Connected l Senior Pastor Kenneth Carpenter

he would stand with me now for the reading of the word of God if you're not already standing and I invite your attention to the Book of John the Gospel of John chapter number 15 we're going to be reading verses 1. through 11 1-11 John chapter 15. 1 through 11. listen to the teaching of Jesus I am the True Vine and my father is the husbandman every branch in me that beareth not fruit he taketh away every branch that beareth fruit he purged it that it may bring forth more fruit now ye are clean through the word which I have spoken unto you abide in me and I in you as the branch cannot bear fruit of itself accepted abide in the Vine no more can ye accept ye abide in me I am the Vine ye are the branches he that abideth in me and I in him the same bringeth forth much fruit for without me ye can do nothing well I wish we could live that I wish we could live that one verse right there for without me ye can do nothing if a man abide not in me he is cast forth as a branch and is withered men gather them cast them into the fire and they are burned if he abide in me and my words abide in you ye shall ask what you will and it shall be done unto you herein is my father glorified that ye bear much fruit so shall ye be my disciples as the father hath loved me so have I loved you continue ye in my love if you keep my Commandments ye shall abide in my love even as I have kept my father's Commandments and abide in his love these things have I spoken unto you now he tells he tells the reason he spoke all 10 verses these things have I spoken unto you that my joy my joy might remain in you and that your joy might be full I want to teach a Bible lesson on one word tonight on one word connected connected when you say the word with me this evening connected God knows that I want to be connected to him I want to be connected to Him Father I love you tonight and God as our custom is we stand for the honor of the reading of your word and God as our custom is we pray after the reading God that you would open our hearts and anoint our lips that Lord we may impart the life-giving life-changing word Lord let this Bible lesson tonight bring Revelation to us and God may we live our lives much differently after tonight and God will give you the praise and the honor in Jesus wonderful name I do pray amen and amen you may be seated God bless you tonight connected connected this is the last of seven of the I am statements of Jesus Christ in the Book of John it's the last of the seven I am statements this statement I am which identified Jesus Christ as the god of Abraham Isaac and Jacob and the god that spoke to Moses the god that spoke to Moses at the burning bush last of the seven iems he said I am the bread of life I am the light of the world I am the door I am the Good Shepherd I am the resurrection and the life I am the way the truth and the life and what we will study tonight he said I am the True Vine I am the True Vine and when you study the teachings of Jesus you will find that he was a master at teaching he was a master at teaching you'll also find as you study the method of his teaching that he taught on the common man's level he taught on a level that the average man could comprehend he being God in flesh could have taught from such a lofty plane that the average person would have been lost in trying to understand what he was saying but he taught on a common level he taught on a common level and he used things of this Earth that when he would begin to teach it seemed rather simple he talked about soil and seed and he talked about he talked about a a a a seed of a mustard seed and he he talked about things he talked about things that that at first they would they would listen it was so simplistic they would just listen to him but then he had a way of turning the simple and making it spiritually profound and eye-opening not only that Jesus was a master storyteller he knew how to take a story whether it's a prodigal son he knew how to take a story about a lost coin or a lost sheep or lost son he knew how to just tell a story and when he would he would get finished with the story The Light would come on and you would see that he used the story to teach a spiritual principle he begins in John 15. by simply making the statement I am the True Vine I am the True Vine now they were very familiar with the imagery of a grapevine because what our flag is to us today the red white and blue Stripes Stars that represent our nation the Grapevine was that to the nation of Israel as a matter of fact as a matter of fact Herod had built the Jews a temple to Worship in and Herod had adorned the pillars of the temple when you walked up in Jesus day when you walked up to herod's Temple the one that he built for the Jews to worship he made ornaments around the pillars of that Temple and the ornaments was grapevines that went up or vines that went up that was the symbol that was the symbol of Israel that was that was their symbol The Grapes you remember when the spies came back from spying out the promised land they brought a cluster of grapes that it was a land that had these grape Vines and from the vine there was grapes and from The