053: David Jennings – Exhortation: The Sower

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I talked this week is an
excitation that was given by

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Brother David Jennings back in
2015 at the Verdugo Hills

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Ecclesia and is actually a
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Verdugo Hills website and go

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spelunking back to find when
exactly this expectation was

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given and I remember it live as
well when I when I heard it and

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it was it was a really really
awesome one and without giving

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away too many of the secrets
that Brother David gave in his

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Rotation, he takes the parable
of the sower for his expectation

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and kind of goes that next level
on it really kind of digs into

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it and finds a way to take it
from Beyond being something

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where you look at it preaching
about the the ground and the

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seed something that is much more
applicable to us in our in our

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This is an example of one of my

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where the the brother takes a

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topic or something that we all
know super well, you know, the

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the parable of the sower is
something that we have heard

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many times that we studied when
we were in Sunday school.

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Most of us almost could recite
the essential like the cliff

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notes of the parable by heart,
but he takes it one level deeper

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and finds a whole bunch of new
meaning that is just is really

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So with that we’ll turn it over
to Brother David Jennings for

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his excitation on the sower.
Today, I’m going to try to talk

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about something that well, I
suppose many of us probably have

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felt that we’ve understood for
many years, which is a parable

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of the sower.
Well we do but there’s all kinds

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of levels to the parable of the
sower.

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And so we’re going to take a
look at that in a few moments

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one of the beauties of this part
of Jesus’s life.

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Things are occurring, you know
back in the Jerusalem area John

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the Baptist pretty soon here
will be put in prison.

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A lot of the freedom that Jesus
is feeling right now here in

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Galilee is allowing him not only
to heal people and we have this

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beautiful picture of people
coming from all lands because

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they hear that there is a
teacher who has the ability to

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heal and they come from all
over.

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From I do Mia from from
Jerusalem from Jordan Tyre sidon

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great multitudes and they came
with the idea that they could be

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healed.
But of course the principle I

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suppose we should all remember.
Is that really what heals us is

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in fact the word of God and when
we get to chapter 4, this is

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exactly what Jesus is going to
do.

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He’s going to begin to heal not
the maladies that they have that

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were associated with perhaps
skin.

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Ceases and perhaps limbs that
weren’t working as they showed

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or ears that didn’t hear or
tongues of couldn’t speak or

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Isaac couldn’t see he was going
to heal minds and the way he was

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going to do that was with his
words.

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Another thing that’s kind of
important for us to state is

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that I think it’s got important
impact for us today.

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Jesus was preaching the kingdom
of God in the gospel of Matthew

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that we completed.
There is a phrase that only

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occurs in the in the gospel of
Matthew.

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Matthew and that’s the Kingdom
of Heaven Jesus said the Kingdom

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of Heaven is at hand pray that
ye enter into the Kingdom of

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Heaven and the message was and
still is not only that there is

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a kingdom to come where Jesus is
going to Reign on the earth and

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set up a world light white
Kingdom that is going to

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fundamentally change this world.
That’s what we look forward to

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and frankly.
That’s what we preach right, but

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there’s another message which is
the kingdom of heaven and that

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it is a kingdom that we can
participate in right now.

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I have fuel at times looking
back in times that I’ve talked

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to people about the truth.
I probably have it emphasized

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that as much as I should the
fact is is that we’re called

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right now to be in the Kingdom
of Heaven to be under the laws

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to be under the precepts that
control of the Lord in heaven.

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We are called ambassadors for
Christ by the Apostle Paul.

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What does that mean?
Well, it means that we’re in it.

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We’re in a country.
Where in a And wherever Nation

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we might be but the laws that we
represent and the King that we

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represent isn’t the one that
were in the middle of something.

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We should all remember when we
get confused about whether we

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should be involved in the
political structure of the

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world.
We’re not part of that.

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We are ambassadors for Christ.
And that was the message that

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Jesus was preaching to these
people is that look it’s not

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only that there will be a
kingdom of God on Earth which

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will fundamentally change
things.

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Where Jesus will be king over
the Earth.

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You can be part of this Kingdom
right now.

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Your life can be changed your
heart can be healed.

