God's Incorruptible Word Seed: Good Ground (Part 11) (Feb 25, 2018) Keith Moore

turn to first Peter if you would we've been on a subject for some weeks now in Sunday morning we're calling God's incorruptible word seed God's incorruptible that word also means imperishable word seed first Peter 1 and 23 first Peter 1:23 says you being born again not of corruptible seed but of incorruptible by the Word of God which lives and abides forever keep going all flesh is as grass and all the glory of man is the flower of grass the grass withers and the flower thereof falleth out corruptible seed he's drawing the contrast the Spirit of God is through Peter corruptible seed perishable seed seed that can decay and die versus incorruptible imperishable eternal seed that cannot get old and cannot die is there such a thing yes there is what is it it's the Word of God God calls his word seed now this is a revelation it requires mine renewal in fact Jesus and as he walked the earth in his teachings he said this was one of the great mysteries that had been hidden from before the foundation of the world this revelation of words seed you can read it in Matthew 13 so read the next verse please verse 25 but you know natural seed every plant every animal even our own human body it's from a human from a human seed or a plant seed or an animal seed but this seed is a corruptible seed it flowers it develops it reaches its peak and then it goes past that it ages it decays it dies but the Word of God is not that way it's not that way and we have been born again by an incorruptible seed of the word of God so there's an inner man there's an outer man the outer man is aging and decaying and perishing but not the inner man the inner man is renewed day by day so you're you're not a day older or more aged now than you were when you were born again and you will never age now you should develop but not age and you will never die the Lord tarries is coming this body will die but it's just the sleeve it's just the glove it's just the house that your spirits in you're sitting there right now looking at me through those two windows we call eyes you're not just the body you live in a body but the man on the inside has now been born again if you've been born again by an incorruptible imperishable seed imperishable seed produces imperishable fruit and harvest imperishable words produce imperishable results hallelujah and tell me what is the imperishable seed it is the word the words of God hallelujah in first Corinthians three you don't have to turn there they'll put it up for us first Corinthians three and verse 8 it says he that plants and he that waters are one and every man will receive according to his own reward his own labor excuse me his own labor or work verse 9 we are laborers together with God you are God's husbandry other translations say you are God's garden and vineyard and field under cultivation Moffat says you are God's field to be planted you see this principle again and again throughout the word said out loud I am God's garden you you are the ground he plants the seed in hmm you do know we were made from the ground is that right so it shouldn't be a shock that we work just like the ground we were made from the ground God told Adam when he failed when he sinned and messed up he told him he said you won translation says it like this you were made from the ground and you'll return to the ground well how does ground work you plant seed in it and it will produce whatever that seed is right if it's a seed for a beautiful rose it'll produce that if it's a seed for a Brier bush it'll produce that the ground good ground will produce whatever is planted into it good seed or bad and we are gods ground he wants to plant his good seed in us and if we will keep it it will produce results that never die but there's somebody else that wants to sow in you the enemy the first career I mean excuse me Matthew 13 talks about the enemy sowing bad seed yeah and he wants to sow bad things into you and bad seed produces bad harvest and what what are God's incorruptible seed his words do words matter they matter far more than most realize what is a word what is a word a word it can be written or it can be spoken and a spoken word is a sound if you understand the language you know what the sounds mean if you don't understand the language it sounds that have no meaning for you first Corinthians 13 talks about this doesn't yeah it does but what is a word the sounds that I'm making right now are words but what what is it the sounds mean nothing unless it conveys a thought a thought and idea that you understand and here's where the enemy has so many deceived that thoughts are nothing and thoughts don't matter unless you act on them perhaps no no no what is a thought you can't touch a thought you can't smell a thought what is a thought a thought is a spiritual reality and it comes from either a good source or a bad source and spiritually it is a seed many thoughts that come never produce anything in your life because they never get in you they come they go you pass them off you don't think any more about them so it was something that was sown towards you but it never got in you but a thought that you'll receive and you'll think about and talk about and listen to will get in you and begin to grow and if it grows enough it'll affect your words your actions your life there was a time when this church here in Branson was a thought right there was no faith Life Church there were no services hmm how many are married there was a time when that was just a thought right a thought crossed your mind there's a time when your whatever you going to study in school or college it was a thought one thing led to another many many of you have your own businesses there was a time that was a thought right one thing