Goodmorning and welcome in everybody. Today, we are going to take a look at a passage of scripture, but before we do that I wanted to tell you a little story.
Do you have a garden? Maybe you are a homesteader and have an acre of land that you want to plant. It’s claimed that one acre of land can produce over 25,000 pounds of potatoes or 11,000 pounds of iceberg lettuce! Amazingly, some people have sowed as many as 140,000 seeds into an acre of land, but in order for them to grow, they must be planted in the right kind of soil. The word of God is a seed that is planted into the depths of our hearts. Just like any seed, it needs to be nurtured so that it can grow into maturity. It needs to be planted in the right type of ground to eventually bear fruit. You might get a pack of seeds from the grocery store, and plant them in your garden, but not all of them or going to come up.
This reminds me of the Christian Life.
To truly be victorious in the Christian Life, the Word of God must be planted within a faithful and obedient heart.
Luke 8:5-15 A sower went out to sow his seed: and as he sowed, some fell by the way side; and it was trodden down, and the fowls of the air devoured it.And some fell upon a rock; and as soon as it was sprung up, it withered away, because it lacked moisture. And some fell among thorns; and the thorns sprang up with it, and choked it. And other fell on good ground, and sprang up, and bare fruit an hundredfold. And when he had said these things, he cried, He that hath ears to hear, let him hear.
And his disciples asked him, saying, What might this parable be? And he said, Unto you it is given to know the mysteries of the kingdom of God: but to others in parables; that seeing they might not see, and hearing they might not understand.
Now the parable is this: The seed is the word of God. Those by the way side are they that hear; then cometh the devil, and taketh away the word out of their hearts, lest they should believe and be saved. They on the rock are they, which, when they hear, receive the word with joy; and these have no root, which for a while believe, and in time of temptation fall away. And that which fell among thorns are they, which, when they have heard, go forth, and are choked with cares and riches and pleasures of this life, and bring no fruit to perfection. But that on the good ground are they, which in an honest and good heart, having heard the word, keep it, and bring forth fruit with patience.
In order to grow into spiritual maturity, we must believe in what the scriptures teach us. Without genuine faith, a person is not going to have a desire to do what it says.
1 Corinthians 15:1-2 Moreover, brethren, I declare unto you the gospel which I preached unto you, which also ye have received, and wherein ye stand; By which also ye are saved, if ye keep in memory what I preached unto you, unless ye have believed in vain.
To believe something in vain means that it never produces the intended results. God wants to take us in a different direction and be converted, becoming a new person created through our belief in Scripture. Genuine faith will cause a person to become a doer rather than just a hearer of God’s Word.
James 1:22 But be ye doers of the word, and not hearers only, deceiving your own selves.
Doing God’s will, shows that we love him.
1 John 2:3-5 And hereby we do know that we know him, if we keep his commandments. He that saith, I know him, and keepeth not his commandments, is a liar, and the truth is not in him. But whoso keepeth his word, in him verily is the love of God perfected: hereby know we that we are in him.
Some people will become Christian for a certain period of time and because of Earthly temptations fall completely away from the faith. They will turn their ears away from biblical truth.
2 Timothy 4:1-4 I charge thee therefore before God, and the Lord Jesus Christ, who shall judge the quick and the dead at his appearing and his kingdom; Preach the word; be instant in season, out of season; reprove, rebuke, exhort with all longsuffering and doctrine. For the time will come when they will not endure sound doctrine; but after their own lusts shall they heap to themselves teachers, having itching ears; And they shall turn away their ears from the truth, and shall be turned unto fables.
James 1:12 Blessed is the man that endureth temptation: for when he is tried, he shall receive the crown of life, which the Lord hath promised to them that love him.
For some people, the love for the things of this world will become greater than a love for Christ and His Word. Moses loved God so much that he turned away from everything that Egypt had to offer him.
1 John 2:15-17 Love not the world, neither the things that are in the world. If any man love the world, the love of the Father is not in him. For all that is in the world, the lust of the flesh, and the lust of the eyes, and the pride of life, is not of the Father, but is of the world. And the world passeth away, and the lust thereof: but he that doeth the will of God abideth for ever.
James 4:4 – Ye adulterers and adulteresses, know ye not that the friendship of the world is enmity with God? whosoever therefore will be a friend of the world is the enemy of God.
Developing a passion for the things of this world simply takes our hearts off God. The love for money is the root of all evil.
Matthew 6:24 – No man can serve two masters: for either he will hate the one, and love the other; or else he will hold to the one, and despise the other. Ye cannot serve God and mammon.
1 Timothy 6:10 – For the love of money is the root of all evil: which while some coveted after, they have erred from the faith, and pierced themselves through with many sorrows.
We must go on unto spiritual maturity, but we are going to need good soil in our hearts. We need to develop a love to obey the one who laid down His own life to save us.
………But that on the good ground are they, which in an honest and good heart, having heard the word, keep it, and bring forth fruit with patience.
It’s amazing how fruitful a life can be, when you have the right type of soil and……
…..One Little Acre
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