Transformation Church Lecture: Fresh Fruit

hi my name is Amberly and I have the privilege of serving as one of our executive pastors here at Transformation Church we just want to say thank you so much for tuning in from wherever you are watching from and if you haven&#39;t already be sure to like And subscribe we believe that God has a word for you so let&#39;s jump into this amazing message welcome to Transformation Church where we believe in worshiping God and I&#39;ve never actually um started a ser without my suit jacket and um because of the worship that just went forth I had to take that mug off it was making me look crazy my collar was up cuz I was praising so hard and that was a distraction in the spirit and the natural looked at myself on the screen I said oh no like take it off um welcome to week four of a series we&#39;re calling somebody say fresh fruit and um at Transformation Church we believe that this year God has given us a prophetic word and the word is fruit that out of our lives out of our marriages out of our money out of our businesses out of our thought processes there needs to be what is the word fruit many of us have not seen fruit in our lives in decades it&#39;s been the same cycle but I believe by the power of the Holy Spirit and the Revelation through teaching and and and the spirit of God that is in this place and your desire to continue to hunger and thirst after those things that God has saying I believe this year is going to be a turnaround year for many of us now you don&#39;t have to believe that but those who do there&#39;s something that happens to you the Bible always tells us according to your faith and you might as well you have nothing to lose by actually believing God and so today in the two minutes that I have to preach this word to you um I I&#39;m going to try to do something that that leaves a mark in your head that will never ever leave you ever again the the name of this series is fresh fruit but there&#39;s a tagline that we have not emphasized and today I felt by the Holy Spirit I was supposed to emphasize it to you the the name of this entire series is fresh fruit the proof is in the fruit write that down the proof is in the fruit and and I need to say this to Believers now if you&#39;re not a Believer yet I love you I&#39;m going talk to you in just a second just hold on you can listen into this private conversation that I&#39;m about to have with people who have confessed Jesus Christ as their lord and savior don&#39;t care if you smoke don&#39;t care if you had sex last night it&#39;s all good I&#39;m just glad that you&#39;re here I know other Christian people won&#39;t tell you that but your boy I&#39;m with you why cuz I was there before but hold on let me have a conversation with my [Applause] family um for believers you talk too much you talk about what you going to do talk about the bible plan you going to finish talk about the weight you going to lose talk about being vegan talk about being a virgin talk about but may I submit to you that you could save a lot of words by just actually being the proof of what you desire to do the proof is in the fruit cuz nobody can argue with fruit they can they can act like it ain&#39;t there but they got to step over it to move on and there are too many Believers that are out here with no fruit so we have to talk about everything that we&#39;re going to do and hypothesize and then because we&#39;re not producing fruit we criticize anybody that is cuz it ain&#39;t the type of fruit that I would you ain&#39;t got nothing to show for everything that God told you but you have a lot to say okay and I need to free the church that wants to produce everybody say more fruit more fruit from the chains of trying to prove yourself there are too many people that are under the sound of my voice with Jesus Christ on the inside of them that are trying to still prove things you dressed a certain way today God real quiet some somebody&#39;s like hold on what is he going to say I&#39;ll leave it alone just so y&#39;all hear what I&#39;m saying to you many of us are doing things trying to prove things to people who won&#39;t even see it you missed it you&#39;re doing things today in real life trying to prove things to people some of them that are in the grave still trying to prove to your mama that you&#39;re worth it still trying to prove to that coach that you can cut it trying to prove to that boss who wouldn&#39;t give you a promotion that you&#39;re worth it and what I came to free you from today is that monkey that that gorilla that&#39;s been on your back listen the need to prove things comes from the inward doubt of producing things so when you don&#39;t believe you can actually produce it cuz you did what you said you was going to do you start trying to prove that I am enough that I can make it happen you don&#39;t believe in me watch this and what ends up happening is the enemy distorts the motivation of your change did you hear what I just said many of you are doing the right thing with the the wrong motivation cuz the enemy creeped in at the point of your insecurity and started flipping your motivation so that you think you&#39;re getting the right results but it has a bad root oh my Matthew 718 a good tree cannot bear bad fruit did you hear what the word said a good tree cannot bear bad fruit but at the same token a bad tree cannot bear good fruit every tree that does not bear good fruit is cut down and thrown into the fire therefore by their fruits you will know them everybody gets exposed by their [Applause] fruit did you hear what I just said so this is the thing I want everybody to switch that has freed me in this new season of being fresh somebody say fresh I&#39;m not trying to prove them wrong I&#39;m trying to produce God right I&#39;m going say it one more time I am no longer waking up going to work dressing to prove them wrong I&#39;m trying to produce God right and if you wake up every morning trying to prove them wrong you need to repent I know it actually made you go to the gym because they said I&#39;d never ever be able to do it and I&#39;mma show them I&#39;mma get this I&#39;mma get this and I&#39;mma Be this and I&#39;mma I promise you but what&#39;s happening is when you reach it then where does your motivation come from what happens when you attain the thing that was motivated by something negative today I want you to everybody say repent if there&#39;s any area of your life that you&#39;ve been doing I&#39;mma prove them wrong repent what does it mean I&#39;mma produce God right did y&#39;all just see how easy that is see what every Christian Life should look like where that backpack at um uh does anybody got that backpack pass it to me what the Christian Life should look like is US walking around how y&#39;all doing Turn the Lights up I&#39;m at the gym hey Tammy what&#39;s up brother you good what&#39;s your name man Alan Allan nice to meet you bro what&#39;s that baby that baby like orange juice that baby got a chain on that baby need a orange look baby two days old with a chain black people here we go you want an orange thank where y&#39;all go to school nowhere nowhere you look young you but you you you you&#39;re blessed what&#39;s up B here you go what&#39;s up fam you good it&#39;s good to see you you want fruit your daddy get he want the fruit dad I give you another one what&#39;s up Vic you be telling me to eat fruit all the time come on it&#39;s my trainer right here take all this fruit what&#39;s up big daddy you should be able to see the impact of my life not by where I tell you I&#39;ve been oh it&#39;s dark on the camera it doesn&#39;t matter where I&#39;m at you can see my fruit oh you want some he said over here over here do you see what happens when you start to produce fruit you become desirable I haven&#39;t stopped to watch anybody eat the fruit I just produce it and drop it off at the gym at the job when I wherever I go my life should be producing fruit fruit the saddest part about this moment right now are there are thousands of people around me that desire the fruit but the bag is empty so until I flipped it over nobody did even knew that I still didn&#39;t have any fruit and this is the season where God&#39;s exposing people he&#39;s turning the bags over seeing that marriage look good on Instagram no fruit that business they act like they drive a Lamborghini they in so much debt no fruit no fruit so what happens when the church tells the world come and see our Jesus no fruit come and meet the that changed my life didn&#39;t he change your life 15 years ago yes what has happened since then nothing I just carry around my fruit sack I judge other people for not bearing fruit your fruit should be riper than that man of God where have you dropped off any fruit preaching Pastor I know from now on I&#39;m not going to try to prove anybody wrong I&#39;m going to just say this small phrase in my head look at my fruit people can say anything they want about this church I&#39;m not perfect I mess up daily I&#39;m still trying to figure out how to be a pastor if anybody wants to take my position you can have it this is not sexy this is not fun this is not all oh yes I want to be a pastor that was never my dream and I&#39;m scared of people who wake up like that just want to get on the platform and give God [Applause] okay and one thing that I will be able to stand on when I stand before God I&#39;ll be able to say Lord I I messed up several times I did the wrong thing tons of times time but I always repented and came back to you but God I I hope that what I did there was some fruit the reason I sleep at night when comments is going crazy is cuz I know that for every comment there&#39;s a kiwi y&#39;all missed it for every comment there&#39;s a [Applause] cantaloupe this this is where the church has to move to because if we&#39;re going to be effective on any level if we&#39;re going to reach those people who actually need Jesus we&#39;re not going to be able to explain to everybody everything that&#39;s happening and why we did what we did and all the this is the reason why and I&#39;m just telling you pastorally as a church this is the reason why we&#39;re doing Ransom again now listen hold on before you cheer before you cheer before you cheer before for here we learned some things last year we learned our platform was way bigger than I thought we learned that there were a lot of people who were looking for things to be able and I was like oh shoot if this was at the P or the Performing Arts Center they would love it cuz it was on the wrong day at the wrong venue and it was kind of good now let&#39;s be real they want me to come out here and whip somebody and like spray some ketchup and it&#39; be like Jesus is blood come on let&#39;s be honest and they will clown the church about it and we were like they didn&#39;t come to Christ because of that no it wasn&#39;t excellent at all we saw the Hinds in the guys so cuz there was it was like Ah that&#39;s too much and y&#39;all done rewrote Beyonce&#39;s song and I I mean I know the song and that wakes my spirits up and I just I get you so do we stop doing it oh no because there was over 600 people got saved but what but watch this but watch but we&#39;re not prideful to say yeah we just going to do it the same no we&#39;ve been cutting on it we&#39;ve been submitting it we&#39;ve been looking at we done rewrote almost all the songs we&#39;ve we&#39; we&#39;ve taken the things that we said could we do this better and what we&#39;re going to do is this year we&#39;re going to perfect it in house this is why it&#39;s not going to be live online for everybody to see and I know all my transformation Nation people&#39;s like forget them Pastor Mike forget them I&#39;m in Georgia I can&#39;t come play R for me I got [Applause] you I love transformation Nation y&#39;all are ride or die but hear me but but here what I&#39;m saying is I have enough wisdom to know that if we if we get it right this year then maybe we can take it on the road see you miss it you miss it I don&#39;t quit on things that produce fruit just because they weren&#39;t [Applause] perfect and how many things has God made fruitful that you just said never mind they didn&#39;t like how it looked the first version the second version the third version didn&#39;t go over how I thought God&#39;s saying go back and cut on it somebody say cut on it John 151 say cut on it again cut uhoh I am the true grape vine and my father is the gardener he cuts off every branch of mine that does not produce fruit and he prunes which also is another word for cut he cuts the branches that do bear fruit so that they will produce watch this even more somebody say more fruit say it like you believe it more fruit say it like it&#39;s going to happen in your mind and your life more say it like your finances is going to reflect it say it like your family is going to change more fruit when I look at my bank account this week more fruit I don&#39;t care what it says when I walk into my house what am I saying more I might be at the brink of divorce but I&#39;m calling it by faith more [Applause] fruit that&#39;s good but for more fruit there&#39;s a formula we&#39;ve been talking about fresh fruit and fresh vision and a fresh Church you want more fruit how many people want more fruit in the building get ready to scream for the title of the sermon