Amen okay so John chapter 15 now and like I said a couple of chapters ago
this you know we're really in that kind of those final final kind of hours with
his disciples that is where Jesus just kind of giving them all this great truth
and starts in verse 1 here John chapter 15 verse 1 where he says I am the true
vine and my father is a husband man let's pray father thank I thank you for
the gospel of John I thank you for this church please just fill me with your
spirit now help me to be preach boldly and clearly help people to have just
open hearts and to want to hear your word and want to act upon your word as
well Jesus then we pray Amen okay so I am the true vine this is a seventh and
final one of the I am statements in John's gospel so if you remember we had
I am the bread of life in John chapter 6 I am the light of the world in John
chapter 8 I am the door of the sheep in John chapter 10 as well as I am the good
shepherd in John chapter 10 I am the resurrection and the life in John 11 I
am the way the truth and the life in John 14 and I am the true vine here now
in John 15 okay so that's the seven clear I am statements and obviously he
said before Abraham was I am didn't he so a vine a vine is a plant that produces
grapes yeah and where if you remember back in the book of Numbers when the men
are sent out to spy out the land they return with a branch between the two of
them with a cluster of grapes on it so in fact only if you go over to its
numbers if I put the reference down here actually which chapter it is here might
be 18 I might be wrong here if it's not I'll just read it to you anyway
no it's not 18 but okay anyone wants to find that let me know but it's in
Numbers and it's in verse 23 so they've gone out to spy out the land they return
it's probably quite early in Numbers actually they and they came unto the
brook Eschol and cut down from thence a branch with one cluster of grapes and
they bare it between two upon a staff and they brought of the pomegranates and
of the figs the place was called the brook Eschol because or Eschol because
of the cluster of grapes which the children of Israel cut down from thence
you got where it is numbers 13 guys sorry numbers 13 and that was from
verse 23 so they've gone so they've come into the brook Eschol they they've
they're basically they're spying out the land that they're looking to you
know to be given by the Lord and they come back with this branch of one
cluster of grapes and they bare it between two upon the staff it's looking
in verse 23 here and they brought of the pomegranates and of the figs so the
grapes are literally elevated above the other fruit aren't they so the grapes
are up there they're bearing this huge branch on the staff between two of them
and I mean grapes are a pretty amazing fruit aren't they they they grow really
well in that region that's kind of like grape growing country yeah and and they
still do to this day but they are and again look you can use this term Lucy
they are a superfood but it seems that everything's a superfood nowadays
depending on what what year you're in but they are I mean they are you know
chock-full of all sorts of vitamins and minerals and antioxidants and obviously
all these people got about the benefits of wine well the benefits from the
grapes is it's not from the poisonous alcohol so they are that you know they
were grapefruit grapes and when you get there is a difference in there when you
get really nice fresh grapes as well and and you can imagine how well valued
the what the the so how well valued the vine would have would have been yeah
okay and and Jesus is saying that he is the true vine okay he is that true vine
because the fruit that Jesus produces is of more value and worth than whatever
the latest superfood is okay yes 100% I mean that is the ultimate fruit isn't it
doesn't matter how many antioxidants and minerals how many cancer fighting
chemicals it seems pretty much every fruit has anyway but but look because
Jesus fruit is eternal life isn't it okay that fruit is eternal life and
that's beyond anything else and and that's the true fruit he is the true
vine because that is the fruit isn't it that we really care about and there
because there are there are many counterfeit fruits aren't there and
counterfeit vines out there you know you can get for example the the mass
produced you know chemical soup GM grapes can't you the seedless variety
and they look pretty pretty attractive don't they some of those they're glowing
and shiny you can see your reflection on them sometimes they don't taste right
though do they they don't taste like that good fresh organic great and look I
haven't been out to Israel but I can imagine a fresh grape out there is going
to taste a lot different to our supermarket grapes here and it's and
it's not the same is it and and you know in you know man tries to produce it
his way God's way as we know is always the best and that's the same with
salvation though isn't it because there are many counterfeit ways of salvation
aren't there and some of them look pretty attractive to people I mean some
of those churches look pretty impressive don't they you know some of those some
of the artwork I say this before I'm always going past Westminster Cathedral
a park usually next door to it because there's there's a parking bays up there
when I got to work in central London wow that place is impressive you know I
mean that is a beautiful building I've been inside there the artworks
absolutely beautiful but it's dirty and rotten isn't it really and it stinks
it's full of dead men's bones and but but it looks good doesn't it looks good
to the outside world and you know people that they look at these churches and
these old church these beautiful places they look at the rock concert
Pentecostal Church wherever it is and it's attractive isn't it it looks good
but when you bite into it really that fruit is sour full of worms it's not
like the fruit that Jesus Christ gives us is it Jesus said that his father is a
husband man so that's basically the land-owning farmer what does the farmer
do well let's have a look at verse 2 every branch in me that beareth not
fruit he taketh away and every branch that beareth fruit he purgeth it that it
may bring forth more fruit so he takes away the useless branches the dead wood
okay a good farmer needs to do that doesn't he and I think from what I hear
with with with the grapevine it takes a lot of pruning now I believe that every
branch in me is talking about Save Christians here now people use this to
apply to the church and other things like that well verse 5 said I am the
vine ye are the branches didn't he to his disciples there now there are many
Save Christians that bear no fruit aren't there many dead wood Christians
you could call them couldn't you and look I'm not talking about newly saved
Christians here okay and I think that God is quite patient with this if you
turn to Luke chapter 13 because it you know it's different for different people
and it can take a while for some and others you know I hit the seem to hit
the ground running and sadly sometimes they fall away as well but I do believe
that God is patient if you look at Luke chapter 13 and verse 6 Luke 13 6 he
spake also this parable a certain man had a fig tree planted in his vineyard
and he came and sought fruit thereon and found none then said he unto the
dresser of his vineyard behold these three years I come seeking fruit on this
fig tree and find none cut it down why come with it the ground and he answering
said unto him Lord let it alone this year also till I shall dig about it and
dung it and if it bear fruit well and if not then after that thou shalt cut it
down now you could say that's referring to the nation of Israel there too but
God is long-suffering with us isn't he God's long-suffering I mean there we're
talking about three years and he gives it another year doesn't he okay and you
know I'm not saying right that's the actually a maximum that's your man you
got three years I think you know you know for some people they get saved you
know for many in not just countries I think about many countries in Europe
there's not even a church to go to sometimes no other saved Christian
sometimes really hard isn't it and then you got other people that are saved
they're right next door to it to a great church they don't even turn up to it but
and I think probably he's less patient with people like that but in this
parable he has waited three years and he's given it another year and I do
