Welcome to Windber PA's First Assembly of God's The Sermon There is No Soil of Character by David McGee Page

This is a machine transcript of the sermon. It won't be completely accurate of what's said in the sermon.

In Matthew chapter thirteen will be reading verses one through nine in verses eighteen to twenty three and is talking about the parable of the sewer and force soils. Now I'm a different hope we have a little different approach to this is morning so we'll see what happens when it's all over. Matthew chapter thirteen, verse one. That same day, Jews went out of the house and sat by the lake. Such a large crowds gathered around him that he got into a ball inside and it. And while all the people stood on the shore. Then he told them many things in parables, saying a farmer went out the celery seed, as he scattered the seeds somehow along the path and birds came and ate it up. Some fell on rocky places where did not have much soil sprang up quickly, but the soil was shallow but when the sun came up. The plants were scorched in the weather because they had no root, other seed fell among the forms which grew up and choked on the plants and still other seed fell on good soil work produced a crop. A hundred sixty or nine sixty or thirty times what was so anyways, here's learning here and a lot of things that we understand installing and in those days was it was broadcast in out was like at got back to see you would take it and you would throw it down like that, I would wonder what Winer Clancy on a rocky ground or on a hard surface of things like that while they would so there stayed in the areas that was their field but in the selling of the city. Some of it would get in other areas other than just where they were selling it. Stop your broadcasting seat. The wind can move it, it can be blown in other areas where you're selling a longer the edges of the field and in and up in different areas, so it is alike are see the very words of rock rock patio dropped writing and planting that way so that in verses eighteen to twenty three Jesus is now explaining what this parable means you should listen to what the parable of the sewer means when anyone hears the message about the kingdom and does not understand it, the evil one comes and snatches away what was sown in his heart. This is the seed sown along the path the one who receives the seed that fell on rocky places, the man who hears the word and it wants, and that once receives it with joy. But since he has no root. He is the last only a short time when trouble persecution comes because of the word he quickly falls away the one or receive the seed that fell among the thorns is the man who hears the word, but worries of this life and deceitfulness of wealth choke it, making it unfruitful but the one who receives the seed that fell on good soil is the man who hears the word and understand it produces a crop yielding a hundred sixty or thirty times with cell now see one definition of seed in which I'm I think most of us are familiar is a great of a plan use or selling, planting in the ground. We generally think of seed is no winter planting a vegetable garden or planting corner oldster. We hear tomatoes or whatever your generally taking a seat going in the ground and letting it grow one another definition of C is a source of development of growth and this is the singular talking about, but there is a source of development or growth that is planted in every one of us. So every one of us has to see all potential every one of us has a C of outposts as source element and growth. So, whenever you think of the word of God being planted in your life. It is that which is given to us as a source of development and growth. Everybody say source of development and growth ready source of development and growth. Again source of development and growth. So see a move word of God has planted in us as a source of development and growth. So when Jesus preached this sermon are a bit story this parable to those who were so watching are those who were seated around the lake shore. It was the same day. Even if recent sermon in a previous chapter, so there was a number of people in a number of stories going around are being explained by Jesus in this. This daylong event that he is conducting hereby the sea. It was there and this preceding chapter, and in the same setting, but the religious people had come in. They had a question. They said Jesus. Teacher will understand lyrical sign from you. As if this is going to be the scene that would be solved in their life 's way of eminent panel away that they would believe in Jesus while they were not going to use the miracle as a source of development of role because they didn't like what Jesus had to say that it were endless. I find on this the moment they were blind to what Jesus was saying, and they were to have to what he had to say so whenever we see this going on in this parable. What does it take then to believe what is obtained for you and I believe what does it take to sway your opinion and I know why and what does it take to sway the opinion of others whenever we are trying to give them see that will provide for an opportunity of growth and development in their lives. What does it take sometimes were like the Pharisees regard the religious people. All I need is a miracle is all I need is a miracle. I have a miracle that I believe enables Lanie and I'll I'll have this foundational experience with this, the wonderful for me, and America will make it happen. While we know that miracles don't change people 's lives. Because you know the stories and the life of Jesus, when Jesus raised Lazarus from the dead, the religious people say yeah we got a killer. Now it is becoming too powerful. So the miracle is not what's license, we find that is deceived that God cells into our lives so Jesus states there is no miracle, except there is no lyrical, except replace a set fuses glass participation today and I know it's hot. And you'll go to sleep and has not happened, so everybody say except I so there is no miracle, a set. Jesus says, for as Jonah was three days and three nights in the belly of the huge fish, the Son of Man will be three days and three ninths in the heart of your there is no miracle, except the resurrection of Jesus Christ as a sign you're looking for a