Fresh Cut: You’re Getting Cut Either Way // Fresh Fruit (Part 4) // Michael Todd

Welcome to Transformation Church podcast, where we represent God to the lost and found

for transformation in Christ. We're so glad you're here and wherever you're listening from,

we believe God will transform your life. Do today's message. Welcome the

week four of a series we're calling somebody say fresh Fruit. And at Transformation

Church, we believe that this year God has given us a prophetic word,

and the word is fruit that out of our lives, out of our marriages,

out of our money, out of our businesses, out of our thought

processes, there needs to be what is the word fruit? Many of us

have not seen fruit in our lives in decades. It's been the same cycle.

But I believe about the power of the Holy Spirit and the revelation through

teaching and the spirit of God that is in this place, and your desire

to continue to hunger and thirst after those things that God is saying. I

believe this year is going to be a turnaround year for many of us.

Now you don't have to believe that, but those who do, there's something

that happens to you. The Bible always tells us according to your faith,

and you might as well. You have nothing to lose by actually believing God.

And so today, in the two minutes that I have to preach this

word to you, I'm going to try to do something that leaves a mark

in your head that will never ever leave you ever again. The name of

this series is fresh Fruit. But there's a tagline that we have not emphasized,

and today I felt, by the Holy Spirit I was supposed to emphasize

it to you. The name of this entire series is fresh Fruit. The

proof is in the fruit. Write that down. The proof is in the

fruit. And I need to say this to believers now. If you're not

a believer yet, I love you. I'm gonna talk to you in just

a second. Just hold on, you can listening to this private conversation that

I'm about to have with people who have confessed Jesus christis that Lord and Savior.

Don't care if you smoke, don't care if you have sex last night.

It's all good. I'm just glad that you hear. I know other

Christian people won't tell you that, but your boy, I'm with you.

Why because I was there before. But hold on, let me have a

conversation with my family. For believers, you talk too much. You talk

about what you're gonna do. Talk about the Bible plan you're gonna finish,

talk about the weight you're gonna lose, talk about being vegan, talk about

being a virgin, talk about but may I submit to you that you could

save a lot of words by just actually being the proof of what you desire

to do. The proof is in the fruit, because nobody can argue with

fruit. They can act like it ain't there, but they gotta step over

it to move on. And there are too many believers that are out here

with no fruit. So we have to talk about everything that we're gonna do

and hypothesize, and then because we're not producing fruit, we criticize anybody that

is because it ain't the type of fruit that I would put. You ain't

got nothing to show for everything that God told you, but you have a

lot to say. Okay, And I need to free the church that wants

to produce everybody say more fruit from the chains of trying to prove yourself.

There are too many people that are under the sound of My voice with Jesus

Christ on the inside of them, that are trying to still prove things.

You dress a certain way today, God, real quiet, somebody's like,

hold on, wait, is he gonna say, I'll leave it alone?

Just so you hear what I'm saying to you, many of us are doing

things, trying to prove things to people who won't even see it. You

missed it. You're doing things today in real life, trying to prove things

to people, some of them that are in the grave. Still trying to

prove to your mama that you're worth it, Still trying to prove to that

coach that you can cut it, trying to prove to that boss who can

give you a promotion, that you're worth it. And what I came to

free you from today is that monkey, that that gorilla that's been on your

back. Listen, the need to prove things comes from the inward doubt of

things. So when you don't believe you can actually produce it because you did

what you said you was gonna do, you start trying to prove that I

am enough that I can make it happen. You don't believe in me,

Watch this, and what ends up happening is the enemy distorts the motivation of

your change. Did you hear what I just said? Many of you are

doing the right thing with the wrong motivation because the enemy creeped in at the

point of your insecurity and started flipping your motivation so that you think you're getting

the right results. But it has a bad route. Oh, Matthew seven

eighteen. A good tree cannot bear bad fruit. Did you hear what the

word said? A good tree cannot bear bad fruit. But at the same

token, a bad tree cannot bear good fruit. Every tree that does not

bear good fruit is cut down and thrown into the fire. Therefore by their

fruits you will know them. Everybody gets exposed by their fruit. Did you

hear what I just said? So this is the thing I want everybody to

switch that has freed me in this new season of being fresh. Somebody say

fresh, I'm not trying to prove them wrong. I'm trying to produce God

right. I'm gonna say it one more time. I am no longer waking

up going to work dressing to prove them wrong. I'm trying to produce God

right. And if you wake up every morning trying to prove them wrong,

you need to repent. I know it actually made you go to the gym

because they said I'd never ever be able to do it. And I'm gonna

show them. I'm gonna get this, but I'm gonna get this, and

I'm gonna be this, and I'm gonna go I promise you. But what's

happening is when you reach it. Then where does your motivation come from?

What happens when you attain the thing that was motivated by something? That get

this today? I want you to everybody say, repent if there's any area

of your life that you've been doing. I'm gonna prove them wrong. Repent

what does it mean? I'm gonna produce God right? Did y'all just see

how easy that is. I'm gonna prove my parents wrong. I can make

you without them. I don't need they little funky dollars. I don't need

it. Instead of trying to prove them wrong, I'm gonna produce God right.

God, make me a good steward whatever you put in my hands.

Father, God, I actually do need my parents helping sees. Actually,

Lord, if you could give them a prophetic word in the midnight hour to

send me one hundred and fifty. Lord, I'm humble enough to say things

like, see what every Christian life should look like? More? Where that

backpack? At? Does anybody got that backpack. Pass it to me.

