1 00:00:06,080 --> 00:00:07,520 Welcome to Heaven Earth Church. 2 00:00:07,520 --> 00:00:09,480 My name is Ross Stackhouse. 3 00:00:09,480 --> 00:00:12,480 I'm the founding pastor of Heaven Earth Church. 4 00:00:12,880 --> 00:00:16,680 From the beginning, our heart was to be a church for people who 5 00:00:16,680 --> 00:00:18,400 don't fit neatly into church. 6 00:00:18,960 --> 00:00:22,560 Our heart is to meet people where they are, to learn their stories, 7 00:00:22,880 --> 00:00:24,120 to honor their stories. 8 00:00:24,120 --> 00:00:27,280 Because in every human story is God's story. 9 00:00:27,960 --> 00:00:31,160 In this podcast, you'll hear more about the people who now call 10 00:00:31,160 --> 00:00:32,800 Heaven Earth Church home. 11 00:00:32,800 --> 00:00:36,840 Their stories, in many cases of misfits who are discovering or 12 00:00:36,840 --> 00:00:38,040 rediscovering faith. 13 00:00:38,200 --> 00:00:41,560 If you want to know more about us, you can go to heavenorthchurch.org 14 00:00:42,040 --> 00:00:45,080 Otherwise, we invite you now into the story. 15 00:00:47,560 --> 00:00:48,480 Hello, good people. 16 00:00:48,480 --> 00:00:53,160 Brad Miller here, the producer of the Heaven Earth Church podcast. 17 00:00:53,790 --> 00:00:57,190 One of the main benefits of being a part of the Heaven Earth 18 00:00:57,190 --> 00:01:03,310 Church community is our Sunday morning conversations taught by founding 19 00:01:03,310 --> 00:01:05,630 pastor Ross Stackhouse. 20 00:01:06,510 --> 00:01:11,230 You can watch and participate in the Sunday morning conversation 21 00:01:11,870 --> 00:01:19,350 this Sunday morning, 9:30am Eastern Time at YouTube.com Heaven 22 00:01:19,350 --> 00:01:20,270 Earth Church. 23 00:01:21,230 --> 00:01:26,190 The audio version of the Sunday morning conversation is available 24 00:01:26,190 --> 00:01:30,910 here on the podcast, which you can find at Apple Podcasts, Spotify 25 00:01:31,310 --> 00:01:39,270 and on the website, which is heavenearthchurch.org now with the 26 00:01:39,270 --> 00:01:43,710 message purposeful planting is Pastor Emily Halverson. 27 00:01:46,840 --> 00:01:48,840 What are you looking forward to this summer? 28 00:01:51,880 --> 00:01:54,360 Growing a garden for the church for the first time. 29 00:01:55,400 --> 00:01:56,040 Other things. 30 00:01:56,040 --> 00:01:57,720 What are you looking forward to this summer? 31 00:01:59,080 --> 00:01:59,800 Warmth. 32 00:02:01,240 --> 00:02:02,120 Not here yet. 33 00:02:02,200 --> 00:02:03,080 That's true. 34 00:02:03,320 --> 00:02:05,400 Going to Milwaukee to see the Killers. 35 00:02:05,400 --> 00:02:06,880 Milwaukee is a good city, you guys. 36 00:02:06,880 --> 00:02:07,800 It's in Wisconsin. 37 00:02:07,800 --> 00:02:08,280 It's good. 38 00:02:08,280 --> 00:02:08,880 Good people. 39 00:02:08,880 --> 00:02:09,480 Good people. 40 00:02:10,290 --> 00:02:11,010 Milwaukee. 41 00:02:11,890 --> 00:02:13,250 No, Milwaukee is a city. 42 00:02:13,250 --> 00:02:14,530 The Killers is a band. 43 00:02:17,170 --> 00:02:17,970 Jamin. 44 00:02:18,290 --> 00:02:21,650 Not having to wake up at 6am every single morning. 45 00:02:22,210 --> 00:02:23,810 I'm looking forward to that too. 46 00:02:25,010 --> 00:02:25,570 Other things. 47 00:02:25,570 --> 00:02:26,410 What are you looking forward to? 48 00:02:26,410 --> 00:02:27,170 Yeah, Melissa. 49 00:02:27,410 --> 00:02:28,370 I love this. 50 00:02:31,970 --> 00:02:35,050 Melissa joined the reading program this summer at the library. 51 00:02:35,050 --> 00:02:36,210 She's going to make also. 52 00:02:36,210 --> 00:02:38,490 She's going to get all kinds of prizes and read lots of great 53 00:02:38,490 --> 00:02:40,990 books and get to log things, which is fun. 54 00:02:40,990 --> 00:02:42,270 Sometimes those little rewards. 55 00:02:42,270 --> 00:02:43,470 Do you like spreadsheets? 56 00:02:44,590 --> 00:02:45,150 I know. 57 00:02:45,150 --> 00:02:47,310 We're right there. 58 00:02:47,310 --> 00:02:47,870 Okay. 59 00:02:49,070 --> 00:02:50,710 What else are you looking forward to this summer? 60 00:02:50,710 --> 00:02:53,470 Yeah, Kaylee, we are going to Maine. 61 00:02:53,470 --> 00:02:53,950 We are. 62 00:02:54,270 --> 00:02:56,670 We are going to go see Acadia. 63 00:02:58,110 --> 00:03:01,390 Natalie going to college. 64 00:03:01,630 --> 00:03:05,480 That's technically the end of the summer, but I will count it. 65 00:03:05,960 --> 00:03:07,880 She's my daughter, for anyone who doesn't know. 66 00:03:07,880 --> 00:03:09,720 So I can give her a little bit of a hard time. 67 00:03:09,720 --> 00:03:12,320 But yeah, she's going to college in the fall. 68 00:03:12,320 --> 00:03:16,120 She's gonna go way high in the U.P. 69 00:03:16,440 --> 00:03:17,640 of Michigan. 70 00:03:17,640 --> 00:03:19,360 She'll be way up in the Upper Peninsula. 71 00:03:19,360 --> 00:03:23,280 So we're looking forward to having her around a little bit more 72 00:03:23,280 --> 00:03:23,960 this summer. 73 00:03:24,600 --> 00:03:25,560 Michigan Tech. 74 00:03:26,440 --> 00:03:27,440 Michigan Tech, Yep. 75 00:03:27,440 --> 00:03:28,200 Up in Houghton. 76 00:03:28,200 --> 00:03:28,560 Yeah. 77 00:03:28,560 --> 00:03:29,160 Charles. 78 00:03:30,930 --> 00:03:34,050 Charles is looking forward to rest after a busy season. 79 00:03:34,130 --> 00:03:36,850 Just a chill, chill season, summer. 80 00:03:38,130 --> 00:03:40,010 Anything else that you're looking forward to? 81 00:03:40,010 --> 00:03:40,290 Yeah. 82 00:03:40,290 --> 00:03:40,730 Jamin. 83 00:03:40,730 --> 00:03:41,650 I thought I saw your hand. 84 00:03:41,890 --> 00:03:42,370 Yeah. 85 00:03:42,530 --> 00:03:43,450 Lake Michigan. 86 00:03:43,450 --> 00:03:44,690 Going to Lake Michigan. 87 00:03:45,250 --> 00:03:45,730 Yeah. 88 00:03:45,889 --> 00:03:47,010 Some great lake time. 89 00:03:47,010 --> 00:03:48,210 It's always good time. 90 00:03:50,290 --> 00:03:52,490 I kind of like Joanna. 91 00:03:52,490 --> 00:03:56,620 I'm looking forward to my garden this summer last. 92 00:03:57,020 --> 00:04:00,060 So I'm especially hopeful for my cucumbers and my tomatoes. 93 00:04:00,460 --> 00:04:02,220 Those aren't mine, but they're lovely. 94 00:04:02,220 --> 00:04:03,500 Cucumbers and tomatoes. 95 00:04:05,260 --> 00:04:09,340 Last year, my cucumbers and my tomatoes just didn't do very well. 96 00:04:09,340 --> 00:04:13,060 And we kept trying to figure out what is going on with these plants. 