The Sermon Finding Your Way Home by David McGee
Jun 26, 2011
Finding Your Way Home (33:26)
Referenced Scriptures: John 15:1-10
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John 15:1-10
1) "I am the true vine, and my Father is the farmer.
2) Every branch in me that doesn‘t bear fruit, he takes away. Every branch that bears fruit, he prunes, that it may bear more fruit.
3) You are already pruned clean because of the word which I have spoken to you.
4) Remain in me, and I in you. As the branch can‘t bear fruit by itself, unless it remains in the vine, so neither can you, unless you remain in me.
5) I am the vine. You are the branches. He who remains in me, and I in him, the same bears much fruit, for apart from me you can do nothing.
6) If a man doesn‘t remain in me, he is thrown out as a branch, and is withered; and they gather them, throw them into the fire, and they are burned.
7) If you remain in me, and my words remain in you, you will ask whatever you desire, and it will be done to you.
8) In this is my Father glorified, that you bear much fruit; and so you will be my disciples.
9) Even as the Father has loved me, I also have loved you. Remain in my love.
10) If you keep my commandments, you will remain in my love; even as I have kept my Father‘s commandments, and remain in his love.
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The reading I have today is in John chapter fifteen, one to ten, but I'll be reading from the message Bible and the new. The title of the messages finding yourself at home and whenever Joe walked in the morning of the design moment like yes you are and but that was not my my message is finding her way home and whenever we read this occurs these verses. It's about the Vine and branches in the pruning in the limit on the buying and what you know universe generally don't associate that with finding your way home, but hopefully today as we look at this and read through this will understand that and understand why came up with that title 's own John chapter fifteen, beginning in verse one and the message Bible. It reads I am the real vine, and my father is a farmer. He trots off every branch of me that doesn't bear grapes and every branch that is great bearing. He prunes back so it will bear even more. You are already turned back by the message that I have spoken Lynn and me make your home in me just as I do, and you make your home and me just this I do and you in the same way that a branch can't bear grace by itself, but only by being joined to the vine, you can't bear fruit unless you are joined with me. I am the vine, you are the branches. When you're joined with me and I with you the relation intimate and organic. The harvest is sure to be abundant separate you can't produce a thing. Anyone who separates from me and his dad worked gathered up and thrown on the bonfire, but if you are, make yourself at home. If you make yourself at home with me and my words are all you really sure that whatever your last will be listened to and acted upon. This is how my father shows who is his when he produces grapes when you look sure is my disciple. I I want you the way my father has loved me, make yourself at home in my love if you keep my commandments, you remain absolutely at home in my love. That's what I've done to my father 's Commandments, and made myself at home in his love finding yourself at home. No. Whatever we think, what does it mean to you to do to be at home. It's an easy chair in a remote about the home is where the heart is always where you hang your hat. Home is where you are always wear your family is home sweet home. Any other swingout Alabama Medicaid. I wasn't noticing that okay anyone else. Any other home things, there's no place like home is that they by the end of life like no. So we often do not associate business ideas like the story. The minor branches with home but being home being home and home and home with the changes that you made with your life. And today I truly running on the grapevine. No printing of the grapevine is defined as to cut off or remove dead or living parts or branches to improve shape or growth to remote to remove what is undesired Grapevine, the fine is a plan with a wing span that is that there were derives support from clinging twining or craving along a surface so right of your photos, pictures, so when it comes to printing a grapevine. This is the driver got this off of the Internet is what it comes than turning a grapevine you want to frighten with a heavy hand, you want your vines to produce a few you don't want your minds to produce you want your findings to produce a few luscious grapes, not bunches and bunches of puny wedding rings. The secret to getting the most out of your grapevine is proper pruning and when you confirm you need to know that you need to know what you're trying to remote. You will need to prove about eighty percent of the previous year 's growth. This prevents the vines from becoming tangled type of mass and shaving shaving the fruit from the sun. Make sure that every broad that remains will grow in the sunshine, so that will receive the sunlight it needs to write. So we see here that there is this whining mass and it needs to be pro- so your North American odd that it binds. They made they go out to megawatt wind down the claims about everything and they need these mighty things, to grow, there is a new vineyard, but you see at the bottom here be the main mind going up that always stays whenever Jesus is using the analogy is him why we are the branches. So there's a main source, and we are grafted into that by this is a tribute looked hereby assigned that these are the workers going through and pruning that the thereby and getting ready for the next year as the crop, so eighty percent eighty percent of the blinds are trapped in the more, because this is one of Denver. Yes, oh, whenever threatened