Grapes there was there was wine and from the from the grapes there was their substance so when he said I am the True Vine he was connecting himself to what they were depending upon Israel as a nation turn with me there's three vines that are mentioned in Scripture there is the pass Vine which was the nation of Israel Psalms chapter 80 and verse number 8 if you would go there someone say praise the Lord Psalms 80 and verse number 8. thou has brought a vine out of Egypt that vine was the children of Israel that were in bondage thou Hast brought a vine out of Egypt thou has cast out the Heathen and planted it the Heathen where the Canaanites that that occupied that occupied the land of Canaan and God drove them out thou preparest room before it and this caused it to take deep root and fill the land the hills were covered with the shadow of it and the bowels thereof were like The goodly Cedars she sent out her bowels unto the sea and her branches unto the river why hast thou then broken down her hedges now the psalmist here is is is giving a picture of the nation of Israel I brought you out of Egypt a vine I planted you in Canaan land I drove out I drove out all of the Heathen that were there and I planted you and you begin to grow and you begin to cover the land you you begin to prosper and you begin to spread out but then something in verse 12 happened why hast thou been broken down her hedges so that all they which pass by her do pluck her you see as long as Israel stayed within the standards and the hedges of The Commandments of God to hear o Israel the Lord our God is one Lord Thou shalt worship no other God as long as they kept the standards and the hedges of God's word around them they prosper but just as sure as they begin to let down their standards just as sure as they begin to let down their hedges all of a sudden people started coming by and plucking things out of her they could not have got to her had she kept her hedges up had she kept her standards up verse 13. the boar out of the wood not waste her the wild beast of the field doth devour it return We beseech thee Oh god of hosts now they're they they see the Dilemma that they're in as a nation nations are coming and devouring them they're losing they're losing Victory they're losing battles they're losing their children to the wild animals coming out of the wilderness but the enemy cannot enter injure you to the point that praying back to God cannot restore it you may have some injuries you may have some injuries that are due to you letting down the standards and the hedges but I don't care what condition you're in tonight you can turn it all around by prayer God can help you he says this psalmist begins to pray he says return We beseech thee Oh god of hosts look down from heaven and behold visit this what visit this Vine and the vineyard which thy right hand had planted and the branch that thou made is strong for thyself it is burnt with fire it is cut down they perish at the rebuke of thy countenance let thine hand be upon the man of thy right hand and upon the son of man whom Thou made is strong for thyself so will not we go back from thee Quicken us and we will call upon thy name turn us again O Lord God of hosts cause thy face to shine and we shall be saved in this Psalm is a sandwich of both the victory the Deliverance out of Egypt the prosperity of going into the Canaan land and in the midst of prosperity they let down their standards they let down their Hedges they begin to let down the word of God the enemy came in and began to devour them but then they begin to pray and they begin to ask God to turn back to us again turn back to us again this Vine said if you'll turn and cause your face to shine upon us Isaiah chapter 5 and verse number 1 is going to speak also and help us to see Israel as this Vine Israel as this Vine he says in Isaiah chapter 5 and verse number 1 now will I sing to my beloved a song of my beloved touching his Vineyard Isaiah said I want to sing to God I want to sing to God but I want to sing to God about this Vineyard he said my beloved Hatha Vineyard in a very fruitful Hill he fenced it he fenced it gathered out the stones thereof and planted it with the choicest Vine and built a tower in the midst of it and also made a wine press therein and he looked that it should bring forth grapes and it brought forth wild grapes in other words God did all this he did all this he planted it in a fruitful Hill he made sure the soil was right he dug out the rocks out so that the roots could go deep and wouldn't run into any rocks he dug out the Rocks he put everything conveniently there he put a tower he put a wine press he put everything there and he stood back and he waited for good grapes to come he waited for the good Grapes of Israel to come but he was met with disappointment because the Bible says that it brought forth wild grapes sour grapes it brought forth grapes that were not pleasant to The Taste to the palate verse 3. and now o inhabitants of Jerusalem and Men of Judah judge I pray you in other words he said he said he said counsel with me between me and my Vineyard what could I have done more to my Vineyard that I have not done in it