Bearing Fruit — David Wilkerson

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

I'd like to show you a portion of Scripture that has been of great concern to me. In fact, some of you may have already received, I sent this message out to our friends on the mailing list, and if you haven't had time to observe it, I've preached, I think, twice.

And each time I've preached this message, it has stricken my heart, the great responsibility that Jesus Christ is putting upon us in this. You know, I've heard it said that Jesus in the New Testament is only speaking to the Jews.

I can't buy that. He's the incarnate Word. He's speaking to humanity, to all generations, and He's speaking this to us. And I want you to begin the first verse. I am divine, and my Father is the husbandman.

Every branch of me that beareth not fruit, he taketh away. Who takes it away? He, not the devil. Don't blame the devil on this one. He taketh away. That's very powerful. And every branch that beareth fruit, he purges it, that it may bring forth more fruit.

Look at verse 6 also. If a man abide not in me, he is cast forth as a branch, and is withered, and men gather them and cast them into the fire, and they are burned. Now look this way, please. I want you to keep your Bible open to this 15th chapter.

I'm not going to scream at you. I'm not going to yell. I'm not going to jump across this stage. I'm going to stand here and deliver His Word, and His Word will pierce your heart if it's open. You know, I've read and re-read this 15th chapter, John, and I can't escape the convicting power of it.

It's so awesome, the responsibility of it. It's such an ominous warning that I said, if that's true, we'd better deal with it. I read it and re-read it, and even when I preach it, there's a trembling in my heart.

The Holy Spirit brings me back to this Word of Jesus. My Father is the husbandman, and every branch of me that beareth not fruit, he taketh away. Now, Jesus said that my Father is the husbandman who stands over this vine.

Jesus is the vine. This is the vine of God. This is His choice vine, and how He guards this vine, and all the branches. We are the branches in this vine. And God, the Heavenly Father, stands jealously in guard over this vine and its branches, looking lovingly for any sign of blight, of cancer, anything that would hinder the life flow from the vine into the branches, so that nothing would hinder the life flow of Jesus, that the fruit of the Holy Spirit could be manifest in our lives.

And He sees what no one else can see. He sees the blight. He sees the sin. He sees the spirit of death at work in many who call themselves Christians. Jesus said, I am the vine, you are the branches, and His all-seeing eye watches daily, moment by moment.

Bearing Fruit as the Essence of Discipleship

Without fruit, it's impossible to please God. In fact, this matter of bearing fruit has to do with everything about discipleship. It has to do with pleasing the heart of God. And I think this is the bottom line.

I think this is the one thing that so gripped me more than any time in my life. I've come to the place where it's dawning on me that it's possible for a believer who walks with Jesus to make the heart of God glad.

You know, when the disciples came home, they had been given, they had mandated to go out and spread the gospel. They came back and said, even the devils are subject unto us. And Jesus said, don't rejoice in that, but rejoice that your names are written in the book of life.

I wish we knew that in charismatic circles. We don't rejoice because of miracles. We don't rejoice because demons are cast out. We rejoice because we're in union with Him and our names are written in the Lamb's book of life.

And, you know, I just have this soul pressed in me that the Lord says this has to do with discipleship, has to do with pleasing Him. And Jesus, then when He went aside, began to rejoice. He rejoiced greatly in the Bible, in the Greek it says He leaped for joy.

Can you imagine Jesus leaping for joy? I see Jesus hiding from all His disciples and He's jumping up and down and He said, Father, You revealed this to babes. And I see Jesus jumping for joy. Now He grieved, He wept, and if He grieved and wept, He was touched with the Phoenix of our infirmities.

He was God incarnate, yet He was man. Certainly He jumped for joy at the sight of God manifesting Himself to these poor, ignorant disciples. Do you remember what it said when God wanted to move in the time of the Jews?

Caiaphas and Annas were high priests, but the word came to John. He bypassed the whole religious system and found John out in the desert, shed a loyalty to God, and the word came to him. It's amazing how the word comes to those who are shut in with the Lord.

But this has to do with pleasing His heart and I want to please the heart of God. Without bearing fruit, it's impossible to please God. It grieves God and He said the more fruit, much fruit, gives Him greater glory, greater joy.

