The Sermon The Depth of Our Faith in God by David McGee
Jul 17, 2011
The Depth of Our Faith in God (27:12)
Referenced Scriptures: Matthew 13:24-30; Matthew 13:36-43; John 3:16-17
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Don't say I can't, because all things are possible for those that believe.
Don't get discouraged, because discouragement is an attitude.
Don't grumble and compain, because you're not alone in what you do.
There is no secondary Christian.
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Matthew 13:24-30
24) He set another parable before them, saying, "The Kingdom of Heaven is like a man who sowed good seed in his field,
25) but while people slept, his enemy came and sowed darnel also among the wheat, and went away.
26) But when the blade sprang up and brought forth fruit, then the darnel appeared also.
27) The servants of the householder came and said to him, ‘Sir, didn‘t you sow good seed in your field? Where did this darnel come from?‘
28) He said to them, ‘An enemy has done this.‘ The servants asked him, ‘Do you want us to go and gather them up?‘
29) But he said, ‘No, lest perhaps while you gather up the darnel, you root up the wheat with them.
30) Let both grow together until the harvest, and in the harvest time I will tell the reapers, "First, gather up the darnel, and bind them in bundles to burn them; but gather the wheat into my barn."‘"
Matthew 13:36-43
36) Then Jesus sent the multitudes away, and went into the house. His disciples came to him, saying, "Explain to us the parable of the darnel of the field."
37) He answered them, "He who sows the good seed is the Son of Man,
38) the field is the world; and the good seed, these are the sons of the kingdom; and the darnel are the sons of the evil one.
39) The enemy who sowed them is the devil. The harvest is the end of the age, and the reapers are angels.
40) As therefore the darnel is gathered up and burned with fire; so will it be in the end of this age.
41) The Son of Man will send forth his angels, and they will gather out of his kingdom all things that cause stumbling, and those who do iniquity,
42) and will cast them into the furnace of fire. There will be weeping and the gnashing of teeth.
43) Then the righteous will shine forth as the sun in the kingdom of their Father. He who has ears to hear, let him hear.
John 3:16-17
16) For God so loved the world, that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish, but have eternal life.
17) For God didn‘t send his Son into the world to judge the world, but that the world should be saved through him.
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I also Matthew chapter thirteen twenty four to thirty and thirty six forty three Matthew thirteen twenty four to thirty. Lastly, please log on the parables on the parable of the soil, and today we're going to look at the parable of the weeds and the we the tears. Matthew thirteen twenty four to thirty get to wonder why God doesn't just zap with you individuals and pull them out. Get them out of the world right away in our there bad enough whining to take care of announced that it instead of waiting while let's read Matthew thirteen. Beginning in verse twenty four and Jesus told them another parable. The kingdom of heaven is like a man who sowed good seed in his field. But while everyone was sleeping his enemy came and sowed weeds among the weeds and went away with the weight sprouted informed has been the weeds were also also appeared the owner. Servants came to him and said, serve, but did you sow good seed in the field where they did the waves come from an enemy did this he replied the sermon. Ask and you want us to go and pull them up. Know the answer because while your full and the weeds you may route up the week with, let both grow together until the harvest at that time I will follow harvesters first collect the weeds tied in bundles to be burned, and then gather the wheat and bring it into my barn. I didn't verse thirty six. But he left the crowd went in the house, his disciples came to him and said, explain to us the parable. The weeds in the field. He answered the one who sowed good seed is the Son of Man, the field is the world and the guy say stands for the sons of the kingdom these are the sons of the evil one, and then enemy who sold them is the devil, the high rest of the end of the age and the harvesters are the Angels as the weeds are pulled up and burned in the fire solo will be at the end of the age, the Son of Man will send out his angels, and they will weed out his kingdom. Everything that causes sin and all who do evil. They will throw them into the fiery furnace, where there will be weeping and gnashing of teeth. Then the righteous will shine like the sun in the kingdom of their father. He who has ears, let him hear. So this parable emphasizes the contrast between the present coexistence of the week and Louise and the future separation. So as we look at our society. You know, sometimes it's easy to distinguish between wheat and weeds, and sometimes it's hard to distinguish while what who is right and all of this, but with offering the right opinion in the right philosophy are right perspective and so you know if you ever plan tonight we planted woodland flowers and things. And sometimes when the growling, you don't know if there weeds or other flour in a new plant seed, sometimes deceived