wherefore when I looked that it should bring forth grapes it brought forth wild grapes and now go to I will tell you what I will do to my Vineyard I will take away the Hedge thereof and it shall be eaten up and break down the wall thereof and it shall be trodden down God looked at Israel and he said what more could I have done I put you in a fruitful Hill I dug out the Rocks so the roots would not uh have a hindrance I I did everything that I could do I even had a choice Vine I made sure it was the best of the Vine but you brought forth you brought forth wild grapes you see God wanted Israel to shine with a burning love for Jehovah until an angel would speak to Mary and tell her that she was going to bring forth Emmanuel God With Us but do you know that when God came to this earth in the form of a man that Israel looked nothing like what God wanted her to look like God wanted her to be a shining example of Justice but Israel got wrapped up in self-righteousness and phariseeism that Israel began to oppress them around they had no mercy on The Sinner they had no love for those that had fallen they were unoppressive it was a religion that was oppressing it was it was a religion they took a few laws of God that that God had one law that there were to to keep the Sabbath day holy no work was to be done on the Sabbath day and those self-righteous people got such nitpicky about it that they would not eat an egg laid by hen on the Sabbath day why not because the hen worked to lay it if a man got a flea on him the man got a flea on him he would not flick that flea off of him why because it was a Sabbath day you don't don't need to work and they went into a lot until they made it so oppressing that instead of it becoming a day of rest for man it became a day of you better not walk but so many steps you could only walk so many steps on that day you better not do this you better not do that do you know that God never intended his laws to be something that was oppressive and bondage from man but he intended his laws to be a day of rest and to look back and to worship God on the Sabbath but it was it was so now do you see what God is talking about there he said I put he I brought you out of Egypt what more did you want I brought you out with a mighty hand you never you you never wanted anything in the wilderness that I didn't provide for you if you got thirsty I gave you water if you got hungry I gave you bread and I gave you Quail if the enemy came out I defeated them what more could I have done for you what more and then God you simply said all right I'm done with this Vine I'm done with Israel I'm done with you you have not produced you have not produced what I intended you to produce so therefore I removed the Hedge you will be Trampled Under I am done with you Israel I'm I'm done with you right now now let's talk about the second let's talk about the second Vine we find a second Vine in the Book of Revelation chapter 14. we find the second Vine in Revelation chapter 14. and verse number 17. another angel came out of the Temple Revelation 14 and 17. another angel came out of the temple which is in heaven he also having a sharp sickle and another angel came out from the altar which had power over fire and cried with a loud cry to him that had the sharp sickle saying thrust in thy sharp sickle now follow this closely now thrust in thy sharp sickle and gather the Clusters of the Vine of the Earth that's the second Vine the first Vine God had was the vine of Israel now here's a second Vine gather the Vine of the Earth and cast it into the great wine press of the Wrath of God and the wine press was trodden without the city blood came out of the wine press even into the horse's bridle by the space of a thousand and 600 furlongs that's that's 200 miles go back to verse 17 or verse 18. at the end of it it says thrust in thy sharp sickle and gather the clusters of the vine of the Earth for her grapes are fully ripe again in verse number 19 and the angel thrust in his sickle into the Earth and gather the vine of the earth now we know the first Vine was the vine that God planted the nation of Israel which he wanted to produce Grapes of the knowledge of God but what is the vine of the Earth the vine of the Earth is a vine that people look to things of this Earth to satisfy them they look for satisfaction in the vine of this earth and the vine of this Earth is sin they look for satisfaction in sin and the Bible says about the wickedness of this Vine there's a Vine tonight and it's the vine of this Earth and people are are going to this Vine and Gathering The Grapes of sin and they're saying this is where we get we get our satisfaction we get our satisfaction from this we get our life we get our life from this it's called The Vine of the earth and Revelation says that one day God is going to harvest God's going to harvest the vine of this Earth and when he does there'll be great judgment he calls it the wine press as a matter of fact if you'll go to verse 20 again at Revelation 14 and the wine press was trodden without the city and the wine person excuse me verse 19. and the angel thrust in his sickle into the Earth and gathered the vine of the Earth notice