The Applied Word of God - Part 30

In Matthew 13, Jesus spoke the parable of the ‘Seed and Sower’ to the crowd but gave its explanation only to His disciples. The seed is the word of God and the Sower is Jesus Himself, both of which are good. The problem is with the soil.

1.Wayside soil: This is the heart that is so distracted that satan and his demonic spirits immediately takes it away so that they do not remember what they heard.

2.Rocky soil: There is only a thin layer of soil. They enthusiastically receive the Word and make decisions but they do not apply the Word into their lives and so do not win souls or bring about a transformation in their lives. They don’t grow for the farmer who waits patiently for the harvest.

3.Thorny Soil: Here, the seeds that are scattered by the sower falls into a soil that is already infested by thorns. The thorns and the good plant grows together. But they compete with each other and in this competition, the thorns that grow faster wins and chokes/ suffocates the good plants. The good plants die and the farmer yields no harvest.
22 The seed falling among the thorns refers to someone who hears the word, but the worries of this life and the deceitfulness of wealth choke the word, making it unfruitful.
The three thorny plants are:
1.The worries of life
2.Deceitfulness of riches
3.Desires for other things of life

These thorns were already in their hearts when they heard the Word. If they do not pluck out the worrying thoughts from their life, it will choke the Word and make it unfruitful. Jesus commands us to gives the worries of life to Him. 

Secondly, the love of money takes us away from the Word.

1 Timothy 6. 10 For the love of money is a root of all kinds of evil. Some people, eager for money, have wandered from the faith and pierced themselves with many griefs.

Many live in this world to make money. There is a great competition between the thorns (money) and the good plant. Who will outgrow the other? Who will grow healthy? If we give the place of God to Mammon, the money God, what will happen?

Matthew 6. 24 “No one can serve two masters. Either you will hate the one and love the other, or you will be devoted to the one and despise the other. You cannot serve both God and money.

We cannot serve both money and God.  If God is not our source, we are choked by the deceitfulness of wealth which makes us unfruitful.

Desires for other things take us away from God. It all depends on our thoughts as to whether we will become fruitful. Worldly thoughts are distractions which prevent us from growing spiritually.
 
4.Good ground : This is one which is ploughed, prepared and watered. It shows a receptive heart. The Seed of the Word grows from inside in our thoughts, words and deeds.

Colossians 3. 16 Let the message of Christ dwell among you richly.

Matthew 13. 8 Still other seed fell on good soil, where it produced a crop—a hundred, sixty or thirty times what was sown.

There were three categories of yield. The yield depends on ones’ level of acceptance.
 
Matthew 13. 23 But the seed falling on good soil refers to someone who hears the word and understands it. This is the one who produces a crop, yielding a hundred, sixty or thirty times what was sown.”

We need to pray for revelation as we read the Word. The ones who yield fruit are also ‘sons of God’ who themselves are God’s seed (Matthew 13.38).

The soil quality is the heart quality. No one can make an excuse that they did not hear the Word of God. It is available through many means. It is up to us to produce fruit

TYPES OF HEART

• PURE HEART  

Mathews 5:8
Blessed are the pure in heart,for they will see God

• BELIEVING HEART

ROMANS 10:10
For it is with your heart that you believe and are justified, and it is with your mouth that you profess your faith and are saved

• REPENTING HEART

 ACTS 2:37
When the people heard this, they were cut to the heart and said to Peter and the other apostles, “Brothers, what shall we do?

• OPEN HEART 

MATHEW 13:9
Whoever has ears, let them hear
Acts 16:14
One of those listening was a woman from the city of Thyatira named Lydia, a dealer in purple cloth. She was a worshiper of God. The Lord opened her heart to respond to Paul’s message.

• RECEPTIVE HEART

 ACTS 10:30
And Cornelius said, Four days ago I was fasting until this hour; and at the ninth hour I prayed in my house, and, behold, a man stood before me in bright clothing

• CHILDLIKE HEART 

MATHEWS 12:2-4
When the Pharisees saw this, they said to him, “Look! Your disciples are doing what is unlawful on the Sabbath.”
3 He answered, “Haven’t you read what David did when he and his companions were hungry?4 He entered the house of God, and he and his companions ate the consecrated bread—which was not lawful for them to do, but only for the priests.

• LOVING HEART 

MATHEWS 22:37
Jesus replied: “‘Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind

FACTORS THAT CAUSE WORD OF GOD UNFRUITFUL

1. SATAN
2. TROUBLES
3. PERSECUTIONS
4. WORRIES OF LIFE
5. DECIETFUL OF RICHES
6. DESIRES OF OTHER THINGS

Remove all these from your heart ,prepare yourself become receptive  and always stay prayful for you will harvest 30 ,60 and 100 folds.

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