A GREATER HARVEST 2024
Matthew 13:34
Jesus always used stories and illustrations like these when speaking to the Crowds.
In fact, he never spoke to them without using such PARABLES.
This fulfilled the prophecy that said,
“I will speak to you in PARABLES.
I will explain mysteries hidden since the Creation of the World.”
PRAY
A Parable is far more than a good story told, OR
an attempt to help explain a hard topic.
A Parable is a Compelling Story in an Attempt to Reveal Spiritual Truth / Eternal Principals..
A Parable is Similar to a PARRALEL…
HUMAN PANORAMA…
“Which Uses Real Life Stories that One May Discover the Truths of Heaven.”
It is LIKE He Understood and knew that From that Time… Even Till 21st Century…
Men and women would at best only think in One Dimension…
He completely understood that “The Crowds.. The People” would at best only think in the “Natural …. “
Earthly Thinking..
“Carnal Minded”
So A PARABLE was designed by God..
That We May Discover His Eternal Truth..
2 Such large crowds gathered around him that he got into a boat and sat in it, while all the people stood on the shore.
3 Then he told them many things in parables,
The Crowds Where POSSIBLEY Looking JUST TO BE FEED & FIXED – GOD HAD SOMETHING MORE!! (GREATER)
but he gave them no Fish nor Fixing…
Instead he give them a PARRABLE
Gave Them a PARRABLE WHY?
which had the POWER To Feed their souls.
AND FIXED their Internal Problems…
PARABLES have In Them POWER..
TO FEED AND TO FIX!!!
WHY?
Lau Tzu “Art of War”
teaches how to survive…
said
“Give a Man a Fish, he will eat for one day,
Teach a man to fish, he eat for a life time”
The Word Of God Can Feed and Fix All Your Life’s Problems…All Your Life
Now The 1st thing God’s word shows in a Parable….
Matt 13:3
"A farmer went out to sow his seed.
A / FARMER/ May Not mean much in the Modern world..
A More Appropriate word
Lets Say that INVESTER / Entrepreneur / Philanthropist
Creators of Industry…
Came and Made Great Investments…
Matt 13:37-38
(The Farmer being God)
Matt 13:36-38
(The Farmer being God)
Matthew 13:37
Jesus said
“All right, He said “I, the Son of Man, am the Farmer who planted the good Seed. The Fields is the world.
“HIS IS REAVELING GODS HEART FOR US!!”
God is a Master Gardner!!!!
The Master Gardener, has gone out into the world, into your neighborhood and every since the beginning of time he has scattered his Seed through out all humanity!!!
Am about to Brake it down!!!!
In the Begging he sowed the seed All of Creation,
Gen 1:11
11 Then God said, "Let the land produce vegetation: seed-bearing plants and trees on the land that bear fruit with seed in it,
He did not stop there!!! Then sowed……
the seed of his Son Christ Jesus.
The Finally he Sowed his seed ion Our lives the Holy spirit.
1 Peter 1:23
23 For you have been born again, not of perishable seed, but of imperishable, through the living and enduring word of God.
GOD IS A MASTER GARDER!!!
His ULTIMATE ETENAL DESIRE
GOD HEART,
SINCE THE BEGINNING OF ALL CREATION…
SINCE THE DAY YOUR BORN AND YOU DIE.
Is To Touch Your Heart!!!
Give You a Greater Harvest of Righteousness..
How Does That Work..
He Begins to Give You His Heart!!!
To Sow the seed of his Holy Spirit &
The Power of His word in our hearts this morning.
So When He looks At All Human Creation..
He states there are “The Fields is the world.”
He Sowed His Seeds in Four Different Souls…
Important… These 4 Soils or grounds represent the HEARTS OF ALL MEN!
Matt 13:3
Then he told them many things in parables, saying:
"A farmer went out to sow his seed.
“GOOD SOIL!!! X2”
“HOLYSPIRIT
HERE IS MY HEART,
BY FAITH
TURN IT
INTO GOOD SOIL!
This Is the Potential Of This Room!!!
The Is What GOD is Able, And Wanted To Do With YOU!!
Where it produced a Crop – A Hundred, sixty or thirty times what was sown.
