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Chapter 1: What is the main message of the series 'Fruit That Remains'?
Have a seat, beloved. In the presence of the Lord. Yeah. We've been having a good time all day today. Know what I love about this good time? If you've ever been in the world, there were always side effects to their good time. Now we can come and have a party in the Lord and it's edifying to the soul and spirit. No side effects. No side effects. We have good fun in the Lord. Yes, ma'am.
Good Holy Ghost fun. No shame, no condemnation, no bondage. Freedom. Edification. Increased knowledge of the Lord Jesus Christ. That is our portion. Amen, beloved. Amen. Welcome to 2019 church. Beloved, my name is Eric Hayes. I'm one of the elders here. Thank you. God bless you. God bless you. I love you. Amen. We are a church that is absolutely a house of prayer, presence, and proclamation.
I want to welcome our online community, the digital disciples, those that may actually have traveled in. We get at least a couple of you guys that are in the building. Those that are driving us or actually joining us across the chat.
during the live stream we want to welcome you and last but not least we definitely want to welcome the unbeliever in the building oh yeah clap it up why do y'all make a fuss about the unbeliever because the gospel is about the unbeliever and God himself is concerned about the unbeliever so much so that he sent his son to die on a raggedy rugged cross for the sins of the unbeliever
Check this out. Even those who won't believe, he still paid the price. Who wouldn't serve a God like that? This is a place you could absolutely belong before you believe, and we welcome you. All right, this is the time that we customarily give honor to the pastor of this ecclesia, Philip Anthony Mitchell. No pressure, beloved. Just want to give you the opportunity.
If that's in your heart, give the opportunity to share that. Amen. For the scriptures say we should give honor to whom it is due. And I believe if you continue to fight your flesh and bow before the Lord Jesus Christ and steward a revival and love your wife and each one of your children and wring your own sin out and pursue holiness and purity over decades. Over decades. Over decades.
I believe that is to be honored. So I want to honor him there. As a church today, we're starting a brand new sermon series titled Fruit That Remains. Fruit That Remains. We walk through all of Matthew over three plus years.
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Chapter 2: How does Elder Arik Hayes define honor in relation to feelings?
We walk through the first two chapters in Acts. And this summer we'll be discussing virtues that we think are biblical to expect to see in the lives of believers that walk hand in hand with the Lord. And I've been given the assignment and the privilege to deliver the first message of said series today. And it's been titled Authentic Weight. Authentic Weight.
Please allow me to pray for us one more time as we dive into the word of God. Holy Father, we've seen outpourings all day. And God, we already thank you for what you've done in worship. As we transition to the word, we still want to see your glory. Still want to see your grace, God. Help us align with what you said in your word. Help us be malleable, God, and not be stiff-necked people.
That we would hear your word and align by the power and privilege of the Holy Ghost living on the inside of us. Right, God? I want to finish this assignment in faithfulness, God. and purpose, for you love your children that are listening now, those that are live here, and those that are streaming. Have your way in me, God.
I seek to decrease that you would increase in this moment, that you would continue to have your way. You've already started. We ask that you continue. It's in Jesus' name we pray. Amen and amen. You mind hanging out with me, Frank? I appreciate you, family. Thank you. If I'm honest, and I believe I can talk to you like we family, I usually do. Is that all right? All right.
This is easily one of the most difficult preaching assignments I've ever had. Right? I've been preaching, I think, probably in an official sense at this church before when it was Victory Church ATL. I think it was like sometime in like 2008. Maybe 17. And this is tough because it's actually easier to talk about what this value or Christian ethic is not.
It's easier to look at the opposite or the antonym because it's much more prevalent in the world and unfortunately the church. Right? Let's discuss it together. Let's reason together. You let me know if it's true. It's easier to see the degradation of people people being degraded. It's easier to see disobedience. It says in the last days, children will be disobedient to their parents.