Stop and think about that for a minute, that it's possible for you and I to make God's heart glad. We talk about God blessing us and we think of God ministering to us, but to think of ministering to Him, to think that God could look down in Times Square tonight in Town Hall, about 1 ,500 people gathered together in His name, and not because of something they're doing, other than walking in His righteousness and trusting His holy word to bring gladness to His heart, not just because they sing and shout and talk in tongues or clap their hands, but because there's a drawing and a wooing in their heart and they want nothing more than to please Him.

I don't know about you, but that's what I want. I want to please the heart of God, and that can't be done without bearing fruit. Herein is my Father glorifying, verse 8, that ye bear much fruit so that ye be my disciples.

Look at verse 16, you have not chosen me, but I've chosen you and I've ordained you that you should go and bring forth fruit and that your fruit should remain and whatsoever you shall ask of the Father in my name, He will give it to you.

“Bear Fruit or Burn”: The Seriousness of Christ’s Warning

Now look this way for just a moment. The real message here, and it may sound harsh, and I think it is, but you see, we've whitewashed the teachings of Jesus so much. We've made Jesus, we have created in our minds an all-American Jesus.

This all-American Jesus loves the Dallas Cowboys, He drinks wine, He's a back slapper, and He just says, go out and do the best you can, and He winks at sin if you fall most of the time. There's no such Christ, there's no such God, it's a concoction, a cultural Christ that we've created in America.

The all-American Jesus, I call Him. There's no such being. But the message here is bear fruit or burn. And you can't get away from it, and you'll see it, it's so clear. Every branch of me that beareth not fruit, He taketh away, and every branch that beareth fruit, He purges, that may bring forth more fruit.

And look at verse 6 again, if a man abide not in me, he is cast forth as a branch, and is withered, and men gather them, and cast them into the fire, and they are burned. Now there are teachers today of false security that would tell you, now that can't be because if they were, they could have been in the vine, they pretended to be in the vine, or they imagined they were in the vine, but they weren't in the vine because once you're in the vine, you're always in the vine.

Now I don't want to get into any doctrine on this, but Jesus said these were branches in Him, every branch in me, they were there, Jesus put them there. Is that what it says in your Bible? These were already in Christ, but they were burned, they were fruitless branches, and my heavenly Father does not allow death on this vine lest it move through the body.

Never, He does not endure the cancer of sin in the body. He takes it away, He prunes it. First of all, He comes in His loving way with His Word to prune and cut away that which is unlike Christ. Jesus saw a fig tree one time, remember?

And He went up to the fig tree and He cursed it. He did not, well let me read it to you, when He saw a fig tree in the way, He came to it and found nothing thereon but leaves only, and He said to it, let no fruit grow on thee henceforth forevermore, and presently the fig tree withered away.

Jesus didn't curse the life that was in that tree, the remaining ebbing life. Jesus cursed the spirit of death, the dominant spirit of death that had already moved. That tree was beyond pruning and Jesus could see what no one else could see.

He saw underneath the leaves when you turned it over, the spots. He saw in the sap the spirit of death that was moving through it. And God was actually, Jesus was actually saying, there's death at work in that tree.

It's beyond pruning, speed on its way, bring it to its ultimate destination, bring it to its course, let that death speed up that process, it's going to be burned, it's going to be cast out, men are going to cut it down, it's going to wither and die.

He cursed the death that was in it. And I see that so clear when the Lord comes to his Christians, to his children, and Jesus says, where's my father's fruit? Where is my father's fruit? And friends, when I begin to see this, I begin to reason with the Holy Spirit and it goes something like this.

If bearing fruit is synonymous with true discipleship, in other words, I can't really be a disciple unless I'm bearing fruit. And if bearing fruit brings much glory to God and more fruit, more glory, and I want to bring him glory, I want to know what that fruit is.

And furthermore, if being barren and fruitless is going to bring the knife of the husbandman down on me, if it's possible for me to wither and die and be cast off as a branch. And I believe, brother, sister, in a literal, physical hell.

I believe there's a hell. You walk these streets, you better know it. There is a literal, physical hell. And I want to do everything in my life, I want to make every change that I have to make, I want to do everything to line up with the word and the commandments of the Lord Jesus Christ, because the thing that really shakes me is Jesus says he that hath my commandments and keepeth them, he's the one who loves me.

But how can you keep them if you don't know them? He that hath them, he that knows them. And I heard people say, well, it's all wrapped up in just love. Oh, it's so much more than that. He said, you're going to take up your cross and you're going to die.