I Want To Proof it to you..
NOW…… WHY? PARABLES…
11 He replied, EXPLAINED……
“You are permitted to understand the Secrets / WE MUST MAKE IT SACRADE of the Kingdom of God, but Others are not.
(It has been given to you, and not them).
To those who listen to my teaching, more understanding will be givne, and the will have an abundance of knowledge.
What was a Mystery has been made know to you…
See, Jesus reasoned with them saying are you aware of the great advantage and opportunity that stands before you.
Secret Knowledge Given to you!
Praise God That You Know What You Know About
His Divine Flow..
Sinner to Salvation to a Saint!!
Our are we like the others who have
NO SPIRITUAL PERCEPTION.
NOW
JESUS teaches that “HIS Kingdom”, this SECRETE Knowledge,
this Treasure is has been withheld From Some…
But for those who are not listening, even what little understanding they have will be taken away from them..
NO SPIRITUAL PERCEPTION.
WHY? BECAUSE OF THE HEART!!
Matt 13:13-17
"Though seeing, they do not see;
though hearing, they do not hear or understand.
14 In them is fulfilled the prophecy of Isaiah:
"'You will be ever hearing, but never understanding;
you will be ever seeing but never perceiving.
“
15 For this people's heart has become calloused;
(WHAT IS CALLUESD?)
· A Part of a body that was meant to be Soft and have sensitivity and Feeling.. Do to Neglect and Misuse;
· It has lost it sensitivity, feeling and it is ready to be cut off..
they hardly hear with their ears, And they have closed their eyes.
Otherwise they might see with their eyes, hear with their ears, understand with their hearts and turn,
and I would heal them.'
16 But blessed are your eyes because they see,
and your ears because they hear.
· We Got something Precious …
I am telling you!!!
You don’t even know what you have in your Hands!!!
(If you know what you have in your hands!!!!
Then give God a Good Hand)
These 4 Soils represent the Human Heart
How We listen and receive the WORD.
The Seed is the Word and The soil is the Heart!!
I venture to say this represent all the types of hearts that re in this morning service.
As God’s Word is being preached it (Scattered).
WHAT? THE PARRABLE MEAN:
When We Hear and do not “understand it”
weighty statement
“Understand it “
Greek word suniemi ; More VERB
Comprehend - thus Act on it; to act piously
If We Do Not Act On It..
SOMEONE EVIL TAKES ACTION!!!
The Parable:
Matthew 13:4“….As the farmer went out to sow seeds,
he scattered the seed
some fell along the PATH,
“….and the birds came and ate it up…”
The PATH ; Path Of Life
The Parable Mean
Matthew 13:19
When anyone hears the message about the kingdom and does not understand it, the evil one comes and snatches away what was sown in their heart.
This is the seed sown along the path.
some fell along the PATH,
The PATH ; Path Of Life
“Understand it “
Greek world suniemi ; comprehend thus Act on it; to act piously
SOMEONE EVIL TAKES ACTION!!!
Jesus says in
Luke:”…are the ones who hear, and then the devil comes and takes away the word from their hearts, so that they may not believe and be saved.
Jesus says in mark… “it was trampled on, and the birds devoured it
Simply And Compiled it Shows the Attentiveness Of the Devil..
Just flying around, Ready for Our IN ACTION to apply the WORD
And He tramples on it and Snatches it away from our Hearts spiritually..
This Happens every Sunday…
The Parable; Matthew 13:5
“. 5 Some fell on ROCKY PLACES,
where it did not have much soil.
It sprang up quickly, because the soil was shallow.
“no dept of soil
6 But when the sun came up,
the plants were scorched,
and they withered because they had no root.
NOT CONNECTED
the farmer went out to sow seeds, he scattered the seed and
The Parable Meaning;
“the farmer went out to sow seeds, he scattered the seed….”
The seed falling on ROCKY GROUND,
refers to someone who hears the word and at once receives it with joy.
But since they have no root, they last only a short time.
“… When trouble or persecution comes because of the word, they fall away…”
Jesus says in Luke “They believe for a while, but in the time of testing they fall away.
