The Sermon What Type of Ground Are You? by David McGee
Jan 08, 2012
What Type of Ground Are You? (37:31)
Referenced Scriptures: Matthew 13:1-23; Hebrews 11:1; Acts 27:22; Mark 4:20; Luke 8:15; Malachi 3:10
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Seed
- You know how it works
- Ready heart for this - insight
- You have God-blessed eyes...ears
Sower
Seed - The Word of God
- Sewn into the Hearts of People
- Road
- Gravel
- - Excitement that is short lived
- Weeds
- - Worry, illusions and wanting
- Good Ground
- - Hears, takes in the news and produces a harvest
- - Received
- - Embraced
- - Perservered
- - Victory
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Matthew 13:1-23
1) On that day Jesus went out of the house, and sat by the seaside.
2) Great multitudes gathered to him, so that he entered into a boat, and sat, and all the multitude stood on the beach.
3) He spoke to them many things in parables, saying, "Behold, the farmer went forth to sow.
4) As he sowed, some seeds fell by the roadside, and the birds came and devoured them.
5) Others fell on rocky ground, where they didn‘t have much soil, and immediately they sprang up, because they had no deepness of earth.
6) When the sun had risen, they were scorched. Because they had no root, they withered away.
7) Others fell on thorns. The thorns grew up and choked them:
8) and others fell on good soil, and yielded fruit: some one hundred times, some sixty, and some thirty.
9) He who has ears to hear, let him hear."
10) The disciples came, and said to him, "Why do you speak to them in parables?"
11) He answered them, "To you it is given to know the mysteries of the Kingdom of Heaven, but it is not given to them.
12) For whoever has, to him will be given, and he will have abundance, but whoever doesn‘t have, from him will be taken away even that which he has.
13) Therefore I speak to them in parables, because seeing they don‘t see, and hearing, they don‘t hear, neither do they understand.
14) In them the prophecy of Isaiah is fulfilled, which says, ‘By hearing you will hear, and will in no way understand; Seeing you will see, and will in no way perceive:
15) For this people‘s heart has grown callous, Their ears are dull of hearing, Their eyes they have closed; Or else perhaps they might perceive with their eyes, Hear with their ears, Understand with their heart, And should turn again; And I would heal them.‘
16) "But blessed are your eyes, for they see; and your ears, for they hear.
17) For most assuredly I tell you that many prophets and righteous men desired to see the things which you see, and didn‘t see them; and to hear the things which you hear, and didn‘t hear them.
18) "Hear, then, the parable of the farmer.
19) When anyone hears the word of the kingdom, and doesn‘t understand it, the evil one comes, and snatches away that which has been sown in his heart. This is what was sown by the roadside.
20) What was sown on the rocky places, this is he who hears the word, and immediately with joy receives it;
21) yet he has no root in himself, but endures for a while. When oppression or persecution arises because of the word, immediately he stumbles.
22) What was sown among the thorns, this is he who hears the word, but the cares of this world and the deceitfulness of riches choke the word, and he becomes unfruitful.
23) What was sown on the good ground, this is he who hears the word, and understands it, who most assuredly bears fruit, and brings forth, some one hundred times, some sixty, some thirty."
Hebrews 11:1
1) Now faith is assurance of things hoped for, proof of things not seen.
Acts 27:22
22) Now I exhort you to cheer up, for there will be no loss of life among you, but only of the ship.
Mark 4:20
20) These are those who were sown on the good ground: such as hear the word, and accept it, and bear fruit, some thirty times, some sixty times, and some one hundred times."
Luke 8:15
15) That in the good ground, these are such as in an honest and good heart, having heard the word, hold it tightly, and bring forth fruit with patience.
Malachi 3:10
10) Bring the whole tithe into the store-house, that there may be food in my house, and prove me now herewith, says Yahweh of hosts, if I will not open you the windows of heaven, and pour you out a blessing, that there shall not be room enough [to receive it].
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The finalists and thirteen, verses one to twenty three and I know I spoke on this particular topic, maybe six months ago or something by I am not one to do it again have kind of a different little slant on it and hopefully it will come across the way that I have it in my self nephew thirteen, one to twenty three and this is a very unique parable very unique story that Jesus is telling us now go to be reading it from the message Bible and was can interject little bits as we go through about this, about the same time, Jesus left the house and sat on the beach. So Jesus is at the Sea of Galilee. I and in no time. All at all. A crowd gathered along the shoreline, forcing him to get into about using the boat as a pulpit. He addresses congregation telling stories. What do you make of this. This is a story to tell a farmer planted seed as he scattered the seeds somehow, some of it fell on the road and birds ate it. Some fell on the gravel and his father quickly but then put down roots. So when the sun came out that when it just as quickly. Some fell in the weeds as it came out, it was strangled by the weeds. Some fell on the good are the produce a harvest beyond the wildest dreams. Are you listening to this. Are you really listening to in verse ten disciples and stories off to see Galilean. He's now with the disciples disciples came up and asked why we tell stories. Jesus reply you give an insight into God 's kingdom. You know how it works, and this is the challenge we find in the story. The new novel, how you Marcus, this is a IV. Maybe one of the keys to this this particular Scripture is that you know how it works is that Oaxaca right now that I know how works all that Stella Gibbon given insight borders as I come from the insight comes from the desire to serve God. Not everyone has this gift, not everyone has this insight. It hasn't been given to them. Those were just honest setting up inept in a listening and watching and waiting, and they really didn't have what many people were following Jesus enough for the miracles that he dad and Mary may follow him far down that that the different acts. Maybe the feeding of the five thousand and you know different things, and he had done for them. They heard about in so they came along just to see what was going to do next, but the disciples. Jesus says to them, you have a different perspective. The inside. You've been given an inside look at verse would a lot whenever someone has a ready heart for this. The insight and understanding flow freely, not a qualifying statement. You know how it works, and you have our ready heart for this already high for this moment you sign now is going to give us an explanation of what this writing heart looks like that were not there yet, but if there is no readiness a choice of receptivity instead, this appears so if there is no readiness in your heart excited those away, said this is that you think about what happens with the Scriptures we think about what happens to the word of God the Word of God is something that has spread into your