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You can experience and
participate in something that

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you never would have before and
this is what John the Baptist

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talked about.
Isn’t it that they’re in

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darkness.
There was a great light that he

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was bringing about and that
great light was the opening up

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of the hope of the Gospel the
ability for people to now walk

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in.
Light and not in darkness and I

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suppose sometimes in our own
preaching we ought to remember

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this that you know, people are
looking for a kingdom of God on

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Earth with Jesus coming back.
Well, they’re not really looking

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for because they don’t know
about it enough, but we preach

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that to them and that’s a
wonderful thing.

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It’s the thing that transcends
everything.

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But a big message is that lives
are changed right now.

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Right now the we can be changed
that the heart that we have

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which sometimes might be
impenetrable can open up.

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That it can sink into our hearts
when we hear it and then it can

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bring forth.
You can bring forth fruit.

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And that’s the message of the
parable of the sower.

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So let’s take a look at what he
says in Mark chapter 4 beginning

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at verse 1.
He began again to teach by the

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wayside and there was gathered
unto him a great multitude so

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that he entered into a ship and
sat in the sea and the whole

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multitude was buy the land on
the seeds kind of a when you

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think about this picture.
It was such a throng that was

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happening against him that they
actually had to launch out on a

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boat to keep a barrier between
them and the preaching and Jesus

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from this boat is now going to
teach them and it says, In verse

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2.
He taught them many things by

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Parables and said unto them his
and said unto them in his

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Doctrine.
So Jesus mission was not just to

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come and to heal physical
maladies.

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His mission was to bring to them
Doctrine which allowed them to

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enter into the kingdom of heaven
and to be able to change their

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lives right now.
So that’s the entry now we have

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into the parable of the sower.
Jesus says in verse 3 Harkin

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behold there went out A sower to
so and it came to pass as he

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sowed some fell by the way side
and the fowls of the air came

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and devoured it up and some fell
on Stony ground where I had not

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much Earth and immediately it
sprang up because it had no

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depth of Earth.
But when the sun was up it was

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scorched and because it had no
root it withered away and some

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fell among thorns and the Thorns
grew up and choked it and you

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and it yielded no fruit and
other fell on good ground and

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did yield fruit that sprang up
and increased and brought forth

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some 30 some 60 and some and
hundred.

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He that hath ears to hear Let
Him hear now brothers and

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sisters the Lord in this
particular Parable describes to

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his disciples what the parable
is about.

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But let’s just for a moment kind
of do a little bit of a

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dissection of what’s being said
here and see if it perhaps helps

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us a little bit to understand
what’s being said because

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undoubtedly and the way I
suppose I spent my first 60

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years thinking about this was
this is talking about groups of

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of people groups of people.
Some of them are like, you know,

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the hard pan dirt and some of
them are perhaps like, you know,

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the rocky ground and some have
good ground, but you know,

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whenever things get tough what
happens is what we see that the

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world chokes them and they can’t
produce fruit and then finally

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the good ground that’s four
categories of people.

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That’s the way I used to always
think about it.

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But then I realized here that
Jesus is talking to his

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disciples whenever he is talking
to those who had here ears to

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hear and he says that it’s given
to them to understand the

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mystery.
So I would suggest to you that

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while that may be the case.
There are people where the word

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just bounces off of them and
there are those who perhaps it

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has a small germination but goes
narrow nowhere and others who it

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appears.
It is a Full-fledged plant, but

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doesn’t have any fruit and then
finally good ground that those

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are four categories we could see
in people but because it’s

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really spoken to us.
I’d like to suggest it’s really

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about our own Hearts every one
of us.

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Unfortunately can relate to
these four conditions.

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Now before we jump into that.
Let’s talk about the sower.

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Now if this was a parable to
talk about good sewing you would

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say this is not a very good
sower.

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Is it indiscriminate throwing of
seed everywhere?

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You know, if you’ve ever had to
put seed in your yard, there’s

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places.
You don’t want the grass to grow

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and you don’t put seed there
right you Carefully Mark those

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things out and when you get to
those edges, you’re very careful

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when you put the seat down to
make sure that it doesn’t spill

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over into the other area.
So what’s wrong with this sword?

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Well, I think the message here
is important for us.

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The seed is indiscriminately
being sown.