led steps steps steps bad things too there are times when it was a thought right and you didn't cast it down and you kept thinking about it talking about it not it took years but eventually you acted on it and it hurts you hurt other people do thoughts matter that's why words matter because words are thought containers go to Luke please the eighth chapter and if you haven't been with us we've already covered a lot of ground and it would I believe it would benefit you to go back and get the previous that we've covered and it won't cost you anything you can go online and you can watch it listen to it download it you can go back to the back if you need a hard copy and they'll get it for you but we have gone over these passages in Matthew 13 mark 4 and Luke 8 where Jesus talked what we call the parable of the sower it could also be called the parable of the seed but in Luke 8 verse I believe it's verse 3 let's take a look Luke 8 3 verse 4 it is he says when much people were gathered together and will come to him out of every city he spoke by a parable now who's who's saying this Jesus the head of the church he said a sower went out to sow his seed and as he sowed some some seed fell by the wayside and it was trodden down and the fowls of the air devoured it sand some some seed fell upon a rock and as soon as it was sprung up it withered away because it lacked moisture and some some seed fell among thorns and the thorns sprang up with it and choked it and other fell own other seed fell on good ground and sprang up and bear fruit and hundredfold and when he had said these things he cried he that has ears to hear let him hear hallelujah now Jesus describes four types of ground and seed being sown into every one of these four types and it is sobering to realize when he because the very next thing he teaches is the seed is the word the Word of God is sobering to realize that three out of the four that heard it got no results no results like we touched on earlier many people are put out with God they're upset with God they're mad with God mad at God and they don't realize it's not all up to God he has left so much of it up to us this is the truth no matter what you believe you know you can leave anything you want to believe whether it's true or not but the truth will make you free and the truth is so much of it he has left up to us that's why a lot of things aren't a mess anyway isn't it sobering that according to Jesus seventy five percent of the people that heard the word of God got zero results is that sobering it is but it would answer a lot of questions too would it would answer a lot of questions Phyllis and I were able to visit with brother Kenneth and miss Gloria Copeland recently and we were talking about some of these things and miss Gloria spoke up she said yes she said if you're not getting the results that you want to get it should be getting you need to do a soil test because there's nothing wrong with the seed well as usual miss Gloria's right again you need to do a soil test because it's not a seed problem it's not a word of God problem it's a ground problem because in one of these types of ground the word produced amazing results up to a hundred times what was sown so what it never was a seed problem and yet in still three-quarters of the people that heard it got no benefit no results let's keep reading in Luke here verse nine his disciples asked him saying what might this parable be he said to you it's given to know the mysteries of the kingdom of God but to others and parables that seeing they might not see and hearing they might not understand let me just stop right here what does that mean proverbs talks about the fear or you could also say the the reverence and respect of the Lord is the beginning of knowledge wisdom understanding if you put all the verses together what does that mean if you don't show God some respect you won't see anything you won't understand anything and you can blame it on him but it's not his fault to get some understanding there first has to be some respect for your creator or you're with me and for his word verse 11 now the parable is this the seed is the word of God said out loud the seed is the word of God said again the seed is the word of God the word of God is what it's seed what kind of seed in corruptible imperishable see now don't think you got this this requires mine renew hmm because most of the inhabitants of the planet think words mean nothing and thoughts mean even less words are just a way of communicating what I feel and what I think no no no no God created the planet you're standing on with words hmm and then took part of what he created with words and made you out of it and revealed that everything works on the principle of sowing and reaping seed and planning and harvest every thing somebody say everything everybody and not just the natural but the spiritual said again the seed is the word of God or you can say like this the word is seed the word is seed verse 12 those by the wayside are they that here then comes the devil and takes away the word out of their hearts lest they should believe and be saved one thing you'll see is this is progressive each type of ground got closer to producing fruit this type of ground wayside ground they never got started they heard the Word of God but they do look at Matthews account they didn't understand it they didn't receive it it was a passing thing to their ears and mind and they never thought about it again and they never got started and that enemy came immediately and stole it from them so no results lest they should believe and be saved are there people who have heard the gospel who are not saved yeah well that's what happened to him right there they didn't value it they didn't appreciate it they didn't believe it it receive it so zero results