back if you've ever driven by a no great fields. Otto at the call the all the great field. They throw the way back and it looked like just six going up to this piece of wires going across and is hardly anything that when I was brought up in a general farm we had grapevines, but we never proven and if I never thought that you prove you for something. Our site is cut off a little bit, you know, but joint for this message they find out that you you want to prove off eighty percent so that it will continue to grow, so there's a different kind of pruning. First, there is confronting the cutoff branches that have no life in them at all. So there are there are branches that are DI branches on treason home that I have to wait for the wind storm gods pruning and they always given, they end up in your yard, so I have branches entrées that are attached, but there's no life in them, but I can get up high enough to to cut them down so I have to wait for God to bring the Mets is Winslow's. So that's that's nature 's God 's way of earnings where is separating and burning some writing is like the information or subversive separating is like the information we read on the burning on the vine. There are those branches that will interfere with the growth of other branches. There are parts of your character. When we think of this idea operating. Looking at it from the point of our being drafted into the buying and I we there are parts of who we are in our character that need to be pruned away from the way at all, because when we are in Christ, we are new creation in Christ all things pass away all all things become new. So what is part what is the part of our character that needs to be changed. That needs to be cut back. What is it, what part of our character is life and life giving is sustained by God. What part of our character needs to be per so God 's purpose in our life is that we bear fruit that we find purpose for this purpose we find private spotlight, we find meaning for our life. So, to become the person of God, the God intended us to be from the beginning requires that there be change it out if you look in the mirror and say perfect meal did okay. So you live in America, we look at ourselves and we know that there are parts of our character that need to be changed or parts of our life that need to be changed so. God 's purpose, then, in Christ, is that we are all that we meet we hear the word of God and the word of God that we were just reading this gives us an idea that there are parts of us that need change, and that there is a frightening aspect of the reading the Scriptures are surprising aspect of character that is part of being in church and worship me reading your Scriptures at home and praying it all. Having your devotionals. They are part of the printing process. They keep the character of God in the first of God growing in our lives. You sometimes we think that God 's purpose is negative now, but somehow that that Christ is divine. Realizing the crisis of buying the main part on this back to picture with the blinds and not living yard and now close up of the line coming out of the ground at each one of these of a lot of branches going on here, but it gave each one of these intersections is is a mind and not mine in the main part of the public line is, Christ is using his analogy that that is in and whenever we have become part of Christ, that we have been grafted in. The works you get a show cannot assure that you want individual slice in the bark of the vine make a little slice will see you spread that back. You take this show and put it in there and wrap that around that so that this show. That is, they are grafted in, receive nourishment from the mine and the nourishment that is in the mind, now falls into that sure. So whatever we accept Jesus Christ and except the Scriptures as as the word of God for our lives. We are accepting the life of God flowing into our mind. Now there are parts of our vine who we are that are left over is aware from our old nature from our old self and there is a friendly process that God is doing so, it is thought and for the Christ basically, developmental, that we are establishing new direction and we are to remember about abiding growls, but as we read it clings about anything, so sometimes we find ourselves growing and adhering to wrong thing wrong principles. What do collegiate. What is the source of our strength. What is the source of our life. Jesus is saying that we get our life from him. Verse four says Lynn and me make your home in me just as I do and you Jesus is making his home in our hearts in our lives that we get our life from Christ, I came across this story by Ron White is the negative articles each week and it's on on on development things that he says and I thought this kind of fitted. This would fit in with this idea of grafting one says that this destabilizing is talking about the story. It was a Texas Ranger baseball game. He says I started. I stared words, letters correct. I stared at the batter and moderate potential as he held the battle over his shoulder, waiting for the . No sooner had the word escaped my mouth when my friend leaned over and said what did you say I replied I said potential. Our question was inferior. She says okay. Potential in regard to what I then explained well in science. They have something called potential energy, and it basically says that a higher object is the more potential than half for example, I walked on top of the building has a potential energy in it. If it were to fall, I was just thinking about the potential energy in the players that and how that relates to me. Potential energy basically says that the higher object is the greater the potential energy of all honest six-story building has more potential energy than one on a three-story building. As a matter of fact, the dumpling of the high doubles the potential