WEBVTT 00:00.071 --> 00:03.598 [SPEAKER_00]: Welcome back to the Discipleship series with me and Pastor Elwood. 00:03.999 --> 00:07.325 [SPEAKER_00]: Today we're going to be talking about faith without works is dead. 00:11.029 --> 00:16.154 [SPEAKER_00]: Now this is a very big subject because number one, you cannot get to heaven on your works. 00:16.615 --> 00:17.536 [SPEAKER_00]: And that's a good thing. 00:17.636 --> 00:20.279 [SPEAKER_00]: It's a good thing that we cannot earn our way to heaven. 00:20.339 --> 00:24.363 [SPEAKER_00]: It's a good thing that it's by our faith in Jesus Christ, that we get there. 00:24.863 --> 00:28.067 [SPEAKER_00]: But faith without works is dead and this is true. 00:28.527 --> 00:30.769 [SPEAKER_00]: If you love Jesus, you're going to want to work for him. 00:31.190 --> 00:33.112 [SPEAKER_00]: And so that's what we're going to talk about today. 00:33.412 --> 00:37.194 [SPEAKER_01]: Absolutely, you know, a lot of people think that you can get their own works, but you can't do it. 00:37.234 --> 00:41.896 [SPEAKER_01]: They think as long as they just show up at church or whatever and put their ties in or whatever. 00:42.796 --> 00:45.658 [SPEAKER_01]: They think that's all they have to do, but it's that box. 00:45.978 --> 00:51.560 [SPEAKER_01]: Exactly, absolutely, but they cannot get there by works only. 00:51.981 --> 00:57.083 [SPEAKER_01]: And no matter what they do, no matter how many churches they build or no matter what they do to build on it. 00:57.483 --> 01:13.119 [SPEAKER_01]: They're not going to get there by the word no, it's absolutely not and so if you've got if you've got faith Then work will follow and if you've got words faith will follow They go hand in hand and you can't separate them whatsoever and make it to heaven, but anyway 01:13.639 --> 01:26.984 [SPEAKER_00]: You know, it's a blessing the way that Jesus set it up because if you could work to get to heaven, all the CEOs in the world, they would be the ones going, it would be the wealthy people, the ones that want to claw their ways to the top. 01:27.425 --> 01:30.706 [SPEAKER_00]: It would be those kind of people that would get in heaven and not the others. 01:31.146 --> 01:38.830 [SPEAKER_00]: and the Bible speaks specifically to so many times that it shows us that is the beggar is the one you remember the parable of the rich man and the beggar. 01:39.210 --> 01:44.172 [SPEAKER_00]: You know it is not it is not that your money or your status or anything like that that's going to get you to heaven. 01:44.612 --> 01:52.316 [SPEAKER_00]: And like Pastera would just said you cannot build enough churches or go to church every Sunday and expect that to get you in the heaven. 01:52.716 --> 01:55.417 [SPEAKER_00]: And you know it's very sad because there are a lot of people that's seeing it 01:55.657 --> 01:55.837 [SPEAKER_00]: way. 01:55.917 --> 02:02.058 [SPEAKER_00]: There's a lot of people that think, oh, well, I guess I just got to work to earn my way there, but you cannot earn your way to heaven. 02:02.298 --> 02:13.560 [SPEAKER_00]: It is through grace, the grace and the faith of Jesus Christ, that you have faith in him, that he did as he said he did, that he died, that he rose, that he defeated death, and that he did it for you. 02:14.200 --> 02:23.042 [SPEAKER_00]: And so those, you know, I think that it's so important to to understand that faith without works is dead, though, because if you love him and if you have faith, 02:25.282 --> 02:25.803 [SPEAKER_01]: Absolutely. 02:25.823 --> 02:35.731 [SPEAKER_01]: You know, like I said, face without works is dead and you know, it's a gift of God through grace, through faith that you are saved. 02:36.011 --> 02:37.172 [SPEAKER_01]: And then that's just a start. 02:38.113 --> 02:41.196 [SPEAKER_01]: Once you get saved, that's just a start of your walk with Christ. 02:41.776 --> 02:48.842 [SPEAKER_01]: And I know other people want to think it's just going and setting in the pew on Sunday morning or Sunday night once, so wherever maybe the case, 02:51.564 --> 02:57.987 [SPEAKER_01]: By the grace of God, it's through faith, then you start and it's a never-ending process. 02:58.347 --> 03:05.710 [SPEAKER_01]: You're continually always growing and God's grace and the goodness and love and holiness as you start out this war. 03:05.891 --> 03:06.971 [SPEAKER_01]: This is the way it has to be. 03:06.991 --> 03:13.594 [SPEAKER_01]: This is the way that like you said, God's got this set up and so therefore through the grace of God, through the gift of God that He's given us. 03:14.394 --> 03:19.377 [SPEAKER_01]: And through faith that we believe Jesus Christ died and resurrected on the third day. 03:19.697 --> 03:31.524 [SPEAKER_01]: He shed His blood on the cross for us and so therefore we take that and once we get that, we've got miles to go through the rest of our life because it's a never-ending process. 03:32.225 --> 03:35.727 [SPEAKER_01]: And I know a lot of people think that they can get there on faith only. 03:35.907 --> 03:36.527 [SPEAKER_01]: You can't do it. 03:36.987 --> 03:38.028 [SPEAKER_01]: You've got to have some words. 03:38.528 --> 03:45.214 [SPEAKER_01]: What did John say, if a tree failed to bear forth fruit, it is nothing but to be humed down and cast into the fire. 03:45.675 --> 03:51.520 [SPEAKER_01]: So God requires fruits from each and every individual that's a Christian. 03:51.680 --> 03:54.162 [SPEAKER_01]: And so therefore we better be bearing some fruits. 03:55.363 --> 03:58.166 [SPEAKER_01]: And you just can't go and set and be done. 03:58.326 --> 04:00.388 [SPEAKER_01]: I understand that there is elderly. 04:01.088 --> 04:12.324 [SPEAKER_01]: that comes in there and they've done live their life more or less and they have buried fruit in their life but for the younger ones to sit in there and the medium age would sit in there like me you know 04:13.753 --> 04:22.340 [SPEAKER_01]: I'm not old yet, but anyway, but we've got to bear fruit and so therefore if we don't bear fruit we're going to be in trouble. 04:22.461 --> 04:22.981 [SPEAKER_00]: That's right. 04:23.441 --> 04:31.349 [SPEAKER_00]: I had this analogy come to me and I wrote it out because a lot of times if I have dreams about something and I wake up and the Lord's like, right this down, I'll write it down. 04:31.949 --> 04:38.953 [SPEAKER_00]: And I wrote it down and I came across it yesterday and I know now a while I come across it and it's to tell it in this episode. 04:39.013 --> 04:41.975 [SPEAKER_00]: So, you know, it's like stagnant water. 04:42.195 --> 04:44.557 [SPEAKER_00]: You know, when you have stagnant water, it's just dead. 04:44.597 --> 04:45.277 [SPEAKER_00]: It's sitting there. 04:45.317 --> 04:46.238 [SPEAKER_00]: It's festering. 04:46.378 --> 04:50.240 [SPEAKER_00]: It's like just accumulating disease and anything else that it can. 04:50.560 --> 04:51.421 [SPEAKER_00]: But it's not moving. 04:51.481 --> 04:52.562 [SPEAKER_00]: It's just stagnant water. 04:52.602 --> 04:53.302 [SPEAKER_00]: It's sitting there. 04:53.322 --> 04:54.223 [SPEAKER_00]: It's doing nothing. 04:54.303 --> 04:55.423 [SPEAKER_00]: It's not helping nobody. 04:55.483 --> 04:56.704 [SPEAKER_00]: It's not producing nothing. 04:56.824 --> 04:57.665 [SPEAKER_00]: It's just sitting there. 04:58.005 --> 04:59.406 [SPEAKER_00]: And if anything, it can make you sick. 04:59.966 --> 05:17.440 [SPEAKER_00]: but then you look at living water, rivers and creeks and things that flow and you see the water flowing in the water's moving and it's helping the wildlife and it's helping the environment and it's bringing life to things because it is running living water and you compare the two then that is exactly how it is with your faith. 05:17.740 --> 05:19.601 [SPEAKER_00]: Do you want your faith to be stagnant? 05:19.701 --> 05:21.062 [SPEAKER_00]: Do you want yourself to be a 05:21.923 --> 05:31.505 [SPEAKER_00]: body of water that's not moving that's just collecting dust and collecting sickness and collecting germs and making people sick or do you want to be living water like the Lord? 05:31.545 --> 05:43.708 [SPEAKER_00]: The Lord says he's a living water, he says come and take a drink and so if you are a vessel for the Lord and if you are a Christian you're going to want to produce works because through faith that is exactly what you should be doing. 