What the Christian life should look like? Is us walking around? How y'all

doing? Turn the light to Yeah, I'm at the gym. Hey Tammy,

Brother? You good? What's your name? Man? Alan? Nice

to meet you, bro. What's that baby? That baby like orange juice?

That baby got a chain on? That baby? Need an orange?

Baby two days old with a chain? Here we go? You want an

orange? Where y'all go to school? Nowhere? You look young? But

you you you, you're blessed. What's up? Be here? You go?

What's up? Fam? You good? It's good to see you that

you want fruit? Your daddy? He wants the fruit. Dad, I

give you another one. So vict you be telling me to eat fruit all

the time. Come on, it's my trainer right here. Take all this

fruit? So big, daddy. You should be able to see the impact

of my life, not by where I tell you I've been. Oh it's

dark on the camera. It doesn't matter where I'm at. You could see

my fruit. Oh you want something? He said over here? Over here?

Do you see what happens when you start to produce fruit? You become

desirable. I haven't stopped to watch anybody eat the fruit. I just produce

it and drop it off at the gym, at the job, wherever I

go. My life should be producing fruit. The saddest part about this moment

right now or there are thousands of people around me that desire the fruit,

but the bag is empty. So until I flipped it over, nobody didn't

even knew that I still didn't have any fruit. And this is the season

where God's exposing people. He's turning the bags over seeing that marriage look good

on Instagram. No fruit, that business, they act like they drive a

Lamborghini. They and so much debt. No fruit, no fruit. So

what happens when the church tells the world, come and see our Jesus,

no fruit, Come and meet the God that changed my life. Didn't he

change your life fifteen years ago? Yes? What has happened since then?

Nothing? I just carry around my fruit sack. I judge other people for

not bearing fruit. Your fruit should be riper than that man of God.

Where have you dropped off any fruit? I know from now on, I'm

not gonna try to prove anybody wrong. I just say this small phrase in

my head, look at my fruit. People can say anything they want about

this church I'm not perfect. I mess up daily. I'm still trying to

figure out how to be a pastor. If anybody wants to take my position,

you can have it. This is not sexy, this is not fun,

this is not all. Yes, I want to be a pastor.

That was never my dream, and I'm scared of people who wake up like

that. Just want to get on the platform and give God. Okay,

the one thing that I will be able to stand on. When I stand

before God, I'll be able to say, Lord, I messed up several

times. I did the wrong thing tons of times, but I always repented

and came back to you. But God, I hope that what I did

there was some fruit. The reason I sleep at night when comments is going

crazy, it's because I know that for every comment there's a key. We

y'all missed it. For every comment, there's a cantalope. This is where

the church has to move to because if we're gonna be effective on any level,

if we're going to reach those people who actually need Jesus, we're not

gonna be able to explain to everybody everything that's happening and why we did what

we did and all the This is the reason why. And I'm just telling

you pastorally as a church, this is the reason why we're doing ransom again.

Now listen, hold on before you cheer, before you cheer, before

you cheer, before cheer. We learned some things last year. We learned

our platform was way bigger than our thought. We learned that there were a

lot of people who were looking for things to be able. And I was

like, oh, shoot, if this was at the PAC or the Performing

Arts Center, they would love it. Because it was on the wrong day

at the wrong venue and it was kind of good. Now, let's be

real. They want me to come out here and whip somebody and like spray

some ketchup and they'd be like, Jesus's blood, come on, let's be

honest, and they will clown the church about it. And we're like,

they didn't come to Christ because of that. No, it wasn't excellent at

all. We saw the hinds in the guys. So because there was it

was like, oh, that's too much, and y'all done. Rewrote Beyonce

song and I mean I know the song and that wakes my spirits up and

I just I get you. So do we stop doing it? Oh?

No, because there us over six hundred people got saved. But what but

watch this but watch But we're not prideful to say, yeah, we just

gonna do it the same. No, we've been cutting on it, we've

been submitting it, we've been looking at we're done. Rewrote almost all the

songs. We've we've we've taken the things that we say, could we do

this better? And what we're gonna do is this year we're gonna perfect it

in house. This is why it's not gonna be live online for everybody seeing.

I know all my Transformation Nations, people's like, forget damn pounds tomorrow,

what your damn I'm in Georgia. I can't calme play Rassom for me.

I got you. I love Transformation Nation. Y'all are ride or due,

but hear me. But hear what I'm saying is I have enough wisdom

to know that if we if we get it right this year, maybe we

can take it on the road. See you miss it, you miss it.

I don't quit on things that produce fruit just because they weren't perfect.

And how many things has God made fruitful that you just said in their mind

they didn't like? How it looked the first version, the second version,

the third version didn't go over how I thought God saying, go back and

cut on it. Somebody say cut on it. John fifteen to one say

cut on it again. Uh uh. I am the true grapevine, and

my father is the gardener. He cuts off every branch of mine that does

not produce fruit, and he prunes, which also is another word for cut.

He cuts the branches that do bear fruit so that they will produce.

Watch this, even somebody say more fruit. Say it like you believe it.

More fruit. Say it like it's gonna happen in your mind, in

your life. More say it like your finances is gonna reflect it. Say

it like your family is gonna change. More fruit. When I look at

my bank account this week, more fruit. I don't care what it says.

