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your world you have settled that your
life can’t do nothing more than what it
has already done and God’s got so much
more he wants to bring through
you so much more you settle for
everything thing and I’m saying get rid
of the settling praise God don’t settle
for average praise God stir yourself up
when the pruning takes place you just go
ahead and and and fight for the joy of
the Lord in the midst of the pruning
pruning because he’s doing something man
you’re going to produce better fruit
than you’ve ever produced before in your
life
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starts
now this is your world so let’s vow to
make it a better
place let every heart that needs to
know your love is here to St oh it’s
time we live a new life oh let us love
riding
you we Sav by his grace so we Embrace
Your Love
today we are
Chang the chastisement of the Lord
versus
punishment is it
punishment cuz I you know if if it’s
punishment then all I’m doing is you
know releasing fear into the atmosphere
get ready God’s going to punish you but
the chastisement of the Lord is not the
same as
punishment punishment is a consequence
for
wrongdoing whereas chastening chastening
is a form of discipline that is in
intended to correct and
refine God’s not punishing you for your
wrongdoing somebody said well it kind of
sounds like no no no Jesus took your
punishment Jesus was punished for you so
you wouldn’t have to be punished I’ll
show you that in a moment chastening is
a form of discipline or correction
that’s intended to cause refinement God
does not punish his children but rather
seeks to guide them towards total
dependence on on him and like I said
besides all that Jesus was already
punished in our place look at this
Isaiah 53 verse 4 and 5 in the King
James Jesus was already punished in our
place that was Jesus job Jesus took our
punishment so we don’t have to be
punished now what that sound like if he
took our punishment so we don’t have to
be punished and then you’re still
expecting to be punished so now you got
to change your view and your perspective
of how you’re looking at these things
that are happening to you this is not
punishment God is trying to guide me
God’s trying to correct me God’s trying
to show me some things he said in verse
4 surely he hath borne our griefs and
carried our sorrows yet we did esteem
him stricken smitten of God and
Afflicted but he was wounded for our
transgressions he was bruised for our
iniquities the chastisement of our peace
was upon him and with his stripes we are
healed look at this same thing in the
New Living Translation I want you to get
a picture Isaiah 53:3 in the New Living
Translation I want you to get a picture
of the punishment that Jesus went
through and I I’ll probably read most of
this chapter here he says here he was
despised and rejected a Man of Sorrows
acquainted with with deepest grief we
turned our backs on him and looked the
other way he was despised and we did not
care yet it was our weaknesses he
carried it was our sorrows that weighed
him down and we thought his troubles
were a punishment from God a punishment
for his own
sins but he was pierced for our
Rebellion crushed for our sins he was
beaten so we could be whole he was
whipped so we could uh be healed this is
awesome here because he was punished and
and and check it out he was punished so
we could get the
benefit the chest ment of our peace was
on him he was being chastised so we can
have
peace verse six all of us like sheep
have strayed away we’ve left God’s path
to follow our own yet the Lord laid on
him the sins of us all he has oppressed
and treated harshly he was oppressed and
treated harshly yet he never said a word
he was led like a lamb to the slaughter
and as a sheep is silent before the
shearers he did not open his mouth
unjustly condemned he was led away no
one cared that he died without
descendants that his life was cut short
in
Midstream but he was struck down for the
rebellion of my people he had done no
wrong and had never deceived anyone but
he was buried like a criminal he was put
in a rich man’s
grave when he sees all that is
accomplished by his anguish he will be
satisfied and because of his experience
my my righteous servant will make it
possible for many to be counted
righteous for he will bear all their
sins it’s Poss I will give him the
excuse me I will give him the honors of
the Victorious Soldier because he
exposed himself to death he was counted
among the
rebels he bore the sins of many and
interceded for Rebels wow sing Oh
childless woman you who have never given
birth break into a loud and joyful song
over Jerusalem and it goes down some
some other stuff about the Covenant of
our
peace he’s been
punished with our
punishment so we could
receive something awesome and goodness
that we didn’t
deserve
chastisement ends up in
benefit so if you’re being chastised
corrected disciplined
pruned it’s for your
good take your
medicine go through what you got to go
through because at the end it’s going to
be
good my
God my
God
now here’s the question I want you to
think with I’m going to just ask this do
you think
that we deserve punishment do we deserve
judgment from God the answer to that is
yes they’re observing it we deserve
50,000 lifetimes of pain and
turmoil and grief we deserve Eternal
punishment in
hell all of us in here deserve hell
don’t you get get it straight now that’s
what you deser
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deserve that’s what we deserve we
deserve the penalty that was
promised that the wages of sin is death
that’s what we deserve praise God but
that’s not what we get if we truly trust
and depend in Jesus Christ as our Lord
and savior when we made him the Lord and
savior of our life we’re no longer
getting what we
deserve we now get what we don’t
deserve amen
so why do we not receive Eternal
punishment well I showed you because
Christ already endureed the punishment
for our sins on this cross why do we not
receive punishment in our lives as