05:44.588 --> 05:47.830 [SPEAKER_01]: You said, show me your work by your faith, and I'll show you your faith by your works. 05:47.910 --> 05:48.671 [SPEAKER_00]: Ooh, that one. 05:48.691 --> 05:51.072 [SPEAKER_01]: You know, just like you was talking about the water. 05:52.073 --> 05:58.437 [SPEAKER_01]: When the lady of the whale came there, Jesus said, the water that I give you shall be a whale of water springing up inside of you. 05:58.857 --> 06:00.378 [SPEAKER_01]: In other words, it's living water. 06:00.618 --> 06:01.578 [SPEAKER_01]: He said, springing up. 06:02.099 --> 06:08.442 [SPEAKER_01]: And that hit me the other day when I was talking that young man when he was getting rid of baptizing water that was springing up, it's ever moving. 06:08.823 --> 06:12.285 [SPEAKER_01]: Just like you said, if the water's not moving, it gets stagnated. 06:13.105 --> 06:21.489 [SPEAKER_01]: and that force the sea disease can set up in a mosquito larvae and all kinds of stuff can happen in that stagnated water. 06:21.950 --> 06:31.214 [SPEAKER_01]: And I'm afraid so afraid of so many people that are sitting in a fuse today across this great nation and around the world, they have got stagnated. 06:31.414 --> 06:37.958 [SPEAKER_01]: They're just happy to be sitting there and say, well, I went to church, I'm Sunday morning, Sunday night or whatever, maybe the case. 06:38.058 --> 06:39.879 [SPEAKER_01]: And they've got stagnated, nothing's happened. 06:43.000 --> 06:44.903 [SPEAKER_01]: because along the churches don't want to move. 06:45.043 --> 06:45.484 [SPEAKER_00]: That's right. 06:45.784 --> 06:48.588 [SPEAKER_01]: And the work is not inside of there. 06:49.108 --> 06:50.490 [SPEAKER_01]: The work is outside the walls. 06:51.351 --> 06:54.576 [SPEAKER_01]: When Jesus told Peter, Peter, feed my sheep. 06:55.397 --> 06:56.178 [SPEAKER_01]: Feed my sheep. 06:56.318 --> 06:59.061 [SPEAKER_01]: That's the pastor's responsibility is to feed the sheep. 06:59.142 --> 06:59.342 [SPEAKER_03]: Yes. 06:59.762 --> 07:02.505 [SPEAKER_01]: And the sheep's responsibility is to go out. 07:03.325 --> 07:08.550 [SPEAKER_01]: There's that moving water because pastures don't produce sheep, sheep produce sheep. 07:09.471 --> 07:14.535 [SPEAKER_01]: And so we have a lot of stagnation in our churches this day and time. 07:14.875 --> 07:18.799 [SPEAKER_01]: And no wonder that the people of the world that's out there that you go up to invite them. 07:19.179 --> 07:24.141 [SPEAKER_01]: They don't want to come in, they don't want to be stagnated, they want to be around something that has life. 07:24.701 --> 07:39.587 [SPEAKER_01]: And so therefore, when the people of the church goes out and they show life, they don't look like a mural in whiz of bras or anything like that or sucking on a limb and whatever may be the case, they're showing these people that they have life and they have joy and they have happiness. 07:40.147 --> 07:45.069 [SPEAKER_01]: And I don't know about you Caleb, but I don't like to be around people that say at all times. 07:45.809 --> 07:48.170 [SPEAKER_01]: Absolutely not, and that's the same way with shirts. 07:48.230 --> 07:49.651 [SPEAKER_01]: Who wants to go to a sad shirt? 07:49.671 --> 07:50.011 [SPEAKER_00]: Yeah. 07:50.871 --> 07:58.335 [SPEAKER_01]: Because if the spirit of the Lord's there and the church is moving, you can see things happen in people's lives. 07:58.355 --> 07:58.855 [SPEAKER_00]: That's right. 07:59.375 --> 07:59.935 [SPEAKER_00]: That's right. 08:00.436 --> 08:00.856 [SPEAKER_01]: Absolutely. 08:00.876 --> 08:02.076 [SPEAKER_00]: Elwood's about to go flip a table. 08:02.136 --> 08:02.877 [SPEAKER_00]: I'm about flipping. 08:03.957 --> 08:28.708 [SPEAKER_00]: You know, it is so important to realize that every Christian, and I mean every Christian if you are a born-a-game believer Then you are commissioned you are commissioned to go there for and to tell people who Jesus is and if you're not doing that then you're being selfish And I don't want that to sit in I know that's harsh But you're being selfish if you keep faith to yourself and you don't go and tell anybody about it and it's just between you and that's it 08:29.408 --> 08:30.429 [SPEAKER_00]: Then you're being selfish. 08:30.549 --> 08:41.073 [SPEAKER_00]: You've got to be able to be a vessel for the Lord if you are a Christian, then you are supposed to be a vessel for him to where he can use you, that he can use your mouth to go and tell other people who he is. 08:41.533 --> 08:46.975 [SPEAKER_00]: You know, you look at the first people that Jesus told, Jesus resurrected, and the first people who he told was the women. 08:47.335 --> 08:49.596 [SPEAKER_00]: And you know, I like to say it's cause a women like to talk. 08:49.776 --> 08:52.317 [SPEAKER_00]: You know, we're going to go out and get the business done. 08:52.897 --> 09:12.866 [SPEAKER_00]: and you know the women they go back and they tell the disciples you know Jesus has risen and you know I can only imagine they're surprised even you know like oh wow he told women but you know it's true and it's exactly what happened and so if you are a Christian you're born again person Jesus has told you of himself you've read this Bible why would you ever keep that to yourself 09:13.266 --> 09:16.249 [SPEAKER_00]: that is not something that you keep inside and keep it all to yourself. 09:16.309 --> 09:17.329 [SPEAKER_00]: You go and you share. 09:17.650 --> 09:22.874 [SPEAKER_00]: You tell other people how you got a new life, how you are a new creation, so that they may become one too. 09:23.334 --> 09:25.216 [SPEAKER_00]: You know, faith without works is dead. 09:25.256 --> 09:30.540 [SPEAKER_00]: If you have faith and you're not working and you're not out here producing anything, then what are you doing it for? 09:30.761 --> 09:33.383 [SPEAKER_00]: Because otherwise, it sounds like you're just doing it for you. 09:33.943 --> 09:39.406 [SPEAKER_01]: Yes, you know, you mentioned that going out and telling and I love that story the lady to well. 09:39.846 --> 09:54.714 [SPEAKER_01]: Right after she said give me this water she went straight back into some area and told everybody about a man that told her everything in her life and they seen they seen something different about her. 09:54.774 --> 10:02.438 [SPEAKER_01]: They seen the enthusiasm that she had because she had accepted this living water and therefore she wanted to give it to everybody else. 10:03.739 --> 10:13.291 [SPEAKER_01]: when you get truly born again and feel with the spirit of God, you won't everybody to have what you've got and you want to take everybody to heaven right along with you. 10:13.932 --> 10:18.598 [SPEAKER_01]: And uh, but so often it's not that a way with a lot of people they just want to clam up. 10:18.778 --> 10:36.777 [SPEAKER_01]: You know, put on the Sunday pass, slick their hair back, give them a shiny shoes or whatsoever, put that Mark Chapner suit on, or at least playborne dress, we'll ask a lot of that behind the earlobe and go to church, you know, but I'm telling you, when you get the goods of God in your life, 10:37.538 --> 10:47.829 [SPEAKER_01]: And if you feel that it's just not flowing the way it once did, the next step for you is to take your tripped to the altar and have a little talk with Jesus and find out what's going on. 10:47.949 --> 10:53.155 [SPEAKER_01]: People are so scared today, I guess what you might say. 10:53.615 --> 10:54.196 [SPEAKER_01]: That was a man. 10:54.436 --> 10:55.917 [SPEAKER_01]: I'll tell this little story, if it's okay. 10:55.957 --> 10:57.077 [SPEAKER_00]: I love your little story. 10:57.938 --> 11:07.262 [SPEAKER_01]: There was a man, and as a story goes, he ran a tight rope from the American side to the Canadian side at Niagara Falls. 11:08.022 --> 11:11.864 [SPEAKER_01]: And so he would get up on that tight rope and that's what he did, he walked a tight rope. 11:12.304 --> 11:15.746 [SPEAKER_01]: And so he got up on, he walked across there that tight rope and walked back. 11:16.386 --> 11:39.768 [SPEAKER_01]: and then he got back and he ran across it and come back and then he put a blindfold on and went across it and then he got back and he got a wheelbarrow pair and had the tower of just a rim and pushed that wheelbarrow across that tight rope across Niagara Falls and he come back and he said, does anybody here believe 11:40.428 --> 11:46.080 [SPEAKER_01]: that I can put a man this wheelbarrow and push him across there and bring him back. 11:46.380 --> 11:47.583 [SPEAKER_01]: This one man raises hand. 11:47.623 --> 11:48.304 [SPEAKER_01]: He said, I do. 11:48.324 --> 11:48.985 [SPEAKER_01]: I do. 11:49.406 --> 11:50.508 [SPEAKER_01]: He said, getting a wheelbarrow. 