Wednesday, June 4, 2003

There Is A Seed For Every Need

There Is A Seed For Every Need

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Key Scripture: Genesis 8

22 While the earth remaineth, seedtime and harvest, and cold and heat, and summer and winter, and day and night shall not cease.

Text: Galatians 6

7 Be not deceived; God is not mocked: for whatsoever a man soweth, that shall he also reap.

8 For he that soweth to his flesh shall of the flesh reap corruption; but he that soweth to the Spirit shall of the Spirit reap life everlasting.

9 And let us not be weary in well doing: for in due season we shall reap, if we faint not.

I. The Law Of ‘After Its Kind’

A. Genesis 1:11 And God said, Let the earth bring forth grass, the herb yielding seed, and the fruit tree yielding fruit after his kind, whose seed is in itself, upon the earth: and it was so.

B. Genesis 1:12 And the earth brought forth grass, and herb yielding seed after his kind, and the tree yielding fruit, whose seed was in itself, after his kind: and God saw that it was good.

C. Genesis 1:21 And God created great whales, and every living creature that moveth, which the waters brought forth abundantly, after their kind, and every winged fowl after his kind: and God saw that it was good.

D. Genesis 1:24 And God said, Let the earth bring forth the living creature after his kind, cattle, and creeping thing, and beast of the earth after his kind: and it was so.

E. Genesis 1:25 And God made the beast of the earth after his kind, and cattle after their kind, and every thing that creepeth upon the earth after his kind: and God saw that it was good.

II. Kingdom Realities

A. Matthew 13:31 Another parable put he forth unto them, saying, The kingdom of heaven is like to a grain of mustard seed, which a man took, and sowed in his field:

B. Mark 4:

26 And he said, So is the kingdom of God, as if a man should cast seed into the ground;

27 And should sleep, and rise night and day, and the seed should spring and grow up, he knoweth not how.

28 For the earth bringeth forth fruit of herself; first the blade, then the ear, after that the full corn in the ear.

III. We Are The Garden Of God

A. 1 Corinthians 3:

8 Now he that planteth and he that watereth are one: and every man shall receive his own reward according to his own labour.

9 For we are labourers together with God: ye are God’s husbandry, (a cultivated field), ye are God’s building.

B. Mark 4:3-8 The Four Gardens

1. Wayside

2. Stony Ground

3. Among Thorns

4. Good Ground

C. Same Seed - Different Results

IV. The Word Of God Is Seed

A. Mark 4:14 The Sower Soweth The Word

B. Mark 4:26 And he said, So is the kingdom of God, as if a man should cast seed into the ground;

C. John 14:10 … the words that I speak unto you I speak not of myself: but the Father that dwelleth in me, he doeth the works.

V. Conclusion

A. Christians Are Kingdom Soil

B. God’s Word Is Seed (certified seed)

C. Seed Reproduces After Its Kind - We Reap What We Sow

D. God’s Word Placed In Our Heart Will Produce

* The Fruit Of The Spirit: Galatians 5:22ff

E. If You Desire/Need

1. Salvation

2. Forgiveness

3. Power

* Over Sin

* To Be A Witness

* To Defeat Your Enemies

4. Prosperity

5. Healing

6. Deliverance

7. Restoration

> Then Sow Seeds Of God’s Word Concerning That Desire

VI. One Final Note

A. Hebrews 4:2 For unto us was the gospel preached, as well as unto them: but the word preached did not profit them, not being mixed with faith in them that heard it.

B. Romans 10:17 Faith increases when you hear the Word of God.

C. Philemon 6 That the communication of thy faith may become effectual by the acknowledging of every good thing which is in you in Christ Jesus.

Acknowledge & Confess The Word, It Will Increase And Activate Your Faith While You Sow Seeds Of God’s Will & Power In Your Life.

Galatians 6:9 And let us not be weary in well doing: for in due season we shall reap, if we faint not.