Bearing Fruit for Christ — Keith Daniel

Thank you for this joy of being back with you. Thank you for your warm welcome. Thank you for the joy of singing with you, the lovely hymns of our faith. Thank you for the lovely blessing of that story, dear brother, to all of our hearts.

And that lovely scripture the Lord Jesus gave us, and that lovely hymn you sang so preciously to us. Thank you very much to your dear pastor and his wife, and well, there's two pastors, to both of your dear pastors and both of their dear wives, for the joy of being able to be back here with you and that you trust me with your pulpit, I'm very grateful.

God bless you. And thank you also to dear John and Lynette for all the arrangements they took upon themselves to get me to come up here. I was very moved and amazed at the way Lynette was so determined this was going to work out.

And I admired her courage, and she really did well, and I bless God, I saw the hand of God in coming up here this time, which I only intended to go down to New York, to this convention, and somehow she realized I was going to be here at the same time as this meal, but made this very, very special coming to America, not just to those meetings I'm going to, but to come up here.

I'm very grateful, and I sense God was in it very deeply. I was so tired the other nights I hardly could speak, you know, I think it was jet lag, I'm not too sure, but the Lord helped me through, and I was very grateful and very conscious when I had my quiet time in the night that this was what God wanted me to come here for, very specially.

And I felt a deep joy in my heart and peace, as weak as I was in delivering the message there at the couple's evening, couple's evening, that's a beautiful phrase, beautiful, there's a inn, oh my, what is it called, the couple's inn, have you ever heard of that?

Just for young, for married couples to get away with and have a fresh honeymoon. And they sent Jenny and I there, the first time we ever came to America, the only time we came together really, and these dear folks sent us to this little cottage.

I suppose they were hoping that if I needed to be starting over afresh it would be there, and my word, it was romantic, everything in the whole place was romantic, you know, phrases, everything was meant to really give a married couple, but I think it was lovely to be able to concentrate on married couples the other night, and it was a great joy.

The Holy Word and the Spirit’s Work

Thank you for giving me that joy. Now let's have a short prayer, and then we'll turn to God's word. Wonderful Father, we do thank Thee for Thy holy word. We thank Thee that we as Thy people can open it together and share from our hearts the things that God revealed to us.

And we do thank Thee, Lord, that the Holy Spirit is given by God to make this book alive, to bring revelation and understanding and light and comfort and peace that passes all understanding. How it's possible, Lord, that in our darkest moment, to open this book in just one verse or one phrase, by the Holy Spirit's revelation to our heart, it becomes God's voice comforting us and flooding us with such peace and such joy that no words could describe it.

It's all unspeakable, peace that passes all understanding. And so we praise Thee for Thy holy word and for the Holy Spirit. And we look to Thee and Thee only, O God, to come and make Thy word alive to our hearts in mercy.

We look away from the weakest of men who would stand in the pulpit in their weakness, and only because of their weakness do we believe God would dare to come and reveal Himself. Come, Lord, in Thy goodness to all of us.

For unless Thou dost come, nothing will change in our lives. No man can change us. No man can persuade us. No man can bless us. Only God. And so we look to Thee and Thee only. Our expectation is Thee and Thee only, especially in me, Lord.

Come in mercy. Wash me in the blood. Fill me with the Holy Spirit. Wash us all in the blood. Come by Thy Holy Spirit and give revelation. Keep us under the blood of Jesus. Save from our only enemy, the devil.

Put into flight, God, by Thy power. And come, brood upon this whore, upon this people by Thy Holy Spirit to make us Thine own and to bless us and to comfort us and to renew us and to restore us. To the joy of salvation, to give us understanding and peace even in our darkest moment.

Come visit us in Thy mercy through Thy Holy Word. Make it so holy, so sacred it will burn, burn upon our hearts tonight. In Jesus Christ's name. In Jesus Christ's name. We all ask this of Thee, our Father in heaven.

The Vine, the Branches, and the Call to Bear Fruit

Amen. If we should love God sincerely at all, I come to love this chapter. Somehow it remains in the heart where other chapters have not placed such an impression. And you all, I would say, know these words.

John 15, where Jesus says, I am the true vine, the true vine. And my father, my father is the husband man, the keeper of the vineyard. Now the vine is where grapes come from. In our country there are mighty vineyards.

And it brings enormous wealth into our land, just the vineyards of the Cape alone of our country. And he's speaking of a vineyard, he's speaking of a vine. He calls himself a vine in that vineyard. And his father is the keeper, the husband man, the keeper of the vineyard, the one who tends the vineyard.