Christians did you not hear me because
Christ already endured the punishment
for our sins on the cross so the
sufficiency of the Cross of Christ is a
fundamental
peace to our living
today other than that you got to be
careful because you’ll get back into
self-righteousness you got to always
remember everything you got you don’t
deserve you don’t deserve God’s attent
you don’t even deserve his
chastening why if he’s going to chasen
you and correct you I mean we don’t
deserve any of that we got to receive
everything from him as a
gift praise God now let’s now use the
synonym for
chastening
purging and see what the scripture says
about that look at uh John 15: 1 in the
NLT we’ll look at verses
1-8 now he’s going to use this
illustration we are branches he is the
vine and he’s going to tell you all the
things that are going to happen you
can’t ignore this
piece
and if you get a hold of this man you
you’ll never be the same again verse one
says Jesus is speaking here he says I am
the true grap Vine and my father is the
gardener okay The
Gardener verse
two The
Gardener cuts off every
branch of mine that doesn’t produce
fruit
fruit what is he doing he prunes the
branches that do not that do bear fruit
he prunes the branches that do bear
fruit so that they will produce even
more I tell you I freaked out when I
came to church one day and all of the
branches of the trees were cut
off I thought what the
heck oh when I came home one time Jamie
you remember this and I looked against
the house and all them bushes were
pruned and I’m
like my cousin and lost his
mind listen to me cuz this is the same
thing that happens going to happen with
us he prunes the branches that do not
bear that do bear fruit them trees were
looking good to
me but if you prune the ones that do
bear fruit so they will watch this
produce even more
yeah I mean I got a hold of this
principle I’m pruning every tree that go
down the driveway it’s going to look
like a scary
picture look at verse
three you have already been pruned and
purified by the message I have given
you remain in
me and I remain in you for a branch
cannot produce fruit if it is severed
from the
vine and you cannot be be fruitful
unless you remain in
me yes I am the vine you are the
branches see how loud I’m a branch I’m a
branch say it again I’m a branch I’m a
branch all right so you know the the the
branch has got to be connected to his
life source so since you are Branch
don’t expect to ever bear no fruit in
the branch if you leave your life Source
God those who remain in me I and I in
them will produce what much fruit for
apart from me you can do what
nothing anyone who does not remain in me
is watch this anyone who does not remain
in me is thrown away like a useless
branch and
Withers such branches are gathered into
a pile to be
burned but if you remain in me and my
words remain in you you may ask for
anything you want and it will be
granted when you produce much fruit you
are my true disciples
this brings great glory to my father
what brings great glory to the father
producing much
fruit now listen carefully here
now what what Jamie understood and what
these guys up here
understood was that they knew that a
bush the life of a
bush actually increases with
pruning
you’re the
bush your life is not going to increase
without
pruning you’re the
bush your life is not going to mature
without
pruning pruning is a necessary
part John 15:2 notice what he says in uh
John 152 and the NLT
and this is concerning you and I he says
he cuts off every branch of mine that
doesn’t produce fruit and he what prunes
the branches that do bear fruit so they
will produce what even more fruit so
Jesus was
telling the disciples and all
Christians that he was setting them
apart for a lifestyle of bearing
fruit their fruit would come as a result
of God’s
intentional
pruning or
chastening it comes as a part of God
intentionally doing
that it’s a plan of
gods pruning is a plan of God this idea
that now I am saved I don’t have no
correction no discipline no afflictions
no pruning and then the worst thing
about it is once you get some you think
that’s the de devil it was God that was
cutting that thing
off he will prune us of course
differently but this is a this is a
process we entrust to him knowing that
he is good and that he is at work in our
lives pruning us he promised now that he
was going to mature us and he is at work
in our life pruning us our
trials are times to depend and to trust
God to use even our pain to make us more
like Christ and to make us more
dependent upon Christ so this thing of
I’m Christian no more tribulation no
more persecution does not line up with
the word they that live Godly shall
suffer what persecution why going to be
used for some pruning going to be used
for the prun now you’ll have these
people who just you know you know la la
la la and say well no God God will not
prune you yes he will how are you ever
going to bear more fruit by you thinking
that just how you living is fine there’s
so much more fruit that God expects from
our lives that we can’t get at without
some
pruning you cut up a rose bush real good
you think it was actually producing nice
and pretty roses prun that thing real
good next season man you got all kinds
of beautiful roses coming out there see
we got to stop settling from where we
are right now you have settled that your
life can’t do nothing more than what it
has already done and God’s got so much
more he wants to bring through
you so much more you settle for
everything and I’m saying get rid of the
settling praise God don’t settle for
average praise God stir yourself up when
the pruning takes place you just go
ahead and and and fight for the joy of
the Lord in the midst of the puning
pruning because he’s doing something man
you’re going to produce better fruit
than you’ve ever produced before in your
life Hallelujah the pandemic didn’t do
nothing but set you up to do it better
than it’s never been done
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before James 1 2-4 in the NLT shows us
that and then I’m going to give you four
