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Dialogue: 0,0:00:01.72,0:00:05.67,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Well, Paul says in Philippians 2,
Dialogue: 0,0:00:05.67,0:00:09.32,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"work out your salvation
Dialogue: 0,0:00:09.32,0:00:12.76,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,with fear and trembling.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:12.76,0:00:15.88,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,For it is God who works in you,
Dialogue: 0,0:00:15.88,0:00:19.06,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,both to will and to work (or to do)
Dialogue: 0,0:00:19.06,0:00:21.80,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,of His good pleasure."
Dialogue: 0,0:00:21.80,0:00:24.15,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And so, on the one hand, he says to us
Dialogue: 0,0:00:24.15,0:00:27.06,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,work out our salvation.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:27.06,0:00:28.44,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,On the other hand, he says
Dialogue: 0,0:00:28.44,0:00:30.66,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,God is working in you
Dialogue: 0,0:00:30.66,0:00:33.04,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to cause you to want to do what's right
Dialogue: 0,0:00:33.04,0:00:36.95,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and to enable you to do what's right.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:36.95,0:00:40.32,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So which is it?
Dialogue: 0,0:00:40.32,0:00:42.30,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Is it man's responsibility
Dialogue: 0,0:00:42.30,0:00:45.51,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,or is it God working in us?
Dialogue: 0,0:00:45.51,0:00:47.70,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And it's both, isn't it?
Dialogue: 0,0:00:47.70,0:00:49.63,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And it's not like a yoke of oxen
Dialogue: 0,0:00:49.63,0:00:50.78,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,where you do your part
Dialogue: 0,0:00:50.78,0:00:54.06,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and God does His part like this.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:54.06,0:00:56.47,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But it's more like two cups
Dialogue: 0,0:00:56.47,0:00:59.36,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that one fits inside the other one.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:59.36,0:01:02.44,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And God is the one moving \Neverything forward,
Dialogue: 0,0:01:02.44,0:01:07.26,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,but He does it through \Nour willing and doing
Dialogue: 0,0:01:07.26,0:01:10.84,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,what He's worked in us to will and do.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:10.84,0:01:12.24,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So we've heard this morning,
Dialogue: 0,0:01:12.24,0:01:15.30,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,a little bit of exhortation
Dialogue: 0,0:01:15.30,0:01:19.47,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,about the necessity for us
Dialogue: 0,0:01:19.47,0:01:22.74,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to work out our salvation.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:22.74,0:01:25.88,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And beloved, if you don't \Nspend time in the Word,
Dialogue: 0,0:01:25.88,0:01:27.83,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and you don't spend time in prayer,
Dialogue: 0,0:01:27.83,0:01:30.14,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and you don't spend time \Nwith the people of God,
Dialogue: 0,0:01:30.14,0:01:32.47,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,you're not going to make it.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:32.47,0:01:33.64,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But on the other hand,
Dialogue: 0,0:01:33.64,0:01:36.98,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,God is the one that works in us
Dialogue: 0,0:01:36.98,0:01:39.67,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to cause us to want to open that Bible
Dialogue: 0,0:01:39.67,0:01:43.02,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and to actually get it open.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:43.02,0:01:46.15,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And so we're going to \Nget both barrels today, I trust.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:46.15,0:01:49.50,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The first one: those exhortations
Dialogue: 0,0:01:49.50,0:01:51.69,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,of our responsibility.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:51.69,0:01:54.13,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But what we're going \Nto look at this morning
Dialogue: 0,0:01:54.13,0:01:55.82,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,is a parable of the Lord Jesus
Dialogue: 0,0:01:55.82,0:01:58.37,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,where He emphasizes what's going on
Dialogue: 0,0:01:58.37,0:02:00.71,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,behind the scenes.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:00.71,0:02:12.60,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And so let's turn to Mark 4.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:12.60,0:02:18.71,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And we'll read four verses.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:18.71,0:02:23.60,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Mark 4:26
Dialogue: 0,0:02:23.60,0:02:26.63,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"And He was saying,
Dialogue: 0,0:02:26.63,0:02:30.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,'The Kingdom of God is like
Dialogue: 0,0:02:30.99,0:02:34.53,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,a man who casts seed upon the ground.'"
Dialogue: 0,0:02:34.53,0:02:36.60,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Now, He's going to tell us something;
Dialogue: 0,0:02:36.60,0:02:39.93,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,a fact about spiritual reality
Dialogue: 0,0:02:39.93,0:02:42.74,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,of what the kingdom is like.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:42.74,0:02:44.80,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"'The kingdom of God is like a man
Dialogue: 0,0:02:44.80,0:02:47.68,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,who casts seed upon the ground,
Dialogue: 0,0:02:47.68,0:02:49.41,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and goes to bed at night
Dialogue: 0,0:02:49.41,0:02:51.24,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and gets up by day and the seed
Dialogue: 0,0:02:51.24,0:02:54.09,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,sprouts up and grows.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:54.09,0:02:57.86,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,How he himself does not know.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:57.86,0:03:01.35,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The earth produces crops by itself.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:01.35,0:03:05.12,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,First the blade, then the head,
Dialogue: 0,0:03:05.12,0:03:08.85,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,then the mature grain in the head.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:08.85,0:03:10.57,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But when the crop permits,
Dialogue: 0,0:03:10.57,0:03:13.23,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,he immediately puts in the sickle
Dialogue: 0,0:03:13.23,0:03:17.25,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,because the harvest has come.'"
Dialogue: 0,0:03:17.25,0:03:20.68,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,If you're a Christian here this morning,
Dialogue: 0,0:03:20.68,0:03:21.100,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,you already realize
Dialogue: 0,0:03:21.100,0:03:24.06,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that the greatest Teacher who ever lived
Dialogue: 0,0:03:24.06,0:03:27.55,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,was the Lord Jesus Christ.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:27.55,0:03:32.40,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,His emphasis was never lopsided.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:32.40,0:03:35.73,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,He never had a bump on the tire.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:35.73,0:03:37.20,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Everything that He said -
Dialogue: 0,0:03:37.20,0:03:38.88,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,His manner, His methods
Dialogue: 0,0:03:38.88,0:03:41.46,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,were always perfect.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:41.46,0:03:44.62,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It says in John 3 that \NHe whom God has sent
Dialogue: 0,0:03:44.62,0:03:47.88,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,speaks the very words of God,
Dialogue: 0,0:03:47.88,0:03:51.71,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,for He gives the Spirit \Nwithout measure unto Him.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:51.71,0:03:54.67,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So everything: perfect.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:54.67,0:03:56.38,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Every response.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:56.38,0:03:59.71,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Every emphasis.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:59.71,0:04:02.04,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Every manner. Every method.
Dialogue: 0,0:04:02.04,0:04:03.79,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And one of His favorite methods
Dialogue: 0,0:04:03.79,0:04:06.74,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,was the parable.
Dialogue: 0,0:04:06.74,0:04:08.40,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,There's a special beauty
Dialogue: 0,0:04:08.40,0:04:10.22,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and special wonder
Dialogue: 0,0:04:10.22,0:04:13.68,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,about these parables, isn't there?
Dialogue: 0,0:04:13.68,0:04:17.20,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,They're so earthy.
Dialogue: 0,0:04:17.20,0:04:21.27,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I mean, seeds and farmers\Nand what-have-you.
Dialogue: 0,0:04:21.27,0:04:23.45,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And they're so heavenly.
Dialogue: 0,0:04:23.45,0:04:25.42,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,In four verses, the Lord Jesus
Dialogue: 0,0:04:25.42,0:04:28.87,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,can say more than all the wise men
Dialogue: 0,0:04:28.87,0:04:31.28,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,of the ages.
Dialogue: 0,0:04:31.28,0:04:36.17,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And He often opened His mouth in parables.
Dialogue: 0,0:04:36.17,0:04:39.97,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We read here a little later in v. 33-34,
Dialogue: 0,0:04:39.97,0:04:41.88,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"with many such parables, He was
Dialogue: 0,0:04:41.88,0:04:43.82,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,speaking the Word to them as they were
Dialogue: 0,0:04:43.82,0:04:45.75,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,able to hear it.
Dialogue: 0,0:04:45.75,0:04:47.28,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And He was not speaking to them
Dialogue: 0,0:04:47.28,0:04:49.97,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,without parables.
Dialogue: 0,0:04:49.97,0:04:52.80,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,He was explaining everything privately
Dialogue: 0,0:04:52.80,0:04:55.14,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to His own disciples."
Dialogue: 0,0:04:55.14,0:04:57.77,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And in Matthew, we're told
Dialogue: 0,0:04:57.77,0:05:00.67,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that one of the psalms alluded to this
Dialogue: 0,0:05:00.67,0:05:02.15,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,about the Messiah.
Dialogue: 0,0:05:02.15,0:05:06.22,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It says, "I will open \Nmy mouth in parables.
Dialogue: 0,0:05:06.22,0:05:11.07,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I will utter things hidden from \Nthe foundation of the world."
Dialogue: 0,0:05:11.07,0:05:13.38,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And so the Lord Jesus Christ
Dialogue: 0,0:05:13.38,0:05:16.32,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,was speaking in these parables
Dialogue: 0,0:05:16.32,0:05:18.59,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,things that nobody had ever heard;
Dialogue: 0,0:05:18.59,0:05:20.05,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that had never been said
Dialogue: 0,0:05:20.05,0:05:21.72,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,since the foundation of the world.
Dialogue: 0,0:05:21.72,0:05:24.47,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,He said, "blessed are your ears,"
Dialogue: 0,0:05:24.47,0:05:28.26,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to hear such words as we've just read,
Dialogue: 0,0:05:28.26,0:05:31.78,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,because many prophets and righteous men -
Dialogue: 0,0:05:31.78,0:05:34.89,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,even kings - desired to hear the things
Dialogue: 0,0:05:34.89,0:05:36.09,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that you hear.
Dialogue: 0,0:05:36.09,0:05:38.31,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,They didn't get to hear them.
Dialogue: 0,0:05:38.31,0:05:40.40,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,What a privilege we have
Dialogue: 0,0:05:40.40,0:05:43.44,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to be able to even study this parable.
Dialogue: 0,0:05:43.44,0:05:44.86,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,He's telling us some things
Dialogue: 0,0:05:44.86,0:05:47.17,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,about the nature of the kingdom.
Dialogue: 0,0:05:47.17,0:05:49.64,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Very different than the ideas
Dialogue: 0,0:05:49.64,0:05:51.88,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that the Jews had at that time
Dialogue: 0,0:05:51.88,0:05:54.62,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,about the nature of the kingdom.
Dialogue: 0,0:05:54.62,0:05:58.46,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And many of those \Nparables are of that sort.
Dialogue: 0,0:05:58.46,0:06:03.60,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But today, we want to look \Nat this parable in Mark 4.
Dialogue: 0,0:06:03.60,0:06:06.66,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And what a wonderful parable it is,
Dialogue: 0,0:06:06.66,0:06:08.25,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and how thankful we should be
Dialogue: 0,0:06:08.25,0:06:11.08,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,for the truth that it contains.
Dialogue: 0,0:06:11.08,0:06:13.33,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Before we begin,
Dialogue: 0,0:06:13.33,0:06:15.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I just want to remind you again
Dialogue: 0,0:06:15.00,0:06:17.63,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that these parables are
Dialogue: 0,0:06:17.63,0:06:21.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,speaking truth about invisible reality.