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And the reason it’s being sown
that way is because the message

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is to get the gospel message out
to everybody all places at all

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times and it also means that in
our lives we’re going to see

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that the message is going to be
hitting us and it’s all about

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how we are going to receive it.
Now you can make a whole

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exhortation about this issue
about preaching.

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I suppose that you could say you
could make a case that

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christadelphians historically we
like to preach to people just

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like ourselves people from the
same socio-economic groups that

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have the same level of Education
Etc.

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But that’s not the message of
the solar the message of the

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sower is don’t go around trying
to figure out who’s going to

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respond.
Don’t go saying.

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Well, I’m going to go to this
area they’re poor and their have

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a difficult time with life.
Listen at the expense of going

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to somebody else.
The message is distribute the

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seed everywhere.
We don’t know where the good

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soil is.
So this parable about these this

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the parable of the sower
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people but we ourselves and the
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never asked to judge.
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of people and say oh He’s from
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over there.
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They must be like the Wayside or
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their life.
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never bore fruit never changed.
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had the Throne of the Thorns.
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that good ground, right, you
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that and the disciples were
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So it must Have to do with
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So sadly we can see people in
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alert us to the threats but the
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hear What are my personal
vulnerabilities in what ways is

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the word of God coming to me,
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not thriving or it’s not bearing
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And where is my faith fainting
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And if I am the good ground, can
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to see change so that instead of
bearing The Works of the flesh?

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I can see that in my life.
I’m beginning to think with a

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different mind and the natural
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my life.
The things that are my behaviors

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indeed are the fruit of the
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So let’s talk about this first
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the sower.
He’s sewing by the wayside in

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verse 4 and the fowls of the air
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So what do we have to say about
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absolutely zero germination in
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the soil is so hard, you know,
the Wayside the word Wayside is

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used in the NIV and the ESV.
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roadside and I think that gives
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so hard that water doesn’t even
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It just kind of runs off of it
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surface like this which is
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There is no porosity what
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and it sits on it, but it just
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Just doesn’t go anywhere.
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and they devoured or maybe the
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the soil it just looks the same
Sunday after Sunday exhortation

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after exhortation.
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maybe I have a problem in my
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I read the word of God
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that love is the It’s it is what
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spirit it is how we can tell if
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I have a hard in penetrate heart
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further engagement in the
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We need to go and do more.
We need more helpers.

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We need more hands and it seems
like it just lays on that

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surface and the birds come and
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What happens when we have hard
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seed lands on it, but it doesn’t
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self-examination is broken.
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I’m not I’m not thinking about
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word?
I’m not challenging my behavior

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in the way that I think and when
that happens, what I would liken

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myself to is the Wayside the
words hitting but it’s running

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right off.
It’s not going anywhere.

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That’s a threat.
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which is Stony ground.
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the message.
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and maybe we even begin to
change and we might even see

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some growth.
But unfortunately, the soil is

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shallow and the nutrients just
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We don’t keep feeding it.
We don’t keep going back to the

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word or going back to the
fellowship that we drawn to be

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able to get strength and
fundamentally what the biggest

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problem is for me.
Anyway, when I think of my mind

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and the Stony ground, it’s when
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myself.
It’s what I think I have the

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nutrients myself to make this
plant grow up and do everything

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it needs to do.
What I do that.

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I have insufficient focus on my
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And that in itself is the
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It’s muscular Christianity if
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when we fail to nurture
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need that we have with the word
with with our participation and

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fellowship, what happens is when
we’re under strain whenever

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things are difficult, we wither
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The pressure is there on it and
it reverts back to the thinking

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of the flesh we choose to put
the Lord first, but then

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something comes that we really
want and we realize we didn’t

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have the depth that we really
needed to have maybe in some

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ways you’ve experienced that
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Now the next two both have good
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If you notice that before,
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thorns and there’s the good
soil, but they both have good

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soil see in the case where it’s
choked by Thorns the seed had

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everything it needed.
It had perfect Scott soil, right

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all the nutrients have been
given to it all the watering the

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feeding it was there everything
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But the problem was in this
particular case Thorns come up

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next to the plant and the Thorns
by the way, they don’t kill the

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plant which is very interesting
is similar in a way to the

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parable of the tares, isn’t it?
Jesus is don’t pull the tears up

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that’ll be done when the Angels
separate them out at the

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Judgment.
But the idea here, is that the

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Thorns they don’t kill the
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But what is it that they cause
non productivity So here’s a

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challenge for us what this is
saying is that I can actually be

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a fully developed plant.
I could look like everything is

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perfect.
I grow up.