Have you seen that or have you not? It's easier to see numerous examples of disgrace. Disgrace. And in the world, in politics, state, federal, local, and even in the church, it's easier to see corruption. And it's by a long shot, beloved. Like, it's not even close. Like, you scrolled, you looked on every screen in your house, on your phone, your tablet, or your TV.
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Chapter 3: What biblical references support the concept of honor?
You see, just turn on the news. Look at any news outlet. It's easier to see those things. Those strings are coming in by the billionths. And it makes it harder to come up with an example of the thing we're actually going to discuss. And what we're going to discuss today, this Christian ethic is called honor. See, just like there was a murmur. You felt exactly how I felt.
I was like, I can barely come up with something where universally I'm gonna say, hey guys, this is what honor is. You've heard me preach a couple times. I come, I'll give a good illustration where I can liken it to, I'll say similarly, and then I'll say here's the natural and here's the spiritual. I am struggling with the natural here. Struggling. There's a couple reasons that's the case.
We in the West have thrown out the culture of honor and adopted the culture wholeheartedly of individualism. Let me say it a little further. So we balk and scoff at the general disposition of honor like that doesn't apply to us because we want to give precedence to how we feel about person, place, or thing in the moment. What does that look like, right?
We just don't want to say, I'm going to honor. We want to give an opening. So if we don't like it, we don't approve. You don't do what we want. You hurt my feelings. We want to be in our flesh instead of the spirit as if we really have a choice, as if we have not been bought with a price. And we want to give the opening so I'll honor when I feel like it.
I told the first experience, man, I was actually fighting with my wife this week. Don't get quiet, man. Y'all fight with your boyfriend, girlfriend? You fight with your wife? Look at me like that. We know you fight. I do counseling sessions. I know they fight. And I'm not above it, right?
Anytime you have two people in a marriage covenant, because he awakens things that are not going to be awakened just in dating. It's another level. Married people in the building? It's another level. And we were discussing things, because I would love to tell you, you're going to be able to discuss something one time in your marriage, and it's going to be over. You hear the chuckle?
That would be a lie. So we were having a conversation that we've actually been talking about for years, right? And I was upset, right? And then we stopped talking, and then my wife was just like, this thing, this one made me mad. She actually calmed down before I did. Right? So here she is being all sweet. Talking about, he said, go ahead, Nia. Okay, gotcha. Gotcha.
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Chapter 4: How does individualism affect our understanding of honor?
Right? So now she's like, now she got a sweet voice. Hey, baby, can we please just talk? I'm like, no, I don't want to talk. Can you at least hear what I'm, no, I don't want to talk. I don't want to talk. I'm going to talk. I'm talked out. I'm talked out. No, I don't want to talk. No, I don't want to talk. Don't feel like talking. Anybody ever been there? Didn't want to talk.
But we just finished our spring cohort of one accord for those that came through. So that means I was just exposed to the blueprint of marriage. And something in my soul, I would call it the Holy Ghost, crept up from right here. It was not my idea. And it came up like the Holy Ghost does. And he said, you need to honor her. See, you're yelling amen because you didn't have to do it. Amen.
You don't always amen when God tell you to be obedient. Do you? I got toddlers. I understand when my toddlers, they throw a tantrum. I be doing the same thing. I just don't do it out loud. You need to honor her. So I called her. I didn't try to act like I was all holy. Hello, my love. Co-heir of the grace of this life. Didn't do that. I asked her. I think I said something like, what's up?
And the conversation didn't go amazing either. Right? But I had a choice to make. It's a choice all of us have to do in the West. Excuse me, all over the world, but we're really bad at this in the West because we don't honor. We choose to honor our feelings. We wake up in the morning, and functionally what we do is we bow at the altar of our feelings. Say, feelings. Feelings.
Should I go left or right? Right. Should I forgive or hold a grudge? Should I walk in my spirit or walk in the flesh? Feelings, oh feelings.
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Chapter 5: What does it mean to honor God according to Psalm 100:3?
