SEED TYPES PART 2

ANNOUNCEMENTS:

Honor the Fuel graduates

Veterans Day (Please stand)

Pray for Israel

INTRO:

3 weeks ago we started the SEEDS series with SOIL TYPES

2 weeks ago we started the conversation about SEED TYPES and dove into the outcome of BAD SEED

Destructive living

Doubt

Giving in to Temptation

False Security in Material things

These are bad seeds of...

Unwise Living

Proverbs 1:30–31 NLT

30 They rejected my advice and paid no attention when I corrected them. 31 Therefore, they must eat the bitter fruit of living their own way, choking on their own schemes.

One choice can determine the direction of your life. It could impact one day, or in some cases your whole lifetime.

Today we are going to transition and talk about…

GOOD SEEDS

HOW MANY OF YOU WANT TO BE FRUITFUL FOR THE KINGDOM OF GOD?

John 12:24 (NLT)

24 I tell you the truth, unless a kernel of wheat is planted in the soil and dies, it remains alone. But its death will produce many new kernels—a plentiful harvest of new lives.

Your life is a seed that must be placed in the dirt.

The questions is: “Are you being planted or buried?”

You bury the dead

But you plant to receive a harvest of life.

There is a big difference.

Similar proximity but different purpose.

It’s dark, it’s cold, it requires struggle for the seed to germinate and break out of the shell and become rooted, but in the end it’s worth it.

To set up this morning’s passage you must understand...

It starts in chapter 13 with the passover feast. Jesus is having dinner with His disciples and this is all a part of his final teachings to them.

We are modern day disciples of Christ. So we should embrace this teaching as important too...

John 15:1–8 NLT

1 “I am the true grapevine, and my Father is the gardener. 2 He cuts off every branch of mine that doesn’t produce fruit, and he prunes the branches that do bear fruit so they will produce even more. 3 You have already been pruned and purified by the message I have given you. 4 Remain in me, and I will remain in you. For a branch cannot produce fruit if it is severed from the vine, and you cannot be fruitful unless you remain in me. 5 “Yes, I am the vine; you are the branches. Those who remain in me, and I in them, will produce much fruit. For apart from me you can do nothing. 6 Anyone who does not remain in me is thrown away like a useless branch and withers. Such branches are gathered into a pile to be burned. 7 But if you remain in me and my words remain in you, you may ask for anything you want, and it will be granted! 8 When you produce much fruit, you are my true disciples. This brings great glory to my Father.

1. The Good Seed of Abiding

Fruit is the outcome of Abiding in Him

You bear it; You don’t produce it

You are the branch that God produces through

Ministry (the expectation of God for those in Christ) is the outcome of abiding

You can be in Christ but not bearing fruit, but He eventually cuts off that non-bearing branch.

John 15:9–11 NLT

9 “I have loved you even as the Father has loved me. Remain in my love. 10 When you obey my commandments, you remain in my love, just as I obey my Father’s commandments and remain in his love. 11 I have told you these things so that you will be filled with my joy. Yes, your joy will overflow!

2. The Good Seed of Obeying

Obedience is better than Sacrifice (Sacrifice - (giving up something highly valued) is sometimes us striving to be accepted by God)

1 Samuel 15:22 NLT

22 But Samuel replied, “What is more pleasing to the Lord: your burnt offerings and sacrifices or your obedience to his voice? Listen! Obedience is better than sacrifice, and submission is better than offering the fat of rams.

John 15:12–17 NLT

12 This is my commandment: Love each other in the same way I have loved you. 13 There is no greater love than to lay down one’s life for one’s friends. 14 You are my friends if you do what I command. 15 I no longer call you slaves, because a master doesn’t confide in his slaves. Now you are my friends, since I have told you everything the Father told me. 16 You didn’t choose me. I chose you. I appointed you to go and produce lasting fruit, so that the Father will give you whatever you ask for, using my name. 17 This is my command: Love each other.

3. The Good Seed of Loving Fellow Believers

ILLUSTRATION: No Greater Love

The Four Chaplains, The Immortal Chaplains

Feb 2, 1943

George Fox (Methodists); Alexander Goode (Jewish); John Washington (Catholic); Clark Poling (Dutch Reformed)

Part of loving our fellow believers is sometimes painful because it involves transition and planting our loved ones in new pots.

For the Four Chaplains it was transitioning to eternity

For many it may mean transitioning to a new place

Acts 13:1–3 (NLT)

1 Among the prophets and teachers of the church at Antioch of Syria were Barnabas, Simeon (called “the black man”), Lucius (from Cyrene), Manaen (the childhood companion of King Herod Antipas), and Saul.

2 One day as these men were worshiping the Lord and fasting, the Holy Spirit said, “Appoint Barnabas and Saul for the special work to which I have called them.”

3 So after more fasting and prayer, the men laid their hands on them and sent them on their way.

Seeds of Transition

Sent Ministry vs Went Ministry

Krista Announcement

Plant

Sunday, December 17 at 6pm Party

CONCLUSION:

The seed leaves your hand but not your life, God will look over the seed to produce a harvest for your life

Pray over and send Krista

Q&A in the Family Room for 15 minutes after service