this and cast it into the great wine press of the Wrath of God can I tell you that God is angry with sin God is angry with sin we better condition ourselves to be angry over what God is angry with we need to condition our minds to be angry about what God if if the Bible says God is angry with something it doesn't matter where you're angry with it or not you better we better get at well let me stop saying you let me say we we better get angry with it and if we're not there's something wrong with us look at Psalm 7 and verse 11. Psalm 7 verse number 11. God judgeth the righteous and God is angry with the wicked every day every day God is angry now I know this ain't shouting stuff here tonight I I I know we're not going to run the aisles here tonight but the Bible says God is angry with the wicked every day turn your news on God's angry with that turn your news on watch a commercial watch a commercial they're selling mattresses and used to there'd be a man a woman in that bed but now you'll find two men or two and oh brother don't get into that hey we better get into it we better be angry at what God is angry at or it won't be long until we let me tell you something you ain't gonna have the Jesus Vine in this hand and the vine of the Earth in this hand you either on one or the other Vine you're not on both either on the True Vine or you're on the vine of the Earth the Bible said God is angry with the wicked every day Deuteronomy 32 and verse 32. God begins to talk about the people that are on the vine of this Earth Deuteronomy 32 32. for their Vine is of the vine of Sodom and of the fields of Gomorrah their grapes or Grapes of gall their cluster are bitter their wine is the poison of dragons and the cruel Venom of Aspen you see can we just open our eyes and see that the vine of the world brings death the vine of the world brings death and misery that's what the vine of this world brings but the True Vine the True Vine 's life brings Joy well he talks about the vine of Sodom and I did a little in-depth study on this today you know when we think of Sodom and Gomorrah we think of them uh the the sexual perverted that was there and and we look at it and we think that that is the main reason that is the main reason that God destroyed Sodom and Gomorrah well there was something that led up to that it was something that led up to that Ezekiel chapter 16 and verse 49 Ezekiel 16 and 49 it says behold this was the iniquity of thy sister Sodom what now what was the iniquity Pride fullness of bread abundance of idleness was in her and in her daughters neither did she strengthen the hand of the poor and needy they were haughty and committed Abomination before me therefore I took them away as I saw good now when we when we when we get away from that that God yes destroyed Sodom there was sexual perversion there but there was more than sexual perversion that called him destroy Sodom and so we can't check off that we're doing all right because we're not sexually perverted as a church we have to go back and ask ourselves some questions Pride do you know that Pride led to their sexual perversion Pride fullness of bread abundance of idleness it's not not sound like they say that they say that in a few years we're going to go to a three-day weekend we're going to go to a three-day we're going to have a four-day work week and we're going to go to a three-day we're going to go to a three-day weekend why because we need to rest we need more idle time the more time that we're wanting for idleness seems like the more we're dipping down in the gutters of sin he said the idleness was in her and in her daughters she had no compassion to the poor she was haughty Jesus also told us about Sodom and Luke chapter 17 verse 28. in Luke 17 28 listen to Jesus talking about the end of time likewise also as it was in the days of lot they did eat they drank they bought they sold they planted they built folks not one word did Jesus mention of the sexual perverted he didn't mention it one time I'm not saying that that wasn't a reason that he went down but that was not the only reason they bought excuse me they eat drink bought sold planted builted verse 28 what is it activity minus God they had a lot of activity but it wasn't spiritual activity they had a lot of busyness they had a lot of business but they had so reduced spirituality to where they had activity but no time for God Lord help you and I never to allow ourselves to go down the slippery slope of taking spiritual things off of our calendar and replacing them with secular things we if anything our Bible tells us as the End of Time approaching put more spiritual things on your calendar put more spiritual things on your calendar well let me let me let me travel on let's go back to Genesis 18 and 17 for a moment God comes down to talk to Abraham God comes down to talk to Abraham Genesis 18 17. and the Lord said shall I hide from Abraham the thing which I do seeing that Abraham shall surely become a great and mighty nation and all the nations of the Earth shall be blessed in him for I know him that he will command his children and his household after him that they shall keep the way of the Lord to do justice and judgment