Every branch in me. Suddenly he looks to you and me. Suddenly he looks to you and I and he calls us branches. Branches. Every branch in me that beareth not fruit, he taketh away. Every branch in me that beareth not fruit.

Is that you, young man? Who is God speaking about here in this hall? Is that you, lady? Every branch in me that beareth not fruit. Is that you? Your religion, with all your church attendance. Is that you?

Answer God. If you're not here for God, what are you doing here? Is that you? Christ is speaking to. And I believe when he says these words, you've never heard such grief from any man. You've never seen such grief as for God to say these words of a man.

Every branch in me that beareth not fruit. You don't need to turn, but listen just briefly to these words. Luke 6, 13, verse 6. He spake also this parable. A certain man had a fig tree planted in the vineyard.

Came and sought fruit thereon and found none. And said to the dresser of the vineyard, the keeper of the vineyard, I, these three years I came seeking fruit. On this fig tree and I find none. Cut it! Cumbereth at the ground.

And the answering said unto him, Lord, let it alone this year and also till I dig around about it and dung it. And if it beareth fruit, well, if not, then after that thou shalt cut it down. You may see the judgment of God where I see the patience and the mercy and the long-suffering.

God is not cruel. God is not cruel. Oh, the patience, the longing, the long-suffering of God. But tragically, there comes this moment. Tragically, every branch in me that beareth not fruit, he taketh away.

I don't know about you, brother, sister, friend. I don't think I can think of any more tragic words that could ever be written across my life or yours by God in all eternity than these words at some point to be written across me or you.

Every branch in me that beareth not fruit. With God's grief to say that in some terrifying moment of a man, he taketh away. I don't know what that means, sir. I wish I could honestly stand here and give you a theological understanding and doctrinal definition of that statement alone, he taketh away.

I don't know what that means. I know I've heard some people talk of what it means, but I don't know. I grieve when I hear some people try to doctrinally explain it. What God means when there's no fruit, he taketh away.

That terrifying moment. But I'm going to leave it between you and God, what he means there if there's no fruit in your religious life. Religion isn't fruit. Most religious people are going to hell. Don't doubt it.

They're the same as they walk out of that door as everyone else that doesn't come near the house of God. Every branch in me that beareth not fruit, he taketh away. Thy life and mine, Lord, I've thus been comparing, shame covers me, filled with amazement that thy heart's still sparing this bad tree.

Be careful, religious soul, where there's no fruit, he taketh away. Every branch in me that beareth not fruit, he taketh away. If any man be in Christ, he's a new creature. He looks to these people, now we terms as branches, there's reality, there's change.

He can point to the whole world and say, look, behold, all things have become new. Even the devil won't argue, let alone your worst enemy. And suddenly he talks to these people, he refers to these people, every branch that beareth fruit, there's fruit, there's life.

What does he do with that? Oh, the next little phrase says, he purges it. There's fruit. He purges it. Why? That it may bring forth more fruit. Now that word purging, many theologians will say it means cleanseth.

That's basically the meaning if you take it from the Greek to today's modern language. But it's far more than cleanseth. There's something in this word here that speaks of cruelty. It's cruel, this word.

There's something that cuts. It's not just like the blood cleanses in a moment of faith, you cleanse from sin. Here there's something that cuts, that hurts in this word. In the actual Greek, if you take the full meaning, it's not just as some people say cleanseth.

No, there's something deeper here. Why would God say he does something that hurts if there's fruit? Something that looks cruel and seems cruel to the human mind, whose thoughts are not in line with God's thoughts, who cannot see.

Pruning, Purging, and the Trials of Faith

Oh, if you go to the vineyard in our country, the vineyards, they're massive, and you watch them, what they do to that vine, you won't believe the treatment the vine receives. You won't believe what the man who understands what will bring forth fruit.

He cuts. He doesn't spare anything in his eyes that shouldn't be there. The way he cuts and cuts. You stand there and think, will this thing ever survive? Could anything survive this? It's like there's no mercy on anything.

There's just a stump left there. You and I, in ignorance, who stand there in fear, what will ever happen to this? With such cruel treatment, with no spares, which you and I don't know in his wisdom, this will bring forth more fruit, more wonderful fruit than anything could ever have happened in this life.

This treatment, this pruning, this purging. Oh, purging is not easy, but oh, the fruit that God knows will come. Fruit you and I don't know God wants. You and I, when we get saved, you would never think this is what God is looking for.

