Fruitful Barn // Grace Space // Sharnita Gates

Blessings everyone and welcome back to The Grace Space where we are being fruitful and multiplying. I have a little voice today, so I'm excited about that. And I'm excited about the growth. I'm excited. I'm happy for everyone who's been coming in. Getting that sufficient grace as we continue to grow, growing and putting God first, and, uh, understanding our responsibility based off our unique assignments, being obedient, and growing in wisdom and in stature and in favor with God and all men. So grab your Bibles, grab your colors, And your canvases of your heart. I got a new canvas today, y'all. It's not new, but it's, it's, it's different from the one that we usually use here in the Great Space. But, and I kind of want to kind of— I can't wait to just go through all this. Look, implementation, to be able to create the future, and you know, the ingredients. And so I'm ready to cook. I'm about to cook. Okay, let's, let's get our Bibles open. We started in Matthew on— no, sorry, Mark. We started on Mark on yesterday, so we finished up Luke, we touched on Matthew. We've touched on the story of well, the parable of the sower. And today, I wanna we're going to oh, so we are going to Matthew today. Sweet. I knew it was Matthew because he he was talking about the um the wheat and the The wheat and the weeds. So let's, let's talk about the wheat and the weed. Now, if you, if you had— if you did not get a chance to jump into our challenge on yesterday where we're connecting for faith, so we're connecting the 4 pillars that we have: the users, the businesses, the consumers, and technology. We're, we're still bridging that gap. and filling that gap. And so we had our challenge on yesterday, whereas don't take the L, don't take the L. So there's, there's lies that are not a part of God's word. So we're still taking the L out of the world and coming back with the word. So our challenge yesterday was to not take the L, but you have to know the truth first. And that's why I said when you know the truth, the truth will set you free. So how do you— how you know the truth? You got to get to know the truth in all you're getting. Get an understanding. And when you gain understanding, you're able to get clarity. And that's what we're going into— clarity into simplicity. So we want to gain as much clarity as we can until we get to that place of simplicity, to where when we see an L, we don't take it. We, we know the truth. We know the truth first and not do it in the, in the wrong order. So that's why we're really focusing on order matters. Order, order matters. So connect for faith. So connect for faith, that was a challenge. Don't take the L, okay? And so coming back with that word, and this is our study space, so I'm excited about our, our studying on today. And the reason why I switched over the canvas— sometimes, um, you gotta write things out. And I was, I was in study yesterday, and I want to kind of go through just, just for our understanding. And all you're getting is understanding, and I don't want to say this wrong, so I'ma, I'ma pull it up. But just talking about the different approaches to how you can like learn things logically, emotionally, and practically. So I want to give the— go through the terms because I think these terms will really help us as we grow spiritually and better spiritually. And I want to take some time out to really mature in that area. And so the 3— so the 3 areas are pathos. Pathos refers to the emotional appeal of speech. The emotional appeal of speech. So pathos, so when you use Pathos, it's about creating an emotional connection with the audience and invoking a particular feeling or response. So the emotional appeal. So I would, I would ask, how, how are you appealing emotionally, Sharnita, in this space? Um, how— I think I would ask you guys Drop it in, drop it in the comments, drop it in the comments. Let's, let's, let me know how you are, um, how you feel like you appeal when you speak. And I'm, for me, I eager to emotionally, like, like eager to really get understanding, um, especially in this space. I think emotionally I come with— I try clear mind, so you— it probably come off like there's nothing there because I want to be in, you know, filled. Um, so even if I am filled, I'm still coming in with letting it overflow. Overflow. In my soul, in my mind overflow. Um, so that's what my you know. So it might be full. Yeah, everybody is full of something. And out of the abundance of the heart, the mouth speaks. So whatever you fully understand, you're going to speak it. And so with this, really when it comes to like. Studying and speaking on today, I wanted to touch on those because really I want everyone, just like I'm getting an understanding when it comes to speaking and reading and listening— those are the 3 main skills. Like, you, you asked me, the skills that we are building up in this gray space is speaking, listening, and reading. So when we're doing our reflection, when we're doing our devotion, when we're doing our strategy and approach We are— when we do our reflection, we're reflecting on what we're speaking, we're reflecting on what we're listening to, and we're reflecting on what we're reading. So all 3 of those are skills that we are building up here in the gray space. And so a lot