Rowan. They look like flowers. It really trained. I can know whenever they're very young. They're just sprouting up with his lead in what is a flower and so sometimes it in our society and I are you around us in our world, it's hard to swallow. What is leads, and what is the right thing and what is blue than that which is the word of God dwelling in a godly character and what is while the parable here tells us that the sewer so good seeing, but also we see where the devil came along and so corrupt. See, and so we have both coexisting together now if I had my way, there is some individuals that we would singly get away with how I won't pick on choose anything, and if you are present but you go back in history you would maybe pick Hitler is out now there's a guy who should have been uprooted and ill destroy, but you wonder you thought you have watched perhaps the documentaries on his life and and so on and on history Channel and N/A have it. They have some information about his childhood, where he grew up and how he grew up in things like that but somewhere in that somewhere in that time. His life changed and he became this individual who was a lot ambitious for power and ambition for power at the cost of everyone else and anyone else well you look at our lives where is it that we change. Where is it that we distinguish whether we are. We were weak when it said that in our lives. We've made a decision to follow Jesus Christ and allow Christ to change us in the change our hearts in our lives is still decision that we make all the time we did we make a decision every day about things that were going to do or not to say or not say no. Last week we spoke on the parable. The soil and the several reactions to the word of God, and that we saw where the all the persons heard the same word, all the people heard the same word and the parable is their response to the word. How they responded in various ways. The hard ground. Either the hard hearted individuals who refuse to allow me the word of God to grow in her life. The other is the the floorings and pistols, and where they hear the word. The word is sown in their lives. Child found by the cares of the world and then there is the good soil, but you never what the point of the message was audio make good soil, I do make good soil way to make soil compounds you take the things that are discarded. Ron you are you know your lawns in your engines on your grasses and put them together and you mix them in you, you roll them in your making, and so every time we make right decisions were building the nutrient value, Walmart, so I'll and that we are adding to the depth of our soil, and you I often go by Elwood driving around in icy feel that it is up in grass of monographs and often think I just like to go Miller at the fibrin media. I just don't know it, and in the reason I wanted while it is not so much that it looks nice and neat, but that every time you mount your chopping up that grass putting it down anybody make more topsoil, animated greater depth in the slide subtitle, while what you know over the years of you know, ten, fifteen, twenty years whatever. If you know that every year and keep it mowed down to keep the grass spelling it don't keep adding to the depth of the soil so it are lives, the decisions that we may be areas of our life that we make in following Christ of our prayers of our reading the Scriptures of our coming together to church of Bible studies and devotionals and things like that. It helps to add the depth of the soil and the depth of the soil, faith comes by hearing the word of God. And so the depth of our character continues to grow because of art on the decisions that we may, by the word of God, and making right choices and it continues to grow, and so that when the hard times on the roots the shallow roots, RD, and you granted class on the ones that they are able to survive the droughts in the end the times of difficulty and so in our lives as we make right choices and understand the word of God. We continue to add to the depth of our soil, so the parable of the wheat and weeds. First of all God cells only good seat and the floor. God is so good. See, God 's desire for us to fail, God does not desire for us to sin. God does not have God has never had one negative that instructive lot about you, it's impossible for God to think evil of you on any of us, for God save the reason he said he lets the owner of all species. I need for God so loved the world he gave his only begotten son for what reason for what they love the wells for what reason John three sixteen for God so loved the world he gave his only begotten son that whosoever believes in him should not perish but have everlasting life. That verse seventeen for God sent not his son into the world to condemn the world, but that the world through him might have life. Jesus Christ does not come to condemn the word of God is not come to condemn us. It is come to set us free, is found to bring us into the kingdom has come to give us new life and to give it to us in abundance. You see, God is the seller of goods. See, and all that God wants from us is that we would grow to see this word enrolled to see them. His character and role the state of his life. What I want. What about when the separation, God reported in hell. Now our sins pleasant now our sins keep us separated from God. The way that we have