it&#39;s going to take a fresh [Applause] cut W oh wo [Music] woohoo hold on a a fresh cut Pastor a fresh cut you&#39;re witnessing history right now um after 10 years of pastoring um I&#39;ve never ever come on any platform without a fresh cut and today I am up here straight off of vacation where I spent time a lot of time in the sun Su n and with the Sun s o n as you can see by my complexion um I I didn&#39;t get a a fresh cut so I I decided to use this as an illustration of what God&#39;s going to do in our lives and I&#39;m going to get a haircut on stage in front of you something that is usually done in private sir sir I&#39;m gonna do it openly in front of you so that you can see the benefit of a fresh cut um Aaron my Barbara and friend is going to come y&#39;all give it up for Aaron real quick as he comes now uh this is my dog and um he I&#39;m going to let him send but he is actually terrified of what we&#39;re about to do because what I&#39;m about to do is very dangerous cuz the level of passion that I preach with and the level of wanting you to get it um really affects potentially the way that somebody um could actually cut my hair and this is not rehearsed or planned or practiced this is about to be very [Applause] fresh but I want you to know from the scripture watch this point write it down I&#39;mma preach this whole time while he&#39;s cutting me he got the brother how are you feeling right now are you feeling feeling you&#39;re feeling great our friendship is on the line um write this down you&#39;re getting cut either way you&#39;re getting cut either way you about to no I don&#39;t no no no not this black thing today is watermelon I don&#39;t want this use my [Applause] cake there we go got to be on brand thank you Jesus somebody say you&#39;re getting cut it either way cut either this is God&#39;s process cutting is God&#39;s process of eliminating what isn&#39;t producing fruit and it&#39;s also his way of expanding what is producing fruit so if you don&#39;t Embrace God cutting you you are not actually getting the best out of what you have yeah and one un cut is going to cause you pain remember the scripture says anybody who&#39;s not producing fruit he cuts them off and throws them away but the people who are producing fruit he cuts them so that they can have more fruit what I found out is one cut is full of pain and the other cut is full of promise what I&#39;m trying to get everybody in this room under the sound of my voice to realize is God in 2024 when you yell by faith more fruit in my marriage more fruit in my finances more fruit in my business more fruit in my family he says let me grab my [Music] scissors are you ready to be cut the thing that really brought me a lot of Peace cuz when I was asked that by the Holy Spirit am I ready to get cut my answer was no cuz all my life cut has been associated with something that is either bad hurtful painful or or an accident that could end deadly don&#39;t no don&#39;t play with them scissors since you&#39;re young no no no no no no no no no no don&#39;t use that knife but God said to me he said Michael being put cut by me is a promise of more fruit he said so when I start to cut on your life I&#39;m promising you I&#39;m planning to use you again see what I don&#39;t know if anybody ever played on a basketball team but but I was one of those on a team that the coach would always ride me harder than he would ride anybody else and I was like coach you don&#39;t be telling them that he said shut up and run Co they the shot too he said I&#39;m not talking to them coach I got I was a crier when I got angry like when I got really Ang do I got any angry like when you get like real the tears just start falling they Thug tears believe that you better believe that yes sir but you get so overwhelmed it&#39;s got to come out somewhere [Applause] you and one day the coach brought me to the side he said Michael the reason that I ride you so hard and I correct you so hard and I talk to you so hard is because I know that you actually have potential to go where none of these other people have potential to go so if I don&#39;t cut you now you won&#39;t be ready when it&#39;s time for the competition and I just came to tell somebody that the church has been a bad done a bad job in this last season of emphasizing how comfortable serving God would be I need to say this to you like just come to God and all your fears and all your tears and he bottles them and he&#39;s going to coddle them and and we make you feel like when you come to God then somehow it gets easy and I just I want to let you know that our desire for Comfort has made us despise his cut I&#39;mma say it one more time you think if God tells you no you&#39;re getting punished instead of if God tells you no he&#39;s protecting you you think if God doesn&#39;t allow you to get the position you prayed for that somehow he hasn&#39;t heard your cry but he actually is answering the prayer you didn&#39;t know how to form in your Li with your lips by not letting you get into a position that you would be locked into because he knows you&#39;re a people pleaser and if you got that position you wouldn&#39;t leave there for 15 years and three years from now he&#39;s going to open up the actual Destiny step that you need so he told you no now to lead you to the place of [Applause] purpose but if you desire Comfort at the expense of Desiring the cut not from anybody just regular I&#39;m talking about from God you will miss out on what God has for you I wrote it down like this because I just came back from the beach and I wanted to I wanted to give a praise report I know these we don&#39;t do testimony service anymore in church but I want to give you praise rep Point I&#39;ve been to the beach a lot of times and me and my wife did a little withdrawal trip and I just needed to be refreshed and I&#39;m encouraging every person to pick time where you actually get refreshed I know a pastor doesn&#39;t usually tell you that but Jesus modeled it or God modeled it in creation and he literally took a day of Sabbath to be able to recreate and so I&#39;m just asking you to do the same thing but that ain&#39;t my point while I was on the beach praise report I felt more comfortable in swim clothes than I ever have in my life now some of y&#39;all won&#39;t Shout with me but you weren&#39;t with me when I was 275 I was so ready to take my shirt off no no no I&#39;m just serious I was like what we wearing today baby I was getting my bathing suits ready I wanted to color coordinate I want you wearing pink today I wear pink today I was but what I what I realized is my comfort on the beach came from the cutting in the gym your comfort comes from a place of cutting you want comfort in your marriage go get that cutting and counseling you want cutting in you want comfort in your finances how many people would love for their finances to be more comfortable come on okay y&#39;all come on cut the budget everybody wants Comfort nobody wants cutting but the cut watch this gives you the edge and this haircut by the end of this service by the faith and crazy Faith Of God will be sharp because what he&#39;s doing to me right now now she&#39;s cutting me sir they&#39;re little micro Cuts over and over and over and over and over again but what he&#39;s doing right now is shaping me into the image of what he sees for me because I can&#39;t see it for myself and most people want to cut themselves and I&#39;m not talking about in a dangerous way because I know that people have dealt with that lie of the enemy that tells you that you&#39;re better not here and I come to rebuke that right now and I said that you will live and not die I understand that life I understand that depression and that despair but I know there&#39;s hope for you what I&#39;m telling you right now is that most people want to get in the mirror with the Shavers of life and try to cut the areas of their life they can&#39;t see J has anybody ever had a bad haircut before absolutely now when you see a kid with a about haircut it&#39;s kind of expected most of the time it&#39;s like oh look at little Jimmy god dog oh his mama wanted to save $15 and so she put a bowl around his head and y&#39;all remember them chili bowl cuts like just and Jimmy walk out like bro what happened to you my mama bro she just Jimmy don&#39;t mess with Jimmy with the chili bow he&#39;ll fight you and then she try to put a part in it the part is the size of the Red Sea splitting it&#39;s just but but with kids you understand it the thing I cannot get is grown men that that really really won&#39;t humble thems enough to let somebody else cut they hair and I know you trying to save money and I appreciate that but your haircut makes you look incompetent I&#39;mma tell you why you don&#39;t have a woman no okay ladies back me up when you see a dude in his head do not look like he care you start judging now I&#39;m being very superficial at this current moment but I want you to see the point a bad haircut especially one that somebody does to their self comes from somebody who is not humble enough to submit to the vision of someone else I have no idea what he&#39;s doing to my head I have no idea what guard he has on I have no idea if he&#39;s feeling fruity and wants to cut Spider-Man in the back of my head I have no idea but I trust him I&#39;ve sat in this chair so many times I&#39;ve sat at dining room tables he learned how to cut hair cutting me and my brothers in my my parents laundry room so when I&#39;m on this platform getting my haircut in front of hundreds of thousands of people I am calm because I&#39;ve been here before I trust him when it comes to your spiritual life have you been with God long enough that you will trust his cut he&#39;ll trust when you tell when he tells you not that friend I know that&#39;ll be a come up for your social media but they not for you well God we love all the same things and Lord if you just gave me Conn not them well God I I I feel what you&#39;re saying but I&#39;m still around these other people so if you really want me not to be around them then you will remove them from my life he said no no I won&#39;t I&#39;ll let you have what you want go ahead have it I&#39;ll just be here when what I try to protect you from actually really Cuts you see the god that we serve is a master surgeon the Bible tells us that his words can cut through bone and Marrow and so today all I all I&#39;m trying to ask this church to do if you want fresh fruit you need a fresh cut look at Hebrews 12:6 for the Lord disciplines and corrects and cuts Those whom he loves God do you love me yes I do sit still and let me cut you have you ever thought about God God&#39;s love like that cuz most of us want God&#39;s love to be a big hug Comfort Me Lord cuddle me Lord hug me Jesus no come on and God says I love you so much that I&#39;m about to cut you stay still stop talking don&#39;t move this is going to hurt just a little bit but I promise you I&#39;ve been cut worse than this and I went through every cut that you would ever have to go through so that you could know that with me you&#39;re going to make it out on the other side he said the Lord disciplines corrects those those who he loves and he prunes every son whom he receives or he punishes every son who he receives and welcomes to his heart verse 7 it says You must watch this submit to correction for the purpose of discipline God is dealing with you as one of his sons for what son is there whom his father does not discipline now if you are exempt from correction and without discipline in which all of God&#39;s children share then you are IL an illegitimate child and not a son at all moreover we have had Earthly fathers who discipline us and we submitted and respected them for training us shall we not much more willingly submit to the father of spirits and live by learning from his discipline for our Earthly fathers disciplined us for only a short time as seemed best to them but he disciplines us for our good so that we may share his Holiness for the time being no discipline brings Joy but seems sad and painful yet to those who have been trained by it afterwards it yields the peaceful fruit of righteousness right standing with God and a lifestyle and attitude that sinks seeks um Conformity to God&#39;s Will and purpose if you&#39;re not submitting to the cut you will not be able to produce more fruit so Pastor Mike very plainly what is the cut of God very simple cut correct ing if you&#39;re getting cut by God he&#39;s correcting you like Aaron is correcting the sweat that is coming oh dang all in my mouth sometimes when God is correcting you it feels like dang could you could you not do it a different way has anybody God ever done something you be like but this was the way you had to do it but but but but but here what we just heard that when God&#39;s correcting you it&#39;s because he loves you I I want to bring back to every person in this room the idea that God&#39;s correction is God&#39;s love so when God tells you no more sleeping with them Pastor you said that in church you&#39;re doing it at your house when When God says stop spending money on that grand When God Says join the church well God I was heard in my last&#39;s church he said I&#39;m about to correct some things but you have to submit to my corrections watch this and this is the big thing if God is not correcting