of times I'll bring in some, some skill— well, some, some instructions or some knowledge or, you know, some understanding of some of those things that will help us build up on those skills so that as we go through this grace space and we go through the word, we're not just going through the word without building up how to speak the word. We're not just going through the word and not understanding how to speak the word or read the word. We, we are really studying ourselves to be approved so we can really do the work that God has called us to do and And that's your unique assignment. Everyone has their unique assignment, and I pray as we go through and write it on the canvas of our heart, the vision becomes clear. That's why we say clarity into simplicity. So those three terms, I'm gonna write it down. Pathos. That's why I said today I really switched over the canvas. Because this canvas is not blank, it has lines. So for me to kind of write out some of the things that really want to incorporate in my life daily as we do these daily reflections. So pathos, emotional appeal, and this is speaking when it comes to speaking. You have the emotional appeal, and then you have Legos, and that's the logical, logical appeal. So how are you appealing when you speak? Are you speak— are you speaking from a logical approach? So for here in this space, I would say it's more— it's not really emotional, um, appeal, it's more of a logical, um, and ethical. So that's ethos. So you have the emotional appeal The logical appeal, and you have the ethical appeal when you're speaking. And so that's where we're just gonna take that today as we go through our reflection, our strategy, and our approach. And let's get into the word. Now our word is we're going back to Matthew. So let me open up a Bible. Let's open up a Bible. To Matthew 13, and so we get to go back to our commitment, which was being fruitful and multiplying and multiplying the word of God. So we've identified the farmer is God. He is the one who plants the seed. God is always speaking, and then you have the command that he. He is love. There's no law against the Spirit of God. His his spirit is full of love, joy, peace, patience, faithfulness, gentleness, kindness, self-control—all the fruits of the Spirit. That is all of God. So he's the farmer that is planting seeds of love, joy, all those, and there's no law you can. He's he's he he he's so loved. Us that he gave us his Son who is the vine, so we can stay connected to the vine who is Jesus Christ, um, the, the, the precious Lamb of God, um, and so we can stay connected to him. And if we abide in him and he abide in us, we will bear much fruit because we're now Following Christ and becoming a workman approved unto God. No matter what we, what we face in life, no matter what we go through, he went through it. He died for us. So now that, that part of that vine, we are the branches. So because, like we was talking about, as when a wheat seed falls to the ground, unless a wheat seed falls to the ground and die, it can bear no fruit. So So the when you talk about the wheat of Christ and Him dying for us, so we can bear much you know bear much fruit as He bear much fruit. That is that's what we're we're going into today, and we're going to talk more about the wheat and the tare. Um well the wheat and the weeds. You know what I'm talking about? So let's go ahead and get to Matthew. And so there are 4 gospels and 1 history book. So when you say Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John, the 4, the 4 gospels, and then you have Acts, which is the history, which tells the history. But we're also going to be learning some, you know, um, diving into some of the— what, what dispensation? I'm, I'm gonna put a, um I want to get a, a good definition of this rightfully dividing the truth. So we're going to be also rightfully dividing the truth. So you have the Old Testament and you have the New Testament. Those The truth, the word about Christ, the beginning. He was in the beginning from Genesis all the way to Revelation. So he's the first, the last, the beginning, the end, the Alpha and the Omega. And so we are going to still in this gray space as we continue to grow, we're going to incorporate some dispensation. And I just want to get a, a definition for dispensation. Exemption from a rule or usual requirement. A system of order. We're gonna just— just a system of order. We're just going to keep it with that because like I said, order matters, and we're going from clarity to simplicity. So a system of order. So we You hear dispensation, it's a system of order. So to be a system of order, to rightfully dividing the truth. So knowing the, the system of order is the New Testament. In the Old Testament, I put— I did put Old Testament first. So when you— for me, the first shall be last and the last shall be first. So for my— when it comes to my brain, I'm the— whatever I hear last is what I write first. And then the first, should I write what was first last? Ask me. I don't know why, but it just happens that way. So if you give me your first and last name, I'm gonna probably write your last name first and then come back and ask you what's your first name and then put your first name before your last name. Um, you know, that's why I love when, um, Dr. D be like Life is lived