Dialogue: 0,0:06:21.99,0:06:23.89,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,They're telling us something about
Dialogue: 0,0:06:23.89,0:06:27.01,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the nature of things in the kingdom.
Dialogue: 0,0:06:27.01,0:06:28.54,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And so the Lord Jesus said,
Dialogue: 0,0:06:28.54,0:06:30.94,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,now there's a realm \Nhere that you can't see;
Dialogue: 0,0:06:30.94,0:06:33.22,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that you can't understand.
Dialogue: 0,0:06:33.22,0:06:35.48,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But I want to tell you something about it.
Dialogue: 0,0:06:35.48,0:06:36.71,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,This is what it's like -
Dialogue: 0,0:06:36.71,0:06:39.72,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the kingdom of God is like this.
Dialogue: 0,0:06:39.72,0:06:43.27,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It's like a man who casts \Nseed on the ground,
Dialogue: 0,0:06:43.27,0:06:44.60,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and goes to bed at night
Dialogue: 0,0:06:44.60,0:06:47.13,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and gets up by day.
Dialogue: 0,0:06:47.13,0:06:48.67,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Out of all the Gospels,
Dialogue: 0,0:06:48.67,0:06:50.15,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,only found here in Mark.
Dialogue: 0,0:06:50.15,0:06:51.69,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It's kind of a buried treasure
Dialogue: 0,0:06:51.69,0:06:53.69,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,you come upon; you stumble upon it
Dialogue: 0,0:06:53.69,0:06:56.08,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,in the field as you're going through
Dialogue: 0,0:06:56.08,0:06:58.86,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the Gospel of Mark.
Dialogue: 0,0:06:58.86,0:07:00.84,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So the first question we should ask is
Dialogue: 0,0:07:00.84,0:07:03.49,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,what is the theme or overall subject
Dialogue: 0,0:07:03.49,0:07:05.93,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,of this parable?
Dialogue: 0,0:07:05.93,0:07:07.76,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Before we get to the details,
Dialogue: 0,0:07:07.76,0:07:09.81,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,you say what's He talking about here?
Dialogue: 0,0:07:09.81,0:07:11.13,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And I think the answer is
Dialogue: 0,0:07:11.13,0:07:13.61,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,He's talking about growth.
Dialogue: 0,0:07:13.61,0:07:15.77,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,V. 27 "He goes to bed at night,
Dialogue: 0,0:07:15.77,0:07:20.86,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,gets up by day, the seed \Nsprouts up and grows."
Dialogue: 0,0:07:20.86,0:07:24.45,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,V. 28 "The earth produces crops by itself.
Dialogue: 0,0:07:24.45,0:07:27.05,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,First the blade, then the head,
Dialogue: 0,0:07:27.05,0:07:29.67,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,then the mature grain in the head."
Dialogue: 0,0:07:29.67,0:07:32.35,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So we know right off,
Dialogue: 0,0:07:32.35,0:07:34.13,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the Lord is unfolding to us
Dialogue: 0,0:07:34.13,0:07:36.88,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,some of the mysteries about growth
Dialogue: 0,0:07:36.88,0:07:40.60,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,in the kingdom;
Dialogue: 0,0:07:40.60,0:07:42.54,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,growth of the kingdom of God as a whole
Dialogue: 0,0:07:42.54,0:07:44.93,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,down through church history.
Dialogue: 0,0:07:44.93,0:07:47.76,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,He said this is the way it's going to be.
Dialogue: 0,0:07:47.76,0:07:50.36,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And growth in our individual lives
Dialogue: 0,0:07:50.36,0:07:54.69,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and in the lives of other Christians.
Dialogue: 0,0:07:54.69,0:07:56.01,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,This is the reality.
Dialogue: 0,0:07:56.01,0:08:00.37,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,He says this is the way it happens.
Dialogue: 0,0:08:00.37,0:08:02.45,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So, with that in mind,
Dialogue: 0,0:08:02.45,0:08:03.79,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,let's look at the details.
Dialogue: 0,0:08:03.79,0:08:07.19,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,First of all, v. 26, He was saying,
Dialogue: 0,0:08:07.19,0:08:09.07,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"the kingdom of God is like a man
Dialogue: 0,0:08:09.07,0:08:11.27,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,who casts seed upon the ground."
Dialogue: 0,0:08:11.27,0:08:14.88,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So the first thing is the \Nprerequisite of growth,
Dialogue: 0,0:08:14.88,0:08:16.91,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,which is planting.
Dialogue: 0,0:08:16.91,0:08:19.28,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,You can't have a crop;
Dialogue: 0,0:08:19.28,0:08:22.52,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,you can't have growth without planting.
Dialogue: 0,0:08:22.52,0:08:24.97,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And that is a big emphasis, you remember,
Dialogue: 0,0:08:24.97,0:08:27.03,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,in the parables.
Dialogue: 0,0:08:27.03,0:08:30.16,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It comes up again and again.
Dialogue: 0,0:08:30.16,0:08:35.55,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,You have a man, a sower, sowing seed.
Dialogue: 0,0:08:35.55,0:08:37.79,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And you have that \Npicture; that illustration
Dialogue: 0,0:08:37.79,0:08:41.22,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,where the seed is the Word of God.
Dialogue: 0,0:08:41.22,0:08:43.46,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And then you have this man who
Dialogue: 0,0:08:43.46,0:08:46.64,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,plants good seed in the field.
Dialogue: 0,0:08:46.64,0:08:48.94,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And these plants come up.
Dialogue: 0,0:08:48.94,0:08:51.32,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It has to do with God Himself planting.
Dialogue: 0,0:08:51.32,0:08:53.88,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Ultimately, the man is God.
Dialogue: 0,0:08:53.88,0:08:58.56,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,He represents God.
Dialogue: 0,0:08:58.56,0:09:02.16,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And God is the one that plants
Dialogue: 0,0:09:02.16,0:09:05.20,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the seed in the ground of the Christian.
Dialogue: 0,0:09:05.20,0:09:06.84,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,You remember what Jesus said?
Dialogue: 0,0:09:06.84,0:09:08.86,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Every plant that My Heavenly Father
Dialogue: 0,0:09:08.86,0:09:11.48,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,has not planted shall be rooted up.
Dialogue: 0,0:09:11.48,0:09:13.32,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Isn't this a wonderful thing to think
Dialogue: 0,0:09:13.32,0:09:15.95,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that God is in the business
Dialogue: 0,0:09:15.95,0:09:20.34,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,of planting good seed that springs up
Dialogue: 0,0:09:20.34,0:09:26.78,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and becomes a wheat harvest?
Dialogue: 0,0:09:26.78,0:09:29.18,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,God does that.
Dialogue: 0,0:09:29.18,0:09:32.05,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So the seeds are men sown by God;
Dialogue: 0,0:09:32.05,0:09:33.56,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,converts.
Dialogue: 0,0:09:33.56,0:09:35.64,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But then if you go back a little further,
Dialogue: 0,0:09:35.64,0:09:39.22,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Jesus uses this matter of the seed
Dialogue: 0,0:09:39.22,0:09:41.45,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,being the Word of God.
Dialogue: 0,0:09:41.45,0:09:43.02,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And you have that aspect of it
Dialogue: 0,0:09:43.02,0:09:44.68,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,which has to do with, of course,
Dialogue: 0,0:09:44.68,0:09:46.82,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,this is the way God does save people.
Dialogue: 0,0:09:46.82,0:09:49.15,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,He plants people and saves people
Dialogue: 0,0:09:49.15,0:09:51.34,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,through us sowing the seed
Dialogue: 0,0:09:51.34,0:09:53.29,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,of the Word of God.
Dialogue: 0,0:09:53.29,0:09:54.94,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And so both of these, I think,
Dialogue: 0,0:09:54.94,0:09:56.73,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,are involved here when He talks about
Dialogue: 0,0:09:56.73,0:09:58.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,growth in the kingdom.
Dialogue: 0,0:09:58.99,0:10:02.56,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Remember, Paul in 1 Corinthians 3 says,
Dialogue: 0,0:10:02.56,0:10:04.52,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"I planted."
Dialogue: 0,0:10:04.52,0:10:05.74,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I planted.
Dialogue: 0,0:10:05.74,0:10:09.21,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So God uses men to plant \Nthe seed of the Word.
Dialogue: 0,0:10:09.21,0:10:11.87,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And He uses that seed to save people
Dialogue: 0,0:10:11.87,0:10:15.68,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and plant true converts.
Dialogue: 0,0:10:15.68,0:10:20.04,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So do we see ourselves as sowers
Dialogue: 0,0:10:20.04,0:10:22.56,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,planting seed?
Dialogue: 0,0:10:22.56,0:10:25.43,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We have seed.
Dialogue: 0,0:10:25.43,0:10:28.70,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We've been given the seed.
Dialogue: 0,0:10:28.70,0:10:29.80,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And isn't it something?
Dialogue: 0,0:10:29.80,0:10:35.34,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The seed looks so insignificant.
Dialogue: 0,0:10:35.34,0:10:38.79,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Vance Havner said when he was young -
Dialogue: 0,0:10:38.79,0:10:41.88,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I don't know; do they still do this?
Dialogue: 0,0:10:41.88,0:10:44.09,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,You get your garden \Nseeds in a little package
Dialogue: 0,0:10:44.09,0:10:47.36,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and it has a beautiful picture on there?
Dialogue: 0,0:10:47.36,0:10:52.19,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And you know it's a \Npromise of what could be.
Dialogue: 0,0:10:52.19,0:10:53.94,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But you look inside -
Dialogue: 0,0:10:53.94,0:10:56.24,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I mean, lettuce is really the one,
Dialogue: 0,0:10:56.24,0:10:57.59,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,when you look inside,
Dialogue: 0,0:10:57.59,0:10:59.69,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,it looks like you're planting pepper
Dialogue: 0,0:10:59.69,0:11:01.16,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,in the ground.
Dialogue: 0,0:11:01.16,0:11:03.13,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It's like how can this possibly
Dialogue: 0,0:11:03.13,0:11:05.84,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,bring forth a crop?
Dialogue: 0,0:11:05.84,0:11:07.41,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Well, you think of Paul standing
Dialogue: 0,0:11:07.41,0:11:11.78,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,on Mars Hill among the scoffers.
Dialogue: 0,0:11:11.78,0:11:13.67,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,This is what we are.
Dialogue: 0,0:11:13.67,0:11:16.53,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We're in a heathen society
Dialogue: 0,0:11:16.53,0:11:18.54,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that hates the Word,
Dialogue: 0,0:11:18.54,0:11:21.07,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and it looks like those seeds are so small
Dialogue: 0,0:11:21.07,0:11:24.92,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and there's a step of \Nfaith involved in that;
Dialogue: 0,0:11:24.92,0:11:29.18,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,in just planting that seed.
Dialogue: 0,0:11:29.18,0:11:33.38,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The promise of what \Ncan be is on the cover,
Dialogue: 0,0:11:33.38,0:11:35.73,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,but it requires a step of faith.
Dialogue: 0,0:11:35.73,0:11:38.56,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The giant sunflowers, you know,
Dialogue: 0,0:11:38.56,0:11:41.11,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that is almost like a tree -
Dialogue: 0,0:11:41.11,0:11:45.14,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that starts out from one seed.