believe it's the same with us he gives I think God gives us a chance but
eventually we are cumbering the ground okay because eventually people obstruct
and become a burden to a church don't they imagine you could have a new
Christian who who's or maybe not a new Chris you can have someone who's just
coming you know week in week out to a church like ours they're never bearing
any fruit give it a year give it to maybe give it three give it four at what
point are they just they're turning up well they might be paying their tithes
whatever else but what are they really producing are they really going out and
getting people saved what they really doing for the Lord well back to John
chapter 15 in verse 2 what did what did God say about people like that well John
15 2 says every branch of me that beareth not fruit he taketh away and
every branch that beareth fruit he purgeth it that it may bring forth more
fruit and that's why the weak church members of good churches will eventually
disappear won't they the ones that are just kind of going through the motions
sometimes they might be going out and trying to look the part but there's a
difference isn't there between going out filled with the spirit wanting to get
people saved and going out just to kind of look like you're doing it or whatever
else and there are sadly there are many that will go to churches and yeah look
we're not gonna get that here you know being being a fairly new church but
there'll be church where people just start to do less and less or people come
along and they're just doing this they're just kind of making up the
furniture in the church well he says here every branch me that beareth not
fruit he taketh away eventually go you know those once a month is whatever else
it just come for a little bit not really doing much for God eventually they go
and that's why as well you know it can be important con it to be able to make
sure that you can come to church regularly and and because the at the
beginning you're fired up it's a new church you know what you know you're in
a kind of you spiritually doing well you know that three four five hour journey
whatever kit you know is sustainable but with time that's gonna get harder
isn't it and then with time you become you're not bearing fruit with time are
you because the bit look being at church overseas important but there's many
other things we do there's midweek so winning we do this gonna be you know
there's midweek preaching that's gonna be more and more stuff we start adding
especially once we have our permanent building and it is important to be able
to do everything isn't it and you want to make sure you can get the temptation
is gonna start slipping in because God says every branch me that beareth not
fruit he taketh away now sure God wants you in church doesn't he God wants every
single Christian in church God is patient but eventually people become
dead wood don't they now what if you are bearing fruit what if you are bearing
fruit God purges you that's what it says doesn't it says in every branch that
beareth fruit he purges it that it may bring forth more fruit so that's
cleansing or purifying so you bring forth more fruit yeah with a branch
that's pruning off the sick or diseased parts isn't it there bits of dead wood
you ever look at a branch I'm no expert on grapevine I don't know if anyone
knows much about that sort of thing but I'd imagine there's sick and diseased
parts and bits that are just those dead ends and stuff which are just taking
energy out of the vine and not really doing anything that's what I can
imagine like most like other plants you might prune the dead part so if you
want to get rid of all those nasty bits of you that are weighing you down what
do you need to do bear fruit that's what it says doesn't it what does it say in
verse 2 there it says it says and every branch that beareth fruit he purges it
that it may bring forth more fruit okay it's about the bearing fruit see the
order there the order there is every branch that beareth fruit he purges it
so if you want to be purged and I think sometimes people look at purging like
it's a really bad thing I think they sometimes like equate tribulation and
everything else with purging well purging is basically cleansing purifying
don't we all want to get better don't we all want to improve or what what what
does the barber say we need to do bear fruit yeah bear fruit and you're gonna
get purged bear fruit and we want to get purged don't we and that's what it's
saying here so we're cleansed and purified but how are we cleansed and
purified look at verse 3 now ye are clean through the word which I have
spoken unto you it's a word of God so it's all well and good oh well I go out
soul winning but I don't read my Bible but I go out soul winning but I don't
come to church now look you should go out soul winning 100% you want to be
purging to go out so any but you also need to make sure that you have the word
and being preached to you as well not just reading the word but reading the
word have it preached to you and then you're gonna get cleansed you're gonna
get purified you're gonna get purged now you're clean through the word which I
have spoken unto you it's reading studying memorizing hearing the word of
God isn't it that's how we're purged that's how we're cleansed if you want to
purge yourself clean you need the word of God don't you okay that's what that's
what he's saying here and look but with the word of God you know there there are
sometimes more specific tools for the job so back to the purging back to the
pruning analysis here let's take pruning so for example if you wanted to prune
some branches what what tool are you going to use anyone got any ideas any
tools shears anything else
even those little tiny bits just change so at all okay that's the King James
Bible isn't it but it's all the King James Bible isn't it okay so the King
James over but here's a point there's some specific pruning tools aren't there
you probably wouldn't get the chainsaw out for the tiny little bit on the edge
of the vine there because you might do some damage to the vine we are going to
get the chainsaw out for the big bit aren't you and there's everything in
between and there's there's there's pruning tools for the job yeah so I was
having a look at this just and I suppose most people know this anyway I just
thought it's easier to have it down because I'm gonna forget some of these
but for example you've got pruning shears now they're also known as pruners
clippers secateurs you call them as well and apparently there are three basic
types of pruning she you got the anvil the bypass and the ratchets anyone heard
of these two sorts of things so a bit of useless maybe not useless this is
actually come on we should all be pretty our gardens and everything else so not
if it stops you going to church but if you see a well manicured garden you're
you're unlikely to get a salvation oh yeah but anyway okay so you've got right
you've got a bypass yeah bypasses is basically acts like scissors good for
good for growing stems apparently anvil pruners feature a straight blade that
uses a splitting action they work well for dried branches and stems you got
ratchet pruners are similar to anvil printers but they feature a mechanism
that cuts in stages ratchet pruners are good for those who don't want to strain
their wrists some soppy liberal there okay then you've got the loppers okay
loppers are great for branches up to two and a half inches thick and are
especially useful for pruning fruit trees nut trees and vines apparently
that's your lopper okay similar to a pair of hand shears but the blades are
thicker and the handle is much longer they come in anvil bypass or exercise
you've got pruning sores how to pruning sores as well next in the pruning tool
pruning saw capable of taking on branches from one and a half to five inches in
diameter you've got hedge shears seen the hedge shears like the big pair of
scissors isn't it okay great if you have hedges small shrubs evergreens dead
heading perennials they cut branches up to two and a quarter inches thick and
then you've got the pole pruner you seen those so you get them like telescopic
poles usually have like a string on the end you can you can prune high up to so
to reach dead wood in trees or for light pruning pole pruner or tree pruner is a
must-have apparently anyone got a pole pruner here I have apparently they're a
must-have okay so they could cut three bites up to one the quarter inch in