sign. Here's your sign will jump in here. Yes I am sorry it is. Jesus is risen from this session whenever we confess our sins and ask Christ to forgive us. We are saying in our spirit and in our life that Jesus is alive if he were alive, how can you forget us and Jesus were not alive then they're coming he's being alive states to us that his sacrifice on the cross was what I need for the forgiveness of sin in my life. Hebrews eleven one. Faith comes by hearing the word of God. We are receiving the source of development or growth. We are receiving the source of development or growth. The scene of our faith. So what happens in this paragraph of the disciples ask Jesus a question, why do you speak in parables like you just come out and tell us exactly what you want does exactly what you are saying that he has this the knowledge of heaven is in the parable the knowledge of heaven is in the parable the panel between the earthly story and the spiritual truth. He says now this verse twelve. Whoever has will be given more and he will have abundance and whoever does not have, even when he has to be taken from you doesn't sound like a good thing, unless you're a farmer is a hybrid. The story than that the farmer went to the scene. The always trying to Anakin in advance because he needs help on his crop. And so he goes to the growth of the bank. Anyone who borrow money is what you can do that stuff goes to the dirt developer the earth, and angles you are designing an advance on on on next next fall crop on the fall harvest and ended in the replies to tell me you don't tell me your need shall be your scene C Ann and that's what were looking at him. So what did the religious people. Once they wanted a miracle. Jesus tells the disciples that the religious leaders character and he tells them about the requested verse fourteen and fifteen. He says this is in the message Bible quote. Your ears are open, but you don't hear a thing. Your eyes are weighing but you don't see anything. The people are blockhead. They stick their fingers in their ears so they won't have to listen. They screw their eyes shut so they won't have the look they considered the scene as only farming and planting. Not that Jesus was presenting. See of personal development and growth and change. Now when you ring the starring and you don't have the explanation it with a life is about a farmer sowing seed, and it means nothing but whatever you get into the explanation we start understanding that life has a purpose. Whenever we start seeing that God is involved in our lives, and his word has to has a place in our heart, we find that it begins to take on our life takes on a different perspective to see that considered themselves the religious leaders of religious people of the time of Jesus. They considered themselves about this press. This passive teacher who denigrate with their ideas and they are not going to agree with his. So the great thing inverse seventeen Jesus. I saw them to his disciples and you and I went to have God bless. I I did see, and God bless ears ears that hear Samaritan difference. There is a perspective that comes to loss to what God 's word in his spirit teach us say it's more than just what we see is what you want, just what we hear in our life is more than just the accumulation of things in the disbursement of things are lying to us about that influence upon our life. The word of God 's influence upon our life and the lives of others. Last week was Fourth of July do you think our founding fathers know, Benjamin Franklin, Jefferson, who the five signers of the Constitution may remember I can remember right off, but you think those individuals you think those individuals understand the effects of what that that declaration would mean to us when they signed it in seventeen seventy six. You think they understood it. Now they understood the implication of what was going on in their life at that time. But they had no concept of how far our power, far-reaching declaration would be when people do good things, it has a far-reaching effect. The positive effect upon people 's lives. Think about your ancestors in your relatives and the good people in no and that lineage. How much of that had an effect upon your life upon what you do what you say and where you go about the people of made a difference in your life. You think it was held some miraculous event. Jordan wasn't the planting of C I think I'm seeing. So the disciples know this story to be a story of personal development and change from the inside out. Verse eighteen birthday thing, says study. The story on the farmer planting seed study this story on the farmer planting seed so let's understand you and I are both the farmer sowing the seed in you and I on the soil receiving the sister were both right. As one of the other. We are both, we are planting the seed we are sellers of the seed we talk about it. Everyone is as impact upon the people around us. You have a field you have a field who is the field. All of your friends and families place to work place you go everyone you have affected one that you feel that's where you sell your see anything, and we know that the Internet, and as we're selling our state. We're getting from what we have received so how is that seed of God 's word given you hope, and that's what you given the lives of others. If you have a choice with what weepers. What is presented by God in our lives. We have a choice everyone question is what we would do with our faith and with the substance of our faith to me like the religious leaders in the centers who refused to accept what the Gospels says the refusal allow the influence of Jesus and his words up on their life. They refuse to allow to change them. It's called willful blindness and selective hearing. Now, they women believe that you know men who are I hear behind. I saw many men not women have willful blindness. I don't see that is okay. I thought it. We all have our eye ideas of selective hearing and in and in willful blindness and and Jesus was telling the disciples that there are these these individuals so we all know people who mock our faith, who mock our beliefs who kind of stand and become critical of our confession of Christ and and even you're coming to church. Some people are very critical of that, the first eighteen J Jesus says