Dialogue: 0,0:11:45.14,0:11:48.25,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And so are we sowing?
Dialogue: 0,0:11:48.25,0:11:51.50,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Brother Kurt Daniel, a \Npastor there in Illinois,
Dialogue: 0,0:11:51.50,0:11:53.60,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,you call his number - \Nif you don't get him,
Dialogue: 0,0:11:53.60,0:11:55.06,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,you get the answering machine,
Dialogue: 0,0:11:55.06,0:11:57.79,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and at the end he'll say,
Dialogue: 0,0:11:57.79,0:12:00.23,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"and remember the \Nwords of the Lord Jesus,"
Dialogue: 0,0:12:00.23,0:12:02.53,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and then he quotes a verse of Scripture.
Dialogue: 0,0:12:02.53,0:12:05.43,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,What's that? Planting a seed.
Dialogue: 0,0:12:05.43,0:12:07.02,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Well, that won't do any good.
Dialogue: 0,0:12:07.02,0:12:10.28,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Well, God says the opposite, doesn't He?
Dialogue: 0,0:12:10.28,0:12:12.41,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Ecclesiastes 11:4-6
Dialogue: 0,0:12:12.41,0:12:15.62,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"He who watches the wind will not sow,
Dialogue: 0,0:12:15.62,0:12:17.41,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and he who looks at the clouds
Dialogue: 0,0:12:17.41,0:12:19.13,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,will not reap.
Dialogue: 0,0:12:19.13,0:12:23.24,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Just as you do not know \Nthe path of the wind,
Dialogue: 0,0:12:23.24,0:12:25.34,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and how bones are formed in the womb
Dialogue: 0,0:12:25.34,0:12:26.96,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,of a pregnant woman,
Dialogue: 0,0:12:26.96,0:12:29.95,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,so you do not know the activity of God
Dialogue: 0,0:12:29.95,0:12:32.83,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,who makes all things.
Dialogue: 0,0:12:32.83,0:12:35.74,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Sow your seed in the morning,
Dialogue: 0,0:12:35.74,0:12:38.94,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and do not be idle in the evening.
Dialogue: 0,0:12:38.94,0:12:42.61,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,For you do not know whether morning
Dialogue: 0,0:12:42.61,0:12:45.45,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,or evening sowing will succeed
Dialogue: 0,0:12:45.45,0:12:50.08,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,or whether both of \Nthem alike will be good."
Dialogue: 0,0:12:50.08,0:12:52.82,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Now, the devil tells you \Nthe opposite, doesn't he?
Dialogue: 0,0:12:52.82,0:12:53.75,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,You don't know.
Dialogue: 0,0:12:53.75,0:12:55.78,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Nothing will happen in the morning.
Dialogue: 0,0:12:55.78,0:12:56.84,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,You don't even know,
Dialogue: 0,0:12:56.84,0:12:59.36,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,maybe nothing will happen \Nin either one of them.
Dialogue: 0,0:12:59.36,0:13:02.58,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,God says just the other way around.
Dialogue: 0,0:13:02.58,0:13:04.28,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,He says sow in the morning;
Dialogue: 0,0:13:04.28,0:13:05.40,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,sow it in the evening.
Dialogue: 0,0:13:05.40,0:13:07.51,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,You don't know what I might do.
Dialogue: 0,0:13:07.51,0:13:10.34,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I might do something with both of them.
Dialogue: 0,0:13:10.34,0:13:11.78,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And it's happened, hasn't it,
Dialogue: 0,0:13:11.78,0:13:14.33,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,again and again in the most unlikely cases
Dialogue: 0,0:13:14.33,0:13:17.17,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,where God has taken some seed
Dialogue: 0,0:13:17.17,0:13:19.50,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,through the instrumentality of man
Dialogue: 0,0:13:19.50,0:13:21.60,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,planting some little insignificant seed;
Dialogue: 0,0:13:21.60,0:13:26.40,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,God has planted a real, true Christian.
Dialogue: 0,0:13:26.40,0:13:28.30,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And lo and behold, they spring up
Dialogue: 0,0:13:28.30,0:13:31.12,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,out of dry ground.
Dialogue: 0,0:13:31.12,0:13:35.32,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And they're sustained by God.
Dialogue: 0,0:13:35.32,0:13:38.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So the prerequisite of growth is planted.
Dialogue: 0,0:13:38.00,0:13:39.23,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And that has to be.
Dialogue: 0,0:13:39.23,0:13:40.74,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,God has to plant the person
Dialogue: 0,0:13:40.74,0:13:42.85,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and He does it through the instrumentality
Dialogue: 0,0:13:42.85,0:13:46.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,of us planting the seed.
Dialogue: 0,0:13:46.00,0:13:48.07,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Secondly, what else is true
Dialogue: 0,0:13:48.07,0:13:53.01,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,about the kingdom of God?
Dialogue: 0,0:13:53.01,0:13:55.77,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Are you listening to this?
Dialogue: 0,0:13:55.77,0:13:59.33,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,There is a time element involved.
Dialogue: 0,0:13:59.33,0:14:02.39,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,There is a process involved.
Dialogue: 0,0:14:02.39,0:14:03.77,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,He goes to bed at night;
Dialogue: 0,0:14:03.77,0:14:04.88,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,he gets up by day.
Dialogue: 0,0:14:04.88,0:14:06.08,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,He goes to bed at night;
Dialogue: 0,0:14:06.08,0:14:08.15,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,he gets up by day.
Dialogue: 0,0:14:08.15,0:14:09.38,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,What's Jesus saying?
Dialogue: 0,0:14:09.38,0:14:13.01,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,He's saying there is a \Ntime element involved
Dialogue: 0,0:14:13.01,0:14:15.72,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,in this matter of growth.
Dialogue: 0,0:14:15.72,0:14:20.92,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,One of the things that a farmer \Nhas to have is patience.
Dialogue: 0,0:14:20.92,0:14:24.67,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And actually, as I see the weather \Npatterns and what-have-you,
Dialogue: 0,0:14:24.67,0:14:26.23,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I think well, you now,
Dialogue: 0,0:14:26.23,0:14:28.58,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I really don't want to be a farmer.
Dialogue: 0,0:14:28.58,0:14:30.72,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I mean, think of it.
Dialogue: 0,0:14:30.72,0:14:34.69,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,James specifically brings this out.
Dialogue: 0,0:14:34.69,0:14:36.45,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"Be patient therefore, brethren,
Dialogue: 0,0:14:36.45,0:14:37.85,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,until the coming of the Lord.
Dialogue: 0,0:14:37.85,0:14:40.83,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Behold the farmer waits
Dialogue: 0,0:14:40.83,0:14:42.78,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,for the precious produce of the soil
Dialogue: 0,0:14:42.78,0:14:45.42,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,being patient about it
Dialogue: 0,0:14:45.42,0:14:47.65,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,until it gets the early and late rains.
Dialogue: 0,0:14:47.65,0:14:50.26,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,You too be patient.
Dialogue: 0,0:14:50.26,0:14:52.50,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Strengthen your hearts
Dialogue: 0,0:14:52.50,0:14:54.42,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,for the coming of the Lord is at hand."
Dialogue: 0,0:14:54.42,0:14:59.67,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We don't like to think in these terms.
Dialogue: 0,0:14:59.67,0:15:02.35,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But, the Lord is telling \Nus something here, isn't He?
Dialogue: 0,0:15:02.35,0:15:04.56,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,You just picture a farmer
Dialogue: 0,0:15:04.56,0:15:06.79,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,sitting dejectedly on this tractor
Dialogue: 0,0:15:06.79,0:15:08.15,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,at the end of the day,
Dialogue: 0,0:15:08.15,0:15:09.61,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and you say, "what's wrong?"
Dialogue: 0,0:15:09.61,0:15:12.30,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And he says, "I don't have any crops."
Dialogue: 0,0:15:12.30,0:15:13.36,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"When did you plant?"
Dialogue: 0,0:15:13.36,0:15:15.43,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"This morning."
Dialogue: 0,0:15:15.43,0:15:17.88,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It's absurd isn't it?
Dialogue: 0,0:15:17.88,0:15:20.75,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,That's exactly the way we are.
Dialogue: 0,0:15:20.75,0:15:22.47,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Instant.
Dialogue: 0,0:15:22.47,0:15:24.87,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I read my Bible every day this week
Dialogue: 0,0:15:24.87,0:15:27.34,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and I don't see any growth.
Dialogue: 0,0:15:27.34,0:15:33.84,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,You know?
Dialogue: 0,0:15:33.84,0:15:35.26,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,In the area of witnessing;
Dialogue: 0,0:15:35.26,0:15:36.64,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,in the area of Bible study;
Dialogue: 0,0:15:36.64,0:15:38.27,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,in the area of prayer,
Dialogue: 0,0:15:38.27,0:15:41.10,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,this instant mentality.
Dialogue: 0,0:15:41.10,0:15:43.16,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Miles Stanford said, "when God
Dialogue: 0,0:15:43.16,0:15:45.36,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,wants to make a squash,
Dialogue: 0,0:15:45.36,0:15:47.82,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,He takes just a short time.
Dialogue: 0,0:15:47.82,0:15:49.85,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But when He wants to make an oak tree,
Dialogue: 0,0:15:49.85,0:15:54.68,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,it might take a hundred years."
Dialogue: 0,0:15:54.68,0:16:00.12,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,There's a time element involved.
Dialogue: 0,0:16:00.12,0:16:04.11,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Prime Minister Disraeli there in England
Dialogue: 0,0:16:04.11,0:16:06.43,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,at one point, the story is
Dialogue: 0,0:16:06.43,0:16:11.57,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that he stood up and gave \Nan extemporaneous speech.
Dialogue: 0,0:16:11.57,0:16:14.46,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And later in the day,
Dialogue: 0,0:16:14.46,0:16:18.77,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,they were having some kind of
Dialogue: 0,0:16:18.77,0:16:20.13,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,state function,
Dialogue: 0,0:16:20.13,0:16:21.61,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and one of the ladies of state
Dialogue: 0,0:16:21.61,0:16:22.84,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,came up to him and said,
Dialogue: 0,0:16:22.84,0:16:24.65,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"I want to tell you how much I enjoyed
Dialogue: 0,0:16:24.65,0:16:26.09,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that extemporaneous speech."
Dialogue: 0,0:16:26.09,0:16:29.81,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,She said, "it's been on my mind all day."
Dialogue: 0,0:16:29.81,0:16:31.62,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,He said, "Madam, that speech has
Dialogue: 0,0:16:31.62,0:16:35.38,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,been on my mind for twenty years."
Dialogue: 0,0:16:35.38,0:16:36.83,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,That's the time element.
Dialogue: 0,0:16:36.83,0:16:39.07,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,You hear one of these brothers get up
Dialogue: 0,0:16:39.07,0:16:42.32,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and give an extemporaneous word.
Dialogue: 0,0:16:42.32,0:16:44.87,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,That's been there a long time.
Dialogue: 0,0:16:44.87,0:16:46.94,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,That doesn't just happen.
Dialogue: 0,0:16:46.94,0:16:48.18,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It takes time.
Dialogue: 0,0:16:48.18,0:16:56.68,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,God works gradually.