You and I look for other changes and transformations and things in our lives. Fruit, God is looking for things you and I aren't looking for. God's ways are so beyond them. The purging, the choicing of faith is more precious than of gold that perishes, though it be tried with fire.

It bringeth forth the peaceable fruit of holiness. God knows it's the trial of your faith, not the comfort. I don't know about you and me. I don't know about you sitting there, but I can say you might believe it's easy when you come to Christ, but I haven't found it easy.

The moment you're saved, we purge it. There's no time for God to waste. Life is a moment. It's a brief moment. In eternity, it's God who has started. You think I'm exaggerating? Just give yourself a little moment and you'll be looking back on life.

That's where it's going to take you. Life is, God hasn't got long. Do you know what he's got to accomplish in you? And the ease of life is not going to do that. The moment he does what he knows will bring forth more.

Trust him. Trust him. It's not easy. I wish I could stand up here and tell you all sitting down there that I've shouted hallelujah every step of the way, you know. I'd be lying. I've wept most of the way.

Sir, does a preacher dare to say in the year 2001 when negative is not tolerated in any pulpit that he weeps? Oh, I've wept. God told me long ago, Keith, be honest in the pulpit or get out of the pulpit.

You're useless unless you're honest. Tell them what it really is, brother, sister, or don't tell them at all. Don't lie. Come to Jesus, they say. It's like heaven and earth. They're lying. Heaven's coming, brother.

Not yet. In this world, Jesus says you shall have tribulation. Brother, sister, if you've made a study of persecution, affliction and tribulation, tribulation is the only moment. Paul said he was driven to despair of life.

He never said that about persecution or affliction. In this world, you shall have tribulation. It's Christ. Jesus shall suffer persecution. It's not heaven and earth. It's not everybody's going to befriend you and love you.

If Godly in Christ, Jesus shall suffer persecution. Brother, sister, you weren't right with God. Things are going to go wrong. God allows things. In his perfect wisdom, because the devil thinks he'll destroy you, God knows this is going to make you what he wants you to be.

Trust him, though. You think the devil's in control and God's lost a bit of control in your life? Don't you dare believe it. God won't allow him to do a thing that ultimately won't make you what he's looking for, the fruit he's looking for.

Rejecting Prosperity and Guaranteed-Healing Promises

Oh, come to Jesus, they say. It's going to be heaven and earth, you know. I can't believe what they're preaching today. Come to Jesus and you'll prosper. Can you believe that? Prosperity is everywhere as a doctrine.

It's rubbish. It's trash. Stop preaching it. You're lying. You don't come to Jesus to prosper. No wonder they come. That's not true. It's just not true. He'll provide your needs, but believe me, you're not going to be promised to be prospering and rich and wealthy.

Oh, my, what a lie. And when they don't prosper, you've got hundreds of thousands of people across America, sir, who, when they realize it isn't true what you say, they become bitter against you and God and the church.

And they're bitter in their faith because of the lies people are telling theologians. Stop it. Don't you preach prosperity, sir? God does prosper certain and some like the rich man and Lazarus. Well, the rich man didn't get to heaven.

Lazarus did. He sat there begging in his wombs in poverty. It's not always prosperity. Oh, no. Sometimes either the means by which God finds us is bringing us on knees. I wonder if God will ever make America seek him again unless he takes away your wealth and gets you into such a recession that you become despised as a nation and start seeking.

Oh, God's ways are not our ways, sir. Come to Jesus and you'll prosper. It's not true. Come to Jesus, they say, and you'll be healed of sickness. Have you ever heard that being preached? I don't believe that.

And they'll pray for you if you're sick, and you will be healed. Everyone that came to Jesus, he prayed for everyone, he was healed. Same with us. That's not true, though. I'll take you through half an hour of doctrine showing you the rest of the Bible that tells you that not everybody's healed.

The godliest suffer. The godliest banish their sickness from the Bible. Why don't you look at all the scriptures, sir? Because any verse you take, if it's not looked in the light of all scriptures, and if there's any scripture that disagrees with your interpretation, you've got half.

You've got to compare your verse with the light of all scriptures. Or you can't. Or then you're like the Jehovah Witnesses. They're too scared to read the next verse. It'll all get through the Bible. Oh no.

Not everyone is healed. We pray for you, you must be healed, they say. If you're not healed, it's unbelief or sin in your life. Now that's a tragic statement. Why isn't it their sin to pray for you if you're not healed?