allowed to grow in our lives. There is no week there was nothing there about the weeds and there is no faith. There is no faith in God there. That's what separates us from God. It is that God why you know I don't like him is is I don't know who you are, you never allowed my seat to grow in your life who leads the chairs where did they come from the Scripture say where the weeds come from the enemy the devil bouquet if the defense stated sound by God, and that's the week. The good character. The quality of our life. If that is settled by God. And then there is the weeds that are sown in our life. While it's obvious the descriptors is saying that the devil so while in awaken the old phrase long time ago in the sixties lineup was alive then. But you write off some guy for a while& you cannot battle audience you I'm sixty two puppy sixty to take your wondering. I know I don't want to thank you and willingly works okay for our is gone, but I'll figure it out to a food you consume at yourself in the sixties. Everything goes awry Brian thought leaders arrive. But anyhow, the fifth seven -year-old have a clue what that was rise of grain. That's like week, but it's not many soldiers, as it is about the devil and and is not a mythological person, the devil is a very real person. It was created by God but he was created by God to be a servant. It was created by God to be to give service to God and the devil decides not to want to do that and it's showing Charles to rebel against God install his desire is to ruin still kill and destroy is to ruin God 's creation. Enter enter words to help them to make God is aware software and so he desires to steal the killer to destroy sonar live. He sows seeds that are destructive that are stealing, killing and destroying. First of all those seeds that are destructive. I dare to destroy your life, and while so what would destroy us stealing all the lust of the eyes lust of flesh and pride of life that would make it whenever and in and in this case he takes that which is intended for good makes enable the case that which is going to an end makes it makes it evil to see the Scriptures, Lisa, the devil, as a roaring line, seeking whom he may devour. That's his desire to destroy his purposes is, we said to still kill and destroy his method is to take going to turn into evil that nonetheless of the eye that this makes me look good. It makes me feel good to make me more than what I have so somehow I am going to be able to achieve these without God, the very temptations that Jesus encountered me that this forty days of the end of the forty days in temptation, he presents Jesus with these opportunities to bypass all of the bypass is life in that and in the end they teachings in the end across is to bypass all of that and give it to him, and he begins by saying, well, you know. the Scripture just like in the garden. The God really said the temptation so that's where the depth of soil comes in in our life that we have an understanding of the Scriptures and understanding of the word of God so that we are able to make decisions and when we are tempted to do evil to do wrong were able to say, not always. We understand the difference between right and wrong. We understand the difference between making choices and making right choices and wrong choices simple solution. The same would be to rip it out. But what if while we were in our own sins that God came along and ripped us out than we now wouldn't have a place in God 's kingdom because we were ripped out. So God has a solution. The harvest is coming. Sometimes it's my arrow that that we stand before God sometimes it's it will be at the end of the age when the trump of God so found dead in Christ shall rise and build those which are alive and remain shall be cut off to meet in the air. We never know when our time is coming. I'm a friend works at the hospice with me, and he's a social worker and what might become story this week. He was driving his reason and Hunter okay and in this league. He's driving down the road got his window open and dear, how to decide and it had comes in the passenger 's window slides alongside the head. He was an emergency room visit is there for a couple hours because he was dizzy was not knocked dizzy was a black enough and he is there, go back to that area and hot enough but I told him and he and I also remembered he had some event, but Lauren 's trunk. I said, well, that's why the black attacking the Lord drunk and really work, so you never know what's going to happen in your life. We never know that that's why we always want the depth of our soil to be correct. So we make right choices. So Jesus speaks of the separation but here comes he was come to bring everyone to God recognizes that there are weeds that had midseason installed by the evil one and those weeds see no value in God 's principles. They see no value in forgiveness. They see no value in loving your neighbor as yourself. I see no value in mercy, they see the value of building godly character. They live their lives in fear of a divine will, which is a life is not selfish life is about serving one of my one of the tapes serve no personal development takes guy always spoke about how that you want to achieve your area of success. How can I help enough other people arrive at their own success and you'll find that you've arrived at your lot like the principle