Dialogue: 0,0:16:56.68,0:16:59.86,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,There's a time element \Ninvolved with true growth.
Dialogue: 0,0:16:59.86,0:17:02.87,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Let me say it another way.
Dialogue: 0,0:17:02.87,0:17:07.02,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Growth is imperceptible.
Dialogue: 0,0:17:07.02,0:17:09.23,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,That's another way of saying it.
Dialogue: 0,0:17:09.23,0:17:12.21,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Growth is imperceptible.
Dialogue: 0,0:17:12.21,0:17:15.98,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,You think of corn plants.
Dialogue: 0,0:17:15.98,0:17:18.70,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Just sit; go out in the field.
Dialogue: 0,0:17:18.70,0:17:20.28,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I don't know - you all don't have
Dialogue: 0,0:17:20.28,0:17:21.44,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,much corn down here.
Dialogue: 0,0:17:21.44,0:17:24.05,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But you go out and look at a corn plant.
Dialogue: 0,0:17:24.05,0:17:26.21,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Just stare at it really hard.
Dialogue: 0,0:17:26.21,0:17:28.69,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Keep an eye on it.
Dialogue: 0,0:17:28.69,0:17:31.10,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Watch it grow.
Dialogue: 0,0:17:31.10,0:17:37.68,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,You won't see anything whatsoever.
Dialogue: 0,0:17:37.68,0:17:39.80,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,You look at your own life really hard.
Dialogue: 0,0:17:39.80,0:17:41.85,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Stare at it really hard
Dialogue: 0,0:17:41.85,0:17:43.79,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to detect a trace of growth.
Dialogue: 0,0:17:43.79,0:17:47.71,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,You're not going to see anything.
Dialogue: 0,0:17:47.71,0:17:49.83,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,That's encouraging, isn't it?
Dialogue: 0,0:17:49.83,0:17:52.90,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I mean, you parents -
Dialogue: 0,0:17:52.90,0:17:54.08,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,you know, this morning,
Dialogue: 0,0:17:54.08,0:17:55.54,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,your kids walked into the room
Dialogue: 0,0:17:55.54,0:17:58.13,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and you said, "My, how you've grown
Dialogue: 0,0:17:58.13,0:17:59.34,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,during the night."
Dialogue: 0,0:17:59.34,0:18:02.34,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,No.
Dialogue: 0,0:18:02.34,0:18:04.96,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But somebody that hasn't \Nseen them for a while,
Dialogue: 0,0:18:04.96,0:18:07.68,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,they come in - it's amazing.
Dialogue: 0,0:18:07.68,0:18:10.34,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And we forget.
Dialogue: 0,0:18:10.34,0:18:12.22,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And the quickest way to get discouraged
Dialogue: 0,0:18:12.22,0:18:14.02,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,is to look inside all the time
Dialogue: 0,0:18:14.02,0:18:15.88,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and keep a real good eye on yourself
Dialogue: 0,0:18:15.88,0:18:24.57,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and see whether you're growing.
Dialogue: 0,0:18:24.57,0:18:27.02,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We forget how different people are now
Dialogue: 0,0:18:27.02,0:18:30.54,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,from what they were ten years ago.
Dialogue: 0,0:18:30.54,0:18:32.36,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And growth is like that.
Dialogue: 0,0:18:32.36,0:18:33.61,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It's imperceptible.
Dialogue: 0,0:18:33.61,0:18:34.95,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It's slow.
Dialogue: 0,0:18:34.95,0:18:39.19,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It's mysteriously slow.
Dialogue: 0,0:18:39.19,0:18:42.81,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,There's an apparent slowness about it.
Dialogue: 0,0:18:42.81,0:18:44.86,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,What is does Jesus tell us?
Dialogue: 0,0:18:44.86,0:18:50.09,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Well, He talks about the \Nmystery of growth in v. 27.
Dialogue: 0,0:18:50.09,0:18:51.48,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"He goes to bed at night;
Dialogue: 0,0:18:51.48,0:18:52.44,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,gets up by day."
Dialogue: 0,0:18:52.44,0:18:54.74,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,There's this time element.
Dialogue: 0,0:18:54.74,0:18:57.42,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Time element.
Dialogue: 0,0:18:57.42,0:18:59.24,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,My mother used to say that she thought
Dialogue: 0,0:18:59.24,0:19:02.21,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,she could hear corn growing in the night.
Dialogue: 0,0:19:02.21,0:19:03.80,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I don't think so.
Dialogue: 0,0:19:03.80,0:19:09.30,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I think she could \Nhear the leaves rustling.
Dialogue: 0,0:19:09.30,0:19:11.11,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,There's a time element.
Dialogue: 0,0:19:11.11,0:19:14.80,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But then He says,
Dialogue: 0,0:19:14.80,0:19:17.80,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"the seed sprouts up and grows.
Dialogue: 0,0:19:17.80,0:19:21.45,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,How he himself does not know."
Dialogue: 0,0:19:21.45,0:19:24.12,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,There's a mystery.
Dialogue: 0,0:19:24.12,0:19:27.23,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Now listen to this,
Dialogue: 0,0:19:27.23,0:19:28.56,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Jesus said this is the way
Dialogue: 0,0:19:28.56,0:19:31.81,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the kingdom of heaven is.
Dialogue: 0,0:19:31.81,0:19:35.60,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,You do not know how growth takes place.
Dialogue: 0,0:19:35.60,0:19:36.64,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,That's the way it is.
Dialogue: 0,0:19:36.64,0:19:38.37,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,You don't know how it takes place.
Dialogue: 0,0:19:38.37,0:19:39.96,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,That's what He's already said.
Dialogue: 0,0:19:39.96,0:19:41.09,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It's mysterious.
Dialogue: 0,0:19:41.09,0:19:43.45,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The Gospel takes root in your life,
Dialogue: 0,0:19:43.45,0:19:45.65,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and in other's life,
Dialogue: 0,0:19:45.65,0:19:47.17,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and you see things happen that
Dialogue: 0,0:19:47.17,0:19:49.58,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,you cannot figure out.
Dialogue: 0,0:19:49.58,0:19:51.60,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It fills you with amazement and wonder.
Dialogue: 0,0:19:51.60,0:19:54.12,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And you're not going to \Nhave the slightest idea how.
Dialogue: 0,0:19:54.12,0:19:56.52,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Jesus said the wind blows where it wishes.
Dialogue: 0,0:19:56.52,0:19:57.87,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,You hear the sound of it.
Dialogue: 0,0:19:57.87,0:19:59.56,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,You don't know where it comes from
Dialogue: 0,0:19:59.56,0:20:00.52,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,or where it's going.
Dialogue: 0,0:20:00.52,0:20:04.95,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So is everyone who's born of the Spirit.
Dialogue: 0,0:20:04.95,0:20:07.52,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I've never understood growth in myself
Dialogue: 0,0:20:07.52,0:20:08.72,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,or anyone else.
Dialogue: 0,0:20:08.72,0:20:11.28,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We know, like we've heard this morning,
Dialogue: 0,0:20:11.28,0:20:13.04,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,we know it has to do with
Dialogue: 0,0:20:13.04,0:20:14.44,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,spending time in the Word;
Dialogue: 0,0:20:14.44,0:20:15.77,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,it has to do with prayer;
Dialogue: 0,0:20:15.77,0:20:17.36,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,it has to do with fellowship.
Dialogue: 0,0:20:17.36,0:20:20.75,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,All those things are the context.
Dialogue: 0,0:20:20.75,0:20:22.78,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So how many of you have just decided
Dialogue: 0,0:20:22.78,0:20:25.74,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I'm going to read my Bible \Nevery day this week?
Dialogue: 0,0:20:25.74,0:20:28.96,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,How'd you do on that?
Dialogue: 0,0:20:28.96,0:20:30.58,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,See what I'm saying?
Dialogue: 0,0:20:30.58,0:20:32.14,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Underneath it all,
Dialogue: 0,0:20:32.14,0:20:34.94,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,there's a mysterious working
Dialogue: 0,0:20:34.94,0:20:37.51,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,of the power of God
Dialogue: 0,0:20:37.51,0:20:39.89,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,underneath; sustaining everything.
Dialogue: 0,0:20:39.89,0:20:42.96,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Work out your salvation \Nwith fear and trembling
Dialogue: 0,0:20:42.96,0:20:45.28,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,for God is working inside of you
Dialogue: 0,0:20:45.28,0:20:49.37,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,supernaturally, or you're \Nnot going to make it.
Dialogue: 0,0:20:49.37,0:20:51.78,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,You're not going to make it.
Dialogue: 0,0:20:51.78,0:20:54.47,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But He is working inside of you
Dialogue: 0,0:20:54.47,0:20:55.62,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,if you're a Christian.
Dialogue: 0,0:20:55.62,0:20:57.24,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And you are going to make it.
Dialogue: 0,0:20:57.24,0:21:01.84,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,See?
Dialogue: 0,0:21:01.84,0:21:05.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It's mysterious.
Dialogue: 0,0:21:05.00,0:21:06.96,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I've never understood growth in myself
Dialogue: 0,0:21:06.96,0:21:07.96,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,or anybody else.
Dialogue: 0,0:21:07.96,0:21:09.70,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,If it's something where you can say,
Dialogue: 0,0:21:09.70,0:21:13.49,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I did this, and I did \Nthis, and I did this,
Dialogue: 0,0:21:13.49,0:21:15.74,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,you've probably got some kind
Dialogue: 0,0:21:15.74,0:21:18.11,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,of Pharisaical counterfeit.
Dialogue: 0,0:21:18.11,0:21:22.32,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,That's what you've got.
Dialogue: 0,0:21:22.32,0:21:29.45,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I've never liked how-to's.
Dialogue: 0,0:21:29.45,0:21:32.43,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,There's books out on that -
Dialogue: 0,0:21:32.43,0:21:35.13,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,how to win souls;
Dialogue: 0,0:21:35.13,0:21:40.25,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,how to have church growth.
Dialogue: 0,0:21:40.25,0:21:42.87,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The Lord Jesus said right \Nhere there's no "how-to."
Dialogue: 0,0:21:42.87,0:21:45.45,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,He said you don't know how.
Dialogue: 0,0:21:45.45,0:21:50.98,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,That just did away with \Na bunch of conferences.
Dialogue: 0,0:21:50.98,0:21:52.66,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,You don't need to waste your time.
Dialogue: 0,0:21:52.66,0:21:55.01,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I've seen people taking notes on how-to.
Dialogue: 0,0:21:55.01,0:21:56.48,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,They fill up 20 pages.
Dialogue: 0,0:21:56.48,0:21:59.18,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,A year later, they're coming back\Nto the same conference;
Dialogue: 0,0:21:59.18,0:22:00.37,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,filling up 20 more pages.
Dialogue: 0,0:22:00.37,0:22:03.18,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Nothing ever changes.
Dialogue: 0,0:22:03.18,0:22:05.08,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,You've got to be cast upon God
Dialogue: 0,0:22:05.08,0:22:06.71,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,like Brother Merle used to say.
Dialogue: 0,0:22:06.71,0:22:08.86,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The Bible's not a how-to book,
Dialogue: 0,0:22:08.86,0:22:11.06,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,it's a what-to book.
Dialogue: 0,0:22:11.06,0:22:13.61,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,A lot of the stuff Nathan \Nwas saying to us today,
Dialogue: 0,0:22:13.61,0:22:17.26,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that's what-to, you know?