you be concerned any area of my life where I&#39;ll be like every area of my life is good and God ain&#39;t got nothing else to do i&#39; be like uh-oh either I&#39;m not listening or he stops speaking and the church needs to be awakened to the fact that as long as we are in this Christian walk there will be something that God is trying to get off of us okay so hear me and I I know a lot of y&#39;all used to be running around jumping around and doing all the other stuff and you&#39;re like man this is different just watching him sit there I am not going to walk around all week looking crazy because I wasn&#39;t still enough to be in the place that I needed to be to get cut on and the crazy thing about a correcting cut many time God uses other people to correct us and you would be fine if it was God Almighty the big man upstairs going to correct me he know how to get my attention and he sent you a wife and he gave you kids you okay buddy you you good right there do I need to do I need to stop for a second cuz you know you on the front part good good good okay I&#39;m going just take a second I&#39;mma pause for the calls all right oh hold on you can&#39;t [Laughter] okay no no no go back go back to that go back I&#39;m just going they going to have to wait now we saying wait on the Lord and I told him the cutting area and as soon as he started I moved no no no no I&#39;ll wait on you I&#39;ll wait on you I&#39;ll wait on you I&#39;ll wait on you [Music] [Applause] IIT [Applause] [Applause] this is how a lot of our Christian life looks that God has you in a position he&#39;s trying to cut on you he&#39;s trying to do something and every time and then you start doing stuff like this what if you kind of like like what if no no no no what if you kind of like turn it on you know why God doesn&#39;t turn on a lot of the blessings it&#39;s cuz your hand is still on it it&#39;s it&#39;s because you trying to direct where it&#39;s going he said this will hurt you too much if I turn this on right now if I turn on the favor if I turn on the blessing if I turn it on I need you to sit yes [Applause] sir that&#39;s so [Applause] good and so as I sit here I&#39;m letting somebody else cut me God doesn&#39;t give me haircuts Aaron does many times God does not speak to me about my attitude Natalie does y&#39;all are missing it many times God doesn&#39;t directly speak to me about my inconsistencies Bella Ava MJ and Gia do and he&#39;s using people to correct you and you won&#39;t listen cuz they ain&#39;t live this life like I have I&#39;m the bread winner of this house grown man I&#39;m you can&#39;t teach you can&#39;t teach your old dog new trips come on think of all of the colloquialisms we say but Proverbs 27:6 says faithful are the wounds are the cuts of a friend who corrects out of love and concerned but the kisses of an enemy are deceitful because they serve his hidden agenda some of y&#39;all are being killed by kisses and God&#39;s saying you need to desire for me to cut on you again cuz when I cut you it means I love you so the C and God cutting stands for everybody say correcting the U stands for watch this one unveiling when I come to the barber shop it&#39;s one of the most vulnerable positions all men know when when somebody starts washing and touching on your head and and shampooing and cutting you just start telling business and Ladies we already know what y&#39;all be doing in there if they coloring don&#39;t let be getting a color and a and a a a layering and all the other stuff that&#39;s happening y&#39;all just be telling all your business God said why would you tell a person that&#39;s cutting your hair all your business and you won&#39;t tell me everything that&#39;s going on I know it anyway but you won&#39;t bring it to me and when God starts cutting on you he wants there to be oh watch this an unveiling the reason that I use this word unveiling is because there there was an unveiling that happened through what Jesus did for all of us in Matthew 27:50 it says then Jesus shouted again and he released his Spirit at that moment the curtain in the sanctuary of the temple was torn into he tore the veil from the top to the bottom the Earth Shook and the Rocks split apart when Jesus Christ went to the Cross died for us rose again what he did is he tore the veil between man and God what are you saying Pastor Mike he said that there has to be no separation between us so if he did that work for the veil or the cover or the separation to be torn he said if you ever put anything up between us again I&#39;mma cut it you put put success between me and you I&#39;mma cut it put your family between me and you I&#39;m going to cut anything I&#39;m telling you this is why the Bible tells us he said don&#39;t make anything else an idol don&#39;t serve any other gods before me it doesn&#39;t say um any other gods won&#39;t be there he said there&#39;s other things that you will value but if they&#39;re before me they come between us I&#39;m cutting it he said I tore the veil once and I&#39;ll cut all the other ones is there anything in your life that has become a curtain between you and God I can&#39;t answer it for you but if God starts cutting you he&#39;s going to start doing it first with correcting you and the second thing he&#39;s going to do is start unveiling things do not be surprise for the rest of 2024 when God starts to pull the curtain back on stuff Jesus you sit next to people who you don&#39;t know who they really are and you have two choices you either move the curtain or you let him cut it and some of y&#39;all he&#39;s been walking up with scissors saying please just expose yourself please just tell your wife the truth please just tell your tell the company you&#39;ve been stealing just go to the cuz when he cuts it it&#39;s going to expose whatever is back there sir yes sir I&#39;m telling you right now that&#39;s why Ministries and pastors and different things are falling at a rate that is like what in the world it&#39;s because God&#39;s been telling you he does it all the time he tries to deal with people he loves in private but if you won&#39;t cut it if you won&#39;t remove the veil if you won&#39;t take this addiction and this habit and this thing away that is between us he said I&#39;ll cut it up until you have nothing but me so you want God to begin to cut on you the C stands for correcting the U stands for unveiling last one what is the cut of God it&#39;s testing when God begins to cut on you he&#39;s testing you every time me and Aaron do this every Sunday morning it&#39;s a test of our friendship cuz I&#39;ll be preparing my sermons and the reason he can do this is because I&#39;ve done this several times before I&#39;ve been excited about a point and he&#39;s got a razor on my ch I&#39;m like bro that is going to be a good point right [Applause] [Music] there and every time I do it the reason that it was a reflex for him is because he&#39;s been tested in this area and so have I God says I&#39;m going to cut you but it&#39;s not for you to be terrif ified I&#39;m just testing watch do you really trust me and Proverbs 356 says trust in the Lord with all your heart do not depend on your own understanding seek his will in all you do and He will show you which path to take the Holy Spirit has been over and over he&#39;s hey Michael I&#39;m about to cut you I&#39;m about to expose some things I&#39;m about I&#39;m about to I&#39;m about to correct you in a couple areas I&#39;m about to do this and this is all he says to me do you trust me and I&#39;m coming to this body of Believers today and I&#39;m asking you do you trust God do you trust him with your life do you trust him with your family do you trust them watch this with your purpose do you trust trust him sometimes you got to shut [Music] up yum [Music] and take [Music] over have your way have your way whatever you want to do whatever you want to do have way I&#39;m not telling him what area to work on when he just went from my Edge up to my mouth to the back of my head I could say bro just do the mouth then do the back then do the you doing my eyebrows you you you special I&#39;m not telling because he sees what I don&#39;t see and when you don&#39;t trust God what you&#39;re saying is I see it better than you see it Pastor Mike why is this so important cuz I just want you to realize that we are going to produce more fruit this year I&#39;m going say it one more time we are going to produce more fruit this year okay but that means there may be a fresh cut that&#39;s okay it&#39;s fine to make people wait while you get Cut in an area that&#39;s sensitive it&#39;s fine for your family when you going to have kids he&#39;s cutting on me good so good well I thought you would be a millionaire I thought I&#39;d be able to retire you should have picked a better career dad he waiting on me to hit the lottery sh you need a second job it&#39;s it&#39;s okay and when God gives you Seasons where he&#39;s not working on you it doesn&#39;t mean he&#39;s not finished don&#39;t focus on the pain of the cut but focus on the promise of the cut at the end of every good haircut there&#39;s there&#39;s um alcohol now I don&#39;t know if women go through this I don&#39;t think y&#39;all go through this do y&#39;all go through this this hot water okay no then white lady is like alcohol what mimosas what no no no but but when but when you&#39;re getting a edge up like this there&#39;s a bunch of many micro cuts that are happening and there might be some blood it might cut me to the point where it causes something that&#39;s inside of me to come out of me and what happens with the barber is at the end of the haircut he takes alcohol and he says get ready cuz every man knows it&#39;s going to be spicy and he hits it and and if he&#39;s a good Barber he might blow on it might have a fan or might have a something and them gangster Barbers they just let it Sizzle they just they just like see if your haircut is $25 or less they going to let it Sizzle these days they just throw it on there and laugh at you yeah yeah do the whole thing bro go for it um but if God allows the alcohol the cleansing the purifying of the cuts to burn a little bit no that it&#39;s so nothing gets infected the reason why some of the relationships have gone bad is because you didn&#39;t let him cleanse them the reason why that business partner didn&#39;t work out is because you didn&#39;t let him cleanse them so how do I embrace the cut one word this is our takeaway surrender this entire service I have had to surrender to a a seat to receive the cut that I needed and most of us have not surrendered I got too many people watching me to surrender I got too much potential to surrender do you know what I could do with all the things that God&#39;s given me and God&#39;s saying surrender what&#39;s another word for surrender Pastor Mike sit down what&#39;s another word for sit down Pastor Mike stay still what&#39;s another word for stay still write this one down abide John 15:5 goes on and says yes I am the True Vine and you are the branches those who remain in me and I am them will produce much fruit for apart from me you can do nothing and another translation it says says Those Who abide in me some of y&#39;all have been moving too much for God to cut where he needs to and it not kill [Music] you and God saying would you just stay still would you just plant in a church would you just actually continue to go to the be group would you actually submit to counseling would you actually do would you actually just stay still in a place long enough so I can do this surgery on you and some of y&#39;all like what is he doing right now this is what in the barber World they call enhancements see when you get a master Barbara and they can see what you don&#39;t see they can fill in the holes in the gaps that&#39;s good the areas y&#39;all be like dang Pastor Mike beard be so nice that ain&#39;t me that&#39;s the grace of God hear what I&#39;m saying to you it presents me in a way that my own effort could not present it gives me the ability to be able to have the appearance of what&#39;s not really mine it kind of sounds like salvation it kind of sounds like any man that be in Christ he is a new creation so when the debt comes up for all the sin that I made I get the enhancement of Jesus Christ being the one that stands in front of me and fills in every Gap every hole every area that my hair could not grow every area that my life could not produce he does not look at me but he looks at Jesus and so for every patchy place of my life I get the enhancement of the Holy Spirit I&#39;ll preach this thing right [Applause] now and some of you like that&#39;s fake that&#39;s [Applause] favor hey and every woman judging me shut up dyeing your hair and dyeing your roots don&#39;t do me oh I don&#39;t do that you wear wigs okay whatever no I&#39;m just you got your clip-ins and oh come on I know white ladies clip-ins I know I know come on all of us at some time need favor we don&#39;t deserve need somebody to cover us when we don&#39;t actually have the ability to do it ourselves what is it going to take for us to surrender courage today I want to pray for everybody to have courage now listen everybody that&#39;s under the sound of my voice right now I know some of y&#39;all are saying Pastor Mike if God&#39;s gonna cut me can he just do it in the areas that you know