diameter okay and they can eat reach up to eight feet or more okay so as you
could see and there are loads more things as well that's just the basics in
pruning so am I talking about different Bible versions no way am I if you didn't
hear the sermon this morning then do so if you wonder if different versions are
going to help you hell no okay there's only one Bible isn't there there's one
Bible in English that's the King James Bible I'm talking about different
verses different truths different passages of the Bible now I've heard
anyone heard of the book of Psalms being talked about like a medicine cabinet
anyone heard that before no so I've heard preaching this before where
basically they say you could prescribe a song based on the need and they said
that they used to do that back back in the Old Testament you know and I don't
know how much evidence of that but it sounds pretty right to me because if you
think about it the book of Psalms has such a variety of songs which do suit
different needs then I was thinking about this it just this is kind of off
the top of my head really you've got Psalms like Psalm 23 you know the Lord
is my shepherd Psalm 27 yeah the Lord is my light and my salvation whom shall I
fear Psalm 91 he that dwelleth in I think it's a it's I might have it that
dwelleth in the secret place of most high if you remember that Psalms oh it's
the one that the devil's trying to quite misquote to Jesus in in Matthew 4 okay
songs like that are great when there's something maybe if you need a bit of
boldness you need some strength you're a bit fearful in life things like that
those songs are great but you wouldn't turn to maybe if you're feeling fearful
and things like that maybe the Psalm 38 Oh Lord rebuke me not in thy wrath Psalm
51 have mercy upon me Oh God but you would go there if you're really feeling
bad about some some sin you've done remember Psalm 51 is the one where
David's literally just being confronted about Bathsheba you would go to those
Psalms when you're feeling remorseful wouldn't you good songs to go to but
maybe maybe the issue is that your kids are just doing your head in mums you
know and it's just maybe dads as well you know and you it's that you know and
you're funny are you thinking well you know how am I gonna get through the day
well some 127 low children are in heritage of the Lord you know the fruit
of the womb is his reward good but again you go to that song that's a good time
you're gonna go to that song when you need you know when you need when it's
some sin that you're dealing with maybe not but you might go to that song when
you just got to remind yourself of what it's all about with the kids some 119
when you've got far too much time on your hands some 119 when it's just about
the strength of the word you just want to remind yourself to get in a word in
it inspire you to get in the word yeah I mean there are many Psalms aren't there
and that's just the book of Psalms but there are men there are so many verses
you could memorize for specific problems aren't there as well maybe money and
covetousness is a problem for you maybe that's a temptation for you first
Timothy 6 10 for the love of money is the root of all evil which while some
coveted after they have heard from the faith and pierce themselves through with
many sorrows make that a memory verse just keep the money of that you know or
pride pride might be a problem for you Proverbs 16 18 among many isn't there
pride goeth before destruction and an haughty spirit before fall and again
just keep reminding you yourself of that make it a memory verse for you if that's
the problem lusting after the opposite sex Matthew 5 28 but I sound to you that
whosoever looketh on a woman to lust after I have committed adultery with her
already in his heart get that on your mind remind yourself that the Word of
God there are specific verses specific passages specific stories aren't there
like we can go to specific pruning tools it does like I've said many times it
doesn't just have to be your daily cover to cover reading plan however many times
that isn't a year that's great we should all read the Bible cover to
cover you know year in year out and ideally multiple times a year we should
shouldn't we but but there are certain parts above a certain verses certain
passages certain Psalms that are going to help you more than they might do
someone else at that stage in your life that so ones that you need at that time
like that specific tool yeah go to that tool get that tool find that tool go
home tonight and just think what passage is it that I really you know that it's
gonna help me what verses are there that right now I'm really I'm really
having trouble with this go and get a verse you know get a verse memorize it
get it on your heart write it on your heart and it will help you through life
won't it okay regardless the Word of God's gonna help you isn't it if you did
none of that and you just read the Word of God you know and you just read it you
know it's gonna help you like you could go to those you could go to that branch
with the chainsaw you're gonna get it off aren't you and maybe if you worked
on that big six inch diameter branch long enough with that second turn you're
gonna eventually get through it it might take you a lot longer than with the
chainsaw but you're gonna get through it aren't you eventually but you know what
you could do it quicker couldn't you if you know your Bible you know where to go
you know which passages use the right tool for the right job verse four verse
four abide in me and I in you as a branch cannot bear fruit of itself
except it abide in the vine no more can ye except ye abide in me so you could
look at this and say you know and it is a truth but I don't think that's the
truth here you have to be saved to bear fruit okay and that's obvious isn't it
this isn't what he's talking about but it is there is part of that in there
because number one you do have to be saved to bear fruit don't you okay now
I talk about fruit here we're talking about what's the ultimate fruit of
salvation isn't it it's getting people saved and on that it you know this is a
truth that needs preaching doesn't it because again this has been under
attack as well so turn to Matthew chapter 7 and while you turn now I'm
gonna read Romans chapter 1 verse 17 which says for therein is a righteousness
of God revealed from faith to faith as it is written the just shall live by
faith okay it comes from faith to faith doesn't it that's how people are saved
from someone else at save Matthew 7 and from verse 15 and again a famous
passage but let's just read it anyway from Matthew 7 15 beware of false
prophets which come to you in sheep's clothing but inwardly they're ravening
wolves you shall know them by their fruits do men gather grapes of thorns or
figs of thistles even so every good tree bringeth forth good fruit but a corrupt
tree bringeth forth evil fruit a good tree cannot bring forth evil fruit
neither can a corrupt tree bring forth good fruit every tree that bringeth not
forth good fruit is hewn down and cast into the fire wherefore by their fruits
ye shall know them now and obviously that's not talking about our goodness or
anything else because as we know to him that worketh not but believeth on him
that just fire the ungodly his faith is counted for righteousness there be that
bear no fruits of the spirits we call it in terms of their own good works but but
it's talking about bringing forth good for bringing forth evil fruit in terms
of a false prophet isn't going to get people saved okay a false prophet isn't
going to get anyone saved okay for me it's impossible
Romans 10 14 says how then shall they call on him in whom they have not
believed and how shall they believe in him of whom they have not heard and how
shall they hear without a preacher okay oh well it doesn't matter whether he
saved or not well no because a corrupt tree cannot bring forth good fruit
people aren't getting saved without a preacher though are they they're not
getting saved without someone preaching the gospel to them and yeah that can be
through a YouTube video that could be online but ultimately the best way is to
have someone stand in front of you preaching the gospel to you isn't it
okay and that's how people get saved but to add to that because people I think
get a bit confused by this that although an unsaved person isn't going to be led
into a false gospel by a saved man of God yeah obviously a good tree cannot
