THE SEED AND THE SOIL
MATTHEW 13: 1-8
DEEP IN THE REMOTE FROZEN TUNDRA OF NORWAY, JUST 800 MILES FROM THE NORTH POLE, LIES A GUARDED FACILITY. THIS FACILITY IS BURIED 430 Ft DEEP IN THE SIDE OF A MOUNTAIN PLATEAU. STORED AT A BONE CHILLING 0 DEG FAHRENHEIT BEHING A SERIES OF KEY CODED AIR LOCKED VAULT DOORS. YOU WANT TO TALK SECURITY. THE VAULTS ARE NOT ONLY IN ONE OF THE MOST REMOTE PARTS OF THE WORLD WITH SNOW 10 FEET THICK AT TIMES, BUT THERE IS ALSO A NATURAL SECURITY GAURD TO PROTECT THIS PRECIOUS RESOURCE. ZOMIE POLAR BEAR WITH RABIES. THE MALE BEAR CAN WEIGH UP TO 1500 LBS. THESE BEARS ARE KNOWN TO ATTACK AND CONSUME HUMANS UNLIKE ITS COUSIN THE BROWN BEAR WITH WILL ATTACK, MAME AND LEAVE.
IF YOU CAN SURVIVE THE UNFORGIVING REMOTE, FROZEN LANDSCAPE, YOU STILL HAVE TO GAIN ACCESS TO THE STEEL DOOR VAULT. WITH ARE LOCKED WITH A HIGHLY SOPHISTICATED CODED KEY SYSTEM WHICH ONLY ONE KEY PER VAULT. THE CONTENTS ARE DEEMED SO VALUABLE THAT A BACK-UP CHILLING SYSTEM IS IN PLACE TO KEEPS ITS CONTENTS FROZEN TO ENSURE THE PRESERVATION OF THIS TREASURE IN THE EVENT OF EXTREME CLIMATE CHANGE A CATACLYSMIC EVENT, WETHER NATURAL OR MAN MADE. IT IS SAID THAT IF THE CLIMATE WERE TO CHANGE AND THE POWER WERE TO FAIL, THE AIR TIGHT, HEAVLY INSULATED VAULT, THE CONTENTS COULD REMAIN FROZEN FOR UP TO 200 YEARS.
WHAT AN AMAZING PROJECT CORRECT?
IT MAKES YOU WONDER, WHAT IS IT, INSIDE THESE VAULTS, THAT NATIONS OF THE EARTH WOULD ASSEMBLE TOGETHER AND GO TO SUCH GREAT LENGTHS TO STORE AND PROTECT?
THIS MULTI-MILLION PROJECT INVOLVING A MULTI-NATIONAL EFFORT IS NOT TO PROTECT A SECRET MILITARY PROJECT.
NOT TO STUDY THE REMAINS OF A UFO CRASH LANDING. OR THE BODY OF BIGFOOT.
NOT TO PROTECT A SECRET WORMHOLE OR QUANTUM LEAP (TIME MACHINE) PROJECT.
WHAT NORWAY SPENT SO MUCH MONEY AND TIME TO PRESERVE IS SIMPLE. A SEED.
STORED IN THE AIR TIGHT VAULTS, 430 FEET IN THE SIDE OF A REMOTE MOUNTAIN, POLAR BEARS IS APPROX. 6,000,000 SEED SAMPLES FROM ACROSS THE WORLD. SEEDS.
NOW THAT I GOT YOU’RE INTEREST THIS MORNING, I WANT TO ASK YOU A SIMPLE QUESTION. SEEDS MUST BE PRETTY IMPORTANT TO SUSTAIN HUMAN LIFE ON EARTH CORRECT?
JESUS THOUGHT SO.
MATTHEW 13:1-8
1 That same day Jesus left the house and sat by the Sea of Galilee. 2 Large crowds gathered around him. So he got into a boat. He sat down in it. All the people stood on the shore. 3 Then he told them many things by using stories.
He said, "A farmer went out to plant his seed. 4 He scattered the seed on the ground. Some fell on a path. Birds came and ate it up. 5 Some seed fell on rocky places, where there wasn't much soil. The plants came up quickly, because the soil wasn't deep. 6 When the sun came up, it burned the plants. They dried up because they had no roots. 7 Other seed fell among thorns. The thorns grew up and crowded out the plants. 8 Still other seed fell on good soil. It produced a crop 100, 60 or 30 times more than what was planted.