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I’ve got my you know, what a
plants have they have they have

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arms will say they have branches
that come off of them and

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everything is there you look for
to bear fruit and it doesn’t

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bear fruit and why doesn’t it
bear fruit well because it’s

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choked by the world choked by
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perhaps a bit useful for us.
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Everything looks okay, but
there’s just no change going on

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inside and the fruit of the
spirit just as in being produced

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in the world’s cares and the
lusts of riches and other things

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they secretly Rule and they
prevent that mind from being

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changed from a mind of the flesh
to a mind of the spirit and

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because of that there’s no
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And finally, there’s the last
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And that’s the good soil.
That’s what we all judged

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ourselves to be right good soil.
And I believe all of us have

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good soil within us.
All the seed is that it’s in

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good soil is seed that can
either be encumbered by the

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things of the world or they can
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See in verse 20 we see what
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the difference is this and verse
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they which are sown on good
ground such as hear the word.

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So there’s the hearing of the
word the receiving of it and

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bringing forth fruit some 30
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So what happens here is the word
goes beyond an academic.

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Knowledge to a real spiritual
change and brothers and sisters

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in my years in the truth.
If I had to boil it down to what

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I thirst for the most it’s for
being able to realize that

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realize in my life more
spiritual thinking it’s to be

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able to have a mind that thinks
more like the Lord Jesus Christ

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now certainly our academic of in
knowledge of the truth is

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important and it helps us to get
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But what I want to have Is what
maybe you don’t see and that’s

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what’s really happening inside
my mind the way that I think and

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the way I react those were the
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I believe you’re aware of the
change that’s going on within

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you aren’t you?
Don’t you feel it?

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Don’t you know this something
you unusual something unique is

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happening within you you don’t
see things the way the rest of

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the world does and you don’t
even see things the way you used

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to see him before in your life
you’ve changed and that change

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is sometimes thirtyfold
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Now, we have a lot of examples a
lot of examples of good soil may

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just take a couple looks here in
scripture Philippians chapter 4

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Philippians chapter 4 beginning
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This sounds to me like good
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After concluding all the things
that we should be focusing on

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the things that are honest and
just and pure and verse 8 verse

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9.
He says those things which ye

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have both learned.
So you’ve heard them and

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received and heard and see in me
do so.

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It’s not good enough just to
hear it not good enough just to

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receive it you have to do it.
And when you do those things he

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says he says then the God of
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But I rejoiced in the Lord
greatly that now at the last

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your care of me hath flourished
again, where any were also

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careful but she lacked
opportunity.

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Not that I speak in respect of
want for have learned in

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whatsoever State I am therewith
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So what is it the Apostle Paul’s
changed thinking is how is he

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gone from the thinking of the
flesh to the thinking of the

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spirit?
How is he gone from hearing the

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word to receiving the To bearing
fruit.

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Well, here it is.
I know both how to be abased and

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I know how to abound everywhere
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I am instructed both to be full
and to be hungry both to abound

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and to suffer need I can do all
things through Christ which

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strengtheneth me now that is the
mind of the spirit the one that

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I want to have more of and that
is an example of one who had Had

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a change in his life a change in
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He thought the the seed entered
in and it was able to bring

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forth fruit.
We can look at so many other

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examples of good soil and how
that good Soul brings about a

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different way of thinking
remember even Jesus were told in

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Hebrews chapter in chapter 5, it
says that he learned obedience

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by the things that he suffered
good soil allows us to learn

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things that we We wouldn’t
otherwise.

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Now there is an additional
narrative in Mark’s gospel that

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doesn’t happen to Matthew’s
gospel about the parable of the

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sower.
And if you’ll turn with me it’s

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over in verse 26 and I think is
an important one on this idea of

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understanding these different
aspects that we have in our life

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are there places where I am be
in penetrant and I’m not

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listening.
I’m not willing to change are

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there.
Are there places where you know,

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I start to do these things, but
I just don’t seem to have the

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faith to follow through and are
there times where the world

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actually is choking me and
keeping me from bearing fruit.