When I walk into my house. What am I saying? More I

might be at the brink of divorce, but I'm calling it by faith.

More fruit. But for more fruit, there's a formula. We've been talking

about fresh fruit and fresh vision and a fresh church. You want more fruit?

How many people want more fruit in the building? Get ready to scream

for the title of the sermon? It's gonna take a fresh cut. Ohoo,

hold on a fresh cut, pastor afresh cut. You're witnessing history right

now. After ten years of pastoring, I've never ever come on any platform

without a fresh cut. And today I am up here straight off of vacation

where I spent time, a lot of time in the sun, sun and

with the sun s n As you can see by my complexion, I didn't

get a fresh cut. So I decided to use this as an illustration of

what God's gonna do in our lives. And I'm gonna get a haircut on

stage in front of you, something that is usually done in private. I'm

gonna do it openly in front of you so that you can see the benefit

of a fresh cut. Aaron, my barbera and friend is gonna come.

Y'all give it up for Aaron real quick as he comes. Now, this

is my dog and he I'm gonna let him set up, but he is

actually terrified of what we're about to do. Because what I'm about to do

is very dangerous because the level of passion that I preach with and the level

of wanting you to get it really affects potentially the way that somebody could actually

cut my hair. And this is not rehearsed or planned or practiced. This

is about to be very fresh. But I want you to know from the

script. Sure, watch this point. Write it down. I'm gonna preach

this whole time while he's cutting me. He got the brother. How are

you feeling right now? Are you feeling feeling? Feeling great? Our friendship

is on the line. Write this down. You're getting cut either way.

You're getting cut either way. You about to no, I don't no,

no, no not. This black thing today is watermelon. I don't know

this. Use my cake. There we go. Gotta be on brand,

Thank you Jesus. Somebody say, you're getting cut it either way. This

is God's process. Cutting is God's process of eliminating what isn't producing fruit,

and it's also his way of expanding what is producing fruit. So if you

don't embrace God cutting you, you are not actually getting the best out of

what you have. Yeah, and one cut is going to cause you pain.

Remember the scripture says, anybody who's not producing fruit, he cuts them

off and throws them away. But the people who are producing fruit, he

cuts them so that they can have more fruit. What I found out is

one cut is full of pain and the other cut is full of promise.

What I'm trying to get everybody in this room under the sound of my voice

to realize is God in twenty twenty four, when you yell by faith,

more fruit in my marriage, more fruit in my finances, more fruit in

my business, in my family, He says, let me grab my scissors.

Are you ready to be cut? The thing that really brought me a

lot of peace because when I was asked that by the Holy Spirit, am

I ready to get cut? My answer was no, Because all my life,

cut has been associated with something that is either bad, hurtful, painful,

or an accident that could end deadly. Hold, don't I don't play

with them scissors since you're young. No no, no, no, no

no no, no, no no no, don't use that knife. But

God said to me, he said, Michael, being cut by me is

a promise of more fruit. He said, So when I start to cut

on your life, I'm promising you I'm planning to use you again. See

what. I don't know if anybody ever played on a basketball team, but

I was one of those on a team that the coach would always ride me

harder than he would ride anybody else. And I was like, Coach,

you won't be telling them that. He said, shut up and run coat.

They missed the shock too, he said, I'm not talking to them.

Coach. Well, I got it. I was a crier when I

got angry, like when I got really do I got any angry, Like

when you get like real, the tears just start falling. They thug tears.

Believe that you better believe that. But you get so overwhelmed it's gotta

come out somewhere. And one day the coach brought me to the side.

He said, Michael, the reason that I ride you so hard, and

I correct you so hard, and I talk to you so hard, it's

because I know that you actually have potential to go where none of these other

people have the potential to go. So if I don't cut you now,

you won't be ready when it's time for the competition. And I just came

to tell somebody that the church has been a done a bad job in this

last season of emphasizing how comfortable serving God would be. I need to say

this to you, like, just come to God and all your fears and

all your tears, and he bottles them and he's gonna coddle them, and

we make you feel like when you come to God then somehow it gets easy.

And I just want to let you know that our desire for comfort has

made us despise his cut. I'm gonna say it one more time. You

think, if God tells you know, you're getting punished instead of if God

tells you no, he's protecting you. You think if God doesn't allow you

to get the position you prayed for, that somehow he hasn't heard your cry.

But He actually is answering the prayer you didn't know how to form with

your lips by not letting you get into a position that you would be locked

into because He knows you are a people pleaser, and if you got that

position, you wouldn't leave there for fifteen years. And three years from now

he's going to open up the actual destiny step that you need. So he

told you know now to lead you to the place of purpose. But if

you desire comfort at the expense of desiring the cut, not from anybody,

just regular I'm talking about from God, you will miss out on what God

has for you. I wrote it down like this because I just came back

from the beach and I wanted to I wanted to give a praise report.