they on the rock second type of ground when they here received the word with joy can you see they got a lot further down the road than the first bunch they received it but they have no route which for a while believe and in time of temptation fall away so they received it they got excited about it it was a quick reception but they were also quick to quit when they didn't see and didn't happen by the next day if you read the other accounts it says because of persecution excuse yeah because of persecution and because of affliction before the words sake they got offended and they quit so no results even though for a while they were doing pretty good how many understand it's not just starting you've got to finish and in third they would which fell among thorns are they which one they have heard they go forth and are choked with cares and riches and pleasures of this life and bring no fruit to perfection these got further down the road than the other two they heard it they respected it they received it they got excited they even had a deeper reception and they didn't just quit the first time it didn't look like it was working but they had another problem there was too much other stuff in their heart and in their life and it choked the word out of their life can other things choke out the word so that there's no results what were those things cares that's worries worrying and anxiety can prevent the Word of God from producing results in your life do we believe this or not do we believe it or not can worry prevent the Word of God from working in your life that ought to make you strong against worry do you have to worry you don't riches now if you if you look up the other accounts it was you know it's not that it's not the riches it's the love of it and having money on the brain right and that's all you think about it can choke the word out pleasures of this life doesn't mean you can't enjoy some things but if all you think about golf and if any efficient or sports and that's all you got time phone that's all you think about then you hearing a message on Sunday morning is not going to be enough you gonna hear that for a few minutes if and when you go and then you full of this other stuff 24/7 it's gonna choke the word out oh but there's one more type of ground y'all gonna help me preach this or not there was there was one more huh do we know anything about this next part next next type of ground but that on the good ground Oh somebody say good ground good ground good grass who we're talking about now who Vito money without my faith Life Church in Branson and Sara Solon everybody joining us online we told my good good ground the go ahead and sent by faith on good ground I'm good ground now in know 75% of the ones that heard it we're not so what makes us different if we are well that's why it would have helped you to heard the previous messages as to what with the issues but we've already reviewed a little bit and we're going to see it more clearly even today I believe what makes good ground good ground that on the good ground are they which in an honest and good heart having heard the word keep it and bring forth fruit that's the only one out of the four that did this is results fruit is results harvest healing harvest bills paid off harvest protects and harvest getting your marriage fixed harvest right issues with your children right harvest harvest anybody want to see some miracle harvest from the incorruptible seed of the word of God you only see it in 1/4 1/4 of the people that hear it but you do see it and whose choice is it what counter ground we are yeah it's our choice he mentions two words of all the things he could have said that characterize good ground two words honest and patient send out loud honest and patient what makes good ground good ground he also calls it a good heart but that good ground is good heart that's where the words planted what makes good heart a good heart honest and patient now the word patient is the word for cheerful endurance so really we might use the word in our modern vernacular persistence it's not quitting so honest and not quitting can you see that not not just patient passively waiting to see if anything happens no no no no no if you look up these words it means persistence it means staying in there and being cheerful while you endure did you hear that phrase cheerful in dirt now the only way you can be cheerful while you're enduring is if you believe I'm coming out on the other side and this is very very temporary elsewise you're not gonna be cheerful see the second type of ground the stony ground one of their big things is they quit I mean there was pressure and there was time passed and they didn't see and they didn't fail and they quit and they got no from no results but one thing the Lord was quickening to me last night that I got to shouting about and had trouble going to sleep [Laughter] if you read Matthew I won't take the time because you know why Matthew 13 if you would take the time to read that sometime that whole chapter he goes into great detail about this and this this parable of the sower and the whole principle of seed time and harvest and how that he told them if you don't understand this parable how will you understand any of the other and he talked about these things are being revealed that have been hid from the foundation of the world these are divine mysteries that most of the world has not understood for most of its existence but now since Jesus has come and those that will respect his word there's an understanding of how these things work as anybody cared who you are you you interested why are these things work there's a lot of folks are just ritual churchgoers and they want to see how quick they can get in how quick they can get out and they like to say they check the box and I wind