gtcotr/ws061803 - Continued from ws061103
Turn To: Genesis 17
Last Wednesday Evening
There Is A Seed For Every Need
Galatians 6:9 And let us not be weary in well doing: for in due season we shall reap, if we faint not.
We talked about:
The Law Of ‘After Its Kind’
Genesis 1
Kingdom Realities
Mark 4 as if a man should cast seed into the ground
We Are The Garden Of God
1Corinthians 3:9
The Word Of God Is Seed
Mark 4:14 The Sower Soweth The Word
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.
Certified Seed
Isaiah 55:11 So shall my word be that goeth forth out of my mouth: it shall not return unto me void, but it shall accomplish that which I please, and it shall prosper in the thing whereto I sent it.
Fertilized Seed
Romans 10:17 So then faith comes by hearing and hearing by the word of God.
We Ended The Night With:
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.
Tonight We Continue With:
Selecting The Harvest & Planting The Seed
I. Genesis 17 God Selects The Harvest & Plants The Seed
1 ¶ And when Abram was ninety years old and nine, the LORD appeared to Abram, and said unto him, I am the Almighty God; walk before me, and be thou perfect.
2 And I will make my covenant between me and thee, and will multiply thee exceedingly.
3 And Abram fell on his face: and God talked with him, saying,
4 ¶ As for me, behold, my covenant is with thee, and thou shalt be a father of many nations.
5 Neither shall thy name any more be called Abram, but thy name shall be Abraham; for a father of many nations have I made thee.
6 And I will make thee exceeding fruitful, and I will make nations of thee, and kings shall come out of thee.
A. Abraham - ‘Father Of A Multitude’
B. Isaiah 55:11 So shall my word be that goeth forth out of my mouth: it shall not return unto me void, but it shall accomplish that which I please, and it shall prosper in the thing whereto I sent it.
1. prosper - succeed
2. accomplish - do the work necessary
II. Genesis 1: God Selects The Harvest & Plants The Seed
1 ¶ In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth.
2 And the earth was without form, and void; and darkness was upon the face of the deep. And the Spirit of God moved upon the face of the waters.
3 ¶ And God said, Let there be light: and there was light.
6 ¶ And God said, Let there be a firmament in the midst of the waters, and let it divide the waters from the waters.
9 ¶ And God said, Let the waters under the heaven be gathered together unto one place, and let the dry land appear: and it was so.
11 And God said,
14 ¶ And God said,
20 ¶ And God said,
24 ¶ And God said,
26 ¶ And God said, Let us make man in our image, after our likeness: and let them have dominion …
III. Numbers 14 Man Selects The Harvest & Plants The Seed
26 And the LORD spake unto Moses and unto Aaron, saying,
27 How long shall I bear with this evil congregation, which murmur against me? I have heard the murmurings of the children of Israel, which they murmur against me.
28 Say unto them, As truly as I live, saith the LORD, as ye have spoken in mine ears, so will I do to you:
29 Your carcases shall fall in this wilderness; and all that were numbered of you, according to your whole number, from twenty years old and upward, which have murmured against me,
30 Doubtless ye shall not come into the land, concerning which I sware to make you dwell therein, save Caleb the son of Jephunneh, and Joshua the son of Nun.
IV. Christians Admonished Concerning Selecting The Harvest & Planting Seed
A. Mark 11
22 And Jesus answering saith unto them, Have faith in God.
B. Romans 4:17 ¶ (As it is written, I have made thee a father of many nations,) before him whom he believed, even God, who quickeneth the dead, and calleth those things which be not as though they were.
C. Genesis 1:3 ‘It ain’t dark!’
D. Mark 11
23 For verily I say unto you, That whosoever shall say unto this mountain, Be thou removed, and be thou cast into the sea; and shall not doubt in his heart, but shall believe that those things which he saith shall come to pass; he shall have whatsoever he saith.
E. Mark 11
12 ¶ And on the morrow, when they were come from Bethany, he was hungry:
13 And seeing a fig tree afar off having leaves, he came, if haply he might find any thing thereon: and when he came to it, he found nothing but leaves; for the time of figs was not yet.
14 And Jesus answered and said unto it, No man eat fruit of thee hereafter for ever. And his disciples heard it.
15 And they come to Jerusalem: and Jesus went into the temple, and began to cast out them that sold and bought in the temple, and overthrew the tables of the moneychangers, and the seats of them that sold doves;
16 And would not suffer that any man should carry any vessel through the temple.
17 And he taught, saying unto them, Is it not written, My house shall be called of all nations the house of prayer? but ye have made it a den of thieves.
18 And the scribes and chief priests heard it, and sought how they might destroy him: for they feared him, because all the people was astonished at his doctrine.
19 And when even was come, he went out of the city.
20 And in the morning, as they passed by, they saw the fig tree dried up from the roots.
21 And Peter calling to remembrance saith unto him, Master, behold, the fig tree which thou cursedst is withered away.
22 And Jesus answering saith unto them, Have faith in God.
23 For verily I say unto you, That whosoever shall say unto this mountain, Be thou removed, and be thou cast into the sea; and shall not doubt in his heart, but shall believe that those things which he saith shall come to pass; he shall have whatsoever he saith.
F. Mark 11
24 Therefore I say unto you, What things soever ye desire, when ye pray, believe that ye receive them, and ye shall have them.
G. There Are Conditions - Simply Be Right With God
25 And when ye stand praying, forgive, if ye have ought against any: that your Father also which is in heaven may forgive you your trespasses.
26 But if ye do not forgive, neither will your Father which is in heaven forgive your trespasses.
H. Proverbs 18 Seeds For A Future Harvest
20 ¶ A man’s belly shall be satisfied with the fruit of his mouth; and with the increase of his lips shall he be filled.
21 ¶ Death and life are in the power of the tongue: and they that love it shall eat the fruit thereof.
I. Genesis 2:17 But of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, thou shalt not eat of it: for in the day that thou eatest thereof thou shalt surely die.
J. Genesis 5:5 Adam lived 930 years and then he died.
* In dying thou shalt die
* A seed that produced a harvest
V. Matthew 12 A Hard Saying
30 He that is not with me is against me; and he that gathereth not with me scattereth abroad.
A. v.37 For by thy words thou shalt be justified, and by thy words thou shalt be condemned.
B. v.36 But I say unto you, That every idle word that men shall speak, they shall give account thereof in the day of judgment.
C. v.35 A good man out of the good treasure of the heart bringeth forth good things: and an evil man out of the evil treasure bringeth forth evil things.
D. v.34 O generation of vipers, how can ye, being evil, speak good things? for out of the abundance of the heart the mouth speaketh.
E. v.33 Either make the tree good, and his fruit good; or else make the tree corrupt, and his fruit corrupt: for the tree is known by his fruit.
F. v.32 And whosoever speaketh a word against the Son of man, it shall be forgiven him: but whosoever speaketh against the Holy Ghost, it shall not be forgiven him, neither in this world, neither in the world to come. (Seeds For A Future Harvest)
G. v.31 Wherefore I say unto you, All manner of sin and blasphemy shall be forgiven unto men: but the blasphemy against the Holy Ghost shall not be forgiven unto men.
H. v.30 He that is not with me is against me; and he that gathereth not with me scattereth abroad.