I know these we don't do testimony service anymore in church, but I want

to give you praise repoint. I've been to the beach a lot of times,

and me and my wife did a little withdrawal trip and I just needed

to be refreshed. And I'm encouraging every person to pick time where you actually

get refreshed. I know a pastor doesn't usually tell you that, but Jesus

modeled it, or God modeled it in creation and he literally took a day

of Sabbath to be able to recreate. And so I'm just asking you to

do the same thing. But that ain't my point. While I was on

the beach praise report, I felt more comfortable in swim clothes than I ever

have in my life. Now, some of y'all won't shout with me,

but you wasn't with me when I was two seventy five. I was so

ready to take my shirt off. No, no, no, I'm just

serious. I was like, what we wearing today? Baby? I was

getting my bathing suits ready. I wanted to color coordinate. I want you

wearing Pinsa today. I were Pensa Dad. I was. But what I

realized is my comfort on the beach from the cutting in the gym. Your

comfort comes from a place of cutting. You want comfort in your marriage,

go get that cutting and counseling. You want cutting in you want comfort in

your finances? How many people would love for their finances to be more comfortable.

Come on, okay, y'all, come on, cut the budget.

Everybody wants comfort, nobody wants cutting. But the cut. Watch this gives

you the edge. And this haircut by the end of this service, by

the faith and crazy faith of God, will be sharp. Because what he's

doing to me right now, she's cutting me, the little micro cuts,

over and over and over and over and over again. But what he's doing

right now is shaping me into the image of what he sees for me,

because I can't see it for myself. And most people want to cut themselves.

And I'm not talking about in a dangerous way, because I know that

people have dealt with that lie of the enemy that tells you that you're better

not here. And I come to rebuke that right now, and I say

that you will live and not die. I understand that life. I understand

that depression and that despair, but I know there's hope for you. What

I'm telling you right now is that most people want to get in the mirror

with the shavers of life and try to cut the areas of their life they

can't see. Has anybody ever had a bad haircut before? Now? When

you see a kid, what about haircut? It's kind of expected most of

the time. It's all Look at little Jimmy, god dog Ooh, his

mama wanted to save fifteen dollars and so shit put a bowl around his head.

And y'all remember them chili bowl cuts? Like just and Jimmy walk out

like, bro, what happened to you my mama? Bros, you just

Jimmy. Don't mess with Jimmy with the chili bowl. He'll fight you.

And then you try to put a part in it. The part is the

size of the Red Sea splitting. It's just But what kids, you understand

it? The thing I cannot get is grown men that really really won't humble

themself enough to let somebody else cut their hair. And I know you're trying

to save money, and I appreciate that, but your haircut makes you look

incompetent. I'm gonna tell you why you don't have a woman. No,

okay, ladies, back me up. When you see a dude in his

head, do not look like he care you start judging now. I'm being

very superspicial at this current moment, but I want you to see the point.

A bad haircut, especially one that somebody does to theyself, comes from

somebody who is not humble enough to submit to the vision of someone else.

I have no idea what he's doing to my head. I have no idea

what guard he has on. I have no idea if he's feeling fruity and

wants to cut Spider Man in the back of my head. I have no

idea. But I trust him. I've sat in this chair so many times.

I've set at dining room tables. He learned how to cut hair cutting

me and my brothers and my parents lunge. So when I'm on this platform

getting my hair cut in front of hundreds of thousands of people, I am

calm because I've been here before. I trust him. When it comes to

your spiritual life, have you been with God long enough that you will trust

his cut? He'll trust you when he tells you not that friend. I

know that will be a come up for your social media, but they not

for you. Well, God, we love all the same things, and

Lord, if you just gave me can not them. Well, God,

I feel what you're saying. But I'm still around these other people. So

if you really want me not to be around them, then you will remove

them from my life. He said, no, I won't. I'll let

you have what you want, Go ahead, have it. I'll just be

here when what I try to protect you from actually really cuts you. See,

the God that we serve as a master surgeon. The Bible tells us

that his words can cut through bone and marrow. And so today all I'm

trying to ask this church to do. If you want fresh fruit, you

need a fresh cut. Look at Hebrews twelve six, For the Lord disciplines

and corrects and cuts those whom he loves. God, do you love me?

Yes? I do. Sit still and let me cut you. Have

you ever thought about God's love like that? Because most of us want God's

love to be a big hug. Comfort me, Lord, cuddle me,

Lord, hug me. Jesus, No, come on, and God says,

I love you so much that I'm about to cut you. Stay still,

stop talking, don't move. This is gonna hurt just a little bit.

But I promise you I've been cut worse than this, and I went

through every cut that you would ever have to go through, so that you

could know that with me, you're gonna make it out on the other side,

he said. The Lord disciplines corrects those who he loves, and he

prunes every son whom he receives, or he punishes every son who he receives

and welcomes to his heart. Verse seven, it says you must watch this

submit to correction for the purpose of discipline. God is dealing with you as

one of his sons. For what son is there whom his father does not

discipline. Now, if you are exhipt from correction and without discipline in which

all of God's children share, then you are an illegitimate child and not a

son at all. Moreover, we have had earthly fathers who disciplined us,

and we submitted and respected them for training us. Shall we not much more

willingly submit to the Father of spirits and live by learning from his discipline.

For our earthly fathers discipline us for only a short time as seemed best to

them. But He disciplines us for our good so that we may share His

holiness for the time being. No discipline brings joy, but seems sad and

painful. Yet to those who have been trained by it afterwards, it yields

the peaceful fruit of righteousness, right standing with God, and a lifestyle and

attitude that sinks seeks God, informity to God's will and purpose. If you're

not submitting to the cut, you will not be able to produce more fruit.

So pastor Mike, very plainly, what is the cut of God?

Very simple? See U t correcting? If you're getting cut by God,

He's correcting you like Aaron is correcting the sweat that is coming. Oh dang,

call in my mouth. Sometimes when God is correcting you, it feels

like, dang, could you? Could you not do it a different way?