There's going to be self-denial. I can show you scripture after scripture of these loving commands of the Lord Jesus Christ. And if you don't know them, how can you keep them and how can you love them?

You have to know them and keep them to love him. Now, I'm not putting a heavy burden on someone, say, brother, if you make it sound so hard to be a Christian, folks, I'm not preaching it near as hard as Jesus preaches it here.

No, there's not a preacher in America laying it as heavy as Jesus laid it down here in the book. You say, well, brother, are you motivated by fear or you made it motivated by love? I want to be motivated by love.

You are loved. You are loved. We've been told enough about how much we're loved. We are loved. There's no question about it. There has never been a revival in the history of America or the world that hasn't been accompanied by exhaling, convicting, preaching against sin.

Never. It's never been a revival. The puritans believe that you nailed, you had to take the hammer of God's word and nail and nail in the slumbering apostate heart of sleeping Christians. And I'll tell you what, that's going to come from here.

I had a minister friend who said, brother, are you going to preach in Times Square what you've been preaching in your newsletters around the country? You go there and now nobody going to come. We're going to be here preaching what he's laid on our hearts.

This is this is our word, not trying to be hard. I'm just afraid we don't even even the hardest we preach. We still don't line up to these these commandments of the Lord Jesus Christ that he's laid out before us.

But if I know my heart, I am motivated by both by the love of God for me, but just as much the dread of a holy God. And I don't believe that you can know the joy of the Lord till you know the grief of God.

It's impossible. All the joy I have comes out of grief. We were in Toronto last week, all week with crusades at Queensway Cathedral. And somebody had accused our group of being kind of sad. And someone said, well, Dave looks so sad.

He doesn't any joy. Man, after the meeting Sunday night, I danced all over the pulpit and the glory of God came down. I'm the happiest man there is. And we're a happy people. But you look at this. These are serious things.

Holiness, Judgment, and the Fear of God

Here's a city with 10 ,000 people dying with AIDS that have AIDS in the city. Two hundred and eighty three children and eighty seven percent. I think the figure last night, seven percent of them have already died this year.

They you look out there and see the crack. There's a new drug out here called Fentanyl. It's two thousand times more powerful than crack. It's a designer drug. There's a new disease now called chlamydia that shuts the woman's womb.

There may be two million American girls already affected with chlamydia. And God is trying to say, if you're going to if you're going to abort your babies, I'll shut your wombs. And he may shut every womb for every abortion.

One for one, I don't know where it's going to end, but you see these things and you can't just say, let's go to church and the preacher's job is to make us happy. No, we've had enough joy pop religion.

God wants something much more. Much, much more than that. You see, Isaiah gets a vision of the holiness of God and those created beings, the seraphims are so awestruck and at the dread of that moment.

And he appears in his holiness and those seraphims cover their eyes and their feet. And Isaiah looks at that dreadful scene and he falls in his face and he said, I'm a dead man. Whoa, whoa is me. Here's a man.

If you read the first four chapters before that appears in Isaiah, you hear some of the greatest prophecies against sin that a man can preach. I wish I could preach like Isaiah in the first four or five chapters.

And then after all this preaching against sin, you see him saying, I'm I'm a man of unclean lips. I dwell among a people of unclean. Well, it's me because he saw something of the holiness of God. And Isaiah said of men, fear them not.

Don't be afraid. Speaking of men, but of God, he said, sanctify the Lord of hosts himself. Let him be your fear. Let him be your dread. If you don't believe that, turn when you go home, mark it down. Isaiah 13, let him be your dread.

And you know what that word dread means in Hebrew, shake terribly, shake terribly at the thought of a holy God, a God who's loving, a God who's merciful, a God who's kind, but a God who will not wink at sin.

He's a holy God and he does judge sin. And if he judges in the world, if the righteous can be saved, where do we stand? The apostle asks, where do we stand in this matter? The burning bush, when God appeared to Moses and said he trembled and he durst not look, he didn't even dare to look.

He knew that there was a dreadful thing taking place. God was appearing in his holiness. And he said, this is this is a dreadful sight. David suggested, he said, I tremble at his word. I shake terribly at the word of God.

You remember when Jacob had the dream and he saw the ladder ascending and descending? He saw the father at the top of the ladder. Here's here's what he said. Surely the Lord is in this place. And I knew it not.