bring forth evil fruit that's not to say that some reprobate child of the devil
infiltrator can't claim to have been saved by a good tree okay so just bear
that in mind because there will be people for example just here's one
example that will claim to have got saved by Pastor Anderson as an example
and they turn out to be Judas Iscariot okay that wasn't his corrupt fruit
that's someone who just lied and pretended they were saved when they
weren't okay they were wicked from the beginning they never got saved they just
lied and infiltrated okay so because someone comes along and goes well I was
saying and they end up being wicked that's not him bearing corrupt fruit he
can't bear that fruit can he okay that's just a liar but where John 15
said abide in me and I in you as the branch cannot bear fruit of itself
except this is verse 4 by the way except to abide in the vine no more can you
accept you abide in me he's still going to save people here though so obviously
that goes without saying that along with that obviously you cannot get you know
the branch cannot bear fruit of itself so you couldn't if you're unsaved but
here he's talking to to the eleven disciples because you're not bearing
fruit reproducing if you're not doing it Jesus way are you a Christian abiding in
Jesus he's following his command to preach the gospel to every creature
isn't it if you're abiding in the vine abiding in Jesus a Christian not abiding
in Jesus might just try lifestyle evangelism for the rest of his life yeah
he's not getting people saved by just being a shining light now being a
shining light is great but he needs to preach the gospel doesn't he okay you're
not gonna bear fruit if all I'm just you know showing everyone my goodness well
one day they might ask me about God you know I don't want to be weird don't want
to bring anything up no that that's not doing it Jesus's way is it endless
debates about the existence of God okay that's not Jesus's way is it just going
online and debating people you know making long videos about you know the
the folly of atheism now look on that you know if someone's got a real you
know knowledge of that and can help maybe strengthen believers and no I'm
not completely against that but I just sometimes it does get me a bit leery I
just look at this stuff and just think just just go and preach the gospel you
know there are plenty of people that that aren't fools in their heart that
have said there is no God that want to hear the gospel preached yeah we don't
have to spend you know hours days weeks months learning all the nonsense of
atheism to debate it with them just preach them the gospel yeah but again
they're not going to bear fruit are they various new ways of inviting the
unsaved into church to and somehow trying to appeal to them to bring them
in yeah you know the rock concert though oh don't worry we've got an
unsaved you know every week we've got something to bring them in and out there
hey just come look but Jesus said to go you into all the world and preach the
gospel he said to go didn't he look if someone comes in here they want to say
we want to get him saved sure but that's not that's not how we're gonna bear much
fruit is it okay so here's another one giving out just giving out tracts where
in the Bible did it say just to just hand out Bibles hand out tracts hand out
the written word no he said preach preach got how shall they hear without a
preacher okay again Jesus way abiding in the vine he's doing it his way isn't it
doing it the way the Word of God tells us to do it and giving out Bible see
unsaved I had someone's trying to say to this to me the other day that he wanted
to give me however many Bibles that we could just give out to people on the
street but it's not going to get anyone saved is it but I was at a church which
seemed to be you know saved Christians that this is what they did they got I
think I've said this before they got 10,000 Bibles given free by some place I
think there are New Testaments actually but they're quite big New Testaments
from some place in Tennessee or something it was just giving it out like
some sort of you know that was their missions they basically print for free
and give them out the deal is as long as you're going to distribute them then
they went round to the whole area and put Bibles through letter boxes now I
managed to persuade him to actually knock on the door what at least I was
able to knock on the door I don't think anyone else would do it while they were
giving out the Bob's actually try and give the gospel but they gave out 10,000
Bibles how many people do you think got saved off those 10,000 Bibles what a
waste what a waste of time and money and effort and think like the amount of
labor that's basically gone into those 10,000 Bibles shipping them here in
terms of all the money involved in everything else they're giving them out
the time can you imagine how many people could have got saved they're just gone
out and preach the gospel I mean how many are we getting on average you know
send out you know send out what 30 or something we go out as an average and
maybe a few more 30 40 people go out and of which half of those are probably kids
and we're coming back usually with sort of six seven eight salvations and and
look that's just you know the amount of time a man has that went into just just
delivering them through the doors 10,000 10,000 flight what do we get usually an
order of flies two and a half thousand what's it last us now give a few weeks
four weeks something like about once a month something like that it'll take us
four months of soul winning four months of soul winning to give out 10,000
Bibles can you imagine how many sat well we probably know how many we get in four
months of soul winning wouldn't we because in ten months you've got about
800 salvation so we'd be on we'd be on sort of 300 plus salvations and they
didn't get one what a waste of time yeah that's 300 souls it could have got saved
if you just look at it by our numbers here yeah wicked isn't it but again
because they're not abiding in the vine are they they're just doing it their way
they're doing it the way they want to do it the way really the way they want to
do it because then it's not what they call confrontational soul winning
because people don't want to knock on doors do they they don't want to not
they don't want to talk to people they just want the least high behind just
giving a track giving a track you know and kind of look the other way while you
give a track you don't even have to make eye contact then you know but but look
Paul needed to pray for boldness we can all pray for boldness and do you think
God's gonna give it to us if it's for the right reasons he's gonna give it if
it's not if it's right I want boldness so I can go and debate with atheists for
hours and weeks and months you know I know but pray for boldness go out preach
the gospel and he will give it to you won't we because I bet a lot of people
here sitting here and maybe before they were saved or maybe even after saved
work and I was a boldest guy around you know I wouldn't know but I tell you what
so many men and women here and children here and now bold enough to go and knock
on someone's door and know that probably there's a what you record set
maybe five out of ten chance at least of getting at least a bit of a rude look
and comment and something maybe maybe a one two out of ten chance around here
getting someone just blatantly overly rude and slam the door and maybe a very
slim chance of getting someone actually want to hear it but there are people
here that wired because God's purged them because they're going out and
bearing fruit you know purge them and made them strong and made and bold in
that area okay so because the Bible says faith cometh by hearing and that's
abiding in Jesus Christ going out and preach the gospel isn't it verse 5 but
hurry up a bit because I need a few verses in right I am the vine ye are the branches he
that abideth in me and I and him the same bringeth forth much fruit for
without me you can do nothing and that would include some wicked false Bible
perversion wouldn't it okay without Jesus the Word of God no one is getting
saved are they they're not getting saved without scripture no one is getting
saved are they okay so it's all well and God beings being saved and you know I'm
doing God's one going out and preaching the gospel and then you're just
summarizing it and doing it your way and not quoting scripture no one's getting