of sowing and reaping. We sell the seeds we so godly seeds. Verse forty three so the righteous will shine forth as the sun in the kingdom of their father that there is a destiny. There is not a death, the very thing areas and in July. Life to our choices and the choices that we may discern God, and those choices will take us to a place where God has God a place where God has prepared for us. God has a print place prepared for us so that we can go there and be with him for eternity. And but until that time, right, arrives when God is with us now. Don't people get disturbed over evil. But I ask you this. Can we get excited over. But getting excited over in our lives about the good things that are planted about the good things that God has done and how God has provided, and God has led us and God has kept us. Can we become excited about that. No hope in the promises that are alive in our lives because of our understanding of the Scripture. You don't realize here's to hear, let him hear. As we have heard the word, and heard the principles of God explained to us and as we have received them into our lives, then change that. So we become excited over the good things in my life. We may have excited over the over the experiences that have changed us and brought us to this place can we pray and ask God for direction and how we should serve and how we should forgive and how the we should love cleaning up our lives by his word cleaning up our thoughts are not our actions are words or deeds during the goods are those that desire to destroy us. How shall we know that we are followers of Christ we will love. We will love you. They will know that we are Christians by our love, Solaris, and don'ts that I want you to remember don't say that I can graduate to face the future, don't say you can. Why, because all things are possible, notably but there is seeing the state of greatness is in you is not planted by its planted in many rate. Many were different way, but it's planted primarily by God and his word never say that you can't. There is there is a possibility when God has given you dreams is giving you dreams that are broken your heart, by the by the spirit of God by the word of God all things are possible to him who believes God has a purpose for us. Don't give up when you are not down, perseverance works patience. We don't give up when we fall easy it isn't that he will never fall success is getting up one more time in the fall that can no one can teach you, no one can ever teaches that you never fail. That's that's that's a given, were going to fail. But I make either we get up how many times we get up and keep going because we have a promise of a purpose in the heart don't get this done to disturbed over over evil over evil people over the weeds around our focus is on the one who has planted us that it is our season that is the word of God, don't just don't get discouraged because discouragement is an attitude and an attitude that is a perspective, you see. Let this mind be in you which was also in Christ Jesus, that there is the mind of God, and the purpose of God him. Jesus then you know Jesus, then get off course and whenever we know that you have a purpose again I'm why in a relationship with the father and with the divine relationship. The captain and the most difficult of places is the hardest one don't grumble and complain: asked if there is any sinners in the court don't grumble and complain you know in the wilderness when the children of Israel were in the wilderness between between Egypt and the and the promised land as many died from grumbling and complaining inside old age. The weeds and the weeds are growing together don't accept the character of the weeds don't be a Lone Ranger. You're not alone in this, Jesus said I am with you I am with you always. I will never leave you nor forsake you don't expect second-best safety first the kingdom of God and his righteousness and all these things will be added on view there is no secondary Christian bloom where you're planted. You see, whenever we look at this quality, we don't blame were not caught up in the blame game. It's not my fault or not, take responsibility for who we are to take responsibility for our decisions we take responsibility for our actions. We would take responsibility for sale in our failure. Why, because we confess them and ask God for his forgiveness, whenever we ask him for his forgiveness. He separates us from the failures and gives us his Spirit to teach us the missed opportunities. We learn from in our life. C allow the word of God to teach you allow the spirit of God, to breathe the breath of life into your life see whenever we make choices where making decisions and in steering our ship. Lots of people can turn the wheel on a ship was anchored in the harbor makes no decision makes no difference where your spirit because there is no directional change. But as we are moving in, as we are going. We make decisions and sometimes the littlest course correction makes all of the difference in our lives. There's an old cowboy saying that says fall off the horse, seven times in your real cowboy. You're right that the first time I read and thought what is that meanwhile the ideas if you're real cowboy. I get back on and if you're a real cowboy. You've fallen off the horse is if you fall off the track you get back on if you follow away from