NOTETAKER: LC@AL 10-24-12 Sermon Title: Harvest or Crop Failure
Point 1: Seed Producer – 2 Cor. 9:10 - 10 Now
he who supplies seed to the sower and bread for food will also supply and
increase your store of seed and will enlarge the harvest of your righteousness.
Gal 6:7,9 - 7 Do not be deceived: God cannot be
mocked. A man reaps what he sows. 9 Let us not become weary in doing good, for
at the proper time we will reap a harvest if we do not give up.Genesis 8:22 - 22 “As
long as the earth endures, seedtime and harvest, cold and heat, summer and
winter, day and night will never cease.”
Context: Matt 13:3-4 –
God is the sovereign sower…God does not discriminate. God gives according to your ability…
1. God ________________ you the seed to sow!
2. God ________________ you to sow it!
a. Deut
16:16 - 16 Three times a year all your men must appear before the LORD your God
at the place he will choose…No one should appear before the LORD empty-handed:
3. Seed is more than ________________ , its ________________
and ________________ .
a. Luke
6:37-38 - 37 “Do not judge, and you will not be judged. Do not condemn, and you
will not be condemned. Forgive, and you will be forgiven. 38 Give, and it will
be given to you. A good measure, pressed down, shaken together and running
over, will be poured into your lap. For with the measure you use, it will be
measured to you.”
4. Seed always ________________ after its ________________
kind.
a. Gen.
1:11-12 - 11 Then God said, “Let the land produce vegetation: seed-bearing
plants and trees on the land that bear fruit with seed in it, according to
their various kinds.” And it was so. 12 The land produced vegetation: plants
bearing seed according to their kinds and trees bearing fruit with seed in it
according to their kinds. And God saw that it was good.
5. We are ________________ .
a. Gen.
1:27-28 - 27 So God created mankind in his own image, in the image of God he
created them; male and female he
created them. 28 God blessed them and said to them, “Be fruitful and increase
in number; fill the earth and subdue it. Rule over the fish in the sea and the
birds in the sky and over every living creature that moves on the ground.”
Point 2: Seed Proliferator – 2
Cor. 9:6-7 - 6 Remember this: Whoever sows sparingly will also reap sparingly,
and whoever sows generously will also reap generously. 7 Each of you should
give what you have decided in your heart to give, not reluctantly or under
compulsion, for God loves a cheerful giver.
Context: Matt 13:4-8 Jesus wanted us
to see in the parable the power of the seed not just the soil it was sown
in.
6. Seed is ________________ to grow.
7. What are you ________________ ; ________________
and ________________ or ________________ and _______________
?
a. Gen.
3:17-19 - 17 To Adam he said, “Because you listened to your wife and ate fruit
from the tree about which I commanded you, ‘You must not eat from it,’ “Cursed
is the ground because of you; through painful toil you will eat food from
it all the days of your life. 18 It will
produce thorns and thistles for you, and you will eat the plants of the field.
19 By the sweat of your brow you will eat your food until you return to the
ground, since from it you were taken; for dust you are and to dust you will
return.”
8. The ________________ of your ________________
is in your ________________ .
9. The more I ________________ , the more I ________________
10.
What do you ___________
__________ ….then _________ it?
Point 3: Silt or Soil – Proverbs 13:3 - 3 Those who guard
their lips preserve their lives, but those who speak rashly will come to ruin.
Matt
12:36-37 - 36 But I tell you that everyone will have to give account on the day
of judgment for every empty word they have spoken. 37 For by your words you
will be acquitted, and by your words you will be condemned.”
Context: Matt 13:4-8 Jesus
showed us God is willing to try all types of soil.
11.
The ____________
of the soil will impact the _____________.
12.
________________ is unstable but has the ingredients to make ________________
soil.
13.
Jesus changed ________________
name to ________________ for a ________________
14.
What ________________
of ________________ are you?
15.
Are you due for a
name change: ________________ , ________________
, ________________ , ________________ .
Point 4: Sole Sower – Matt 13:8 - 8 Still other seed fell on good soil, where
it produced a crop—a hundred, sixty or thirty times what was sown.
Isaiah 55:10-11 -
10 As the rain and the snow come down from heaven, and do not return to it
without watering the earth and making it bud and flourish, so that it yields
seed for the sower and bread for the eater, 11 so is my word that goes out from
my mouth: It will not return to me empty, but will accomplish what I desire and
achieve the purpose for which I sent it.
Context: Matt 13:19-22 The
revelation is what one seed can produce.
16.
There is a ________________
your ________________ will ________________ .
17.
What word ________________
are coming ________________ of your ________________ ?
18.
Word seeds are ________________
wrapped in ________________ .
19.
The power of your ________________
will produce ________________ or ________________ .
a.
Prov. 18:21 - 21 The tongue has the power of life and
death, and those who love it will eat its fruit.
20.
What ________________
/________________ are you ________________ : ________________ , ________________
, ________________ , tithing?
What ________________ are you ________________ ?
a.
Prov. 18:21 - 21 The tongue has the power of life and
death, and those who love it will eat its fruit.
