Mark 11 - "Show Me Some Signs"

So we get an up to a possible shower on

the morning. Hallelujah, hallelujah. I will not be before you long.

If you'll go to your bibles. Mark chapter eleven, and

God has.

A funny sense of humor. He is sneaking. He that

has a fear of God is good and call Elujah.

I also want to say link you to my sister,

Elder Nikki Clarking this morning.

Sport to support.

Me a man. Mark chapter eleven, verses twelve through fourteen,

and it says on tomorrow when they will come from Bethany.

He was home.

And seeing a fig tree on far off, having leaves,

he came if happily he might find anything thereon.

And when he came to it, he found.

Nothing but leaves, for the time of figs was not yet.

And Jesus answered and said, unto.

It, no man eats fruits of thee hereafter forever.

And his disciples heard it.

God, we thank you for the opportunity. We thank you

for the because you are great, you are mighty. I

thank you God, because you have given me this word God,

and I pray that I will deliver it as you

have given to me.

I pray on this morning, God, that your word will

not return back to you, Lord.

But it shall accomplish that which you have said it

to do. And it said Jesus same betrayed a man.

As you take your seat, can you look at a

neighbor and say, neighbor, show me some signs.

Then I struggled because I have actually two topics.

The other one if you'll turn to another neighbor and say, neighbor,

God has need of you. So have you ever met

someone who catches your eye? Their outward appearance is what

draws them to you, or what drew you to them.

Ladies, we know we have what we like in our men.

He may be taller, dark and handsome and got a

salt and pepper beard.

Me and you know what you like.

She has all the right curves in all the right places.

Some of us are caught up even now because we

have allowed our eyes to draw us into things that

God said is not even good for us. It is

that we're supposed to not just look at the outward appearance.

Of people, but we are to check their hearts.

It it's not until later that we realize that what

we saw initially is not what we're really getting touch

your neighbor again and say, neighbor, show me some signs.

So you might not have connected with looking at a boom,

But what about this one. Have you ever saw the

memes on Facebook or Instagram and they have two pictures

of what they have thought they was ordering of wish

or te move, and then what they actually got It

was an actuality false advertisement because what they got did

not look like what it said.

Or have you ever cause my mom was infamous for this.

She would be home watching TV during the day and

I would at a phone call saying, can you stop

at such and such restaurant because I saw a commercial

on TV and that.

Food just looks so good.

But have you ever experienced what you saw on the

TV did not match what you've got when you order

it from the restaurant. Or how about, Minister Howard, if

you ever tried to cook a new recipe that you

saw on TikTok or Instagram and you do everything like

the recipe says, but your cake still comes out lopsided,

your icyd won't go on the right way. What you

saw did not appear when you did it. We have

all experienced some type of encounter, whether with a person,

whether buying something or trying to make something on our own,

and the end result does it match what we saw initially.

This reminds me of the story of David.

In First Samuel sixteen, God has commissioned Samuel to go

to Jesse's house because one of Jesse's sons we'll.

Be the next king.

When Samuel gets there, Jesse brings out his oldest son, Eliab,

and Samuel gets excited because Eliab looks like he should

be the king.

But God had to correct Samuel and say.

Samuel, man looks at the outward appearments, but God checks

their hearts. This is where we are with Jesus. In

our text. He is in passion week. This is the

week before he has set to be crucified, and the

Bible says that Jesus is traveling from town to town

and as he is traveling, say.

Jesus was home gry. Jesus was hongry.

I'm gonna put a pin right there, because I come

to tell you that because Jesus was hongry, that means

he had a need just like today. We're gonna put

it in twenty first century terms. He has a need

for us as a body of Christ. God says, it

does not matter if you've been in the body of

Christ for two months, two years, or twenty years. He

has a need for you. Well, some people I can

reach Minnester Isaac.

May not be able to reach.

But some people Minnesoter Isaac can reach you I may

not be able to reach.

The only thing that God wants from.

Us is that we are willing and that we are obilience,

that we are willing.

Up, and that we are at BEU.

You don't gotta have everything from aida z. You don't

gotta have your life perfect. You don't need to be

ashamed of what you've been through. You don't need to

be ashamed of what you're going through.

Now, God says, I have need of you. Will you

satisfy my needs? Will you allow me to use.

You for my glory? Y'all?

It reminds me of Baalim and the donkey in Numbers

twenty two. Baalim was being disobedient and not following what

God told him to do, and God used the donkey, y'all.

To get Blim back on track.

Ain't that something that God would take an animal to.

Correct a human being? Who does that?

But God It reminds me of Esther, a young orphaned

you who became queen because.

It was her set time, and because she became queen,

she saved her whole nation. What about ray Have in

Joshua chapter two, we all know the story of ray Have.

She was the harlet in our turns, we call her

the whole. That's who ray Ha was. She obeyed God.

She was Willina, and she was obedient. She hid the

spies so that they would not be killed.