your disciplines you get back on the if you fall out of a habit you get back into the habit. You see, we are slaves. The habit, so make sure that your life of good habits of praying and reading the Scripture of a being in church of studying and having friends that are that are Christians and and being part of the harvest of God, we find that in doing so we are making habits, and we stay with it. The text says the weeds in the weeds are both see planted in the soil of your life. Why this planted by God, and one is planted by evil true which one you will water and grow the flowers at my house. The ones that are doing really well are the ones that I water with miracle grow the seed of God 's word is the miracle grow of our life. The miracle God 's miracle of life and love that he is forwarding to you and lots and that water of God 's word cause you to grow and develop over a lifetime in which God has a plan and a purpose for you. And as we allow seed of God 's word and as we make the choices right choices. The depth of our character will grow no matter what the difficulties may come there is still there is still faith there is still hope there is still life embarrassed trust that in I am safe in the arms of my father in this life and in the life to come in with that security in place. I make choices todayI also Matthew chapter thirteen twenty four to thirty and thirty six forty three Matthew thirteen twenty four to thirty. Lastly, please log on the parables on the parable of the soil, and today we're going to look at the parable of the weeds and the we the tears. Matthew thirteen twenty four to thirty get to wonder why God doesn't just zap with you individuals and pull them out. Get them out of the world right away in our there bad enough whining to take care of announced that it instead of waiting while let's read Matthew thirteen. Beginning in verse twenty four and Jesus told them another parable. The kingdom of heaven is like a man who sowed good seed in his field. But while everyone was sleeping his enemy came and sowed weeds among the weeds and went away with the weight sprouted informed has been the weeds were also also appeared the owner. Servants came to him and said, serve, but did you sow good seed in the field where they did the waves come from an enemy did this he replied the sermon. Ask and you want us to go and pull them up. Know the answer because while your full and the weeds you may route up the week with, let both grow together until the harvest at that time I will follow harvesters first collect the weeds tied in bundles to be burned, and then gather the wheat and bring it into my barn. I didn't verse thirty six. But he left the crowd went in the house, his disciples came to him and said, explain to us the parable. The weeds in the field. He answered the one who sowed good seed is the Son of Man, the field is the world and the guy say stands for the sons of the kingdom these are the sons of the evil one, and then enemy who sold them is the devil, the high rest of the end of the age and the harvesters are the Angels as the weeds are pulled up and burned in the fire solo will be at the end of the age, the Son of Man will send out his angels, and they will weed out his kingdom. Everything that causes sin and all who do evil. They will throw them into the fiery furnace, where there will be weeping and gnashing of teeth. Then the righteous will shine like the sun in the kingdom of their father. He who has ears, let him hear. So this parable emphasizes the contrast between the present coexistence of the week and Louise and the future separation. So as we look at our society. You know, sometimes it's easy to distinguish between wheat and weeds, and sometimes it's hard to distinguish while what who is right and all of this, but with offering the right opinion in the right philosophy are right perspective and so you know if you ever plan tonight we planted woodland flowers and things. And sometimes when the growling, you don't know if there weeds or other flour in a new plant seed, sometimes deceived Rowan. They look like flowers. It really trained. I can know whenever they're very young. They're just sprouting up with his lead in what is a flower and so sometimes it in our society and I are you around us in our world, it's hard to swallow. What is leads, and what is the right thing and what is blue than that which is the word of God dwelling in a godly character and what is while the parable here tells us that the sewer so good seeing, but also we see where the devil came along and so corrupt. See, and so we have both coexisting together now if I had my way, there is some individuals that we would singly get away with how I won't pick on choose anything, and if you are present but you go back in history you would maybe pick Hitler is out now there's a guy who should have been uprooted and ill destroy, but you wonder you thought you have watched perhaps the documentaries on his life and and so on and on history Channel and N/A have it. They have some information about his childhood, where he grew up and how he grew up in things like that but somewhere in that somewhere in that time. His life changed and he became this individual who was a lot ambitious for power and ambition for power at the cost of everyone else and anyone else well you look at our lives where is it that we change. Where is it that