and don't realize that's not how this works and they like to just try to leave everything up to God and they they like saying God is in control and everything happens for a reason well I don't doubt that but the reason could be you were dumb and didn't do what he told you to do and you never opened your Bible had no time to find out how things work no God is not controlling everything that happens in everybody's life it wasn't his choice whether you ate raisin bran or Froot Loops this morning he didn't choose that for you he's not controlling everything for everybody he has given us a free will he has left so much up to us and the enemy is at work there's an enemy he comes to steal to kill and to destroy and he's trying to sow seeds of fear in your life seeds of depression seeds of heaviness seeds of confusion seeds of desperation and doubt and if you listen to them if you look at them if you think about them if you talk about them they will grow in you he just mentioned cares will grow until it chokes the Word of God out of your life so much so I'm not gonna let it happen I'm not I'm not going to let it happen now one of the things that the Lord was quickening to me about this is the character at least two big things that he mentioned that are characteristic of good ground the other three don't have these characteristics that's not having these two characteristics is one of the big thing two of the big things that prevented them from being good ground if good ground is honest and persistent what's the other three dishonest and and not enduring giving up quitting and I saw it I hadn't seen this before but I saw it wayside ground what's dishonest about that they knew better than to discount the Word of God like they did the Bible said they trod upon it remember that they trod upon it you you can't ignore and disrespect God and your heart not bother you don't care who you are now you can see ignore it but this is the thing dishonesty the world is full of it I mean this earth is permeated with deception because the god of this world is the devil himself 2nd Corinthians 4:4 Satan is the god of this world and he is the father of lies and so anything he has any influence in is going to be full of deception and so because it's all around us it's easy to be participating in more of it than you think you are but each one of these previous grounds there were degrees of dishonesty they might have not revealed it to other people but the wayside ground they knew they should have paid more attention to what God was saying into it they acted like they didn't know they knew they shouldn't have tried it they shouldn't have treated it with disrespect they knew they shouldn't have but they ignored that what about stony ground don't you reckon that ever came to their heart and mind I I need to water this some more right but didn't act like I don't know and then when they get to the being offended part they knew better than that they getting upset talking about the Word of God doesn't work and their hearts yelling at them no no that's not right that's not right but they pushed it down God let them down their hearts telling them no that's not right so I'm gonna say dishonest dishonest dishonest one of the big characteristics that makes good ground good ground and the lack of it makes the other grounds what they are and see the thing is a lot of folks people around individuals don't see it because it's not it's something they keep hidden but God knows what you know right he was there when he showed you what you know so you can't tell him you don't know what he knows he calls you to know let me said another way there ain't no fooling God no way no huh no you may think you fooled a lot others let me let me let you in a little secret you haven't fooled him as much as you think you have a lot of them are just being nice to you [Music] but with God he knows he knows but here they are acting like they're deeper than they are I don't need to develop more depth than roots in my reception I don't need to be watered nah let's go shopping I don't need to go to the meeting now let's go do this and inside something was telling them you better read your Bible you better do this you better go to the service you you better you better water that seed you better take care of it somebody say dishonesty dishonestly dishonest acting like you don't know and the third one what was it don't y'all we're gonna help me preach this so many thorny ground reckon there's some dishonesty there oh yeah dishonest about how much time you're spending on a whole list of the stuff right dishonest about how much you're worrying a lot of times people will immediately just deny it if you say and I'm not telling you to be the holy ghost police and go around tell people this if you say no come on quit you need to quit worrying what Allah tells what people say oh I'm not I'm not worrying dishonest are y'all with me friend it was not time to deny it was time to repent time to repent repent snot a bad word it's a good word it's how you get things fixed it's how you stop the bad stuff and get into the good stuff cares of this life the thought came up you need to quit spending so much time you know trying to make money and thinking about that all night and day you need you need to you need to focus more you need to go get involved on the team actually show up to church on a regular basis and read your chapters and folks act like oh yeah yeah no yeah so it's just fine it's all good you know me and God we got it worked out no no no he's not changing the Bible for your individual case he said don't forsake the assembling of yourselves together he said man doesn't live by bread alone but by every word that proceeds out of the mouth of God right he said this seed needs to be watered can you see what we're talking