study. The story of the farmer planting seed study this story of God 's word being so into our lives. You see the word of God becomes the source of development and growth Scriptures become the source of our personal development and growth. The word of God is eternal and when that word enters are lies. It has an eternal affect it has an eternal benefit. It doesn't pass away with time. It doesn't pass away with your death. It is eternal and have any continues to work in our lives for eternity and it has an effect upon everyone which Jesus is my word will never pass away. And whenever we sell his word. It has an effect upon the people that it is given to everyone who hears the word must make a decision with that word. Everyone first twenty twenty one this is in the ground. This is a person who hears and instantly responded with enthusiasm, but there is no soil character mistranslations that there is no soil of character so windy emulsions wear off and some difficulties arrive. There is nothing to show for it, and Atlantico Pulsar is built around this little phrase there is no soil of character. How do you make soil and dirt. I regard for your garden, modal wells will be billed by how do Victor, but Walsh for those looking for while. So what is mulch combination of the grass and dirt will air will water whenever you put in your evening dirt with mulch. So, so how do you make spiritual soil there is no soil of character. How do you make spiritual soil for your seed of faith to grow nicely all of us have seen in all of us. I fit into these categories of one of these four types of soil, but you know we are all either. What happened in the great dust bowl on in the West lap. They tore up the soil laugh entity trials came along and blew away the possible left them no devastated and their growing crops. So what happens though our soil. How do we keep it. How do we hear again. How then do we develop soil on our life, our understanding of our faith is a but there is no soil of character. No soil character. Now the state. We all have stayed every one of us have seen C comes in hearing the word reading the word singing where prying word worshiping scene is given to you it is given us by God through the word through the end and being planted through the preaching and teaching and raving in Bible studies and build modules and all that has been planted but how do they spiritual soil of character Wednesday to grow it while I should think that this is just an idea that comes from Scripture. I I receive these online things about personal development, personal growth, success builds both sides of e-mail to come from different writers and different authors. This was from Jim from Jim Rowan ROH in his new later newsletter and this is his violence for the mind day and it's on success principle right, but this is his vitamins for the mind basic fundamentals success is neither magical nonlisted mysterious success is the natural consequences of consistently applying basic fundamentals, success is a natural consequence of consistently applying basic fundamentals. There are no new fundamental got me a little suspicious of someone who says I've got a new fundamental bus like someone inviting you to inform factory where they are manufacturing entities Ecolab smile. Some things you have to do some things you have to do every day, eating seven apples on Saturday night instead of One-A-Day just isn't going to get the job done. Success is nothing more than a few simple disciplines practiced every day. Success is nothing more than a few simple disciplines practiced every day, while failure is a simply a few errors in judgment, repeated every day. It is the Pulitzer weight of our disciplines. The cumulative weight of our disciplines and our judgments that lead us to either fortune or failure. So how do they create soil. Soil of character, Jesus is using the story of requirement farmer and of the story. The farmer is not mathematical, it is not missed areas is not some divine lightning bolts from heaven in fire coming down. It is it is the story of the farmer and what is the story of a farmer, a farmer has seen any planted in the ground. What's magical about that if success is nothing more than a few simple disciplines practiced every day. One is the natural consequence of selling state. What is the natural consequence of selling state the grounds. Our say in our doing while you undermine my in my yard. If you saw my yard when I started it all. It was pathetic, like the dog planted on a stuff that we had an inch of rain and a half hour for the tractor-trailer load lyrically triaxial load of dirt to fill in the fill-in the root rots, ravines, and all that stuff. But what you do, e.g. planning C what you do with that was whenever there is not enough grassy plants. He waited. We got a lot of wage blank brass what you do what is not in well it's dead like this on the fall, you'll plant rack to keep planting. See, e.g., planting seed and seed will grow, and the ideas. There are no little fundamentals, but there are proven principles for thousands of years at the Scriptures telling us and how many make how do you make spiritual soil. Every time to respond according to the word of God. Every time we respond according to the word of God. You build character. What is character do creates the soil of character and what happens in the soil character. The word of God Road, but use forgiveness for an example on which I'm useful to forget one subject that are excited about the forget seventy times seven, which is that now that was a in both the time and whenever and when this is Retin-A. Four five five was about as good as it gets when Jesus said, seventy five, seventy, was meaning continuous now you're whenever we have always visible to you have an event. This is the event line, and this is the pain line so you have an event and you have a paying and what happened there are thirteen so what is the format. Thank you very much. So you're supposed to forget all the events and the pain are at their high you forget what happens. It doesn't matter. Although the way you never remember to get now and doesn't go away and you remember what happened when he remembered what both the other judges, both to forget you're supposed to forget until the pain goes away seventy times seven or how long does it