life. Everyone you see if the enzyme and many people feel that we are the I'm not making a prediction that Jesus going to come in a certain day and hour. This now and in and in the near future. By telling you what the Scripture says that we are approaching the end times where approaching the time, and we're all going to stand before God. People who do not God. People who are against God. Christians alike were all women stand before God give account of our life to Christ and what is our account going to be what we have done with the work who see you see, there are some of us who will save received the word, and there will be inside. And then there are those who will receive the word and why what happens there will be no other know this already did, so I don't really need that. I'm really not very much into that. That spiritual stuff for that Christian stopped while if so, the ginning trace of race activities soon disappears. Then we see this all aligned in the parts of soils in just a minute. That's why I tell you stories. Jesus said, I tell you stories to help you understand spiritual truth, it's hard for us to understand spiritual truths Jesus business parables so that we can see things in a metaphysical reality, and then make the transition to a spiritual reality. So he is also physical understanding in which we can understand it all, you understand about farming. I understand about planting seed will let me take that understanding make an application to a spiritual process of spiritual thing. That's why I tell you stories to create what a readiness I want to put Jesus say I am creating a readiness in your life by telling you stories taking something that is unknown and taking a toll place that you will know when you will understand not the people toward receptive insight. God is watching us. Good night. Somebody is now you want multiplexed on your place is not democracy, but are not sure that I was like okay did you know did you get that. Did you feel that the Juneau is likely to know and get the nuts and acknowledged talk again and I saw we are notched towards a receptive insight and our present state, they can spare till doomsday cannot see in their present state. They can stand to do the same Nazi lesson~ painless until they're blue in the face and not getting Idol want. Isaiah 's forecast repeated over again. You have ears to hear, but you don't hear your eyes, but you don't see people are blockheads. That's invalid that mark your block edges that they stick their fingers in their ears so that they won't have to listen otherwise not in here, which I do Seo on a gutsy singer before and still what are some of the ways that people never listen to you what you want, but what the people not listen to you while just think about God. How have people not listen to him. But you know what we would go back to that song we sang about race. He doesn't look at your block, sadness, so they screw their eyes shut so they won't have to look so they won't have to deal with me face to face and let me know them. My goodness, there was such that said, let me field God is saying he wants to make a difference in our life, but they are solidly ways that we shut our eyes close our ears and not listen to what God wants to do and what is God 's purpose. God 's purpose is not about finding fault. God 's purpose about feeling our lives healing our hearts healing our wounds healing our soul killing us from the inside out by but you have God last times will always telling the disciples. You've got God my size you. God bless our what that means they were able to see things differently. Never, never enough if I have to do is ask one should can send me into a room to look for something. I have the worst division as I can see if they are going to Ehrlich Renate Hyland looks item I can find a C Watson thinks that they may have a problem. I have a problem. I can't find a thing. You know, people asked me to go get something insightful. Please don't ask me go get it because I'll never find it because I can't see any limits under guys for whatever reason, I don't have that type of vulnerability, though, but some people are that way. Spiritually. God is saying is not so with no telling his disciples. You've got my size. I could see. And God bless Sears will and God bless you that you are able to hear certain truth, you will understand. I know you're sometimes I look at no pastors and things around and on television Argo said in ill meeting there's an easier path to speak about truth is like wow, where they enter the data, wherever here that we know what one is also licensed through study or picking things up and was like, wow& and God bless Isaac Douglas is an image of us are the same way that God has a way of taking things and making them specific to our line got has blessed your ability to see. I see things differently than I did. I hear things differently than I did. Why, because God has touched my eyes and names look at storm verse eighteen and nineteen studying this story of the farmer planting seeds. So now he's coming to the disciples of dying than the newest conversation. I want you to study something was to study the farmer planting seed when anyone hears the news of the kingdom, and doesn't take again. It just remains on the surface, and so the evil one comes along and pluck the right of that person 's heart. Now we have a sour and we have seen now we know what the seat as soon as the word of God, and the seller is the person spreading the word. In this case we have Jesus is the one using himself as the one presenting the analogy and are announcing today I am the seller and the seed is the word of God, and you are the recipients. Okay, so that also and also I also am a recipient because the Holy Spirit have to speak to my life. Hopefully that I been paying attention to what he is helping me to say as saying in a way that will touch on somebody's a way of making us both the seller and the seeded same time but in this case wouldn't say I'm the seller and the seed is the word of God which we are reading here and what we have we have the will foster right. I'm a person 's heart. This is seen the farmer scatters on the road now. Where is the word of God so and so into the hearts of people. Now the hearts of people can be one of floor one is a road and I ever scattered yellow scattering seed. Our day on I was thinking about going the five shell and looking at them. I like to go look at big machinery and stuff. Not that I'll ever be driving in any of anyone anyhow any night. My brother lives business in the area over there in Indiana. On the one farm accident spot a hundred thousand dollars for the six hundred thousand dollars. And it is a very large conflict, but the only thing about this corn planter is it comes with a computer and the computer has a GPS system and the GDS system, they can put it in the field and now the dominant circumference feet of an intimate look at all in and then they can't get upset and the computer GPS system will take it across the end of the field, soccer and the end they've gotten out of the driver has to turn around and headed back once he gets upset headed back. It will do a half an inch difference in an entire mile to all and then go back and forth like that you hook up the computer at the time harvest and it will. It will tell them how much of the corn grew and how great the clockwise in different areas of the field and