we distinguish whether we are. We were weak when it said that in our lives. We've made a decision to follow Jesus Christ and allow Christ to change us in the change our hearts in our lives is still decision that we make all the time we did we make a decision every day about things that were going to do or not to say or not say no. Last week we spoke on the parable. The soil and the several reactions to the word of God, and that we saw where the all the persons heard the same word, all the people heard the same word and the parable is their response to the word. How they responded in various ways. The hard ground. Either the hard hearted individuals who refuse to allow me the word of God to grow in her life. The other is the the floorings and pistols, and where they hear the word. The word is sown in their lives. Child found by the cares of the world and then there is the good soil, but you never what the point of the message was audio make good soil, I do make good soil way to make soil compounds you take the things that are discarded. Ron you are you know your lawns in your engines on your grasses and put them together and you mix them in you, you roll them in your making, and so every time we make right decisions were building the nutrient value, Walmart, so I'll and that we are adding to the depth of our soil, and you I often go by Elwood driving around in icy feel that it is up in grass of monographs and often think I just like to go Miller at the fibrin media. I just don't know it, and in the reason I wanted while it is not so much that it looks nice and neat, but that every time you mount your chopping up that grass putting it down anybody make more topsoil, animated greater depth in the slide subtitle, while what you know over the years of you know, ten, fifteen, twenty years whatever. If you know that every year and keep it mowed down to keep the grass spelling it don't keep adding to the depth of the soil so it are lives, the decisions that we may be areas of our life that we make in following Christ of our prayers of our reading the Scriptures of our coming together to church of Bible studies and devotionals and things like that. It helps to add the depth of the soil and the depth of the soil, faith comes by hearing the word of God. And so the depth of our character continues to grow because of art on the decisions that we may, by the word of God, and making right choices and it continues to grow, and so that when the hard times on the roots the shallow roots, RD, and you granted class on the ones that they are able to survive the droughts in the end the times of difficulty and so in our lives as we make right choices and understand the word of God. We continue to add to the depth of our soil, so the parable of the wheat and weeds. First of all God cells only good seat and the floor. God is so good. See, God 's desire for us to fail, God does not desire for us to sin. God does not have God has never had one negative that instructive lot about you, it's impossible for God to think evil of you on any of us, for God save the reason he said he lets the owner of all species. I need for God so loved the world he gave his only begotten son for what reason for what they love the wells for what reason John three sixteen for God so loved the world he gave his only begotten son that whosoever believes in him should not perish but have everlasting life. That verse seventeen for God sent not his son into the world to condemn the world, but that the world through him might have life. Jesus Christ does not come to condemn the word of God is not come to condemn us. It is come to set us free, is found to bring us into the kingdom has come to give us new life and to give it to us in abundance. You see, God is the seller of goods. See, and all that God wants from us is that we would grow to see this word enrolled to see them. His character and role the state of his life. What I want. What about when the separation, God reported in hell. Now our sins pleasant now our sins keep us separated from God. The way that we have allowed to grow in our lives. There is no week there was nothing there about the weeds and there is no faith. There is no faith in God there. That's what separates us from God. It is that God why you know I don't like him is is I don't know who you are, you never allowed my seat to grow in your life who leads the chairs where did they come from the Scripture say where the weeds come from the enemy the devil bouquet if the defense stated sound by God, and that's the week. The good character. The quality of our life. If that is settled by God. And then there is the weeds that are sown in our life. While it's obvious the descriptors is saying that the devil so while in awaken the old phrase long time ago in the sixties lineup was alive then. But you write off some guy for a while& you cannot battle audience you I'm sixty two puppy sixty to take your wondering. I know I don't want to thank you and willingly works okay for our is gone, but I'll figure it out to a food you consume at yourself in the sixties. Everything goes awry Brian thought leaders arrive. But anyhow, the fifth seven -year-old have a clue what that was rise of grain. That's like week, but it's not many soldiers, as it is about the devil and and is not a mythological person, the devil is a very real person. It was created by God but he was