Singing worship songs to your feelings. The God of your heart. Idolatry, even when you put yourself on the throne. As we jump into honor. Honor must first is best. When you start out by saying, this is going to be the disposition of my heart, regardless of how I feel. When you choose ahead of time to honor, I'm going to honor my spouse. I'm going to honor my children. I'm going to honor my boss.
I'm going to honor authority. I'm going to honor the pastor. I'm going to honor that elder. I'm going to honor the ministry leader. I'm going to honor the bus driver. Because if we wait until our feelings give a thumbs up, we will not have an honorable life. And beloved, as believers, honor is our portion. Another tidbit. We cannot separate. We cannot divorce honoring God and honoring his word.
Cannot. Honor God. Last time you looked at his word. Last time you consulted him. Last time you prayed to ask his opinion before you make the move instead of God bless this mess. Bibles are some of the dustiest books in houses. Even Bible apps are some of the most unused. If you got an Apple, I don't know what they do on the other one, but if you got up there, that wasn't even a shot.
I'm going to get back to the word of God. I literally don't know because I ain't got one, right? I don't know what they do on other platforms, but it'll tell you how long you've been dealing with the app. You'd be like a productivity calculation. Go look. Pop it up now. See how long you've been on the Bible app compared to the other ones. You can't divorce it, man. This is the thing.
If you heard me preach for five minutes, I'm always talking about my children. I love them, but the reality is God teaches me through my children. What the Lord has given me as a parent, as a father, as a girl dad, as a boy dad, like he's always presenting opportunities to teach me, right? And I got boy-girl fraternal twins. They just turned three, May 14th, right? Amen. We almost out the woods.
I said, when they turn four, some of this gray will stop pumping in, all right? This is what I think, okay? Right. And my son, I noticed about December, we were actually in Columbus, Ohio, my in-laws there. And I noticed this boy had gone a little rogue. Like he's just he's like all boy, like he want to jump, he want to flip, he want to slide down.
Like he just he just he just wants to even when he hugs you, it's a little aggressive.
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Chapter 6: How can we differentiate between true and false honor?
Like he's wrestling and hugging you at the same time. Like he's all boy. Right. And we don't want to take that out of him. We just want to shape it. That's his thing where they're saying there's nothing, there's no difference between the genders. I think that's a lie from hell.
You just want boys to sit down between the ages of one and five, crisscross applesauce for 10 hours a day, and they've actually had, little boys actually have surges of testosterone at three years old. Why won't he sit down? He has testosterone running through his veins. Go take him out and let him go down the slide 50 times. Then he'll be more apt.
It's not going to be perfect to sit down because he's actually burning off energy. Right. But I noticed him. I'm like, he's a little rogue. And this is how I know he's a little rogue. He would look at me in the face. I mean, in the face. He would do this. The funny thing, he looks just like me. He would just look me in the face and I'll say I'm over there. I will call him to be over there.
He would do this. This I know he knew what was going on, right? I would say, I would call his name, call his name, call his name, call his name. Then I got wise. I said, you need to move on this boy. So then I shortened all that calling his name. I would call his name like once or twice that I would get up. And I found that when I got up, all of a sudden he became more obedient.
All of a sudden he understood the king's English. And I love them and I hug my children. I tell them I love a man and I kiss a man and I also are chasing them because I love them. The same way with your heavenly father. He is love, patience, goodness, grace, and also discipline. That's called a good father.
But as we were dealing with this, we started to walk things back, and it's gotten considerably better over the last four or five months because we were intentional. But I remember just wrestling. So there's love and there's grace. I love a man. I kiss him and I hug him when we play. But something like when he was just being rebellious, I'm like, hey, boy, I made you.
For you to look at me in my face, understand what I'm saying, and just go the other way with all your two-year-old wisdom. Who do you think you are? Give me Psalms 100. Psalms 100 verse 3 reads as such. I'm going to take my time here. Can I take my time, beloved? All right.
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Chapter 7: What are the consequences of dishonor in our lives?