take for you to live long enough to forgive them that you no longer feel hurt by that person you always will remember as you don't have a magic eraser. But you see the pain will go away. That's where the forgiveness and every time you forget what you are doing your building. The soil of character and where does our faith grow. Where is the seed of God 's word row and growth of the soil of character and the soil of character than is where the seed and the word of God come together and they grow so where is that word of God in your life is on the hard road surface on the word of God comes the lots we talked about forgiveness, while what happens, the people who refuse to forget that last on the hard road of of life word of God comes land that is young, because the seller was selling. See edit it all the wind is there is not only falling in good soil is being driven or else drifted over is on the road. What happened on the road says the devil will common plot I like the birds, need all the same in our neighbor 's neighbors down the road and the fields and so on, and was always interesting after they after they planted their fields are all these turkeys in the fields think that you need to get it done out there scare them off. I'd say you need to shoot them and have turkey supper. I said scare mom so what everyone is doing the reading essay, what happens whatever I got to see the falls on the on on on the hard ground. The demo comes alone takes up because I'm not going to forgive them. I'm not even allowed to go that's hard. Second seed forgiveness is on the gravel area worth of emotional high end. The emotions were on the bitterness comes back. That's why we forgive, we forgive, we forgive again why the Bible tells us the wild love love some more and that we are to forgive as we have been forgiven. We are to love as God has loved us, we are reflecting what God has given us so forgiveness of the weeds of wearing this one is the weeds of where he cells into the authority ground. The weeds of worry and illusion about getting more and wanting everything strangles these are the kind of forgiveness that goes a long way. You know what I want all my pregame and in my heart I really don't. But everybody will think I've done a good job and don't like me not become really spiritual, but at the last either. So whereas hatred and unforgiveness gotten people you see spiritual principles that we read about success. Success is just doing what success is nothing more than a few simple disciplines, repeated every day. What have people gone with hatred and an end and backbiting and hurt and despair. They have a lot during their lives. In addition, Verizon godly principles change us from the inside out, and we are not dealing in God is doing and working them in our line. So success is a few simple disciplines practiced every day seeing fast on good Earth seeing of God 's word, put on, but in the good part of our life. God by your help. We need God 's help to do this. I will keep forgiving. I will keep letting it go. I will love God. I will love people. I will allow his love to flow through my life, I will change my character, God 's will and can change us. And whenever we apply the character of God 's word in this and ended in the principles of God 's word to our life and we practice them every day we are building the good soil of our life now what happens whenever you have good for a deep, deep, good soil. What happens, but stuff growth when the state has got soil grounds. First, twenty three says the siege has planted on the good Earth is the person who hears and takes in the good news okay then what happens. It produces a harvest beyond his wildest dreams. The Scripture says Wednesday son. It produces a crop hundred. Follow sixty four or thirty times what was so, how many would like to have a hundredfold on what you sent. What you put in the ground. I may would like to have sixty percent radio thirty percent. You so what is going on the word of God is being planted in our lives and we are as we allow the word to affect possibly make decisions based on the word of God. We are creating good file guards saw the character and in the good soil character something happens the seed of God 's word flourishes and witnessing of God 's word flourishes may reap a harvest with a rape harvest a hundred phone sixty four thirty four thirty times what we planted a hundred times only planted that success in the kingdom of God, and anything that it is the role of our own personal character produces a harvest beyond our wildest dreams, our heart is in the soil. Our heart is the soil of our lives. Character is what we do what we do with Christ. What we do with God 's word matters so create good soil, create good soil, create good soil by making right choices based on God 's word and it has a lasting affect on your life is no longer either limit the Christ delivered to me, not by might nor by power, but by God 's spirit, we find that there is a growth in the side of us. It were not so caught up with what is happening in life as how the gods word enables us to respond to it, godly character is created by responding with the word of God, in the Scripture, when Jesus was tempted by the devil. He said what it is rented and as we make decisions on the written word of God changes us forever. This life and the life to come. So see as a source of developmental growth seed of God 's word is the source of our development in our growth, good soil produces a great harvest plant. God 's word in your life and your character and what is the result what we have will be added to some thirty volts on sixty volts on the hundredfold after widening creeks we take the harvest. We use it. We use and we plan it. We use it in the planet that he who has much will be given you see when you take what you have planted in the soil of God 's character in us. It multiplies and multiplies and multiplies again. He who has much will be given to the person who doesn't, who has and does a planet, it will be taken away. That's the person whose character never changes with the word of God. God is saying. Take what I have given use it to change your life. Allow my spirit to make a real to you and you will change from the inside out plant. The word of God in the godly character of your life. Make the soil and see the