Wednesday, October 24, 2012

Harvest or Crop Failure


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 - 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.

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