Has anybody God ever done something and you'd be like, but this was

the way you had to do it? But but but but here what we

just heard that when God's correcting you, it's because he loves you. I

want to bring back to every person in this room the idea that God's correction

is God's love. So when God tells you no more sleeping with them passor

you said that in church, you're doing it at your house. When God

says, stop spending money on that brand. When God says, join the

church, Well, God, I was hurt in my lab's church. He

said, I'm about to correct some things, but you have to submit to

my corrections. Watch this, and this is the big thing. If God

is not correcting, you be concerned any area of my life where I'll be

like, every area of my life is good and God ain't got nothing else

to do, I'd be like, oh, oh, either I'm not listening

or he stops speaking. And the church needs to be awakened to the fact

that as long as we are in this Christian walk, there will be something

that God is trying to get off of us. Okay, so hear me,

And I know a lot of y'all used to be running around, jumping

around and doing all the other stuff, and you're like, man, this

is different just watching him sit there. I Am not gonna walk around all

week looking crazy because I wasn't still enough to be in the place that I

needed to be to get cut on. And the crazy thing about a correcting

cut. Many time God uses other people to correct us, and you would

be fine if it was God Almighty. The big men ups there are gonna

correct me. You know how to get my attention. And he sent you

a wife mm hmmm, mm hmmm, and he gave you kids. You

okay, buddy, you're good. Right there? Do I need to do?

I need to stop for a second, because you know you're on the

front part. Good, You're good, You're good. Okay, I'm gonna

just take a second. I'm gonna pause for the calls. All right,

Oh hold on you cake, okay, Oh you're good. You said no,

no, no, no, go back, go back to that,

go back. I'm just gonna they're gonna have to wait. Now. We

saying wait on the Lord, and I told him to cut an area,

and as soon as he started, I moved, no, no, no,

no, I'll wait on you. I'll wait on you. I'll wait

on you. I'll wait on you. Alcohol. This is how a lot

of our Christian life looks. That God has you in a position. He's

trying to cut on you, he's trying to do something. And every time

and then you start doing stuff like this, what if you kind of like

like what if let me. No, no, no, no, what

if you kind of like turn it on? No? No. You know

why God doesn't turn on a lot of the blessings. It's because your hand

is still on it. It's because you trying to direct where it's going.

He said, this will hurt you too much if I turn this something right

now, if I turn on the favor, if I turn on the blessing,

if I turn it on, I need you to sit so as I

sit here, I'm letting somebody else cut me. God doesn't give me haircuts

Aaron does. Many times. God does not speak to me about my attitude.

Natalie does. Y'all are missing it. Many times. God doesn't directly

speak to me about my inconsistencies. Bella, Ava, MJ and Jia do.

And he's using people to correct you, and you won't listen because they

ain't lived this life like I have. I'm the bread in one of it.

As health grown man. You can't joo yourll You can't judo your old

dog, new prith. Come on, Think of all of the colloquialisms we

say. But Proverbs twenty seven six sys faithful are the wounds are the cuts

of a friend who corrects out of love and concern. But the kisses of

an enemy are deceitful because they serve his hidden agenda. Some of y'all are

being killed by kisses. And God's saying, you need to desire for me

to cut on you again, because when I cut you, it means I

love you. So the seed in God cutting stands for everybody say correcting.

The U stands for watch this one unveiling. When I come to the barber

shop, it's one of the most vulnerable positions all men know. When somebody

starts washing and touching on your head and shampooing and cutting, you just start

telling business. And ladies, we already know what y'all be doing in there.

If they coloring, don't let you be getting a color and a layering

and all the other stuff that's happening. Y'all just be telling all your business.

God said, why would you tell a person that's cutting your hair all

your business? And you won't tell me everything that's going on. I know

it anyway, but you won't bring it to me. And when God starts

cutting on you, he wants there to be a watch this an unveiling.

The reason that I use this word unveiling is because there was an unveiling that

happened through what Jesus did for all of us. In Matthew twenty seven,

verse fifty, it says, then Jesus shouted again, and he released his

spirit. At that moment, the curtain in the sanctuary of the temple was

torn into. He tore the veil from the top to the bottom. The

earth shook, and the rock split apart. When Jesus Christ went to the

cross died for us rose again. What he did is he tore the veil

between man and God. What are you saying, Pastor Mike. He said

that there has to be no separation between us. So if he did that,

work for the veil or the cover or the separation to be torn.

He said, if you ever put anything up between us again, I'm gonna

cut it. Put success between me and you, I'm gonna cut it.

Put your family between me and you. I'm going to cut anything. I'm

telling you. This is why the Bible tells us. He said, don't

make anything else in idol, don't serve any other gods before me. It

doesn't say any other gods won't be there. He said, there's other things

that you will value. But if they're before me, they come between us.

I'm cutting it, he said. I tore the veil once, and

I'll cut all the other ones. Is there anything in your life that has

become a curtain between you and God? I can't answer it for you.

But if God starts cutting you, he's gonna start doing it first with correcting

you, and the second thing he's gonna do is start unveiling things. Do

not be surprised for the rest of twenty twenty four. When God starts to

pull the curtain back on stuff. You sitting next to people who you don't

know who they really are, and you have two choices. You either move

the curtain or you let him cut it. And some of y'all he's been

walking up with sis as they're saying, please just expose yourself. Please just

tell your wife the truth, Please just tell your tell the company you've been

stealing. Just go to the because when he cuts it, it's gonna expose

whatever is back there. I'm telling you right now, that's why ministries and

pastors and different things are falling at a rate that is like what in the

world. It's because God's been telling you he does it all the time.