Simple: these are those in whom the word make sence and it make an impression, but it is not deep enough to penetrate the heart.
Most people are emotionally based, “Praise God that was a good word.”
This is not a good word X2
This is God’s Word… we must live it!!
When Trouble, struggle, temptation and persecution come because of HIS WORD!!!
When trouble or persecution comes because of the word,
When the PURIFY TEST Comes he quickly falls away.
When “life struggle/DECISIONS” demands that you make a choice whether you are going to serve God, because the word never got in us,
We give ourselves to worldly STANDARDS.
WITHERED; When we receive Lightly the word of God, it will not take Root. So when the Scourging Sun Hits, (PRESSURE) it withers away!
The farmer went out to sow seeds, he scattered the seed
The Parable; Matthew 13:7
7 Other seed fell among THORNS,
“…Which grew up with it and chocked the plants…”
“it yield no grain”
The Parable Meaning
The seed falling among 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.
Jesus says in Mark.. He adds.. “and the desire for other things enter in…
Jesus says in Luke “This stands for those who hear, but as they go on their way they are chocked by life’s worries, riches and pleasure, and they do no mature.”
(IT Chocked The Word)
CHOCKED:
When we receive God’s word hastily or quickly and say…
“hurry I got other thing to do.”
Those other things that we are so much in hurry to do.
Those things may be what is… chocking and Killing the Word that is given to us.
Why?
The Time we give to God and come to church we are thinking of our worldly responsibilities,
This Soil is a Crowed Heart. Other Rule our Heart!!!
WHAT MUST WE DO… MAKE THIS TIME, HIS TIME!!!
- Come Early to Pray.. Come early to Fellowship friends.. Read you bible..
The Parable Matthew 13:8
A Farmer Went out and Sowed His Seed..
8 Still other seed fell on GOOD SOIL,
“…where it produced a crop (HARVEST) -a hundred, sixty or thirty times what was sown.
9 Whoever has ears, let them hear.”
It Seems That God Was Trying to Place SUPREME / MAXIMUM PRIORITY ON THIS LAST SOIL…
Listen not only with you ears but with you Heart
This Phrase was Declared When Describing Something that Was of UPMOST IMPORTANTS… EFFECTING All Human Affairs…
Used… INTRODUCING Something Great Or Dreadful is about to Happen…
Vs. “9 He who has ears let him hear”
ALLOW ME TO SHARE HOW AMAZING YOUR EARS ARE….
How the Ear is Extremely complex and dynamic..
It hears about range of 20 000 Hertz … Frequency that come from many kilometer away…
The Outer: Protector. / . Channeler
The Middle: Filter
The Inner: Distributor
It is an AMAZING PROCESS…
The Human Ear…
Not only Has the ability to HEAR MANY Multi-SOUNDS From Miles Away
Even more Amazing..
IT HAS A SPECIAL ABILITY…
“IT HAS A WAY being Trained”
“WHAT IT WANT TO HEAR..
WE CAN TRAIN THE EAR TO HERE WHAT WHE WANT TO HEAR!!
I Wife… A Husband.. I Child…
BUT
If We want to make Money “Hear that… That the Sound of Money”
SO Hearing is Amazingly Complex and Dynamic.. YET..
Hearing Is Far more that what comer through the Ear..
Even though hearing is Centralized in the Brains…
Hearing is Connect to the HEART - Called Inner-man
SO MANY OF TIMES It is Hard to HEAR The thing of The Spirit… Because we have allowed or even Train Our HEARS TO HEAR Everthing Else…
“Take heed what you hear, because the way you hear is the way it is going to be measured back to you”.
This is the danger of being hooked up with the people wrong season.. Some people are famous for believing nothing. They don’t believing in healing; they don’t believe in receiving from God on hardly any level.
It is important what we hear.
The way you hear it is the way that you will measure it, and that is the level that your faith will respond to.
BUT PRAISE GOD!!!
THAT GOD WORDS SPEAKS LOUDER!!!!
I Am Astonished How JESUS Completed his Parable by saying the followers.
Vs. “9 He who has ears let him hear”
9 Anyone who is willing to hear should listen and understand!"
I BELIEVE THIS IS WHAT GOD WANTS US TO HEAR…
I BELIEVE THIS IS WHAT GOD WANT TO DO HERE!!