in the next year it will apply in the areas of the field that there were less of a crop I will fly more nutrients more fertilizers to that area to make it as productive as the rest of the area. So now you live in Oregon, Portland, then if you and they'll outlast in these might be a huge fields know whenever you whenever you are are harvesting right. You knew the route and you always make sure that like at the far end of the words knowledge blurts out, you don't want to miss any grain, so you generally the bottle. They are so, so that you are able to know you don't want to leave grain in the field so you leave about a foot while in our farming around here doesn't make much of a difference, but out of those Wheatcroft and you have, how do you know if you have a ten fifteen miles of fields that are not still a lot of gasoline and diesel fuel cell, a computer will put you within a couple inches of that. And so you save miles. The fuel over the miles while harvesting plant. What comes and goes, and I find that harvest so in this case we have received, which is Solomon 's sound on the road. Well, the road is a very hard service. The second, the status casting gravel, so we had the road and you have gravel down the road is very easy procedure to be plucked up in this land landing on the hard surface. It can grow in the birds come pick up deceit, evil, evil one comes and talks and talks around a lot. I wasn't right. Our heart because the heart is not receptive by the stage after the gravel. This person who hears and instantly respond with enthusiasm, but there is no soil character, and so when the emotions were often some difficulties arrive, there's nothing to show for so the gravel is excitement that is short-lived I was asked to Louise. All ways. Now if you're thinking well wiseguy, so on lots and lots of good in his planting while in the older days, it would break up the soil, but it would be you would broadcast and your broadcast to see the machine you said all along and drop it into the ground. If you're broadcasting in the broadcasting it would be carried over onto the router be carried in the wage, but your selling in a language is broadcasting out there and we go to different places, so this is a very common common analogy or understanding. Whenever Jesus speaking in the wage is a person who shares of the kingdom, the kingdoms good news, but the weeds of worming. Oh, ways of worrying what else allusions and NSA dissolutions allusions not the same illusions where he evolutions, I'd say that's more my misunderstanding on this and misinterpretation of what this is all supposed to be these allusions about getting more and wanting everything under the sun strangle what his heart, all wanting allusions and want in a little bit and talk about what is the benefit of the seed. So the benefit of the Saison is that you will reap a harvest hundredfold sixty fold thirty four. The illusion is that understood as so much data, make millions, the Davisson, God is God is good and there is an allusion this is a misinterpretation about what the CBS that the illusions that no one the same test. Louise and President hear the same task on the Garth is a person with years and taken the news and then produces a harvest beyond his wildest imagination is a good ground, and this is what we all want to be is a good ground relatively good graph and and okay I thought. I love a good round. I rested his heart are the people know that they broken up, followed moment so we have the seller, which is in this case, it's me. The scene which is the word of God, and this is where God is so into the hearts you and you get all you and I is that you listen to what I have to say I saw there is a path which is the road to see this. That's the way quickly. There is a rocky place of the gravel where we hear the word, and we respond that yet it is short-lived, it doesn't really take root. The other is the thorns of the weeds where the worries of life in the deceitfulness of wealth choke it out and then we have the good ground, and we know that what is Jesus then speaking out those who speak the word are the farmers. So Jesus is trying to accompany something here. What is Jesus trying to tell what is Jesus trying to tell what they really know it's more than just this morning, just planting seeds and getting harder. Jesus is. Jesus is the word of God made flesh and dwelt among us. So Jesus is wanting not to make an application to what we're doing with our hands and what we are doing when our miles and what we're doing with our faith is all important. But Jesus was said to Jesus, was to tell us something about what happens in the heart of a person what happens in the soul of a person what happens in the life of a person is whenever we talk about forgiveness. If we confess our sins, his staple just to forgive us of our sins and cleanse us from all unrighteousness. What is is the word of God so into our lives. How do we respond is my hard heart while you know, I really don't need religion stuff, the birds can take away all while and I get on regular Jason everything they wonderful excited, but it is short-lived because life is in his wonderful to thought it would Amanda waves out well. Yes, Jesus come into my life and an item that is, be different, and I'm going to make it where I'm going to bloodletting the offering and God make me wretch and neither is a good ground. The good ground is while Grace has called my name. I'm not worthy of knowing Jesus. I'm not working to be a child of King, but he looks beyond my fault he sees my name Jesus comes into my life. He forgives and I am a new person, and I'm growing this person I'm growing this life by the word of God, and by the Spirit of God is no longer either live but Christ that lives within me you think this is the good ground this is the scene song by Christ into our lives, what about faith. Hebrews eleven one faith comes by hearing the word of God. So I gave our faith. God help me in my face. Someone who I need to do I need to pray and I need to read the Scriptures what I'm doing is I'm taking that into my life and is not just something that is landing on the surface of my life this month. I'm trying to be a Christian. That is not working while it never will work. Christ is the only way we can become a Christian. I'm trying to live the Christian life, but I fail, I can't live the Christian life God has given me helps me to live the Christian life. You see, this is a good route. It's not an illusion that God has changed us from the inside out. And that is in us. He is doing the work is asked that changes us with courage at twenty seven twenty two. Paul is saying keep your courage, no one will be lost. Only the shipping here is that it's very supposed going through even in all three cities in the ship is going to be a disaster in the ship is going to sink. But Paul says take currently. You see, whenever we face the difficulties of life, and we and we feel like, how can I face this God only gives me the courage missing. This is the word of God 's sorrow into our lives. Week after week, day after day, as we read the Scriptures and as we pray that these business word is so into our life and the good grounds to sit and plan since and what happens whenever the ground is planted and is good ground bears harvest Moon and the harvest is something that goes in our lives the fruit of righteousness and the fruit of God grows in this good