created by God to be a servant. It was created by God to be to give service to God and the devil decides not to want to do that and it's showing Charles to rebel against God install his desire is to ruin still kill and destroy is to ruin God 's creation. Enter enter words to help them to make God is aware software and so he desires to steal the killer to destroy sonar live. He sows seeds that are destructive that are stealing, killing and destroying. First of all those seeds that are destructive. I dare to destroy your life, and while so what would destroy us stealing all the lust of the eyes lust of flesh and pride of life that would make it whenever and in and in this case he takes that which is intended for good makes enable the case that which is going to an end makes it makes it evil to see the Scriptures, Lisa, the devil, as a roaring line, seeking whom he may devour. That's his desire to destroy his purposes is, we said to still kill and destroy his method is to take going to turn into evil that nonetheless of the eye that this makes me look good. It makes me feel good to make me more than what I have so somehow I am going to be able to achieve these without God, the very temptations that Jesus encountered me that this forty days of the end of the forty days in temptation, he presents Jesus with these opportunities to bypass all of the bypass is life in that and in the end they teachings in the end across is to bypass all of that and give it to him, and he begins by saying, well, you know. the Scripture just like in the garden. The God really said the temptation so that's where the depth of soil comes in in our life that we have an understanding of the Scriptures and understanding of the word of God so that we are able to make decisions and when we are tempted to do evil to do wrong were able to say, not always. We understand the difference between right and wrong. We understand the difference between making choices and making right choices and wrong choices simple solution. The same would be to rip it out. But what if while we were in our own sins that God came along and ripped us out than we now wouldn't have a place in God 's kingdom because we were ripped out. So God has a solution. The harvest is coming. Sometimes it's my arrow that that we stand before God sometimes it's it will be at the end of the age when the trump of God so found dead in Christ shall rise and build those which are alive and remain shall be cut off to meet in the air. We never know when our time is coming. I'm a friend works at the hospice with me, and he's a social worker and what might become story this week. He was driving his reason and Hunter okay and in this league. He's driving down the road got his window open and dear, how to decide and it had comes in the passenger 's window slides alongside the head. He was an emergency room visit is there for a couple hours because he was dizzy was not knocked dizzy was a black enough and he is there, go back to that area and hot enough but I told him and he and I also remembered he had some event, but Lauren 's trunk. I said, well, that's why the black attacking the Lord drunk and really work, so you never know what's going to happen in your life. We never know that that's why we always want the depth of our soil to be correct. So we make right choices. So Jesus speaks of the separation but here comes he was come to bring everyone to God recognizes that there are weeds that had midseason installed by the evil one and those weeds see no value in God 's principles. They see no value in forgiveness. They see no value in loving your neighbor as yourself. I see no value in mercy, they see the value of building godly character. They live their lives in fear of a divine will, which is a life is not selfish life is about serving one of my one of the tapes serve no personal development takes guy always spoke about how that you want to achieve your area of success. How can I help enough other people arrive at their own success and you'll find that you've arrived at your lot like the principle of sowing and reaping. We sell the seeds we so godly seeds. Verse forty three so the righteous will shine forth as the sun in the kingdom of their father that there is a destiny. There is not a death, the very thing areas and in July. Life to our choices and the choices that we may discern God, and those choices will take us to a place where God has God a place where God has prepared for us. God has a print place prepared for us so that we can go there and be with him for eternity. And but until that time, right, arrives when God is with us now. Don't people get disturbed over evil. But I ask you this. Can we get excited over. But getting excited over in our lives about the good things that are planted about the good things that God has done and how God has provided, and God has led us and God has kept us. Can we become excited about that. No hope in the promises that are alive in our lives because of our understanding of the Scripture. You don't realize here's to hear, let him hear. As we have heard the word, and heard the principles of God explained to us and as we have received them into our lives, then change that. So we become excited over the good things in my life. We may have excited over the over the experiences that have changed us and brought us to this place can we pray and ask God for