what I&#39;m saying that you know aren&#39;t that serious can he just do it in the areas you know what I&#39;m saying like like that that seem comfortable some of these areas I&#39;ve been growing too long hey Maxwell come here real quick I put on Instagram earlier this week I said does anybody want to cut their dreads [Applause] off what&#39;s up dog good man you good yes sir how long you been growing them dreads 6 years 6 years six years of consistency of growing something that God may ask are you okay with letting that go now now this is how people know you this is this is your style this is your swag this is your watch this identity when people describe you know the tall handsome dude with the dreads what if God wants to cut an area that people describe you by now are you willing to not be who you&#39;ve been to become who God&#39;s created you to be oo that&#39;s good preaching right there and most of you are so committed to the identity of the Season you&#39;ve been in that you will not embrace the cut so you can have a brand new identity hey Aaron I&#39;mma I&#39;m going give I&#39;m going give my man this chair cuz sometimes you&#39;re going to need courage and you&#39;re going to need people around you did you okay this with your wife okay okay cuz I don&#39;t need Mary mad at me Mary you good put it on it you got some scissors we need some scissors get give me some sciss you got some shears somebody give me some scissors you got the shears you got the thing they didn&#39;t bring it in the pack Scott took them Scott go get some scissors we don&#39;t mind waiting no what what I&#39;m what I&#39;m saying to you is and sometimes that&#39;s how God will do you he&#39;ll put you in the chair and he&#39;ll be like just wait on me what what like I got to just wait on you in my hands this is dangerous but in a master&#39;s [Music] hands just just don&#39;t do them all at the same time what you I don&#39;t let me I&#39;ve never done this before you can do this what you what you think he he actually said he wants it this you you [Music] cool 6 years a lot of intentionality a lot of building your life around something you a lot of rubber bands a lot of hot summers and a lot of warm Winters but this is what some people would call Freedom would you be willing to get cut by God for him to place give me your hand freedom in your hand hear what I&#39;m saying to you somebody said he looks goodes God&#39;s not even finished with him yet here here what I&#39;m saying I know this is a long analogy and we sat here this whole time and I got a fresh cut and he got a fresh cut will [Music] you will you let God cut areas of your life that you have grown accustomed to or will you make this the [Music] place that God&#39;s done working on you standing all over this building keep going don&#39;t leave my man like that just keep going we you it can be after church we just yeah keep that we ain&#39;t going to leave you like that and neither will God if there&#39;s an area of your life watch this before everybody rushes out please don&#39;t miss this moment if there&#39;s an area of your life that you know that you&#39;re going to need courage to stay still for God to do the cutting I need you to lift both of your hands right now okay we&#39;re in the right building I&#39;m going to pray for courage for you today and everybody under the sound of my voice I believe that there is going to be a supernatural there&#39;s going to be a supernatural strength watch this to stay still everybody talks about the strength to fight but I&#39;m talking about the strength to stay still yes the strength to to to make it through I&#39;m talking about the strength to let God do what only he can do and be still father I pray for every person under the sound of my voice that today as you begin to identify areas that you want to correct them in unveil things in and even test them in I thank you that today as a church we will Embrace The Cutting because when you cut you cut from Love and today Father God you desire for us to produce more fruit but God we don&#39;t get more fruit and fresh fruit without a fresh cut so father today we are saying we are submitted to your hand not the hand of our friends and our family but God you are the one that can actually cut us and it doesn&#39;t kill us you&#39;re the one that can cut us and it cultivates us it brings us into more fruit but father can we be honest we need courage today for every person father who you are placing on their heart an area that they need to let you begin to do surgery today Father God would you give them the courage that you gave Joshua be strong and courageous would you give them the courage you gave Abraham would you give them the courage you gave Moses would you give them the courage father you gave Bishop Gary and Pastor Debbie would you give us the courage father God that you gave Daniel and the Lion&#39;s then would you give us the same courage that Jesus had to go to the cross that same spirit that was in him and that raised him from the dead you said and your word is in us so today we believe that you have made us courageous enough to embrace the cut and when you do it we won&#39;t run from you and when you do it we won&#39;t hide and when we do it we won&#39;t stand and curse you we&#39;ll say thank you thank you for seeing me enough thank you for caring enough thank you for calling me son and daughter thank you for loving me enough father to cut away the things to prune me so that in the next season I will produce much more fruit today I thank you that fruit is going to be the proof of our relationship with you and our marriage and our families and our businesses and the way we love and the way we forgive and the way we get angry father let there be fruit cut what you got to cut there&#39;s a sweet presence in this room because I found that any surgery that you&#39;ve ever been in they tell you to stay still there&#39;s some surgeries that are so deep and so important that they strap you down cuz your movement not the cut but your movement could cause you and I don&#39;t know who this is for but there&#39;s some planting that needs to go on in your life some of y&#39;all need to put down roots in places long enough for God to do the work some of you coming to church every Sunday God is saying don&#39;t miss for some of you it&#39;s getting in small groups for some of you it&#39;s going to counseling for some of you you it&#39;s getting in a a place where you can actually be honest about what you&#39;re going in but I&#39;m hearing the Holy Spirit say get there and stay there I feel this so strong get there and stay there some of y&#39;all need to move others of you need to stay you was about to go somewhere and God said that ain&#39;t it you need to stay where I placed you cuz this next season is about the cutting stay still and know hold on ain&#39;t that a scripture be still and know that God I don&#39;t know what you going to do but know that I&#39;m God I see it from a different perspective your life is not over I&#39;m just transforming you in this season well I&#39;m supposed to be done with college all my friends are done with I&#39;m not done with you I&#39;m cutting on you and God today as a church we say I don&#39;t mind waiting I don&#39;t mind Wai i t my way on you Lord do what you want to do I tone my [Music] way I don&#39;t mind way I turn my [Music] way on you Lord at Transformation Church real quick I just want to let everybody know we don&#39;t we don&#39;t care that people are getting cut around us this is not a big deal for us we&#39;re in the business of transformation so when people aren&#39;t getting cut around us that&#39;s the weird thing we when when when our staff our team this thing we getting cut on all the time all the time why because we want more fruit and I just want to let you know that if you come in here and every week you at the altar and every week you&#39;re in the right place cuz this is the cutting place let him do the work if you&#39;re in this room and you&#39;ve never accepted Jesus the one who is the gardener today I want to give you the opportunity to except I feel the presence of God in this place I feel that some people right now the thing that you&#39;ve been fighting God is about to start doing a beautiful work this time next year mark my words the fruit because you allowed God to do the cutting is going to feed Generations beyond what you didn&#39;t even think was there if you&#39;ve never accepted Jesus I feel the presence of God so strong in this place if you never accepted him in your whole life today is your day invite The Gardener into your your life I need Transformation Church who knows what&#39;s about to happen I need you to start praying cuz right now eternity is in the balance and I want to be specific there&#39;s some of y&#39;all who have known God and accepted him in your heart but you have not let him be Lord every time he tries to cut on you you run away from him and today is a day that you are going to repent and rededicate your life to him you hear me and you&#39;re in this place and you&#39;ve been saying God I need a sign here is your sign it&#39;s watermelon pink today and I am coming to tell you that God said let me do what I want to do in your life stop going after the career that is not working I shut that door on purpose so that you would come back to me if that&#39;s you on the count of three I want you to just lift your hand if you&#39;re watching online transformation Nation there&#39;s no distance in what&#39;s happening the holy spirit is there right with you and he&#39;s been drawing you all week to this moment today is the day of salvation if you are in this room or you are watching online on the count of three if you want to make Jesus Christ your personal Lord and Savior the one who kept cutting on me that took me from a liar a manipulator somebody who was addicted to pornography had all kinds of bad things in my mind my heart and in my actions I was a bad tree trying to produce good fruit and God said let me replant you let me put some new seeds on the inside of you and he changed me from the inside out today is your day of salvation young person hear me I don&#39;t care what Mom and Daddy are doing God&#39;s hand is on your life you don&#39;t have to be a hypocrite you don&#39;t have to live a double life you don&#39;t have to struggle financially with that but how do you get that you find the one who created you and today I want to offer you Jesus one you&#39;re making the greatest decision of your life two I&#39;m proud of you but more than that your eternity is secure and your name is going to be written in the Lamb&#39;s Book of Life all over this building and all over the world if you want to accept Jesus three lift your hand up all over this room I see you I see you right here I see you I see you oh come on Transformation Church I see you man of God I see you I see you woman of God and more than that God sees you can we give God some praise in this room why do we Rejoice why do we celebrate cuz we know what happens when Jesus comes in he doesn&#39;t make everything perfect he makes everything partnership so everything you would walk with and have to carry a loone he says let me take the heavy load of that cuz my burden is easy and my yoke is light can we pray all together Transformation Church we&#39;re a big family everybody nobody prays alone lift your hands and say God God thank you thank you for sending Jesus just for me just for me today today I admit I admit that I I am a sinner I am a s and I Repent I repent and turn to you and turn to you I believe you lived I believe you you died Di and rose again just for me just for me change me CH renew me R me transform me cut me cut me I&#39;m yours I&#39;m your in Jesus name in Jesus name amen if you just prayed that prayer Transformation Church is turning up right now we love you and we believe the best of God for you come on let&#39;s give God a shout of Praise In This Place thank you so much for watching this message we pray that it encouraged you our vision is to represent God to the lost and found for transformation in Christ and if you would like to partner with us in giving you can text give to 8282 82 or visit us on our website also be sure to like subscribe and check out our other sermons as well now go out and live a transformed life [Music]