Well, they're unbelief. Why do they have to blame the person they're praying for? So you can't stand in the shadow of the godly people who suffer and who die in sickness. Let alone tell them it's sin if you pray and they weren't healed.

Be careful, God will judge you. Like he judged Job's friends. Oh, be careful. No, it's not come to Jesus and it's just joy on earth and peace and health and, oh, everybody's going to die of an old age and nobody will die of sickness.

Everything will prosper and everybody, it's not heaven on earth. No, that's a lie. You come to Jesus, there's purging, there's the trials of your faith from the man God sees. You're real, there's reality.

Don't doubt that. And out of this comes holiness. Out of this comes Christ-likeness, comes fruit. It doesn't just come from kneeling and asking God for a work of grace. The fire is refined, sir, after the work of grace is there and fruit comes.

I've wept. I haven't shouted hallelujah like they told you you will if you come to Jesus all the way. Brother, if you shouted hallelujah every step of the way, you're a great man. You're greater than I'll ever be.

I have groaned. I have groaned. I have wept on my face in moments when all hell it seemed came against me to destroy me and God stood back and allowed it. I shall never forget the worst trial that ever came in my life was about 11, 12 years ago.

If you had told me that God would ever allow these things in my life when I was first saved, I wouldn't have believed you. I wouldn't have believed that God would ever do that to a child who had given his whole being to God and desired to serve God with every breath in his back, with every faculty of his being.

No matter what it cost, I wouldn't have believed you. Had you said God would bring these things in my life one day or they came, they came. Everything, brother, you can name it. It just came upon me. With such, I was down in the dust weeping most of the days.

It was like God had forsaken me. I don't know if there was anybody left on earth that didn't think, why has God so forsaken this man who served him, who's preached all over, who's poured out his soul for God?

Why is God forsaken this man? I believe people were thinking that everywhere. I don't think there was a person left in the mission that I served God in Africa that wasn't wondering, why is God forsaken this man?

I was, it was like I was being destroyed and God was standing back and allowing it. One thing came after the other. The next thing, I don't know if you know that hymn. Our brother was speaking last night, brother John, about this hymn.

When sorrows like sea billows roll, you know, that man knew what it was about. He's in the school of God, he wrote that hymn. When sorrows, they come like sea billows, you know what that means? One wave comes on, brother, it knocks you down.

But it's merciless to see, you know, you just get up and there's another wave. And you're down again. And you think, no, as you get up, oh, another one. It's just like sea billows, they just come until you can hardly get up at all.

God’s Refining Work Through Suffering

Does God allow that? Oh, yes. When I was on my knees weeping before God was grappling with the scriptures, holding on to any promises, suddenly the telephone rings. And they tell me, my wife, my children are all in hospital, the cars rolled and rolled and other cars and the terrible accident they've been in.

They far and away from me from the other side of our land. I just put the phone down. I didn't even speak. And I got in my face and I said, God, let me die. Can a man pray that? Can a man stand in the pulpit and say that's Christianity and get away with it?

And so you may never let me back in your pulpit, but I tell you something, it's the truth. It comes upon us. Job was not the only man that prayed, let me die. Jeremiah was not the only man that came to a place and said, God, let me die.

I prayed that from my heart. Let me die. And I meant it. Brother, sister, in case you're sitting there and thinking this man is going to bring out his negative this year, today, there comes the positive.

OK, so grab it. There's always the end of a storm. Brother, sister in Christ, don't ever, ever doubt that. There is no such a thing as God allowing you to be destroyed through the fires. Trust Him. I don't care what you're going through financially, physically, persecution.

There is no such a thing as God just letting it destroy you. There's a marvellous God in His perfect understanding of the soul and His love made Him let His blood flow for you to win you. There's a marvellous God looking at you who He redeemed, who He bought with a great price.

There's a moment of refinement with the gold being refined with the fires. Nothing refines gold but fire. And all the dross is coming up, you know, all the rubbish. Only the fires bring the rubbish out of gold and purify gold.

That's all that God was doing to me. Rubbish was being dealt with in my life. I wish I could call it better words, you know, to petrify why God is doing these things to you and me, but I want to be utterly honest.

He was dealing with the rubbish that was still in my life even though I was a preacher for years. And the only way He knew how. There's a moment, there's God looking at the gold being refined, the fires, there's a moment with the fires heating and the purifying process that God in His wisdom says enough, enough for now.

