HOW TO GROW IN LIFE-A WORD CLINIC TEACHING
How to grow-an exposition
Outline:
Mt
13:3-8 parable
Mt
13:18-23 explanations
other
references
Luke
8
Mark
4
There
is a sower-(who ?-Jesus; preacher; you; bizman/woman; Husband or Wife...then
compare to seed released from man)
There
is one seed(a seed vs 3)
Seeds-verse
19 or the word in Mk verse 4:14) or Lk 8:11)
But
seed can be corruptible or incorruptible:
1
Peter 1:23...
What
is a corruptible or incorruptible seed in
-word
in church
-marriage/relationship
-biz
Some
seed are corrupted before they are planted or the soil corrupts them
Examples...
What is the nature of seed.
(John
12:24-
(Ps
92:12-
There are four kinds of soil
Spots
of planting:
1. Road side -birds attack
2. Rocky places-Sun attack
3. Thorny places-choke hold attack
4. Good ground places-fruitful result
Four kinds of people (vs 18-23)
1. People
who do not understand
-ignorant
In
what instances in marriage, relationship, business or ministry would we have
these.
We fail because we do not know how to
succeed and succeed because we know how to pass.
My
people perish for lack of understanding. -verse 19 people.
1b. Heart failure - wicked one comes to take
it from their heart. Examples in the three areas
Guard
your heart with diligence.
Condition
of their heart is compared to the soil. Heart is as hard as the road side. See
Mark 4:15.
Example-
comes to church but heart is hardened. Unconverted to tithe or Trinity nature of
God etc
Logical
people
2. Heart like soil that is not deep. (Stony
place) Mt 13:5-6(verse 20-21). Lk 8:13. Shallow amount of earth but underneath is
rock. They received it with joy but have no root. Verse 20, no root Lk 8:13)
not the right way to receive Christ. We should receive with seriousness. There
should be godly sorrow for sin(2 Cor 7:10), real conviction of sin. Not an
emotional decision for Christ. You need a genuine conversion. Before you go
ahead with that idea, marriage or relationship. Because trouble tribulations
and temptations will come. See one who builds on the rock/sand(Mt 7:24). Sun
scorches them in verse 6. Luke calls it temptation Matthew calls it persecution
. Enter though the strait gate-Lk 13:24. One
thing is to seek to enter but not strive to enter .
3. Thorny-Mt 13:7 explained in verse
22.-choked by deceitfulness of riches and worry of this world. Everyday worry
in life , money. Jesus taught us not to worry. Mt 6:25). Especially after
marriage and children. No fruit to perfection Lk 8:14. The worlds crowd out the
word of God. The devil got the wayside, the flesh got the rocky ones and the
world chokes the word for these ones. They were never converted. They are not
types of believers , they were never believers. Mt 13:7.
There
are discussions of difference between carnal xtians and spiritual xtians.
Decisionism from time of C J Finney 1792-1875. But they are unfruitful see John
15:2;6
4. Good soil. Honest and good heart. What
does it mean to have a honest and good heart...in ministry ; biz and
relationship . It's a heart that has truly been renewed by the new birth. Old
things passed away, all things become new(2Cor 5:17). Faith comes by
hearing....Rm 10:17. Understands, receives, retains and keeps and uses and
brings fruit. The proof of salvation is fruit, the proof of business is profit
and legacy , if relationship is eternal togetherness. You shall know them by
their fruits(Mt 7:16-20) -
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