ground is a so you see, every time we try every time we read the Scriptures. Every time we come to church every time where involved with other Christians in working with them. We find that we are receiving seed into our lives and I say this is is to be a good ground of our life, and it and it continues to grow and produce a harvest beyond what what's I wanted saying the Apple in the message Bible and beyond what many remember beyond our wildest dreams and that being in the KJ says some a hundredfold, some sixty fold, some thirty full that is going to produce a harvest of hundreds sixteen thirty hundred and four sixty four or thirty four now that's going to increase how we make things grow. Want to fertilize the soil changes. Paul says in and in the forgotten. I got the pollsters for sin shall not be your master because you are not under law but under grace. Paul was declaring that a certain kind of grace will set us free from sin power over our daily lives and give us victory. So we have this victory to a life life through the working of the word of God in our lives. So what Jesus is telling us is in this parable that God and you God is announced, is to see God in us the word sown in our heart. So whether we have so far whether we have problems or whether we had difficulties, and you can't overcome them. That's fine because Jesus in you will overcome them. Jesus and you will overcome Jesus and me will overcome the difficult say that Jesus and me will overcome that, again, Jesus in the will overcome again Jesus and me will overcome one is the seed in my life is not just positive thinking it's the word of God the Word of God and me will change my life. Now Matthew thirteen eleven. The knowledge of the secrets of kingdom of heaven. I think that you right now in our lives. The knowledge of the secrets of the kingdom of heaven is given unto you because it's no longer are the limits of price and limited me. He is the strength of my lot is the seed of my life is the whole of my life. I hear to raise themselves in the day we can't elect but if the Spirit of Christ or raised Christ from the dead dwell in you, he will question your mortal bodies, and any of the firstfruits of them that slept. Meaning that if the firstfruits of them that have died. If you come back to life on the spirit of God, and that spirit is not that there is enough left to save it as a loss. First, while look at this. Whoever has will be given more and he will have an abundance just also have raised in their lives. God will build on that great. The foundation that God builds on is the foundation that he creates the foundation. Then he creates in us is the foundation of hope in him, all people are never without hope, forgiveness, we are our life is based upon being forgiven. So therefore we forget our hope is not tablets of wishful thinking. It is a certainty that we have that God will do just like Jesus Christ is come back. That's the blessed hope, now we have a alive. That is not a wishful thinking that Jesus will come back someday. The Bible says he will come back now to go back in the Old Testament. It says the Messiah will be born at the appointed time and talks about how to be born in Bethlehem, how about a virgin will conceive and that was the whole L three thousand years ago, but for just all years ago nobody celebrated Christmas in the becoming of Jesus Christ 's birth of Christ, and that three thousand years ago. That was a whole that they had while we look back on that. We know that it is sort of fact K what happens when you do not plan to see from what you have, you know that in Afrikaans on the starving young some of the very poor countries, so the lobby idea what what they need to see so they sent them over the seat and the seeds were cows. Then, around some young corners on that some of the seeds are treated for each rated with chemicals so that the weeds and staff will not affect the attack is thought and these people were eating and was killing they were eating their seed, and they were dying because they ate to see is an interesting thing. I never saw this before thirteen twenty three you have those Matthew thirteen twenty three marks for twenty okay. Fifteen of the same verse. This is then this parable is recently received this parable. The story 's told three times in each of the Gospels. The first twenty three in Matthew twenty thirteen, says the CHF and the good earth is a person who appears and takes in the news where this person do he received pay more for twenty but the same plant on the good artist represents those who hear the word and embrace it. What is it, here it is embraced explicit here. It's embraced it is understood and the third one. Here is that the dispute of the good are those who are they the good hearts. This is the word, hold on, no matter what sticking with it until the harvest persevere, we find that in these three thirty and the three parables installed to receive to receive it. Put in your house. The second one is to embrace it, and the third one is to persevere, that no matter what you keep going on that when you plant children. The job planted the seed. The next day they look at us is not growing it in a dig it up and look at it this growing and put back in embrace means we know that this is true. We just have to perseveringly do that and then whenever we see how this is putting the practice is Malachi three ten. The type in the offering Amalekites raid ten says that we are to give one ten and storehouse now come up with in circles here is examining okay and the Bible says amount and Matthew then Malachi. The timely offering. That's how the Rob God is behind we do that is a bite-size and offered you under the curse, and the whole lot of you because you rob me bring your full-time in the Temple treasures, so that will be ample provisions in my Temple test me and see if I cannot open open to you. The habit itself to you and pour out blessings beyond your wildest dreams that word your wildest dreams. God is saying, bring one penny out of ten into the storehouse, and through me. Prove me through the giraffe was at the again, a movie without one secondhand lion and online quizzes, moving these guys are planting seeds and they have these little packets at the end of the row and are supposed to be green beans and peas and onions and everything and are going through harvesting the kid looks around he says in a lot at all. Looks like corn that he gave a dive, insolvency, but coordinates of the different in each of the different packets and they all played the same as all court and in all was a green beans about whenever we plan something we prove what the seniors when we plan something we prove what the seed is by receiving it, embracing it and putting in the ground and persevering. We proved to see and want what God is telling us they are giving it is that as we our ties and offerings promised that he would bless us, just as he promised he would like to forgive us as we receive the word. He promised to bless us financially. He promised to bless us in some a hundred fall, some sixty, fall, some thirty four. That is the return on the one ten. One penny out of ten ten dollars out of a hundred thousand dollars out of ten thousand dollars ten thousand nine hundred thousand not want to belong to God, and that the state. We saw in the ground that will make a difference in our lives and our finances and how we live our life and