hi my name is Amberly and I have the privilege of serving as one of our executive pastors here at Transformation Church we just want to say thank you so much for tuning in from wherever you are watching from and if you haven&amp;#39;t already be sure to like And subscribe we believe that God has a word for you so let&amp;#39;s jump into this amazing message welcome to Transformation Church where we believe in worshiping God and I&amp;#39;ve never actually um started a ser without my suit jacket and um because of the worship that just went forth I had to take that mug off it was making me look crazy my collar was up cuz I was praising so hard and that was a distraction in the spirit and the natural looked at myself on the screen I said oh no like take it off um welcome to week four of a series we&amp;#39;re calling somebody say fresh fruit and um at Transformation Church we believe that this year God has given us a prophetic word and the word is fruit that out of our lives out of our marriages out of our money out of our businesses out of our thought processes there needs to be what is the word fruit many of us have not seen fruit in our lives in decades it&amp;#39;s been the same cycle but I believe by the power of the Holy Spirit and the Revelation through teaching and and and the spirit of God that is in this place and your desire to continue to hunger and thirst after those things that God has saying I believe this year is going to be a turnaround year for many of us now you don&amp;#39;t have to believe that but those who do there&amp;#39;s something that happens to you the Bible always tells us according to your faith and you might as well you have nothing to lose by actually believing God and so today in the two minutes that I have to preach this word to you um I I&amp;#39;m going to try to do something that that leaves a mark in your head that will never ever leave you ever again the the name of this series is fresh fruit but there&amp;#39;s a tagline that we have not emphasized and today I felt by the Holy Spirit I was supposed to emphasize it to you the the name of this entire series is fresh fruit the proof is in the fruit write that down the proof is in the fruit and and I need to say this to Believers now if you&amp;#39;re not a Believer yet I love you I&amp;#39;m going talk to you in just a second just hold on you can listen into this private conversation that I&amp;#39;m about to have with people who have confessed Jesus Christ as their lord and savior don&amp;#39;t care if you smoke don&amp;#39;t care if you had sex last night it&amp;#39;s all good I&amp;#39;m just glad that you&amp;#39;re here I know other Christian people won&amp;#39;t tell you that but your boy I&amp;#39;m with you why cuz I was there before but hold on let me have a conversation with my [Applause] family um for believers you talk too much you talk about what you going to do talk about the bible plan you going to finish talk about the weight you going to lose talk about being vegan talk about being a virgin talk about but may I submit to you that you could save a lot of words by just actually being the proof of what you desire to do the proof is in the fruit cuz nobody can argue with fruit they can they can act like it ain&amp;#39;t there but they got to step over it to move on and there are too many Believers that are out here with no fruit so we have to talk about everything that we&amp;#39;re going to do and hypothesize and then because we&amp;#39;re not producing fruit we criticize anybody that is cuz it ain&amp;#39;t the type of fruit that I would you ain&amp;#39;t got nothing to show for everything that God told you but you have a lot to say okay and I need to free the church that wants to produce everybody say more fruit more fruit from the chains of trying to prove yourself there are too many people that are under the sound of my voice with Jesus Christ on the inside of them that are trying to still prove things you dressed a certain way today God real quiet some somebody&amp;#39;s like hold on what is he going to say I&amp;#39;ll leave it alone just so y&amp;#39;all hear what I&amp;#39;m saying to you many of us are doing things trying to prove things to people who won&amp;#39;t even see it you missed it you&amp;#39;re doing things today in real life trying to prove things to people some of them that are in the grave still trying to prove to your mama that you&amp;#39;re worth it still trying to prove to that coach that you can cut it trying to prove to that boss who wouldn&amp;#39;t give you a promotion that you&amp;#39;re worth it and what I came to free you from today is that monkey that that gorilla that&amp;#39;s been on your back listen the need to prove things comes from the inward doubt of producing things so when you don&amp;#39;t believe you can actually produce it cuz you did what you said you was going to do you start trying to prove that I am enough that I can make it happen you don&amp;#39;t believe in me watch this and what ends up happening is the enemy distorts the motivation of your change did you hear what I just said many of you are doing the right thing with the the wrong motivation cuz the enemy creeped in at the point of your insecurity and started flipping your motivation so that you think you&amp;#39;re getting the right results but it has a bad root oh my Matthew 718 a good tree cannot bear bad fruit did you hear what the word said a good tree cannot bear bad fruit but at the same token a bad tree cannot bear good fruit every tree that does not bear good fruit is cut down and thrown into the fire therefore by their fruits you will know them everybody gets exposed by their [Applause] fruit did you hear what I just said so this is the thing I want everybody to switch that has freed me in this new season of being fresh somebody say fresh I&amp;#39;m not trying to prove them wrong I&amp;#39;m trying to produce God right I&amp;#39;m going say it one more time I am no longer waking up going to work dressing to prove them wrong I&amp;#39;m trying to produce God right and if you wake up every morning trying to prove them wrong you need to repent I know it actually made you go to the gym because they said I&amp;#39;d never ever be able to do it and I&amp;#39;mma show them I&amp;#39;mma get this I&amp;#39;mma get this and I&amp;#39;mma Be this and I&amp;#39;mma I promise you but what&amp;#39;s happening is when you reach it then where does your motivation come from what happens when you attain the thing that was motivated by something negative today I want you to everybody say repent if there&amp;#39;s any area of your life that you&amp;#39;ve been doing I&amp;#39;mma prove them wrong repent what does it mean I&amp;#39;mma produce God right did y&amp;#39;all just see how easy that is see what every Christian Life should look like where that backpack at um uh does anybody got that backpack pass it to me what the Christian Life should look like is US walking around how y&amp;#39;all doing Turn the Lights up I&amp;#39;m at the gym hey Tammy what&amp;#39;s up brother you good what&amp;#39;s your name man Alan Allan nice to meet you bro what&amp;#39;s that baby that baby like orange juice that baby got a chain on that baby need a orange look baby two days old with a chain black people here we go you want an orange thank where y&amp;#39;all go to school nowhere nowhere you look young you but you you you you&amp;#39;re blessed what&amp;#39;s up B here you go what&amp;#39;s up fam you good it&amp;#39;s good to see you you want fruit your daddy get he want the fruit dad I give you another one what&amp;#39;s up Vic you be telling me to eat fruit all the time come on it&amp;#39;s my trainer right here take all this fruit what&amp;#39;s up big daddy you should be able to see the impact of my life not by where I tell you I&amp;#39;ve been oh it&amp;#39;s dark on the camera it doesn&amp;#39;t matter where I&amp;#39;m at you can see my fruit oh you want some he said over here over here do you see what happens when you start to produce fruit you become desirable I haven&amp;#39;t stopped to watch anybody eat the fruit I just produce it and drop it off at the gym at the job when I wherever I go my life should be producing fruit fruit the saddest part about this moment right now are there are thousands of people around me that desire the fruit but the bag is empty so until I flipped it over nobody did even knew that I still didn&amp;#39;t have any fruit and this is the season where God&amp;#39;s exposing people he&amp;#39;s turning the bags over seeing that marriage look good on Instagram no fruit that business they act like they drive a Lamborghini they in so much debt no fruit no fruit so what happens when the church tells the world come and see our Jesus no fruit come and meet the that changed my life didn&amp;#39;t he change your life 15 years ago yes what has happened since then nothing I just carry around my fruit sack I judge other people for not bearing fruit your fruit should be riper than that man of God where have you dropped off any fruit preaching Pastor I know from now on I&amp;#39;m not going to try to prove anybody wrong I&amp;#39;m going to just say this small phrase in my head look at my fruit people can say anything they want about this church I&amp;#39;m not perfect I mess up daily I&amp;#39;m still trying to figure out how to be a pastor if anybody wants to take my position you can have it this is not sexy this is not fun this is not all oh yes I want to be a pastor that was never my dream and I&amp;#39;m scared of people who wake up like that just want to get on the platform and give God [Applause] okay and one thing that I will be able to stand on when I stand before God I&amp;#39;ll be able to say Lord I I messed up several times I did the wrong thing tons of times time but I always repented and came back to you but God I I hope that what I did there was some fruit the reason I sleep at night when comments is going crazy is cuz I know that for every comment there&amp;#39;s a kiwi y&amp;#39;all missed it for every comment there&amp;#39;s a [Applause] cantaloupe this this is where the church has to move to because if we&amp;#39;re going to be effective on any level if we&amp;#39;re going to reach those people who actually need Jesus we&amp;#39;re not going to be able to explain to everybody everything that&amp;#39;s happening and why we did what we did and all the this is the reason why and I&amp;#39;m just telling you pastorally as a church this is the reason why we&amp;#39;re doing Ransom again now listen hold on before you cheer before you cheer before you cheer before for here we learned some things last year we learned our platform was way bigger than I thought we learned that there were a lot of people who were looking for things to be able and I was like oh shoot if this was at the P or the Performing Arts Center they would love it cuz it was on the wrong day at the wrong venue and it was kind of good now let&amp;#39;s be real they want me to come out here and whip somebody and like spray some ketchup and it&amp;#39; be like Jesus is blood come on let&amp;#39;s be honest and they will clown the church about it and we were like they didn&amp;#39;t come to Christ because of that no it wasn&amp;#39;t excellent at all we saw the Hinds in the guys so cuz there was it was like Ah that&amp;#39;s too much and y&amp;#39;all done rewrote Beyonce&amp;#39;s song and I I mean I know the song and that wakes my spirits up and I just I get you so do we stop doing it oh no because there was over 600 people got saved but what but watch this but watch but we&amp;#39;re not prideful to say yeah we just going to do it the same no we&amp;#39;ve been cutting on it we&amp;#39;ve been submitting it we&amp;#39;ve been looking at we done rewrote almost all the songs we&amp;#39;ve we&amp;#39; we&amp;#39;ve taken the things that we said could we do this better and what we&amp;#39;re going to do is this year we&amp;#39;re going to perfect it in house this is why it&amp;#39;s not going to be live online for everybody to see and I know all my transformation Nation people&amp;#39;s like forget them Pastor Mike forget them I&amp;#39;m in Georgia I can&amp;#39;t come play R for me I got [Applause] you I love transformation Nation y&amp;#39;all are ride or die but hear me but but here what I&amp;#39;m saying is I have enough wisdom to know that if we if we get it right this year then maybe we can take it on the road see you miss it you miss it I don&amp;#39;t quit on things that produce fruit just because they weren&amp;#39;t [Applause] perfect and how many things has God made fruitful that you just said never mind they didn&amp;#39;t like how it looked the first version the second version the third version didn&amp;#39;t go over how I thought God&amp;#39;s saying go back and cut on it somebody say cut on it John 151 say cut on it again cut uhoh I am the true grape vine and my father is the gardener he cuts off every branch of mine that does not produce fruit and he prunes which also is another word for cut he cuts the branches that do bear fruit so that they will produce watch this even more somebody say more fruit say it like you believe it more fruit say it like it&amp;#39;s going to happen in your mind and your life more say it like your finances is going to reflect it say it like your family is going to change more fruit when I look at my bank account this week more fruit I don&amp;#39;t care what it says when I walk into my house what am I saying more I might be at the brink of divorce but I&amp;#39;m calling it by faith more [Applause] fruit that&amp;#39;s good but for more fruit there&amp;#39;s a formula we&amp;#39;ve been talking about fresh fruit and fresh vision and a fresh Church you want more fruit how many people want more fruit in the building get ready to scream for the title of the sermon it&amp;#39;s going to take a fresh [Applause] cut W oh wo [Music] woohoo hold on a a fresh cut Pastor a fresh cut you&amp;#39;re witnessing history right now um after 10 years of pastoring um I&amp;#39;ve never ever come on any platform without a fresh cut and today I am up here straight off of vacation where I spent time a lot of time in the sun Su n and with the Sun s o n as you can see by my complexion um I I didn&amp;#39;t get a a fresh cut so I I decided to use this as an illustration of what God&amp;#39;s going to do in our lives and I&amp;#39;m going to get a haircut on stage in front of