reason why God chastens and prunes
us
I believe this it it kind of it helps
you to go through you know if if you’re
not careful you’ll start beating
yourself up every time you have a trial
yeah every time you have a trial you go
to God what’s wrong what did I do did I
make you mad it’s like would you
stop you assume you presume upon
yourself that you good you that you
where you need to be and God is like for
what I called you to do you’re nowhere
near where you need to be I need to PR
you you still acting like a baby you
still dogging people out you still don’t
know how to walk in forgiveness you just
you just need to be pruned some more you
got issues I know you had the issue in
the first place but I’m going to prune
you it ain’t got nothing to do with well
I don’t want to be pruned what if I
don’t want to be pruned and God say I’m
grown you going to be
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prun you know your children come ask you
a question well why you do this she say
I’m
grown and you proceed not to give no
explanation I’m grown and we go before
God well God why is this happening he
ain’t saying
nothing you going to go through this and
you going to understand better bye and
bye somebody said that song Ain’t
according to the word yes it is how
manyan you know there’s a lot of things
you were going through you didn’t
understand why you were going through it
but when you came out of it and a little
later on bye and by when the morning
comes all God Saints are going to gather
home I ain’t gonna sing that tell the
story how I got
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pruned then we understand it better
watch this bye and
bye dear brothers and sisters when
Troubles of any
kind come your
way consider it an opportunity for Great
Joy what now Joy is not and and
happiness are a little different Joy
comes from what you
know so consider it great joy cuz you’re
not ignorant about this trouble that has
come your
way what you do is say uhuh it’s it’s
it’s growth time it’s growth season and
I’m going to show you how to tell when
you’re in a season of
pruning how do you know some of you may
be in a season of pruning right now and
you may not be aware of it loss and that
season go hand in hand yeah well I don’t
understand why I lost that I don’t
understand why I lost that you being
pruned girl you being
pruned God got a seven F of job waiting
on you and he can’t get you to leave
that one so he going to prune you so he
can get you where he need to be cuz he
he needs to use your heart to be able to
move some stuff where it need to be he
can’t do it because you just you just
shut your ears down you don’t memorize
your scripture he been trying to talk
and nudge you the whole time so he said
okay they need some
chasing some pruning clip woo what was
once attached has now been
lost dear brothers and sisters when
Troubles of any kind come your way
consider it an opportunity for Joy verse
three for you know that when your faith
is
tested your endurance has a chance to
grow so let it
grow for when your endurance is fully
developed you will be perfect and
complete needing nothing he says I got
an
outcome but I need to do some pruning in
order to see that outcome come and so
you can see the beauty of what comes as
a result of that
pruning so why does God chasen or prune
us his branches why would he do that
number
one so that we will bear more
fruit so that we can bear more fruit God
does not prune us because he is angry at
at us nor does he prune us because
Jesus’s sacrifice was not
enough God prunes us so that we may bear
more fruit just like John 15:2 says so
we can bear more fruit another words God
looks at our Christian lives and he
concludes that we are not bearing as
much fruit as we could
bear we are out of balance we’ve had we
we we we have dead branches and and and
and sin is draining away our spiritual
Vitality we need to
prune we need to do some
pruning wonder how many bad branches you
got around you it need some pruning to
take place why does God chasing to prune
us so that we will become more dependent
on
him too often we become proud and
independent of God and the impure of
self- dependence begins to lead our Liv
lives instead of depending on
God so God loves us enough to prune us
so that we will learn to abide and to
rest and to depend on
him our father the vine dresser trains
us to learn and practice not only in
precept but he trains us to learn in
practice so we can truly
truly come to the place where we can do
nothing without
Christ that we’re practicing dependent
on him cuz we now know we can’t do
nothing without him just like the branch
can’t do nothing without
Divine as vital as it is for that that
connection to
remain so likewise equally as as vital
as it is for the connection between you
and your father to remain
number
three why does God chasen or prune us to
assure that we are truly
saved God does not prune unbelievers in
order that they may become more
fruitful for their fruit and I say
unbelievers he’s not he’s not pruning
unbelievers because their fruit would
just simply consist of more dead Works
they’re not saved
they’re unbelievers what is that a prune
the whole thing’s
dead
okay and so instead he eventually throws
them into the fire and they’re
burned John
15:6 it is the true child of God who is
chastened by the heavenly father this is
a father chastening and pruning it’s not
the illegitimate
child
do you ever wonder if God is punishing
you in his two message series The
discipline of Grace cffl dollar uncovers
the truth about how God actually
corrects and guides his children
self-dependence is impure God’s
chastening is to correct and to purify
if a thought comes up oh my goodness
because of God’s punishment I’m going
end up in hell no no no your destiny has
already been set you’ve already pass
from Death to life you are being dealt
with by a father who loves you this is
chassing of the lord it’s the father
dealing with you in love but he is going
to be dealing with you both messages can
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