that the Lord may bring upon Abraham all that he has spoken of him and the Lord said now listen this is God speaking now this is God speaking and the Lord said because the Cry of Sodom and Gomorrah is great and their sin is very Grievous I will now go down and see whether they have done altogether according to the Cry of it which is coming to me and if not I will know now let's stop there for a moment because sometimes you read scripture and you have to you have to understand that that there's a meaning here that we have to dig out is God all-knowing the answer is yes no trick questions you're not I promise you is God all-knowing is God everywhere did God know what was going on in Sodom yes but why does God say I want to go down that I may know because God is always looking at how we treat the message of Deliverance I want to go down I want to send two angels I want to see how Sodom and Gomorrah will treat these Angelic beings I want to see you see when America starts scoffing preaching and they are and they start scoffing the Bible and they are Judgment Day is in the near future for us because preaching and the Bible is the only hope for the sinful Soul you can't educate a sinful soul out of sin you can't you cannot governmentize a sinful soul out of sin the only thing that will take a man out of sin is going to be the preached word of the Living God getting off of the vine of the earth and getting on the True Vine of Jesus Christ so in that so in Genesis 19 verse number 1 and there came two angels to Sodom at even and lots sat in the gate of Sodom and lots seeing them rose up to meet them and bowed himself with his face toward the ground and he said behold now my lords turn in I pray you into your servant's house and carry all night wash your feet rise up early and go on your way and they said no but we will abide in the street all night and he pressed upon them greatly and they turned in unto him and entered into his house and he made them a feast and did bake unleavened bread and they did eat but before they laid down the men of the city even the men of Sodom can pass the house round both old and young all the people from every quarter and they called into lot and said unto him where are the men which came into thee this night bring them out unto us that we may know them and ain't talking about getting acquainted with them they saw these Angelic beings come into the gate of Sodom and instead of letting the fear and the terror of God strike them their minds were so perverted that they wanted to go down and have a perverted sexual encounter with them and they came around young and old and beat up on the door of a lot said bring out these men that we may know them and here's a reason you don't need to move to Sodom moving to Sodom or mess up your values you live among you live among this wicked world you have your fellowship in this wicked world you're you're in value system will get so out of whack come on lot verse 6. and lot went out at the door unto them and shut the door after him and said I pray you Brethren do not so wickedly behold now I have two daughters which have not known man let me I pray you bring them out unto you and do ye to them as is good in your eyes only unto these men do nothing for therefore came they under the shadow of my roof can you believe this are y'all getting a little myth like I am I am the father of two daughters I am the grandfather of three granddaughters lot stepped out at the door shut it behind him and said oh Brethren number one I just make me a note right now be careful who you call brethren call him by the first name he said oh my brothers don't do that this be Wicked for these are angels of God these are messengers of God these are messages of God here don't do so wicked but I'll tell you what a God I got two daughters in here that have never known a man I'll bring my two daughters out here and you all can just have your way with my two daughters how sick can you get but you see when you begin to live among Sodom and you know more about the things of the vine of the earth than you do the vine of Christ when you know the latest stats on all the athletes and the movie stars and you can hum every ungodly song that comes across the radio but when it comes to humming a song about the True Vine you find yourself lost you are on a slippery slope you better get that vine of the earth out of your mouth and you better reach up and get the True Vine of Christ I'm sure no I'm not sorry I'm trying to explain my behavior I'm a little myth right now I'm a little miffer I guess I'm a little angry right now take my daughters verse 9 and they said stand back and they said again this one fellow came into sojourn and he will needs be be a judge now we will deal worse with thee than with them and they pressed sore upon the man lot even lot and came near to break the door down they start pushing on lot and and and they start pushing a lot against the house said get out of the way we'll deal worse with you but watch what happened verse 10 but the men put forth their hand and poured lot into the house to them and shut the door and they smote the men that were at the door of the house with blindness both