And through her obedience, her whole bloodline was saved. Not

only was her bloodline saved, but it's through her lineage

that we have Jesus Christ.

So I come to tell you CCL. It does not matter.

What your being through, what you're going through. God says

I can use you. Touch your neighbor and say, neighbor,

God has need of you. Jesus sees the fig tree

from a distance, and the tree has bloomed.

Minister Howard is.

Full of those vibrant green leaves, and Jesus expects expectancy.

Jesus expects to see the fruit on the tree. Just

like in the story when Jesus comes to us and

says I have need of you. He expects to see

fruit on your tree.

Yah.

He expects for you to be productive. He expects for

you to be producing something.

Now.

He doesn't want you to have the look but you

are deceiving now.

He doesn't want you to be like the saying that

everything that glitter isn't gold.

So I had to do some research.

Lord, why would you come to this fig tree and

then not be producing?

It looks like it should be producing now it's full

of green leaves.

The only natural succession is there will be fruit on

the tree. So in my research shop I found three

reasons why there may be leaves full.

On the tree but there is no fruit.

First reason is in my research it says that there

would be too.

Much nitrogen in the fertilizer.

Nitrogen is what makes the leaves lush and green, but

it can burn the plant and the roots of the plants.

So how does that apply to us as a body

of Christ. Some of us are flashy the green leaves.

We look vibrant, We look like God can use us.

We have all the right words. We know how to

play pray the scriptures. We can pray heaven down.

We can articulate our sentences the right way. But we

have no power, lashy but not productive, lash between God,

no fruit. We can speak eloquently, but we don't have

any oil. We don't have any anointy, and we are

non effected by shout through the church on Sunday, and

then we're gossiping on Monday.

We're playing tongues.

On Sunday, and then we cuts it people out Monday

and Saturday.

Tout your neighbors a neighbor. Don't be flashy, not be

productive and Matthew twenty eight, twenty three, and twenty eight.

It says, we.

Outwardly appear righteous, but within us we're full of hypocrisy

and iniquity.

John seven and twenty four says.

Don't judge according to appearances, but judge with righteous judgement.

Second Timothy three and five says, having a form of

godliness but denying the power within.

We gotta have some fruits. You can't just.

Look the part, but we gotta be productive. For the

second reason that you.

May not to have fruit on your tree, it told

me that sometimes the tree is in survival mode. That

means you got too much water, you're not too little water.

So how does that apply to the church today?

Some of us super deep.

Nobody can talk to you and have a regular combination

about everything that is too deep. And that's some of

us are super fleshly. You ain't got no words.

You don't know how to frame me for. You don't

know how to talk me.

Off the legg If I need your help, you want

no help to me.

Somebody say balance, We need to be balanced.

It's not calling us to be perfect, but he's calling

us to be balanced.

So you can't be to the left or the right.

You gotta be in the middle of the road. That's

a balance in the world, but of the world.

There has to be a separation from.

The things of the world and the things of God.

How can we draw others to Christ? They don't see

Christ inside of us. How can we draw others to Christ?

And we're cussing and blessing that, and we're drinking and

dipping and we're doing everything cocept the world is to

touch a neighbor and safe Balancelleah Point number three, how

do you know you are blessy?

But John protected?

It says that the tree may be too long impture.

This has nothing to do with your age, but the

capacity to understand Some of us suffer are not developed spiritually.

Nobody can tell us anything because we know everything.

We know every.

Scripture in the Bible, but we ain't a pine nothing.

To our lives.

We can see the bean in my brother's eyes, but

I can't see the bean that's in my own eye.

We gotta grow up, like touch your neighbor and say neighbor, wow, up,

mother love. God is looking for us to bear fruit.

He's not impressed, Minnesota Howard, by our titles. As you

said so eloquently this morning, our titles make us entitled.

Just because I have pastor in front of my name,

that does not mean I can live any kind of way, y'all.

Just because I have pastor in front of my name

doesn't mean I can treat people any.

Kind of way, y'all.

Just because I have pastor in front of my name

doesn't mean I cannot show compassion.

To those who may need it to. God is not

impressed by our titles. He doesn't care about a title

if you don't have any fruit.

To show that you belong to him.

So what fruit is God looking for? Well, I'm glad

you act in galations. Fine the fruit of us spirit joy,

pea patience, goodness, faithfulness, gentlemen, self control?

Cont do you have that of the fruits? Do you

show loud when they're good? Lovable? Are you patience than

when they get on your marriage? Are you kind with

that man to you? Are you good they treat your fan?

That is the fruits? Thank God, it is.

Looking for Nothew says. Every good tree has good fruits, but.

A bad tree, there's bad fruits. And we will let's

be recognized by the fruit we bear.

Are you okay this morning?

I gotta give you what the Bible says. Matthew says,

reduce fruits that shows that we have changed shut our heart.

In our lives.

A vision says live their lives as children of lights.

Because of lights reduces fruits that consists of goodness, justice

and truth.

Psalm says we shall be like a tree planted by the.