He tries to deal with people he loves in private. But if you won't

cut it, if you won't remove the veil, if you won't take this

addiction and this habit and this thing away that is between us, he said,

I'll cut it up until you have nothing but me. So you want

God to begin to cut on you. The sea stands for correcting, the

youth stands for unveiling. Last one, what is the cut of God?

It's testing. When God begins to cut on you, he's testing you.

Every time me and Aaron do this every Sunday morning, it's a test of

our friendship because I'll be preparing my sermons. And the reason he can do

this is because I've done this several times before. I've been excited about a

point and he's got a razor on my chair, like bro that it's gonna

be a good point right there. And every time I do it. The

reason that it was a reflex for him is because he's been tested in this

area and so have I. God says, I'm gonna cut you, but

it's not for you to be terrified. I'm just testing. Watch do you

really trust me? And Proverbs three five six says trust in the Lord with

all your heart. Do not depend on your own understanding. Seek His will

in all you do, and he will show you which path to take.

The Holy Spirit has been over and over he said, Michael, I'm about

to cut you. I'm about to expose some things. I'm about to I'm

about to I'm about to correct you in a couple areas. I'm about to

do this, And this is all he says to me. Do you trust

me? And I'm coming to this body of believers today and I'm asking you

do you trust God? Do you trust them with your life? Do you

trust them with your family? Do you trust them? Watch this with your

purpose? Do you trust them? Mm hmmm. Sometimes you got to shut

up mm hmmm, mm hmmm, mm hmmmm mm hmmm, mm hmmm,

hm m mmmmmmmm. Y'all mm hmmm mm hmmm, and take of mm have

you way, have your way, whatever you want to do, whatever you

want to do, have your way. I'm not telling him what area to

work on. When he just went from my edge up to my mouth,

to the back of my head, I could say, bro, just do

the mouth, then do the bad, then do the ed. You doing

my eyebrows. You use use best. So I'm not telling you because he

sees what I don't see. And when you don't trust God, what you're

saying is I see it better than you see it. Tassor Mike, why

is this so important? Because I just want you to realize that we are

going to produce more fruit this year. I'm gonna say it one more time.

We are gonna produce some more fruit this year. Okay, But that

means there may be a fresh cut. That's okay. It's fine to make

people wait while you get cut in an area that's sensitive. It's for your

family when you're gonna have kids. He's cutting on me. Well, I

thought you would be a millionaire. I thought i'd be able to retire.

You should have picked a better career. Dad. You waiting on me to

hit the lottery. You need a second job. It's okay. And when

God gives you seasons where he's not working on you, it doesn't mean he's

not finished. Don't focus on the pain of the cut, but focus on

the promise of the cut. At the end of every good haircut, there's

there's alcohol. Now. I don't know if women go through this. I

don't think y'all go through this. Do y'all go through this hot water?

Okay? No, Then the white lady is like alcohol. What my MoU

says, what, no, no, no, But when. But when

you're getting an edge up like this, there's a bunch of many microcuts that

are happening, and there might be some blood. It might cut me to

the point where it causes something that's inside of me to come out of me.

And what happens with the barber is at the end of the haircut,

he takes alcohol and he says, get ready, because every man knows it's

gonna be spicy, and he hits in and if he's a good barber,

he might blow on or might have a fan, or might have something.

And them gangster barbers, they just let it sizzle. They just like see

it. If your haircut is twenty five dollars or less, they gonna let

it sizzle. These days, they just throw it on there and laugh at

you. Yeah, yeah, do the whole thing, bro go for it.

But if God allows the alcohol, the cleansing, the purifying of the

cuts to burn a little bit, know that it's so nothing gets infected.

The reason why some of the relationships have gone bad is because you didn't let

him cleanse them. The reason why that business partner didn't work out is because

you didn't let him cleanse them. So how do I embrace the cut?

One word? This is our takeaway? Surrender this entire service. I have

had to surrender to a seat to receive the cut that I needed, and

most of us have not surrendered. I got too many people. How'd you

meet a surrender? I got too much potential to surrender? Do you know

what I could do with all the things that God's given me? And God's

saying surrender? What's another word for surrender? Pastor? Mike? Sit down?

What's another word for sit down? Pastor Mike? Stay steel? What's

another word for stay steel? Write this one down? Abide? John fifteen

to five goes on and says, yes, I am the true vine,

and you are the branches. Those who remain in me and I am them

will produce much fruit. For apart from me, you can do nothing.

And another translation, it says, those who abide in me, some of

y'all have been moving too much for God to cut where he needs to and

it not kill you. And God saying, would you just stay still.

Would you just plant in a church? Would you just actually continue to go

to the B group? Would you actually submit to counseling? Would you actually

do that? Would you actually just stay still in a place long enough till

I can do this surgery on you. And some of y'all are like,

what is he doing right now? This is what in the barber world they

call enhancements. See when you get a master barbera and they can see what

you don't see, they can fill in the holes in the gaps the areas

y'all be like Dang Brow's and Mike Beer be so nice that ain't me?