97 00:04:13,060 --> 00:04:13,380 Why? 98 00:04:13,380 --> 00:04:16,300 Like, we didn't really think we did anything differently. 99 00:04:16,300 --> 00:04:18,460 We're still trying to figure out our soil. 100 00:04:18,860 --> 00:04:20,140 They just didn't do great. 101 00:04:21,180 --> 00:04:26,530 And so this year when I planted, I did some more research, 102 00:04:27,010 --> 00:04:28,530 because that's what I do. 103 00:04:28,610 --> 00:04:32,890 And I came across this thing called companion planting. 104 00:04:32,890 --> 00:04:34,770 Are you guys familiar with companion planting? 105 00:04:35,490 --> 00:04:39,010 So I had a friend years ago who was a big proponent of this, 106 00:04:39,010 --> 00:04:41,370 and I kind of ignored it because it takes more work. 107 00:04:41,370 --> 00:04:42,410 And so I didn't do it. 108 00:04:42,410 --> 00:04:44,770 But anyways, Damon, can you go to the next slide for me? 109 00:04:45,010 --> 00:04:47,370 But companion planting is basically just. 110 00:04:47,370 --> 00:04:53,520 It's strategic pairing of your plants for the health of both of 111 00:04:53,520 --> 00:04:53,720 them. 112 00:04:53,720 --> 00:04:54,480 So it kind of. 113 00:04:54,720 --> 00:04:57,080 You're not like attracting extra pests. 114 00:04:57,080 --> 00:04:57,840 You're maybe having. 115 00:04:57,840 --> 00:05:00,720 You're attracting insects that are good pollinators, for one, and 116 00:05:00,720 --> 00:05:01,760 they benefit the other. 117 00:05:02,560 --> 00:05:05,600 You have different root structures, so they're not in competition. 118 00:05:05,680 --> 00:05:10,960 And it's being really intentional about what you're planting 119 00:05:11,360 --> 00:05:14,640 for the overall fruit and harvest of your plants. 120 00:05:15,440 --> 00:05:19,400 So as I was researching this, I came across things like dill and 121 00:05:19,400 --> 00:05:21,840 cucumbers are really good companion plants. 122 00:05:22,220 --> 00:05:22,780 Well, this is great. 123 00:05:22,940 --> 00:05:24,740 Dill and tomatoes, not so good. 124 00:05:24,740 --> 00:05:27,340 Which my dill was by my tomatoes last year. 125 00:05:27,340 --> 00:05:28,980 So we moved it away from the tomatoes. 126 00:05:28,980 --> 00:05:31,580 But then I found this plant. 127 00:05:31,820 --> 00:05:32,940 Do you guys know what that is? 128 00:05:33,260 --> 00:05:33,780 Yes. 129 00:05:33,780 --> 00:05:34,860 Did you say fennel? 130 00:05:35,580 --> 00:05:36,740 Somebody said fennel? 131 00:05:36,740 --> 00:05:37,100 No. 132 00:05:37,660 --> 00:05:38,740 Oh, aloe. 133 00:05:38,740 --> 00:05:40,140 It sounded like fennel. 134 00:05:41,100 --> 00:05:41,980 Yeah, kind of. 135 00:05:41,980 --> 00:05:43,100 This is fennel. 136 00:05:43,180 --> 00:05:44,780 Have any of you grown fennel? 137 00:05:45,100 --> 00:05:46,340 I wasn't the only one. 138 00:05:46,340 --> 00:05:47,900 I had never grown fennel. 139 00:05:48,610 --> 00:05:51,850 And last year I got this idea that I was going to grow fennel. 140 00:05:51,850 --> 00:05:53,370 I had this extra spot in my. 141 00:05:53,370 --> 00:05:54,770 I spreadsheet my garden. 142 00:05:54,770 --> 00:05:57,370 So I, like, make my own graph paper on a spreadsheet. 143 00:05:57,370 --> 00:06:01,330 And I plot out my garden, and I had this spot, and I was like, 144 00:06:01,330 --> 00:06:02,370 I'm going to try fennel. 145 00:06:02,370 --> 00:06:03,490 I've never tried it before. 146 00:06:03,810 --> 00:06:04,890 I'm going to grow some. 147 00:06:04,890 --> 00:06:08,690 So I had it in right in front of my cucumbers. 148 00:06:09,330 --> 00:06:15,130 And this year, I discovered that a bad pairing in companion planting 149 00:06:15,130 --> 00:06:17,010 is fennel and cucumbers. 150 00:06:17,590 --> 00:06:21,190 And so all of a sudden, my poor yield last year was starting 151 00:06:21,190 --> 00:06:24,070 to make a little bit more sense because I had planted this 152 00:06:24,070 --> 00:06:26,950 plant that is a fine, wonderful plant in and of itself. 153 00:06:26,950 --> 00:06:32,270 It's not the fennel's fault, but paired with my cucumbers, it 154 00:06:32,270 --> 00:06:33,429 was affecting my garden. 155 00:06:33,429 --> 00:06:37,790 And this year, see, I got a little lazy at the end of my garden 156 00:06:37,790 --> 00:06:40,750 last year, and I just left my fennel in my garden, which meant 157 00:06:40,750 --> 00:06:43,030 it stayed there and rooted all winter. 158 00:06:43,660 --> 00:06:46,620 So this year, I literally, every day I'm pulling out little 159 00:06:46,620 --> 00:06:50,180 baby fennel plants all throughout my garden because they 160 00:06:50,180 --> 00:06:50,980 keep coming up. 161 00:06:50,980 --> 00:06:53,300 So I have to keep going back, and I have to keep pulling them out 162 00:06:53,300 --> 00:06:55,860 and keep pulling them up because I let this plant grow, and 163 00:06:55,860 --> 00:06:57,580 I really want cucumbers. 164 00:06:58,220 --> 00:07:01,460 This is my goal, so I'm looking forward to that. 165 00:07:01,460 --> 00:07:04,540 But my fennel experiment was a good reminder to me that if I. 166 00:07:04,620 --> 00:07:08,660 If I want to grow the fruit that I want to grow, then I have 167 00:07:08,660 --> 00:07:10,300 to be really intentional about how I. 168 00:07:10,590 --> 00:07:11,390 How I'm planting. 169 00:07:12,590 --> 00:07:16,190 And there's this passage in Scripture, it's all about fruit, 170 00:07:16,190 --> 00:07:20,470 and it's all about freedom, and it's all about intentionality. 171 00:07:20,470 --> 00:07:21,950 And it's in Galatians 5. 172 00:07:22,830 --> 00:07:26,350 And this was a letter, Galatians is a letter that Paul wrote 173 00:07:26,350 --> 00:07:29,550 to a church about 2,000 years ago. 174 00:07:29,950 --> 00:07:32,510 And there was this kind of debate going on about how people 175 00:07:32,510 --> 00:07:33,790 get made right with God. 176 00:07:34,990 --> 00:07:37,190 So as you kind of think and reflect, how have you heard that 177 00:07:37,190 --> 00:07:39,340 people are made right with God? 178 00:07:39,420 --> 00:07:41,140 When you hear that phrase, like, what do you think? 179 00:07:41,140 --> 00:07:41,500 How do we. 180 00:07:41,500 --> 00:07:42,820 How do we be okay with God? 181 00:07:42,820 --> 00:07:43,660 What does that mean? 182 00:07:44,620 --> 00:07:45,500 Through baptism. 183 00:07:45,580 --> 00:07:47,740 Okay, Repenting. 184 00:07:48,140 --> 00:07:48,700 Okay? 185 00:07:48,860 --> 00:07:51,420 Following the rules, changing the way you're living. 