energy. You see it has been said that from goals. To whom much has been given much is expected. You have been given much, or in a scientific term, you have tremendous potential. You're like a rock on a tall building. However, if you set there. The potential energy is never realized or access. So in this probing process, Jesus wants to develop the potential that is in each of us. The Robin goes on to say, I am constantly face with the prospect of not using my potential to me that is not one of my largest motivating factors than I do everything I could to figuratively jump off that building and extend the energy pent up inside of you right now is tremendous potential energy that would be utilized to your cancer. Sending humans to Mars. Write a novel become president of the United States gave that what you would consider impossible. The great tragedy is not standing your potential energy and falling short humans with nothing more than when nothing more than an outline built a large, nothing more than faith that God spoke to them, brought a nation out of Egypt walk-through Red Sea survive the lions den confronted Pharaoh, and set people free enough to think of Moses that he spent forty years in Pharaoh 's court forty years in the desert before he became capable of leading the nation of Israel out of Egypt, which was another forty-year journey. So how then did the pruning process take place for Moses to see each individual is grafted into the mind is granted into who Jesus Christ is and as a church we find our divine purpose is that we are part of the body of Christ and we are part of bearing and there is the fruit of the spirit which is lobbing joy and peace in patients and gentleness and meekness unkindness a long-suffering, where does effort come from, how does it for her role in our life and growth of being grafted into the buying and allowing the strength and in the spirit of Christ that if the same Spirit who raised Christ from the dead dwell in you, he will quicken your mortal bodies, the life of God will flow into lots, and it is the life of God lolling interlocks against us the ability to forgive. Paul said in our Sunday school lessons morning, forgetting those things which are behind meeting that we do not allow our mistakes of the past to influence our decisions for the future so we are allowing what God has done in the grafting in the changing and there is a process in which I never thought of this eighty percent on my new growth needs to be pruned away why so that it can bear fruit and that there are aspects of my character that are overshadowing the really part of my character that I need to remove so the really good part of who I am in majority grown men bear fruit. I am en route reading an article on Leno was by him by one of these other individuals that said that every aspect of link if we numbered every quality every aspect of our life are things we could do like I and I as it is maybe a couple years ago, maybe sooner, as I don't remember off if you were to say, on a scale of one to ten, you would use my singing performances and qualities of a scale one to ten, they would be a minus two okay and so I find it all a lifetime tuning in and and and going to voice lessons and all that I could probably get up to two make on a scale of ten being the highest. I can't say, but there are other qualities that I have that if I really focused on them, they probably are seven eight six seven or eight, and finally focus on them. They will, and I think that love just two notches. There are seven and I taken to a nine wow, that becomes my potential. The idea is focused on the qualities of your life that are your your assets, not the qualities of why are your deficits because of a focus on marketing on on the poor quality, the wildlife were going to be a breach who want to be average. Then, the idea that everyone of us have qualities that are superior and we all have qualities that are now not the best in the back. The sad thing is whenever we're down and depressed and discouraged. We take our bad qualities incompatible other people 's good qualities as they aren't we terrible and God is saying, I'm looking at who you are as a person and I say that every part of the body of Christ is that each of us have a way of fulfilling the needs of others because there are weaknesses that I have where your strengths are your strengths. Overcome for my weaknesses. My strengths. Overcome your weaknesses are present in marriage that when two people are unmarried that the strengths of the one are often the weaknesses of the other, and no strength left each other and that they end up taking each other to a different level or higher level in their relationship because we are allowing the strengths of each other to be multiplied, and to be enhanced, so we are looking at our strengths and we are looking at the strengths of the other and bring them in to become one and the strengths take us to a different level in the planning process that God is about in our life is about taking away the things the parts of our character that are keeping the sun away from the greater strengths of our character you are going to produce fruit. Sometimes that involves pruning how many would really love to be proven, just like praying for patience and a lot of regulations why they can't finalize the wait South so saw the fruits of the Spirit in our part of our growing our relationship with Christ and part of the character of Christ being realized and us so connected to Christ, Lyndon Christ make your home and be just as I do in you can imagine is that God is at home in 's do we feel at home in him. We are. We need to because he loves God loves being at home in us a blouse to laymen 's to separate our sins from our lives and he will oppositely in: ASP to shoulder we can realize the potential we can realize why we were created, and what we are here