Bible Study Lesson- The Kingdom Of God - The Power Of A Seed

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In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God, and the Word became flesh and dwelt among us. Spending time in the Word of God is the best way to spend time with God. Welcome to No Doubt, No Fear, Only Believe podcast. Where we will encourage, inspire, and empower you to live your best life in Christ. Here's Greg.

Episode 32, I'm fired up. I got an intro guy. If this is your first time listening to this podcast, I have an intro guy that kind of reiterates the whole me, the whole reason that I'm doing this podcast. It's, it's about the word of God. It is the word. Jesus is the word. He was the word. He still is the Word, and the Word became flesh and dwelt among us. So if we're not dealing with the Word of God in our daily lives, Jesus is also— there's 7 I AMs in John, and one of them was I AM the bread of life. And Jesus declares himself the bread, and he said to give us this day our daily bread. So to pull all of that together, it is so important to be immersed or involved or anchored. We're going to talk about all of these things on this, on this podcast. But in this episode, I just want to, I want to tell you that as I was praying and what I was going to teach next, and the, and it kind of came to me that we, you know, we've got a power outage, or a, maybe not an outage, maybe it's a power shortage in the body of Christ. And what I wanted to do is just kind of, just kind of tweak some— where's some of this power shortage? And, and maybe some teachings to try to bring some of the power back to the church. And you and I are the church. It's not a building. We are the church. We are part of the church. If you have declared Jesus Christ as your Lord and Savior, you are the church. Everywhere you go, the church goes with you because you are the church. And by saying you have a power outage, I don't want to call you out specifically, but in the general terms— and I, I sometimes paint with a really broad broad brush when I start talking, but I want to talk specifically about the seed, the power that's in the seed. And to get started talking about the seed, I want to go all the way back to Genesis 8 where Noah had built an altar and then sacrificed on the altar, and then God smelled the aroma and he said it was a soothing aroma. And then God kind of just said, hey, this is, this is how it's going to be from here on. You know, he gives in 8 and maybe 9, I think it's chapter 9, Genesis 9, where God talks about the, the rainbow as a sign of the covenant that he makes with Noah and his descendants. God pretty much tells Noah that he's not going to destroy the earth by the flood ever again. And then he says, while the earth remains, seedtime and harvest, cold and heat, winter and summer, and day and night shall not cease. So that's found in Genesis 8:22. And God— and I want to talk about the seedtime and harvest. And then with that freshly in your mind, I want to take you to Mark 4, and I want to begin in Mark 4:26. And he said, the kingdom of God is as if a man should scatter seed on the ground and should sleep by night and rise by day, and the seed should sprout and grow. He himself does not know how. For the earth yields crops by itself, first the blade, then the head, after that the full grain in the head. But when the grain ripens, immediately he puts in the sickle, because the harvest has come. And the reason I want to talk about the seed, the power of the seed, is because in episode 31, I believe, I kind of introduced, um, the kingdom of God And it, it was in Matthew 6:33 where Jesus told his disciples, seek first the kingdom of God and his righteousness, and all these things will be added to you. So if you're trying to get things added to your life, Jesus in his own red-letter words in the Bible said, seek first the kingdom of God and his righteousness, and all these things will be added unto you. So what is the kingdom of God? Well, in, in Mark, there's a couple of other scriptures in Mark that I'm going to dig into when we're talking about the seed. But this one, I want to talk about the one I just read where it says the kingdom is like— where Jesus said the kingdom of God is if a man should scatter seed on the ground. And I want to stop there because if you go back to Genesis 8:22 where God said seedtime, harvest, hot, cold, winter, summer. The only thing that man controls is seedtime and harvest. We, we cannot control the temperature of the earth regardless of what all the global warming and all of this stuff going on. I mean, I just think that that's just the arrogance of man. Now we can be good stewards And I'm not against being a good steward, but to say that, you know, that we've got to— there's something that we have to do for all this global warming, and then it's climate change because things are getting colder. I mean, I just did a video on Facebook, a Facebook Live, showing all of the snow that's here in Louisiana. And you know, and you're going to tell me we got global warming? I mean, it was 2 degrees. Last night in my, in my area. And we're in Louisiana, and you can't tell me that globe— I mean, it just falls on deaf ears. It's— and, and if even if we do have some kind of global warming, what is it that we could do that's going to change it? I talk about the sovereignty of God and that God does not control everything, but I'm not talking about the seasons and he set all of this stuff up so that he did— he did not have to set it up again. I mean, I know you've probably never even thought about or reasoned in your mind that, you know, God is not just— every time you ask him, he's, oh, oh, I need to go do that. And you pray something else and he goes, oh, I didn't think of that, I got to go do that. No, God set all of this up at the beginning when he started speaking into existence, and it is all sitting here waiting for you and I to take advantage of it. And that's a total— I mean, that's a pretty big mind shift if you're— if you've just— if you never thought about God, that God is not caught off guard, but God already has placed everything in the earth that we need. And if you read in, in Mark and in 4, you know, we're in 4:26 through 29. In, in 4:28, I want to read this real quick again. For the earth yields crops by itself. Now we scatter the seed. Seed time and harvest, that's the thing we control. We don't control the hot and cold, and we don't control the seasons. It says summer and winter, and then you kind of break down— there's a fall and then there's a spring. But we, we don't control those things. There's 2 of the 3 that are out of our control for the most part. But the things that we control are the seed time and the harvest. It's our job to scatter the seed. And I've spoken in a previous episode about the spiritual beings that I saw in Psalms 23, and where it was. And if you want, I'll link to that, to that episode in the show notes. But in Psalm 23, it said, "Goodness and mercy shall follow me all the days of my life." And I see goodness and mercy following us. And because we're throwing out seed, we're throwing out good seed, we're throwing out bad seed. And I'm not going to rehash that episode, you can go back and listen to it. But we're throwing out seed and there's a harvest. It's seed time and harvest. So we are throwing out seed, then the seed hits the ground, then we don't know how it grows. That's what the Bible says. It says that we do not know how. And it, and it says, and the thing that we're going to touch on in the next episode is where the earth yields the seed. And I think that's fascinating too. And part of the reason why we meditate on the word of God is so we can see things that we may have never seen before. 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