you something that is usually done in private sir sir I&amp;#39;m gonna do it openly in front of you so that you can see the benefit of a fresh cut um Aaron my Barbara and friend is going to come y&amp;#39;all give it up for Aaron real quick as he comes now uh this is my dog and um he I&amp;#39;m going to let him send but he is actually terrified of what we&amp;#39;re about to do because what I&amp;#39;m about to do is very dangerous cuz the level of passion that I preach with and the level of wanting you to get it um really affects potentially the way that somebody um could actually cut my hair and this is not rehearsed or planned or practiced this is about to be very [Applause] fresh but I want you to know from the scripture watch this point write it down I&amp;#39;mma preach this whole time while he&amp;#39;s cutting me he got the brother how are you feeling right now are you feeling feeling you&amp;#39;re feeling great our friendship is on the line um write this down you&amp;#39;re getting cut either way you&amp;#39;re getting cut either way you about to no I don&amp;#39;t no no no not this black thing today is watermelon I don&amp;#39;t want this use my [Applause] cake there we go got to be on brand thank you Jesus somebody say you&amp;#39;re getting cut it either way cut either this is God&amp;#39;s process cutting is God&amp;#39;s process of eliminating what isn&amp;#39;t producing fruit and it&amp;#39;s also his way of expanding what is producing fruit so if you don&amp;#39;t Embrace God cutting you you are not actually getting the best out of what you have yeah and one un cut is going to cause you pain remember the scripture says anybody who&amp;#39;s not producing fruit he cuts them off and throws them away but the people who are producing fruit he cuts them so that they can have more fruit what I found out is one cut is full of pain and the other cut is full of promise what I&amp;#39;m trying to get everybody in this room under the sound of my voice to realize is God in 2024 when you yell by faith more fruit in my marriage more fruit in my finances more fruit in my business more fruit in my family he says let me grab my [Music] scissors are you ready to be cut the thing that really brought me a lot of Peace cuz when I was asked that by the Holy Spirit am I ready to get cut my answer was no cuz all my life cut has been associated with something that is either bad hurtful painful or or an accident that could end deadly don&amp;#39;t no don&amp;#39;t play with them scissors since you&amp;#39;re young no no no no no no no no no no don&amp;#39;t use that knife but God said to me he said Michael being put cut by me is a promise of more fruit he said so when I start to cut on your life I&amp;#39;m promising you I&amp;#39;m planning to use you again see what I don&amp;#39;t know if anybody ever played on a basketball team but but I was one of those on a team that the coach would always ride me harder than he would ride anybody else and I was like coach you don&amp;#39;t be telling them that he said shut up and run Co they the shot too he said I&amp;#39;m not talking to them coach I got I was a crier when I got angry like when I got really Ang do I got any angry like when you get like real the tears just start falling they Thug tears believe that you better believe that yes sir but you get so overwhelmed it&amp;#39;s got to come out somewhere [Applause] you and one day the coach brought me to the side he said Michael the reason that I ride you so hard and I correct you so hard and I talk to you so hard is because I know that you actually have potential to go where none of these other people have potential to go so if I don&amp;#39;t cut you now you won&amp;#39;t be ready when it&amp;#39;s time for the competition and I just came to tell somebody that the church has been a bad done a bad job in this last season of emphasizing how comfortable serving God would be I need to say this to you like just come to God and all your fears and all your tears and he bottles them and he&amp;#39;s going to coddle them and and we make you feel like when you come to God then somehow it gets easy and I just I want to let you know that our desire for Comfort has made us despise his cut I&amp;#39;mma say it one more time you think if God tells you no you&amp;#39;re getting punished instead of if God tells you no he&amp;#39;s protecting you you think if God doesn&amp;#39;t allow you to get the position you prayed for that somehow he hasn&amp;#39;t heard your cry but he actually is answering the prayer you didn&amp;#39;t know how to form in your Li with your lips by not letting you get into a position that you would be locked into because he knows you&amp;#39;re a people pleaser and if you got that position you wouldn&amp;#39;t leave there for 15 years and three years from now he&amp;#39;s going to open up the actual Destiny step that you need so he told you no now to lead you to the place of [Applause] purpose but if you desire Comfort at the expense of Desiring the cut not from anybody just regular I&amp;#39;m talking about from God you will miss out on what God has for you I wrote it down like this because I just came back from the beach and I wanted to I wanted to give a praise report I know these we don&amp;#39;t do testimony service anymore in church but I want to give you praise rep Point I&amp;#39;ve been to the beach a lot of times and me and my wife did a little withdrawal trip and I just needed to be refreshed and I&amp;#39;m encouraging every person to pick time where you actually get refreshed I know a pastor doesn&amp;#39;t usually tell you that but Jesus modeled it or God modeled it in creation and he literally took a day of Sabbath to be able to recreate and so I&amp;#39;m just asking you to do the same thing but that ain&amp;#39;t my point while I was on the beach praise report I felt more comfortable in swim clothes than I ever have in my life now some of y&amp;#39;all won&amp;#39;t Shout with me but you weren&amp;#39;t with me when I was 275 I was so ready to take my shirt off no no no I&amp;#39;m just serious I was like what we wearing today baby I was getting my bathing suits ready I wanted to color coordinate I want you wearing pink today I wear pink today I was but what I what I realized is my comfort on the beach came from the cutting in the gym your comfort comes from a place of cutting you want comfort in your marriage go get that cutting and counseling you want cutting in you want comfort in your finances how many people would love for their finances to be more comfortable come on okay y&amp;#39;all come on cut the budget everybody wants Comfort nobody wants cutting but the cut watch this gives you the edge and this haircut by the end of this service by the faith and crazy Faith Of God will be sharp because what he&amp;#39;s doing to me right now now she&amp;#39;s cutting me sir they&amp;#39;re little micro Cuts over and over and over and over and over again but what he&amp;#39;s doing right now is shaping me into the image of what he sees for me because I can&amp;#39;t see it for myself and most people want to cut themselves and I&amp;#39;m not talking about in a dangerous way because I know that people have dealt with that lie of the enemy that tells you that you&amp;#39;re better not here and I come to rebuke that right now and I said that you will live and not die I understand that life I understand that depression and that despair but I know there&amp;#39;s hope for you what I&amp;#39;m telling you right now is that most people want to get in the mirror with the Shavers of life and try to cut the areas of their life they can&amp;#39;t see J has anybody ever had a bad haircut before absolutely now when you see a kid with a about haircut it&amp;#39;s kind of expected most of the time it&amp;#39;s like oh look at little Jimmy god dog oh his mama wanted to save $15 and so she put a bowl around his head and y&amp;#39;all remember them chili bowl cuts like just and Jimmy walk out like bro what happened to you my mama bro she just Jimmy don&amp;#39;t mess with Jimmy with the chili bow he&amp;#39;ll fight you and then she try to put a part in it the part is the size of the Red Sea splitting it&amp;#39;s just but but with kids you understand it the thing I cannot get is grown men that that really really won&amp;#39;t humble thems enough to let somebody else cut they hair and I know you trying to save money and I appreciate that but your haircut makes you look incompetent I&amp;#39;mma tell you why you don&amp;#39;t have a woman no okay ladies back me up when you see a dude in his head do not look like he care you start judging now I&amp;#39;m being very superficial at this current moment but I want you to see the point a bad haircut especially one that somebody does to their self comes from somebody who is not humble enough to submit to the vision of someone else I have no idea what he&amp;#39;s doing to my head I have no idea what guard he has on I have no idea if he&amp;#39;s feeling fruity and wants to cut Spider-Man in the back of my head I have no idea but I trust him I&amp;#39;ve sat in this chair so many times I&amp;#39;ve sat at dining room tables he learned how to cut hair cutting me and my brothers in my my parents laundry room so when I&amp;#39;m on this platform getting my haircut in front of hundreds of thousands of people I am calm because I&amp;#39;ve been here before I trust him when it comes to your spiritual life have you been with God long enough that you will trust his cut he&amp;#39;ll trust when you tell when he tells you not that friend I know that&amp;#39;ll be a come up for your social media but they not for you well God we love all the same things and Lord if you just gave me Conn not them well God I I I feel what you&amp;#39;re saying but I&amp;#39;m still around these other people so if you really want me not to be around them then you will remove them from my life he said no no I won&amp;#39;t I&amp;#39;ll let you have what you want go ahead have it I&amp;#39;ll just be here when what I try to protect you from actually really Cuts you see the god that we serve is a master surgeon the Bible tells us that his words can cut through bone and Marrow and so today all I all I&amp;#39;m trying to ask this church to do if you want fresh fruit you need a fresh cut look at Hebrews 12:6 for the Lord disciplines and corrects and cuts Those whom he loves God do you love me yes I do sit still and let me cut you have you ever thought about God God&amp;#39;s love like that cuz most of us want God&amp;#39;s love to be a big hug Comfort Me Lord cuddle me Lord hug me Jesus no come on and God says I love you so much that I&amp;#39;m about to cut you stay still stop talking don&amp;#39;t move this is going to hurt just a little bit but I promise you I&amp;#39;ve been cut worse than this and I went through every cut that you would ever have to go through so that you could know that with me you&amp;#39;re going to make it out on the other side he said the Lord disciplines corrects those those who he loves and he prunes every son whom he receives or he punishes every son who he receives and welcomes to his heart verse 7 it says You must watch this submit to correction for the purpose of discipline God is dealing with you as one of his sons for what son is there whom his father does not discipline now if you are exempt from correction and without discipline in which all of God&amp;#39;s children share then you are IL an illegitimate child and not a son at all moreover we have had Earthly fathers who discipline us and we submitted and respected them for training us shall we not much more willingly submit to the father of spirits and live by learning from his discipline for our Earthly fathers disciplined us for only a short time as seemed best to them but he disciplines us for our good so that we may share his Holiness for the time being no discipline brings Joy but seems sad and painful yet to those who have been trained by it afterwards it yields the peaceful fruit of righteousness right standing with God and a lifestyle and attitude that sinks seeks um Conformity to God&amp;#39;s Will and purpose if you&amp;#39;re not submitting to the cut you will not be able to produce more fruit so Pastor Mike very plainly what is the cut of God very simple cut correct ing if you&amp;#39;re getting cut by God he&amp;#39;s correcting you like Aaron is correcting the sweat that is coming oh dang all in my mouth sometimes when God is correcting you it feels like dang could you could you not do it a different way has anybody God ever done something you be like but this was the way you had to do it but but but but but here what we just heard that when God&amp;#39;s correcting you it&amp;#39;s because he loves you I I want to bring back to every person in this room the idea that God&amp;#39;s correction is God&amp;#39;s love so when God tells you no more sleeping with them Pastor you said that in church you&amp;#39;re doing it at your house when When God says stop spending money on that grand When God Says join the church well God I was heard in my last&amp;#39;s church he said I&amp;#39;m about to correct some things but you have to submit to my corrections watch this and this is the big thing if God is not correcting you be concerned any area of my life where I&amp;#39;ll be like every area of my life is good and God ain&amp;#39;t got nothing else to do i&amp;#39; be