That's the grace of God. Hear what I'm saying to you. It presents

me in a way that my own effort could not present. It gives me

the ability to be able to have the appear heparance of what's not really mine.

It kind of sounds like salvation. It kind of sounds like any man

that being Christ, he is a new creation. So when the debt comes

up for all the sin that I made, I get the enhancement of Jesus

Christ being the one that stands in front of me and fills in every gap,

every hole every area that my hair could not grow, every area that

my life could not produce. He does not look at me, but he

looks at Jesus. And so for every patchy place of my life, I

get the enhancement of the Holy Spirit. I'll preach this thing right now.

And some of you are like, that's fake, that's favor. Hey,

and every woman judging me, shut up dying your hair and dying your roots.

Don't do me. Oh, I don't do that. You wear wigs,

okay, whatever, nom just you got to your CLIPI ins and all.

Come on, I know, white ladies, CLIPI ins, I know,

I know. Come on. All of us at some time need favor.

We don't deserve need somebody to cover us when we don't actually have the

ability to do it ourselves. What is it gonna take for us to surrender

courage? Today? I want to pray for everybody to have courage. Now,

listen, everybody that's under the sound of my voice right now. I

know some of y'all are saying, Pastor mic God's gonna cut me. Can

he just do it in the areas that you know what I'm saying that you

know, aren't that serious? Can he just do it in the areas you

know what I'm saying? Like like that, that seemed comfortable. Some of

these areas I've been growing too. Hey, Maxwell, come here real quick.

Put on Instagram earlier this week, I said, does anybody want to

cut their dreads off? What's up? Dog? You goot? How long

you been growing them dreads? Six years? Six years of consistency of growing

something that God may ask are you okay with letting that go? Now?

Now? This is how people know you. This is your style, this

is your swag, this is your watch, this identity when people describe you

know, the tall, handsome dude with the dreads. What if God wants

to cut an area that people describe you by? Now, are you willing

to not be who you've been to become who God's created you to be.

That's good preaching right there, And most of you are so committed to the

identity of the season you've been in that you will not embrace the cut so

you can have a brand new identity. Hey, Aaron, I'm gonna I'm

gonna give I'm gonna give my men this cheer because sometimes you're gonna need courage

and you're gonna need people around you. Did you okay this with your wife?

Okay, okay, because I don't need Mary mad at me? Mary?

Are you good? Put it on him? You got some We need

some scissors, Give me some scis. You got some sheers. Somebody give

me some scissors. You got the shears, you got the thing? They

didn't bring it in the pack. Scott took them. Scott, go get

some scissors. We don't mind waging what what I'm what I'm saying to you

is and sometimes that's how God will do you. He'll put you in a

chair and he be like, just wait on me. What what like?

I gotta just wait on you. In my hands this is dangerous, but

in a master's hands, just just don't do them all at the same time.

What you I don't let mean, I've never done this before. You

could do this? What you what you think he actually said he wants it

this? You can? You cool? Six years, a lot of intentionality,

a lot of building your life around something, a lot of rubber bands,

a lot of hot summers and a lot of warm winters. But this

is what some people would call freedom. Would you be willing to get cut

by God for him to place give me your hand, freedom in your hand.

Hear what I'm saying to you. Somebody said he looks good. God's

not even finished with him yet. Hear what I'm saying. I know this

is a long analogy, and we set here this whole time, and I

got a fresh cut, and he got a fresh cut. Will you?

Will you let God cut areas of your life that you have grown accustomed to?

Will you make this the place that God's done working on you? Standing

all over this building? Keep going. Don't leave my man like that.

Just keep going with you. It can be after church. We'll just yeah,

keep that. We ain't gonna leave you like that, and neither will

God. If there's an area of your life, watch this before everybody rushes

out, Please don't miss this moment. If there is an area of your

life that you know that you're gonna need courage to stay steel for God to

do the cutting. I need you to lift both of your hands right now.

Okay, we're in the right building. I'm gonna pray for courage for

you today and everybody under the sound of my voice. I believe that there

is gonna be a supernatural There's gonna be a supernatural strength. Watch this to

stay still. Everybody talks about the strength to fight, but I'm talking about

the strength to stay still, the strength to make it through. I'm talking

about the strength to let God do what only he can do and be still.

Father, I pray for every person under the sound of my voice that

today, as you begin to identify areas that you want to correct them in,

unveil things in, and even test them in. I thank you that

today, as a church, we will embrace the cutting, because when you

cut, you cut from love. And today, Father God, you desire

for us to produce more fruit. But God, we don't get more fruit

and fresh fruit without a fresh cut. So, Father, today we are

saying we are submitted to your hand, not the hand of our friends and

our family. But God, you are the one that can actually cut us

and it doesn't kill us. You're the one that can cut us and it

cultivates us, it brings us into more fruit. But Father, can we

be honest? We need courage today for every person, Father, who you

are placing on their heart and area that they need to let you begin to

do surgery today, Father God, who will would you give them the courage

that you gave Joshua, be strong and courageous. Would you give them the

courage you gave Abraham? Would you give them the courage you gave Moses?

Would you give them the courage Father you gave Bishop Gary and Pasta Debbi.

Would you give us the courage, Father God, that you gave Daniel in

the Lions? Then would you give us the same courage that Jesus had to

go to the cross spirit that was in him and that raised him from the

dead, you said, and your word is in us. So today we

believe that you have made us courageous enough to embrace the cut. And when

you do it, we won't run from you. And when you do it,

we won't hide. And when we do it, we won't stand and

curse you. We'll say thank you. Thank you for seeing me enough.