11:51.432 --> 11:53.532 [SPEAKER_01]: and the man neglected getting a wheelbarque. 11:53.753 --> 11:55.013 [SPEAKER_01]: And that's why it was a lot of people. 11:55.073 --> 12:01.554 [SPEAKER_01]: They believe, but until they do it, you know, it's just not gonna work for them. 12:02.154 --> 12:04.835 [SPEAKER_01]: And he rekindled his words real quick. 12:05.435 --> 12:12.276 [SPEAKER_01]: He could believe as long as he was watching it and everything, but when it come to put faith in the words and actions, yeah. 12:12.536 --> 12:13.697 [SPEAKER_01]: Then he wouldn't do it. 12:14.117 --> 12:14.617 [SPEAKER_01]: Wow. 12:15.237 --> 12:16.417 [SPEAKER_01]: And I thought that was a little straddle. 12:16.437 --> 12:17.457 [SPEAKER_01]: I thought that was so good. 12:17.937 --> 12:19.098 [SPEAKER_01]: I run across that and, 12:20.578 --> 12:29.504 [SPEAKER_01]: If we'll put work with our faith and faith with our works, they go hand in hand and I'll tell you what, you'll reach a lot of people, you do that. 12:29.864 --> 12:35.628 [SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, the Lord needs you, you know, whenever like I had said before, when you are a Christian, the Lord needs you. 12:35.888 --> 12:51.315 [SPEAKER_00]: He needs you to his commission, and that's what you're accepting when you become a Christian, you are to pick up your cross, you are to have works to do, and I know there's so many people that just think, oh well, I'll just live my same life that I live before, and that's not the case. 12:51.335 --> 12:55.317 [SPEAKER_00]: When you're a Christian, you are a new creation, you are created now for a purpose. 12:55.598 --> 12:56.138 [SPEAKER_03]: That's right. 12:56.847 --> 12:58.669 [SPEAKER_00]: can your purpose is to serve the Lord? 12:58.749 --> 12:58.949 [SPEAKER_00]: Yes. 12:59.030 --> 13:01.612 [SPEAKER_00]: And how can you be a servant if you're doing no works? 13:02.153 --> 13:12.144 [SPEAKER_00]: And so I know that it's a tough thing because a lot of people in the society we live in, they don't want to think of servants, they don't want to be a servant, they don't want to be less than, but you look at Jesus in what he told us. 13:12.204 --> 13:17.851 [SPEAKER_00]: His example, he watched feet, his example as a servant, and coming up in this world, he didn't 13:18.291 --> 13:23.015 [SPEAKER_00]: put the crown on his head and go straight to a palace and demand that the palace was his. 13:23.356 --> 13:24.056 [SPEAKER_00]: He was a servant. 13:24.096 --> 13:26.759 [SPEAKER_00]: He was a carpenter and then he grew up and he was a servant. 13:27.119 --> 13:31.123 [SPEAKER_00]: And he goes from town to town, walking with the disciples, teaching them everything he knew. 13:31.143 --> 13:34.586 [SPEAKER_00]: He's truly the example that we're supposed to be. 13:34.606 --> 13:42.493 [SPEAKER_00]: And if you love Jesus and you see these things and you read the Bible and you see Jesus walk and how he walked, then you're going to want to walk the same way. 13:42.813 --> 13:43.414 [SPEAKER_01]: Absolutely. 13:43.514 --> 13:43.835 [SPEAKER_01]: Absolutely. 13:43.855 --> 13:50.184 [SPEAKER_01]: You know, the Bible said in Hebrew for 11 and one, he said, faith comes by hearing and hearing the word of the Lord. 13:50.965 --> 13:52.187 [SPEAKER_01]: We get faith by the word. 13:52.828 --> 13:56.954 [SPEAKER_01]: But then Jesus said, be you doers and not only here's only. 13:57.054 --> 13:57.354 [SPEAKER_01]: Yes. 13:57.634 --> 13:58.876 [SPEAKER_01]: So he requires us. 13:59.717 --> 14:07.845 [SPEAKER_01]: to put work with our faith and faith with our works, and when we do that, you know, God will bless in such a tremendous way. 14:08.246 --> 14:09.387 [SPEAKER_01]: We see the Centurion. 14:10.408 --> 14:15.913 [SPEAKER_01]: The Centurion, he had a servant that was sick, and he went to Jesus. 14:16.754 --> 14:19.697 [SPEAKER_01]: And Jesus told him that he would come in healing. 14:20.317 --> 14:32.121 [SPEAKER_01]: But then Centurion said that he had so much faith in Christ, and that he said, I am not worthy, you even come under my roof, because I am a man of authority and I act by tell this man, do this, he will do that or whatever. 14:32.621 --> 14:37.443 [SPEAKER_01]: And Jesus said, I have not found so great or faith in all of Israel. 14:37.983 --> 14:41.644 [SPEAKER_01]: But the Centurion had to go to Jesus. 14:42.324 --> 14:52.153 [SPEAKER_01]: In other words, he is faith led him there, and then by his works are going there, then Jesus just spoke the word, and that sit here's servant was healed. 14:52.573 --> 14:54.675 [SPEAKER_01]: So faith in the works goes handed him. 14:55.156 --> 14:57.078 [SPEAKER_01]: And as another little story I'll tell. 14:57.718 --> 14:58.278 [SPEAKER_01]: It's okay. 14:58.318 --> 14:58.819 [SPEAKER_00]: Yes. 14:58.919 --> 14:59.839 [SPEAKER_00]: I love the story. 14:59.859 --> 15:15.106 [SPEAKER_01]: But anyway, this man was walking out on the edge of the cliff like, and as he was walking out there, why he slipped and fell and slid down over the side of the heel and dropped down off of the cliff and he called on to a branch. 15:15.866 --> 15:17.747 [SPEAKER_01]: And he began to haul her help, help. 15:18.608 --> 15:24.811 [SPEAKER_01]: And there was a big voice setting up her and said, I can save you if you only believe. 15:25.751 --> 15:27.452 [SPEAKER_01]: He said, I believe, I believe. 15:28.233 --> 15:31.635 [SPEAKER_01]: And the voice came back and said, turn loose to the branch. 15:33.096 --> 15:39.520 [SPEAKER_01]: He didn't know it because there's 150 foot, down in the valley floor, and 20 foot of sheer cliff, as he looked up. 15:39.900 --> 15:43.062 [SPEAKER_01]: And he didn't know that there's little ledge about 16 inches below the feet. 15:44.222 --> 15:45.703 [SPEAKER_01]: He said, turn loose to the branch. 15:46.224 --> 15:48.945 [SPEAKER_01]: And what the man say is there anybody else up there? 15:49.386 --> 15:50.326 [SPEAKER_01]: Well, man. 15:50.646 --> 15:52.007 [SPEAKER_01]: But he believed, he believed. 15:53.468 --> 16:05.274 [SPEAKER_01]: And that's where a lot of people, they just need to turn loose, turn loose of the branch, and let God help them and lead them with their faith in works to reach out to a lost and dying world. 16:05.675 --> 16:06.455 [SPEAKER_00]: that is right. 16:06.956 --> 16:08.516 [SPEAKER_00]: Faith without works is dead. 16:08.676 --> 16:09.376 [SPEAKER_00]: What is works? 16:09.917 --> 16:11.077 [SPEAKER_00]: What do y'all think works is? 16:12.058 --> 16:13.338 [SPEAKER_00]: Works is producing fruit. 16:13.618 --> 16:15.479 [SPEAKER_00]: The Bible talks about producing fruit a lot. 16:15.679 --> 16:21.341 [SPEAKER_00]: We are to have something to show for the time that we've had on this earth and it's not earthly rewards. 16:21.401 --> 16:25.023 [SPEAKER_00]: It's not how much money you got or what kind of wardrobe it looks like you have. 16:25.823 --> 16:43.926 [SPEAKER_00]: faith and works and your works they look like fruit through other people they look like other people that's accepted Jesus because of you because of what you've done because of the seeds you've sung you were to go out and it's so seeds and you know just the Bible talks about some of them falling on rocky grounds and some of them falling on solid ground. 16:44.246 --> 16:46.349 [SPEAKER_00]: That doesn't keep you from so in the seeds, though. 16:46.409 --> 16:57.981 [SPEAKER_00]: You are still to go out and do those works and to talk about Jesus, and to tell people that their lives can be saved, to show them that salvation is a thing that they can obtain, too, that they don't got to work for it. 16:58.242 --> 17:02.747 [SPEAKER_00]: They just have to have faith, but by you working, it is showing them faith. 17:03.087 --> 17:03.848 [SPEAKER_00]: You got to work. 17:04.008 --> 17:10.193 [SPEAKER_00]: If you're not out here working, the Bible talks about it being you being a branch that gets cut off and thrown in the fire. 17:10.613 --> 17:12.415 [SPEAKER_00]: And again, I know that's kind of harsh. 