now I'm not saying this all that you get money. I'm standing telling you this so that you are giving why are to be expecting God 's blessing upon your life as we give God promises to give back to us, pressed down, shaken together, running over, so it's not just money were talking about retiring about Bob is about forgiveness and God has to be in our hearts in our lives to produce the fruit of the harvest that if we cannot want to, not of necessity has done work if we can out of the illusion illusion that while I do want the preacher to say I'm going to be filthy rich. That's an illusion, but the weeds. It don't get choked out. But if we care because of the good ground. God has promised that he would pour out blessings upon our line as you see what happens to people who need their seat. Things have a way of disappearing, but God has a way of bringing things back into the hearts. God has a way of old not the storehouse and opening up the windows of heaven pouring out blessings upon our life. God has a way of making his forgiveness work in our lives, making us different people from the inside out is not something you know how it works writing hard for this. You have a really hard for this. You have insight you have gone West high 's and use if God doesn't make this real to your heart, don't do it. God doesn't make it real to your heart. If you confess your sins that he will forgive you see this got on the road. The seed falls on the road and the kind goes away. But you know what the scene that we put in our lives in the good ground has a way of growing and nurturing and bringing us to a place where God does work in us and all that is placed in this part of the whole process. This is not just one thing. One aspect of our lives. It's every aspect of our life and what's going to happen with what you put in here God is going to bring a return of a hundred and sixty four thirty four. That's his promise, and that she does urge for your heart and life, whether it's from forgiveness, whether through victory, whether through overcoming difficulties in your life, whether it's financially. God has a way of sowing seed into our lives that will make a difference now, and for eachThe finalists and thirteen, verses one to twenty three and I know I spoke on this particular topic, maybe six months ago or something by I am not one to do it again have kind of a different little slant on it and hopefully it will come across the way that I have it in my self nephew thirteen, one to twenty three and this is a very unique parable very unique story that Jesus is telling us now go to be reading it from the message Bible and was can interject little bits as we go through about this, about the same time, Jesus left the house and sat on the beach. So Jesus is at the Sea of Galilee. I and in no time. All at all. A crowd gathered along the shoreline, forcing him to get into about using the boat as a pulpit. He addresses congregation telling stories. What do you make of this. This is a story to tell a farmer planted seed as he scattered the seeds somehow, some of it fell on the road and birds ate it. Some fell on the gravel and his father quickly but then put down roots. So when the sun came out that when it just as quickly. Some fell in the weeds as it came out, it was strangled by the weeds. Some fell on the good are the produce a harvest beyond the wildest dreams. Are you listening to this. Are you really listening to in verse ten disciples and stories off to see Galilean. He's now with the disciples disciples came up and asked why we tell stories. Jesus reply you give an insight into God 's kingdom. You know how it works, and this is the challenge we find in the story. The new novel, how you Marcus, this is a IV. Maybe one of the keys to this this particular Scripture is that you know how it works is that Oaxaca right now that I know how works all that Stella Gibbon given insight borders as I come from the insight comes from the desire to serve God. Not everyone has this gift, not everyone has this insight. It hasn't been given to them. Those were just honest setting up inept in a listening and watching and waiting, and they really didn't have what many people were following Jesus enough for the miracles that he dad and Mary may follow him far down that that the different acts. Maybe the feeding of the five thousand and you know different things, and he had done for them. They heard about in so they came along just to see what was going to do next, but the disciples. Jesus says to them, you have a different perspective. The inside. You've been given an inside look at verse would a lot whenever someone has a ready heart for this. The insight and understanding flow freely, not a qualifying statement. You know how it works, and you have our ready heart for this already high for this moment you sign now is going to give us an explanation of what this writing heart looks like that were not there yet, but if there is no readiness a choice of receptivity instead, this appears so if there is no readiness in your heart excited those away, said this is that you think about what happens with the Scriptures we think about what happens to the word of God the Word of God is something that has spread into your life. Everyone you see if the enzyme and many people feel that we are the I'm not making a prediction that Jesus going to come in a certain day and hour. This now and in and in the near future. By telling you what the Scripture says that we are approaching the end times where approaching the time, and we're all going to stand before God. People who do not God. People who are against God. Christians alike were all women stand before God give account of our life to Christ and what is our account going to be what we have done with the work who see you see, there are some of us who will save received the word, and there will be inside. And then there are those who will receive the word and why what happens there will be no other know this already did, so I don't really need that. I'm really not very much into that. That spiritual stuff for that Christian stopped while if so, the ginning trace of race activities soon disappears. Then we see this all aligned in the parts of soils in just a minute. That's why I tell you stories. Jesus said, I tell you stories to help you understand spiritual truth, it's hard for us to understand spiritual truths Jesus business parables so that we can see things in a metaphysical reality, and then make the transition to a spiritual reality. So he is also physical understanding in which we can understand it all, you understand about farming. I understand about planting seed will let me take that understanding make an application to a spiritual process of spiritual thing. That's why I tell you stories to create what a readiness I want to put Jesus say I am creating a readiness in your life by telling you stories taking something that is unknown and taking a toll place that you will know when you will understand not the people toward receptive insight. God is watching us. Good night. Somebody is now you want multiplexed on your place is not democracy, but are not sure that I was like okay did you know did you get that. Did you feel that the Juneau is likely to know and get the nuts and acknowledged talk again and I saw we are notched towards a receptive insight and our present state, they can spare till doomsday cannot see in their present