godly effect of white decision upon your life. The godly effective right decisions changed us from the insideIn Matthew chapter thirteen will be reading verses one through nine in verses eighteen to twenty three and is talking about the parable of the sewer and force soils. Now I'm a different hope we have a little different approach to this is morning so we'll see what happens when it's all over. Matthew chapter thirteen, verse one. That same day, Jews went out of the house and sat by the lake. Such a large crowds gathered around him that he got into a ball inside and it. And while all the people stood on the shore. Then he told them many things in parables, saying a farmer went out the celery seed, as he scattered the seeds somehow along the path and birds came and ate it up. Some fell on rocky places where did not have much soil sprang up quickly, but the soil was shallow but when the sun came up. The plants were scorched in the weather because they had no root, other seed fell among the forms which grew up and choked on the plants and still other seed fell on good soil work produced a crop. A hundred sixty or nine sixty or thirty times what was so anyways, here's learning here and a lot of things that we understand installing and in those days was it was broadcast in out was like at got back to see you would take it and you would throw it down like that, I would wonder what Winer Clancy on a rocky ground or on a hard surface of things like that while they would so there stayed in the areas that was their field but in the selling of the city. Some of it would get in other areas other than just where they were selling it. Stop your broadcasting seat. The wind can move it, it can be blown in other areas where you're selling a longer the edges of the field and in and up in different areas, so it is alike are see the very words of rock rock patio dropped writing and planting that way so that in verses eighteen to twenty three Jesus is now explaining what this parable means you should listen to what the parable of the sewer means when anyone hears the message about the kingdom and does not understand it, the evil one comes and snatches away what was sown in his heart. This is the seed sown along the path the one who receives the seed that fell on rocky places, the man who hears the word and it wants, and that once receives it with joy. But since he has no root. He is the last only a short time when trouble persecution comes because of the word he quickly falls away the one or receive the seed that fell among the thorns is the man who hears the word, but worries of this life and deceitfulness of wealth choke it, making it unfruitful but the one who receives the seed that fell on good soil is the man who hears the word and understand it produces a crop yielding a hundred sixty or thirty times with cell now see one definition of seed in which I'm I think most of us are familiar is a great of a plan use or selling, planting in the ground. We generally think of seed is no winter planting a vegetable garden or planting corner oldster. We hear tomatoes or whatever your generally taking a seat going in the ground and letting it grow one another definition of C is a source of development of growth and this is the singular talking about, but there is a source of development or growth that is planted in every one of us. So every one of us has to see all potential every one of us has a C of outposts as source element and growth. So, whenever you think of the word of God being planted in your life. It is that which is given to us as a source of development and growth. Everybody say source of development and growth ready source of development and growth. Again source of development and growth. So see a move word of God has planted in us as a source of development and growth. So when Jesus preached this sermon are a bit story this parable to those who were so watching are those who were seated around the lake shore. It was the same day. Even if recent sermon in a previous chapter, so there was a number of people in a number of stories going around are being explained by Jesus in this. This daylong event that he is conducting hereby the sea. It was there and this preceding chapter, and in the same setting, but the religious people had come in. They had a question. They said Jesus. Teacher will understand lyrical sign from you. As if this is going to be the scene that would be solved in their life 's way of eminent panel away that they would believe in Jesus while they were not going to use the miracle as a source of development of role because they didn't like what Jesus had to say that it were endless. I find on this the moment they were blind to what Jesus was saying, and they were to have to what he had to say so whenever we see this going on in this parable. What does it take then to believe what is obtained for you and I believe what does it take to sway your opinion and I know why and what does it take to sway the opinion of others whenever we are trying to give them see that will provide for an opportunity of growth and development in their lives. What does it take sometimes were like the Pharisees regard the religious people. All I need is a miracle is all I need is a miracle. I have a miracle that I believe enables Lanie and I'll I'll have this foundational experience with this, the wonderful for me, and America will make it happen. While we know that miracles don't change people 's lives. Because you know the stories and the life of Jesus, when Jesus raised Lazarus from the dead, the religious people say yeah we got a killer. Now it is becoming too powerful. So the miracle is not what's license, we find that is deceived that God cells into our lives so Jesus states there is no miracle, except there is no lyrical, except replace a set fuses glass participation today and I know it's hot. And you'll go to sleep and has not happened, so everybody say except I so there is no miracle, a set. Jesus says, for as Jonah was three days and three nights in the belly of the huge fish, the Son of Man will be three days and three ninths in the heart of your there is no miracle, except the resurrection of Jesus Christ as a sign you're looking for a sign. Here's your sign will jump in here. Yes I am sorry it is. Jesus is risen from this session whenever we