17:12.575 --> 17:18.540 [SPEAKER_00]: The Bible don't sugarcoat nothing, but it shows you if you are doing nothing and you are nothing but dead weight. 17:18.640 --> 17:20.702 [SPEAKER_00]: Then why are you still on part of the tree? 17:21.042 --> 17:22.263 [SPEAKER_00]: Why are you not being pruned? 17:22.623 --> 17:26.006 [SPEAKER_00]: You know, a lot of people have stuff happening in their lives where they are being pruned. 17:26.026 --> 17:28.128 [SPEAKER_00]: They have stuff in their lives that are going terrible. 17:28.148 --> 17:28.969 [SPEAKER_00]: They're going wrong. 17:32.091 --> 17:36.895 [SPEAKER_00]: And a lot of people just need to have self-reflection then and just reflect, what am I living my life for? 17:37.235 --> 17:38.316 [SPEAKER_00]: Am I living it for self? 17:38.736 --> 17:40.037 [SPEAKER_00]: Or am I living it for Jesus? 17:40.317 --> 17:42.119 [SPEAKER_00]: Am I producing any fruits at all? 17:42.399 --> 17:43.380 [SPEAKER_00]: What about work for? 17:43.660 --> 17:45.622 [SPEAKER_00]: What about work for my whole life? 17:46.022 --> 17:47.163 [SPEAKER_00]: And then you'll have your answer. 17:47.623 --> 17:55.986 [SPEAKER_00]: If it's other people that you've helped come to Jesus and other people that you've helped have salvation by telling them who Jesus is, that is fruit. 17:56.366 --> 18:02.189 [SPEAKER_00]: That is you producing fruit for the kingdom of God, not for this earthly world that we live in, but for the kingdom of God. 18:02.649 --> 18:07.231 [SPEAKER_00]: That is the kind of fruit that you need to be having, that's the kind of fruit that you need to be producing. 18:07.251 --> 18:07.991 [SPEAKER_01]: Absolutely. 18:08.011 --> 18:10.492 [SPEAKER_00]: It's the type of fruit that brings other people to Christ. 18:10.712 --> 18:11.272 [SPEAKER_01]: Absolutely. 18:12.333 --> 18:14.133 [SPEAKER_01]: I'd like to reach some of the change chapter two. 18:14.553 --> 18:16.214 [SPEAKER_01]: He said, what does it profit my brother? 18:16.394 --> 18:19.275 [SPEAKER_01]: The way men say he have faith and have not worked. 18:19.895 --> 18:20.915 [SPEAKER_01]: Can faith save him. 18:21.915 --> 18:37.460 [SPEAKER_01]: If a brother or sister be naked in destitute of daily food and one of you say unto them to part and peace and be you warm and filled and notwithstanding you gave them not those things which are needful to the body what does it profit? 18:38.300 --> 18:43.643 [SPEAKER_01]: If they have need and you just say, go in peace, everything can be okay. 18:44.043 --> 18:44.804 [SPEAKER_01]: What is it profit? 18:44.844 --> 18:49.847 [SPEAKER_01]: If you don't show them some love and help provide the things that they need and provide. 18:50.187 --> 18:55.270 [SPEAKER_01]: They said even though even so faith, if it have not worked, is dead being alone. 18:56.010 --> 19:04.637 [SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, man may say thou hast faith and I have works, show me that faith without thy works, and I will show thee my faith by my works. 19:05.237 --> 19:08.060 [SPEAKER_01]: thou believe us that there is one God, thou do us well. 19:08.500 --> 19:18.208 [SPEAKER_01]: The devil also believes in trembles, but we'll tell no old vain man that faith without works is dead, was not Abraham or Father justified by the works. 19:18.748 --> 19:28.796 [SPEAKER_01]: When he had offered Isaac, his son, upon the altar, Seth thou have faith, wrong with his works, and by works was faith made perfect. 19:29.356 --> 19:32.598 [SPEAKER_01]: And the Scripture was fulfilled with Seth Abraham believe God. 19:33.039 --> 19:38.303 [SPEAKER_01]: And it was imputed unto him for righteousness, and he was called the friend of God. 19:38.903 --> 19:45.386 [SPEAKER_01]: You see, then, how that by work, the man is justified or proven and not by faith only. 19:45.767 --> 20:00.034 [SPEAKER_01]: Likewise, also was not rehabbed the hearted justified by works when she had received the messengers and had sent them out another way for as a body without the spirit is dead, so faith without works is dead also. 20:00.894 --> 20:02.235 [SPEAKER_01]: That's a mouthful. 20:02.415 --> 20:03.837 [SPEAKER_00]: that's a good mouthful though. 20:03.977 --> 20:04.578 [SPEAKER_01]: Yes, it is. 20:05.278 --> 20:12.367 [SPEAKER_01]: And so what does it profit us if we look at somebody that is destitute and just like he said they're naked, they're hungry, they're cold. 20:12.807 --> 20:16.272 [SPEAKER_01]: If you don't put a cold on them, don't give them food, what does it profit you? 20:16.292 --> 20:18.935 [SPEAKER_01]: A man if you just say, well, I'll pray for you. 20:19.455 --> 20:22.197 [SPEAKER_01]: You know, I'll pray for you. 20:22.357 --> 20:24.578 [SPEAKER_01]: If you've got faith in it, you'll do some work with it. 20:24.618 --> 20:27.500 [SPEAKER_01]: You'll make sure they got a coat, you'll make sure they got food in their stomach. 20:28.060 --> 20:38.946 [SPEAKER_01]: And when they live there, leave there, you'll be so much feel so much better about yourself because you helped that individual, a man because they was in destitute. 20:39.026 --> 20:41.207 [SPEAKER_01]: So therefore you put works with your faith. 20:41.907 --> 20:49.213 [SPEAKER_01]: to help keep them warm, put food in her stomach, and therefore you can let your head down and peel and be happy about yourself. 20:49.393 --> 20:50.895 [SPEAKER_01]: Yeah. 20:51.855 --> 20:57.500 [SPEAKER_00]: That was a lot of scripture that was so beautiful because if we truly love Jesus, then we're gonna wanna work for them. 20:57.660 --> 20:57.940 [SPEAKER_02]: Yes. 20:58.201 --> 21:03.385 [SPEAKER_00]: And you know, it just said that I'll show you, I'll show you my faith by my words, you know? 21:03.785 --> 21:08.289 [SPEAKER_00]: And so you can look at a person's life and you can tell if they're living it for self, or if they're living it for the Lord. 21:08.309 --> 21:08.549 [SPEAKER_02]: Yeah. 21:08.649 --> 21:16.355 [SPEAKER_00]: You know, there's a lot of people that claim to be a Christian and they wear those cross necklaces and have it in their bio that they're a Christian, but can you tell that? 21:16.495 --> 21:19.597 [SPEAKER_00]: Can you look at their life and see that they're doing anything for Jesus? 21:20.017 --> 21:22.679 [SPEAKER_00]: And if they're not, then well, they're not producing fruit. 21:22.959 --> 21:24.701 [SPEAKER_00]: We have to produce fruit as a Christian. 21:24.861 --> 21:28.003 [SPEAKER_00]: You've got to be out there working for the Lord and your works can look different. 21:28.023 --> 21:31.726 [SPEAKER_00]: You know, we're the body of Christ, so some people is the arm, some people's the leg. 21:32.046 --> 21:35.989 [SPEAKER_00]: You're going to be different parts of the body of Christ, some people need to go out there and help the homeless. 21:36.329 --> 21:38.830 [SPEAKER_00]: Some people needs about here praying and doing deliverance. 21:39.150 --> 21:41.991 [SPEAKER_00]: Some people are pastors, some people are prayer warriors. 21:42.311 --> 21:44.852 [SPEAKER_00]: People are different things that they are called to do for the Lord. 21:45.192 --> 21:46.593 [SPEAKER_00]: But all of us should be working. 21:46.833 --> 21:47.934 [SPEAKER_00]: All of you are commissioned. 21:48.014 --> 21:51.215 [SPEAKER_00]: Every single person that is a Christian is commissioned. 21:51.415 --> 21:51.755 [SPEAKER_00]: Have a judge. 21:51.775 --> 21:52.355 [SPEAKER_00]: job to do. 21:52.776 --> 21:55.058 [SPEAKER_00]: And your job is to bring people to Christ. 21:55.418 --> 22:09.749 [SPEAKER_00]: And whatever gifts that the Lord has given you, whether it be the gifts of helping people in healing with their hands, whether it be the gift of having compassion for children or whatever your gifts are that the Lord has given you, use them, use your gifts for the glory of the Lord. 22:09.769 --> 22:10.650 [SPEAKER_00]: That's why you got them. 22:11.050 --> 22:13.952 [SPEAKER_00]: If you're good at singing, I can't carry a tune in a bucket. 22:14.253 --> 22:16.955 [SPEAKER_00]: But if I could, I would be singing my heart out for the Lord. 22:17.375 --> 22:23.539 [SPEAKER_00]: And so if you're using what God has given you for the glory of the Lord and unto Him, then that is works. 22:23.679 --> 22:25.139 [SPEAKER_00]: That is producing something. 