I know that most of you have read or heard about the book, The Tale of Two Cities.

Well, actually, this morning, I want to tell you about the tail of two trees.

One grows in the Middle East. The other one grows in the tropics. The tree that grows in the Middle East, if you look at it from

the outside, it looks just like an olive tree. It actually occupy the same space as an olive tree.

It absorbs the same amount of sunlight as an olive tree.

It consumes about the same water and nutrients from the ground as an olive tree.

But it does not produce olives.

And it's called an oleaster tree.

But then there's another tree that grows in the tropics.

That tree is very different.

This particular tree grows wide and high.

Its trunk is thick, and in fact, because of its shape,

it looks not only glorious, but it's beautiful because of its shade.

Its branches grow wide.

Then they drop to the ground, and when they drop to the ground, they produce new shoots, new trees.

In other words, it multiplies itself.

And that tree is called the Bunyan tree. Now, I hope that throughout this message,

you're asking yourself the question, am I an Alistre tree or a Bunyan tree? Because make no mistake about it, every church has people who are either an oleaster tree or a bunyan tree. Those who are like an

oleaster tree, lots of foliage, no fruit, and those who like the bunyan tree

constantly reproducing themselves. Those who are like an aliaster tree, they take all of the

preaching of God's word. They would take all of God's blessings. They take all of the

ministries that they can get. And they will take, and they will take, then they're going

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