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Message Notes
Mathew 13:3-9
Intro
Mark 8:36 What good is it for someone to gain the whole world, yet forfeit their soul?
Scaling, Seed & Harvests
Ecclesiastes 1:9 What has been will be again, what has been done will be done again; there is nothing new under the sun.
Mathew 13:8 Still other seed fell on good soil, where it produced a crop—a hundred, sixty or thirty times what was sown.
Luke 8:11 (Jesus said) “This is the meaning of the parable: The seed is the word of God.”
Galatians 5:22 But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, forbearance, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, 23 gentleness and self-control. Against such things there is no law.
Inspiration
Romans 10:17 NKJV So then faith comes by hearing and hearing by the word of God.
2 Timothy 3:16-17 16 All Scripture is God-breathed and is useful for teaching, rebuking, correcting and training in righteousness, 17 so that the servant of God may be thoroughly equipped for every good work.
Romans 10:14 How, then, can they call on the one they have not believed in? And how can they believe in the one of whom they have not heard? And how can they hear without someone preaching to them?
Nehemiah 8:8 They read from the Book of the Law of God, making it clear and giving the meaning so that the people understood what was being read.
Mathew 13:14 In them is fulfilled the prophecy of Isaiah: “’You will be ever hearing but never understanding; you will be ever seeing but never perceiving.
Memorization
Mathew 13:4 As he was scattering the seed, some fell along the path, and the birds came and ate it up.
Hebrews 2:3 How shall we escape if we ignore so great a salvation? This salvation, which was first announced by the Lord, was confirmed to us by those who heard him.
2 Timothy 2:15 Study to show yourself approved unto God, a workman that doesn’t need to be ashamed, rightly dividing the word of truth.
Psalm 119:11 I have hidden your word in my heart that I might not sin against you.
John 14:26 But the Advocate, the Holy Spirit, whom the Father will send in my name, will teach you all things and will remind you of everything I have said to you.
(You can’t be reminded of Something you never learned)
Meditation
Mathew 13:5 Some fell on rocky places, where it did not have much soil. It sprang up quickly, because the soil was shallow. 6 But when the sun came up, the plants were scorched, and they withered because they had no root.
Psalm 1:1-3 Blessed is the one who does not walk in step with the wicked or stand in the way that sinners take or sit in the company of mockers, 2 but whose delight is in the law of the Lord, and who meditates on his law day, and night. 3 That person is like a tree planted by streams of water, which yields its fruit in season and whose leaf does not wither—whatever they do prospers.
Ephesians 3:17 so that Christ may dwell in your hearts through faith. And I pray that you, being rooted and established in love,
Application
Mathew 13:8 Still other seed fell on good soil, where it produced a crop—a hundred, sixty or thirty times what was sown. 9 Whoever has ears, let them hear.”
Mathew 3:8 (John the Baptist said) “Prove by the way you live that you have repented of your sins and turned to God.”
Luke 6:47-48 47 As for everyone who comes to me and hears my words and puts them into practice, I will show you what they are like. 48 They are like a man building a house, who dug down deep and laid the foundation on rock. When a flood came, the torrent struck that house but could not shake it, because it was well built.
James 2:17 In the same way, faith by itself, if it is not accompanied by action, is dead.
Conclusion: Be Good Soil
Hebrews 6:7 Land that drinks in the rain often falling on it and that produces a crop useful to those for whom it is farmed receives the blessing of God.
John 4:14 (Jesus said) but whoever drinks the water I give them will never thirst. Indeed, the water I give them will become in them a spring of water welling up to eternal life.”
Altar Call
Galatians 6:8 Whoever sows to please their human nature, from their human nature will reap destruction; whoever sows to please the Spirit, from the Spirit will reap eternal life.
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