22:25.200 --> 22:36.066 [SPEAKER_00]: You are showing, you are praising, you're worshiping, you're showing your works and showing that you love the Lord, that you are not stagnant, that you will work for Him, that you love Him enough, that you will be productive. 22:36.086 --> 22:36.326 [SPEAKER_01]: Yes. 22:36.586 --> 22:38.167 [SPEAKER_00]: And that is such a beautiful thing. 22:39.152 --> 22:50.495 [SPEAKER_01]: Absolutely, you know, as I think about this ministry and when I got into it, I would go right back with all the pain I went through in Lex and Texas. 22:50.935 --> 23:00.357 [SPEAKER_01]: I'd go right back and do it again because you can see the fruits of it and people's lives that people has come and got delivered, people come and got saved and 23:00.817 --> 23:25.853 [SPEAKER_01]: and people come out of their joyful, I can understand how Paul, you know, with all that what he went through for the calls of Christ, even putting up with the thorn and the flesh and all that, because it was joyful for him, even though he thought he was doing what was right when he was doing wrong, but once he got on straight streak while, he done everything as a Holy Spirit led him. 23:26.454 --> 23:30.136 [SPEAKER_01]: As you said, I kind of count all things as dumb for the calls of Christ. 23:30.656 --> 23:33.358 [SPEAKER_01]: He was joyful that people was receiving Christ. 23:33.838 --> 23:37.840 [SPEAKER_01]: And just like us, you know, how many people would drive 31 hours across the state? 23:38.180 --> 23:38.280 [SPEAKER_01]: Yeah. 23:38.300 --> 23:39.541 [SPEAKER_01]: That was a thousand people. 23:39.601 --> 23:45.444 [SPEAKER_01]: How many people would get in a water at eight and nine o'clock of a morning, not get out to 12 midnight? 23:45.564 --> 23:45.724 [SPEAKER_01]: Yeah. 23:46.264 --> 23:48.506 [SPEAKER_01]: tired and more out and beaten down. 23:48.886 --> 24:04.978 [SPEAKER_01]: And just to get up next morning and go do it again, it's the joy of the people's faith of spreading the gospel of Jesus Christ into their life that you would go back and be willfully, willfully, go through the pain all over again. 24:05.718 --> 24:08.860 [SPEAKER_01]: just to see victory one in these people's face. 24:09.180 --> 24:13.403 [SPEAKER_01]: It's not for us, it's for them and the love of Christ that we have. 24:13.823 --> 24:17.405 [SPEAKER_01]: But I'd go back and do it again, I'd go back to the pain. 24:17.665 --> 24:22.708 [SPEAKER_00]: And we do though, we go back through, there's so many revivals that we have, we have them every month. 24:22.788 --> 24:29.172 [SPEAKER_00]: And people have no idea what it takes to go through it, because I don't mean this in a very mean way, but 24:29.592 --> 24:46.050 [SPEAKER_00]: you know you look at the people in the Bible and what they went through for the cause of Christ and they it was hard you know Paul he was shipwrecked he was beaten he was thrown in prison he was bitten by snakes he was thrown in jail so many times with the back slashed open I mean this man was put through it 24:46.470 --> 25:04.059 [SPEAKER_00]: and yet people can't go and tell somebody about Jesus at the dollar store like they're afraid of their faith to go and tell anyone but yet Paul was crossing the sea and not knowing that if he'd make it to the other side but having faith that he would that he was putting his works in action he was even helping to save the people on the ship the prisoners. 25:04.439 --> 25:10.225 [SPEAKER_00]: you know, so you know, you take the look, take a look at the people in the Bible and then reflect it on our own lives. 25:10.265 --> 25:11.566 [SPEAKER_00]: Man, we've gotten soft. 25:11.846 --> 25:17.812 [SPEAKER_00]: There are a lot of people that will not work for the Lord in any capacity, much less in a hard capacity like this. 25:18.213 --> 25:20.155 [SPEAKER_00]: You know, like Elwood said, these are revivals. 25:20.255 --> 25:21.916 [SPEAKER_00]: They men, they break us. 25:21.976 --> 25:25.400 [SPEAKER_00]: Like we are working in that water from sun up till way past sundown. 25:25.760 --> 25:27.841 [SPEAKER_00]: And when that son goes down, it is cold. 25:28.261 --> 25:30.362 [SPEAKER_00]: Our bodies start going through all kinds of stuff. 25:30.682 --> 25:36.104 [SPEAKER_00]: But we've died to our flesh enough that we know we're just there because we want to see people freed. 25:36.164 --> 25:37.745 [SPEAKER_00]: We want to see people delivered. 25:37.785 --> 25:39.386 [SPEAKER_00]: We want to help you who we can. 25:39.746 --> 25:40.706 [SPEAKER_00]: And that's why we're there. 25:40.766 --> 25:42.747 [SPEAKER_00]: We're there because we're working for Jesus. 25:43.087 --> 25:44.948 [SPEAKER_00]: And we know the fruits that it produces. 25:45.228 --> 25:47.749 [SPEAKER_00]: And it ain't for anything earthly because we could care less. 25:47.809 --> 25:49.330 [SPEAKER_00]: We are crawling out on our hands and knees. 25:50.250 --> 25:52.291 [SPEAKER_00]: We're doing it because we love Jesus. 25:52.371 --> 25:59.133 [SPEAKER_00]: We love Jesus so much that we want to work for Him, that we want to watch Him set the captives free through our hands. 25:59.474 --> 26:05.996 [SPEAKER_00]: We want to be able to use our entire body, this entire vessel to His will, not our will be done. 26:06.496 --> 26:18.382 [SPEAKER_00]: But his will, you know, as you were speaking, something really hit me where you said we do it again and you would do it all over again even the hardest of the hardest times calls in the very beginning of all of our journeys in this ministry. 26:18.482 --> 26:22.804 [SPEAKER_00]: We had to go through it to break your flesh to go and die to your flesh. 26:23.184 --> 26:34.272 [SPEAKER_00]: you had to go through a mince amount of pain because you would feel pain in your body, you would be cold, you'd be tired, you'd be hungry, all the things would come to you, but you were dying to all those things because you were a vessel. 26:34.552 --> 26:43.698 [SPEAKER_00]: Like you're there to work for the Lord, you plant your feet firm and you stay in that water no matter what, baptized in hundreds of people with a strain on your body but keeping on going. 26:44.178 --> 26:49.202 [SPEAKER_00]: And so what you said about it, if it was for us, we'd do it one time and never again. 26:49.722 --> 27:05.811 [SPEAKER_00]: you know we wouldn't keep going back for more and it's uh we go back for more because of you because we know what our God can do and we know that we can help you and that's why we're out there in those waters for as long as we are because we want to see every single soul we can. 27:06.271 --> 27:09.512 [SPEAKER_00]: be saved and set free and delivered and helped. 27:09.912 --> 27:18.754 [SPEAKER_00]: And if we can do that, if it takes a little bit of set will, if it takes a lot of surrender and surrender in our lives to the calls will then we're in. 27:19.074 --> 27:21.875 [SPEAKER_00]: And that's exactly why we're in the predicament we are. 27:22.195 --> 27:28.117 [SPEAKER_00]: That's exactly why we have the ministry we do is because we have surrendered our own lives and we've said here I am Lord, 27:29.637 --> 27:29.937 [SPEAKER_00]: And he does. 27:29.957 --> 27:30.518 [SPEAKER_01]: Absolutely. 27:31.038 --> 27:31.879 [SPEAKER_01]: Absolutely. 27:32.399 --> 27:40.344 [SPEAKER_01]: You know, it's a miraculous thing in the joy that you see off the people's faces when they come out there and they've been set free. 27:41.064 --> 27:46.788 [SPEAKER_01]: And you know, it's evolved different organizations or denominations or whatsoever. 27:47.428 --> 27:49.749 [SPEAKER_01]: And they've come from one thing, that's Christ. 27:50.470 --> 27:55.213 [SPEAKER_01]: And as we sow the seeds into them, as they see the faith that we have, 27:55.933 --> 28:06.397 [SPEAKER_01]: And the determination that we have, we pray that they'll take this back to their churches that they will take it back and it will grow there with the enthusiasm that they have. 28:06.978 --> 28:12.840 [SPEAKER_01]: But you know, we got to have faith and believe in what we're doing and I believe with all of my heart. 