saved are they it's a word of God which saves without the word you can do
nothing he said I am the vine you had a bunch he that bided for me and I and him
the same bringeth forth much fruit for without me you can do nothing okay
without doing it God you're gonna do nothing of any value are you do it
Jesus's way God's way verse 6 if a man abide not in me he is cast forth as a
branch and is withered and men gather them and cast them into the fire and
they are burned okay now obviously the work salvationist will look at this guy
look look see they lose the salvation but it's not saying that is it as
someone who is saved if you don't abide in Jesus you become deadwood don't you
okay you become deadwood and then eventually you're getting cast forth
aren't you okay you that's you know like I said you'll have people in churches
eventually will just be cast forth that's it they're not bearing fruit but
your soul will still go to heaven won't it your soul still going to heaven the
Bible's clear about that now the work salvationist will look at this but he he
didn't say hellfire did he he didn't say eternal flames he didn't say where their
worm dieth not he didn't say weeping and gnashing of teeth or any of that did he
he just said gather them and cast them into the fire and they are burned oh well
it must be hell well no because you've got to compare the Bible with the Bible
don't you you know and and you know sometimes sometimes when I think about
this I kind of think you know when they look at it and when they got that veil
over their eyes when they're unsaved they're just looking for a verse to pull
out aren't they to basically prop up what they what they believe isn't it so
you get all these false wicked you know so-called versions of Christianity that
don't believe in grace through faith and obviously with that is eternal security
and then they're just looking for a verse look for a verse looking for a
verse but when you compare Scripture with Scripture when you study to show
yourself approved you know you can see clearly that that the Bible is clear
that that he that believe for me have everlasting life yeah okay there's no
there's no process there's no you can lose it you know it's eternal isn't it
you know and I give unto them eternal life and they shall never perish neither
shall any man pluck them out of my hand that includes yourself doesn't it my
father which gave them is greater than all and no man is able to pluck them out
of my father's hand okay the Bible's clear about that but without the veil
removed they're like I said they're just looking to prop up their self-righteous
lie aren't they so they're looking for it and and you know and they'll find
stuff but again it said nothing about hellfire there verse 7 if you abide in
me and my words abide in you you shall ask what you will and it shall be done
unto you so if you're in the word you're living for God you'll be asking things
according to God's will won't you hopefully you will John 14 13 said and
whatsoever you shall ask in my name that will I do that the father may be
glorified in the Sun so again whatsoever you shall ask in my name that's according
to his will we looked at that last week now verse 8 here in is my father
glorified that you bear much fruit so shall ye be my disciples so there's a
good idea there there's a good principle for praying in Jesus name according to
his will forget the best job the best car the best house pray that you'll get
a heart for soul winning how about that pray that you will get a heart so you
know that's his will isn't it pray that you will keep your heart for soul
winning pray for that because look you know we don't want to think that we're
all well we got so winning that's it job done for the rest of my life pray that
you will keep that heart pray that you will always want to go out and get
people say pray that things won't stop you getting out so winning that's a good
prayer isn't it according to God's will pray that the stumbling blocks the
distractions aren't gonna come in the good and stop you getting out there pray
that you will become a better soul winner pray that you'll be just become
clear and not say I'm gonna get the best analogy yet no look it comes from the
Word of God but pray that you'll be clear you'll be clear and explain the
the gospel to people in that that pray that you're just gonna gonna expand the
word you're gonna be confident with it you're gonna be bold with it pray that
you will then bear much fruit okay that's praying according to his will
isn't it because that's what he wants that's what you know God's not willing
that any should perish is it that's what we should be praying for I'm not saying
you can't pray for those other things as well you know but but for me they're
like that's clear obvious prayers according to God's will aren't they
then cuz that much fruit that's what glorifies God and makes us disciples
isn't it okay that's what makes us a disciples because that it's all well and
good sound disciple of Christ because you got saved but no what's a disciple
you know disciples someone that you know that actually wants to live for him as
well isn't it yeah verse 9 says there's a father has loved me so have I loved
you continue ye in my love well how were the disciples told to and how do we keep
in his love so obviously he's talking disciples and this applies to us as well
verse 10 if you keep my commandments you shall abide in my love even as I have
kept my father's commandments and abide in his love so many people at times many
Christians maybe at times their life will say oh I don't think God really
loves me you know he just letting me go through this or he's not answering my
prayers or try keeping his commandments yeah try to keeping God's commandments
now what's the are you legalist you Pharisee you're telling us we've got to
live by what live by the law no you liberal Bible rejecter that you're the
liberal but you people who say that stuff I asked independent fundamental
Baptist Church allow something they're so legalist you know trying to tell you
what you should and shouldn't do so what's wrong with you you liberal what's
wrong with you what does the Bible say the Bible says if you love me he says if
he says if you keep my commandments you shall abide in my love even as I have
kept my father's comments and abide in his love if you love me keep my
commandments he said didn't he so look this is trying to help people isn't it
help people to live right to abide in his love help you to abide in the love
that God the Father had for God the Son that's some love isn't it that sounds
good to me better than the pleasures of sin for a season doesn't it is that
better than the pleasures of sin for a season oh it all looks good for a little
while doesn't it all seems good but abiding in God's love that's what I want
and look when you do when you when you feel like you are when you feel like
you're living for God and you're trying to live for God it's a different feeling
isn't it yeah that's different to any of the so-called pleasures of sin
and it can be subtle kind of just about being a bit more worldly or at least you
know I don't have to be too you know you know just kind of try and get the
balance it's just pleasures of sin isn't it really you live for God live for God
now verse 11 these things have I spoken unto you that my joy might remain in you
and that your joy might be full and I want my joy to be full I hope everyone
else here wants their joy to be full and that goes hand in hand with the love of
God isn't it so again people I'm just so unhappy get right with God yeah get
right with God that will make you happy and look and some people don't always
have it seem to have the joys of life of others I'm not saying oh that's just
always a sin problem you know there's you know different people are maybe you
know blessed with different issues and problems and stuff but but the ultimate
answer is get right with God isn't it okay because our joy may be full then
but that could be the hardest time though can't it can't that be the
hardest time when when because when we're unhappy we often sin more don't
we we're unhappy that's when we sadly go into more sin and and you have to break
that vicious cycle you have to don't you because you get unhappy you sin more
you're sinning more you get more unhappy and next thing you know you're
plummeting and it's hard to get out of it how do you break that vicious cycle
well first things first what you need to do get soul-winning get soul-winning