small and great see that's telling you those are Angelic beings so when they pulled lot into the house those angels had the power to Smite all of those men around with blind all of a sudden they're seeing and now they're blind as a bat you'd just think that somebody get to repentance you'd just think when the Judgment of God fell upon them and the sicknesses and the diseases that are the product a perverted lifestyles you just think there'd be some repentance going on all of a sudden I'm trying to get the door and the next thing you know I'm as blind is a bat and all all of us are blind and the schmote at the door of the House of blindness both small and great so that they wearied themselves to find the door blind is a bat they're still trying to find the doorknob block blind isn't bad there's no repentance going on they're still trying to find the doorknob to get in I'm going to tell you something when you are drinking from the vine of this Earth you'll get stubborn toward repentance you'll know you're blind but you'll keep saying there's a way there's a way there's a way Chapter 19 Verse 14. a lot went out and spake unto his son-in-laws which married his daughters and set up get you out of this place for the Lord will destroy this city but he seemed as one that mocked unto his son-in-laws you see start living a consistent life on the vine because there's going to come a day you're going to get stirred up and you're going to need that influence to tell your kids you need to get back in church you need to get back where you need to be with God mom and dads Papaw mammals and everybody tonight we're not very convincing when it's only been a few days that we've been off the vine of the world we need to be on the vine the True Vine of Jesus Christ so that when we tell our kids hey just like just like brother varnum preached Sunday night the Lord is coming the Lord is coming the Lord is coming the Lord is coming and when we begin to plead with people around us Susie it's time to get in church Johnny it's time to get in church when we meet backsliders in our community and say you need to get back to church the Lord is coming we don't let it mean that they say oh you're just mocking you're just you're just mocking you're just mocking verse 17. it came to pass that when they had brought forth that brought them forth abroad the angel said Escape for their life look not behind thee neither stay down on the plane escape to the mountain lest I be consumed he got lot his wife Lot's wife and two daughters and they took them out to the city limits and they said start running as hard as you can and get to Yonder Mountain and don't look back don't don't look back but we all know in Acts 9 or excuse me Genesis 19 and verse 26 we all know but his wife looked back from behind him and she became a pillar of salt yeah look at the people here there are people that didn't get out because they had a attitude this is a just mocking and then we had a woman that got halfway out because she had a spirit of always wanting to look back the vine of the world there's nothing on that vine that's good for us you hear me as your pastor not this world has nothing good for us this world we have to we're in the world we're not of the world we work in the world we live in the world but I don't need their entertainment I don't need their fashion I don't need the things of this world to make me happy my God makes me happy coming to church makes me happy talking about Jesus makes me happy telling people Jesus is the best thing that's ever happened makes me happy let me let me Rush on let me Rush on this evening when you're connected to the vine of this world lust nakedness sex sales and all of that trashy business King David will tell you King David will say hey I drink from the vine of lust with Bathsheba I had to bury four of my sons King David will say I bear I drink from the vine of lust I looked at a woman bathing one night and I lusted I reached up and got the vine of this world and I began to lust and because I drank from the vine of this world I buried four of my sons and because I drank from the vine of this world I got a stigma put on me I'm not saying David's not in heaven I'm not saying God didn't use David but because David drank from the vine of this world he put a stigma and a scar on him that went all the way in the New Testament you begin to read the general the genealogy of Jesus Christ when it comes to the New Testament it tells about David drinking from the vine of lust if the vine of greed stop drinking stop going to the vine of greed or if I could just make more making more ain't going to make any of us happy if I can just live it ain't listen break vinyl siding a mobile home a cardboard box ain't gonna make you happy stop thinking greed is going to make you happy just get more if I just get more if I just get more ask a hazard guys I say I I was greedy and I ushered him leprosy upon my entire family my my sons and my grandsons got leprosy because I got greedy it you know it's possible tonight it's not possible it's happened a father has allowed greed to get in his life and them little boys and girls sons and daughters that was on them pews that God