JESUS OFTEN TAUGHT PEOPLE USING PARABLES. WERE ARE GOING TO TAKE A LOOK ARE THE PARABLE JESUS TAUGHT, OFFSHORE TO HIS ONSHORE CROWD.
JESUS SAID IN VS. 3 He said, "A farmer went out to plant his seed.”
YOU KNOW JESUS DOES NOT SAY SOMETHING JUST TO SPEAK AND SOUND CLEVER OR CUTE. JESUS MADE A PROFOUND REFERENCE TO THE SEED.
THE GREEK WORD FOR SEED IS SPERMA. IT IS WE GET THE WORD SPERM FROM.
THIS SEED IS COMPOSED OF 3 PARTS.
SEED COAT
EMBRYO
STORED FOOD FOR THE EMBRYO
WHAT DOES THE SEED REPRESENT? WHEN I SEE A SEED, I SEE UNTAPED POTENTIAL. I SEE, BECAUSE I UNDERSTAND THE POWER AND LIFE IN THIS LITTLE SLEEPING GIANT. RIGHT NOW IT LIES DORMANT, ITS ASLEEP. IT’S WAITING TO GROW.
IN THIS STATE OF “SUSPENDED ANIMATION” THE SEED IS STYMIED. SCIENTIST CALL IT A “STATE OF ARRESTED DEVELOPMENT”
BEFORE THIS TEENY TINY SEED GROWN AND BECOMES WHAT GOD INTENDED IT TO BECOME, A FRUIT BEARING PAPAYA TREE, SOME IMPORTANT DETAILS MUST FIRST BE CORRECT FOR IT TO TAKE ROOT AND GROW.
JESUS USED A SEED TO REPRESENT THE WORD OF GOD. AND THIS SEED OF GOD, HIS WORD, HAS THE POWER TO TRANSFORM!
THE SEED, WHEN SEEDED IN YOUR HEART WILL GROW, TRANSFORM AND PRODUCE AN INCREDIBLE CHANGE IN YOUR LIFE.
YOU CAN CARRY THIS SEED AROUND IN YOU’RE SHIRT POCKET AND KEEP IT CLOSE TO YOUR HEART, BUT WILL THAT MAGICAL PROCESS OF A SEED GROWING INTO A TREE HAPPEN? OF COARSE NOT.
MY DARK, DRY POCKET WILL NOT AWAKEN THE SLEEPING GIANT INSIDE.
THE SEED NEEDS SOIL.
THE SOIL
JESUS USED THE SOIL IN HIS PARABLE TO REPRESENT OUR HEART.
VS. 4 “He scattered the seed on the ground.”
JESUS TOUCHED ON 4 TYPES OF SOIL.
CHRISTIANS HAVE 1 OF THE 4 SOIL TYPES.
THE PATH
ROCKS/GRAVEL PLACES
THE THORNS
THE GOOD SOIL
THE PATH
THE PATH IS A HEAVY TRAVELED WAY. HIGH TRAFFIC WITH GROUND SO PACKED AND PRESSED. PLUS THE AREA IS INFESTED WITH HUNGRY BIRDS THE SEED DOSENT HAVE A CHANGE TO PENETRATE THE SOIL.
I READ THAT BIRDS ARE SO GOOD AT STEALING SEEDS THAT ARE NOT PROTECTED FROM THE SOIL THAT ITS HARD TO EVEN TELL THE SEEDS ARE MISSING, STOLEN AND GONE.
THE SOIL IS ALSO TO PROTECT THE PRECIOUS SEED.
PSMS 119:11 I have hidden your word in my heart so that I won't sin against you.
THE SOIL HIDES THE SEED FROM THE ENEMY.
SEEDS LEFT UN PENETRATED ALLOW THE ENEMY TO PILFER THE BLESSING.
GENESIS 2 TELL US GOD MADE US FROM “THE DUST OF THE EARTH”
DUST IN HEBREW IS...
A-PHAR= EARTH, GROUND, DUST (POWDER).