for, but understood backwards. Yes, especially in my case. I understand it backwards. Now going forward, I trust in the Lord with all my heart. How to trust in the Lord with all your heart, lean not to your own understanding. I mean, I can say say that. Is this true, you guys? Do not lean to your own understanding. That is why I love this gray space, because we're getting it. It's sufficient enough for us to be able to, to trust in the Lord with all our heart, no matter, you know. And I like that we went through Luke and how he's talking about, you know, how Jesus started at the wayside. And, uh, you know, and speaking on the parable of the sower, how we start at the wayside, and when we're starting to go And we're starting to receive the word of God. You have so many things that's just sitting there waiting in the sayings that is not in accordance with the word of God. And so you just have to believe, continue to believe. I believe God. I believe God. I believe God. I believe God. And I believe with the word of Christ. I believe when he speaks, he is speaking the word of God. And it says Yes. And say I can trust in the Lord, the word. I can trust in every word, that every scripture, um, and really not lean to my own understanding because I was, I was born in the world. So if I was born in the world and I'm, I'm trying to take the L out of the world and come back with the word, I have to trust in the word to, like we said, rightfully divide the truth and know Okay, this is in the Old Testament. This is the New Testament. Where are we at now? Where we at now? God will speak. Trust in the Lord. We're not— I can say, oh, we, we're, we're in Genesis, and God's like, well, today, my, my, you know, it's a new day. Yesterday, you know, you might have had to start back With Genesis and remember when I said let there be light. But today you might need to remember that what I said in Revelation 6:6, and so we can really see eye to eye. Yes, that was— I think that was for me. Yes, Revelation 6:6. But that's good, so now we can jump back in. I'm happy that it came to me because Revelation 6:6, it really expounds on, oh, on wheat and barley. And today we're going through wheat and we're talking about wheat and weed, so we can kind of really study to see eye to eye where God has— because he is— he know the plans that he has for us. And so today let's God, let your will be done. Continue to guide and guard us, uh, guard our hearts with your word, Lord. Let your word, um, go in our, you know, go in our ears. Let us have an ear to hear your word on today, Lord, and guide our feet. We put on our full armor. We thank you for the salvation and, um, for the saving grace We thank you for the abundance of your word as a shield, and, and our— you are our security. So we trust in you. You are our shield and our refuge. And so we give it all over to you today, Lord, as you continue to speak through us as we dive into Matthew 13. And this, we're actually going to the end in 24 and 30. Amen. The 24th and through 30th verse, and this one is another one about the kingdom of heaven. So we we hear as we going through, we're gaining clarity of the difference between the kingdom of God and the kingdom of heaven. So. This one is talking about the kingdom of heaven, and this is another parable. So he who has an ear, let him hear. So it's likened unto a man which sowed good seed in his field. So let's think about the kingdom of heaven, and Jesus is speaking to a multitude of individuals. And now you have the kingdom of God, which is the secrets that God reveals. That's so good. The mysteries that only God can reveal. Like even when he said to Peter, Um, when he said, who do men say I am? And Peter said, you are, uh, the Christ, you are Jesus Christ. And he said, yes, he— and he, he knew that God revealed that to him. Only God can reveal the mysteries of the kingdom of God. For the kingdom of heaven, this is the mysteries that Jesus is sharing With us. And so he is sharing what he's speaking is this, likened unto a man who sowed good seed in his field, but while men slept, his enemy came and sowed tares among the wheat. So just think about, even as Jesus is going forth and preaching and teaching and sowing the seed and speaking about the kingdom of God, um, there's still an enemy that comes and sows the weeds or the tares along with the wheat. So Jesus is going and speaking and sharing the word of God, but then you have another Going, which is the enemy going and sharing the word about something else. I don't know what, but he just said among the wheat and and went his way. So you just in his way. So just think that's that's how. I just want to make sure we we still have. We'll wait till the next notification. But while man slept, his enemy came and sowed tares among the wheat and went his way. But when the blade was sprung up and brought forth fruit— so now this is harvest. So now the— it's very fruit, you know, the har— the seeds have been planted, there's harvest, there's, you know, much, uh, fruit that's now starting to show. That's the only time that you actually start to see the weeds. The weeds also starts to show during the harvest. You like, I planted, I planted the word, but now it's other things that's starting to come up. So the servants of the householder came and said unto him, sir, didst