28:13.340 --> 28:29.768 [SPEAKER_01]: that we're doing what is right and we're working at it to make it better and better and better all the time and I know that I'd like to put a big old umbrella up over the whole big field where the sun was cooking people but I don't have one that big. 28:30.408 --> 28:37.251 [SPEAKER_01]: But anyway, just to see the victory of the people people's face. 28:37.912 --> 28:44.755 [SPEAKER_01]: But it's not meant for us, and God did not save us just to go and see it. 28:45.475 --> 28:46.616 [SPEAKER_01]: Just to go and see it. 28:46.676 --> 28:47.616 [SPEAKER_01]: He expects us. 28:47.956 --> 28:49.937 [SPEAKER_01]: He expects something out of us. 28:50.017 --> 28:51.398 [SPEAKER_01]: He expects us to spread. 28:52.038 --> 28:53.319 [SPEAKER_01]: what Christ is putting in us. 28:53.800 --> 29:00.547 [SPEAKER_01]: And you know, if a people don't do that, then it's going to be a sad day for him. 29:01.808 --> 29:11.979 [SPEAKER_01]: So David, he believed in God so much that when David was fighting the Philistines, he would pray to God and God told David, he said, David, don't you move? 29:12.815 --> 29:16.359 [SPEAKER_01]: until you hear the noise in the top of the mulberry trees. 29:17.100 --> 29:23.527 [SPEAKER_01]: Then he said, when you hear the noise in the top of mulberry trees, he said, I will go before you, and I'll do the fighting. 29:24.308 --> 29:32.777 [SPEAKER_01]: And when he heard the noise in the mulberry trees, when then David left that took off, and they done a great battling. 29:32.817 --> 29:33.798 [SPEAKER_01]: God won that battle. 29:34.499 --> 29:42.622 [SPEAKER_01]: but David had to have faith in God that what he told him, you know, was that going to be absolutely true? 29:43.182 --> 29:49.805 [SPEAKER_01]: And so just like Christ said, be you doers of the word not only here, and so we've got to be a doer of the word. 29:50.045 --> 29:50.546 [SPEAKER_00]: That's right. 29:50.606 --> 29:50.966 [SPEAKER_01]: Hey, man. 29:51.406 --> 29:52.607 [SPEAKER_00]: It takes so for flexion. 29:52.968 --> 29:53.168 [SPEAKER_00]: Yeah. 29:53.228 --> 30:04.619 [SPEAKER_00]: Flex on your life and see what you're doing for the Lord because, you know, I grew up in church my whole life and I had no idea that you were commissioned to go and to spread the gospel the way you were, no one ever told me. 30:05.199 --> 30:32.238 [SPEAKER_00]: until I started reading the Bible for myself and I saw what Jesus taught and I'm like, wait a minute, this is vastly different than what we're doing and there's a lot of people that are just sitting dead and then pews, they are just sitting there and it's it's so sad because they also are are doing themselves a disservice in so many ways, like they're sitting there every Sunday and they're stagnant water like we talked about the beginning of this but they're not producing works for Jesus but they're also not having things moved in their lives. 30:32.538 --> 30:38.621 [SPEAKER_00]: They're sitting there with diseases and with sickness and just sorrow and depression and all kinds of things. 30:38.661 --> 30:42.844 [SPEAKER_00]: They're going into church and leaving the same way and that is not what the church is for. 30:43.144 --> 30:50.908 [SPEAKER_00]: The church should be like a hospital where you go in sick and you come out well because we know who Jesus is and we know that the creator of all can heal you. 30:51.408 --> 31:01.677 [SPEAKER_00]: And so it's very sad that the world we live in today, you know, they don't, people don't want to do the works, but they just want to go in, they want to sit there every Sunday, they want to check that box for the week and they're done. 31:02.097 --> 31:03.718 [SPEAKER_00]: And that is not what a Christian is. 31:04.059 --> 31:05.660 [SPEAKER_00]: And so we have to look at the Bible. 31:05.720 --> 31:06.781 [SPEAKER_00]: The Bible's already written. 31:06.821 --> 31:10.284 [SPEAKER_00]: We don't have to rewrite what is supposed to do with for a Christian. 31:10.584 --> 31:11.685 [SPEAKER_00]: The Bible's already written it. 31:11.725 --> 31:16.309 [SPEAKER_00]: The Bible tells us what you are supposed to do that faith without works is dead. 31:16.669 --> 31:18.370 [SPEAKER_00]: That if you love him, you're going to want to 31:19.331 --> 31:19.611 [SPEAKER_00]: fruits. 31:19.651 --> 31:21.372 [SPEAKER_00]: You're going to want to work for Jesus. 31:21.712 --> 31:26.735 [SPEAKER_00]: You're going to want to come out of those pews and go and tell someone of who Jesus is. 31:27.116 --> 31:30.538 [SPEAKER_00]: You know, people leave church and they'll go out to eat or wherever. 31:30.738 --> 31:32.819 [SPEAKER_00]: They don't even speak of Jesus the rest of the week. 31:33.079 --> 31:34.300 [SPEAKER_00]: They don't tell that waitress. 31:34.340 --> 31:36.441 [SPEAKER_00]: They don't tell the people at the grocery store. 31:36.741 --> 31:37.822 [SPEAKER_00]: They tell nobody. 31:38.282 --> 31:40.343 [SPEAKER_00]: Literally they just serve themselves. 31:40.423 --> 31:41.664 [SPEAKER_00]: That's not serving Jesus. 31:41.884 --> 31:42.745 [SPEAKER_00]: That's serving you. 31:42.765 --> 31:42.845 [SPEAKER_00]: Yeah. 31:43.365 --> 31:49.467 [SPEAKER_00]: If you were withholding the Word of God, if you are keeping it in and keeping it bottled up, that is helping nobody. 31:49.767 --> 31:49.987 [SPEAKER_02]: Absolutely. 31:50.127 --> 31:50.647 [SPEAKER_00]: Nobody. 31:50.747 --> 31:53.448 [SPEAKER_00]: It's not helping the cause of Christ and it's not helping you. 31:53.909 --> 31:58.350 [SPEAKER_00]: What rewards do you expect to get in heaven if you ain't working for nothing? 31:58.630 --> 31:59.110 [SPEAKER_01]: That's right. 31:59.471 --> 32:02.873 [SPEAKER_01]: You know, when we went to Texas last year, we stopped at a restaurant down there. 32:03.573 --> 32:10.278 [SPEAKER_01]: And this lady, she came out there and we told her what we were doing and so we ordered a food. 32:10.838 --> 32:17.803 [SPEAKER_01]: And so when she came back, just before we leave, we had prayer with her and she was going through some things. 32:18.563 --> 32:23.326 [SPEAKER_01]: that we had no idea and we gave her a good tip and everything like that. 32:23.386 --> 32:43.378 [SPEAKER_01]: But you know we tried to sell the seed in her life there is something better there is something better and but like Max you said every tree which bring it up for a good fruit is you've done and cast into the fire so therefore you will run into somebody at least one person every day of your life 32:44.879 --> 32:48.862 [SPEAKER_01]: I believe that that you can witness to them before Christ, about Christ. 32:49.022 --> 32:53.305 [SPEAKER_01]: In the dollar store, grocery stores, workplace, or whatever, maybe the case. 32:53.946 --> 32:57.928 [SPEAKER_01]: And let them see the love of Christ in you. 32:58.669 --> 33:04.193 [SPEAKER_01]: And I'll guarantee you, when you do that, I know a lot of people pray to get rejected. 33:04.273 --> 33:08.296 [SPEAKER_01]: I know a lot of people pray that somebody's going to say, I don't want to hear it. 33:08.536 --> 33:09.137 [SPEAKER_01]: I don't want to hear it. 33:09.177 --> 33:10.438 [SPEAKER_01]: Just like the man did down there. 33:11.098 --> 33:16.500 [SPEAKER_01]: And the veterans, yeah, the veterans, but that's okay. 33:16.760 --> 33:18.161 [SPEAKER_01]: They're not rejecting you. 33:18.561 --> 33:19.782 [SPEAKER_01]: They're rejecting Christ. 33:20.462 --> 33:26.244 [SPEAKER_01]: And if we get understanding about that, then it won't be a sorrow about your part. 33:26.304 --> 33:35.468 [SPEAKER_01]: Because I know I went through that one time when I was rejected and my young ministry has started because I'd never been rejected like that before in my life. 33:36.268 --> 33:41.649 [SPEAKER_01]: And I went like a baby when I got back home, but then it came to be that they're not rejecting you. 33:42.109 --> 33:43.290 [SPEAKER_01]: They're rejecting Jesus. 33:43.970 --> 33:53.012 [SPEAKER_01]: And so therefore, if they reject you, just market up as a good mark because you're spreading the gospel of Jesus Christ. 33:53.052 --> 33:56.273 [SPEAKER_01]: Tell them about the Lord and therefore they are rejecting Him. 33:56.673 --> 33:57.833 [SPEAKER_01]: And they'll answer for that. 33:58.533 --> 34:15.970 [SPEAKER_01]: on the day of judgment, they will answer for that, and so therefore you just keep pushing on, just keep facing rejection, you'll get stronger, and you'll just depend upon the Lord that much more as you go through life, walk, and serve in Him. 34:16.520 --> 34:16.980 [SPEAKER_00]: That's right. 34:17.340 --> 34:19.261 [SPEAKER_00]: You know, Elwood just talked about rejection. 