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tree

Said 330 times, in 90 of 378 sermons, across 27 Sundays. Spoken as 2 forms: tree 278, trees 52.

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Romans 281 68
Let Us 6 2

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s running, he had long hair, and his hair got tangled up in a tree , and he was hanging there by his hair, and they caught him, a
say in verse three and four that a follower of you is like a tree planted by the streams of water that yields its fruit and its
things that I want. If I can only have this machine that cuts trees , I don't have to pay someone else to, so I have more money an
ght. So it'd be lots of fun. But on the show, they rally on a tree . And so they have a machete and they mark each day that they'
ping for this message. I thought of these people marking that tree . I thought about our lives as Moses is writing in Psalm chapt
hapter 90. I thought about the exercise of not just marking a tree , but putting an X on a paper calendar. I don't know if you us
those squares. Keep checking those squares. Keep marking that tree . Maybe you do that. See, I think the contestants in Survivor
times. But then they got given one rule. Don't eat from that tree over there, God says to them. They got to walk and talk with
a tsunami before or some major flash flood in one moment the trees are there houses are there the buildings are there enjoying l
this is where this thing is. A lot of times my mind goes to a tree . There are trees in my yard that I could work at for the whol
is thing is. A lot of times my mind goes to a tree. There are trees in my yard that I could work at for the whole year and it's j
f, right? There's just this reality of that. When I look at a tree , I'm like, how could that be moved at times? And it's because
ight, the planting of the seed, if we want to continue of the tree analogy, it comes from the gospel of Jesus Christ. We are dea
a prison yard in the middle of Ohio in, August. There are no trees . I don't know why. Maybe they think they'll pull them out and
t and kill each other with them. I don't know, but there's no trees . There's no shade. There's nothing. You're just like, you kno
your memory. All right. But just melting, right? No shade, no trees . Shade is synonymous with relief. It's synonymous with rest.
. On the high mountain and on the hills and under every green tree , you shall tear down their altars and dash in pieces their pi
Peter 2.24 says, He himself bore our sins in his body on the tree , that we might die to sin and live to righteousness. By his w
in your home. Your children will be like vigorous young olive trees as they sit around your table. That is the Lord's blessing fo
a perfect world and he gave a one command don't eat from the tree of knowledge of good and evil they did probably what most of
e are going to need to breathe, so let me go ahead and make a tree and a bunch of those trees that do this process that creates
athe, so let me go ahead and make a tree and a bunch of those trees that do this process that creates oxygen so that we can breat
t are you? And years ago, I found a scripture that I'm just a tree planted by the water. I just want my branches to grow. I want
tion and plants yielding seed according to their own kind and trees bearing fruits in which is their seed each according to its k
says this, He himself, Christ, bore our sins in his body on a tree , that we might die to sin and live to righteousness by his wo
e, right? And outside of this house is a hundred-year-old oak tree . And it's on a little patch of grass between the street and l
g a conversation about this. He's like, do you think that oak tree is going to fall over? I'm like, Casey, that oak tree has bee
hat oak tree is going to fall over? I'm like, Casey, that oak tree has been there for a hundred years. It's not going anywhere.
the wall and into our attic because that hundred-year-old oak tree fell right on top of our house. Casey yells up the stairs, Ju
p of our house. Casey yells up the stairs, Jules, I think the tree fell over. I'm like, yeah, I'm pretty sure it did. So, and li
eeks. I had only been there for three weeks and a whole giant tree and it displaced Casey from her office because that was right
good could come from this? How are you being glorified from a tree falling on top of my new house? But there is the kind of a ha
month I started talking to the river. And the fact that that tree fell on top of our house, it puts so much equity into the hom
about that. Let's zoom out even further. Someone planted that tree a hundred years ago. And God knew when he was going to knock
n or see the fruit of. Because remember, someone planted that tree 100 years ago. No idea that it was going to fall over on that
k that I probably should get better acquainted with my family tree , but I know a lot of your faces, and I know some of you guys.
verywhere, but he is not in everything, okay? He's not in the tree . He made the tree. He's not in the rock. He made the rock. He
is not in everything, okay? He's not in the tree. He made the tree . He's not in the rock. He made the rock. He's not in the ocea
s separate from all others. He's above all things. He's not a tree . He's the God who holds the entire universe in the palm of hi
rfect Michigan weather. I was out there sitting under a shade tree , and then there's this pond, and there's birds, and there's b
e of the pond. I don't know about you, but that's my favorite tree . They are awesome. There's something about them as they're we

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I haven't gone back there, but I see pictures of the redwood trees up there, and they are beautiful, and they are tall. But they
by the interlocking of a tree's roots with those of the other trees around it. As Christians, we need interlocking roots with oth
t an estate sale and they have this framed poster of a family tree and it was all empty and you could fill it all in. Now, I don
it all in. Now, I don't know if you've ever done your family tree before. I had never really done that, but I knew that differe
s faithfulness fans generations. So as I was doing my family. Tree , I thought kind of awesome to think about the hand of God thr

