Suffering the Grape

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The only think that he made an accident by making you,

and don't think he made an accident by keeping you alive.

We are no good being overly comfortable. And there are

too many people on this earth, including Christians, whose desire

and goal in life is to live a more comfortable life.

There is a purpose for suffering. There is a purpose

for stress, and a purpose for struggle. I want all

of us here to remember that God is after the

best wine. He is the vine dresser, and he knows

exactly how to get the best out of us suffering

the great Can I tell you a story suffering the grape?

This is not my story, is a story I just read.

What does this mean? Suffering the grape? The owner, the

owner of a vineyard in Nepal valley walks down an

aisle of grapes.

You know when they have the vina is ile. He

just walked down the aisle, and walk down the aisle,

and walk down an aisle. So he was walking down

the ale, one of the isles of grapes.

He was teaching his new farm hand about how to

grow grapes to produce the best wine. While walking with

the owner down the row of grapes, the farm hand,

the new farm hand says, the soil is very dry.

He noticed the soil is very dry. The owner said,

I want you to get this. The owner said, you

want to limit the irrigation. You want to limit the irrigation.

Why it makes the vine struggle. It intensifies the flavor.

A comfortable grape, like a comfortable Christian, grows into a

lazy ingredient of a lousy wine. However, you know that

you are all called to new wine. New wine. In

new wine's skin, a lazy grape is a comfortable grape

that has no pressure, no struggle, no pain, no stress.

So this owner of this vineyard who is from America,

neighbor valley, he is from America, but you know his

story in the nineteen seventies and nineteen eighties, because this

man discovered that when you could just cause the grape

to struggle just a little bit, it will dig down

deep into the recesses and the resources of itself to

produce a flavor that will not be released until it struggles.

And listen to nineteen eighty at least for ten years,

this owner of this vineyard in America beat all the

French producers. So every year, without failure, it is a

French wine that wins the best wine in the world.

This man discovered something about the nature of the vine.

How many of you know. The Bible also says in

John fifteen that Jesus is the vine, the Father is

the vine dresser, and we are the branches inmen. So

the Bible speaks about us as grapes, as you know,

being part of the vine, and God is the vine dresser.

So the owner knows the nature of grapes. He knows

our nature, and he knows that we are no good

being overly comfortable, and that too many people on this earth,

including Christians, whose desire and goal in life is to

live a more comfortable life. And I tell you ask

those people who are retired and doing nothing, that's when

they start dying. So I want to encourage all of

you that there is a purpose for suffering. There is

a purpose for stress and a purpose for struggle. I

want all of us here to remember that God is

after the best wine. He is the wne dresser, and

he knows exactly how to get the best out of us,

and it's not when we are sitting in front of

the TV in our lazy chair. That's not the best

that will come out of us. Can I hear a

good amen? If you believe it? So, he wants for

ten years best wine beating all the French wine. As

a result, American Wine says, this story appeared on the

global scene. A subtle difference, says this story between the

grapes of award winning wine. How many of you know

that God wants everyone in this room to be award winning.

God wants all of you to be the best version

of yourself. Amen, we can do better. I'm telling you

right now. I sometimes ask God, why do you allow

this injury by in the last six months my quiet

time has been richer and all the last thirty five

forty years of following Jesus. It is in pain that

we get our best messages. You know that you understand

that something is produced that is not released in any

other circumstance. The subtle difference is not a big difference

between the French wine and between this new wine that

came out from America that worn every year for ten years.

There's not a huge difference. There was just this little

bit cutting edge, subtle difference that only the top wine tastes. Know.

I wonder when God tastes you, that's your father, your creators.

It missing something. Uh, he's missing something, and he continues

to give you life to live so that you can

a lot of you. I don't know if you are ready,

fifty five, seventy five, I don't know what your age now.

Then you think that, oh, God just keeping me because

you know he has no room in heaven. Hello, Hello,

you think he's a god that you know does anything

by accident because he's tasting you. Go yet, and then

we'll give you this guy five more years, and he

had five years. I'm gonna want to draw out something

from him that I know he is destined for. I

know he was made for more than this. Hope he tastes. Yeah,

I hope he doesn't do that, Okay, Kenneth, Yeah, even

with your broken leg, there's more, that's what. In fact,

only your broken leg can bring this two and a

half months. Not in our way, God, No, I'll give

you six months. Only God knows no, because some people

get hug one day. So we'll get here one year

what has got after the only thing that he made

an accident by making you, And don't think he made

an accident by keeping you alive. There is something about your

life that is really, really special. Top Great Wine.

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