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Who God Tells


Everything that happens to us in this life and the next is the result of our response to God's Word.  




It's not God's decision where people spend eternity.  



It ours.
  


All humanity falls into these 4 types of ground.  




Luke 8:4-8 (ESV)
4 And when a great crowd was gathering and people from town after town came to him, he (Jesus) said in a parable,


5 “A sower went out to sow his seed. 


And as he sowed, some fell along the path and was trampled underfoot, and the birds of the air devoured it.


6 And some fell on the rock, and as it grew up, it withered away, because it had no moisture.


7 And some fell among thorns, and the thorns grew up with it and choked it.



8 And some fell into good soil and grew and yielded a hundredfold.” 



As he said these things, he called out, “He who has ears to hear, let him hear.”


75% of those who heard the word got zero results. 



It's not God fault.  



It's the soil's fault.  



The seed will do what it's suppose to do if it is received.


We shouldn't be shocked that 3 out of 4 who heard God's word get zero results.




We should want to know what makes good ground.  




When you have good fruit, it was God's word that did it.
  


Why didn't the soil along the path get results?  




The seed that feel upon it was trampled underfoot.  



Hebrews 10:28-29 (ESV)
28 Anyone who has set aside the law of Moses dies without mercy on the evidence of two or three witnesses. 


29 How much worse punishment, do you think, 


will be deserved by the one who has trampled underfoot the Son of God,


and has profaned the blood of the covenant by which he was sanctified, and has outraged the Spirit of grace?


They treated the words about redemption through Jesus with contempt.  



They treated them as myths.  



Their eternity is being determined by how they responded to it. 


2 Corinthians 4:4 (ESV)
4 In their case the god of this world has blinded the minds of the unbelievers, 



to keep them from seeing the light of the gospel of the glory of Christ, who is the image of God.


Fear and reverence of the Lord is the beginning of wisdom (proverbs 1:7).    


What is the proper response to God speaking to you?  



You should be in awe that the creator of the universe is... speaking to you.  



You should treasure what God has said. 


You should be telling others. 


We must not get used to hearing the Bible taught.  




The soil along the path heard the word, but it didn't get into the ground. 


Mark 7:6-8 (ESV)
6 And he said to them, “Well did Isaiah prophesy of you hypocrites, as it is written,

“‘This people honors me with their lips,
    but their heart is far from me;


7 in vain do they worship me,
    teaching as doctrines the commandments of men.’



8 You leave the commandment of God and hold to the tradition of men.”


9 And he said to them, 

“You have a fine way of rejecting the commandment of God in order to establish your tradition!



God is always looking upon our hearts as we hear His words.




People revere what people say about the Bible above what the Bible actually says.  




What people say about the Bible sometimes  contradict what the Bible actually says. 


What you think that you believe.  



Find it in the Bible.  



If you respect the Word, you'll want to find it.  



Desire God's Word.  


We must search for God's truths like a pearl of great price (Matthew 13:46).
Jesus taught about this pearl when He taught about the 4 soils.   


Find out what God really said.  



This keeps us from being fooled by people who don't actually believe.  




Words from a confused man must not replace what God has actually said.  




It begins with respecting God's words.   


Matthew 7:6  (ESV)
6 “Do not give dogs what is holy, and do not throw your pearls before pigs, lest they trample them underfoot and turn to attack you.

Hogs don't respect what God has said, so Jesus taught not to give His words to them.  



Don't give precious things to those who don't appreciate them.  That's how God is. 


God tells His precious things to those who value it. 



Don't run down the Word of God to me. 


Everything that we need is in there.


Healing. 

Abundance. 

Peace.  

Joy.  


Everything that we need is in what God has spoken to us. 


The enemy is trying to grow something in us too.  


It will produce fear, 

unbelief, 

death.  


That's thorny ground.
  

If we tune all that out and let God's words come into us.... 



We water it by hearing it over and over again.  



Then, you'll eventually see it.  


Hear about it.  



Treasure it.  


God's words are seed. 

Plant them into your hearts and water them by hearing them over and over again.  



Let them grow and grow and grow in you.       





 Keith Moore, Faith Life Church
https://flcmedia.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/productvideo/1214-GodsIncorruptibleWordSeed-05-ReceivingTheSeed-02-HD.mp4

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