SO IF WE ARE CREATED FROM THE SOIL, HOW BRILLIANT WAS THE PARABLE WHERE JESUS REFERS TO THE WORD OF GOD AS A SEED, AND WE AS THE SOIL.
WE WERE CREATED TO RECEIVE, HIDE THE SEED SO THE SEED CAN ANCHOR ITSELF.
IF YOU CANNOT UNDERSTAND GODS WORD, YOU LEAVE THE SEED EXPOSED FOR THE ENEMY TO STEAL.
PROV. 16:16 CHOOSE UNDERSTANDING RATHER THAN SILVER.
IS THE ENEMY STEALING YOUR...
BLESSINGS
HOPE
FULFILLMENT
FAITH
JOY
REVELATION
DONT ALLOW THE ENEMY TO ROB YOU. HIDE THE WORD OF GOD IN YOUR HEART. MEDITATE ON HIS WORD, ASK THE HOLY SPIRIT TO GIVE YOU AN UNDERSTANDING OF THE BIBLE.
2.THE ROCKY/GRAVEL
VS. 5&6 Some seed fell on rocky places, where there wasn't much soil. The plants came up quickly, because the soil wasn't deep. 6 When the sun came up, it burned the plants. They dried up because they had no roots
GRAVEL REPRESENTS A THIN LAYER OF SOIL IN THE HEART OF THE BELIEVER.
WHEN I THINK OF A THIN LAYER OF SOIL, IT’S SHALLOW. SO THE SEED CAN QUICKLY SPROUT UP BUT SINCE IT CANNOT PRODUCE A MUCH NEEDED DEEP ROOT.
WHY IS THE ROOT SO IMPORTANT?
The four major functions of roots are
absorption of water and inorganic nutrients,
anchoring of the plant body to the ground and
storage of food and nutrients and
4) to prevent soil erosion.
THE TROUBLES OF LIFE WILL QUICKLY UPROOT THE SEED IN THE LIFE OF A SHALLOW, ERODED BELIEVER.
JESUS SAID BECAUSE OF THE SHALLOW SOIL, THEY QUICKLY RECEIVE THE WORD AND IT IS ALSO QUICKLY WITHERED WHEN TROUBLES COME.
THIS IS A BIG PROBLEM AMONG CHRISTIANS TODAY.
WHEN THE PRESSURES OF LIFE COME AND THE STRESS OF LIFE GETS TO THEM, THEIR FAITH..
SHALLOW - ROCKY - ERODED SOIL WILL NOT ALLOW GODS WORD TO BE ABSORBED -ANCHORED - AND STORED.
HAPPINESS IS FLEETING, ITS SHORT LIVED. YOU WILL NEVER TRULLY OWN HAPPINESS.
HAPPINESS IS MOMENT TO MOMENT, HERE ONE MINUTE GONE THE NEXT.
YOU SMILE WHEN YOUR INCOME TAX CHECK HITS THE BANK. YOU CALL/TEXT IN SICK. GO SHOPPING AND EATING. 3 DAYS LATER THE MONEY IS GONE AND YOU ARE LEFT ANTICIPATING THE NEXT SHORT TERM HAPPY MOMENT.
OR YOU DRINK THE RED BULL AND YOU FEEL GREAT FOR AN HOUR OR SO, THEN YOU DONT HAVE THE ENERGY TO GET YOURSELF OFF THE CHAIR. SHORT LIVED BURST.
SHALLOW SEEDED WORD IS MUCH LIKE THIS. YOU FEEL GOOD WHEN YOU HEAR IT, YOU FEEL HAPPY BECAUSE YOU HEARD SOMETHING THAT YOU HAVE BEEN WANTING TO HEAR ABOUT YOUR LIFE. YOU LEAVE CHURCH, OR CLOSE YOUR BIBLE THEN... TROUBLES COME YOU WAY. YOU WITHER AWAY. YOU LOSE ALL HOPE. AND FALL AWAY.
THEN IT LEAVES YOU SEARCHING FOR YOUR NEXT SPIRITUAL CAN OF RED BULL OR INCOME TAX CHECK.
THRONY GROUND
VS. 7 Other seed fell among thorns, which grew up and choked the plants.
THE SEED FALLS IN THE THORNY PLACE AND GET CHOKED.