for, and that God is bringing that the fruition of the fruit of that would grow in our lives. I'm the mind. You are the branches. Verse five I am the vine, you are the branches. And when you are joined with me and I with you. The relationship is intimate and the harvest is sure to be abundant. So what is firm but has proven from our spirit, our character, our personnel at another story send the to legal school. I like that they can send a Doctor Eagle school, but about driven by Mac Anderson is an Mac] I don't know. I don't know Mac belt segment of economic growth. This, my friend a few years ago I had lunch with a top executive from the company known for their legendary retail service. My wife and I are both big fans and over lunch I shared with him. Some of the great service stories. His people have provided for the Anderson family I said the service new people give you must have a training manual to Angels that you look at me and said back. We don't have a training manual. What we do is find the best people we can find, and we empower them to do whatever it takes to satisfy the customer. Then he said something I'll never forget he said we learned a long time ago that you can't send the. To illegal school scares me. I said you can't send a Doctor legal school. You can't teach someone to smile. You can't teach someone to want to serve you can teach personality. What we can do however is higher. People who have those qualities and we can teach them about our products and teach them our culture is a God changes us, God changes us. This company isn't going to change the circumstances on this planet that are capable of changing our character. There is no school that will change your character only God can change the character and change the heart. This is all God is looking across whether we're slalom parses and is taking us in confronting us and changing our life to be Paul the apostle, changing us from the inside out so that we can be changed and that the character of God can be in us all that we can Davis employable person according to the Mac Anderson that you can't teach people smile, but when God appears in the heart we do change. I think above my teen challenge areas like that where people have been this totally destroy their life with problems in their life and how that God has come in and and change them entirely. We had individuals that the chaplains conference that spoke about how that it I like they need the one with the attorney that was able to say that it in his junior year in high school. He was considered mentally challenged but he graduated from Harvard Law school as a student, because in his junior year, when he gave his life to Christ. He read the book of James, and in the book of James. It said God will give you wisdom. If you lack and when he read that it was like everything came together in his head that God was at work and capable of giving him understanding of how to put all these things together in his head messaging is an absolute genius. But God gave them the ability when he found that place and found that Scripture the interesting talk about this dangerous analysis and common statement, but when God got in interchange that that we saw the city came together in his life. Amanda got a guy go with the Harvard Law school in Apple 's Carlson school scholarship because it was a genius, but it didn't come together for him, and Chelsea. And these are the things that when God when it comes together in our life. God has a way of bringing life to us that underlying principle of July, the underlying stability of being able to have a foundational experience that helps us stay focused and that whenever we are growing the parts of our character that would be overshadowing our strengths, God is going to prove because there is greater purpose than having all of those vines growing everywhere. There is a greater purpose in trimming and pruning back some areas of our life to allow qualities of our character, the qualities of our life. The blue receipt fruit of the Spirit is joy the opposite of that God prunes, which is bitterness fruit of the Spirit 's piece got turns away turmoil through the spiritist patients God prunes away anxiousness, gentleness God friends away. Fear -based living through the Spirit 's nakedness got through the way that which would harden our hearts for the spiritus kindness, God turns away bitterness fruit of the Spirit is long-suffering. Our patients in circumstances, God turns away and page the God changes us from the inside out to bear fruit is the make a difference. The text says separate from the vine, separate from the line separate from Jesus. We can't produce anything, but if you make yourself at home with me and my words are home in you at home in you a place to be your self a place to be comfortable. A place to relax a place that is separate from the world united with Christ 's life-giving spirit flow through you. A place for your thoughts and feelings in life are value by God because he abides in you, you abide in him where you can ask whatever you want. It will be listened to while I think the meeting, hearing, is there certain things I don't hear them know some of you on that same experience at home or not. But now our business for this hearing problem of listening problem. One of them, which is the whenever we are home in price every thought, every word, her and acted upon God the father shows who he is when you produce grapes. God shows two years by the fruit that is in your life. Life has a purpose and that purpose is in how we bear fruit of love and joy and peace and peace and patience and gentleness God 's purpose for our life fine line purpose. Power that for a new part of that process. And Jesus says I love you the way my father has loved me, so make yourself at home in my lot being for making yourself at home in my love shows dreading its preparing for