ready to fight and defend them, and God said

fight less, fruit more. They won't be able to deny

what God's done in your life today. If that's you

and you've been fighting, to make sure that everything comes together,

and make sure nobody gets you wrong, and make sure

that your name is what you wanted to be and

stop fighting.

Why I gotta get my time is coming. I need

to do this. I need to do this. God's not

rushing you.

The enemy is He said, I need you to fight

less and fruit more and I want to give you

the receipts of the Spirit, the proof that you're in

relationship with me. If you're in this room and you

know there's an area of your life that you need

the Holy Spirit to help you develop ripe, juicy, sweet,

good fruit, and one of those nine areas, would you

just lift your hands all over this place online, would

you lift your hands And I'm just gonna pray that

you would fight God less and let him, through the

Holy Spirit, build fruit in you more. Father, here we

all are. There's not one single hand down in this

place because we need your help, Holy Spirit. If we

could do it on our own, we would have done it.

But today for us to actually love without condition, to

have peace that passes all understanding, to be able to

walk enjoy that is unspeakable, we need your help.

Today. Forgive us.

For producing fruit that doesn't look like you, even after

the gift of salvation. And today we're asking that there

would be a fresh fool faith to believe you can

do something new on the inside of us.

Father.

The things that were passed down that were not given

by you today, Father God, we are returning them at

this moment right now. All the pain, all the resentment,

all the offense, all of the frustration. Today, God, we

give that back, and we.

Thank you that today we're going to start.

To produce fruit as the Holy Spirit begins a purification

process on the inside of all of us. Father, for

the bidder in the room, I thank you that it's

getting better. Father. For the person who has jaded, I

thank you that you're giving them joy. For the person

Father God who tried before, I thank you for a

fresh win to try again. New things springing up on

the inside of us. But the world will know that

we are yours. Let them know us by our fruit,

not our posts, not our not what we say, only

how we live. For you, do a new thing on

the inside of me. God, come on, somebody make it personals,

ask him to do a new thing on the inside

of you. Do something new in me. We trust you

and we believe you, and that same posture. If you're

in this room, I need y'all to just be praying

just for a second. We're gone in three minutes. If

you're in this room and you've never accepted the gift

of salvation, I believe today is your day. See there's

so much waiting for you. But some of you have

been with your arms folded.

But like, I don't take all that, I don't need

all that.

But what I'm telling you is this whole life thing

is real, and this eighty years we get is a

small piece of eternity. And what I need you to

know is God says, I've already paid the debt, so

you can live free.

But you have to. Everybody say receive.

And I know church and religion will try to make

you jump through all these hoops and become this different person.

No, no, no, no, no, no no.

God says, bring all of your crazy to me. Bring

all your crazy, bring all your drama, bring all your

not knowing, bring it all to me. He can handle

all of that. He has the receipts in his nail

pierced hand and he's saying, would you just come and

allow me to do something on the inside of you.

But I can't do it unless you receive. If you're

in this room and you are watching online and you

want to receive salvation, which comes with a gift called

the Holy Spirit. On the counter three, I just want

you to shoot your hand up in the air.

I want you to be bold.

I want you to be proud.

I want you to be.

Excited because your life is about to transform. It's the

thing that took me from being a liar, a manipulator,

addicted to pornography, somebody who had all kinds of dark

things in my heart, in my mind and was acting

on them.

I was being led by the desires.

Of my flesh, and I was getting receipts broken promises.

I almost lost my wife. I almost became a person

I hated. But God he saw me in my sin

and he said, if you surrender everything to me right now, boy,

I'll use you in a way that you can't even imagine.

I said, God, with all of this, he said, with

all of that, I'll actually allow you to turn it

around and take your testimony and change the entire world.

But you gotta surrender to me.

And today you have the same opportunity because he's no

respector of persons. One, you're making the greatest decision of

your life. Two. If you make this decision, your name

is gonna be written in the Lamb's Book of life,

and your eternity is secure. Three. If you want to

give Jesus your life, I want you to raise your

hand all over this building, I see you. I see you, sister,

I see you brother, all the way in the back

online over here. Transformation in church? How do we celebrate

what God is doing? Hallelujah. So proud of you, So

proud of you, young man. But more than me being

proud of you, God has all of Heaven standing up,

and they turning up right now because you gave your

life to Christ. A transformation in church. Nobody prays alone.

If somebody's around you who raised their hand, would you

just strength gently stretch your hands towards them, and we're

gonna pray together. Would you say, God, thank you for

sending Jesus just for me. Today. I admit that I

need a savior, and I choose you. I receive the

free gift of salvation. I believe you lived, you died,

and you rose again with all power to defeat anything

I would ever go through. So today I give you

my life, Change me, renew me, transform me. I'm yours

in Jesus' name. Amen?

Can we turn up with heaven all over this place?

Oh? This should be the biggest shot of the day. Paula, ya.

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Before the end of this year, your life is gonna

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