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Those are things we need to be
involved with as we examine

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ourselves.
But look what he has here in

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verse 26.
He said so is the kingdom of

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God.
As if a man should cast seed

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into the ground.
Now look at what the solar does.

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All he does is cast the seed
verse 27 and should sleep and

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Rise night and day and the seed
should spring and grow up.

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He knoweth not how for the Earth
bringeth forth fruit of its of

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herself.
First the blade that was the

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word.
I was looking for then the year

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after that the full after that
the full corn in the ear and

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when the fruit is brought forth
immediately.

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He put it in the sickle because
the Harvest is come.

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So some important addition to
the parable of the sower here in

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Mark’s gospel because the sower
doesn’t control the germination

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and the growth as time passes
the seed grows in the soil

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without the Sowers power.
And the sower doesn’t bring

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about this transformation and
the sower doesn’t bring about

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fruit in anybody else.
Well, we know that to be a

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principal of Paul talked about
how he had planted but Apollo

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said watered but God granted the
increase and we can also know

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that in our own personal
experience.

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We are very poor at being able
to judge what’s going to

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germinate and bear fruit.
I can think back over the

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snappin 21 years since the first
seminar that I was involved with

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and I remember that because I
broke my leg and Christian had

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to do the seminar in Pomona for
us 21 years have passed and I

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remember from all the people all
the years how certain I would be

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at times.
That one’s the good ground.

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There is a person who’s going to
this is going this person’s

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going to grab onto the gospel.
They were christadelphians

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didn’t even know it and how many
times I was wrong.

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In fact, I’d have to say almost
maybe every time I was wrong.

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It was the person who challenged
everything.

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We said one person who
tape-recorded it transcribed

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everything and came back and
said you said this and I think

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it’s wrong.
That was the one that got

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baptized.
You know the fact is we don’t

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know how this process all
happens and we don’t necessarily

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know how it happens in us.
The power to transform us is not

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our power.
It’s the power of our heavenly

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father and we have to be open to
the word when we’re open to the

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word.
It can penetrate into us and he

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will make a germinate and he
will give us the power to bring

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forth fruit, you know parents.
parents can plant and parents

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can water But our children they
have to decide for themselves,

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whether they want to hear and
receive and bear fruit.

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And when we see personal
transformation in our own lives,

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we see our minds changing.
We shouldn’t view this as being

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Our Own Strength at our own
capability.

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The transformational process in
our lives is not by us.

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Or by the person who preached to
us.

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We are without strength.
But the power of the master who

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feeds us he nourishes us and he
brings about the Harvest.

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So we really don’t know why
sometimes or how I should say

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our minds are changed.
How does the brother who

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irritated me become a person who
didn’t really change but becomes

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a brother that I love.
Forgive myself for now.

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That’s a pretty abnormal
process.

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But that is an example of how
our lives change and we bear

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fruit.
How does the lust of the flesh

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that earlier in my life might
have been something that

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penetrated me and seemed
insurmountable becomes

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something.
That’s no longer the force that

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it was it’s unattractive.
It’s diffused not important to

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me any longer.
So brothers and sisters, what do

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we need to do?
Well, just a few last comments

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like to turn over to First Peter
chapter 2 First Peter chapter 2

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just one quick verse or two
quick versus will look at verse

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11 and 12 First Peter chapter 2
verses 11 and 12 dearly beloved.

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I beseech you I beseech you as
strangers and pilgrims abstain

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from fleshly lusts.
Now, that sounds like a comment

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that sounds like a commandment.
Just don’t do that.

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Well, there’s a reason we don’t
Don’t do that.

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Why because they war against the
soul.

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So let’s go back to our parable
of the sower.

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Do you think it’s possible for
you and me to be involved in the

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things of the flesh to have an
activity in those things and to

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expect that we’re going to be
bearing fruit.

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There is a war going on in the
mind of a person who’s

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participating in the lust of the
flesh.

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So one of the first things that
we can do is choose Holiness

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choose not to be having mines
which are corrupted by the

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Things of the flesh.
The next thing of course is

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self-examination.
I would suggest that’s probably

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the first thing that we see
breaks down when we go off when

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we become impenetrable when we
have Stony ground in our heart.