fruit and I was thinking of this segment I had when I read the Scriptures. Earlier in the week, and I thought and I read over and over and that segments about making yourself at home. I never thought of pruning is making yourself at home. But as we make herself at home in God and God makes himself at home with us were able to see there are parts of our character car parts of our life that we need to focus less on their parts of our character parts of our life, we need to focus more on and to allow the life of the spirit to flow into us and you see you can send the doctor legal school, but when God changes us. We are transformed and it's a transformation from the inside ounceThe reading I have today is in John chapter fifteen, one to ten, but I'll be reading from the message Bible and the new. The title of the messages finding yourself at home and whenever Joe walked in the morning of the design moment like yes you are and but that was not my my message is finding her way home and whenever we read this occurs these verses. It's about the Vine and branches in the pruning in the limit on the buying and what you know universe generally don't associate that with finding your way home, but hopefully today as we look at this and read through this will understand that and understand why came up with that title 's own John chapter fifteen, beginning in verse one and the message Bible. It reads I am the real vine, and my father is a farmer. He trots off every branch of me that doesn't bear grapes and every branch that is great bearing. He prunes back so it will bear even more. You are already turned back by the message that I have spoken Lynn and me make your home in me just as I do, and you make your home and me just this I do and you in the same way that a branch can't bear grace by itself, but only by being joined to the vine, you can't bear fruit unless you are joined with me. I am the vine, you are the branches. When you're joined with me and I with you the relation intimate and organic. The harvest is sure to be abundant separate you can't produce a thing. Anyone who separates from me and his dad worked gathered up and thrown on the bonfire, but if you are, make yourself at home. If you make yourself at home with me and my words are all you really sure that whatever your last will be listened to and acted upon. This is how my father shows who is his when he produces grapes when you look sure is my disciple. I I want you the way my father has loved me, make yourself at home in my love if you keep my commandments, you remain absolutely at home in my love. That's what I've done to my father 's Commandments, and made myself at home in his love finding yourself at home. No. Whatever we think, what does it mean to you to do to be at home. It's an easy chair in a remote about the home is where the heart is always where you hang your hat. Home is where you are always wear your family is home sweet home. Any other swingout Alabama Medicaid. I wasn't noticing that okay anyone else. Any other home things, there's no place like home is that they by the end of life like no. So we often do not associate business ideas like the story. The minor branches with home but being home being home and home and home with the changes that you made with your life. And today I truly running on the grapevine. No printing of the grapevine is defined as to cut off or remove dead or living parts or branches to improve shape or growth to remote to remove what is undesired Grapevine, the fine is a plan with a wing span that is that there were derives support from clinging twining or craving along a surface so right of your photos, pictures, so when it comes to printing a grapevine. This is the driver got this off of the Internet is what it comes than turning a grapevine you want to frighten with a heavy hand, you want your vines to produce a few you don't want your minds to produce you want your findings to produce a few luscious grapes, not bunches and bunches of puny wedding rings. The secret to getting the most out of your grapevine is proper pruning and when you confirm you need to know that you need to know what you're trying to remote. You will need to prove about eighty percent of the previous year 's growth. This prevents the vines from becoming tangled type of mass and shaving shaving the fruit from the sun. Make sure that every broad that remains will grow in the sunshine, so that will receive the sunlight it needs to write. So we see here that there is this whining mass and it needs to be pro- so your North American odd that it binds. They made they go out to megawatt wind down the claims about everything and they need these mighty things, to grow, there is a new vineyard, but you see at the bottom here be the main mind going up that always stays whenever Jesus is using the analogy is him why we are the branches. So there's a main source, and we are grafted into that by this is a tribute looked hereby assigned that these are the workers going through and pruning that the thereby and getting ready for the next year as the crop, so eighty percent eighty percent of the blinds are trapped in the more, because this is one of Denver. Yes, oh, whenever threatened back if you've ever driven by a no great fields. Otto at the call the all the great field. They throw the way back and it looked like just six going up to this piece of wires going across and is hardly anything that when I was brought up in a general farm we had grapevines, but we never proven and if I never thought that you prove you for something. Our site is cut off a little bit, you know, but joint for this message they find out that you you want to prove off eighty percent so that it will continue to grow, so there's a different kind of pruning. First, there is confronting the cutoff branches that have no life in them at all. So there are there are branches that are DI