186 00:07:51,580 --> 00:07:55,420 Okay, so there's some actions involved in what you guys. 187 00:07:55,420 --> 00:07:56,380 What you guys have said. 188 00:07:57,180 --> 00:08:01,220 There are some particular actions that were being told to the 189 00:08:01,220 --> 00:08:02,620 Galatian church that they needed to follow. 190 00:08:02,620 --> 00:08:04,300 It had to do with things they did to their body. 191 00:08:04,620 --> 00:08:06,860 But they said, this is what's going to make you right with God. 192 00:08:06,860 --> 00:08:08,620 And Paul's like, no, no, no, no, no. 193 00:08:10,670 --> 00:08:11,550 You're missing the point. 194 00:08:12,670 --> 00:08:15,030 And so he makes these kind of points through his letter. 195 00:08:15,030 --> 00:08:18,790 And his first point is that the rules, following the rules is 196 00:08:18,790 --> 00:08:20,430 not what makes you right with God. 197 00:08:20,910 --> 00:08:23,870 It's not about following a list of do's and don'ts. 198 00:08:24,110 --> 00:08:26,189 And he makes a really strong statement. 199 00:08:26,670 --> 00:08:29,790 He says, so Christ has truly set us free. 200 00:08:30,510 --> 00:08:34,030 Now make sure that you stay free and don't get tied up again 201 00:08:34,430 --> 00:08:36,270 in the slavery of the law. 202 00:08:37,629 --> 00:08:41,309 So there's this whole Jewish law that the people were following 203 00:08:41,309 --> 00:08:42,229 and all this. 204 00:08:42,229 --> 00:08:43,469 Basically, it's just this big list. 205 00:08:43,469 --> 00:08:44,909 It's this big list of rules. 206 00:08:44,909 --> 00:08:48,389 But the importance of the law was this is how you're okay with 207 00:08:48,389 --> 00:08:48,669 God. 208 00:08:48,669 --> 00:08:51,669 So you follow all the rules and then you know you're okay with 209 00:08:51,669 --> 00:08:52,029 God. 210 00:08:52,029 --> 00:08:52,589 This was. 211 00:08:52,748 --> 00:08:54,589 This was the system that was in place. 212 00:08:55,869 --> 00:08:57,469 And Paul goes on and he says. 213 00:08:57,709 --> 00:09:01,589 He says, but when we place our faith in Christ Jesus, he said, what's 214 00:09:01,589 --> 00:09:05,149 important is that is faith expressing itself in love. 215 00:09:06,170 --> 00:09:10,010 So he's like, it's all about how we live and all about how we 216 00:09:11,770 --> 00:09:15,690 let this love, how we show that in our lives. 217 00:09:16,730 --> 00:09:18,650 So he's saying, your beliefs matter. 218 00:09:18,650 --> 00:09:21,770 Like, they are important, but your actions matter. 219 00:09:21,770 --> 00:09:25,210 And if you're walking with Jesus, your faith in him is shown 220 00:09:25,210 --> 00:09:25,690 through that. 221 00:09:25,690 --> 00:09:26,650 So it's not just this. 222 00:09:26,810 --> 00:09:28,730 It's not just ideas about God. 223 00:09:28,730 --> 00:09:30,770 It's like, how are we, like, tangibly living? 224 00:09:30,770 --> 00:09:32,210 How are we showing that in our life? 225 00:09:32,210 --> 00:09:34,690 How are we making a difference to anyone? 226 00:09:34,690 --> 00:09:37,210 Are we making a difference in what we're doing in the life? 227 00:09:37,210 --> 00:09:40,290 Does anybody know that we know who Jesus is? 228 00:09:40,290 --> 00:09:43,810 We might be able to list some really good lists of things. 229 00:09:43,810 --> 00:09:44,490 But does it. 230 00:09:44,490 --> 00:09:45,410 Does it have any. 231 00:09:45,490 --> 00:09:46,610 Does it matter at all? 232 00:09:48,290 --> 00:09:50,450 And so he says to them, he says, don't get. 233 00:09:50,450 --> 00:09:52,930 Don't listen to these people who are trying to confuse you. 234 00:09:53,170 --> 00:09:55,010 He says some pretty harsh things about it. 235 00:09:55,250 --> 00:09:57,610 It's all in Galatians 5, if you want to check it out somewhere 236 00:09:57,610 --> 00:09:57,970 this week. 237 00:09:57,970 --> 00:09:59,930 But he says, don't listen to them. 238 00:09:59,930 --> 00:10:00,730 They're trying to. 239 00:10:00,730 --> 00:10:02,250 They're trying to make you follow the law. 240 00:10:02,250 --> 00:10:02,650 But that. 241 00:10:02,650 --> 00:10:06,620 That if you're trying to be okay with God by just following that, 242 00:10:06,620 --> 00:10:09,940 he's like, you're going to get sucked back into this system. 243 00:10:10,100 --> 00:10:11,860 That really is very draining. 244 00:10:12,500 --> 00:10:13,780 It doesn't make you free. 245 00:10:13,940 --> 00:10:14,620 And so then. 246 00:10:14,620 --> 00:10:19,340 But then he goes on and he says, basically he says, so what 247 00:10:19,340 --> 00:10:20,980 is this freedom for, right? 248 00:10:20,980 --> 00:10:24,820 This whole idea of being free if we don't have to follow all these 249 00:10:24,820 --> 00:10:25,500 rules, right? 250 00:10:25,500 --> 00:10:28,140 If that's not really what makes us God, well, then can we just 251 00:10:28,140 --> 00:10:29,140 do whatever we want? 252 00:10:31,070 --> 00:10:33,230 And so he says, this jamin. 253 00:10:33,230 --> 00:10:34,590 Can you go to that next slide for me? 254 00:10:34,590 --> 00:10:35,630 Nope, the next one. 255 00:10:36,430 --> 00:10:37,230 There you go. 256 00:10:37,870 --> 00:10:41,390 He says, but don't use your freedom to satisfy your sinful nature. 257 00:10:41,390 --> 00:10:43,950 Instead, use your freedom to serve one another in love. 258 00:10:44,350 --> 00:10:47,630 For the whole law can be summed up in this one command. 259 00:10:47,630 --> 00:10:49,230 Love your neighbors as yourself. 260 00:10:50,350 --> 00:10:54,030 So he's saying, can I do whatever I want? 261 00:10:54,030 --> 00:10:55,390 He's like, well, I mean, you could. 262 00:10:55,550 --> 00:10:58,710 You could do whatever you wanted, but it's not gonna be beneficial. 263 00:10:58,710 --> 00:10:59,710 It doesn't make it good. 264 00:10:59,710 --> 00:11:03,970 Not every action that I take, I might have the ch to do whatever 265 00:11:03,970 --> 00:11:04,490 I want. 266 00:11:04,490 --> 00:11:05,690 Like, I could do that. 267 00:11:05,690 --> 00:11:07,890 I can do a lot of things, but it doesn't mean it's going to be 268 00:11:07,890 --> 00:11:09,410 good for me or for anybody else. 269 00:11:09,410 --> 00:11:13,610 And he has a whole list of things that he says, don't do this. 270 00:11:13,770 --> 00:11:15,410 It's referred to as the sinful nature. 271 00:11:15,410 --> 00:11:16,410 But there's all these different things. 