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Dry Ground
Contributed by David Radcliff on Nov 30, 2017 (message contributor)
Summary: We are living in a time in history that has never been before. A time that is as wicked as any time before. A time when the land in which we live is dry spiritually. We need a good soaking rain, a flood from God. The dry ground is a symptom of the problem
DRY GROUND
Text: Isaiah 44:3 For I will pour water upon him that is thirsty, and floods upon the dry ground:
We are living in a time in history that has never been before. A time that is as wicked as any time before. A time when the land in which we live is dry spiritually. We need a good soaking rain, a flood from God. The dry ground is a symptom of the problem.
I. BARREN
1. Nothing will Grow on Dry Ground
2. Lack of Spiritual Blessings
3. John 15:16 Ye have not chosen me, but I have chosen you, and ordained you, that ye should go and bring forth fruit, and that your fruit should remain: that whatsoever ye shall ask of the Father in my name, he may give it you.
4. Galatians 5:22-23 But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, longsuffering, gentleness, goodness, faith, Meekness, temperance: against such there is no law.
II. HARD
1. A Christian can get in this condition
a. uncaring
b. indifferent
c. unconcerned
III. UNWORKABLE
1. Jeremiah 18:6 Behold, as the clay is in the potter’s hand, so are ye in mine hand,
2. Cracks
3. Dusty
IV. UNPROFITABLE
1. Good for Nothing
2. Useless
3. Purposeless
4. Matthew 25:30 And cast ye the unprofitable servant into outer darkness: there shall be weeping and gnashing of teeth.
Psalms 63:1 O God, thou art my God; early will I seek thee: my soul thirsteth for thee, my flesh longeth for thee in a dry and thirsty land, where no water is;
Psalms 68:5 God setteth the solitary in families: he bringeth out those which are bound with chains: but the rebellious dwell in a dry land.