And then the thought dawns on him. He had seen such an awesome, dreadful sight. And he says, how dreadful is this place? This is none other than the house of God. This is the gate of heaven. Daniel, a praying man who set his face to seek the Lord by prayer and suffocation of fasting and ashes.

But listen to what Daniel said of his father. No one prayed like Daniel. You know, it says that Daniel prayed out the window. Gwen and I live on the 22nd floor in a high rise in upper Manhattan. And every night I pray out the window looking out over this city.

I look out over the Dakota. I look out over some of those over the long the way out there along the park, Central Park. And I remember a call from a woman who says, don't forget the wealthy people in this city.

She said, they're just as much drugs, suicide and despair among the rich as among the poor. Don't forget the rich. And I we I remember Daniel and as much as my heart bleeds, as much as I pray out that window, I think of Daniel when the children of Israel are taken captive and go into Babylon.

Same kind of spirit as we have in this city, Babylonian spirit. And he looked out and I think the thing that broke his heart, he saw the Jews, those God's special people being absorbed into that Babylonian system.

First, when they came, they wouldn't even bring down their hearts. They wouldn't play. There was no song because they said we're strangers here. But he saw them getting cozy, getting comfortable and fitting right into it.

Separation from the World and Spiritual Discernment

And that's one thing God helping me, this staff we've pledged before God will not be a part of the system. We'll love the people, will not be a part of its theaters, will not be a part of its television, will not be a part of any of that.

Those who want to hear from the heart of God have to be absolutely shut out from that spirit, absolutely removed from that kind of spirit. And you hear here, listen to what Daniel says. This man who looked out the window and prayed because he saw the children of God being mixed up with the world, so wrapped up, they didn't know the difference between the holy and the profane anymore.

The clean and the unclean, such apostasy, such mixture. Daniel says, listen, and I prayed unto the Lord, my God, and I made my confession and I said, oh, Lord, thou great and dreadful God. David said, the Lord reigneth, let the people tremble, let them praise thy great and terrible name for his holy through Isaiah.

God says to this man, well, I look even to him that's poor, the contrite spirit who trembles at my word. And I emphasize this dread of God now in this holy fear of God, because a lot of people said it's just it's just a respect and awe of God's.

It's an awe of God. It's respect for God. It's much more than that. Do you think when Isaiah is on his face, it's just a sense of awe? No, it's a dread in his heart. We serve a holy God who will not wink at sin.

You know, if we trembled at his word, we couldn't take this matter of bearing fruit lightly. This generation perceives God as some kind of a doting grandfather. All he's there for is exist to make sure that we get our rights.

We have this doting grandfather type image that he doesn't expect much from us, but he's there to simply give us our rights. And we heard a preacher just the other day. Bob was heart stricken. I was heart stricken when I heard of it.

He said the covenant is instituted the moment you pay your time. One of the very, very well known among us. Ladies and gentlemen, that's nothing to do with the dread of a holy God. That's nothing to do with an Isaiah on his face.

And he sees this holy God and he looks at himself, even though he prophesied, even though he cried out against sin, he still sees deeper in his heart things he never saw before. God's merciful, God's kind, he's he's merciful to all generations, but he's also a judge.

He's a holy, holy judge. Now, what is this fruit, then, if it's if it's that important? Well, turn to Philippians, if you will. Philippians first chapter Philippians. If you go to Colossians, you've gone too far.

Turn back. All right. Philippians one eleven. I want to show you the fruit. Don't take my word. Take the take it from the word of the Lord. Here it is. Verse eleven one. Philippians one eleven. And you have it being filled with the fruits of what?

Fruits of righteousness, which are by Jesus Christ under the glory and praise of God. Now, look at me, what what what does it say? What are the fruits that he wants from us? It's a walk of righteousness.

It's a walk of holiness before the Lord. It is the fruit of the holy spirit who convicts of sin and righteousness and judgment. Now, here, Paul helps explain this passage, and John, how different look at me, isn't it true?

The idea that we've been taught of fruit is success. The idea of having fruit is to always be growing, is always to be having activity around this ever increasing money, ever increasing activity. And that that is supposed to be fruit.

That's so far from God's concept of fruit. Actually, bearing fruit has more to do with what we're becoming than what we're doing. All are going to be many, many doing great works. They're going to be casting out devils, going to be healing the sick and doing great works.