not thou sow good seed in thy field? From whence then have it tares? He said unto them, an enemy hath done this. The servants said unto him, wilt thou then that we go and gather them up? So now you have the— it's starting to spring up, you're starting to see that it's, it's wheat, and you know There's tares. So I would say the tares, when we think about a wheat seed and we're talking about Jesus, the Son of Man, and you're starting to see more of the word of God being shared, you're starting to hear more of the word, but then you're starting to see that there's some, some things that's coming in that It's not necessarily the word. And so as you, as a servant, you're like, go— you go to the master and like, I see this, what shall we do? And you know, should we— they, they ask, should we go and gather them up? And this is why they're still growing. But he said unto them, an enemy has done this. The servant said, um, wilt thou then that we go and gather them up? He said, no, lest while we gather up the tares you root up also the wheat with them. So if you were at this time when things are starting to sprout up and grow, and you're starting to see it. If you try to go in and, and gather up the, the wheat and the tare— just the wheat, he said— you might— I mean, or the tares, or, or the weeds— you might also uproot some of the things that are good, you know, growing up and are wheat, you know, things that are producing fruit. So you don't want to damage the fruit by trying to take out the wheat— I mean, the weeds— too early. So we're focused— this is the difference between when you have wheat and weeds. So the— what's sown is by the man who sowed good seed. So you have good seed Which is the wheat, and then you that, and you have the tares, the weeds. So you know what? This makes me kind of want to know how it's like though the vision may. Tarry. Linger in expectation. That's so that wait. So a little bit, you have something that wait. So this one brought forth fruit. Okay, so what I'm doing is just getting an understanding of tear and tearing to make sure that although that tearing means wait or abide or To linger. When we're talking about tears, we're talking about weeds, and we're talking about things that are hard. When we say tears, we're not talking about like waiting, tearing. We're talking about Terre with an E at the end, which means it to be like harmful or infectious. So I'm trying to think of a word. So you, for like fruit, you have parasites. Parasite. You have parasites. What else? I mean, you just— it doesn't necessarily resemble the fruit. So it's like a fossil. Is that a counterfeit? Counterfeit fruit? Let's go with counterfeit. So you, you ever seen— you ever planted a, uh, planted something and it started to sprout up and you see green and you think that green, okay, this is the, the watermelon I planted, but then as time starts to go, you, you see it was It grew into nothing. That is the tares. Now we have a better understanding of the tares, the weeds. It turns into something that is not— it doesn't produce the fruit from the good seed, from our good God, which is love. It doesn't produce that. It doesn't produce love. It doesn't produce joy, peace, patience. It doesn't. It has no, no, no fruitful So fruit, fruitless. So you have fruitful, the good seed, wheat fruitful, the weeds, the tares fruitless. Okay, so now we have understanding of that, we can go into— and this is, mind you, this is when the fruitless, the counterfeit, the The tares, the weeds, those are planted while the men are asleep. So you have, you have servants like of God. Like think about Christ when he was asleep, you know, we hear that a lot of, you know, he here, he sleep a lot, he was always asleep. But, uh, but the enemy, like when if Jesus wasn't there, then you had No one really who was really speaking the word of God. Um, so we need to really speak the word of God. We need to be fruitful. We need to do things in love. We need to do things joyfully and peacefully with patience. And I'm saying it over and over. Um, so the fruitless— he said let both grow. We're in verse 30 now. Let both grow together. So the fruitful and the fruitless, they grow together. Until the harvest. I will say to the reapers, gather ye together first the tares. So the fruitless first you gather together. And bind them in bundles to burn them. But gather the wheat into the barn. Amen. Now, I, I noticed that you said together. And the fruitless gather together in bundles and burn, but the gather— the fruitful— he just said gather. I'm gonna say gather together, but just gather. Gather one by one and take it into the barn, and that's the shelter of The, the man which sowed good seed in his field. So this— we're talking— this is so good, this is so good, because we were just talking about, uh, the Son of Man. I mean, you know, we're talking about Jesus. And the kingdom of heaven is likened unto a man. So we can— the Son of Man which sowed good seed in his field. And that his— think the field, he, he covered a multitude just in the 3 years of his life in his field. And on earth, thy kingdom come, thy will be done on earth as it is in heaven. The kingdom of heaven as it is in— like, just as, as he received The the good the good the the good words, the the seeds of light. When God said, "Let there be