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r been in, you would never go, look what the ground made. The trees . Hug a tree, man. They're making watches now. You would immed
u would never go, look what the ground made. The trees. Hug a tree , man. They're making watches now. You would immediately go, o
t paradise. They had one command, don't eat from this certain tree . They ate from it, and God's wrath came. They were kicked out
ows where a high school kid, you probably want to hide in the trees back over here. And the guy looked at me. Now this course was
lk through and see the beauty that is there. The animals, the trees , the flowers. Look at the people that you're walking by. None
new the truth of God's word, what God spoke to them about the tree , yet they allowed the lie of a serpent to convince them that
creation. Look out there and you will see God. That as we see trees and mountains and clouds and sunsets and sunrises and clear b
aith by my works. When I read that verse, I think of an apple tree . When we see an apple tree or we go to the orchard, we don't
ad that verse, I think of an apple tree. When we see an apple tree or we go to the orchard, we don't pick oranges off of an appl
r we go to the orchard, we don't pick oranges off of an apple tree , right? Has anybody ever done that? I hope not. Well, actuall
ow about it. I want to know where to go do that. But an apple tree is going to produce apples. That's how we know it's an apple
is going to produce apples. That's how we know it's an apple tree . That's what Paul's saying. And James is saying, our works wi
in 1 Peter 2, 24, He Himself bore our sins in His body on the tree . That we might die to sin and live to righteousness and by Hi
we are followers of God because of our family and our family tree . We are followers of God because we have the law. We're follo
hem grow up. And we look at all of this. We look at rocks and trees and we say, God, I don't need you. I know better. I know what
had a cool outhouse though, I want to tell you. Granny cut a tree down and she had the center of that tree hollowed out and we
ll you. Granny cut a tree down and she had the center of that tree hollowed out and we had a toilet seat. People would come all
in the black box, right? I serve. I came up and cut down some trees when the tornado came through. I do what I'm supposed to do.
that you support. I'm glad that you came and helped us cut up trees . All those things are good things by earthly standards. But t
e for us for it is written cursed is everyone who hanged on a tree so that in christ jesus the blessing of abraham might come to
that the penalty from being paid to Satan from eating of that tree , that sin would be death, he has to keep his word. He can't j
ter two, two says he himself bore our sins in his body on the tree that we might die to sin and live to righteousness by his wou
ys, right? Elsewhere in Scripture, it talks about feeding two trees . One is the tree of the Spirit. One is the tree of the flesh.
re in Scripture, it talks about feeding two trees. One is the tree of the Spirit. One is the tree of the flesh. This is what I w
feeding two trees. One is the tree of the Spirit. One is the tree of the flesh. This is what I want, where I want to go, what I
tells me. This is that sinful part of me. And then here's the tree of the Spirit, the way that God leads us, the way that God's
what it says in Scripture is you are feeding one of these two trees in every action, thought, motivation, you are feeding one of
y action, thought, motivation, you are feeding one of the two trees . And that's the reality. Anything contrary to God is sinful.
ou have this call or this reality. You are feeding one of two trees . So if you have faith in God, what tree should you be feeding
e feeding one of two trees. So if you have faith in God, what tree should you be feeding? That's really where the faith in the g
nsom, as a ransom. We, in our sin, in our flesh, feeding this tree , have become chained. To this tree, enslaved to our sin. God,
in our flesh, feeding this tree, have become chained. To this tree , enslaved to our sin. God, in his deep love for us, paid the
isen from the dead. And you are unshackled, unbound from that tree . And you are now free to pursue a life in the spirit. And so
. And so if you're a kid, you built clubhouses or you build a tree fort and you had a do not enter. Maybe you are allowed to put
ruit of sin. It was the fruit of sin. It was the fruit of the tree . That was evil fruit. And so the fruit was evil. And so God m
evil. He did not make evil. He did not make. The fruit of the tree was just fruit. It was just fruit. We'll talk about that more
he ability to choose right and wrong. Now you say, why is the tree there? Another aspect of free will, catch this, is that in or
ree will, there had to be something else to choose. Enter the tree , right? Something other than God, something other than what h
There had to be something there. And so God put an option, a tree , this tree gave them the option. And that's all it was. It wa
to be something there. And so God put an option, a tree, this tree gave them the option. And that's all it was. It wasn't demoni
od said this Genesis chapter two, verse 17, God says, but the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, you shall not eat. God say
a year. I don't know. I know this. If it was an apple fritter tree and all of humanity depends on me not touching it and eating
says, you can eat anything in the garden, except for this one tree I don't want you to eat from. The tree of knowledge. The tree
n, except for this one tree I don't want you to eat from. The tree of knowledge. The tree of knowledge of good and evil. By doin
tree I don't want you to eat from. The tree of knowledge. The tree of knowledge of good and evil. By doing that, he gave folks t
ands or you can disobey. That's the reason I believe for that tree . But in Genesis 2.17, I want to read you the command that he
ad you the command that he gives to Adam. It says, but of the tree of knowledge, this is God talking, but of the tree of knowled
but of the tree of knowledge, this is God talking, but of the tree of knowledge of good and evil, you shall not eat. For in the
, I can't believe that he didn't, that they ate from that one tree . They only had one thing they couldn't do and they did it. Bu
l of us. If we would have been in the garden, we ate from the tree too. I truly believe that. This one act of disobedience, Paul

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