272 00:11:16,410 --> 00:11:18,769 But really the heart of it is that there are things that are really 273 00:11:18,769 --> 00:11:19,250 selfish. 274 00:11:19,250 --> 00:11:20,410 They're things that hurt people. 275 00:11:20,410 --> 00:11:23,650 They're things that are all about pleasing me and my desires 276 00:11:23,650 --> 00:11:28,010 and making me, myself and I the center of the world and not loving 277 00:11:28,010 --> 00:11:28,570 other people. 278 00:11:29,570 --> 00:11:32,210 And he's like, if we're loving other people, that's kind of the. 279 00:11:32,290 --> 00:11:33,650 That's the litmus test. 280 00:11:33,650 --> 00:11:35,970 Like, you guys know what a litmus paper is? 281 00:11:35,970 --> 00:11:36,290 It's. 282 00:11:36,290 --> 00:11:37,290 Yeah, like with a. 283 00:11:37,290 --> 00:11:39,010 I think, about chemistry class, right? 284 00:11:39,010 --> 00:11:41,650 So you take the litmus test and you stick it on in a solution 285 00:11:41,650 --> 00:11:43,890 and it tells you if it's an acid or a base. 286 00:11:43,890 --> 00:11:45,450 And that's what Paul's saying. 287 00:11:45,450 --> 00:11:46,810 He's like, this is the litmus test. 288 00:11:46,810 --> 00:11:49,890 If we take it and we put it on an action, we're like, does it show 289 00:11:49,890 --> 00:11:50,210 love? 290 00:11:50,610 --> 00:11:54,050 If it's not showing love, it's not about following Jesus. 291 00:11:54,050 --> 00:11:55,410 It's not about life in the Spirit. 292 00:11:57,260 --> 00:11:59,340 And so then he makes this third point to the Galatians. 293 00:11:59,340 --> 00:11:59,900 He says. 294 00:12:00,060 --> 00:12:03,980 He says, let the Holy Spirit guide your life, right? 295 00:12:04,060 --> 00:12:06,140 So it's not about all the rules. 296 00:12:06,380 --> 00:12:09,260 Choose wisely and let the Holy Spirit guide your life. 297 00:12:09,340 --> 00:12:12,620 And this word fruit is actually singular. 298 00:12:13,020 --> 00:12:14,780 So we hear about the fruit of the Spirit. 299 00:12:15,420 --> 00:12:17,020 This is Galatians 5:22. 300 00:12:17,020 --> 00:12:20,300 But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, 301 00:12:20,300 --> 00:12:23,020 goodness, faithfulness, gentleness, and self control. 302 00:12:23,360 --> 00:12:23,520 Gentleness. 303 00:12:23,590 --> 00:12:26,070 That word fruit is singular in the Greek. 304 00:12:26,230 --> 00:12:31,190 So basically what I think that means is Paul saying, if we live 305 00:12:31,190 --> 00:12:34,350 by the spirit, there's this fruit that it produces, and then 306 00:12:34,350 --> 00:12:36,790 it looks like these other things. 307 00:12:37,030 --> 00:12:40,670 So it's like an apple tree makes an apple, right? 308 00:12:40,670 --> 00:12:42,470 An apple tree doesn't make Oranges. 309 00:12:42,550 --> 00:12:44,750 An apple tree produces apples. 310 00:12:44,750 --> 00:12:45,990 So we live by the Spirit. 311 00:12:46,070 --> 00:12:49,510 It produces this fruit of the spirit. 312 00:12:49,510 --> 00:12:52,870 And that fruit of the spirit is this life that looks like this. 313 00:12:52,870 --> 00:12:54,690 It has these different characteristics. 314 00:12:56,680 --> 00:12:59,120 And the thing about all of this, right, is we. 315 00:12:59,120 --> 00:13:02,000 So Paul's writing this to Galatians, but we see this fruit 316 00:13:02,000 --> 00:13:03,960 of the Spirit in the life of Jesus. 317 00:13:04,520 --> 00:13:10,240 And there's this story in the book of John about a woman who gets 318 00:13:10,240 --> 00:13:10,600 caught. 319 00:13:11,480 --> 00:13:13,320 She gets caught in the act of adultery. 320 00:13:13,320 --> 00:13:15,920 And people that, like the religious teachers, kind of bring 321 00:13:15,920 --> 00:13:18,920 her out in front of Jesus and they're carrying these big stones. 322 00:13:18,920 --> 00:13:21,360 They literally want to throw the stones at her and kill her. 323 00:13:21,360 --> 00:13:22,320 Because they. 324 00:13:22,470 --> 00:13:26,630 In the law, the law says, if this happens, you stone people. 325 00:13:27,990 --> 00:13:32,470 And so they brought her out, and they're like, teacher, Jesus, 326 00:13:32,870 --> 00:13:33,910 what do we do with her? 327 00:13:33,990 --> 00:13:36,390 And Jesus, he does this. 328 00:13:36,550 --> 00:13:39,990 He kneels down and he starts writing in the sand. 329 00:13:41,030 --> 00:13:45,550 And he looks up and he says, well, whoever is without sin, you 330 00:13:45,550 --> 00:13:46,870 can throw the first stone. 331 00:13:47,510 --> 00:13:51,760 And the accusers start dropping their rocks, and they start 332 00:13:51,760 --> 00:13:52,400 walking away. 333 00:13:53,920 --> 00:13:57,880 And Jesus looks at the woman and he says, has no one condemned 334 00:13:57,880 --> 00:13:58,160 you? 335 00:13:58,240 --> 00:14:00,160 And she said, no one. 336 00:14:00,240 --> 00:14:02,320 And he says, I don't condemn you either. 337 00:14:02,400 --> 00:14:04,320 He says, go and leave your life of sin. 338 00:14:04,320 --> 00:14:07,840 But he says to her, he says, in those actions, what I hear him 339 00:14:07,840 --> 00:14:11,200 saying to her is, your life is worth so much more. 340 00:14:11,920 --> 00:14:16,920 You are worth so much more than what your choices are showing, 341 00:14:16,920 --> 00:14:18,960 but also than what these people think of you. 342 00:14:19,530 --> 00:14:20,570 But I see you. 343 00:14:20,810 --> 00:14:22,090 I see your potential. 344 00:14:22,490 --> 00:14:24,170 I see what's inside of you. 345 00:14:24,330 --> 00:14:27,130 There's more to your life than this. 346 00:14:28,410 --> 00:14:29,450 You have purpose. 347 00:14:29,930 --> 00:14:30,890 You have value. 348 00:14:31,450 --> 00:14:32,930 And he calls that out in her. 349 00:14:32,930 --> 00:14:34,890 He says, there's this better way for you. 350 00:14:34,890 --> 00:14:36,730 You can find it and you can live in it. 351 00:14:37,290 --> 00:14:38,330 And that's like. 352 00:14:38,330 --> 00:14:38,810 In that. 353 00:14:38,810 --> 00:14:41,410 I was thinking about it this week, and I was like, this is our 354 00:14:41,410 --> 00:14:45,210 first value here in this church, in this place, is this value 355 00:14:45,210 --> 00:14:47,810 of seeing people as God's masterpieces. 356 00:14:47,810 --> 00:14:48,810 That's what it's all about. 357 00:14:51,200 --> 00:14:56,800 And then later in John, we see this story about vines and fruit 358 00:14:57,040 --> 00:14:58,600 and staying connected to the vine. 359 00:14:58,600 --> 00:14:59,680 This is in John 15. 