you know and and look obviously we should be working on every aspect of our
life soul-winning you know like like we said you know it's not oh well I'm
soul-winning forget the rest of it but get soul-winning yeah get soul-winning
oh well I'm just too sinful no get soul-winning yeah because if you
beareth the fruit he's gonna purge you isn't he okay and look just get out
soul-winning however bad however rough however rubbish you feel however much
you feel like you're just a sorry excuse for a Christian get out and get
someone saved get out and do do do that work do that first work get out get them
saved and you can break that cycle can't you okay get out and do it and obviously
don't neglect everything else and with that how's he gonna purge you through
the Word of God get out soul-winning read your Bible get to church and things
will improve verse 12 this is my commandment that you love one another as
I have loved you we talked about this a couple of weeks ago didn't we and we
should obviously all be loving each other shouldn't we loving each other as
fellow believers here verse 13 greater love hath no man than this a man lay
down his life for his friends now that's the bar raised high there isn't there
but there's a commandment there wasn't there in verse 12 this is my commandment
that you love one another now you can say oh well that's just the 11
disciples but we're all disciples aren't we hope everyone here considers himself
a disciple so would we lay down our lives for each other though don't want
to ask you fresh our hands here maybe for him not for her but we should
shouldn't we we should be and that that's I mean that's the bars up there
is there look it could be hard you know we talked about you know things
obviously look we're we're a new church and getting used to being a new church
how a church functions and everything else can be hard and then with that will
come in the annoyances with each other the the irritations the sometimes anger
for people they're just you know sadly it can become hatred for people in a
group setting meeting regularly regularly regularly and and it shouldn't
but it does doesn't it because we're all sinful and it can get to that where
people are just there's disliking everything else but really we should
love each other as Jesus loved us and greater love hath no man this and a man
lay down his life for his friends that's what Jesus Christ has done for us isn't
it so that's what we should have now again like we saw it doesn't not
everyone was leaning on Jesus's chest were they okay it doesn't mean okay well
that's it now everyone just has to be cuddling each other and you know and
best friends with everyone in no but we should at least want what's best for
each other we should want to give to each other shouldn't we we should want
the best we should want to pray for each other we shouldn't be desiring secretly
in our hearts or in our heads something bad happens to some I don't mean
something really bad but you shouldn't be thinking you know things don't go
well for them you know because of the way they've spoken to me or talk to me
or the way I I at least assume that they think about me that's not how it should
be we should have that love that Jesus Christ and that love is a giving love
where we just want what's best for each other don't we and and ultimately he
laid down his life didn't he ye are my friends if ye do whatsoever I command
you wait a minute what sort of friendship is this yeah you could read
that could you could go about this you know imagine I said that to one of my
friends you're my friend if you do everything I tell you to do okay but
turn to Psalm 119 so Psalm 119 Jesus said ye are my friends if ye do
whatsoever I command you Psalm 119 and verse 14 no sorry Psalm 119 verse 98
so verse 98 Psalm 119 98 says thou through thy commandments has made me
wiser than mine enemies for they are ever with me so here we see that through
the commandments we are made wiser look at verse 172 172 says my tongue shall
speak of thy word for all thy commandments are righteousness so we've
got we've got it making us wise we've got righteousness now you have to turn
it but first John 2 3 says in here by we do know that we know him if we keep his
commandments so when we do whatsoever he commands us we become wise we become
righteous and we then know him makes sense then that we can then be called
his friends isn't it makes friend it makes sense that he wants us to be like
that to be called his friends doesn't it that if we if we keep his commands we
become the sort of person Jesus wants to be friends with yeah back to John John
15 and again like you know you there are so many verses you could exhort just how
often we see what the commandments are result in us is but ultimately the
result is that we become more like Jesus Christ don't we and if we're more like
Jesus Christ then we can be a friend of Jesus Christ can't we verse 15 hence
forth I call you not servants for the servant knoweth not what his Lord doeth
but I have called you friends for all things that I have heard of my father I
have made known unto you and again I still think this applies to us too
because the servant isn't privy to all of the finer details is he okay the
servant if anyone employs anyone you're not just telling him exactly all the ins
and outs of everything and that's a great thing about the one true religion
isn't it the one true religion is the Word of God gives us a knowledge and
understanding that we we don't necessarily need you know don't get me
wrong it's great to have it but but it's through God's grace isn't it that that
we have the literal Word of God in our hands here in our King James Bibles the
literal words of God in our hands and the ability to understand it through the
Holy Spirit yeah now obviously we need to understand we needed to be preached
salvation to be preached a gospel but as saved Christians we have access to the
literal words of God okay the literal words of God and words that can make
such a difference in our lives even after salvation and obviously yeah we
should be you know part of that is for us to be able to go forth and bring
forth more fruit but there's parts of this Bible which are just so rich and
just such just a pleasure to read aren't there just a pleasure to read a pleasure
to study knowledge from this Bible which isn't necessarily going to make you get
more people saved but it's just it's like a gift to us isn't it and and look
and that's why in a way he's saying you know I'm not calling you servants
because because we know we know everything he wants us to know and and
and that's not just so we can serve him he's just he's given us the ultimate
gift here isn't he for life and so that we can have and so that we can enjoy and
have enjoyment in life and and and so much wisdom we can get and everything
else from the Word of God it's amazing really isn't it that's why Jesus calls
his disciples friends and and again you know we have it don't we and you know
our labor that point I don't think you could you could preach it enough but we
have it we just got to read it don't we have it you got it in your hands read it
read it we've got the preserved Word of God there verse 16 he said you have not
chosen me but I have chosen you and ordained you that you should go and
bring forth fruit and that your fruit should remain that whatsoever you shall
ask of the Father in my name he may give it you and of course this applies to the
remaining 11 disciples here who were chosen to be along with Judas the 12
yeah so nothing to do with salvation because he chose Judas too didn't he and
we see that back in I think John 6 17 so the asking the father in his name is
in the context of going and bringing forth fruit wasn't it that was a
context here going and bringing forth fruit like I said before verse 17 these
things I command you that you love one another again it's a command isn't it
not a suggestion not if you can not if they're nice not if they're you got
stuff in common no he commands us love one another okay we should just love each
other anyway doesn't matter it doesn't matter if you got you know just just
just wind me up that one make me better look still let's still love each other
love each other verse 18 if the world hate you you know that it hated me
before it hated you if you were of the world the world would love his own but
because you're not of the world but I have chosen you out of the world