34:19.401 --> 34:24.642 [SPEAKER_00]: And I do think that's a lot of why people are scared to talk about the Lord as because they're scared of rejection. 34:25.302 --> 34:26.482 [SPEAKER_00]: But that has to do with self. 34:26.922 --> 34:28.423 [SPEAKER_00]: And you just thought of that right now. 34:28.543 --> 34:35.444 [SPEAKER_00]: We worried about if someone don't like you if someone looks at you and says, Boo, you know, there's not much that they're gonna say or do to you. 34:35.504 --> 34:42.286 [SPEAKER_00]: If you look at them with the love of Christ, you know, I had, I don't know if I told you this, but I had a Jehovah witness come to my house the other day. 34:46.927 --> 35:08.188 [SPEAKER_00]: None of that was the love of Christ like no part of it was her come into this house to make sure someone was saved because she loved the people in the house Yeah, it was just doctrine and you know I had a great discussion it was like send me more Lord I had a great discussion with her But anyways, I showed her the love of Christ through it too at the very end. 35:08.248 --> 35:11.231 [SPEAKER_00]: I'm like you did not reach me and if I was a non-believer 35:11.591 --> 35:19.574 [SPEAKER_00]: And you come to my house the way you did with your hardness and your hard heart, and you just trying to shove this doctrine on me, I would have turned my back upon it. 35:19.954 --> 35:22.155 [SPEAKER_00]: And like you have to show people the love of Christ. 35:22.255 --> 35:25.577 [SPEAKER_00]: It is the love of Christ that changes people, not your doctrine. 35:25.917 --> 35:30.398 [SPEAKER_00]: And you know, I think that's the biggest part about people who are thinking they're out here having works. 35:31.019 --> 35:31.139 [SPEAKER_00]: Yeah. 35:31.279 --> 35:33.280 [SPEAKER_00]: But truly they're working out of not faith. 35:33.420 --> 35:34.640 [SPEAKER_00]: They're working out of self. 35:34.700 --> 35:37.181 [SPEAKER_00]: They're thinking, oh, I'm going to get rewards for this in heaven. 35:37.241 --> 35:37.921 [SPEAKER_00]: So I'm going to go to 35:39.522 --> 35:44.309 [SPEAKER_00]: and I'm going to be doing this works but you're not producing fruit, you're not producing any fruit. 35:44.369 --> 35:48.415 [SPEAKER_00]: People are not accepting it because you're not being genuine, you're not coming from a place of love. 35:48.896 --> 35:54.004 [SPEAKER_00]: And so if you're coming from a place of love and you're showing people who Jesus is, well that's all you got to do. 35:54.484 --> 35:58.689 [SPEAKER_00]: He can take over and you can just be the vessel wherever you are in this world. 35:59.109 --> 36:06.737 [SPEAKER_00]: You can go out and you can show people the love of Christ and show them and they will see something different through you and they'll want it too. 36:06.757 --> 36:08.699 [SPEAKER_00]: They'll see the peace that the Lord has given you. 36:08.999 --> 36:10.921 [SPEAKER_00]: They'll see the kindness through your eyes. 36:11.282 --> 36:15.126 [SPEAKER_00]: They will see the Holy Spirit through you if you allow yourself to be a vessel. 36:15.306 --> 36:15.706 [SPEAKER_02]: That's right. 36:15.746 --> 36:19.768 [SPEAKER_00]: Faith without works is dead and works is not hard when you love the Lord. 36:20.108 --> 36:28.993 [SPEAKER_00]: When you love the Lord, then your whole face, your whole entire demeanor of you is going to be wrapped up in Jesus and people are going to see it. 36:29.013 --> 36:29.693 [SPEAKER_01]: That's right. 36:30.053 --> 36:36.817 [SPEAKER_01]: You know, you just talked about that in my mind, goes back to Mark's chapter two, where the man with Paul's leave was in the bed. 36:36.857 --> 36:37.797 [SPEAKER_01]: He couldn't get to Christ. 36:38.578 --> 36:42.560 [SPEAKER_01]: And the four took him to where Jesus was in the house, but they couldn't get in. 36:43.240 --> 36:54.130 [SPEAKER_01]: And that's right toward the roof of and I look at that as they and they didn't want to lose their spot before they could see Jesus So they rejected them from and so they just went up on the roof and tore the thing up. 36:54.270 --> 36:59.315 [SPEAKER_01]: You know, it's right and Jesus looked up and it wasn't by the man in the bed 36:59.955 --> 37:01.116 [SPEAKER_01]: faith that he got healed. 37:01.476 --> 37:06.599 [SPEAKER_01]: He was healed by the four that never worked and brought him to there and tore off the roof. 37:06.920 --> 37:11.963 [SPEAKER_01]: I can only imagine as they tore that roof off of the dust and everything began to fall down. 37:11.983 --> 37:14.244 [SPEAKER_01]: The beams of sunshine began to beam in. 37:14.985 --> 37:18.487 [SPEAKER_01]: Jesus just looked up and he said, by their faith, you are healed. 37:18.527 --> 37:20.008 [SPEAKER_01]: Go ahead and take up your bed more. 37:20.808 --> 37:27.811 [SPEAKER_01]: And, you know, he may have, he may have went there with his back on his bed, but he left there with his bed on his back walking out there. 37:27.951 --> 37:28.692 [SPEAKER_01]: That's right. 37:28.752 --> 37:40.637 [SPEAKER_01]: And so, by their faith, by their faiths, and they had the works to prove it, because they loved that guy, and they wanted to get to Jesus Christ, get him to Jesus Christ, to get his need there. 37:41.337 --> 37:44.219 [SPEAKER_01]: And so, put your faith to the test. 37:45.319 --> 37:45.899 [SPEAKER_01]: and work it. 37:46.940 --> 37:54.044 [SPEAKER_01]: I've heard about preachers say pray for this and pray for that, but put some legs on your prayer. 37:54.664 --> 37:59.487 [SPEAKER_01]: Do some faith with it and work with it and see what God does with it. 38:00.047 --> 38:06.850 [SPEAKER_01]: And so often we'll say, go pray for that person or once there may be the case, but put some works with it as well. 38:06.910 --> 38:07.911 [SPEAKER_01]: And you'll see God move. 38:08.011 --> 38:08.531 [SPEAKER_00]: That's right. 38:08.591 --> 38:16.718 [SPEAKER_00]: Well, if we haven't convinced you enough, just get in that Bible, read the Bible, and see where it talks about great faith and the faith of the people that believed in Jesus. 38:17.099 --> 38:24.705 [SPEAKER_00]: And all of these people in that Bible and what they did, and you reflect upon their lives, and exactly what it was that they did for the cause of Christ. 38:25.045 --> 38:26.626 [SPEAKER_00]: And then you measure that against your own. 38:26.967 --> 38:30.930 [SPEAKER_00]: And if you're not producing any fruit yet, well, don't you worry you still can. 38:30.990 --> 38:31.230 [SPEAKER_00]: Yes. 38:31.290 --> 38:36.755 [SPEAKER_00]: Right now, if you have breath in your lungs and you were walking and you were talking and you can go and tell somebody about Jesus. 38:37.055 --> 38:38.696 [SPEAKER_00]: you can get across to them somehow. 38:39.036 --> 38:40.596 [SPEAKER_00]: You don't even have to be walking or talking. 38:40.616 --> 38:43.377 [SPEAKER_00]: You can still do it through whatever means God has given you. 38:43.697 --> 38:44.778 [SPEAKER_00]: You can reach people. 38:45.158 --> 38:47.959 [SPEAKER_00]: God has given each and every one of us some commission to do. 38:48.059 --> 38:49.620 [SPEAKER_00]: Something that only you can do. 38:49.940 --> 38:51.840 [SPEAKER_00]: That I can't, you know, I can't do it for you. 38:52.080 --> 38:53.381 [SPEAKER_00]: Elwood can't do it for you. 38:53.901 --> 38:55.162 [SPEAKER_00]: only you can do it. 38:55.223 --> 38:57.405 [SPEAKER_00]: You got to put your faith into works too. 38:57.525 --> 38:58.666 [SPEAKER_00]: You got to work for the Lord. 38:58.706 --> 39:05.773 [SPEAKER_00]: If you love him, you're going to want to work for him, not for yourself, not for personal gain for not even for your eternal rewards. 39:05.953 --> 39:09.116 [SPEAKER_00]: You know, we know that it is beautiful that we get eternal rewards. 39:09.477 --> 39:13.481 [SPEAKER_00]: It is beautiful that we know that when we get to heaven, that we will be judged for our works. 39:13.881 --> 39:17.745 [SPEAKER_00]: Those are awesome things for those who work hard for Christ, but it ain't why we do it. 39:18.165 --> 39:28.500 [SPEAKER_00]: we do it because we love Jesus and so reflect upon your life, reflect upon your works, what you were doing for Christ and if you ain't doing enough, well then there's no better time than now. 39:28.781 --> 39:29.622 [SPEAKER_01]: Yes, that's right. 39:29.702 --> 39:30.223 [SPEAKER_01]: Press on. 39:30.423 --> 39:32.666 [SPEAKER_01]: My mind goes back to a little lady with issue of blood. 