360 00:15:00,480 --> 00:15:04,640 But he says, look, if you want to produce good fruit, you have to 361 00:15:04,640 --> 00:15:05,520 stay with me. 362 00:15:05,520 --> 00:15:07,440 You have to remain with me. 363 00:15:07,760 --> 00:15:09,360 Like, this is how it works. 364 00:15:09,520 --> 00:15:12,560 So, like, if I have my apple tree and I cut off a branch, that 365 00:15:12,560 --> 00:15:13,760 branch is not going to. 366 00:15:13,760 --> 00:15:15,440 It's not going to produce any fruit. 367 00:15:15,440 --> 00:15:17,520 There's no apples that are going to come from that branch. 368 00:15:17,760 --> 00:15:18,680 It's the same idea. 369 00:15:18,680 --> 00:15:20,880 Jesus is saying, look, if you want to produce this good fruit, 370 00:15:21,100 --> 00:15:22,380 your life, you gotta stay with me. 371 00:15:22,940 --> 00:15:24,500 He says in that passage. 372 00:15:24,500 --> 00:15:25,140 He said, this is. 373 00:15:25,140 --> 00:15:26,100 But this is my command. 374 00:15:26,100 --> 00:15:29,940 And his command is not a big, huge list of do's and don'ts. 375 00:15:29,940 --> 00:15:30,380 It's this. 376 00:15:30,380 --> 00:15:35,980 It's just simply, love each other, stay with God, stay with me, 377 00:15:36,060 --> 00:15:36,940 love each other. 378 00:15:36,940 --> 00:15:38,260 This is how you bear fruit. 379 00:15:38,260 --> 00:15:39,260 You want to bear good fruit. 380 00:15:39,260 --> 00:15:39,740 This is. 381 00:15:39,900 --> 00:15:41,260 This is the way we do it. 382 00:15:43,020 --> 00:15:45,420 So I have another question for you. 383 00:15:46,950 --> 00:15:52,790 What makes it hard to stay with Jesus and to love others? 384 00:15:56,870 --> 00:15:57,430 Ego. 385 00:15:57,750 --> 00:15:59,350 You want to say any more about that? 386 00:15:59,830 --> 00:16:00,470 Okay. 387 00:16:01,430 --> 00:16:01,830 Control. 388 00:16:06,070 --> 00:16:06,790 Busyness. 389 00:16:08,310 --> 00:16:09,990 Being able to forgive yourself. 390 00:16:10,150 --> 00:16:10,510 Yeah. 391 00:16:10,510 --> 00:16:11,990 There's almost a sense sometimes. 392 00:16:12,070 --> 00:16:14,760 I'm not saying you said this wrong, but, like, when I'm in that 393 00:16:14,760 --> 00:16:17,960 place, sometimes I'm like, do I actually believe that that's all 394 00:16:17,960 --> 00:16:19,920 I have to do is, like, be with him? 395 00:16:20,560 --> 00:16:23,080 Like, I should have to do something else. 396 00:16:23,080 --> 00:16:25,040 I should have to have some other penance. 397 00:16:25,040 --> 00:16:26,720 I should have to make it up somehow. 398 00:16:26,880 --> 00:16:28,600 Jamin, did you have an online thing back there? 399 00:16:28,600 --> 00:16:29,520 Did I see your hand? 400 00:16:30,480 --> 00:16:31,600 Okay, never mind. 401 00:16:32,000 --> 00:16:39,120 Yeah, I throw out grief and hurt, disappointment, bad experiences. 402 00:16:41,270 --> 00:16:44,870 Maybe with the church, maybe with other people, other relationships, 403 00:16:46,230 --> 00:16:51,830 fear, doubt, expectations, wanting it to be easier than it is. 404 00:16:53,350 --> 00:16:56,150 It's a simple phrase, but in practice, it can be hard to do. 405 00:16:58,150 --> 00:17:03,270 And yet there's this call, this reminder to us this morning 406 00:17:03,430 --> 00:17:09,310 that if I want to grow good fruit, I have to be intentional with 407 00:17:09,310 --> 00:17:09,710 how I. 408 00:17:09,710 --> 00:17:10,470 With how I plan. 409 00:17:10,470 --> 00:17:13,750 And that, to me, like, that intentionality, I feel like, in some 410 00:17:13,750 --> 00:17:15,590 ways is almost like choice. 411 00:17:15,590 --> 00:17:17,430 Like, I have choice in the matter. 412 00:17:17,430 --> 00:17:18,470 Like, I get to choose. 413 00:17:18,470 --> 00:17:19,150 Like, I don't. 414 00:17:19,150 --> 00:17:22,430 I don't have to respond because anybody tells me I have to 415 00:17:22,430 --> 00:17:23,550 or I should. 416 00:17:24,270 --> 00:17:26,750 But it's like, what do I want in my life? 417 00:17:27,550 --> 00:17:29,230 What is the kind of life that. 418 00:17:29,230 --> 00:17:30,350 That I want to live? 419 00:17:31,710 --> 00:17:35,670 And if I'm wanting to bear or have a life that bears good fruit, 420 00:17:35,670 --> 00:17:37,550 there's this reality that, like, oh, I got to put. 421 00:17:37,550 --> 00:17:38,510 I got to put the work in. 422 00:17:38,510 --> 00:17:42,090 I saw T shirt the other week that kind of made me mad. 423 00:17:42,730 --> 00:17:44,890 And I was like, well, it's kind of true, but it kind of. 424 00:17:44,890 --> 00:17:48,090 I didn't like it, but it says. 425 00:17:48,330 --> 00:17:50,890 It said, don't. 426 00:17:51,290 --> 00:17:55,450 Don't be upset with the results you don't get because of 427 00:17:55,450 --> 00:17:56,730 the work you didn't put in. 428 00:17:57,610 --> 00:18:01,330 Here's why it made me mad, because first I was like, well, that's 429 00:18:01,330 --> 00:18:01,690 true. 430 00:18:02,570 --> 00:18:05,530 But secondly, because I was like, ugh. 431 00:18:05,610 --> 00:18:07,290 But that's very much like a. 432 00:18:08,450 --> 00:18:09,570 Like a shaming Thing. 433 00:18:09,570 --> 00:18:11,810 And so then I get curious, well, why do I feel shame? 434 00:18:11,810 --> 00:18:14,170 Oh, because are there things that I should be doing that I'm not 435 00:18:14,170 --> 00:18:14,530 doing? 436 00:18:14,850 --> 00:18:17,530 And so I'm not putting in the work in, so I'm not seeing the results. 437 00:18:17,530 --> 00:18:19,090 And all of that can be true. 438 00:18:19,090 --> 00:18:23,010 And what's also true is, and there's this factor, and there's 439 00:18:23,010 --> 00:18:25,570 that factor, and there's this factor, and I'm still dealing with 440 00:18:25,570 --> 00:18:26,210 this thing. 441 00:18:27,170 --> 00:18:30,250 And sometimes I just need to give myself grace and be patient 442 00:18:30,250 --> 00:18:30,890 with the process. 443 00:18:30,890 --> 00:18:34,290 And where I'm at, I can get really impatient with results. 444 00:18:35,890 --> 00:18:37,410 Really, really impatient with results. 