like uh-oh either I&amp;#39;m not listening or he stops speaking and the church needs to be awakened to the fact that as long as we are in this Christian walk there will be something that God is trying to get off of us okay so hear me and I I know a lot of y&amp;#39;all used to be running around jumping around and doing all the other stuff and you&amp;#39;re like man this is different just watching him sit there I am not going to walk around all week looking crazy because I wasn&amp;#39;t still enough to be in the place that I needed to be to get cut on and the crazy thing about a correcting cut many time God uses other people to correct us and you would be fine if it was God Almighty the big man upstairs going to correct me he know how to get my attention and he sent you a wife and he gave you kids you okay buddy you you good right there do I need to do I need to stop for a second cuz you know you on the front part good good good okay I&amp;#39;m going just take a second I&amp;#39;mma pause for the calls all right oh hold on you can&amp;#39;t [Laughter] okay no no no go back go back to that go back I&amp;#39;m just going they going to have to wait now we saying wait on the Lord and I told him the cutting area and as soon as he started I moved no no no no I&amp;#39;ll wait on you I&amp;#39;ll wait on you I&amp;#39;ll wait on you I&amp;#39;ll wait on you [Music] [Applause] IIT [Applause] [Applause] this is how a lot of our Christian life looks that God has you in a position he&amp;#39;s trying to cut on you he&amp;#39;s trying to do something and every time and then you start doing stuff like this what if you kind of like like what if no no no no what if you kind of like turn it on you know why God doesn&amp;#39;t turn on a lot of the blessings it&amp;#39;s cuz your hand is still on it it&amp;#39;s it&amp;#39;s because you trying to direct where it&amp;#39;s going he said this will hurt you too much if I turn this on right now if I turn on the favor if I turn on the blessing if I turn it on I need you to sit yes [Applause] sir that&amp;#39;s so [Applause] good and so as I sit here I&amp;#39;m letting somebody else cut me God doesn&amp;#39;t give me haircuts Aaron does many times God does not speak to me about my attitude Natalie does y&amp;#39;all are missing it many times God doesn&amp;#39;t directly speak to me about my inconsistencies Bella Ava MJ and Gia do and he&amp;#39;s using people to correct you and you won&amp;#39;t listen cuz they ain&amp;#39;t live this life like I have I&amp;#39;m the bread winner of this house grown man I&amp;#39;m you can&amp;#39;t teach you can&amp;#39;t teach your old dog new trips come on think of all of the colloquialisms we say but Proverbs 27:6 says faithful are the wounds are the cuts of a friend who corrects out of love and concerned but the kisses of an enemy are deceitful because they serve his hidden agenda some of y&amp;#39;all are being killed by kisses and God&amp;#39;s saying you need to desire for me to cut on you again cuz when I cut you it means I love you so the C and God cutting stands for everybody say correcting the U stands for watch this one unveiling when I come to the barber shop it&amp;#39;s one of the most vulnerable positions all men know when when somebody starts washing and touching on your head and and shampooing and cutting you just start telling business and Ladies we already know what y&amp;#39;all be doing in there if they coloring don&amp;#39;t let be getting a color and a and a a a layering and all the other stuff that&amp;#39;s happening y&amp;#39;all just be telling all your business God said why would you tell a person that&amp;#39;s cutting your hair all your business and you won&amp;#39;t tell me everything that&amp;#39;s going on I know it anyway but you won&amp;#39;t bring it to me and when God starts cutting on you he wants there to be oh watch this an unveiling the reason that I use this word unveiling is because there there was an unveiling that happened through what Jesus did for all of us in Matthew 27:50 it says then Jesus shouted again and he released his Spirit at that moment the curtain in the sanctuary of the temple was torn into he tore the veil from the top to the bottom the Earth Shook and the Rocks split apart when Jesus Christ went to the Cross died for us rose again what he did is he tore the veil between man and God what are you saying Pastor Mike he said that there has to be no separation between us so if he did that work for the veil or the cover or the separation to be torn he said if you ever put anything up between us again I&amp;#39;mma cut it you put put success between me and you I&amp;#39;mma cut it put your family between me and you I&amp;#39;m going to cut anything I&amp;#39;m telling you this is why the Bible tells us he said don&amp;#39;t make anything else an idol don&amp;#39;t serve any other gods before me it doesn&amp;#39;t say um any other gods won&amp;#39;t be there he said there&amp;#39;s other things that you will value but if they&amp;#39;re before me they come between us I&amp;#39;m cutting it he said I tore the veil once and I&amp;#39;ll cut all the other ones is there anything in your life that has become a curtain between you and God I can&amp;#39;t answer it for you but if God starts cutting you he&amp;#39;s going to start doing it first with correcting you and the second thing he&amp;#39;s going to do is start unveiling things do not be surprise for the rest of 2024 when God starts to pull the curtain back on stuff Jesus you sit next to people who you don&amp;#39;t know who they really are and you have two choices you either move the curtain or you let him cut it and some of y&amp;#39;all he&amp;#39;s been walking up with scissors saying please just expose yourself please just tell your wife the truth please just tell your tell the company you&amp;#39;ve been stealing just go to the cuz when he cuts it it&amp;#39;s going to expose whatever is back there sir yes sir I&amp;#39;m telling you right now that&amp;#39;s why Ministries and pastors and different things are falling at a rate that is like what in the world it&amp;#39;s because God&amp;#39;s been telling you he does it all the time he tries to deal with people he loves in private but if you won&amp;#39;t cut it if you won&amp;#39;t remove the veil if you won&amp;#39;t take this addiction and this habit and this thing away that is between us he said I&amp;#39;ll cut it up until you have nothing but me so you want God to begin to cut on you the C stands for correcting the U stands for unveiling last one what is the cut of God it&amp;#39;s testing when God begins to cut on you he&amp;#39;s testing you every time me and Aaron do this every Sunday morning it&amp;#39;s a test of our friendship cuz I&amp;#39;ll be preparing my sermons and the reason he can do this is because I&amp;#39;ve done this several times before I&amp;#39;ve been excited about a point and he&amp;#39;s got a razor on my ch I&amp;#39;m like bro that is going to be a good point right [Applause] [Music] there and every time I do it the reason that it was a reflex for him is because he&amp;#39;s been tested in this area and so have I God says I&amp;#39;m going to cut you but it&amp;#39;s not for you to be terrif ified I&amp;#39;m just testing watch do you really trust me and Proverbs 356 says trust in the Lord with all your heart do not depend on your own understanding seek his will in all you do and He will show you which path to take the Holy Spirit has been over and over he&amp;#39;s hey Michael I&amp;#39;m about to cut you I&amp;#39;m about to expose some things I&amp;#39;m about I&amp;#39;m about to I&amp;#39;m about to correct you in a couple areas I&amp;#39;m about to do this and this is all he says to me do you trust me and I&amp;#39;m coming to this body of Believers today and I&amp;#39;m asking you do you trust God do you trust him with your life do you trust him with your family do you trust them watch this with your purpose do you trust trust him sometimes you got to shut [Music] up yum [Music] and take [Music] over have your way have your way whatever you want to do whatever you want to do have way I&amp;#39;m not telling him what area to work on when he just went from my Edge up to my mouth to the back of my head I could say bro just do the mouth then do the back then do the you doing my eyebrows you you you special I&amp;#39;m not telling because he sees what I don&amp;#39;t see and when you don&amp;#39;t trust God what you&amp;#39;re saying is I see it better than you see it Pastor Mike why is this so important cuz I just want you to realize that we are going to produce more fruit this year I&amp;#39;m going say it one more time we are going to produce more fruit this year okay but that means there may be a fresh cut that&amp;#39;s okay it&amp;#39;s fine to make people wait while you get Cut in an area that&amp;#39;s sensitive it&amp;#39;s fine for your family when you going to have kids he&amp;#39;s cutting on me good so good well I thought you would be a millionaire I thought I&amp;#39;d be able to retire you should have picked a better career dad he waiting on me to hit the lottery sh you need a second job it&amp;#39;s it&amp;#39;s okay and when God gives you Seasons where he&amp;#39;s not working on you it doesn&amp;#39;t mean he&amp;#39;s not finished don&amp;#39;t focus on the pain of the cut but focus on the promise of the cut at the end of every good haircut there&amp;#39;s there&amp;#39;s um alcohol now I don&amp;#39;t know if women go through this I don&amp;#39;t think y&amp;#39;all go through this do y&amp;#39;all go through this this hot water okay no then white lady is like alcohol what mimosas what no no no but but when but when you&amp;#39;re getting a edge up like this there&amp;#39;s a bunch of many micro cuts that are happening and there might be some blood it might cut me to the point where it causes something that&amp;#39;s inside of me to come out of me and what happens with the barber is at the end of the haircut he takes alcohol and he says get ready cuz every man knows it&amp;#39;s going to be spicy and he hits it and and if he&amp;#39;s a good Barber he might blow on it might have a fan or might have a something and them gangster Barbers they just let it Sizzle they just they just like see if your haircut is $25 or less they going to let it Sizzle these days they just throw it on there and laugh at you yeah yeah do the whole thing bro go for it um but if God allows the alcohol the cleansing the purifying of the cuts to burn a little bit no that it&amp;#39;s so nothing gets infected the reason why some of the relationships have gone bad is because you didn&amp;#39;t let him cleanse them the reason why that business partner didn&amp;#39;t work out is because you didn&amp;#39;t let him cleanse them so how do I embrace the cut one word this is our takeaway surrender this entire service I have had to surrender to a a seat to receive the cut that I needed and most of us have not surrendered I got too many people watching me to surrender I got too much potential to surrender do you know what I could do with all the things that God&amp;#39;s given me and God&amp;#39;s saying surrender what&amp;#39;s another word for surrender Pastor Mike sit down what&amp;#39;s another word for sit down Pastor Mike stay still what&amp;#39;s another word for stay still write this one down abide John 15:5 goes on and says yes I am the True Vine and you are the branches those who remain in me and I am them will produce much fruit for apart from me you can do nothing and another translation it says says Those Who abide in me some of y&amp;#39;all have been moving too much for God to cut where he needs to and it not kill [Music] you and God saying would you just stay still would you just plant in a church would you just actually continue to go to the be group would you actually submit to counseling would you actually do would you actually just stay still in a place long enough so I can do this surgery on you and some of y&amp;#39;all like what is he doing right now this is what in the barber World they call enhancements see when you get a master Barbara and they can see what you don&amp;#39;t see they can fill in the holes in the gaps that&amp;#39;s good the areas y&amp;#39;all be like dang Pastor Mike beard be so nice that ain&amp;#39;t me that&amp;#39;s the grace of God hear what I&amp;#39;m saying to you it presents me in a way that my own effort could not present it gives me the ability to be able to have the appearance of what&amp;#39;s not really mine it kind of sounds like salvation it kind of sounds like any man that be in Christ he is a new creation so when the debt comes up for all the sin that I made I get the enhancement of Jesus Christ being the one that stands in front of me and fills in every Gap every hole every area that my hair could not grow every area that my life could not produce he does not look at me but he looks at Jesus and so for every patchy place of my life I get the enhancement of the Holy Spirit I&amp;#39;ll preach this thing right [Applause] now and some of you like that&amp;#39;s fake that&amp;#39;s [Applause] favor hey and every woman judging me shut up dyeing your hair and dyeing your roots don&amp;#39;t do me oh I don&amp;#39;t do that you wear wigs okay whatever no I&amp;#39;m just you got your clip-ins and oh come on I know white ladies clip-ins I know I know