39:33.407 --> 39:41.115 [SPEAKER_01]: For 12 years, she tried to do it the doctor's way, but she already had her faith before she ever got to Christ. 39:41.235 --> 39:47.200 [SPEAKER_01]: She pressed through the crowd and touched it him with his garment and you know the rest of the story as Paul Harvey said. 39:47.701 --> 39:52.105 [SPEAKER_01]: But you got to press on when people reject you just keep pressing on. 39:52.565 --> 39:57.209 [SPEAKER_01]: There'll be somebody else out there that wants to hear you, that wants to hear about in Jesus. 39:58.610 --> 40:00.531 [SPEAKER_01]: And what Jesus has for him. 40:00.972 --> 40:02.233 [SPEAKER_01]: So you just keep pressing on. 40:02.353 --> 40:04.835 [SPEAKER_01]: And don't back up, don't back up whatsoever. 40:04.975 --> 40:08.337 [SPEAKER_01]: We put the whole armor of God on to go forward, not backwards. 40:08.858 --> 40:11.600 [SPEAKER_01]: And so if they reject you, you just go to somebody else. 40:11.680 --> 40:13.842 [SPEAKER_01]: If they reject you, you just go to somebody else. 40:14.362 --> 40:38.339 [SPEAKER_01]: but you put your faith to the test and put works with it and God will bless you beyond your every imagination and you'll get a fulfillment, all that, that when you lay your head on your pillow, your pillow of a night, you'll be satisfied of what you have done for the cause of Christ because Christ wants us to tell about what he's done in our life and he wants us to witness to people out there. 40:38.859 --> 40:42.702 [SPEAKER_01]: And so you just keep pushing on and sometimes it may get hard. 40:43.202 --> 40:53.030 [SPEAKER_01]: And sometimes, you may just think the Lord that you was there to do that, because somebody may have been a bad day in their life that they need to hear about Christ. 40:53.470 --> 40:57.914 [SPEAKER_01]: Then you can tell them about His saving grace and His healing power that He has. 40:58.054 --> 40:59.955 [SPEAKER_01]: And they'll hug your neck when you walk away. 41:00.516 --> 41:08.262 [SPEAKER_01]: And you'll have a fulfillment in your heart that you're not only a hero of the word, but you're also a doer of the word. 41:08.282 --> 41:09.743 [SPEAKER_01]: Then you'll have contentment with that. 41:09.983 --> 41:15.968 [SPEAKER_00]: So let me ask you something, if you were arrested right now, put on trial for being a Christian, what would they have on you? 41:16.528 --> 41:21.372 [SPEAKER_00]: What would it look like, what would your convicted of list of things? 41:21.452 --> 41:23.314 [SPEAKER_00]: What would it be, what have you done for the Lord? 41:23.614 --> 41:29.319 [SPEAKER_00]: How could you back it up and show or how could they have a case against you of what you've been out here doing for the Lord? 41:29.359 --> 41:32.281 [SPEAKER_00]: Would they, would they have a case at all or would they have nothing? 41:32.742 --> 41:33.802 [SPEAKER_00]: Because there's nothing to show. 41:34.603 --> 41:40.445 [SPEAKER_00]: I know that that's kind of harsh to look back at your life and to show, does anybody prove that you've worked for the Lord? 41:41.166 --> 41:51.070 [SPEAKER_00]: But if you can't prove it, then what you're out here doing, you know, I look at the story of Noah, and Noah was told to build an arc, and obviously Noah had great faith. 41:51.550 --> 41:56.592 [SPEAKER_00]: But if Noah did not put that faith in the action and have some works, he would have never built an arc. 41:56.892 --> 41:58.273 [SPEAKER_00]: He had to build the arc. 41:58.813 --> 42:01.916 [SPEAKER_00]: He couldn't just have faith like, oh, that's just going to appear one day. 42:02.336 --> 42:03.837 [SPEAKER_00]: He had to build the arc. 42:04.158 --> 42:11.103 [SPEAKER_00]: You know, there's a lot of things that's happening in your life that you may be hoping for something to happen with, but you've not put that faith in the works. 42:11.123 --> 42:14.086 [SPEAKER_00]: You've got no works to do and to produce anything. 42:14.426 --> 42:19.270 [SPEAKER_00]: You've got to be able to produce if you were not having any works, then you're not able to produce. 42:19.630 --> 42:29.178 [SPEAKER_00]: So you take that story of Noah into your own lives, and you say, well, if God did tell Noah to build an arc, but he'd depend on somebody else to build it, or his preacher to do it. 42:30.761 --> 42:49.820 [SPEAKER_01]: then that arc would have never been built and so it is dependent only you to put your faith into action to put your faith into works yeah absolutely you know Noah they thought he is nuts they did they thought he the he'd lost some marbles a person for long line but that's the same way they think with the Christians today 42:50.480 --> 42:54.104 [SPEAKER_01]: You know, when you witnessed to them tell them about Christ, they think you're nuts. 42:54.384 --> 42:57.928 [SPEAKER_01]: No, I believe what God said was going to come to pass. 42:57.988 --> 43:05.035 [SPEAKER_01]: The world was going to be destroyed as Christian people, we believe what the words said that Jesus is coming back. 43:05.615 --> 43:05.956 [SPEAKER_00]: Amen. 43:06.116 --> 43:06.677 [SPEAKER_01]: What's again? 43:07.377 --> 43:16.667 [SPEAKER_01]: to take his children home, and people may think we lost our nuts as well, you know, we've gotten nothing in a fruit cake or whatever may be the case. 43:17.388 --> 43:19.951 [SPEAKER_01]: We ain't got no sense anymore, but we got our faith. 43:20.612 --> 43:21.573 [SPEAKER_01]: We got our faith. 43:23.334 --> 43:51.786 [SPEAKER_01]: Jesus Christ and what the Word says, and therefore the works has to follow, and I believe the works is following, and so therefore when we put our faith in trust in Him, then when He comes back and He sees the shed blood up on our life, where we've been cleansed by the blood of the limb, He'll have no problem recognizing us, and so you just, you just stay strong, stay strong, keep your faith in Christ, and Him crucified and what He did 43:53.026 --> 43:57.712 [SPEAKER_01]: and I'll tell you what, do the works that you called you to do, and you're going to be fine. 43:57.913 --> 43:58.694 [SPEAKER_01]: You're going to be fine. 43:59.392 --> 44:04.895 [SPEAKER_00]: I'm gonna leave it on this note when you get to judgment day and you are standing before God Almighty. 44:05.176 --> 44:11.840 [SPEAKER_00]: As much as you love Him right now, as much as you profess to be a Christian, as much as you say that you believe in Jesus and you love Him with all your heart. 44:12.080 --> 44:14.722 [SPEAKER_00]: What's he gonna say to you on the reflection of your life? 44:15.102 --> 44:18.964 [SPEAKER_00]: And when it comes to what you have done, is it well done, my good and faithful servant? 44:19.365 --> 44:20.225 [SPEAKER_00]: Were you a servant? 44:20.285 --> 44:21.046 [SPEAKER_00]: Were you faithful? 44:21.086 --> 44:21.666 [SPEAKER_00]: Were you good? 44:21.886 --> 44:23.207 [SPEAKER_00]: What are you gonna have to show for it? 44:23.307 --> 44:24.408 [SPEAKER_00]: Because there will be a list. 44:24.468 --> 44:27.490 [SPEAKER_00]: We will be judged on what we do here on this earth. 44:28.170 --> 44:46.901 [SPEAKER_00]: And so I'm sorry that that might convict you, but I'm actually, I'm not sorry that might convict you because I'm hoping that it will stir your hearts enough that you will go and produce fruit and that you will want to do good things for the Lord and that you will go to heaven and he will say, well done, my good and faithful servant. 44:47.262 --> 44:51.604 [SPEAKER_00]: And you will have a long list of things to show that you were a good and faithful servant. 44:51.884 --> 44:52.144 [SPEAKER_01]: Yes. 44:53.045 --> 44:54.226 [SPEAKER_01]: Can he find you guilty? 44:55.403 --> 45:07.427 [SPEAKER_01]: guilty as a judge takes a criminal and a court and then the gabel falls a founding guilty can he find you guilty of serving him with all your heart with all your mind with all your soul with all your strength. 45:07.987 --> 45:08.367 [SPEAKER_01]: Amen. 45:08.568 --> 45:08.968 [SPEAKER_00]: Amen. 45:09.088 --> 45:10.568 [SPEAKER_00]: Well we hope that we've helped you today. 45:10.628 --> 45:16.250 [SPEAKER_00]: We hope that you put your faith in action now and that you go and produce for for the kingdom of God. 45:16.410 --> 45:21.072 [SPEAKER_00]: May God bless you and we will see you soon with another episode of the discipleship series.