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It’s because we stopped
examining ourselves and looking

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inside.
We need to work to remove the

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thorns.
You know Solomon in the fourth

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00:33:40,500 –> 00:33:45,000
chapter of proverbs he was
talking about how we are to look

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00:33:45,000 –> 00:33:47,900
at Temptation.
He says when you’re walking down

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00:33:47,900 –> 00:33:53,300
the road, he says avoid it pass
it by walk on the other side.

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That kind of doesn’t tend to be
the way we do it sometimes right

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00:33:58,700 –> 00:34:01,100
we kind of get as close as we
can.

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But we’re we have enough
strength to stay away from that.

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The message is avoided pass it
by that’s what we need to do.

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Don’t let the Thorns grow in
your good ground and finally

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00:34:16,100 –> 00:34:20,500
give glory to God not to
yourself for the changes that

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he’s bringing about so like to
conclude then with he With a

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fission is chapter 3 and I
wonder if the Apostle Paul.

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In fact, I’m almost convinced
that the Apostle Paul must have

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had the parable of the sower on
his mind when he wrote these

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words.
Remember it’s about being rooted

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and grafted.
It’s about being having depth of

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soil and bearing fruit.
Well this look at what he says

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beginning at verse 13 wherefore
I desire that you faint not at

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my tribulations for you. which
is your glory for this cause I

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bow my knees under the father of
our Lord Jesus Christ of whom

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00:34:59,500 –> 00:35:03,800
the whole family in Heaven and
Earth is named that he would

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00:35:03,800 –> 00:35:07,600
Grant you according to the
riches of his glory to be

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00:35:07,600 –> 00:35:13,600
strengthened with might by his
spirit in the Inner Man look at

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00:35:13,600 –> 00:35:22,500
verse 17 That Christ May dwell
in your hearts by faith that ye

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00:35:22,700 –> 00:35:29,600
being rooted and grounded in
love may be able to a comprehend

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00:35:29,600 –> 00:35:32,900
with All Saints.
What is the breadth and the

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00:35:32,900 –> 00:35:35,800
length and the depth and the
height and to know the love of

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Christ which passeth knowledge
that ye might be filled with all

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00:35:40,800 –> 00:35:44,500
the fullness of God.
Now unto him that is able to do

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00:35:44,500 –> 00:35:49,000
all exceedingly exceeding
abundantly above all that we ask

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00:35:49,000 –> 00:35:55,400
or think according to the power
that worketh in US unto him be

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00:35:55,400 –> 00:35:59,800
glory in the church by Christ
Jesus throughout all ages World

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00:35:59,800 –> 00:36:03,000
Without End.
So brothers and sisters, that’s

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00:36:03,000 –> 00:36:07,300
the process.
The process is to allow the word

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00:36:07,400 –> 00:36:14,100
to dwell in us to strip away the
thorns in our lives and when we

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00:36:14,100 –> 00:36:20,500
do this, we will be rooted and
grounded in love and we will be

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00:36:20,500 –> 00:36:25,500
able to participate with all the
saints in the Kingdom of Heaven

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00:36:26,200 –> 00:36:31,200
understanding what it means now
to know the fullness of God to

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00:36:31,200 –> 00:36:34,400
be Filled with the fullness of
God and to be able to do

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00:36:34,400 –> 00:36:40,000
exceedingly abundantly whether
it be thirtyfold sixtyfold or a

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00:36:40,008 –> 00:36:43,800
hundredfold that we would be
able to bring fruit to our

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00:36:43,900 –> 00:36:49,000
master who does all things and
it’s through him and his power

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00:36:49,300 –> 00:36:52,400
that works in us.
And so of course we see the Lord

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00:36:52,400 –> 00:36:57,400
Jesus Christ that were now here
to remember the perfect soil of

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which there were no Thorns no
rockiness in that soil.

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00:37:01,300 –> 00:37:05,800
Oil, he brought forth fruit
abundantly without measure and

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00:37:05,800 –> 00:37:09,600
now we remember him and we ask
him for strength and our lives

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00:37:10,000 –> 00:37:13,600
to be able to allow us to indeed
bear him fruit.

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00:37:22,100 –> 00:37:24,800
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