branches on treason home that I have to wait for the wind storm gods pruning and they always given, they end up in your yard, so I have branches entrées that are attached, but there's no life in them, but I can get up high enough to to cut them down so I have to wait for God to bring the Mets is Winslow's. So that's that's nature 's God 's way of earnings where is separating and burning some writing is like the information or subversive separating is like the information we read on the burning on the vine. There are those branches that will interfere with the growth of other branches. There are parts of your character. When we think of this idea operating. Looking at it from the point of our being drafted into the buying and I we there are parts of who we are in our character that need to be pruned away from the way at all, because when we are in Christ, we are new creation in Christ all things pass away all all things become new. So what is part what is the part of our character that needs to be changed. That needs to be cut back. What is it, what part of our character is life and life giving is sustained by God. What part of our character needs to be per so God 's purpose in our life is that we bear fruit that we find purpose for this purpose we find private spotlight, we find meaning for our life. So, to become the person of God, the God intended us to be from the beginning requires that there be change it out if you look in the mirror and say perfect meal did okay. So you live in America, we look at ourselves and we know that there are parts of our character that need to be changed or parts of our life that need to be changed so. God 's purpose, then, in Christ, is that we are all that we meet we hear the word of God and the word of God that we were just reading this gives us an idea that there are parts of us that need change, and that there is a frightening aspect of the reading the Scriptures are surprising aspect of character that is part of being in church and worship me reading your Scriptures at home and praying it all. Having your devotionals. They are part of the printing process. They keep the character of God in the first of God growing in our lives. You sometimes we think that God 's purpose is negative now, but somehow that that Christ is divine. Realizing the crisis of buying the main part on this back to picture with the blinds and not living yard and now close up of the line coming out of the ground at each one of these of a lot of branches going on here, but it gave each one of these intersections is is a mind and not mine in the main part of the public line is, Christ is using his analogy that that is in and whenever we have become part of Christ, that we have been grafted in. The works you get a show cannot assure that you want individual slice in the bark of the vine make a little slice will see you spread that back. You take this show and put it in there and wrap that around that so that this show. That is, they are grafted in, receive nourishment from the mine and the nourishment that is in the mind, now falls into that sure. So whatever we accept Jesus Christ and except the Scriptures as as the word of God for our lives. We are accepting the life of God flowing into our mind. Now there are parts of our vine who we are that are left over is aware from our old nature from our old self and there is a friendly process that God is doing so, it is thought and for the Christ basically, developmental, that we are establishing new direction and we are to remember about abiding growls, but as we read it clings about anything, so sometimes we find ourselves growing and adhering to wrong thing wrong principles. What do collegiate. What is the source of our strength. What is the source of our life. Jesus is saying that we get our life from him. Verse four says Lynn and me make your home in me just as I do and you Jesus is making his home in our hearts in our lives that we get our life from Christ, I came across this story by Ron White is the negative articles each week and it's on on on development things that he says and I thought this kind of fitted. This would fit in with this idea of grafting one says that this destabilizing is talking about the story. It was a Texas Ranger baseball game. He says I started. I stared words, letters correct. I stared at the batter and moderate potential as he held the battle over his shoulder, waiting for the . No sooner had the word escaped my mouth when my friend leaned over and said what did you say I replied I said potential. Our question was inferior. She says okay. Potential in regard to what I then explained well in science. They have something called potential energy, and it basically says that a higher object is the more potential than half for example, I walked on top of the building has a potential energy in it. If it were to fall, I was just thinking about the potential energy in the players that and how that relates to me. Potential energy basically says that the higher object is the greater the potential energy of all honest six-story building has more potential energy than one on a three-story building. As a matter of fact, the dumpling of the high doubles the potential energy. You see it has been said that from goals. To whom much has been given much is expected. You have been given much, or in a scientific term, you have tremendous potential. You're like a rock on a tall building. However, if you set there. The potential energy is never realized or access. So in this probing process, Jesus wants to develop the potential that is in each of us. The Robin goes on to say, I am constantly face with the prospect of not using my potential to me that is not one of my largest motivating factors than I do everything I could to figuratively jump off that building and extend the energy pent up inside of you right now is tremendous potential energy