Dialogue: 0,0:22:17.26,0:22:19.26,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,You be strong; you be stable.
Dialogue: 0,0:22:19.26,0:22:21.65,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,How in the world am I going to do that?
Dialogue: 0,0:22:21.65,0:22:25.71,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Well, you've got to go to God.
Dialogue: 0,0:22:25.71,0:22:29.82,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Usually what happens in true growth
Dialogue: 0,0:22:29.82,0:22:32.07,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,is you're crying out to God for change.
Dialogue: 0,0:22:32.07,0:22:33.85,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,You've tried this. You've tried that.
Dialogue: 0,0:22:33.85,0:22:35.38,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,You've gone to this conference.
Dialogue: 0,0:22:35.38,0:22:36.86,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,You've gone to that conference.
Dialogue: 0,0:22:36.86,0:22:39.07,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,You've tried squinting your eyes harder
Dialogue: 0,0:22:39.07,0:22:42.72,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,when you repented.
Dialogue: 0,0:22:42.72,0:22:46.16,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And none of it worked.
Dialogue: 0,0:22:46.16,0:22:47.38,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And then, lo and behold,
Dialogue: 0,0:22:47.38,0:22:50.97,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,you look back and it's: \NGod has changed me;
Dialogue: 0,0:22:50.97,0:22:53.37,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,set me free from this.
Dialogue: 0,0:22:53.37,0:22:56.73,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,He's working in my life.
Dialogue: 0,0:22:56.73,0:22:58.87,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Isn't it wonderful?
Dialogue: 0,0:22:58.87,0:23:00.51,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,He says it happens -
Dialogue: 0,0:23:00.51,0:23:02.50,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,it happens how? You don't know.
Dialogue: 0,0:23:02.50,0:23:05.12,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I don't know how this happened.
Dialogue: 0,0:23:05.12,0:23:08.56,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But I know, yes, I had to spend time
Dialogue: 0,0:23:08.56,0:23:09.87,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,in the Word.
Dialogue: 0,0:23:09.87,0:23:12.34,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Yes, I had to cry out to God.
Dialogue: 0,0:23:12.34,0:23:13.81,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Yes, on all that,
Dialogue: 0,0:23:13.81,0:23:15.67,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,but in the end you look back.
Dialogue: 0,0:23:15.67,0:23:17.13,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,You know I used to think
Dialogue: 0,0:23:17.13,0:23:18.78,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that victory over sin would be -
Dialogue: 0,0:23:18.78,0:23:21.25,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I'd be standing there like these hunters
Dialogue: 0,0:23:21.25,0:23:23.46,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,in Africa, you know,
Dialogue: 0,0:23:23.46,0:23:29.26,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,with my rifle and my foot \Non the head of the lion.
Dialogue: 0,0:23:29.26,0:23:35.68,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,This is Charles with victory over sin.
Dialogue: 0,0:23:35.68,0:23:37.82,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It's more like you're shaking your head
Dialogue: 0,0:23:37.82,0:23:40.44,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,saying I can't figure out how in the world
Dialogue: 0,0:23:40.44,0:23:42.59,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,God ever set me free from that,
Dialogue: 0,0:23:42.59,0:23:47.13,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,but it sure is good to be free from that.
Dialogue: 0,0:23:47.13,0:23:49.14,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And now I see how bad it was.
Dialogue: 0,0:23:49.14,0:23:52.15,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I couldn't even see how bad it was before.
Dialogue: 0,0:23:52.15,0:24:00.94,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Isn't that true?
Dialogue: 0,0:24:00.94,0:24:03.66,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It's mysterious.
Dialogue: 0,0:24:03.66,0:24:05.30,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The mistake that people make
Dialogue: 0,0:24:05.30,0:24:07.03,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,is to take their own experiences
Dialogue: 0,0:24:07.03,0:24:09.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and try to get a formula that you can
Dialogue: 0,0:24:09.00,0:24:10.28,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,give to everybody else,
Dialogue: 0,0:24:10.28,0:24:12.64,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and if they do that it'll work.
Dialogue: 0,0:24:12.64,0:24:14.94,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It won't.
Dialogue: 0,0:24:14.94,0:24:18.72,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,God uses things in one person's life
Dialogue: 0,0:24:18.72,0:24:21.28,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and the next person reads \Nthat same book or whatever
Dialogue: 0,0:24:21.28,0:24:24.58,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and they don't get a thing out of it.
Dialogue: 0,0:24:24.58,0:24:26.61,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,You remember with the ark.
Dialogue: 0,0:24:26.61,0:24:28.09,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,They said, well, take that,
Dialogue: 0,0:24:28.09,0:24:29.55,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,it will work for us.
Dialogue: 0,0:24:29.55,0:24:33.55,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,No, it won't.
Dialogue: 0,0:24:33.55,0:24:35.44,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Well, what else does He teach us?
Dialogue: 0,0:24:35.44,0:24:39.82,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Growth is miraculous - v. 28.
Dialogue: 0,0:24:39.82,0:24:42.88,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"The earth produces crops by itself."
Dialogue: 0,0:24:42.88,0:24:48.80,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Presto! They just pop out of it.
Dialogue: 0,0:24:48.80,0:24:50.49,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,That's what Jesus said.
Dialogue: 0,0:24:50.49,0:24:51.85,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,In other words, He's saying
Dialogue: 0,0:24:51.85,0:24:55.06,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,there's something supernatural about this.
Dialogue: 0,0:24:55.06,0:24:56.78,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,You can't explain this on your own.
Dialogue: 0,0:24:56.78,0:24:58.74,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"The earth produces crops by itself."
Dialogue: 0,0:24:58.74,0:25:02.56,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It's beyond man's power totally.
Dialogue: 0,0:25:02.56,0:25:05.02,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And it's incredible how it happens.
Dialogue: 0,0:25:05.02,0:25:08.78,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,There's a power there outside of us.
Dialogue: 0,0:25:08.78,0:25:11.01,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And we don't know.
Dialogue: 0,0:25:11.01,0:25:14.80,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We're not the one that grows the seed.
Dialogue: 0,0:25:14.80,0:25:16.26,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,God is the one that does that.
Dialogue: 0,0:25:16.26,0:25:19.08,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,All we do is put the seed into the ground.
Dialogue: 0,0:25:19.08,0:25:22.70,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And so there's a miraculous \Naspect about growth.
Dialogue: 0,0:25:22.70,0:25:27.75,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,There's power and vitality \Nin the seed itself.
Dialogue: 0,0:25:27.75,0:25:29.86,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Peter talks about being born again,
Dialogue: 0,0:25:29.86,0:25:32.32,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,not of corruptible seed, \Nbut of incorruptible
Dialogue: 0,0:25:32.32,0:25:34.40,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,by the Word of God
Dialogue: 0,0:25:34.40,0:25:37.78,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that lives and abides forever.
Dialogue: 0,0:25:37.78,0:25:40.23,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Romans 1:16 "I am not \Nashamed of the Gospel.
Dialogue: 0,0:25:40.23,0:25:44.56,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It is the power of God unto salvation..."
Dialogue: 0,0:25:44.56,0:25:46.53,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,1 Thessalonians 2:13
Dialogue: 0,0:25:46.53,0:25:50.26,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"The Word of God which performs its work
Dialogue: 0,0:25:50.26,0:25:52.01,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,in you who believe."
Dialogue: 0,0:25:52.01,0:25:53.65,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And I like that where Paul says
Dialogue: 0,0:25:53.65,0:25:56.25,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,in Acts 20 - he says I commend you to God.
Dialogue: 0,0:25:56.25,0:25:57.83,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We've done this often with people
Dialogue: 0,0:25:57.83,0:25:59.72,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,leaving the church and going back
Dialogue: 0,0:25:59.72,0:26:01.04,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to China or wherever.
Dialogue: 0,0:26:01.04,0:26:02.36,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I commend you to God
Dialogue: 0,0:26:02.36,0:26:05.22,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and to the word of His grace
Dialogue: 0,0:26:05.22,0:26:08.20,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,which is able to build you up
Dialogue: 0,0:26:08.20,0:26:10.52,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and give you an inheritance.
Dialogue: 0,0:26:10.52,0:26:14.19,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It's just wonderful, isn't it?
Dialogue: 0,0:26:14.19,0:26:17.37,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,There's life in the seed itself.
Dialogue: 0,0:26:17.37,0:26:18.91,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The very idea of seed -
Dialogue: 0,0:26:18.91,0:26:22.03,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,it's the Greek word semen.
Dialogue: 0,0:26:22.03,0:26:27.34,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,1 John - "God's seed remains in him."
Dialogue: 0,0:26:27.34,0:26:29.68,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So there's something \Nmiraculous about the seed,
Dialogue: 0,0:26:29.68,0:26:32.25,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,but there's something miraculous also
Dialogue: 0,0:26:32.25,0:26:34.49,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,about the earth.
Dialogue: 0,0:26:34.49,0:26:39.70,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The earth brings forth fruit of itself.
Dialogue: 0,0:26:39.70,0:26:42.78,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Isaiah 61 says this:
Dialogue: 0,0:26:42.78,0:26:45.20,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"I will rejoice greatly in the Lord.
Dialogue: 0,0:26:45.20,0:26:47.44,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,My soul will exult in my God,
Dialogue: 0,0:26:47.44,0:26:49.56,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,for He has clothed me with garments
Dialogue: 0,0:26:49.56,0:26:51.60,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,of salvation;
Dialogue: 0,0:26:51.60,0:26:54.24,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,He has wrapped me with \Na robe of righteousness
Dialogue: 0,0:26:54.24,0:26:56.12,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,as a bridegroom decks himself
Dialogue: 0,0:26:56.12,0:26:57.70,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,with a garland,
Dialogue: 0,0:26:57.70,0:27:01.30,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and as a bride adorns \Nherself with her jewels.
Dialogue: 0,0:27:01.30,0:27:05.42,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,For as the earth brings forth its sprouts,
Dialogue: 0,0:27:05.42,0:27:09.40,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and as a garden causes the things
Dialogue: 0,0:27:09.40,0:27:13.06,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,sown in it to spring up,
Dialogue: 0,0:27:13.06,0:27:15.58,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,so the Lord God..."
Dialogue: 0,0:27:15.58,0:27:17.93,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,He's the Garden here, see?
Dialogue: 0,0:27:17.93,0:27:20.83,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The garden causes the things sown in it
Dialogue: 0,0:27:20.83,0:27:22.02,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to spring up.
Dialogue: 0,0:27:22.02,0:27:26.44,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"So the Lord God will cause
Dialogue: 0,0:27:26.44,0:27:30.56,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,righteousness and praise to spring up
Dialogue: 0,0:27:30.56,0:27:31.96,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,before all the nations."
Dialogue: 0,0:27:31.96,0:27:35.42,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Now that's what we're talking about here.
Dialogue: 0,0:27:35.42,0:27:36.87,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,What Jesus is saying is
Dialogue: 0,0:27:36.87,0:27:40.03,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,God is at work underneath the surface
Dialogue: 0,0:27:40.03,0:27:43.89,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to make things spring up supernaturally
Dialogue: 0,0:27:43.89,0:27:46.78,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that could not otherwise happen.