come on all of us at some time need favor we don&amp;#39;t deserve need somebody to cover us when we don&amp;#39;t actually have the ability to do it ourselves what is it going to take for us to surrender courage today I want to pray for everybody to have courage now listen everybody that&amp;#39;s under the sound of my voice right now I know some of y&amp;#39;all are saying Pastor Mike if God&amp;#39;s gonna cut me can he just do it in the areas that you know what I&amp;#39;m saying that you know aren&amp;#39;t that serious can he just do it in the areas you know what I&amp;#39;m saying like like that that seem comfortable some of these areas I&amp;#39;ve been growing too long hey Maxwell come here real quick I put on Instagram earlier this week I said does anybody want to cut their dreads [Applause] off what&amp;#39;s up dog good man you good yes sir how long you been growing them dreads 6 years 6 years six years of consistency of growing something that God may ask are you okay with letting that go now now this is how people know you this is this is your style this is your swag this is your watch this identity when people describe you know the tall handsome dude with the dreads what if God wants to cut an area that people describe you by now are you willing to not be who you&amp;#39;ve been to become who God&amp;#39;s created you to be oo that&amp;#39;s good preaching right there and most of you are so committed to the identity of the Season you&amp;#39;ve been in that you will not embrace the cut so you can have a brand new identity hey Aaron I&amp;#39;mma I&amp;#39;m going give I&amp;#39;m going give my man this chair cuz sometimes you&amp;#39;re going to need courage and you&amp;#39;re going to need people around you did you okay this with your wife okay okay cuz I don&amp;#39;t need Mary mad at me Mary you good put it on it you got some scissors we need some scissors get give me some sciss you got some shears somebody give me some scissors you got the shears you got the thing they didn&amp;#39;t bring it in the pack Scott took them Scott go get some scissors we don&amp;#39;t mind waiting no what what I&amp;#39;m what I&amp;#39;m saying to you is and sometimes that&amp;#39;s how God will do you he&amp;#39;ll put you in the chair and he&amp;#39;ll be like just wait on me what what like I got to just wait on you in my hands this is dangerous but in a master&amp;#39;s [Music] hands just just don&amp;#39;t do them all at the same time what you I don&amp;#39;t let me I&amp;#39;ve never done this before you can do this what you what you think he he actually said he wants it this you you [Music] cool 6 years a lot of intentionality a lot of building your life around something you a lot of rubber bands a lot of hot summers and a lot of warm Winters but this is what some people would call Freedom would you be willing to get cut by God for him to place give me your hand freedom in your hand hear what I&amp;#39;m saying to you somebody said he looks goodes God&amp;#39;s not even finished with him yet here here what I&amp;#39;m saying I know this is a long analogy and we sat here this whole time and I got a fresh cut and he got a fresh cut will [Music] you will you let God cut areas of your life that you have grown accustomed to or will you make this the [Music] place that God&amp;#39;s done working on you standing all over this building keep going don&amp;#39;t leave my man like that just keep going we you it can be after church we just yeah keep that we ain&amp;#39;t going to leave you like that and neither will God if there&amp;#39;s an area of your life watch this before everybody rushes out please don&amp;#39;t miss this moment if there&amp;#39;s an area of your life that you know that you&amp;#39;re going to need courage to stay still for God to do the cutting I need you to lift both of your hands right now okay we&amp;#39;re in the right building I&amp;#39;m going to pray for courage for you today and everybody under the sound of my voice I believe that there is going to be a supernatural there&amp;#39;s going to be a supernatural strength watch this to stay still everybody talks about the strength to fight but I&amp;#39;m talking about the strength to stay still yes the strength to to to make it through I&amp;#39;m talking about the strength to let God do what only he can do and be still father I pray for every person under the sound of my voice that today as you begin to identify areas that you want to correct them in unveil things in and even test them in I thank you that today as a church we will Embrace The Cutting because when you cut you cut from Love and today Father God you desire for us to produce more fruit but God we don&amp;#39;t get more fruit and fresh fruit without a fresh cut so father today we are saying we are submitted to your hand not the hand of our friends and our family but God you are the one that can actually cut us and it doesn&amp;#39;t kill us you&amp;#39;re the one that can cut us and it cultivates us it brings us into more fruit but father can we be honest we need courage today for every person father who you are placing on their heart an area that they need to let you begin to do surgery today Father God would you give them the courage that you gave Joshua be strong and courageous would you give them the courage you gave Abraham would you give them the courage you gave Moses would you give them the courage father you gave Bishop Gary and Pastor Debbie would you give us the courage father God that you gave Daniel and the Lion&amp;#39;s then would you give us the same courage that Jesus had to go to the cross that same spirit that was in him and that raised him from the dead you said and your word is in us so today we believe that you have made us courageous enough to embrace the cut and when you do it we won&amp;#39;t run from you and when you do it we won&amp;#39;t hide and when we do it we won&amp;#39;t stand and curse you we&amp;#39;ll say thank you thank you for seeing me enough thank you for caring enough thank you for calling me son and daughter thank you for loving me enough father to cut away the things to prune me so that in the next season I will produce much more fruit today I thank you that fruit is going to be the proof of our relationship with you and our marriage and our families and our businesses and the way we love and the way we forgive and the way we get angry father let there be fruit cut what you got to cut there&amp;#39;s a sweet presence in this room because I found that any surgery that you&amp;#39;ve ever been in they tell you to stay still there&amp;#39;s some surgeries that are so deep and so important that they strap you down cuz your movement not the cut but your movement could cause you and I don&amp;#39;t know who this is for but there&amp;#39;s some planting that needs to go on in your life some of y&amp;#39;all need to put down roots in places long enough for God to do the work some of you coming to church every Sunday God is saying don&amp;#39;t miss for some of you it&amp;#39;s getting in small groups for some of you it&amp;#39;s going to counseling for some of you you it&amp;#39;s getting in a a place where you can actually be honest about what you&amp;#39;re going in but I&amp;#39;m hearing the Holy Spirit say get there and stay there I feel this so strong get there and stay there some of y&amp;#39;all need to move others of you need to stay you was about to go somewhere and God said that ain&amp;#39;t it you need to stay where I placed you cuz this next season is about the cutting stay still and know hold on ain&amp;#39;t that a scripture be still and know that God I don&amp;#39;t know what you going to do but know that I&amp;#39;m God I see it from a different perspective your life is not over I&amp;#39;m just transforming you in this season well I&amp;#39;m supposed to be done with college all my friends are done with I&amp;#39;m not done with you I&amp;#39;m cutting on you and God today as a church we say I don&amp;#39;t mind waiting I don&amp;#39;t mind Wai i t my way on you Lord do what you want to do I tone my [Music] way I don&amp;#39;t mind way I turn my [Music] way on you Lord at Transformation Church real quick I just want to let everybody know we don&amp;#39;t we don&amp;#39;t care that people are getting cut around us this is not a big deal for us we&amp;#39;re in the business of transformation so when people aren&amp;#39;t getting cut around us that&amp;#39;s the weird thing we when when when our staff our team this thing we getting cut on all the time all the time why because we want more fruit and I just want to let you know that if you come in here and every week you at the altar and every week you&amp;#39;re in the right place cuz this is the cutting place let him do the work if you&amp;#39;re in this room and you&amp;#39;ve never accepted Jesus the one who is the gardener today I want to give you the opportunity to except I feel the presence of God in this place I feel that some people right now the thing that you&amp;#39;ve been fighting God is about to start doing a beautiful work this time next year mark my words the fruit because you allowed God to do the cutting is going to feed Generations beyond what you didn&amp;#39;t even think was there if you&amp;#39;ve never accepted Jesus I feel the presence of God so strong in this place if you never accepted him in your whole life today is your day invite The Gardener into your your life I need Transformation Church who knows what&amp;#39;s about to happen I need you to start praying cuz right now eternity is in the balance and I want to be specific there&amp;#39;s some of y&amp;#39;all who have known God and accepted him in your heart but you have not let him be Lord every time he tries to cut on you you run away from him and today is a day that you are going to repent and rededicate your life to him you hear me and you&amp;#39;re in this place and you&amp;#39;ve been saying God I need a sign here is your sign it&amp;#39;s watermelon pink today and I am coming to tell you that God said let me do what I want to do in your life stop going after the career that is not working I shut that door on purpose so that you would come back to me if that&amp;#39;s you on the count of three I want you to just lift your hand if you&amp;#39;re watching online transformation Nation there&amp;#39;s no distance in what&amp;#39;s happening the holy spirit is there right with you and he&amp;#39;s been drawing you all week to this moment today is the day of salvation if you are in this room or you are watching online on the count of three if you want to make Jesus Christ your personal Lord and Savior the one who kept cutting on me that took me from a liar a manipulator somebody who was addicted to pornography had all kinds of bad things in my mind my heart and in my actions I was a bad tree trying to produce good fruit and God said let me replant you let me put some new seeds on the inside of you and he changed me from the inside out today is your day of salvation young person hear me I don&amp;#39;t care what Mom and Daddy are doing God&amp;#39;s hand is on your life you don&amp;#39;t have to be a hypocrite you don&amp;#39;t have to live a double life you don&amp;#39;t have to struggle financially with that but how do you get that you find the one who created you and today I want to offer you Jesus one you&amp;#39;re making the greatest decision of your life two I&amp;#39;m proud of you but more than that your eternity is secure and your name is going to be written in the Lamb&amp;#39;s Book of Life all over this building and all over the world if you want to accept Jesus three lift your hand up all over this room I see you I see you right here I see you I see you oh come on Transformation Church I see you man of God I see you I see you woman of God and more than that God sees you can we give God some praise in this room why do we Rejoice why do we celebrate cuz we know what happens when Jesus comes in he doesn&amp;#39;t make everything perfect he makes everything partnership so everything you would walk with and have to carry a loone he says let me take the heavy load of that cuz my burden is easy and my yoke is light can we pray all together Transformation Church we&amp;#39;re a big family everybody nobody prays alone lift your hands and say God God thank you thank you for sending Jesus just for me just for me today today I admit I admit that I I am a sinner I am a s and I Repent I repent and turn to you and turn to you I believe you lived I believe you you died Di and rose again just for me just for me change me CH renew me R me transform me cut me cut me I&amp;#39;m yours I&amp;#39;m your in Jesus name in Jesus name amen if you just prayed that prayer Transformation Church is turning up right now we love you and we believe the best of God for you come on let&amp;#39;s give God a shout of Praise In This Place thank you so much for watching this message we pray that it encouraged you our vision is to represent God to the lost and found for transformation in Christ and if you would like to partner with us in giving you can text give to 8282 82 or visit us on our website also be sure to like subscribe and check out our other sermons as well now go out and live a transformed life [Music]

Transcript for:Transformation Church Lecture: Fresh Fruit

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Transformation Church Lecture: Fresh Fruit