confess our sins and ask Christ to forgive us. We are saying in our spirit and in our life that Jesus is alive if he were alive, how can you forget us and Jesus were not alive then they're coming he's being alive states to us that his sacrifice on the cross was what I need for the forgiveness of sin in my life. Hebrews eleven one. Faith comes by hearing the word of God. We are receiving the source of development or growth. We are receiving the source of development or growth. The scene of our faith. So what happens in this paragraph of the disciples ask Jesus a question, why do you speak in parables like you just come out and tell us exactly what you want does exactly what you are saying that he has this the knowledge of heaven is in the parable the knowledge of heaven is in the parable the panel between the earthly story and the spiritual truth. He says now this verse twelve. Whoever has will be given more and he will have abundance and whoever does not have, even when he has to be taken from you doesn't sound like a good thing, unless you're a farmer is a hybrid. The story than that the farmer went to the scene. The always trying to Anakin in advance because he needs help on his crop. And so he goes to the growth of the bank. Anyone who borrow money is what you can do that stuff goes to the dirt developer the earth, and angles you are designing an advance on on on next next fall crop on the fall harvest and ended in the replies to tell me you don't tell me your need shall be your scene C Ann and that's what were looking at him. So what did the religious people. Once they wanted a miracle. Jesus tells the disciples that the religious leaders character and he tells them about the requested verse fourteen and fifteen. He says this is in the message Bible quote. Your ears are open, but you don't hear a thing. Your eyes are weighing but you don't see anything. The people are blockhead. They stick their fingers in their ears so they won't have to listen. They screw their eyes shut so they won't have the look they considered the scene as only farming and planting. Not that Jesus was presenting. See of personal development and growth and change. Now when you ring the starring and you don't have the explanation it with a life is about a farmer sowing seed, and it means nothing but whatever you get into the explanation we start understanding that life has a purpose. Whenever we start seeing that God is involved in our lives, and his word has to has a place in our heart, we find that it begins to take on our life takes on a different perspective to see that considered themselves the religious leaders of religious people of the time of Jesus. They considered themselves about this press. This passive teacher who denigrate with their ideas and they are not going to agree with his. So the great thing inverse seventeen Jesus. I saw them to his disciples and you and I went to have God bless. I I did see, and God bless ears ears that hear Samaritan difference. There is a perspective that comes to loss to what God 's word in his spirit teach us say it's more than just what we see is what you want, just what we hear in our life is more than just the accumulation of things in the disbursement of things are lying to us about that influence upon our life. The word of God 's influence upon our life and the lives of others. Last week was Fourth of July do you think our founding fathers know, Benjamin Franklin, Jefferson, who the five signers of the Constitution may remember I can remember right off, but you think those individuals you think those individuals understand the effects of what that that declaration would mean to us when they signed it in seventeen seventy six. You think they understood it. Now they understood the implication of what was going on in their life at that time. But they had no concept of how far our power, far-reaching declaration would be when people do good things, it has a far-reaching effect. The positive effect upon people 's lives. Think about your ancestors in your relatives and the good people in no and that lineage. How much of that had an effect upon your life upon what you do what you say and where you go about the people of made a difference in your life. You think it was held some miraculous event. Jordan wasn't the planting of C I think I'm seeing. So the disciples know this story to be a story of personal development and change from the inside out. Verse eighteen birthday thing, says study. The story on the farmer planting seed study this story on the farmer planting seed so let's understand you and I are both the farmer sowing the seed in you and I on the soil receiving the sister were both right. As one of the other. We are both, we are planting the seed we are sellers of the seed we talk about it. Everyone is as impact upon the people around us. You have a field you have a field who is the field. All of your friends and families place to work place you go everyone you have affected one that you feel that's where you sell your see anything, and we know that the Internet, and as we're selling our state. We're getting from what we have received so how is that seed of God 's word given you hope, and that's what you given the lives of others. If you have a choice with what weepers. What is presented by God in our lives. We have a choice everyone question is what we would do with our faith and with the substance of our faith to me like the religious leaders in the centers who refused to accept what the Gospels says the refusal allow the influence of Jesus and his words up on their life. They refuse to allow to change them. It's called willful blindness and selective hearing. Now, they women believe that you know men who are I hear behind. I saw many men not women have willful blindness. I don't see that is okay. I thought it. We all have our eye ideas of selective hearing and in and in willful blindness and and Jesus was telling the disciples that there are these these individuals so we all know people who mock our faith, who mock our beliefs who kind of stand and become critical of our confession of Christ and and even you're coming to church. Some people are very critical of that, the first eighteen J Jesus says study. The story of the farmer planting seed study this story of God 's word being so into our lives. You see the