And in that moment, Satan, demons and evil people cannot touch you from the moment God says enough. All Satan's powers stop that moment. And God will never, ever, ever be too late. Though you think it is, though the devil tells you it's too late, no.

Trust God about that. Enough. And then God lifts you up. And everyone knows God's lifted you up. That's precious, you know. Oh, that moment when God lifted me up, I'll never forget it. Suddenly you can't get up anymore.

Have you ever been in that situation? Does God want to do that to you that you cannot get up in your own strength? You know, I used to get up in my own strength before that. Many times, whatever the devil did, I would get up and I'd charge back into the battle with a vengeance.

But yet God brought me and I couldn't get up. Why does God do that? That everyone in the whole world knows when you get up that God's grace alone lifted you up. Oh, it's something when you know you can't get up unless God lifted you up, when everyone knows that nothing could ever happen again unless God stepped in.

Have you ever stood up simply because the only capability, the only ability you had to stand was God lifted you? He lifts you up. Oh, it's so different when a man gets up, lifted up by God, when he can't lift himself up.

It's so different. He can't touch the glory from then onwards, you know. Man can't touch the glory from then onwards. No one allows you to. God lifts you up broken. Does God want that of you, young man?

Oh, yes, and trust me, it's coming if you want God, boy. It's coming if you're going to let God have His way, sir, lady. Brokenness. Brokenness of confidence. Things I wouldn't think are sin you might think is an attribute to Christianity or to serving God.

Things you and I don't realize God wants out the way that no fresh can glory because in weakness my strength is made perfect. It's only then God will come. When mercy suddenly lifts you up, suddenly lifted me up, suddenly everyone was conscious.

God lifted me up. No one condemned me. When God lifts you up, sir, when no matter how much you were down in the dust, grappling in shame as it were in weakness has shown that you're nothing, absolutely nothing, but the grace of God now could possibly ever restore this man to even stand again, let alone take a step.

Oh, suddenly God took within moments. I was in the pulpits, the greatest pulpits of my land, and soon some of the greatest pulpits in the whole world. Suddenly us, this poor man from the jungle to suddenly.

Why? I'll tell you why. Because God never could trust me before. I would have touched the glory. He couldn't trust me with those pulpits. But now God could because he knows that I know and everybody else knows this man is nothing but for grace.

He would never have got up again. You're so different when you stand up by grace and grace alone. And trust me, young boy, that's what God wants. That's what God wants you to be. But everyone knows and only God can be glorified if you do anything for him from then onwards.

And there's so little of self left. God wants to take it all out. That's not a bad thing, young man. If he's going to break you, let him. It's beautiful. It's precious. That's what God's looking for. Let him have his way.

And if the only way is what he's doing right now in your life, let him. Trust him. He's not going to destroy you. It's the fruit he wants. I'll never forget, you know, looking at my wife, my darling wife.

Forgive me for calling her my darling. Men don't use that word these days, the fear of not being looked upon as men. She's my darling in life. I don't know anyone alive that's more Christlike than my wife that I personally know.

And I say that under the blood of Jesus. And I say that with a grateful heart. I hope you can say that about your wife, sir. But I have to say it. I think God would rebuke me if I didn't acknowledge that he gave me what I know to be the godliest person alive right now in my life.

And I've met godly people. But I'll never forget when God lifted me up and suddenly the whole world didn't condemn. They just stood knowing God's lifted me up. And I looked at my wife one day and I said, Jenny, why did God do this?

I endeavored to serve God with every breath in my body. You know that the children know that the world knows that. Why did God allow all this on me, Jenny? And I'll never forget what my wife said for all eternity.

I shall never forget what my wife said. She looked at me and tears came down her face as she looked at me asking her this question. She said these words, Keith, I wish I had all the answers, but I don't have all the answers.

But this I do know, Keith, God was right. God was perfect in what he's done to you and what he's allowed to come on you, Keith. Do you know why, Keith? Because I see something in you now that I've never ever seen before in truth, Keith.

I see Jesus. You know, when my wife said those words, I stood there and I trembled. I began to weep. And I said something to God from my heart. As I looked at my wife again, I said, Oh, God, I'd be willing to start right now and go through everything again.

Start now, God. Just that I could have heard Jenny say these words to me. No one knows you like your wife, sir. Has she ever seen Jesus in you? That the person who knows you better than anyone else on earth is your wife.