And they're going to come before the Lord and they're not even going to know this. There's such deception set in. They're so blind. Their eyes are smeared. They don't even know that they're living in corruption.

And the Lord's going to say, I don't even know you. I don't even know you. How is that possible to cast out the devil, heal the sick and do all these things? And God doesn't even know what he's saying.

I don't acknowledge you. I don't acknowledge you. You've been cut off the vine. You're cut off the vine. I was at a some of you heard a message driven to darkness. I was at a I was invited by this so-called Christian rock singer.

The Christian Rock Concert and the Need for Discernment

And I love the boy. Brother Phyllis has been ministering to him and counseling him. And he's been trying for two years to come to my office and talk. I said, OK, come. And he came a few weeks ago. And you've got to come to my concert tonight.

And I said, look, I'm tired. I made my statement. I'm going to New York. I don't want to be a part of that anymore. I made my statement. And but he pressed. So I went that night and I listened to two or three devotional songs and they sounded so good.

And he sounded so sweet. It sounded the words were just right. They were right. And I said, Lord, I must be an old fogey. This may be God. You're doing something. There's rock and roll. And you might be doing something odd to get up and apologize.

Lord, just be still, because if there's leaven in it, there's evil. It'll always show itself. You can be sure of that, brother, sister, if there's any evil in a church, it'll come out. If it's in the pulpit, it'll be exposed.

It's being exposed on national television right now. It'll be exposed. God is patient. He'll go a long time and then finally he brings it all out. Nothing is hidden from the eyes of him with whom we have to do.

Brother, sister, if you can believe anything, you can believe your sins are going to find you out. Yes, they are. Nobody can hide it. And so all of a sudden I sat there and they turned up the speakers and started the smoke machines and and they started singing.

It was supposed to be a song about the coming of the Lord. He's going to open the skies and he's going to come down. And and I couldn't understand the words, but I couldn't believe what I was seeing on stage.

It was so incredibly evil that I was standing on top of the hill, about three thousand young people. And I, the Holy Spirit just slew me. I fell to the ground and I got up and I looked the stage. I saw demonic spirits just emitting everywhere.

And I was going to run to my car. I was I was said, Lord, I don't want to be near this. Instead, the Holy Spirit directly. I ran through the crowd, knocking over chairs and yelling, Ichabod, Ichabod. That means the glory of the Lord's departed.

And nobody's listening. They laugh. They thought I was a fool fanatic. Nobody knew who I was till the next day. But, you know, I got it yesterday. I got a magazine from this young man and I went through it.

And first 10 pages sound so beautiful as much of Jesus. But then suddenly there's a whole page of something right out of the pits of hell. And it's that mixture. It's that mixture. And if you don't have discernment, if you're not sitting with God, knowing his grief and knowing his heart, how do you discern it?

Going to be many, many coming. We've done these works. We've cast out devils. We've we've played the multitudes. We've had the Aldersville. By the way, God never judges anything by how many people at the altar.

He judges everything by its crystal clearness. That city that comes out of heaven prepared and adorned as a bride was crystal clear. He judges everything by its clearness. There's any mixture in it. God won't touch it.

Abiding in Christ Through the Cleansing Word

I am bearing fruit when there's nothing hindering the flow of the life of Jesus Christ, because I'm connected to the vine and I have to draw because I'm a free moral agent. I have to draw. Now, I differ from some of the old time preachers and writers who said, you can't do anything but sit there and you can't draw.

You're just passive. And that will fall on the fact that you're there. We are free moral agents. We have to draw on that life. How is it that you can say that you can bear fruit? You can stay in that vine, even though there's all kinds of blockage, even though there's death and there's sin and there's corruption blocking that life flow.

How can you say that you're still bearing fruit? No, in what the Lord is saying here, now you're clean to the word. Look at verse three. Now you're clean. Go back to John. Keep keep John 15. I'm going to keep coming back and we're going to keep pounding on this.

I hope you didn't come for 15 minutes or a minute. If you come here, you come to hear the word. Look, look, look at that. Verse three. Now you are clean, that means pruned through the word which I have spoken unto you.

You know, there's some people have the idea that when the Lord prunes you, he comes down and he's going to kill somebody in your family. Are he going to he has a knife to go smite you down? There's no he's talking about the real knife of God.