light," he received. That was good seed. And so it's the the kingdom of heaven is likened unto a man just like the son of man who sowed good seed in the earth. So in the earth you have the wheat, you have the ones that are fruitful, you have the, the fruitless in, and you know, based off of the, the hearing and the teaching of the Son of Man. But while we sleep, you know, and when we think about when we go to sleep, enemy comes and just everything Just, I'm just fruitless, you know. Sometimes, like, uh, just think about it. When— how I, I do wish we could kind of be— that's why— what was this? This is— let me— What I'm trying to say is we delight in the law and we meditate on it day and night. But when we're meditating on it day and night, when we go to sleep, there's things that can be sown that is fruitless. And so think about, have you ever left your TV on and you wake up and you, you see something on TV and you're like, this is— I've been meditating on the word. And that just— that is not— that is a lie, you know. Um, and you can see it, and you have to really guard your— you really have to put on your, you know, your armor and your— your guard your gates, you know. Yeah, your eye gates, your ear gates. So even sleeping peacefully at night Like he said, the enemy came and sowed the weed at night while everyone was asleep. So, so just like, uh, Jesus, the Son of Man, he sowed the word and said, he who has an ear, let him hear. And he spoke to a multitude from um, different cities and the valleys and to, you know, a great multitude of individuals. He even spoke to his disciples. Now it's just like the fruitful— you had the, the, the disciples, and then you had, you know, the one who— but you had Judas who betrayed him. Fruitless, you know. And so that fruit, he said, tie them in bundles and let them burn. The fruitful, just gather one by one and bring it into the barn. We can keep going. And another— this is verse 31 of Matthew 13. He said, another parable he put forth unto them, saying, the kingdom of heaven is like a grain of mustard seed which a man took and sowed in his field, which indeed is least of all the seeds, but when it is grown, it is the greatest among herbs and becometh a tree. So that the birds of the air come and lodge in the branches thereafter. So think about the— I like this one because I can think of the kingdom of heaven, like when he said it's the least, like the mustard seed, it's as small as a mustard seed, like when God said Let there be light. And now we have the Tree of Life. We have Jesus, who is the life, the way, and the truth. And we can, we can be the, the birds of the air, and we can lodge in the branches. Or you have, we are the branches. And as we, we stay connected to God and stay connected to and abiding in Christ, The children can rest in us, and like, you know, the— they're, they're like the, the fowls of the air, and they can come lodge in us as we abide in Christ and others abide in us. We can bear, we can bear much fruit. We can really be fruitful. But I, I really want to be fruitful. This, let's, let's, let's, um, let's continue to be fruitful and multiply. Um, I thank everyone. So our— let's go through our reflection. Our reflection on it is on reflecting on how we're speaking the word. Let's— are we speaking the word using our, our logic? And that's— we can use the term logos. Logical appeal. Are we appealing logically? Ethically, ethos. Are we appealing to the the people that we're speaking the word of God to? Are we speaking it in an ethical way that we're appealing to them ethically? So we might go through some ethics, and we may go through some logic. This space, the gray space, is. More logic, or, you know, most of it is ethical. Um, now when it comes to the pathos, the emotional appeal, that's more of, more or less, something we really have to kind of— we're building up on the skill. So let's reflect on emotionally connecting with the word, um, as well. and speaking the word emotionally as we continue to rightfully divide the truth. So our devotion is to rightfully divide the truth, know the, you know, the dispensation, which is the order, a system of order, a system of order. We're devoting ourselves to a system of order and really getting an understanding, and so that when we go through, we can really get understanding of the, the differences, uh, the meaning of what is being spoken. And our strategy and approach is to be fruitful. Our, our strategy is to be fruitful. Our approach is understanding that there, as we become fruitful and, and, and as we, you know, go through the process there are some fruitless that is growing up as well. And as we continue to grow together, especially in this space, as we continue to put God first, our responsibility and our obedience and the wisdom, there's, there's areas where there's fruitless that is growing on, you know, on side. And so just being aware that The approach is once the wheat, it goes into harvest, the fruitless will be tied together in a bundle and burned. So want to be fruitful, let's continue to be fruitful, and the fruitful will be gathered one by one and brought into the barn. So that's our Grace Space on today. Thank you guys for joining. Be blessed and make sure that you are— just know that you are blessed to be a blessing. Thank you guys for joining.