state. They can stand to do the same Nazi lesson~ painless until they're blue in the face and not getting Idol want. Isaiah 's forecast repeated over again. You have ears to hear, but you don't hear your eyes, but you don't see people are blockheads. That's invalid that mark your block edges that they stick their fingers in their ears so that they won't have to listen otherwise not in here, which I do Seo on a gutsy singer before and still what are some of the ways that people never listen to you what you want, but what the people not listen to you while just think about God. How have people not listen to him. But you know what we would go back to that song we sang about race. He doesn't look at your block, sadness, so they screw their eyes shut so they won't have to look so they won't have to deal with me face to face and let me know them. My goodness, there was such that said, let me field God is saying he wants to make a difference in our life, but they are solidly ways that we shut our eyes close our ears and not listen to what God wants to do and what is God 's purpose. God 's purpose is not about finding fault. God 's purpose about feeling our lives healing our hearts healing our wounds healing our soul killing us from the inside out by but you have God last times will always telling the disciples. You've got God my size you. God bless our what that means they were able to see things differently. Never, never enough if I have to do is ask one should can send me into a room to look for something. I have the worst division as I can see if they are going to Ehrlich Renate Hyland looks item I can find a C Watson thinks that they may have a problem. I have a problem. I can't find a thing. You know, people asked me to go get something insightful. Please don't ask me go get it because I'll never find it because I can't see any limits under guys for whatever reason, I don't have that type of vulnerability, though, but some people are that way. Spiritually. God is saying is not so with no telling his disciples. You've got my size. I could see. And God bless Sears will and God bless you that you are able to hear certain truth, you will understand. I know you're sometimes I look at no pastors and things around and on television Argo said in ill meeting there's an easier path to speak about truth is like wow, where they enter the data, wherever here that we know what one is also licensed through study or picking things up and was like, wow& and God bless Isaac Douglas is an image of us are the same way that God has a way of taking things and making them specific to our line got has blessed your ability to see. I see things differently than I did. I hear things differently than I did. Why, because God has touched my eyes and names look at storm verse eighteen and nineteen studying this story of the farmer planting seeds. So now he's coming to the disciples of dying than the newest conversation. I want you to study something was to study the farmer planting seed when anyone hears the news of the kingdom, and doesn't take again. It just remains on the surface, and so the evil one comes along and pluck the right of that person 's heart. Now we have a sour and we have seen now we know what the seat as soon as the word of God, and the seller is the person spreading the word. In this case we have Jesus is the one using himself as the one presenting the analogy and are announcing today I am the seller and the seed is the word of God, and you are the recipients. Okay, so that also and also I also am a recipient because the Holy Spirit have to speak to my life. Hopefully that I been paying attention to what he is helping me to say as saying in a way that will touch on somebody's a way of making us both the seller and the seeded same time but in this case wouldn't say I'm the seller and the seed is the word of God which we are reading here and what we have we have the will foster right. I'm a person 's heart. This is seen the farmer scatters on the road now. Where is the word of God so and so into the hearts of people. Now the hearts of people can be one of floor one is a road and I ever scattered yellow scattering seed. Our day on I was thinking about going the five shell and looking at them. I like to go look at big machinery and stuff. Not that I'll ever be driving in any of anyone anyhow any night. My brother lives business in the area over there in Indiana. On the one farm accident spot a hundred thousand dollars for the six hundred thousand dollars. And it is a very large conflict, but the only thing about this corn planter is it comes with a computer and the computer has a GPS system and the GDS system, they can put it in the field and now the dominant circumference feet of an intimate look at all in and then they can't get upset and the computer GPS system will take it across the end of the field, soccer and the end they've gotten out of the driver has to turn around and headed back once he gets upset headed back. It will do a half an inch difference in an entire mile to all and then go back and forth like that you hook up the computer at the time harvest and it will. It will tell them how much of the corn grew and how great the clockwise in different areas of the field and in the next year it will apply in the areas of the field that there were less of a crop I will fly more nutrients more fertilizers to that area to make it as productive as the rest of the area. So now you live in Oregon, Portland, then if you and they'll outlast in these might be a huge fields know whenever you whenever you are are harvesting right. You knew the route and you always make sure that like at the far end of the words knowledge blurts out, you don't want to miss any grain, so you generally the bottle. They are so, so that you are able to know you don't want to leave grain in the field so you leave about a foot while in our farming around here doesn't make much of a difference, but out of those Wheatcroft and you have, how do you know if you have a ten fifteen miles of fields that are not still a lot of gasoline and diesel fuel cell, a computer will put you within a couple inches of that. And so you save miles. The fuel over the miles while harvesting plant. What comes and goes, and I find that harvest so in this case we have received, which is Solomon 's sound on the road. Well, the road is a very hard service. The second, the status casting gravel, so we had the road and you have gravel down the road is very easy procedure to be plucked up in this land landing on the hard surface. It can grow in the birds come pick up deceit, evil, evil one comes and talks and talks around a lot. I wasn't right. Our heart because the heart is not receptive by the stage after the gravel. This person who hears and instantly respond with enthusiasm, but there is no soil character, and so when the emotions were often some difficulties arrive, there's nothing to show for so the gravel is excitement that is short-lived I was asked to Louise. All ways. Now if you're thinking well wiseguy, so on lots and lots of good in his planting while in the older days, it would break up the soil, but it would be you would broadcast and your broadcast to see the machine you said all along and drop it into the ground. If you're broadcasting in the broadcasting it would be carried over onto the router be carried in the wage, but your selling in a language is broadcasting out there and we