I BELIEVE THIS IS WHAT GOD WILL DO THIS YEAR!!
The Parable Meaning 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 (HARVEST), yielding (generating/bring forth) by reliance a hundred, sixty or thirty times what was sown.”
“Understand it “
Greek world suniemi ; comprehend thus Act on it; to act piously
Jesus says in Luke: “… those with a noble and a good heart, who hear the word, retain it and by preserving… produce a crop…”
The Success of the Seed Sowing, is very much according to the Nature of the Soil.
What Good is it to hear the Word but no let it touch your Heart!!!
If the Soil is good then naturally it will produce a harvest.
If the Soil is Hard it will not produce anything.
See what we have been given will Eighter produce Fruit creating a hundred fold. Or it will die.
NOTE: We CANNOT disassociate / disconnect Our Hands from out Hearts..
“What we do…” Is a reflection of what is in Our Hearts…?
Furthermore…
We Can See What is in our Heart… With What we do!!!
(That is why for many of us here it was not hard to Pay Tithes because our Hearts where was in It.)
This is not a Deep Principal.. It is a LOVE PRINCIPAL!!
What is GREATNESSS IN GOD’S ETERNAL WAYS..
Greatness Is Serving…..
WE SERVE WHO WE LOVE…
Jesus says in Luke “…
It came up and yielded a crop, a hundred times more than was sown.”
(It Produced)
“grow up-came to full maturity”
I WAS STUDING THIS Phrase
HARVEST) -a hundred, sixty or thirty times what was sown.
God is Not Just Throwing Out Random Numbers…
This is What is Called Famers PRINCIPALS
A FARMER WOULD NEVER SOW A SEED IF HE DID NOT BELIEVE HE WOULD REAP HARVEST..
“He That Began the Work In You Is faithful to Complete The Work… If We YIELD!
This Is the Potential Of This Room!!!
The Is What GOD is Able, And Wanted To Do With YOU!!
I BELIEVE THIS IS WHAT GOD WANT TO DO HERE!!
I BELIEVE THIS IS WHAT GOD WILL DO THIS YEAR!!
30 Fold Harvest
triakonta
neuter tria
60 Fold Harvest -
hexekonta
threescore
Not Double but triple
100 Fold Harvest –
hekaton
of uncertain affinity;
HOW? Connected to An Unending WORKS OF GOD
Works That Will Endure For Eternity!
I Believe that God is Going to Produce a
30 fold Harvest upon many Of Us!!!
We Will Get Blessed!!!
Good Things are Going Happen!!
IF WE RESPOND TO GOD WORD!!
We Must Do!!
1 Commit To Reading Of God Word!!! Start Now
2. Commit To Connect To God House!!! Start Here
3.Commit To Serving God People – You Can Produce!!
Pray for Our Hearts!!
If My Lifestyle offends You than pray for me…
If My Commitment to God Word, and Gods Standard Cause one to Feel Judge then pray for me?
YET, I will not apologize for Radical Commitment To Christ..
There are different condition of our hearts!!
NOW….
Because The Disciples Where Devoted to God..
At the Edge of there Seats… Mark states 4:10
Began to Say “Please Tell Us What this Means…”
- We Don’t Want want to Miss what you are saying…
-We Don’t Want to Hear with our Ears and Hearts..
What does this all mean!!
Matt 13:18-23
18 "Listen then to what the parable of the sower means:
Luke:18:11 This is the meaning of the parable:
The Seed is the Word of God
THIS SEED IS NOT JUST A ONE TIME Activity…
God Speaks Everyday..
It is the SEED OF HIS SPIRIT
The Seed that fall in the GOOD SOIL
23 ….. is the man who hears the word and understands it.
( THOSE WHO ACCEPT in there HEARTS)
This is not a good word X2
This is God’s Word we must live it!!
KEY: He produces a crop, yielding a hundred, sixty or thirty times what was sown."
You Give to What You Love!!!
“Talk is Cheap…” Show me you Love me”
IF WE LOVE HIM.. WE WILL SERVE……. … (HIM) And His (CAUSE)!!