Streams of the water, and we will bear fruits and

shame how.

For your corn in time handed said stare leave well

where the fuck the boy t Shaan fifteen and five sects.

I am the vine.

You are the branch that if you arrange it, and

I in you, if you will produce so much for

God is savine dress of Jesus is survine.

If you want to prod.

Scruit, you gotta have a relationship.

We have God on hid. You gotta have his hoy.

Spirit well in show on the inside. If you want

to be protective, you.

Gotta trust on.

If you want to be production, you've gotta leaves so your.

Own under sense. But you got to and knowed Hell

and he shot so want you.

If you want to produce group suck, you're gotta believe

the world.

God say I will perfect everything that concerns you.

If you want to produce glue the Bible, Sir, who

things work together, Gota you are all up a part.

If you want to produce him, stay connected, stay connection,

Stay connected, stay connected, stay contracted, they connected. Coact that

what is calling us?

Calling us and be protect No more lazynes, no unproductivity,

No more focusing on.

Your titles, because that means nothing if you have no proof.

We keep saying we are moving, and we see that

as only difficult, but God says it's spiritual to you.

We are moving.

No, it's not just moving to a new building nothing,

but God has taken us.

To another level. And again my food. So if I

want to get to that level, min and some play.

Come.

I gotta be comeing backed to the story Sid. That's

what I make my brute up better on my street.

Just tell your neighbors we are booby to another level. Ky,

that you can put your blessings together.

They give us boy on the market.

How that our group, God has taken us higher us.

This should needs our help. Apostle needs our help as

we move to our new buildings. Now we are.

Needed to fill in the camps. We are needed to

draw others in. The people that are gonna come to

the ministry. They need all of us. Nobody is excluded.

I don't care if you're the biggest center in here.

Nobody is excluded. God wants to use all of us.

Your testimony may deliver somebody else, but you have been

through may deliver somebody else.

He needs all of us in my study for the victory.

As I close, it says, a victory symbolizes fertility. That

means p'ssor smith that we have the ability to produce.

We are not infertiles.

We have the ability to be productive. But you've got

to lean on God's words. You gotta lean on God's word.

It says that the victory is used for healing. How

many of us know that your words may be what

somebody else needs.

Your praise may be.

What somebody else needs. Your dance may be what somebody

else needs. That's why you gotta be preductive.

Because a person saying next.

To you may not be able to get through because

they're bottle down. But if you are productive, but your

praise can second free.

It says that the victory represents peace. Suck. We should

be other people's peace. You should not be in the

midst of confusion. Every time your name comes up, you're.

In the middle of the chaos. That's unproductive. That's not

what God has called us to do. It says the

victory symbolizes prosperity. That means you should not have any

lack of in your life because we are connected to

your source, and says that the victory resembles faithfulness to God.

So if you are faithful to God, there is no

way in Minissa Howard that your tree should just be

leave if you are a faithful to what God is

instructing you to do. The last thing it said is

that it bearing prove it provided shade or covering, and

that it was an important source of nourishment. Just look

at your neighbor one more time and say, neighbor, show

me some signs. Look at another neighbor and say, neighbor,

show me some signs.

So whenever your connection your creator.

You have said the Covenant Church are not doing what

they're supposed to be doing it.

We're not gonna chop them down, and somehow we're gonna

behind them. You have to show some signs and be

productive for where God is moving us. A man, put your.

Hands together one more time, Holly Luca wos whom the

name God.

At the end of the story, it says, and Jesus

cursed the figure.

Oh my God, Ma, man, I don't want God to

curse me, so I gotta say.

Oh been, I gotta say, really, I may not want you.

It ain't not feel good. I was going to issue

this week, but I had to test my god.

Mama said, I just need prayer because the spirit of

depression tried to overtake me.

And that's what it means when you're producing fruits.

Who can't you call me when you can't crave you

yourself that they won't pray you, Jose, that's what you

say up like that.

Because I help the prayers and I have to remind

myself you're gonna get through this.

And this is a distraction because of what you sign.

It's gotta be connected to those who are productive.

Luvia, Glory to your name, how gloralty your n glory

your name, Glory your name, Glory.

To your name.

What you're connected to, it matters, It matters you are

connected to.

It matters how.

At the time, if we have anyone here that is

not saved and you want to be saved, will ask

you to come and join us in what the choet

song about, and you have access to everlasting life. But

when you join into the body of Price, Holly and Luvia,

will there be worn on this morning? The second call

is this is worth the body of price if you

were found yourself in the world. And it's not about titles,

because that's what God said this morning, because sometimes even

with the title, we don't do things the right way.

We don't live right, we don't talk right, we don't

do what we're supposed to do.

So it's not about titles.

But if you feel like you found yourself in the

worn and you want to say I want to be

connected to the source, or I want to be reconnected

to the source.

We invite you to come on this morning to be

reconnected to the source that you are productive.

But as we are moving into this next level, Morning, God,

will there be anyone