445 00:18:37,890 --> 00:18:41,490 And in that place of impatience, start to feel like I'm 446 00:18:41,490 --> 00:18:45,330 not doing anything when really I'm just early in the growing season 447 00:18:45,490 --> 00:18:47,250 and I need to give it a little more time. 448 00:18:48,050 --> 00:18:51,570 So aiming for this good fruit, when we aim for good fruit, we're 449 00:18:51,570 --> 00:18:53,170 more likely to grow it. 450 00:18:53,410 --> 00:18:54,210 So if I want. 451 00:18:54,850 --> 00:18:57,890 So in this context, right, if I want my life to look more like 452 00:18:57,890 --> 00:19:00,930 Jesus, if that's my aim, I'm more likely to seek out the things 453 00:19:00,930 --> 00:19:02,370 that are going to help me to do that. 454 00:19:02,950 --> 00:19:06,070 If that's not my aim, I'm more likely to seek other things and put 455 00:19:06,070 --> 00:19:08,030 more energy and investment in those other things. 456 00:19:08,030 --> 00:19:12,830 So, like, as a parent, if I'm patient, if I want to reflect Jesus 457 00:19:12,830 --> 00:19:19,110 with my kids, when I'm patient with them, I see results shifting. 458 00:19:19,430 --> 00:19:21,190 I see my stress decrease. 459 00:19:23,430 --> 00:19:26,430 I see the impact that that has in my family when I choose to be 460 00:19:26,430 --> 00:19:27,070 patient with them. 461 00:19:27,070 --> 00:19:29,750 And when I choose to not be patient with them, I see the results 462 00:19:29,750 --> 00:19:30,550 that way, too. 463 00:19:30,950 --> 00:19:34,070 But you can see the fruit when you choose to take those action. 464 00:19:35,160 --> 00:19:36,920 Often, I think I choose the other. 465 00:19:37,640 --> 00:19:38,880 The other way in that. 466 00:19:38,880 --> 00:19:40,200 But the journey, right? 467 00:19:40,680 --> 00:19:44,360 The other thing about fruit is that the more we see good fruit, 468 00:19:44,360 --> 00:19:48,880 the more we learn to recognize it, the more we can discern the bad 469 00:19:48,880 --> 00:19:49,400 fruit. 470 00:19:49,880 --> 00:19:53,120 So, like, when I started growing cucumbers, I just got excited 471 00:19:53,120 --> 00:19:54,200 that I got a cucumber. 472 00:19:54,520 --> 00:19:56,520 Yes, I got one. 473 00:19:56,760 --> 00:19:58,200 This is fantastic. 474 00:19:58,840 --> 00:20:02,400 And then kind of like season after season, I'm like, oh, this 475 00:20:02,400 --> 00:20:05,280 season I got lots of cucumbers, or this season I only 476 00:20:05,280 --> 00:20:05,880 got a couple. 477 00:20:06,500 --> 00:20:06,780 Okay. 478 00:20:06,780 --> 00:20:09,340 But they weren't great, or they were kind of weird, or you just. 479 00:20:09,340 --> 00:20:13,460 You kind of learn as you go, like, this is the really good fruit. 480 00:20:13,460 --> 00:20:16,260 Like, this is the best fruit, that this is the fruit that I like 481 00:20:16,820 --> 00:20:19,380 that I'm really, really pleased with. 482 00:20:20,340 --> 00:20:21,780 But we learn that as we. 483 00:20:21,780 --> 00:20:23,620 As we go, what is the good fruit? 484 00:20:23,700 --> 00:20:24,820 What's the better fruit? 485 00:20:25,300 --> 00:20:28,820 How do I keep Making it better, not in a judgmental way of 486 00:20:28,820 --> 00:20:32,260 myself, but in a, like, I just want to keep growing and I want to 487 00:20:32,260 --> 00:20:33,300 keep learning kind of way. 488 00:20:33,620 --> 00:20:37,100 And the law, this list of rules, this list of, like, do's and 489 00:20:37,100 --> 00:20:37,940 don'ts, if that's. 490 00:20:37,940 --> 00:20:41,220 If that's, like, what I base my faith on is I'm only doing these 491 00:20:41,220 --> 00:20:42,580 things, and I'm not doing these things. 492 00:20:42,580 --> 00:20:43,780 And so I'm right. 493 00:20:44,180 --> 00:20:45,300 That's not freedom. 494 00:20:46,500 --> 00:20:48,820 I might now, my life might look similar. 495 00:20:48,820 --> 00:20:52,180 Like, I might make similar choices, but my reasoning is really, 496 00:20:52,260 --> 00:20:52,980 really important. 497 00:20:53,460 --> 00:20:56,220 Because if I'm doing it just so that people can look at me and 498 00:20:56,220 --> 00:20:59,760 be like, yes, she does all the right things, it's not going to produce 499 00:20:59,760 --> 00:21:03,320 good fruit if I'm doing it because I'm like, this is the life 500 00:21:03,320 --> 00:21:05,960 I'm after, so I'm going to make these choices. 501 00:21:06,520 --> 00:21:08,360 That's where the good fruit comes in. 502 00:21:09,640 --> 00:21:13,080 Living for all my selfish desires does not bring freedom. 503 00:21:13,160 --> 00:21:15,720 It makes me trapped in my ego. 504 00:21:15,960 --> 00:21:19,600 It makes me less likely to care about other people, makes me 505 00:21:19,600 --> 00:21:24,000 less likely to invest in them, makes me more likely to see them 506 00:21:24,000 --> 00:21:27,860 as a means to an end or not worth my time. 507 00:21:29,380 --> 00:21:33,020 But this right here, this freedom, right, this is the good 508 00:21:33,020 --> 00:21:34,100 fruit of the Spirit. 509 00:21:34,180 --> 00:21:35,340 He set us free. 510 00:21:35,340 --> 00:21:36,420 Christ has set us free. 511 00:21:36,420 --> 00:21:39,180 So let's make sure that we stay free and don't get tied up again 512 00:21:39,180 --> 00:21:40,380 in the slavery of the law. 513 00:21:40,380 --> 00:21:42,460 This is like this big point that Paul is saying. 514 00:21:42,460 --> 00:21:45,300 He's like, man, he set you free. 515 00:21:45,540 --> 00:21:50,020 Walk in that freedom to this good, good life that he has in store 516 00:21:50,020 --> 00:21:50,500 for you. 517 00:21:52,110 --> 00:21:53,550 Parker Palmer says this. 518 00:21:53,550 --> 00:21:58,150 He says, when we are rooted in true self, we can act in ways that 519 00:21:58,150 --> 00:22:02,350 are life giving for us and all those whose lives we touch. 520 00:22:02,910 --> 00:22:09,990 And there's a sense of, like, when we know who we are, like, and 521 00:22:09,990 --> 00:22:12,990 we're living in accordance with that, it changes how we live. 522 00:22:13,870 --> 00:22:16,030 And that produces really good fruit. 523 00:22:17,250 --> 00:22:21,530 I didn't know that fennel was bad for my cucumbers until I knew 524 00:22:21,530 --> 00:22:23,010 that it was bad for my cucumbers. 525 00:22:24,530 --> 00:22:27,530 Because I don't know everything and I won't know everything. 526 00:22:27,530 --> 00:22:28,530 So I get to keep learning. 527 00:22:28,530 --> 00:22:31,690 But once I learned, I was like, okay, so now we don't plant 528 00:22:31,690 --> 00:22:33,570 the fennel next to the cucumbers anymore. 529 00:22:33,970 --> 00:22:37,450 I saw, like, the choice and the power that I had to affect that 530 00:22:37,450 --> 00:22:37,850 situation. 