word of God becomes the source of development and growth Scriptures become the source of our personal development and growth. The word of God is eternal and when that word enters are lies. It has an eternal affect it has an eternal benefit. It doesn't pass away with time. It doesn't pass away with your death. It is eternal and have any continues to work in our lives for eternity and it has an effect upon everyone which Jesus is my word will never pass away. And whenever we sell his word. It has an effect upon the people that it is given to everyone who hears the word must make a decision with that word. Everyone first twenty twenty one this is in the ground. This is a person who hears and instantly responded with enthusiasm, but there is no soil character mistranslations that there is no soil of character so windy emulsions wear off and some difficulties arrive. There is nothing to show for it, and Atlantico Pulsar is built around this little phrase there is no soil of character. How do you make soil and dirt. I regard for your garden, modal wells will be billed by how do Victor, but Walsh for those looking for while. So what is mulch combination of the grass and dirt will air will water whenever you put in your evening dirt with mulch. So, so how do you make spiritual soil there is no soil of character. How do you make spiritual soil for your seed of faith to grow nicely all of us have seen in all of us. I fit into these categories of one of these four types of soil, but you know we are all either. What happened in the great dust bowl on in the West lap. They tore up the soil laugh entity trials came along and blew away the possible left them no devastated and their growing crops. So what happens though our soil. How do we keep it. How do we hear again. How then do we develop soil on our life, our understanding of our faith is a but there is no soil of character. No soil character. Now the state. We all have stayed every one of us have seen C comes in hearing the word reading the word singing where prying word worshiping scene is given to you it is given us by God through the word through the end and being planted through the preaching and teaching and raving in Bible studies and build modules and all that has been planted but how do they spiritual soil of character Wednesday to grow it while I should think that this is just an idea that comes from Scripture. I I receive these online things about personal development, personal growth, success builds both sides of e-mail to come from different writers and different authors. This was from Jim from Jim Rowan ROH in his new later newsletter and this is his violence for the mind day and it's on success principle right, but this is his vitamins for the mind basic fundamentals success is neither magical nonlisted mysterious success is the natural consequences of consistently applying basic fundamentals, success is a natural consequence of consistently applying basic fundamentals. There are no new fundamental got me a little suspicious of someone who says I've got a new fundamental bus like someone inviting you to inform factory where they are manufacturing entities Ecolab smile. Some things you have to do some things you have to do every day, eating seven apples on Saturday night instead of One-A-Day just isn't going to get the job done. Success is nothing more than a few simple disciplines practiced every day. Success is nothing more than a few simple disciplines practiced every day, while failure is a simply a few errors in judgment, repeated every day. It is the Pulitzer weight of our disciplines. The cumulative weight of our disciplines and our judgments that lead us to either fortune or failure. So how do they create soil. Soil of character, Jesus is using the story of requirement farmer and of the story. The farmer is not mathematical, it is not missed areas is not some divine lightning bolts from heaven in fire coming down. It is it is the story of the farmer and what is the story of a farmer, a farmer has seen any planted in the ground. What's magical about that if success is nothing more than a few simple disciplines practiced every day. One is the natural consequence of selling state. What is the natural consequence of selling state the grounds. Our say in our doing while you undermine my in my yard. If you saw my yard when I started it all. It was pathetic, like the dog planted on a stuff that we had an inch of rain and a half hour for the tractor-trailer load lyrically triaxial load of dirt to fill in the fill-in the root rots, ravines, and all that stuff. But what you do, e.g. planning C what you do with that was whenever there is not enough grassy plants. He waited. We got a lot of wage blank brass what you do what is not in well it's dead like this on the fall, you'll plant rack to keep planting. See, e.g., planting seed and seed will grow, and the ideas. There are no little fundamentals, but there are proven principles for thousands of years at the Scriptures telling us and how many make how do you make spiritual soil. Every time to respond according to the word of God. Every time we respond according to the word of God. You build character. What is character do creates the soil of character and what happens in the soil character. The word of God Road, but use forgiveness for an example on which I'm useful to forget one subject that are excited about the forget seventy times seven, which is that now that was a in both the time and whenever and when this is Retin-A. Four five five was about as good as it gets when Jesus said, seventy five, seventy, was meaning continuous now you're whenever we have always visible to you have an event. This is the event line, and this is the pain line so you have an event and you have a paying and what happened there are thirteen so what is the format. Thank you very much. So you're supposed to forget all the events and the pain are at their high you forget what happens. It doesn't matter. Although the way you never remember to get now and doesn't go away and you remember what happened when he remembered what both the other judges, both to forget you're supposed to forget until the pain goes away seventy times seven or how long does it take for you to live long enough to forgive them that you no longer feel hurt by that person you always will