intended for them to grow up to be strong Christians because Daddy got greed upon him and daddy couldn't make it on Wednesday night and daddy couldn't make it on Sunday morning and daddy started hitting and missing oh he was bringing home the bacon but he's also bringing home the leprosy too stop drinking from the vine of greed greed is not going to make you happy lust is not going to make you happy oh I could go on I could go on and on I could have you drinking from the vine of Uzziah you say I got stubborn he got stubborn I don't need no priest I don't need a priest I don't I can be my own priest and he went where he shouldn't have went and the priest went in after him and rebuked him and because he bowed up on the priest and would not listen to the priest he wouldn't listen to the pulpit the Bible said leprosy popped out on his forehead and he died a lonely man because of the vine of stubbornness God I don't want to be drinking from the vine of lust I don't want to be drinking from the vine of greed I don't want to be drinking from the Vine I don't be drinking from the vine of stubbornness oh God let me get on the True Vine Lord let me drink from the true behind Lord let me drink let me drink from the True Vine the word true here tonight Church it means this it says that which has not only the name and this and the assemblance but the real nature corresponding to the name the vine of the world will give you poison the vine of the world will put you in an early grave Memphis Cartman was talking about some people that are in early Graves and and and and young men young women that are dead tonight they're dead tonight wasn't God's will sister Davis it wasn't God's will some of the people we mentioned it went well as God's will is appointed unto man wants to die yet that is a principle but when we when we drink from the vine of this Earth we can put ourselves in an untimely death there's people that are in Graves today that God intended for them to live decades longer their expiration date was decades later but because they got a hold of the vine of this Earth there's suicide there's drug addiction there's all of these things that took them out you hear me they're dead they're gone it's all because they reached up and they got a hole in the vine of this world you see there's even a True Vine there's false prophets false prophets can come in the name of Jesus preaching to you a comfortable gospel your destiny is ahead of you there's a champion inside of you you've gotta and all they they're gonna tell all of these stories about about about somebody that picked themselves up by the bootstrap somebody that that just made something out of themselves and that's well and good but I'm going to tell you what's in all of us sin is in all of us in our flesh dwell of no good thing that's why God have mercy let me have the True Vine let me have the True Vine of Jesus Christ because in my flesh dwells no good thing but if I can get a hold of the True Vine I can get the light blood of Jesus Christ I can get the spirit of almighty God I'll turn a lie into a true teller I'll tell turn a dishonest man into an honest man I'll turn a luster and a cusser into a Psalm quoting preacher I'll turn it if I can just get on the truth I am the True Vine and my father is the husband Jesus spoke of true riches he said I'll give you true riches what are true riches it's not in First Tennessee what our true riches they're not in the stock market what are true riches they're not in how much real estate you own sir ma'am you know what true riches are Ephesians 1 and 7 in whom we have Redemption through his blood the Forgiveness of sins according to the riches of his grace come on wealthy man Fair sumptuously every day come on multi-millionaire faring sumptuously every day when Judgment Day comes and you find yourself in the Lake of Fire wanting just a drop of water upon your tongue look over Yonder Goff at that man that you saw as poor in this earth he was only poor on the external but on the inside he had the riches of the almighty God don't you feel sorry for yourself one day you're gonna walk on streaks of gold listen Heaven is going to make the lifestyle of the Rich and Famous look like a muddy dirt road I'm gonna walk on streets of gold I'm I'm going where there's Gates of Pearl and walls of somebody ought to get excited about this or are you sucking from the wrong Vine tonight you ought to get the True Vine tonight and the true riches tonight come on worship with you stand with me right now worship with me come on pour your heart out to God hallelujah hallelujah hallelujah Hallelujah Hallelujah Hallelujah Hallelujah Hallelujah Hallelujah Hallelujah Hallelujah Hallelujah remain standing remain standing true riches I submit to you I submit to you tonight brother mournem talked about some songs we don't sing about heaven anymore as most songs we don't sing I'm a poor poor Rich Man oh I'm a poor poor Rich Man oh you see it really happened to me I'm a millionaire that's exactly right we got to understand something we can glamorize the world all we want to but we're so rich it doesn't even compare with what this world has that's just for a fleeting moment we're rich