THE QUESTION IS NOT THE SEED. THE SEED HAS THE POTENTIAL TO GROW.
HOW CAN IT GROW WHEN CAST INTO A WEED GARDEN?
WEEDS ARE GENETICALLY PROGRAMED FOR ONE THING AND ONE THING ONLY. TO MULTIPLY AND CONQUER.
WEEDS GROW AND REPRODUCE SO QUICKLY THAT IN NO TIME AT ALL THEY WILL QUICKLY OVER POWER AND OVER RUN A LAWN.
THIS IS A REPRESENTATION OF HOW FIERCELY COMPETITIVE THE WORD IS FOR THE PLACE IN YOU HEART.
IS YOUR HEART BEING OVERPOWERED BY A LOVE FOR THE WORLD?
ARE YOU SO BUSY CHASING..
MONEY
POWER
WEALTH
SIN
LOVE OF THE WORLD
ADDICTIONS - DRUGS / PORN / DECEITFUL LIVING
THAT EVEN THE PURE, UNTAINTED WORD OF GOD HAS NO CHANCE TO ANCHOR IT SELF IN YOUR HEART BECAUSE ITS COMPETING AGAINS DEEP SEEDED, ANCHORED SIN?
OR ARE YOU SO CONSUMED BY THE CARES AND WORRIES OF LIFE YOUR SOIL/HEART HAS BECOME OVER RUN BY THE WEEDS OF THE WORLD?
LISTEN TO ME, UNDERSTAND WHAT IM ABOUT TO TELL YOU.
THIS IS NOT A FEEL GOOD GOSPEL OF WEALTH AND PROSPERITY AND GRACE.
IF THE LOVE OF THE WORLD IS LEFT UNCHECKED. SIN, LIKE THE WEED, HAS BUT ONE PUROSE AND ONE PURPOSE ONLY, TO GROW, MULTIPLY TO TO TAKE OVER YOUR HEART.
SOIL MUST BE WORKED AND ATTENDED, IT CANNOT BE IGNORED.
3 OF THE 4 SOIL TYPES JESUS MENTIONED WERE UNACCEPTABLE TO SUSTAIN LIFE FROM THE SEED.
BUT 1 WAS...
THE GOOD SOIL
VS. 8 Still other seed fell on good soil. It produced a crop 100, 60 or 30 times more than what was planted.
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THE GOOD SOIL WAS ONE WHO HEARD THE WORD AND UNDERSTOOD IT.
UNDERSTAND INT THE GREEK WAS SOON-E-AY-MEE= REVERENCE + RESPECT.
ONCE WE TAKE IN THE WORD OF GOD, LIKE THE GOOD SOIL...
HIDE IT
PROTECT THE SEED
ALLOW THE SEED TO ACHOR IN
WE MUST REVERENCE THE WORD, RESPECT THE WORD OF GOD
AGAIN THE QUESTION IN NOT THE INTEGRITY OF THE SEED, THE SEED WORKS, THE SEED IS GOOD
THERE IS NO QUESTION, THE WORD WORKS, THE WORD OF GOD IS GOOD AND FULLY FUNCTIONAL
THE QUESTION IS THE SOIL. IS YOUR SOIL FIT FOR THE SEED / THE WORD OF GOD TO GROW TO ANCHOR TO GROW TO PREVENT THE EROSION OF THE WORLD.
YOU NEED THE SEED, THE SEED NEEDS YOU. WE ARE DEPENDENT UPON EACH OTHER FOR SPECTACULAR RESULTS
DONT ALLOW THE HUNGRY BIRDS OF THE WORLD TO STEAL THE SEED. HIDE THEM.
THE PROLIFERATION
VS. 8 Still other seed fell on good soil. It produced a crop 100, 60 or 30 times more than what was planted.
THE BLESSINGS OF FOLLOWING HIDING GODS WORD AND ALLOWING IT TO TRANSFORM AND FLOURISH IN YOUR LIFE.
THE RETURN IN AMAZING. THE RESULTS OF GODS WORD IS SPECTACULAR.
100, 60, OR 30 TIMES RETURN ON WHAT WAS PLANTED!
JESUS STATED THAT THE GOOD SOIL WILL MULTIPLY WHAT WAS SOWN!
ARE YOU READY FOR YOUR HARVEST?