go to different places, so this is a very common common analogy or understanding. Whenever Jesus speaking in the wage is a person who shares of the kingdom, the kingdoms good news, but the weeds of worming. Oh, ways of worrying what else allusions and NSA dissolutions allusions not the same illusions where he evolutions, I'd say that's more my misunderstanding on this and misinterpretation of what this is all supposed to be these allusions about getting more and wanting everything under the sun strangle what his heart, all wanting allusions and want in a little bit and talk about what is the benefit of the seed. So the benefit of the Saison is that you will reap a harvest hundredfold sixty fold thirty four. The illusion is that understood as so much data, make millions, the Davisson, God is God is good and there is an allusion this is a misinterpretation about what the CBS that the illusions that no one the same test. Louise and President hear the same task on the Garth is a person with years and taken the news and then produces a harvest beyond his wildest imagination is a good ground, and this is what we all want to be is a good ground relatively good graph and and okay I thought. I love a good round. I rested his heart are the people know that they broken up, followed moment so we have the seller, which is in this case, it's me. The scene which is the word of God, and this is where God is so into the hearts you and you get all you and I is that you listen to what I have to say I saw there is a path which is the road to see this. That's the way quickly. There is a rocky place of the gravel where we hear the word, and we respond that yet it is short-lived, it doesn't really take root. The other is the thorns of the weeds where the worries of life in the deceitfulness of wealth choke it out and then we have the good ground, and we know that what is Jesus then speaking out those who speak the word are the farmers. So Jesus is trying to accompany something here. What is Jesus trying to tell what is Jesus trying to tell what they really know it's more than just this morning, just planting seeds and getting harder. Jesus is. Jesus is the word of God made flesh and dwelt among us. So Jesus is wanting not to make an application to what we're doing with our hands and what we are doing when our miles and what we're doing with our faith is all important. But Jesus was said to Jesus, was to tell us something about what happens in the heart of a person what happens in the soul of a person what happens in the life of a person is whenever we talk about forgiveness. If we confess our sins, his staple just to forgive us of our sins and cleanse us from all unrighteousness. What is is the word of God so into our lives. How do we respond is my hard heart while you know, I really don't need religion stuff, the birds can take away all while and I get on regular Jason everything they wonderful excited, but it is short-lived because life is in his wonderful to thought it would Amanda waves out well. Yes, Jesus come into my life and an item that is, be different, and I'm going to make it where I'm going to bloodletting the offering and God make me wretch and neither is a good ground. The good ground is while Grace has called my name. I'm not worthy of knowing Jesus. I'm not working to be a child of King, but he looks beyond my fault he sees my name Jesus comes into my life. He forgives and I am a new person, and I'm growing this person I'm growing this life by the word of God, and by the Spirit of God is no longer either live but Christ that lives within me you think this is the good ground this is the scene song by Christ into our lives, what about faith. Hebrews eleven one faith comes by hearing the word of God. So I gave our faith. God help me in my face. Someone who I need to do I need to pray and I need to read the Scriptures what I'm doing is I'm taking that into my life and is not just something that is landing on the surface of my life this month. I'm trying to be a Christian. That is not working while it never will work. Christ is the only way we can become a Christian. I'm trying to live the Christian life, but I fail, I can't live the Christian life God has given me helps me to live the Christian life. You see, this is a good route. It's not an illusion that God has changed us from the inside out. And that is in us. He is doing the work is asked that changes us with courage at twenty seven twenty two. Paul is saying keep your courage, no one will be lost. Only the shipping here is that it's very supposed going through even in all three cities in the ship is going to be a disaster in the ship is going to sink. But Paul says take currently. You see, whenever we face the difficulties of life, and we and we feel like, how can I face this God only gives me the courage missing. This is the word of God 's sorrow into our lives. Week after week, day after day, as we read the Scriptures and as we pray that these business word is so into our life and the good grounds to sit and plan since and what happens whenever the ground is planted and is good ground bears harvest Moon and the harvest is something that goes in our lives the fruit of righteousness and the fruit of God grows in this good ground is a so you see, every time we try every time we read the Scriptures. Every time we come to church every time where involved with other Christians in working with them. We find that we are receiving seed into our lives and I say this is is to be a good ground of our life, and it and it continues to grow and produce a harvest beyond what what's I wanted saying the Apple in the message Bible and beyond what many remember beyond our wildest dreams and that being in the KJ says some a hundredfold, some sixty fold, some thirty full that is going to produce a harvest of hundreds sixteen thirty hundred and four sixty four or thirty four now that's going to increase how we make things grow. Want to fertilize the soil changes. Paul says in and in the forgotten. I got the pollsters for sin shall not be your master because you are not under law but under grace. Paul was declaring that a certain kind of grace will set us free from sin power over our daily lives and give us victory. So we have this victory to a life life through the working of the word of God in our lives. So what Jesus is telling us is in this parable that God and you God is announced, is to see God in us the word sown in our heart. So whether we have so far whether we have problems or whether we had difficulties, and you can't overcome them. That's fine because Jesus in you will overcome them. Jesus and you will overcome Jesus and me will overcome the difficult say that Jesus and me will overcome that, again, Jesus in the will overcome again Jesus and me will overcome one is the seed in my life is not just positive thinking it's the word of God the Word of God and me will change my life. Now Matthew thirteen eleven. The knowledge of the secrets of kingdom of heaven. I think that you right now in our lives. The knowledge of the secrets of the kingdom of heaven is given unto you because it's no longer are the limits of price and limited me. He is the strength of my lot is the seed of my life is the whole of my life. I hear to raise themselves in the day we can't elect but if the Spirit of Christ or raised Christ from the dead dwell in you, he will question your mortal bodies, and any of the firstfruits