about dishonesty dishonesty and you know folks they mentioned pleasures it's all right to have some fun it's arts to do some things that you enjoy but if that's all you do night and day if that's all you think about and you act like not I don't know if I'm spending too much time on that you do know you do know you do know it's come up to you and if you've been doing it way too much too long it's come up to you thousands of times over the years and the problem is if you keep ignoring it it gets where it bothers you less and less and less but dishonest you might say dishonesty this is the big deal very very big deal what can the ground produced fruit got results oh it's it's too quiet in here am i preaching something wrong are we talking about the truth what do you think look at it again go back to I tell you what let me do it a little bit different way go to Matthew we've referred to it I want to touch on it just a little bit thank you lord thank you Father no well my time I just checked my time so mark for if you gave me five and I took another five but you know it we're still talking with the same thing honesty dishonesty do you need some of this hmm what other things are more important you want to rush away from the Word of God to meatloaf huh it's okay to eat but what's your priorities hmm sit in front of a something and watch movies for six hours in a row and hadn't got time for church though that's too long that's too long that's too long will you heart knows that's wrong priorities your heart knows and that's characteristic of not being a good ground somebody said out loud I have respect for the Word of God and the things of God I have time I make time for God's things hallelujah amen say this out loud by faith says I I will I purpose to be honest about what I see and what I know amen that honesty will cause you to access help honesty and humility are inseparable a big part of being humble it's just being honest let me describe it to you we just got through saying somebody says you know you've really been worrying a lot you really be you really been upset you really been this or that and and pride will say no I'm not man your own business that's pride and it's dishonesty because your heart's going you know it's right what is humility say humility will be honest and humility will say you're right you're right and I'm changing it right now come on here with me does that does that honesty does that require humility because your pride wants to act like I've got it all together I'm better than you I don't need any of this quit trying to tell me hush leave me alone that's pride and it's dishonesty the pride of your heart has deceived you but humility will say you're right you're right help me right and the moment you do God gives grace to the humble is that right and with enough grace maint grace is one of the biggest words in in the Bible with a great one word that can kind of sum up grace is help help from God right help revelation Direction strength favor healing provision all of that's in grace with enough grace you can come out of anything do you believe it or not with enough grace you can get through anything right with enough grace you can receive that miracle that just seems so huge and so far away with enough grace you can get it you get it you get it with all my god helping you to get it is it too big for him to help you to get but who gets all this help not everybody not everybody gets this help now because doc God didn't want to give it what does he do with the proud he resists that's not helping he resists the proud one being proud as being dishonest God's trying to talk to you about something you won't even listen to it you won't even acknowledge you won't even try to talk then that's not good ground you're not gonna get help you're not gonna get results the words gonna get choked out come on can you see this good ground good heart in a white honest said out loud honest how many love honesty do you love honesty if you love God he because he is the truth you got to love the truth if you love God said out loud I hate a lie and I love the truth do you I didn't say you hated liars because it'd be tough to find anybody in this place and in Sarasota and online that had never told a lie but you can repent and you can change and you can love the truth so much I loved the truth said again I loved the truth even when it makes me look bad come on dee dee even when they make I still I love the truth more than I love trying to impress anybody more than I love trying to hide my mistakes affairs come on I summersisle of the truth I love you just you just got through saying I love the word you just got through saying I love Jesus because he is the truth his word is the word of truth his Spirit is the Spirit of Truth and tell me what the truth will do for you what will it do for you it will set you free among other things it'll set you free from not being productive and not being fruitful and not getting results it will set you free it will set you free so that you break through the things that have been hindering you and holding you back even if it's been for decades you break through it and in a good and honest tell you never look at them say say honest honest make sure they're getting it good and an honest honest heart bring forth fruit with patience cheerful endurance we'll talk about that maybe next time cheerful endurance and bring forth results up to a hundred times the incorruptible seed that was sown into your life these are miracles these are answers to prayer these are breakthroughs over flows amazing outstanding things that God has done and will get the glory for in your life hallelujah somebody say hallelujah stand on your feet everybody oh praise God

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Published: Sun Mar 11 2018