Dialogue: 0,0:27:46.78,0:27:49.57,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,You remember in 1 Corinthians 3,
Dialogue: 0,0:27:49.57,0:27:52.30,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"What then is Apollos? What is Paul?
Dialogue: 0,0:27:52.30,0:27:54.34,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Servants through whom you believed
Dialogue: 0,0:27:54.34,0:27:57.12,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,even as the Lord gave \Nopportunity to each one.
Dialogue: 0,0:27:57.12,0:28:00.54,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I planted. Apollos watered.
Dialogue: 0,0:28:00.54,0:28:05.07,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But God was causing the growth."
Dialogue: 0,0:28:05.07,0:28:06.59,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,You know, if you think about it,
Dialogue: 0,0:28:06.59,0:28:09.40,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,what are you really doing when you\Nput a seed in the ground?
Dialogue: 0,0:28:09.40,0:28:11.66,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,You're not doing anything.
Dialogue: 0,0:28:11.66,0:28:13.74,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,You put water on it.
Dialogue: 0,0:28:13.74,0:28:18.63,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,God is the one making that \Ngerminate and grow.
Dialogue: 0,0:28:18.63,0:28:22.35,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Are you listening to me?
Dialogue: 0,0:28:22.35,0:28:26.24,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,God causes growth.
Dialogue: 0,0:28:26.24,0:28:28.57,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The only way you're ever going to grow
Dialogue: 0,0:28:28.57,0:28:32.100,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,is if God causes you to grow.
Dialogue: 0,0:28:32.100,0:28:35.54,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,That's the only way.
Dialogue: 0,0:28:35.54,0:28:37.60,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The only way you're ever going to change;
Dialogue: 0,0:28:37.60,0:28:39.41,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the only way you're ever going to be
Dialogue: 0,0:28:39.41,0:28:41.57,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,more Christlike is if God causes you
Dialogue: 0,0:28:41.57,0:28:45.76,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to become more Christlike.
Dialogue: 0,0:28:45.76,0:28:49.82,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And that's what He's promised to do.
Dialogue: 0,0:28:49.82,0:28:57.75,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,That's what He's promised to do in you.
Dialogue: 0,0:28:57.75,0:28:59.51,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,What a glorious thing!
Dialogue: 0,0:28:59.51,0:29:02.18,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The only hope anybody has -
Dialogue: 0,0:29:02.18,0:29:05.18,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,none of us will ever rise any higher
Dialogue: 0,0:29:05.18,0:29:07.28,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,than God lifts us by His grace.
Dialogue: 0,0:29:07.28,0:29:11.29,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,You're not going to do it.
Dialogue: 0,0:29:11.29,0:29:12.88,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But He will do it.
Dialogue: 0,0:29:12.88,0:29:17.56,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,He will do it.
Dialogue: 0,0:29:17.56,0:29:20.42,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The Lord God will cause righteousness
Dialogue: 0,0:29:20.42,0:29:22.79,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and praise to spring up
Dialogue: 0,0:29:22.79,0:29:25.60,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,before all nations.
Dialogue: 0,0:29:25.60,0:29:27.15,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,That's the only hope we have.
Dialogue: 0,0:29:27.15,0:29:31.23,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,God working in us to will and do
Dialogue: 0,0:29:31.23,0:29:32.63,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,of His good pleasure;
Dialogue: 0,0:29:32.63,0:29:35.21,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,causing growth.
Dialogue: 0,0:29:35.21,0:29:37.15,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,He causes you to will.
Dialogue: 0,0:29:37.15,0:29:38.60,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,He gives you that desire,
Dialogue: 0,0:29:38.60,0:29:40.60,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and then it's a long ways from the time
Dialogue: 0,0:29:40.60,0:29:42.56,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,you start thinking I want to be more holy
Dialogue: 0,0:29:42.56,0:29:44.12,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,in this or that;
Dialogue: 0,0:29:44.12,0:29:47.07,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,it's a long ways before \Nyou're actually there.
Dialogue: 0,0:29:47.07,0:29:50.74,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,He works in you both to will and to work
Dialogue: 0,0:29:50.74,0:29:53.92,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,for His good pleasure.
Dialogue: 0,0:29:53.92,0:29:55.88,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So if our Christianity can be explained
Dialogue: 0,0:29:55.88,0:29:57.32,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,by human psychology
Dialogue: 0,0:29:57.32,0:29:58.66,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,or turning over a new leaf
Dialogue: 0,0:29:58.66,0:30:00.24,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,or trying to be better or so on;
Dialogue: 0,0:30:00.24,0:30:02.22,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,there's no miracle,
Dialogue: 0,0:30:02.22,0:30:03.85,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,there's no outside power,
Dialogue: 0,0:30:03.85,0:30:09.58,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,then you're not a Christian.
Dialogue: 0,0:30:09.58,0:30:13.54,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,What an encouragement this is God's work,
Dialogue: 0,0:30:13.54,0:30:16.86,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and He will accomplish what concerns us.
Dialogue: 0,0:30:16.86,0:30:20.03,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Alright, number five.
Dialogue: 0,0:30:20.03,0:30:23.85,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The progressiveness of growth.
Dialogue: 0,0:30:23.85,0:30:26.24,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,You see it in v. 27, it sprouts up.
Dialogue: 0,0:30:26.24,0:30:28.08,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,First of all, it has to sprout up
Dialogue: 0,0:30:28.08,0:30:29.78,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and it grows.
Dialogue: 0,0:30:29.78,0:30:33.34,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,V. 28, "First the blade,
Dialogue: 0,0:30:33.34,0:30:35.68,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,then the head,
Dialogue: 0,0:30:35.68,0:30:39.34,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,then the mature grain in the head."
Dialogue: 0,0:30:39.34,0:30:40.47,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Progressive.
Dialogue: 0,0:30:40.47,0:30:42.21,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Now that's simple, isn't it?
Dialogue: 0,0:30:42.21,0:30:44.59,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,This and then this and then this.
Dialogue: 0,0:30:44.59,0:30:46.72,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We don't want that.
Dialogue: 0,0:30:46.72,0:30:48.88,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,What we want is:
Dialogue: 0,0:30:48.88,0:30:51.53,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,go from here over to there.
Dialogue: 0,0:30:51.53,0:30:54.82,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,You know, you could have \Nsuch-and-such experience.
Dialogue: 0,0:30:54.82,0:30:58.01,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,That puts you clear over here.
Dialogue: 0,0:30:58.01,0:31:01.18,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,You could enter into \Nentire sanctification.
Dialogue: 0,0:31:01.18,0:31:03.11,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Just have this happen.
Dialogue: 0,0:31:03.11,0:31:05.30,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Skip over all that stuff.
Dialogue: 0,0:31:05.30,0:31:07.03,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It's kind of hard going through
Dialogue: 0,0:31:07.03,0:31:12.67,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,all that stuff anyway.
Dialogue: 0,0:31:12.67,0:31:14.38,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,A lot of teaching is like that.
Dialogue: 0,0:31:14.38,0:31:16.61,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Anything that is held out to you
Dialogue: 0,0:31:16.61,0:31:17.76,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that makes you think:
Dialogue: 0,0:31:17.76,0:31:20.46,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,if I could just have such-and-such,
Dialogue: 0,0:31:20.46,0:31:22.88,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I could skip over these stages.
Dialogue: 0,0:31:22.88,0:31:25.74,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,That's a false teaching.
Dialogue: 0,0:31:25.74,0:31:29.60,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And you may have people say
Dialogue: 0,0:31:29.60,0:31:31.48,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that they've entered in and they have;
Dialogue: 0,0:31:31.48,0:31:33.39,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,there's been some special thing
Dialogue: 0,0:31:33.39,0:31:34.74,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,happen in their life where
Dialogue: 0,0:31:34.74,0:31:36.70,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,they're in a different plane;
Dialogue: 0,0:31:36.70,0:31:38.57,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,a higher plane than they were before.
Dialogue: 0,0:31:38.57,0:31:40.61,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,That happens.
Dialogue: 0,0:31:40.61,0:31:42.48,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But beloved, I'll guarantee you this,
Dialogue: 0,0:31:42.48,0:31:44.38,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,they're still going through the stages
Dialogue: 0,0:31:44.38,0:31:47.81,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,just like you are.
Dialogue: 0,0:31:47.81,0:31:49.97,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,First the blade, then the head,
Dialogue: 0,0:31:49.97,0:31:52.75,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,then the mature grain.
Dialogue: 0,0:31:52.75,0:31:58.40,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,That's always the way it is.
Dialogue: 0,0:31:58.40,0:32:01.71,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,You see somebody that's \Nentirely sanctified,
Dialogue: 0,0:32:01.71,0:32:03.97,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,you're looking at Jesus.
Dialogue: 0,0:32:03.97,0:32:06.76,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And He's the only one -
Dialogue: 0,0:32:06.76,0:32:12.64,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,until heaven.
Dialogue: 0,0:32:12.64,0:32:15.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The holiest man in the world today
Dialogue: 0,0:32:15.99,0:32:18.06,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,has so much sin, he'd be in hell.
Dialogue: 0,0:32:18.06,0:32:20.79,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,(incomplete thought)
Dialogue: 0,0:32:20.79,0:32:22.91,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Can you imagine the way Jesus
Dialogue: 0,0:32:22.91,0:32:25.01,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,handled a towel?
Dialogue: 0,0:32:25.01,0:32:26.84,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,There's nobody in the world
Dialogue: 0,0:32:26.84,0:32:29.73,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that could hold a towel the way Jesus did
Dialogue: 0,0:32:29.73,0:32:32.24,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and wash somebody's feet.
Dialogue: 0,0:32:32.24,0:32:37.02,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,You can't begin to be \Nlike Him in that sense.
Dialogue: 0,0:32:37.02,0:32:43.39,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But we can walk in His steps.
Dialogue: 0,0:32:43.39,0:32:45.13,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Growth is progressive.
Dialogue: 0,0:32:45.13,0:32:47.23,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And you see here the utter stupidity
Dialogue: 0,0:32:47.23,0:32:49.58,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,of the professing church in this.
Dialogue: 0,0:32:49.58,0:32:52.69,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,There's some former football player
Dialogue: 0,0:32:52.69,0:32:54.49,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,or singer or whatever;
Dialogue: 0,0:32:54.49,0:32:56.62,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,they get converted and two weeks later,
Dialogue: 0,0:32:56.62,0:32:59.26,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,they're speaking to a \Ncrowd of 1,000 people.
Dialogue: 0,0:32:59.26,0:33:03.56,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Or 10,000. More like 20,000 people.
Dialogue: 0,0:33:03.56,0:33:06.78,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,You take some little immature plant,
Dialogue: 0,0:33:06.78,0:33:09.70,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,at best, and stick them out there.
Dialogue: 0,0:33:09.70,0:33:13.71,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,That's not the way it is.
Dialogue: 0,0:33:13.71,0:33:14.79,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,That's folly.
Dialogue: 0,0:33:14.79,0:33:16.65,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,There's a process involved.
Dialogue: 0,0:33:16.65,0:33:18.93,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Hudson Taylor, before he became
Dialogue: 0,0:33:18.93,0:33:20.74,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the head of the China Inland Mission
Dialogue: 0,0:33:20.74,0:33:22.62,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,had to spend years in obscurity
Dialogue: 0,0:33:22.62,0:33:26.80,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,as a nobody learning things from God.
