SPRINGTIME SOWING
A farmer's son was complaining about all the work on the farm and his father told him, that's o.k. from now on you only have to work half a day; and it doesn't matter to me which 12 hours you choose!
Farmers know that if they don't put the seed in the ground it will never spring up out of the ground.
Jesus explained that the "sower" is one who sows the "Word of God"; t
he "seed" is the Gospel.
- A seed is alive; it contains life
- A seed does nothing until it's planted
- A seed is powerful
- A seed takes time to produce
In the parable of the sower, some of the "seed" produced fruit and some did not,
but the problem was not in the "seed".
All the seed in the parable was good "seed"; each one had the potential to produce fruit.
The problem was not the "seed" but the "soil".
Dewitt Talmadge said,
"Poor preaching is God's curse on a prayerless congregation"
Jeremiah 4:3
3 For thus saith the Lord to the men of Judah and Jerusalem, Break up your fallow ground, and sow not among thorns.
The ground needs to be prepared to receive the seed of God's Word.
The "soil" represents the heart of man.
Everyone who hears the Gospel hears it in a different way.
Some revile it, some reject it and some receive it.
The sower was throwing seed everywhere: on the road, among the rocks and the weeds. The sower was not reluctant to sow and we must not be either; sow in season and out of season but SOW!
It is the job of the sower
to SOW the Word; the rest is the work of the Spirit.
6 I have planted, Apollos watered; but God gave the increase.
The results are not up to us but God!
God can cause seed to grow regardless of circumstances.
He can do the impossible.
Our job is to sow!
We must have the attitude of the farmer; g
et out and sow; start scattering seed and it will not return void!
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