therefore the world hateth you if the world loves you you're of the world
right the world loves you you're of the world and that's a good thing to
remember when you have old friends and family fast going off you starting to
separate from you don't want to be around you and I believe that this also
girls goes for the worldly saved people too though yeah because let's be honest
there are many saved people that seem to be of the world as well there are many
worldly Christians aren't there and the non disciples are thorny or rocky ground
Christians and the liberal Christian that doesn't follow his commandments it
claims that you know they're just you know such a loving person everything
else but they've got no interest in following Jesus command commandments
they're not disciples are they they're not disciples remember John 8 31 said
then Jesus said unto those said sorry then said Jesus Jews which believed on
him if you continue in my word then are ye my disciples indeed okay if you
continue in his word you're his disciples so for all those Christians
that don't let's be honest a lot of them generally hate us as well don't they a
lot of them should hate us yeah if they're if they're just some worldly you
know non-decide a lot of them do and look it's not like they hate you because
you save they hate you because the you shine the light on them don't you they
hate you when you're trying to live for God when you're going out and you're
trying to get people saved and you know they hate you for it and it's not
because we're so great it's just thank God that we've we listen to the Word of
God thank God that we read the Word of God thank God that he gave us the Word
of God and thank God that he's put it in our heart to want to want to follow the
Word of God it these people was they do and I think of it often with you know
some of these lame churches and these you know some of these very old IFB type
churches and they really do hate churches like us why why and they and
they and they put up their straw man don't they they put up or at least say
you know they pin it all on exists the you know they dare to suggest that the
Jews aren't the chosen people like you know like that's just a deal breaker
that is worthy effect and then they'll start coming out with worldly terms like
anti-semite and racist and everything else or they'll claim it's because of
you know just the bad eschatology the bad it's good daring to suggest that we
could even go through the tribulation you know I mean how outlandish is that
you know but but really it's not is it it's because of what it's because we're
going out and preaching the gospel that's what it really comes down to isn't
it it's because we're going out preaching the gospel getting people
saying because we're trying to live for God because because and because they're
not if they're out preaching the gospel I reckon and I think this is I don't
know I'd be interested to hear anyone who's ever had experience of this but
we don't have any churches like this here but those you know those older IFB
churches out in the States the ones that are still out preaching the gospel is
still out getting people staving still door-to-door soul-winning I would hazard
a guess that there's very little hatred for an IFB churches they'll say yeah we
disagree on some doctrines you know and that'll be it you know because they
don't you know for them they might just have stuck to what they kind of learn
you know pre-trib Zionism etc but but it's the ones that don't do the works
isn't it it's the ones that aren't and that's and that's it he said if you were
of the world the world would love his own but because you're not of the world
but I've chosen you out of the world therefore the world hate if you and
sadly that's also worldly Christians I believe verse 20 remember the word that
I said unto you the servant is not greater than his Lord if they have
persecuted me they will also persecute you if they have kept my saying they
will keep yours also so if Jesus Christ suffered persecution why do you think
that we're we're going to avoid it oh you don't think we're going to avoid it
because we're not but it's a good thing isn't it it's a good thing because he
said you if they've persecute me they will persecute you if they kept my saying
they'll keep yours also because if you turn to Matthew chapter 5 Jesus said
they will also persecute you so get it in your head Christian you want to live
for God you are gonna get persecuted you will get persecuted you probably
already have been persecuted and it's only gonna get worse sorry about that
but it is only gonna get worse but Matthew 5 and from verse 10 says blessed
are they which are persecuted for righteousness sake for theirs is the
kingdom of heaven blessed are ye where men shall revile you and persecute you
and shall say all manner of evil against you falsely for my sake rejoice and be
exceeding glad for great is your reward in heaven for so persecuted day the
prophets which were before you rejoice be exceeding glad for great is your
reward in heaven focus on those rewards just focus on the rewards remember the
rewards just keep reminding yourself that's why it's mentioned regularly in
the in the New Testament about the rewards we can gain in heaven just keep
remembering that because it can be hard can't it but focus on it because you
will suffer it in John 15 20 Jesus said that if they have kept my saying they
will keep yours also and I I don't know I think in the context of persecution
maybe talk about using our words against us that's how I read that I don't know
anyone got another idea on that let me know afterwards I think they still give
out use your words against us on to verse 21 but all these things will they
do unto you for my name's sake because they know not him that sent me okay they
know not him there's no having the father without the son is there okay
this wicked false religion of Judaism is as lost if not more so I believe it is
more so than than all other false religions isn't it okay there it's not
they have the fire and I'm preaching the choir here but turn it first John to
anyway this is good to have reminds of this because I mean how much you you
feel like you bang your head against a wall with this if you look at other what
seemed to be saved Baptist churches out there so first John 2 and by the way
notice you know in what we've just been reading how it was talking about the
world hating his disciples the world yeah and as we go on we see who is being
referred to as the world okay not as a chosen people who are just waiting for
an automatic salvation is it okay the world hating you they don't believe
Moses because Jesus said had they believed Moses they would have believed
him didn't he now first John chapter 2 verse 22 who is a liar but he that
denyeth that Jesus is the Christ he is Antichrist it denyeth the father and the
son whosoever denyeth the son the same have not the father but he that
acknowledges the son had the father also they don't have the father or the
son do they I don't have either you can't have one without the other they
don't have him but it's even worse isn't it then that's not just they don't have
it verse 22 back to John John chapter 15 if I had not come and spoken unto them
they had not had sin but now they have no cloak for their sin so he's not
saying they were sinless as a cloak is talking about a hiding of their sin
isn't it so that everyone else their sin was hidden by the cloak of their false
religion yeah verse 23 he that hateth me hateth my father also so not only not
only they say they not only don't have the father they hate it they hate God
they hate God if only the Zionists would get it through their head they hate him
it's not oh they've just rejected Christ that's it you know they're gonna you
know automatically get saved in the end time no they hate God they hate him
doesn't matter when he comes in the in the sky they're not oh now now you know
we're gonna get so no they hate him they're done they hate him and the
hatred for Jesus Christ is everywhere isn't it isn't it everywhere and let's
be honest they've just been described as the world and they are the world aren't
they in our society in fact they dictate sadly these people these God haters
dictate what the world believe and what the world think so much don't they the
way the TV mocks and attacks Jesus Christ the way the movies present
promote his holy name as some sort of curse word don't they I mean that's been
pushed on people yeah I know they willfully do it but that's been pushed