Dialogue: 0,0:33:26.80,0:33:28.98,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And I like that two volume set
Dialogue: 0,0:33:28.98,0:33:30.61,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,on the life of Hudson Taylor.
Dialogue: 0,0:33:30.61,0:33:33.45,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Volume 1: The Growth of a Soul.
Dialogue: 0,0:33:33.45,0:33:37.58,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Volume 2: The Growth of a Work of God.
Dialogue: 0,0:33:37.58,0:33:39.59,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,This tells my age,
Dialogue: 0,0:33:39.59,0:33:41.79,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,but back when I was young,
Dialogue: 0,0:33:41.79,0:33:42.89,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,we always talked about
Dialogue: 0,0:33:42.89,0:33:44.42,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the Empire State Building.
Dialogue: 0,0:33:44.42,0:33:48.66,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Boy, this is the tallest \Nbuilding in the world.
Dialogue: 0,0:33:48.66,0:33:50.80,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Well, anyway, they said it took as long
Dialogue: 0,0:33:50.80,0:33:52.34,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to put that foundation in,
Dialogue: 0,0:33:52.34,0:33:54.10,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and there's as much in the foundation
Dialogue: 0,0:33:54.10,0:33:57.58,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,as there is in the rest of the building.
Dialogue: 0,0:33:57.58,0:34:00.76,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Picture building some of these
Dialogue: 0,0:34:00.76,0:34:04.16,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,massive things that they've got now
Dialogue: 0,0:34:04.16,0:34:07.22,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,on a five-foot foundation.
Dialogue: 0,0:34:07.22,0:34:10.32,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,How long would that last?
Dialogue: 0,0:34:10.32,0:34:12.76,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I think it's the Washington Cathedral
Dialogue: 0,0:34:12.76,0:34:14.74,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I saw years ago with my mother.
Dialogue: 0,0:34:14.74,0:34:16.50,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And in one way, it's impressive
Dialogue: 0,0:34:16.50,0:34:18.23,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,looking at those top spires
Dialogue: 0,0:34:18.23,0:34:19.40,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and everything up there,
Dialogue: 0,0:34:19.40,0:34:21.19,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,but to me, the most impressive thing
Dialogue: 0,0:34:21.19,0:34:23.50,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,was when they took us \Ndown into the basement.
Dialogue: 0,0:34:23.50,0:34:26.24,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And they said, now this rounded wall here
Dialogue: 0,0:34:26.24,0:34:28.71,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,is part of one of the pillars
Dialogue: 0,0:34:28.71,0:34:30.71,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that supports this building.
Dialogue: 0,0:34:30.71,0:34:32.91,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And you could barely see the curve in it
Dialogue: 0,0:34:32.91,0:34:37.78,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,it was so big.
Dialogue: 0,0:34:37.78,0:34:42.11,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Any life that is real
Dialogue: 0,0:34:42.11,0:34:46.12,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,has as much underground\Nor more underground
Dialogue: 0,0:34:46.12,0:34:49.63,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,as there is above the surface.
Dialogue: 0,0:34:49.63,0:34:53.18,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It's always that way.
Dialogue: 0,0:34:53.18,0:34:57.48,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,(incomplete thought)
Dialogue: 0,0:34:57.48,0:34:59.60,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,You're looking up there at those spires
Dialogue: 0,0:34:59.60,0:35:01.59,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,of the building,
Dialogue: 0,0:35:01.59,0:35:04.93,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,when God is driving foundation piling
Dialogue: 0,0:35:04.93,0:35:07.84,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,in your life that is much harder -
Dialogue: 0,0:35:07.84,0:35:12.51,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,hard stuff that you've got to learn.
Dialogue: 0,0:35:12.51,0:35:18.57,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I was talking about the \Nhymn the other night.
Dialogue: 0,0:35:18.57,0:35:21.12,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I like that hymn, I think Vance Havner
Dialogue: 0,0:35:21.12,0:35:22.01,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,quoted it:
Dialogue: 0,0:35:22.01,0:35:24.36,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"Many a rapturous minstrel
Dialogue: 0,0:35:24.36,0:35:25.90,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,among the sons of light
Dialogue: 0,0:35:25.90,0:35:28.11,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,will say of his sweetest music
Dialogue: 0,0:35:28.11,0:35:31.39,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,'I learned it in the night.'
Dialogue: 0,0:35:31.39,0:35:33.09,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And many a rolling anthem
Dialogue: 0,0:35:33.09,0:35:35.79,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that fills the Father's throne,
Dialogue: 0,0:35:35.79,0:35:37.87,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,sobbed at his first rehearsal
Dialogue: 0,0:35:37.87,0:35:41.48,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,in the shroud of a darkened room."
Dialogue: 0,0:35:41.48,0:35:43.88,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,That's God putting the foundation
Dialogue: 0,0:35:43.88,0:35:45.86,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,down under the building.
Dialogue: 0,0:35:45.86,0:35:48.28,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,There is a slowness involved.
Dialogue: 0,0:35:48.28,0:35:53.07,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,There is a process involved.
Dialogue: 0,0:35:53.07,0:35:54.37,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Don't let anybody trick you
Dialogue: 0,0:35:54.37,0:35:55.86,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,into the idea that you can jump
Dialogue: 0,0:35:55.86,0:35:56.76,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,from here to here.
Dialogue: 0,0:35:56.76,0:35:59.87,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,You're not going to shortchange anything.
Dialogue: 0,0:35:59.87,0:36:02.64,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,You might say, well, I'm going to
Dialogue: 0,0:36:02.64,0:36:04.34,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,memorize the whole New Testament.
Dialogue: 0,0:36:04.34,0:36:05.30,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Well, that's great,
Dialogue: 0,0:36:05.30,0:36:06.98,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,but it's not going to make you
Dialogue: 0,0:36:06.98,0:36:09.74,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,a spiritual giant.
Dialogue: 0,0:36:09.74,0:36:16.91,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I mean, it's stages.
Dialogue: 0,0:36:16.91,0:36:20.42,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Well, the progressiveness of growth.
Dialogue: 0,0:36:20.42,0:36:23.73,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Then, the certainty of growth.
Dialogue: 0,0:36:23.73,0:36:25.57,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Now remember, the Lord is describing
Dialogue: 0,0:36:25.57,0:36:31.65,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the way things are in the kingdom.
Dialogue: 0,0:36:31.65,0:36:35.21,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It's like a man who plants \Nseed in the ground.
Dialogue: 0,0:36:35.21,0:36:36.93,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And he goes to bed at night.
Dialogue: 0,0:36:36.93,0:36:38.79,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,This comes up. It grows.
Dialogue: 0,0:36:38.79,0:36:40.67,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It grows. It grows.
Dialogue: 0,0:36:40.67,0:36:42.73,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And then it dies and withers.
Dialogue: 0,0:36:42.73,0:36:44.23,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,That's not what He says.
Dialogue: 0,0:36:44.23,0:36:45.80,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,That's not the way it is when God
Dialogue: 0,0:36:45.80,0:36:47.40,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,is involved in this.
Dialogue: 0,0:36:47.40,0:36:51.08,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It is going to make it.
Dialogue: 0,0:36:51.08,0:36:53.25,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It's certain.
Dialogue: 0,0:36:53.25,0:36:57.97,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It's going to grow.
Dialogue: 0,0:36:57.97,0:36:59.32,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,When men plant things,
Dialogue: 0,0:36:59.32,0:37:00.30,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,they often die.
Dialogue: 0,0:37:00.30,0:37:01.12,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Not so with God.
Dialogue: 0,0:37:01.12,0:37:02.29,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And you can look at that
Dialogue: 0,0:37:02.29,0:37:05.02,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,in relation to church history as a whole.
Dialogue: 0,0:37:05.02,0:37:06.76,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,That little seed that was planted
Dialogue: 0,0:37:06.76,0:37:07.64,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,at the beginning,
Dialogue: 0,0:37:07.64,0:37:12.10,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,it becomes a great tree.
Dialogue: 0,0:37:12.10,0:37:13.86,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And God's not going to fail.\N
Dialogue: 0,0:37:13.86,0:37:15.47,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The church is not going to fail.
Dialogue: 0,0:37:15.47,0:37:17.05,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,He's advancing His kingdom.
Dialogue: 0,0:37:17.05,0:37:18.79,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,He's going to do it. He will do it.
Dialogue: 0,0:37:18.79,0:37:20.57,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It will bring forth a crop.
Dialogue: 0,0:37:20.57,0:37:22.95,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It will grow.
Dialogue: 0,0:37:22.95,0:37:26.44,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It's a certainty.
Dialogue: 0,0:37:26.44,0:37:28.23,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Colossians - Paul talks about this.
Dialogue: 0,0:37:28.23,0:37:29.72,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,He says "you previously heard
Dialogue: 0,0:37:29.72,0:37:31.45,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,in the Word of truth - the Gospel
Dialogue: 0,0:37:31.45,0:37:33.63,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,which has come to you,
Dialogue: 0,0:37:33.63,0:37:35.36,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,just as in all the world also,
Dialogue: 0,0:37:35.36,0:37:39.92,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,it's constantly bearing \Nfruit and increasing,
Dialogue: 0,0:37:39.92,0:37:42.24,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,even as it has been doing in you also
Dialogue: 0,0:37:42.24,0:37:44.73,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,since the day you heard of it
Dialogue: 0,0:37:44.73,0:37:46.84,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and understood the grace of God in truth."
Dialogue: 0,0:37:46.84,0:37:49.65,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So growth is certain.
Dialogue: 0,0:37:49.65,0:37:51.94,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The church isn't going to fail.
Dialogue: 0,0:37:51.94,0:37:53.67,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And growth is also certain
Dialogue: 0,0:37:53.67,0:37:58.15,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,in the life of every true believer.
Dialogue: 0,0:37:58.15,0:38:01.35,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Why? Because it's not dependent upon man.
Dialogue: 0,0:38:01.35,0:38:03.23,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"Being confident of this very thing,
Dialogue: 0,0:38:03.23,0:38:05.21,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that He who began a good work in you" -
Dialogue: 0,0:38:05.21,0:38:07.27,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,God did it.
Dialogue: 0,0:38:07.27,0:38:10.21,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"...Will perform it until the \Nday of Jesus Christ."
Dialogue: 0,0:38:10.21,0:38:12.96,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We're confident of that. He's the one.
Dialogue: 0,0:38:12.96,0:38:15.74,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,He'll do it.
Dialogue: 0,0:38:15.74,0:38:17.34,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,God says in the New Covenant
Dialogue: 0,0:38:17.34,0:38:18.72,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,there in Ezekiel 36,
Dialogue: 0,0:38:18.72,0:38:21.77,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"I will cleanse you of all your filthiness
Dialogue: 0,0:38:21.77,0:38:22.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and all your idols.
Dialogue: 0,0:38:22.99,0:38:25.100,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I will put My Spirit in you and cause you
Dialogue: 0,0:38:25.100,0:38:27.52,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to walk in My statutes."
Dialogue: 0,0:38:27.52,0:38:29.66,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I'm so thankful.
Dialogue: 0,0:38:29.66,0:38:32.13,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,He's saying I'm not going to quit on you.
Dialogue: 0,0:38:32.13,0:38:33.76,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,You may fight this.