that would be utilized to your cancer. Sending humans to Mars. Write a novel become president of the United States gave that what you would consider impossible. The great tragedy is not standing your potential energy and falling short humans with nothing more than when nothing more than an outline built a large, nothing more than faith that God spoke to them, brought a nation out of Egypt walk-through Red Sea survive the lions den confronted Pharaoh, and set people free enough to think of Moses that he spent forty years in Pharaoh 's court forty years in the desert before he became capable of leading the nation of Israel out of Egypt, which was another forty-year journey. So how then did the pruning process take place for Moses to see each individual is grafted into the mind is granted into who Jesus Christ is and as a church we find our divine purpose is that we are part of the body of Christ and we are part of bearing and there is the fruit of the spirit which is lobbing joy and peace in patients and gentleness and meekness unkindness a long-suffering, where does effort come from, how does it for her role in our life and growth of being grafted into the buying and allowing the strength and in the spirit of Christ that if the same Spirit who raised Christ from the dead dwell in you, he will quicken your mortal bodies, the life of God will flow into lots, and it is the life of God lolling interlocks against us the ability to forgive. Paul said in our Sunday school lessons morning, forgetting those things which are behind meeting that we do not allow our mistakes of the past to influence our decisions for the future so we are allowing what God has done in the grafting in the changing and there is a process in which I never thought of this eighty percent on my new growth needs to be pruned away why so that it can bear fruit and that there are aspects of my character that are overshadowing the really part of my character that I need to remove so the really good part of who I am in majority grown men bear fruit. I am en route reading an article on Leno was by him by one of these other individuals that said that every aspect of link if we numbered every quality every aspect of our life are things we could do like I and I as it is maybe a couple years ago, maybe sooner, as I don't remember off if you were to say, on a scale of one to ten, you would use my singing performances and qualities of a scale one to ten, they would be a minus two okay and so I find it all a lifetime tuning in and and and going to voice lessons and all that I could probably get up to two make on a scale of ten being the highest. I can't say, but there are other qualities that I have that if I really focused on them, they probably are seven eight six seven or eight, and finally focus on them. They will, and I think that love just two notches. There are seven and I taken to a nine wow, that becomes my potential. The idea is focused on the qualities of your life that are your your assets, not the qualities of why are your deficits because of a focus on marketing on on the poor quality, the wildlife were going to be a breach who want to be average. Then, the idea that everyone of us have qualities that are superior and we all have qualities that are now not the best in the back. The sad thing is whenever we're down and depressed and discouraged. We take our bad qualities incompatible other people 's good qualities as they aren't we terrible and God is saying, I'm looking at who you are as a person and I say that every part of the body of Christ is that each of us have a way of fulfilling the needs of others because there are weaknesses that I have where your strengths are your strengths. Overcome for my weaknesses. My strengths. Overcome your weaknesses are present in marriage that when two people are unmarried that the strengths of the one are often the weaknesses of the other, and no strength left each other and that they end up taking each other to a different level or higher level in their relationship because we are allowing the strengths of each other to be multiplied, and to be enhanced, so we are looking at our strengths and we are looking at the strengths of the other and bring them in to become one and the strengths take us to a different level in the planning process that God is about in our life is about taking away the things the parts of our character that are keeping the sun away from the greater strengths of our character you are going to produce fruit. Sometimes that involves pruning how many would really love to be proven, just like praying for patience and a lot of regulations why they can't finalize the wait South so saw the fruits of the Spirit in our part of our growing our relationship with Christ and part of the character of Christ being realized and us so connected to Christ, Lyndon Christ make your home and be just as I do in you can imagine is that God is at home in 's do we feel at home in him. We are. We need to because he loves God loves being at home in us a blouse to laymen 's to separate our sins from our lives and he will oppositely in: ASP to shoulder we can realize the potential we can realize why we were created, and what we are here for, and that God is bringing that the fruition of the fruit of that would grow in our lives. I'm the mind. You are the branches. Verse five I am the vine, you are the branches. And when you are joined with me and I with you. The relationship is intimate and the harvest is sure to be abundant. So what is firm but has proven from our spirit, our character, our personnel at another story send the to legal school. I like that they can send a Doctor Eagle school, but about driven by Mac Anderson is an Mac] I don't know. I don't know Mac belt segment of economic growth. This, my friend a few years ago I had lunch with a top executive from the company known for their legendary retail