He Is The REALITY And the Challenge…
Most of us as we see these Soils we will assume
we are the Last and Good soil….
Even Minister and Leaders…
SEE.. We think it is speaking about the Salvation Experience…
But It is Taking about the MATURING PROCESS…
REMEMBER IS NOT TALKING TO THE CROWDS… So To Speak..
He is Talking to the DISCIPLES… FOLLOWERS..
We May think “We Know” “I know”
We Ignore Instruction: But we make Little Sometimes no Effort to Understand.. Our Heart Hard
Others..
We Receive Instruction… “Oh Thank You for Being Straight with Me”
But We don’t Change…
We do the Same thing again and expect to be excused..
because “hey nobody is Perfect..”
“At least I am trying.. “But Are we really Trying.. or Just Crying…
But We are Shallow… We make no Effort to Go Deeper….
We Neglect Instruction: “We Do Not Mature”
Why? Because what we Follow… Pleasure, Wealth, care of this world..
We ACCEPT instruction:
This is not a good word X2
This is God’s Word we must live it!!
If you want to know about Where We are…
Ask Not Only Your Friend, but A Leaders… Or a Minister…
When is the Last Time God Spoke to Our Hearts…
Maybe He has attempted, But we don’t Listen..
Jesus Said
“…the will of The father is that they bring forth the fruits of righteousness; so shall ye be my disciples” John 15:8
Having a “Good Heart” or being a Good Christian is not good enough.
We Need To Produce Fruit.
God did SAVE us so that We Could be GOOD CHRISTIANS, forget that he saved us so produce good Fruit.
SEE, if God has called you to Serve than Serve,
to preach than preach,
to give than give.
PLEASE DON’T MISS THIS…..
WE GOT TO DO SOMETHING WITH WHAT WAS GIVEN TO YOU, or else it will be taken away.
Good Heares Hear the Word and Understand it, but not only that….
* They are concerned on how it effect there lives
* They desire to obey
Even more they use what is given to Help others!!!!
So When you hear the word of God and put it into action you shall BEAR MUCH FRUIT!!
This is called a WILLING HEART!!!
He Treasure what has been given to him, He
Life application Bible!!
V. 18 “So be sure to pay attention to what you hear. To those who are open to my teaching, more understanding will be given. But to those who are not listening, even what they think they have will be taken away from them”
Enclosing “WE NEED!!!!… (NOT SO MUCH WE WANT) BUT
WE NEED GOD TO SPEAK TO YOUR LIFE!!!
BECAUSE IF GOD WHERE TO SPEAK TO OUR LIFES…
YOU WILL BE TRANSFORMED!!!
WE WOULD GET A BRAKE-THROUGH
WE WOULD GET A FIRE
WE WOULD GET A LOVE
What is really going on inside our Heart?
I believe many US want more,
WE want to be more for God.
But type of Heart do WE have AT THIS MOMENT?
How do we receive the word of God this morning?
Is it a sweat Melody or just plain drudury
Is it sweat Music to you hearts or does it bother you that I speak this way?
You might Say “Well I am all right… I know God!”
But God Says … Go ahead believe that
Believe that I don’t care if WE share yourselve with you Job,
or
that Parther.
But know this what you have will be taken from you!
Alter
For those who want Holyspirit to open your Heart!
Willed to the Devil
A Ruthless Man.. No love Compassion… Hatrad in his heart… He died and left his farm willed to the devil. (Signed out to the devil) The courts after reflecting on such a ridiculous set of circumstance, decided the best way to carry out the wishes of the Heartless Man was to permit the farmland to grow up in weeds and briars thorns and thisels, to allow the house and the barn to remain unpainted and to rot down, and to permit the soil to erode and wash away.
The court said, “THE BEST WAY TO LET SATAN HAVE THE FIELD IS TO DO NOTHING”
Our Hearts is the Field… Where God Word is Being Sown..
The Heart can do only two things
1. Receive it cause it to bring forth Fruit
2. Reject it; cause it to bring forth death
The Word will bring forth Life or Death
Life because the word will bring you Salvation
Death because you will be held accountable for what you know!!