Dialogue: 0,0:38:33.76,0:38:36.26,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,You either fight it or embrace it,
Dialogue: 0,0:38:36.26,0:38:37.34,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,but if you fight it,
Dialogue: 0,0:38:37.34,0:38:39.53,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,eventually you're going to embrace it
Dialogue: 0,0:38:39.53,0:38:43.62,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,if you're a child of God.
Dialogue: 0,0:38:43.62,0:38:46.76,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I will cleanse you. I'll \Ncause you to walk...
Dialogue: 0,0:38:46.76,0:38:50.03,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It's a hard way though sometimes
Dialogue: 0,0:38:50.03,0:39:00.19,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,if we resist what God's \Ndoing in our lives.
Dialogue: 0,0:39:00.19,0:39:05.25,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Jesus said, "blessed is everyone who has;
Dialogue: 0,0:39:05.25,0:39:08.35,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to him more shall be given.
Dialogue: 0,0:39:08.35,0:39:10.95,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And he shall have an abundance."
Dialogue: 0,0:39:10.95,0:39:12.44,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And that's a wonderful thing.
Dialogue: 0,0:39:12.44,0:39:14.22,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,If you have anything that's real,
Dialogue: 0,0:39:14.22,0:39:16.31,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,it'd be better to be the weakest Christian
Dialogue: 0,0:39:16.31,0:39:17.92,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,in the world today,
Dialogue: 0,0:39:17.92,0:39:20.82,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,if you have just a \Nlittle grain that's real,
Dialogue: 0,0:39:20.82,0:39:23.36,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,because you're going to get more.
Dialogue: 0,0:39:23.36,0:39:26.75,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And eventually, you're \Ngoing to have a lot.
Dialogue: 0,0:39:26.75,0:39:28.34,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Isn't that wonderful?
Dialogue: 0,0:39:28.34,0:39:30.94,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,This little tiny thing \Nof grace in the life
Dialogue: 0,0:39:30.94,0:39:32.77,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,of a true Christian;
Dialogue: 0,0:39:32.77,0:39:34.38,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,He says blessed are you.
Dialogue: 0,0:39:34.38,0:39:35.83,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Now him that does not have,
Dialogue: 0,0:39:35.83,0:39:37.06,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,even what he thinks he has
Dialogue: 0,0:39:37.06,0:39:38.72,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,shall be taken away.
Dialogue: 0,0:39:38.72,0:39:40.38,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Better to be the weakest Christian
Dialogue: 0,0:39:40.38,0:39:43.74,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,in the world, than the strongest looking
Dialogue: 0,0:39:43.74,0:39:48.78,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,false professor.
Dialogue: 0,0:39:48.78,0:39:51.61,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Every branch in Me that bears fruit,
Dialogue: 0,0:39:51.61,0:39:53.10,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,He purges it; He cleanses it
Dialogue: 0,0:39:53.10,0:39:55.24,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that it might bring forth more fruit.
Dialogue: 0,0:39:55.24,0:39:57.33,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,(incomplete thought)
Dialogue: 0,0:39:57.33,0:39:58.86,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"Herein is My Father glorified,
Dialogue: 0,0:39:58.86,0:40:00.87,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that you bear much fruit
Dialogue: 0,0:40:00.87,0:40:07.10,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and so prove to be My disciples."
Dialogue: 0,0:40:07.10,0:40:10.74,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Some 100, some 60, some 30,
Dialogue: 0,0:40:10.74,0:40:11.93,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,but all have fruit.
Dialogue: 0,0:40:11.93,0:40:12.93,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,They're all growing.
Dialogue: 0,0:40:12.93,0:40:14.59,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,They're all producing fruit.
Dialogue: 0,0:40:14.59,0:40:16.97,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Alright, last point.
Dialogue: 0,0:40:16.97,0:40:23.86,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Final outcome of growth is harvest time.
Dialogue: 0,0:40:23.86,0:40:26.23,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And He tells us that here.
Dialogue: 0,0:40:26.23,0:40:29.60,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,V. 29 "When the crop permits,
Dialogue: 0,0:40:29.60,0:40:33.33,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,he immediately puts in the sickle
Dialogue: 0,0:40:33.33,0:40:37.36,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,because the harvest has come."
Dialogue: 0,0:40:37.36,0:40:39.82,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Why do you plant seed?
Dialogue: 0,0:40:39.82,0:40:44.18,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,You plant them in order to get a harvest.
Dialogue: 0,0:40:44.18,0:40:46.68,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,God is going to have a harvest, beloved.
Dialogue: 0,0:40:46.68,0:40:48.66,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,He's going to have a harvest.
Dialogue: 0,0:40:48.66,0:40:51.93,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,There's not going to be one missing.
Dialogue: 0,0:40:51.93,0:40:54.43,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Think of this.
Dialogue: 0,0:40:54.43,0:40:58.14,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Jesus says everyone that \Nthe Father's given Me
Dialogue: 0,0:40:58.14,0:41:00.11,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,will come to Me.
Dialogue: 0,0:41:00.11,0:41:01.42,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And He that comes to Me,
Dialogue: 0,0:41:01.42,0:41:04.84,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I will certainly not cast out.
Dialogue: 0,0:41:04.84,0:41:05.83,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Why not?
Dialogue: 0,0:41:05.83,0:41:07.04,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Why won't He cast us out?
Dialogue: 0,0:41:07.04,0:41:08.71,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Well, because He says, I came down
Dialogue: 0,0:41:08.71,0:41:12.17,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,from Heaven to accomplish \Na specific purpose.
Dialogue: 0,0:41:12.17,0:41:13.50,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I came down from Heaven
Dialogue: 0,0:41:13.50,0:41:14.76,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,not to do My own will,
Dialogue: 0,0:41:14.76,0:41:16.45,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,but the will of Him who sent Me.
Dialogue: 0,0:41:16.45,0:41:19.32,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And this is the will of Him who sent Me,
Dialogue: 0,0:41:19.32,0:41:21.64,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that of all that He has given Me,
Dialogue: 0,0:41:21.64,0:41:24.32,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I lose only a few and \Nthen I raise up the rest
Dialogue: 0,0:41:24.32,0:41:25.63,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,at the last day.
Dialogue: 0,0:41:25.63,0:41:29.71,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,No, that's not what He said, is it?
Dialogue: 0,0:41:29.71,0:41:31.56,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,That of all that He has given Me,
Dialogue: 0,0:41:31.56,0:41:35.80,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I lose not one!
Dialogue: 0,0:41:35.80,0:41:37.61,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Think of this.
Dialogue: 0,0:41:37.61,0:41:39.40,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Every plant that My Heavenly Father
Dialogue: 0,0:41:39.40,0:41:41.72,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,has not planted, shall be rooted up;
Dialogue: 0,0:41:41.72,0:41:44.61,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,but every plant that My \NHeavenly Father plants
Dialogue: 0,0:41:44.61,0:41:48.02,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,is going to make it all \Nthe way to the harvest.
Dialogue: 0,0:41:48.02,0:41:49.37,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And there is a day coming -
Dialogue: 0,0:41:49.37,0:41:51.81,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I think of it whenever \Nwe're together like this.
Dialogue: 0,0:41:51.81,0:41:54.48,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Do you realize the hilarious joy
Dialogue: 0,0:41:54.48,0:41:56.02,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,we're going to have in seeing
Dialogue: 0,0:41:56.02,0:41:58.08,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,one another in heaven?
Dialogue: 0,0:41:58.08,0:42:00.09,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,What a day of rejoicing that will be!
Dialogue: 0,0:42:00.09,0:42:03.83,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Why? Because it's \Nthe rejoicing of harvest.
Dialogue: 0,0:42:03.83,0:42:04.84,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The crop's in.
Dialogue: 0,0:42:04.84,0:42:05.76,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Up until that time,
Dialogue: 0,0:42:05.76,0:42:07.54,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,you're kind of gritting your teeth.
Dialogue: 0,0:42:07.54,0:42:10.14,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I don't know if so-and-so's \Ngoing to make it or not.
Dialogue: 0,0:42:10.14,0:42:11.85,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I hope they're real.
Dialogue: 0,0:42:11.85,0:42:13.77,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And there they are!
Dialogue: 0,0:42:13.77,0:42:14.83,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,You see them there -
Dialogue: 0,0:42:14.83,0:42:16.19,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,they're shining like the sun
Dialogue: 0,0:42:16.19,0:42:19.24,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,in the kingdom of their Father.
Dialogue: 0,0:42:19.24,0:42:23.52,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,What a day of rejoicing that will be!
Dialogue: 0,0:42:23.52,0:42:27.04,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,When the harvest is in.
Dialogue: 0,0:42:27.04,0:42:28.25,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And we'll look back
Dialogue: 0,0:42:28.25,0:42:31.32,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and it will be 10,000 times
Dialogue: 0,0:42:31.32,0:42:34.63,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,more wonderful than we ever thought
Dialogue: 0,0:42:34.63,0:42:36.39,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,as we see the providence of God
Dialogue: 0,0:42:36.39,0:42:41.42,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,in keeping His people and so on.
Dialogue: 0,0:42:41.42,0:42:44.28,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,There is a harvest coming.
Dialogue: 0,0:42:44.28,0:42:46.81,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And it's going to be a great ingathering
Dialogue: 0,0:42:46.81,0:42:55.06,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and a time of rejoicing.
Dialogue: 0,0:42:55.06,0:42:56.95,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Another angel came out of the temple
Dialogue: 0,0:42:56.95,0:42:58.61,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,crying out with a loud voice
Dialogue: 0,0:42:58.61,0:43:00.14,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to Him who sat on the cloud.
Dialogue: 0,0:43:00.14,0:43:01.63,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Put in your sickel and reap
Dialogue: 0,0:43:01.63,0:43:04.27,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,because the hour to reap has come,
Dialogue: 0,0:43:04.27,0:43:07.19,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,because the harvest of the earth is ripe,
Dialogue: 0,0:43:07.19,0:43:10.39,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and He who sat on the cloud
Dialogue: 0,0:43:10.39,0:43:12.79,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,(capital 'H' He) who sat on the cloud
Dialogue: 0,0:43:12.79,0:43:14.72,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,swung His sickle over the earth
Dialogue: 0,0:43:14.72,0:43:24.05,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and the earth was reaped.
Dialogue: 0,0:43:24.05,0:43:25.85,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Jesus is telling us the nature
Dialogue: 0,0:43:25.85,0:43:28.82,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,of the kingdom of God.
Dialogue: 0,0:43:28.82,0:43:30.35,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And He's taking us back
Dialogue: 0,0:43:30.35,0:43:34.19,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,behind the scenes,
Dialogue: 0,0:43:34.19,0:43:38.31,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and showing us how growth takes place.
Dialogue: 0,0:43:38.31,0:43:39.81,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It takes place supernaturally
Dialogue: 0,0:43:39.81,0:43:42.88,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,by the power of God.
Dialogue: 0,0:43:42.88,0:43:46.45,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And He will not have a crop failure.
Dialogue: 0,0:43:46.45,0:43:48.33,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But He's going to take every one of us
Dialogue: 0,0:43:48.33,0:43:50.63,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,through all the stages necessary
Dialogue: 0,0:43:50.63,0:43:52.44,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to get there.
Dialogue: 0,0:43:52.44,0:43:53.89,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Amen.