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Everything in this world is decaying except what God has spoken into it.  




The Words of God develop, but they don't decay.  





1 Peter 1:23-24 (ESV)
23 since you have been born again, not of perishable seed but of imperishable, through the living and abiding word of God; 

24 for
“All flesh is like grass
    and all its glory like the flower of grass.


The grass withers,
    and the flower falls,


25 but the word of the Lord remains forever.”

And this word is the good news that was preached to you.

If we have been born again, our inner person doesn't decay because it has been born by God's incorruptible Word.
  



For us believers, this life is as bad as it gets.  If we are none believers, this life is as good as it gets. 





Once a seed gets planted into ground and receives water.  


Then, the life within the seed comes out.  



It doesn't come out unless it is exposed to water and ground.  




All life begins with a seed.  



We began as a seed planted into our mother's womb.


  


Words planted into the human heart are like seed, ground, and water. 




Planting is when you heard the Word of God for the first time.  




Teaching is like the watering of seed.  





1 Corinthians 3:6 (ESV)
6 I planted, Apollos watered, but God gave the growth. 




Words are when you first heard. 


Faith isn't of the head.  


It's of the heart.  



Watering is explaining what you have heard. 



Being born again is not visibly seen at first.  



It's below the surface. 



After it grows, it will become visible.  




Romans 10:9-10 (ESV)
9 because, if you confess with your mouth that Jesus is Lord and believe in your heart that God raised him from the dead, you will be saved.


10 For with the heart one believes and is justified, and with the mouth one confesses and is saved.


Seed produces after it's kind.  


A salvation seed produces salvation.  


A peace seed produces peace.  


A healing seed produces healing.  


1 Corinthians 3:9 (ESV)
...You are God's field...


You are God's garden for His seed.


Satan likes to plant weeds in God's garden.  


It looks like wheat, but it is not.  


He tries to plant depression and fear. 


He waters it with more depression and fear.  


Satan's seeds can control your life.


Satan's seeds drain the life out of you.  Choking out, the good seed.  



Satan tries to sow bitterness about other people in you.  



We need to recognize what he's trying to do it.   


Some of God's seeds take root over night.  


Some take longer because people are slow to water them.   


The seed is dormant until it's watered.  


Isaiah 55:6-8  (ESV)
6 “Seek the Lord while he may be found;


    call upon him while he is near;


7 let the wicked forsake his way,


    and the unrighteous man his thoughts;


let him return to the Lord, that he may have compassion on him,


    and to our God, for he will abundantly pardon.


8 For my thoughts are not your thoughts,


    neither are your ways my ways, 

declares the Lord. 

9 For as the heavens are higher than the earth,


    so are my ways higher than your ways
    and my thoughts than your thoughts.


God's thoughts are right.  


A word is a thought container.  

If you don't understand the thought, the words mean nothing.  


Thoughts are spiritual.   


Thoughts are spiritual substance.  


You can't touch a thought.  


It's of the spirit.  


They can come from God.   


Then, they are life.  


They can come from Satan.  


Then, they are death.  


They are like seed.   


Isaiah 55:10-11 (ESV)
10 “For as the rain and the snow come down from heaven


    and do not return there but water the earth,



making it bring forth and sprout,


    giving seed to the sower and bread to the eater,


11 so shall my word be that goes out from my mouth;


    it shall not return to me empty,


but it shall accomplish that which I purpose,


    and shall succeed in the thing for which I sent it.



When God does anything, he speaks it into the substance that He wants to change. 



Bad thoughts beautifully said are evil. 


God's thoughts said poorly can be life changing.  


If it's an evil thought, it's from the evil one.  



What you think matters.  


Thoughts are seed.  


They can be good or bad.


If you water them, they will grow out of you.  


Acts 19:18-19  (ESV)
18 Also many of those who were now believers came, confessing and divulging their practices. 


19 And a number of those who had practiced magic arts brought their books together and burned them in the sight of all. 


And they counted the value of them and found it came to fifty thousand pieces of silver.


They got saved, and realized the evil thoughts that these books contained.


They didn't want evil to grow within them.  



No human heart is immune from a seed. 


 We need to guard our eyes and ears.  


Jeremiah 29:11  (ESV)
11 For I know the plans I have for you, declares the Lord, plans for welfare and not for evil, to give you a future and a hope.




Keith Moore, Faith Life Church
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