531 00:22:37,850 --> 00:22:41,170 Now, there's some situations in life, right, where, like, other 532 00:22:41,170 --> 00:22:44,200 people plant fennel by our cucumbers, okay? 533 00:22:44,600 --> 00:22:46,880 Or the rabbits eat my parsley, okay? 534 00:22:46,880 --> 00:22:49,080 There are some things that are not my fault. 535 00:22:49,320 --> 00:22:51,920 And those are different things, like how we respond to that. 536 00:22:51,920 --> 00:22:53,680 Like, that's real and true. 537 00:22:53,680 --> 00:22:55,480 And there's other ways to respond to that. 538 00:22:55,480 --> 00:22:57,160 So not everything is my fault either. 539 00:22:58,280 --> 00:23:01,360 Those areas where I can see, like, okay, I can make a choice in 540 00:23:01,360 --> 00:23:03,400 those places where I don't have choice, well, I can learn how 541 00:23:03,400 --> 00:23:07,680 to navigate that, too, with patience, with goodness, even when 542 00:23:07,680 --> 00:23:09,960 I don't want to be good to people sometimes. 543 00:23:11,090 --> 00:23:14,850 I know you never feel like that, but I do sometimes. 544 00:23:16,450 --> 00:23:19,570 So these are my gardening tips that I'm reminding myself of this 545 00:23:19,570 --> 00:23:19,890 week. 546 00:23:20,050 --> 00:23:22,690 And the first one is to keep paying attention to Jesus. 547 00:23:23,490 --> 00:23:26,530 Jesus lived and walked the fruit of the spirit. 548 00:23:26,530 --> 00:23:28,290 Like, it's all over the New Testament. 549 00:23:28,290 --> 00:23:32,290 We see how he interacted with people and situations and places 550 00:23:33,410 --> 00:23:37,650 that really showed this life in the spirit and what it produces. 551 00:23:38,890 --> 00:23:43,210 And bless you all the allergies today. 552 00:23:44,010 --> 00:23:44,810 And what a. 553 00:23:44,810 --> 00:23:46,410 Yeah, so the life in the spirit, right? 554 00:23:46,410 --> 00:23:47,930 So keep paying attention to Jesus. 555 00:23:47,930 --> 00:23:49,130 This is what I tell myself. 556 00:23:49,210 --> 00:23:49,850 And I just. 557 00:23:49,850 --> 00:23:50,890 My confession, guys. 558 00:23:50,890 --> 00:23:54,090 This week, literally, I sat down with this passage, and I was 559 00:23:54,090 --> 00:23:56,490 like, lord, I have read this passage 700 times. 560 00:23:57,050 --> 00:24:01,130 Like, I'm kind of bored with this passage. 561 00:24:01,610 --> 00:24:06,470 And this was like, my answer was like, go smell your lavender. 562 00:24:06,710 --> 00:24:09,990 Just take a minute and deep and breathe deep and, like, keep 563 00:24:09,990 --> 00:24:10,790 paying attention. 564 00:24:11,670 --> 00:24:15,030 Like, so even those places, like I said earlier, like, my bad 565 00:24:15,030 --> 00:24:16,310 attitude, like, this is where. 566 00:24:16,310 --> 00:24:17,790 But it was also my honest attitude. 567 00:24:17,790 --> 00:24:18,950 It was also just where I was. 568 00:24:20,150 --> 00:24:23,190 But when we keep paying attention to Jesus, we keep seeing, 569 00:24:23,190 --> 00:24:24,870 like, okay, yep, it's there. 570 00:24:24,870 --> 00:24:26,310 And sometimes Jesus keeps. 571 00:24:26,470 --> 00:24:28,310 It's just like, I just gotta keep walking. 572 00:24:28,630 --> 00:24:29,630 Just gotta keep walking. 573 00:24:29,630 --> 00:24:30,470 I gotta keep growing. 574 00:24:30,960 --> 00:24:32,400 Secondly, practicing what he did. 575 00:24:32,400 --> 00:24:33,600 Practice doing what he did. 576 00:24:34,560 --> 00:24:37,320 So as we pay attention and see these different things and who he 577 00:24:37,320 --> 00:24:39,600 was and how he lived and how he loved, right? 578 00:24:39,600 --> 00:24:40,600 We can practice that. 579 00:24:40,600 --> 00:24:42,720 And practice is an important word. 580 00:24:42,800 --> 00:24:47,360 There's this old record called Agape Land. 581 00:24:47,440 --> 00:24:48,720 Does anybody know this record? 582 00:24:48,880 --> 00:24:49,440 Probably not. 583 00:24:49,440 --> 00:24:51,280 It's okay, you do. 584 00:24:51,280 --> 00:24:51,960 That's right. 585 00:24:51,960 --> 00:24:52,560 You do. 586 00:24:52,560 --> 00:24:55,080 But there's a song in there called Practice Makes Perfect. 587 00:24:55,080 --> 00:24:58,130 And there's this little pianist on the record, like, trying 588 00:24:58,130 --> 00:24:59,890 to play the piano and getting wrong notes. 589 00:25:00,370 --> 00:25:03,970 But the whole idea is that, like, practice is important. 590 00:25:04,290 --> 00:25:09,650 We can have the best theory, we can have the best plans, we can 591 00:25:09,650 --> 00:25:11,170 have the best spreadsheets. 592 00:25:13,570 --> 00:25:14,850 But practice is real. 593 00:25:14,930 --> 00:25:16,930 Like, that doesn't give us tangible skill. 594 00:25:16,930 --> 00:25:18,250 Like on the soccer field, right? 595 00:25:18,250 --> 00:25:21,970 You can have the best plan for how you're going to execute. 596 00:25:21,970 --> 00:25:25,280 But if you don't practice your foot skills, you might not Be able 597 00:25:25,280 --> 00:25:26,320 to execute him as well. 598 00:25:27,280 --> 00:25:29,440 So we have to keep practicing doing what he did. 599 00:25:29,840 --> 00:25:31,920 Patience takes practice. 600 00:25:32,400 --> 00:25:34,480 Goodness can take practice. 601 00:25:34,720 --> 00:25:37,000 Like self control takes practice. 602 00:25:37,000 --> 00:25:39,600 And the third thing is take Jesus wherever you go. 603 00:25:39,600 --> 00:25:41,440 Bobblehead Jesus is around here somewhere. 604 00:25:41,520 --> 00:25:43,120 Last week he got put into a box. 605 00:25:43,120 --> 00:25:44,240 Oh, is he back there? 606 00:25:44,400 --> 00:25:45,200 There he is. 607 00:25:47,040 --> 00:25:48,440 So bobblehead Jesus, right? 608 00:25:48,440 --> 00:25:50,880 But last week, Rocks put him in Ross. 609 00:25:51,120 --> 00:25:53,200 Rocks Ross put him in a box. 610 00:25:53,280 --> 00:25:53,760 Whew. 611 00:25:53,920 --> 00:25:55,200 That was a hard sentence. 612 00:25:55,520 --> 00:25:58,720 But it's this idea, like, we take Jesus wherever we go. 613 00:25:59,120 --> 00:26:00,400 We don't keep him in a box. 614 00:26:00,640 --> 00:26:03,880 So as I'm in the grocery store, as I'm driving my car, as 615 00:26:03,880 --> 00:26:08,240 I'm engaged in some sort of school activity, as I'm interacting 616 00:26:08,240 --> 00:26:13,000 with teachers, as I'm at work doing my job, as I'm seeing my neighbor, 617 00:26:13,000 --> 00:26:17,920 as I'm wherever I am, as I'm sitting on my couch exhausted and 618 00:26:17,920 --> 00:26:22,280 I am engaging with my children or deciding whether to make a phone 619 00:26:22,280 --> 00:26:26,080 call or not make a phone call, whatever, wherever I am, like, take 620 00:26:26,080 --> 00:26:26,640 Jesus. 