service. My wife and I are both big fans and over lunch I shared with him. Some of the great service stories. His people have provided for the Anderson family I said the service new people give you must have a training manual to Angels that you look at me and said back. We don't have a training manual. What we do is find the best people we can find, and we empower them to do whatever it takes to satisfy the customer. Then he said something I'll never forget he said we learned a long time ago that you can't send the. To illegal school scares me. I said you can't send a Doctor legal school. You can't teach someone to smile. You can't teach someone to want to serve you can teach personality. What we can do however is higher. People who have those qualities and we can teach them about our products and teach them our culture is a God changes us, God changes us. This company isn't going to change the circumstances on this planet that are capable of changing our character. There is no school that will change your character only God can change the character and change the heart. This is all God is looking across whether we're slalom parses and is taking us in confronting us and changing our life to be Paul the apostle, changing us from the inside out so that we can be changed and that the character of God can be in us all that we can Davis employable person according to the Mac Anderson that you can't teach people smile, but when God appears in the heart we do change. I think above my teen challenge areas like that where people have been this totally destroy their life with problems in their life and how that God has come in and and change them entirely. We had individuals that the chaplains conference that spoke about how that it I like they need the one with the attorney that was able to say that it in his junior year in high school. He was considered mentally challenged but he graduated from Harvard Law school as a student, because in his junior year, when he gave his life to Christ. He read the book of James, and in the book of James. It said God will give you wisdom. If you lack and when he read that it was like everything came together in his head that God was at work and capable of giving him understanding of how to put all these things together in his head messaging is an absolute genius. But God gave them the ability when he found that place and found that Scripture the interesting talk about this dangerous analysis and common statement, but when God got in interchange that that we saw the city came together in his life. Amanda got a guy go with the Harvard Law school in Apple 's Carlson school scholarship because it was a genius, but it didn't come together for him, and Chelsea. And these are the things that when God when it comes together in our life. God has a way of bringing life to us that underlying principle of July, the underlying stability of being able to have a foundational experience that helps us stay focused and that whenever we are growing the parts of our character that would be overshadowing our strengths, God is going to prove because there is greater purpose than having all of those vines growing everywhere. There is a greater purpose in trimming and pruning back some areas of our life to allow qualities of our character, the qualities of our life. The blue receipt fruit of the Spirit is joy the opposite of that God prunes, which is bitterness fruit of the Spirit 's piece got turns away turmoil through the spiritist patients God prunes away anxiousness, gentleness God friends away. Fear -based living through the Spirit 's nakedness got through the way that which would harden our hearts for the spiritus kindness, God turns away bitterness fruit of the Spirit is long-suffering. Our patients in circumstances, God turns away and page the God changes us from the inside out to bear fruit is the make a difference. The text says separate from the vine, separate from the line separate from Jesus. We can't produce anything, but if you make yourself at home with me and my words are home in you at home in you a place to be your self a place to be comfortable. A place to relax a place that is separate from the world united with Christ 's life-giving spirit flow through you. A place for your thoughts and feelings in life are value by God because he abides in you, you abide in him where you can ask whatever you want. It will be listened to while I think the meeting, hearing, is there certain things I don't hear them know some of you on that same experience at home or not. But now our business for this hearing problem of listening problem. One of them, which is the whenever we are home in price every thought, every word, her and acted upon God the father shows who he is when you produce grapes. God shows two years by the fruit that is in your life. Life has a purpose and that purpose is in how we bear fruit of love and joy and peace and peace and patience and gentleness God 's purpose for our life fine line purpose. Power that for a new part of that process. And Jesus says I love you the way my father has loved me, so make yourself at home in my lot being for making yourself at home in my love shows dreading its preparing for fruit and I was thinking of this segment I had when I read the Scriptures. Earlier in the week, and I thought and I read over and over and that segments about making yourself at home. I never thought of pruning is making yourself at home. But as we make herself at home in God and God makes himself at home with us were able to see there are parts of our character car parts of our life that we need to focus less on their parts of our character parts of our life, we need to focus more on and to allow the life of the spirit to flow into us and you see you can send the doctor legal school, but when God changes us. We are transformed and it's a transformation from the inside ounce