of them that slept. Meaning that if the firstfruits of them that have died. If you come back to life on the spirit of God, and that spirit is not that there is enough left to save it as a loss. First, while look at this. Whoever has will be given more and he will have an abundance just also have raised in their lives. God will build on that great. The foundation that God builds on is the foundation that he creates the foundation. Then he creates in us is the foundation of hope in him, all people are never without hope, forgiveness, we are our life is based upon being forgiven. So therefore we forget our hope is not tablets of wishful thinking. It is a certainty that we have that God will do just like Jesus Christ is come back. That's the blessed hope, now we have a alive. That is not a wishful thinking that Jesus will come back someday. The Bible says he will come back now to go back in the Old Testament. It says the Messiah will be born at the appointed time and talks about how to be born in Bethlehem, how about a virgin will conceive and that was the whole L three thousand years ago, but for just all years ago nobody celebrated Christmas in the becoming of Jesus Christ 's birth of Christ, and that three thousand years ago. That was a whole that they had while we look back on that. We know that it is sort of fact K what happens when you do not plan to see from what you have, you know that in Afrikaans on the starving young some of the very poor countries, so the lobby idea what what they need to see so they sent them over the seat and the seeds were cows. Then, around some young corners on that some of the seeds are treated for each rated with chemicals so that the weeds and staff will not affect the attack is thought and these people were eating and was killing they were eating their seed, and they were dying because they ate to see is an interesting thing. I never saw this before thirteen twenty three you have those Matthew thirteen twenty three marks for twenty okay. Fifteen of the same verse. This is then this parable is recently received this parable. The story 's told three times in each of the Gospels. The first twenty three in Matthew twenty thirteen, says the CHF and the good earth is a person who appears and takes in the news where this person do he received pay more for twenty but the same plant on the good artist represents those who hear the word and embrace it. What is it, here it is embraced explicit here. It's embraced it is understood and the third one. Here is that the dispute of the good are those who are they the good hearts. This is the word, hold on, no matter what sticking with it until the harvest persevere, we find that in these three thirty and the three parables installed to receive to receive it. Put in your house. The second one is to embrace it, and the third one is to persevere, that no matter what you keep going on that when you plant children. The job planted the seed. The next day they look at us is not growing it in a dig it up and look at it this growing and put back in embrace means we know that this is true. We just have to perseveringly do that and then whenever we see how this is putting the practice is Malachi three ten. The type in the offering Amalekites raid ten says that we are to give one ten and storehouse now come up with in circles here is examining okay and the Bible says amount and Matthew then Malachi. The timely offering. That's how the Rob God is behind we do that is a bite-size and offered you under the curse, and the whole lot of you because you rob me bring your full-time in the Temple treasures, so that will be ample provisions in my Temple test me and see if I cannot open open to you. The habit itself to you and pour out blessings beyond your wildest dreams that word your wildest dreams. God is saying, bring one penny out of ten into the storehouse, and through me. Prove me through the giraffe was at the again, a movie without one secondhand lion and online quizzes, moving these guys are planting seeds and they have these little packets at the end of the row and are supposed to be green beans and peas and onions and everything and are going through harvesting the kid looks around he says in a lot at all. Looks like corn that he gave a dive, insolvency, but coordinates of the different in each of the different packets and they all played the same as all court and in all was a green beans about whenever we plan something we prove what the seniors when we plan something we prove what the seed is by receiving it, embracing it and putting in the ground and persevering. We proved to see and want what God is telling us they are giving it is that as we our ties and offerings promised that he would bless us, just as he promised he would like to forgive us as we receive the word. He promised to bless us financially. He promised to bless us in some a hundred fall, some sixty, fall, some thirty four. That is the return on the one ten. One penny out of ten ten dollars out of a hundred thousand dollars out of ten thousand dollars ten thousand nine hundred thousand not want to belong to God, and that the state. We saw in the ground that will make a difference in our lives and our finances and how we live our life and now I'm not saying this all that you get money. I'm standing telling you this so that you are giving why are to be expecting God 's blessing upon your life as we give God promises to give back to us, pressed down, shaken together, running over, so it's not just money were talking about retiring about Bob is about forgiveness and God has to be in our hearts in our lives to produce the fruit of the harvest that if we cannot want to, not of necessity has done work if we can out of the illusion illusion that while I do want the preacher to say I'm going to be filthy rich. That's an illusion, but the weeds. It don't get choked out. But if we care because of the good ground. God has promised that he would pour out blessings upon our line as you see what happens to people who need their seat. Things have a way of disappearing, but God has a way of bringing things back into the hearts. God has a way of old not the storehouse and opening up the windows of heaven pouring out blessings upon our life. God has a way of making his forgiveness work in our lives, making us different people from the inside out is not something you know how it works writing hard for this. You have a really hard for this. You have insight you have gone West high 's and use if God doesn't make this real to your heart, don't do it. God doesn't make it real to your heart. If you confess your sins that he will forgive you see this got on the road. The seed falls on the road and the kind goes away. But you know what the scene that we put in our lives in the good ground has a way of growing and nurturing and bringing us to a place where God does work in us and all that is placed in this part of the whole process. This is not just one thing. One aspect of our lives. It's every aspect of our life and what's going to happen with what you put in here God is going to bring a return of a hundred and sixty four thirty four. That's his promise, and that she does urge for your heart and life, whether it's from forgiveness, whether through victory, whether through overcoming difficulties in your life, whether it's financially. God has a way of sowing seed into our lives that will make a difference now, and for each