Sowing wide growing deep

Luke 8:8 NIV

Still other seed fell on good soil. It came up and yielded a crop, a hundred times more than was sown.”  When he said this, he called out, “Whoever has ears to hear, let them hear.”

1. Why different people  respond to bible differently. ?

2. What must we do to ensure our heart is like a good soil. ?

Seed and soil.
Seed. Represent the word of God.
Soil. Represent the heart of man.

Abundant life.
Heart of the person.

The column of our hunger determine the volumes of His Glory.

4 types of hearts.
1. Seed fall on the path

Luke 8:12 NIV
Those along the path 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.

Spiritual enemy. Demon.
Omni  potent

2. Rocky ground

Luke 8:13 NIV
Those on the rocky ground are the ones who receive the word with joy when they hear it, but they have no root. They believe for a while, but in the time of testing they fall away.no

Matthew 7:13 NIV
“Enter through the narrow gate. For wide is the gate and broad is the road that leads to destruction, and many enter through it.

Matthew 7:14 NIV
But small is the gate and narrow the road that leads to life, and only a few find it.

3. Among the thorns

Luke 8:14 NIV
The seed that fell among thorns stands for those who hear, but as they go on their way they are choked by life’s worries, riches and pleasures, and they do not mature.

Philippians 4:6 NIV
Do not be anxious about anything, but in every situation, by prayer and petition, with thanksgiving, present your requests to God.

Philippians 4:6-7 NIV
Do not be anxious about anything, but in every situation, by prayer and petition, with thanksgiving, present your requests to God. And the peace of God, which transcends all understanding, will guard your hearts and your minds in Christ Jesus.

4. Good soil

Luke 8:15 NIV
But the seed on good soil stands for those with a noble and good heart, who hear the word, retain it, and by persevering produce a crop.

Why and how it will be a good year

Romans 8:28 NIV
And we know that in all things God works for the good of those who love him, who have been called according to his purpose.

Psalm 65:11 NIV
You crown the year with your bounty, and your carts overflow with abundance.

Romans 8:22 NIV
We know that the whole creation has been groaning as in the pains of childbirth right up to the present time.

Jeremiah 29:11 NIV
For I know the plans I have for you,” declares the Lord , “plans to prosper you and not to harm you, plans to give you hope and a future.

3 things.

1. God is at work.
Joseph story. Pit.  Prison and Palace.

Genesis 50:20 NIV
You intended to harm me, but God intended it for good to accomplish what is now being done, the saving of many lives.

2. Everything to work together
Baking story. The raw ingredient individually did not taste good. But once it is done it taste wonderful.

Story of Paul. Ship wreck. Island. Bitten by snake. Whole island become believer.

3. Divine good.

Patience. Gentleness. Spiritual maturity. Kindness. Self control.

James 1. 3-4
James 1:4 NIV
Let perseverance finish its work so that you may be mature and complete, not lacking anything.

When God is at work it can turn

Weaker to Victory.

God let everything in this year be in your perfect will. In perfect timing. Perfect place.  Perfect people to meet.

Church. It ought to be

Acts 11:21 NIV
The Lord’s hand was with them, and a great number of people believed and turned to the Lord.

From 120 to 2 millions belieyvers.

China  today have 170 millions believers.

1. Church in action is not on Sunday alone but from Monday to Sunday.

Regeneration of the Holly spirit.

2. Church = Communitas

Acts 4:32 NIV
All the believers were one in heart and mind. No one claimed that any of their possessions was their own, but they shared everything they had.

Revelation 20. Beheaded

Revelation 20:4 NIV
I saw thrones on which were seated those who had been given authority to judge. And I saw the souls of those who had been beheaded because of their testimony about Jesus and because of the word of God. They had not worshiped the beast or its image and had not received its mark on their foreheads or their hands. They came to life and reigned with Christ a thousand years.

Beheaded will happen for the cause of The Word Of God.

Leviticus 17. Blood

Leviticus 17:11 NIV
For the life of a creature is in the blood, and I have given it to you to make atonement for yourselves on the altar; it is the blood that makes atonement for one’s life.

Leviticus 17:12 NIV
Therefore I say to the Israelites, “None of you may eat blood, nor may any foreigner residing among you eat blood.”

Blood = life.

Leviticus 16. Atonement

Leviticus 16:29-30 NIV

“This is to be a lasting ordinance for you: On the tenth day of the seventh month you must deny yourselves and not do any work—whether native-born or a foreigner residing among you— because on this day atonement will be made for you, to cleanse you. Then, before the Lord , you will be clean from all your sins.

Today is Thaipusam. So the devil are following the old testament  rules for atonement so that the follower will need to sacrifice them self for the atonement?

Leviticus 15. Unclean man

Leviticus 15:16 NIV
“ ‘When a man has an emission of semen, he must bathe his whole body with water, and he will be unclean till evening.

Leviticus 15:18 NIV
When a man has sexual relations with a woman and there is an emission of semen, both of them must bathe with water, and they will be unclean till evening.

Both also have emission of semen. But it was separated. First one was not due to sequel activities and second one was due to secure activities.

So of the first one about masterbad?

Precious testimonies put up many argument and  finally concluded that there is no solid statement in bible directly mentioned that masterbate  is wrong.

1John 2. Love the World

1JN 2:15-16 NIV
Do not love the world or anything in the world. If anyone loves the world, love for the Father is not in them. For everything in the world—the lust of the flesh, the lust of the eyes, and the pride of life—comes not from the Father but from the world.

World = flesh. Eyes. Pride.

Father  = love