Thank you for caring enough. Thank you for calling me son and daughter.

Thank you for loving me enough, Father to cut away the things to prune

me so that in the next season I will produce much more fruit. Today,

thank you that fruit is going to be the proof of our relationship with

you, and our marriage and our families and our businesses, and the way

we love and the way we forgive and the way we get angry, Father,

let there be fruit. Cut what you gotta cut. There's a sweet

presence in this room because I found that any surgery that you've ever been in,

they tell you to stay still. There's some surgeries that are so deep

and so important that they strap you down because your movement not the cut,

but your movement could cause you. And I don't know who this is for,

but there's some planting that needs to go on in your life. Some

of y'all need to put down roots in places long enough for God to do

the work. Some of you coming to church every Sunday. God is saying,

don't miss. For some of you, it's getting in small groups.

For some of you, it's going to counseling. For some of you,

it's getting in a place where you can actually be honest about what you're going

on. But I'm hearing the Holy Spirit say get there and stay there.

I feel this so strong. Get there, and some of y'all need to

move, and the others of you need to stay. You was about to

go somewhere and God said that ain't anything. You need to stay where I

placed you. Because this next season is about the cutting. Stay still,

and no, hold on, ain't that a scripture? Be still and know

that God. I don't know what you're gonna do, but know that I'm

God. I see it from a different perspective. Your life is not over.

I'm just transforming you in this season. Why I'm I supposed to be

done with college. All my friends are doing with I'm not done with you.

I'm cutting on you and God. Today as a church, we said,

I toned mind waiting, I don't mind way, Hey, I tone

mind way, eating on you, Lord, do what you want to do.

I tone my way, I don't mind way, I don't mine on

you. At Transformation Church, real quick, I just want to let everybody

know we don't we don't care that people are getting cut around us. This

is not a big deal for us. We're in the business of transformation.

So when people aren't getting cut around us, that's the weird thing. When

when when our staff, our team, this thing we getting cut on all

the time? Why because we want more fruit. And I just want to

let you know that if you come in here and every week you have the

altar and you're in the right place, because this is the cutting place,

let him do the work. If you're in this room and you've never accepted

Jesus, the one who is the gardener. Today, I want to give

you the opportunity to accept. I feel the presence of God in this place.

I feel that some people right now, the thing that you've been fighting,

God is about to start doing a beautiful work this time next year,

mark my words, the fruit. Because you allowed God to do the cutting.

It's going to feed generations beyond what you didn't even think was there.

If you've never accepted Jesus, I feel the presence of God so strong in

this place. If you never accepted Him in your whole life, today is

your day invite the gardener into your life. I need transformation church. Who

knows what's about to happen. I need you to start praying because right now

eternity is in the balance. And I want to be specific. There's some

of y'all who have known God and accepted Him in your heart, but you

have not let him be Lord. Every time he tries to cut on you,

you run away from him. And today is the day that you are

gonna repent and rededicate your life to him. You hear me, and you're

in this place and you've been saying, God, I need a sign.

Here is your sign. It's watermelon pink today, and I am coming to

tell you that God said, let me do what I want to do in

your life. Stop going after the career that is not working. I strut

that door on purpose so that you would come back to me. If that's

you on the counter of three, I want you to just lift your hand.

If you're watching online Transformation Nation, there is no distance in what's happening.

The Holy Spirit is there right with you, and he's been drawing you

all week to this moment. Today is the day of salvation. If you

are in this room or you are watching online on the counter of three,

if you want to make Jesus Christ your personal Lord and savior. The one

who kept cutting on me, that took me from a liar, a manipulator,

somebody who was addicted to pornography, had all kinds of bad things in

my mind, my heart, and in my actions. I was a bad

trying to produce good fruit. And God said, let me replant you.

Let me put some new seeds on the inside of you, and he changed

me from the inside out. Today is your day of salvation, young person,

hear me. I don't care what mom and Daddy are doing. God's

hand is on your life. You don't have to be a hypocrite. You

don't have to live a double life. You don't have to struggle financially with

that. But how do you get that you find the one who created you?

Today? I want to offer you Jesus. One, you're making the

greatest decision of your life. Two. I'm proud of you. But more

than that, your eternity is secure and your name is gonna be written in

the Lamb's Book of Life all over this building and all over the world.

If you want to accept Jesus. Three, lift your hand up all over

this room. I see you. I see you right here. I see

you. I see you. Oh, come on, Transformation Church, I

see you. Man of God. I see you, I see you,

Woman of God. And more than that, God sees you. Can we

give God some praise in this room? Why do we rejoice? Why do

we celebrate? Because we know what happens when Jesus comes in. He doesn't

make everything perfect. He makes everything partnership. So everything you would walk with

and have to carry alone, He says, let me take the heavy load

of that because my burden is easy and my yok is life. Can we

pray altogether? Transformation Church. We're a big family. Everybody nobody prays alone.

Lift your hands and say God, thank you for sending Jesus just for

me today. I admit that I am a sinner, and I repent and

turn to you. I believe you lived, you die and rose again just

for me. Change me, renew me, transform me, cut me.

I'm yours in Jesus name. Amen. If you just pray that prayer,

Transformation Church is turning up right now. We love you and we believe the

best of God for you. Come on, Let's give God a shout of

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