direction and how we should serve and how we should forgive and how the we should love cleaning up our lives by his word cleaning up our thoughts are not our actions are words or deeds during the goods are those that desire to destroy us. How shall we know that we are followers of Christ we will love. We will love you. They will know that we are Christians by our love, Solaris, and don'ts that I want you to remember don't say that I can graduate to face the future, don't say you can. Why, because all things are possible, notably but there is seeing the state of greatness is in you is not planted by its planted in many rate. Many were different way, but it's planted primarily by God and his word never say that you can't. There is there is a possibility when God has given you dreams is giving you dreams that are broken your heart, by the by the spirit of God by the word of God all things are possible to him who believes God has a purpose for us. Don't give up when you are not down, perseverance works patience. We don't give up when we fall easy it isn't that he will never fall success is getting up one more time in the fall that can no one can teach you, no one can ever teaches that you never fail. That's that's that's a given, were going to fail. But I make either we get up how many times we get up and keep going because we have a promise of a purpose in the heart don't get this done to disturbed over over evil over evil people over the weeds around our focus is on the one who has planted us that it is our season that is the word of God, don't just don't get discouraged because discouragement is an attitude and an attitude that is a perspective, you see. Let this mind be in you which was also in Christ Jesus, that there is the mind of God, and the purpose of God him. Jesus then you know Jesus, then get off course and whenever we know that you have a purpose again I'm why in a relationship with the father and with the divine relationship. The captain and the most difficult of places is the hardest one don't grumble and complain: asked if there is any sinners in the court don't grumble and complain you know in the wilderness when the children of Israel were in the wilderness between between Egypt and the and the promised land as many died from grumbling and complaining inside old age. The weeds and the weeds are growing together don't accept the character of the weeds don't be a Lone Ranger. You're not alone in this, Jesus said I am with you I am with you always. I will never leave you nor forsake you don't expect second-best safety first the kingdom of God and his righteousness and all these things will be added on view there is no secondary Christian bloom where you're planted. You see, whenever we look at this quality, we don't blame were not caught up in the blame game. It's not my fault or not, take responsibility for who we are to take responsibility for our decisions we take responsibility for our actions. We would take responsibility for sale in our failure. Why, because we confess them and ask God for his forgiveness, whenever we ask him for his forgiveness. He separates us from the failures and gives us his Spirit to teach us the missed opportunities. We learn from in our life. C allow the word of God to teach you allow the spirit of God, to breathe the breath of life into your life see whenever we make choices where making decisions and in steering our ship. Lots of people can turn the wheel on a ship was anchored in the harbor makes no decision makes no difference where your spirit because there is no directional change. But as we are moving in, as we are going. We make decisions and sometimes the littlest course correction makes all of the difference in our lives. There's an old cowboy saying that says fall off the horse, seven times in your real cowboy. You're right that the first time I read and thought what is that meanwhile the ideas if you're real cowboy. I get back on and if you're a real cowboy. You've fallen off the horse is if you fall off the track you get back on if you follow away from your disciplines you get back on the if you fall out of a habit you get back into the habit. You see, we are slaves. The habit, so make sure that your life of good habits of praying and reading the Scripture of a being in church of studying and having friends that are that are Christians and and being part of the harvest of God, we find that in doing so we are making habits, and we stay with it. The text says the weeds in the weeds are both see planted in the soil of your life. Why this planted by God, and one is planted by evil true which one you will water and grow the flowers at my house. The ones that are doing really well are the ones that I water with miracle grow the seed of God 's word is the miracle grow of our life. The miracle God 's miracle of life and love that he is forwarding to you and lots and that water of God 's word cause you to grow and develop over a lifetime in which God has a plan and a purpose for you. And as we allow seed of God 's word and as we make the choices right choices. The depth of our character will grow no matter what the difficulties may come there is still there is still faith there is still hope there is still life embarrassed trust that in I am safe in the arms of my father in this life and in the life to come in with that security in place. I make choices today