folks we're rich you hear me we're rich we're rich we're rich when I don't have good health insurance I'm telling you one of these days I'm going to be given a body that my eyes won't go my health won't go my back won't go cancer won't go I'm listen I've got a health plan that is out I feel my brother Barnum coming on I I got a health plan that's out of this world let me let me drop this let me just drop this tonight for our College and Career Jesus said in John 1 9 I it says he is the True Light he is a True Light True light means Revelation it means knowledge he is the true knowledge can I tell all of you that are going to universities and colleges go there to learn about your occupation but when they start that crazy stuff of trying to give in you their knowledge turn them off all right let's reach up and turn them off when they pick you out in that college class because because you're Apostolic you stand out in there and they just pick you out and they try to start discrediting the Miracles in the Bible and they start trying to get your mind to open up to all the religions of the world and all of that just just keep saying to yourself what does this have to do with my occupation what does this have to do with me being a surgeon what does this have to do with me being a a an engineer what does this have to do it has nothing to do but the world will try to give you a false knowledge but he is the True Light he is the true knowledge just keep saying to yourself what does this have to do with me being an architect what does this have to do with me being an engineer what does this have to do and just just keep pumping that into your mind because you have the True Light don't you let them drop that vine down over your desk at the University and tell you drink from this a little bit just take a little bit of this oh don't you know the Bible is this and the Bible's that the Bible is just and you can't prove you you know you you you can't prove Jesus Christ they won't hold the same standard to George Washington they didn't have any videos with George Washington had we know George Washington's real what hold the same standards of Jesus Christ and the problem is the problem is they want their knowledge to add up to Jesus Christ but he'll never add up because what the world calls foolishness he takes it and makes it the wisdom of God three Vines three Vines the nation of Israel God's done with her God's done with her now at the end of at the end of Prophecy God's going to deal with her again but right now right now Israel's a dead Vine say well I just think there's something in Yom Kippur there's nothing in Yom Kippur well I just think there's something in there no no no no you don't understand that Vine's dead right now that's why I tell Apostolic folks you know if you want to do something Jewish that's fine but don't do something Jewish thinking you're gonna get a spiritual result that bind's dead that vine is dead now that Bond's gonna come alive again but right now that Vine's dead the second Vine is the vine of this world and I'm going to tell you something those sinful grapes are getting bigger every day and God is angry every day and there'll come a day that God will say I want you to cut that vine out of the world and I'm gonna put it in the wine press of my wrath that's the second Vine and the third Vine and I hope we're all on it tonight it's the True Vine are you connected to him are you connected to that True Vine are you connected to that True Vine oh are you connected to that True Vine right now that that's the word connected and are you connected to that vine right now come on let's just take a moment and thank him God I just thank you tonight Lord oh come on just connect yourself right now come on just for the next moment push worship out of your lips come on push praise out of your lips I've got to be connected to you God oh Jesus Christ my lover oh Jesus Christ my sin cleanser oh Jesus Christ my healer oh Jesus Christ my way truth and the light Jesus Christ my joy Jesus Christ my peace come on I ask you right now with everything you have just push out that praise to him right now Hallelujah Hallelujah Hallelujah Lord I love you Lord I love you Lord I love you I'm connected to you Lord I'm drinking from the fountain Lord I'm drinking from the fountain right now God Lord I'm connected to you right now God I love you Lord I Praise You Lord I magnify you Lord I have joy I have joy I have joy I have joy Lord I have joy I have joy I have joy oh thank you Lord thank you Lord thank you Lord now father I thank you for the Bible lesson tonight I thank you Lord for the good reception of your people I thank you God for these people Lord that have heard your word tonight I pray God your blessings upon the people I pray God that this light will be the True Light Lord that we'll be so confident in this True Light Lord take us from this place tonight keep us safe as we go home Lord may we throughout the week look for someone to invite back to church on Sunday morning Lord may we bear much fruit for you in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ I pray and the church said amen God bless you thank you for coming out tonight