621 00:26:26,640 --> 00:26:28,320 I have to take Jesus with me. 622 00:26:30,160 --> 00:26:33,000 And so there's this whole big idea that, like, learning to stay 623 00:26:33,000 --> 00:26:36,080 in step with the Spirit shapes us from the inside out. 624 00:26:37,200 --> 00:26:40,200 And it produces the kind of fruit that we see in the life of 625 00:26:40,200 --> 00:26:40,720 Jesus. 626 00:26:41,200 --> 00:26:45,840 So day after day, we keep going back to, we keep tilling the 627 00:26:45,840 --> 00:26:51,650 soil and we pulling out the weeds and just putting in that life. 628 00:26:52,370 --> 00:26:54,170 Everyday life with Jesus. 629 00:26:54,170 --> 00:26:58,170 Over time, it shapes us and how we see things and how we see 630 00:26:58,170 --> 00:26:59,290 the world and how we interact. 631 00:26:59,290 --> 00:27:01,170 And that shapes the choices that we make. 632 00:27:01,490 --> 00:27:05,610 And so it's this inside out living instead of this, like, yep, 633 00:27:05,610 --> 00:27:06,930 here's my rule book that I follow. 634 00:27:06,930 --> 00:27:07,810 And now I'm good. 635 00:27:09,330 --> 00:27:11,970 And that's when we get the best fruit, is when we have that 636 00:27:11,970 --> 00:27:13,490 inside out life with the Spirit. 637 00:27:14,360 --> 00:27:16,600 That's when we have the fruit that really sets us free. 638 00:27:16,840 --> 00:27:19,160 And that's the fruit that's worth living for. 639 00:27:20,120 --> 00:27:24,040 So that's my prayer for all of us this morning, is that whether 640 00:27:24,040 --> 00:27:27,160 you're like, this is my first season with this garden and I have 641 00:27:27,160 --> 00:27:30,280 no idea what to do except I see dirt and I have seeds. 642 00:27:30,920 --> 00:27:31,320 Great. 643 00:27:31,640 --> 00:27:33,400 You can choose to put them in. 644 00:27:33,400 --> 00:27:34,840 You can choose to not put them in. 645 00:27:35,320 --> 00:27:39,760 Whether it's your 17th season with the garden, you're like, I'm 646 00:27:39,760 --> 00:27:42,040 learning more things, or you've been gardening your whole 647 00:27:42,040 --> 00:27:43,520 life, like, there's always more. 648 00:27:43,520 --> 00:27:44,760 There's always room to grow. 649 00:27:45,250 --> 00:27:48,250 And I think I find the older I get, like, there's an excitement 650 00:27:48,250 --> 00:27:50,530 in that that I'm never actually done learning. 651 00:27:50,770 --> 00:27:52,370 I'm never actually done growing. 652 00:27:52,370 --> 00:27:55,410 There's always, always more with life, with the spirit. 653 00:27:55,410 --> 00:27:56,650 So that's my prayer for us today. 654 00:27:56,650 --> 00:27:59,290 So would you pray with me, Father? 655 00:27:59,290 --> 00:28:03,770 God, I just thank you that you are good and I thank you that you 656 00:28:03,770 --> 00:28:05,330 are patient and that you are kind. 657 00:28:05,970 --> 00:28:09,890 I thank you that you call us to life with you. 658 00:28:10,210 --> 00:28:15,240 And I thank you that you remind us of things that pull us 659 00:28:15,400 --> 00:28:20,320 just towards life, towards ways that are not yours, Lord, but 660 00:28:20,320 --> 00:28:23,920 really the heart of that is it just, it entangles us, it keeps us 661 00:28:23,920 --> 00:28:25,560 from living the fullest life we can. 662 00:28:25,560 --> 00:28:29,040 So I just, I pray you'd help us to keep seeing you, that you keep 663 00:28:29,040 --> 00:28:32,920 teaching us about this life in the spirit, that you would show us 664 00:28:33,240 --> 00:28:36,160 fruit, good fruit, Lord, that you would help us to be fruitful 665 00:28:36,160 --> 00:28:39,920 in our lives and that you'd help this church, Lord, just to be 666 00:28:39,920 --> 00:28:41,240 fruitful in this season. 667 00:28:41,780 --> 00:28:44,020 Thank you for the ways that you just stick with us. 668 00:28:44,420 --> 00:28:48,020 Thank you for the ways that when I come with my lists of things, 669 00:28:48,020 --> 00:28:50,340 you go, will you just sit with me for a little while? 670 00:28:50,660 --> 00:28:54,060 Let me remind you how much I love you so, God, I just pray that 671 00:28:54,060 --> 00:28:58,460 for us in this season that we would be reminded, we would be reminded 672 00:28:58,460 --> 00:29:01,700 of your love for us and that we can bring all of our stuff to 673 00:29:01,700 --> 00:29:03,540 you and trust you with it. 674 00:29:03,620 --> 00:29:05,380 I just pray this in your name, Jesus. 675 00:29:05,620 --> 00:29:06,260 Amen. 676 00:29:07,390 --> 00:29:11,670 Thank you for participating in the conversation happening at Heaven 677 00:29:11,670 --> 00:29:12,750 Earth Church. 678 00:29:13,310 --> 00:29:18,590 Your next opportunity to do so live is this Sunday morning, 9:30am 679 00:29:19,630 --> 00:29:23,830 Eastern time either at the main campus at 3:09 East Main in 680 00:29:23,830 --> 00:29:28,190 Whiteland, Indiana or online at YouTube Live. 681 00:29:28,590 --> 00:29:33,510 That's@YouTube.com heavenerthechurch. 682 00:29:34,550 --> 00:29:40,550 The audio podcast is always available at Apple Podcast and on 683 00:29:40,790 --> 00:29:41,430 Spotify. 684 00:29:41,910 --> 00:29:46,230 You can help others find out about the Heaven Earth Church podcast 685 00:29:46,550 --> 00:29:51,350 by going to Apple Podcasts and or Spotify and leaving a five star 686 00:29:51,350 --> 00:29:53,030 rating and your review. 687 00:29:53,750 --> 00:29:57,670 Instructions on how to do just that and links are in the show notes. 688 00:29:58,960 --> 00:30:04,400 You can always find out more by going to the church website heavenearthchurch.org 689 00:30:05,600 --> 00:30:05,880 we. 690 00:30:05,880 --> 00:30:08,080 Want to thank you for spending time with us today. 691 00:30:08,240 --> 00:30:11,600 My name is Ross Stackhouse, the pastor to Heaven Earth Church 692 00:30:12,000 --> 00:30:15,320 and you may think out there that your story is over, but in fact 693 00:30:15,320 --> 00:30:18,400 your faith story may just be beginning. 694 00:30:18,720 --> 00:30:21,560 If you want more information about our church or you're interested 695 00:30:21,560 --> 00:30:25,900 in a next step, you can go to heavenearthchurch.org otherwise we 696 00:30:25,900 --> 00:30:29,100 look forward to being with you next time at the Heaven Earth Church 697 00:30:29,100 --> 00:30:29,740 podcast.