Juice
Part 1
Ed Young
February 21, 2016
We live in a health-crazed world. Everywhere we turn we see people who are into juice – from juice boxes to juice-only diets, from freshly-squeezed juice to frozen juice pops. But what is the real power behind juice? It all comes down to the right fruit.
In this message series, Pastor Ed Young peels back the layers of God’s truth and shows us which fruit brings the sweetest tastes to our lives. And when we get a full understanding of this teaching, we experience a life with some serious juice!
Transcript
Our culture loves juice, don’t we? Everything seems to be about juice. We see someone who’s really muscular, a man or a woman, and we go, “oh, they’re on the juice.” Back in the day I remember the infomercial, The Juiceman. I was mesmerized by the fresh juice this guy made, and yes, I bought a Juiceman juicer. Lisa and I tried to do all the juicing. It was very messy. I love juice but that just didn’t really work out. Now, though, because of technology, we have this blender. This blender is absolutely amazing. It’s so powerful. In fact, I would say it’s more powerful than a lot of outboard motors that I have seen in my life. <engine sound effect> The thing is awesome. We have juice all the time. I love me some juice! Some people will say this. They’ll go, oh, I’m juiced for that. I’m juiced! Yeah! Or, he’s got the juice. They just have that energy.
ILLUS: Now and then people ask me, Ed, how do you come up with what to talk about? I get that question all the time. Where do you get your sermon ideas?
Well, a couple of days ago Lisa and I were out of town. We spoke at a leadership conference at C3. We went to Atlanta and did a marriage conference, and then I spoke there as well. So after that we went to Florida. We were in Miami just for a couple of days, as you know we have a campus down there. If you didn’t know, we do. Fellowship Church Miami. What’s up Fellowship Miami? Lisa’s there right now so everybody wave to Lisa. Yeah, she’s there. How you doing, honey? Anyway, so I was talking to Lisa about just a series, you know, of topics I could talk about at church and I thought juice. And she goes, that’s interesting. I don’t always talk to her about what I’m going to speak about but I was, you know, we’re talking. Juice. And then I said,
“You know what I thought about doing, Lisa? I thought about talking about a fruit. You know what’s always intrigued me is the pomegranate.” She goes,