remember as you don't have a magic eraser. But you see the pain will go away. That's where the forgiveness and every time you forget what you are doing your building. The soil of character and where does our faith grow. Where is the seed of God 's word row and growth of the soil of character and the soil of character than is where the seed and the word of God come together and they grow so where is that word of God in your life is on the hard road surface on the word of God comes the lots we talked about forgiveness, while what happens, the people who refuse to forget that last on the hard road of of life word of God comes land that is young, because the seller was selling. See edit it all the wind is there is not only falling in good soil is being driven or else drifted over is on the road. What happened on the road says the devil will common plot I like the birds, need all the same in our neighbor 's neighbors down the road and the fields and so on, and was always interesting after they after they planted their fields are all these turkeys in the fields think that you need to get it done out there scare them off. I'd say you need to shoot them and have turkey supper. I said scare mom so what everyone is doing the reading essay, what happens whatever I got to see the falls on the on on on the hard ground. The demo comes alone takes up because I'm not going to forgive them. I'm not even allowed to go that's hard. Second seed forgiveness is on the gravel area worth of emotional high end. The emotions were on the bitterness comes back. That's why we forgive, we forgive, we forgive again why the Bible tells us the wild love love some more and that we are to forgive as we have been forgiven. We are to love as God has loved us, we are reflecting what God has given us so forgiveness of the weeds of wearing this one is the weeds of where he cells into the authority ground. The weeds of worry and illusion about getting more and wanting everything strangles these are the kind of forgiveness that goes a long way. You know what I want all my pregame and in my heart I really don't. But everybody will think I've done a good job and don't like me not become really spiritual, but at the last either. So whereas hatred and unforgiveness gotten people you see spiritual principles that we read about success. Success is just doing what success is nothing more than a few simple disciplines, repeated every day. What have people gone with hatred and an end and backbiting and hurt and despair. They have a lot during their lives. In addition, Verizon godly principles change us from the inside out, and we are not dealing in God is doing and working them in our line. So success is a few simple disciplines practiced every day seeing fast on good Earth seeing of God 's word, put on, but in the good part of our life. God by your help. We need God 's help to do this. I will keep forgiving. I will keep letting it go. I will love God. I will love people. I will allow his love to flow through my life, I will change my character, God 's will and can change us. And whenever we apply the character of God 's word in this and ended in the principles of God 's word to our life and we practice them every day we are building the good soil of our life now what happens whenever you have good for a deep, deep, good soil. What happens, but stuff growth when the state has got soil grounds. First, twenty three says the siege has planted on the good Earth is the person who hears and takes in the good news okay then what happens. It produces a harvest beyond his wildest dreams. The Scripture says Wednesday son. It produces a crop hundred. Follow sixty four or thirty times what was so, how many would like to have a hundredfold on what you sent. What you put in the ground. I may would like to have sixty percent radio thirty percent. You so what is going on the word of God is being planted in our lives and we are as we allow the word to affect possibly make decisions based on the word of God. We are creating good file guards saw the character and in the good soil character something happens the seed of God 's word flourishes and witnessing of God 's word flourishes may reap a harvest with a rape harvest a hundred phone sixty four thirty four thirty times what we planted a hundred times only planted that success in the kingdom of God, and anything that it is the role of our own personal character produces a harvest beyond our wildest dreams, our heart is in the soil. Our heart is the soil of our lives. Character is what we do what we do with Christ. What we do with God 's word matters so create good soil, create good soil, create good soil by making right choices based on God 's word and it has a lasting affect on your life is no longer either limit the Christ delivered to me, not by might nor by power, but by God 's spirit, we find that there is a growth in the side of us. It were not so caught up with what is happening in life as how the gods word enables us to respond to it, godly character is created by responding with the word of God, in the Scripture, when Jesus was tempted by the devil. He said what it is rented and as we make decisions on the written word of God changes us forever. This life and the life to come. So see as a source of developmental growth seed of God 's word is the source of our development in our growth, good soil produces a great harvest plant. God 's word in your life and your character and what is the result what we have will be added to some thirty volts on sixty volts on the hundredfold after widening creeks we take the harvest. We use it. We use and we plan it. We use it in the planet that he who has much will be given you see when you take what you have planted in the soil of God 's character in us. It multiplies and multiplies and multiplies again. He who has much will be given to the person who doesn't, who has and does a planet, it will be taken away. That's the person whose character never changes with the word of God. God is saying. Take what I have given use it to change your life. Allow my spirit to make a real to you and you will change from the inside out plant. The word of God in the godly character of your life. Make the soil and see the godly effect of white decision upon your life. The godly effective right decisions changed us from the inside