All right. Because I think this is a good little point right here. It says, know that the Lord, he is God. Why do I read it like that? That's not a period.
Period.
That's an exclamation. Sometimes some of our trouble would go away if we just recognize that he is God. You need to know who you're dealing with. I'll continue. It says, it is he who made us and we are his. We are his people. and the sheep of his pasture. I think this is pregnant with a couple of things because it's really being redundant there.
It is he who made us, we are his, we are his people, and the sheep of his pasture. Almost like when Christ in the New Testament says, like, truly, truly, and verily, verily, I say unto you. I love the King James Version. It says, it is he who has made us, not we ourselves. Who do we think we are?
looking at the command of the living God, not the dead one, right in the face of the scriptures, closing it and say, I have a better idea. Can I tell you something, beloved? I used to think that rebellion was very loud. I had to learn, my sister. I thought it was very loud. I thought rebellion looked like this. I ain't doing that, God. I ain't doing all that.
Nah, man, I ain't doing it like that. No, I'm going to do my own way. All of us would label that rebellion, wouldn't we? But you know what's the more common sign of rebellion? It looks more like this. Nah, I'm good. Check me out. You don't even have to say it out loud. A lot of us just say it in our hearts. It looks like this, it looks and sounds like this. You know what that's called, rebellion.
Look at me. I'm going to save you. I'm going to save you. It's called rebellion. It just looks sweet on the outside. And because many of us don't live with the honor to God that we should, our lives are a mess. Honor is protection. You know who I've seen that from? This is my second time calling her out. Mrs. Jackson, Rhonda Jackson on the prayer team.
You hardly ever see her on stage, but you know what, man? She lives an honorable life.
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Chapter 8: How can we cultivate a culture of honor in our communities?
She is real big on, what do my leaders say? What do they say? What do they want me to do? She can have an idea. If she hears something that her leaders say opposite, it's done. It's done. I've never heard her arguing her way with a leader. She may, not even all the time, she may submit her input and we welcome it. But she just lives an honorable life. Clap it up. And I've known her for some time.
She's actually had gifts, I believe, as a result of her being honorable. Right? But some of us want the favor, but we don't kill our flesh. That was so funny. Sister, I'm going to scratch your head. I don't know if that was really an itch or if that was conviction. Right? But all of us scratch our head like, yeah, we want the favor of man, but do we want to live the submitted life?
Do we want to live the honorable life?
Live the quiet life?
And we all have choices to make, beloved. Just like I did with my wife. I had a choice to make. I heard that from the Holy Ghost through my soul. How often do we brush it off? We brush it off and then sometimes we run into things and we shake our fist at God. Where he has given us in many ways through the word of God or a rhema or leaders.
input into our lives and we have been rebellious and dishonorable and now we have calamity. And it's not God's will. Some things you're going through, it's just a test from God. Some stuff you're going through is because you're walking in your flesh and you're in rebellion. You've chosen your own way. And we've been purchased by the precious blood in Emmanuel's veins.
And dishonor should not be our portion. Give me Malachi 1, 6 through 8. This is actually, this is inserted because our pastor thought it'd be a good idea to teach us right here. So that's what we're doing. All right. Now, everybody who talks about Malachi, you think of like tithes and offerings. Set that to the side. All right? Look at the heart of the father here. This God speaking.
Verse 6, Malachi 1, 6 through 8. A son honors his father and a servant his master. If then I am a father, where is my honor? And if I am a master and he is, where is my fear? Says the Lord of hosts to you, oh priests who despise my name. But you say, you priests, how have we despised your name? By offering polluted food upon my altar. But you say, how have we polluted you?
By saying that the Lord's table may be despised, that you allow it to be despised. When you offer blind animals food, sacrifice is that not evil and when you offer those that are lame or sick is that not evil present that to your governor will he accept you or show you favor says the Lord of hosts look at me if anybody knew the type of sacrifice that God required it was the priests
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