To say those words to you is probably the most sacred moment you'll ever know apart from salvation. And I treasure those words. I treasure them. The greatest preacher that ever lived, they say, was Charles Spurgeon.

I don't like this handle people give preachers, you know, they called him the prince of all preachers. No one has ever called that but Spurgeon, the prince of all preachers. The only man that ever lived from the time of Paul to this day was Spurgeon that they gave that title to.

But, you know, when I read his sermons, I knew it's true. This was the greatest preacher that ever lived. Don't doubt it. But what shook me about Spurgeon is when I read his life and I began to go into documents about his life and all the suffering, all the pain, the storms, it was like unbelievable what that man just had to endure and endure.

And it seemed to get worse and worse and worse. You know what Spurgeon said in his old age, the greatest preacher that ever lived. Listen carefully, preachers, in case you want to know where greatness comes from in God and man's eyes.

Spurgeon only once stood up and to prove it only once he said these words. And I think this present generation of preachers needs to hear it. In case you think God's making a mistake in your life, preacher of what's going on.

Spurgeon said if it wasn't for the fires, if it wasn't for the trials, if it wasn't for the storms, if it wasn't for the sufferings, be poverty stricken in the pulpit of God. I would be poor in the hand of God.

Do you want to argue with God, preacher? If that's what the greatest preacher ever lived, said Joel, the godliest man alive on earth, even the devil couldn't argue. Everything came on him. At some point he said these words.

He was the first in the entire Bible to grasp what fires, what God allows, not to prove a point to the devil. You think that's all that was at stake? No. The devil was going to face far more rebuke than seeing Job not curse God.

Because God knew the principle of the fires, this holy man would come out more holy. Job grasped and said, when he has tried me, I shall come forth as gold from the fire. Spurgeon saw that at the end of his life and knew why God allowed it and tolerated Satan's attacks through the most evil people.

Who tried to destroy Spurgeon as no other preacher on earth's history has ever been tried to destroy and kept out of the pulpits even of America. Every branch in me that beareth not fruit, he taketh away.

And every branch that beareth fruit, he purgeth it. Trust me, the purging is cruel, but it will bring forth more fruit. The fruit God wants, not what you and I look at. Not what you think is needed in your life.

What God knows, trust Him. He wants it and He's going to get it. If you allow Him to have His way, that it may bring forth more fruit. Now verse 3 says, ye are clean through the word. I love that. I wish I could preach the whole sermon to you in that verse, but I dare not say another word about that verse, which I have spoken unto you.

Abiding in Christ as the Condition of Fruitfulness

Verse 4, the most vital verse in the whole Bible for Christians. Once you're saved, there is no more important statement from God's heart to man once he's born again than this verse. Listen carefully, there's nothing that means more to God or you than what you're about to hear Christ say once you're saved.

Abide in me, do you? And I in you, as the branch cannot bear fruit of itself. Do you know what God's saying here? While the fires come, brother, sister, there's one thing God requires of you. Abide in Him and you will survive.

You won't come out bitter and twisted as people who don't abide in Him. If you don't abide in Christ, the fires, no matter what fires come on you from the devil, God can't turn it on the devil and make this for His glory.

You come out bitter, twisted and angry with God. I don't doubt that. You see how many Christians are angry with God? Only one reason they didn't do the most vital thing there is. Trust God while you're abiding in Him, the one thing you can do and you must do.

For no matter what the devil brings on you or man brings upon you, to bring more of Christ out of you. Always. The one thing God wants is abide in me and I in you, as the branch cannot bear fruit of itself.

It cannot bear fruit of itself except it abide in the vine. No more can ye except ye abide in me. I am the vine, ye are the branches. He that abideth in me and I in him, the same bringeth forth much fruit.

Trust Him. He can't lie. Just do this one thing, boy. Abide in God. No matter what comes, abide in Him. He that abideth in me and I in him, the same bringeth forth much fruit. For without me ye can do nothing.

If a man abide not in me, if a man abide not in me, he is cast forth as the branches withered and then gathered and cast them into the fire. They are burned. I don't know what that verse means. I have no argument with the Calvinists.

I have no argument with the Wesleyan Arminiests. In my limitations I don't know, so I don't preach. All I say this though, Jesus said it. I leave it between you and Him, sir. You tell God what He means.

If, but don't expect anything further from me. If a man abide not in me, and he is cast forth as a branch withered, men gathered and cast them into the fire, they are burned. If ye abide in me, my words abide in you, ye shall ask what ye will, it shall be done unto you.