Is this living word? This is the two edged sword. This is the pruning knife. How can you be pruned if you're not in it and don't know it and don't love it? This is what prunes. If you're walking in the spirit, you've made up your mind before a holy God that you're going to line up your life to this word.

How do you do that? Sit and watching Dynasty in Dallas. You know, you know what you know, it gets me bothers me. They did it up in Toronto in front of thousands of people, you know, they joke about it.

The pastors will introduce me and it's all in fact, the way they introduced me that everybody will be singing in class and everything. And I'll say, well, brother, they come. We got to get serious. And I got upset.

I didn't know I was a wet blanket. And they do that almost every time you preach prophetically, you preach against sin. There's this sense. Well, that's his role. We got to have somebody playing that role.

So whether they come and play a role, come and scream against television, come and do your legalistic trip. And I'll tell you, the church is the height of apostasy when it calls obedience, legalism, no, no, no clapping, please.

You know, we are so we are so hung up on this terrible word works. We're so afraid of works. We won't obey. We're so afraid of legalism. Well, we're almost every time a preacher comes now and says, hey, here's what Jesus says, line up and a holy ghost comes and makes it clear.

Some of you remember in your early Pentecostal days. You know, when I first came to New York City, only the only people would would support me outside of Glad Tidings Tabernacle and a few other were the Spanish, the Latin people.

And in those days, many of them were preaching about makeup and, you know, holiness was not wearing trousers for women and not wearing earrings or lipstick and so forth. I still don't like to see women dressed as prostitutes.

You know, I mean, so that's what it almost looks like. You go down here and you can see that. But, you know, there's a tendency. I've seen it in the Latin churches here. And I love every Spanish brotherhood, but some of you dear folks that are here in New York City, you so rebelled against that you went the other way.

You have a tendency to say, I don't want to hear that kind of preaching anymore. And you went the other way. But there is a preaching that God is raising up in the land now because God's getting a holy remnant together, getting ready for the coming of the Lord.

And he's bringing forth a strong word so that will not be parked in front of our television sets, wasting our time when Jesus come getting rid of that or not sitting there. That didn't make you holy. That's not meritorious.

But it removes the barriers so the light can flow through the vine, through the branch. It's removing the idols so the life of Christ can flow. You can say amen all you want. Hey, Don, I used to work with Catherine Coleman, a member of the Great Healing.

Anybody remember Catherine Coleman? And one of her service, she got the people wanted to express themselves so much. She wanted to preach so bad and she gave people American flags away. And I don't care if you just don't clap it if you want to say amen, say amen all you want.

We're not putting any bondage on that. But my point is now the reason we refuse to be a part of the drinking, the entertainment thing here, the disco, all of these things that people are going to now.

Even Christians all over the country flocking, trading wine list. And the big thing now is going to nightclubs for Christians in California. That's the big thing among Pentecostals. And usually they go to follow their Christian rock group who's there.

That's very, very, very true. But the reason is not say, well, we don't do this. We don't that because necessarily we're saying this is our standard. We're saying that you have got to remove everything that hinders the life, the flow of life, because life ministers life.

And I want to minister to life, to others. And if I have death in me, I minister death and I want to remove the barriers. Hallelujah. You say, well, all this abstinence and all this talk about separation, aren't you getting away from righteousness by faith?

Isn't all our righteousness is filthy rags? Yes, the Bible makes it very true as a branch cannot bear fruit of itself, except it abide in the vine. No more can you except you abide in me. But here's the problem.

There are thousands of preachers who are lying to their people about this idea of abiding in Christ. Well, a lot of Christians are going to those who think they're Christians are going to be damned because they have been misled on this, this idea of abiding in Jesus Christ.

He said, if you look, look at verse 10, chapter 15, verse 10. If you you see a big if there in your Bible, is that in yours or just in mine? I don't I don't have a special edition. Come on now, is that there?

Verse 10, what's the first word you read? If you keep my commandments, you shall abide. Is that it? If you keep my commandments, I'm not talking about the law, I'm talking about these commandments of the Lord Jesus Christ to you and I.

And by the way, I hear people say, well, I'm not under I don't have to keep the commandments. Well, which one do you break? I mean, which one aren't you keeping the one about not having another wife or taking God's name in vain?

Are you murdering? What is it? Which one are you breaking? How much liberty you have, which one? Tell me which one you're breaking. You say I don't keep the law. I do. I'm not saved by it, but I keep it.