for years through the through Hollywood especially hasn't it just every single
action here every almost every sort of film side of especially the action here
every curse word isn't it is using the Lord Jesus Christ name how wicked is
that how is that to promote that on TV to people the way he is openly
blasphemed in wicked news articles accusing him of all sorts of things
anyone ever seen this sort of stuff before you know when I started you know
so-called relationships adult I mean it's wicked absolutely wicked that how
you print that stuff that would never be printed about another religious figure
as they would call him never would they unbelievable movies made of wicked
books like the da Vinci Code is where people actually think that is that is
some sort of like historical writer I think I said this a while back I had
some of the customers work for go but didn't he have a relationship with me
Magdalene what in the Bible no it's not in the Bible it's in the da Vinci Code
and you know it's crazy isn't it it's crazy but but it's all a hatred for God
the Father also isn't it they hate Jesus Christ but hate God the Father and these
people just promote that hatred promote that mocking promote at all I was
talking to my brother last night who unfortunately likes Ricky Gervais yeah
and and and he said oh well he's just does he says he knows you know he knows
who he's he's just he knows the right things to say he knows that like this
kind of atheist viewpoint and mocking God and mocking Jesus he's just gonna
make him more popular I said no he's made his bed with the devil hasn't he
that's what he's done because really he's just he's he's just he's gone that
way isn't he he's I showed my brother actually Matthew 4 after that you know
if you bow down and worship me all these things will I give unto you and that's
what he's done isn't he he's just just made it clear he set his is stolen yeah
he has got popular and the devil's given him a lot a lot but it's not gonna be
anything when he's burning in hell and to write to that guy is wicked and all
these guys we and all these guys in the public eye and he's and they're all
they're all they're all spatting out the same rubbish aren't they but yeah the
only God that these people worship is a small God their father the devil isn't
it a small G God and and that's that's it that's who and these people and again
he's talking about it again here and it's throughout the Gospel of John and
if only these people these people that worship them as some sort of borderline
small G God themselves that you know that the holy Jew it's just if only
they could read this it's just absolutely crazy isn't it absolutely
crazy so unbiblical that doctrine verse 20 and by the way what I'm talking about
Jews here let's just make this clear yeah like this isn't so oh he's a racist
no because they're converts to a wicked religion I hate the religion like I hate
all false religions but I hate that religion more because that religion is
wicked and that religion blasphemes and curses Jesus Christ yeah and that that
religion and that's what it is it's a religion they've been converts throughout
history and they're converts in the Bible and and you are not a Jew by blood
are you like you know become a some sort of you know you're an inheritor of
Israel because you're the bloodline of some Ashkenazi that converted in the
eighth century or whatever it was it's ridiculous it's completely ridiculous
it's got nothing to do with race it is a wicked religion now you want to call you
yourself a religion because of you because your mother called herself that
religion that's up to you and people do that the world over it's got nothing to
do with race is it but that that religion is wicked and my King James
Bible says that religion is wicked and I will stand on this Bible and look cuz
it will come with time why do people you know what on earth how could you say
this well cuz the Bible says it doesn't it what did the Bible say who is a liar
but he that deny that Jesus Christ he is Antichrist that deny the father and the
son okay and they're denying that Jesus is the Christ other religions deny
there is a Christ they're denying that Jesus is the Christ
whosoever denied the son the same have not the father but either acknowledges
the son had the father or they don't have the father okay they hate him verse
24 if I had not done among them the works which none other man did they had
not had sin but now have they both seen and hated both me and my father the
works which the works were all done weren't they amongst Jews weren't they
the works were all done amongst what were known as Jews that day now you know
there are those that say they're Jews and are not but at the synagogue of
Satan but these were what were known as Jews and he did the works amongst them
and they hate him and they hate the father he showed them all didn't he who
he was and they openly rejected him they rejected him they not only rejected him
but what do they do they set out to kill him I mean that's something else
isn't it I mean we have people that reject the Lord Jesus Christ regularly
when we preach the gospel but they're set out to kill him I mean that's just
another level isn't it of hatred and what's that hatred for a hatred for God
the father too it's not oh just oh just hopefully well we just need to reach
those nice people look if they're not a reprobate great we want to reach him
sadly that religion creates a lot of reprobates doesn't it and we see that
and that's a sermon in itself maybe a good one okay verse 25 but this cometh
to pass that the word might be fulfilled that is written in their Lord they
hated me without a cause there's not cause for it is there they hated me
without cause by the way that's from Psalm 35 we don't have to go there though
verse 26 but when the comforter is come whom I will send unto you from the
father even the spirit of truth which proceedeth from the father he shall
testify of me and ye also shall bear witness because you have been with me
from the beginning and of course two of those original disciples wrote two of
the Gospels Matthew and John didn't they and then with John also right in first
second third John revelation you got Peter first second Peter and it you know
and they did testify they did bear witness didn't they but that's the Holy
Spirit isn't it testifying of Jesus through these holy men like we saw
earlier in this morning sermon but we also have the Holy Spirit don't we
everyone here who's saved has a Holy Spirit in dwelling them now obviously
there's nothing to add to the Bible okay so don't start getting out your pens
and thinking I can make an extra little chapter on there the chapter of sure
foundation Baptist Church UK no but we sure can go and bear witness can't we
can't we go and bear witness for we cannot but speak the things which we
have seen and heard and I hope everyone is in here thinking that well you cannot
but speak the things it's not it's not a drudgery it's not some chore is it we
cannot it should be something inside us it's saying let's just go and get people
saving and speak the things we've seen and heard yeah and that's what we should
be doing that's what we want to be doing this week and that's hopefully what we'll
be coming back to do next weekend as well on that let's pray Lord God father
I thank you for your word I thank you for such a great chapter of the Bible I
thank you for this church I thank you for all these people help us please Lord
to love each other is you know as you've loved us and as you've laid down your
life for us let us just just think about that and want to love each other we pray
for each other this week want to just be a great church and a great great great
group of people here and Lord I thank you for I thank you for salvation I
thank you for that free gift and help us to show people that help us to abide
in you and and and to do that the way you want us to do that and to go out and
just preach the gospel clearly go and preach it and and not just you know I
hope that people will come and ask us and I pray that you'll you'll help us
all to have a great week help us to to read our Bibles to abide in the word and
to appreciate that Bible and to read those bits which are specific to what we
need and and you know especially to work on those things that you want us to work
on through your word to be purged by your word and help us to then all get
back here next week and ever have a great day in Jesus name we pray all of
this