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Slide #1-2
This is God’s Word, for God’s people, hear it and believe.
This is God’s Word, for God’s people, hear it and believe.
This is God’s Word, for God’s people, hear it and believe.
Pray
James 5:19-20
Slide #3
Have you noticed the plants growing in the fields?
Farmers used their planter or their drill, depending on what they were planting to get the seed into the ground.
Farmers today use equipment that costs upwards of $200,000 or more just to get seed in the ground.
Farmers at the time of Christ, did this
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Farmer Sowing Seeds - 4 soils, path, rocks, thorns, good soil
…they broadcast the seeds
Farmer Sowing Seeds - 4 soils, path, rocks, thorns, good soil
In Scripture, the idea of “planting” the Gospel is common, In fact Jesus himself used this idea in a parable.
Jesus showed that the gospel is sown on four kinds of hearts.
Hard Heart
Slide #5
The fields in Israel were long narrow strips with footpaths between each row.
So when the farmer would broadcast the seed, some of it fell on the path.
These paths were hardened due to the lack of moisture, the constant pounding of feet, and the blazing sun beating down on them.
When the farmer, God the Holy Spirit, sows the word of God, which is full of life, on the path, which is the hard human heart, it gets trampled on, and the birds eat it up.
These paths, these hear hearts and minds are impenetrable.
They are shrouded in the materialistic, self-centered culture of our day.
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No matter what you say about Jesus to a person with a hard heart, they will not believe and grow because Satan comes along and snatches the gospel before it can take root.
Shallow Heart
Then there is the shallow heart.
Israel is covered with bedrock and a thin coating of soil, similar to some places around here where you have an inch of topsoil and then pure clay.
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With the bedrock, you can get quick germination because the rock absorbs the heat of the sun.
But these fresh and vibrant looking sprouts quickly die under the heat of the sun because of the lack of roots.
These are people who hear the Gospel message and are excited, but don’t grow beyond where they started.
There are no spiritual roots that develop.
When trouble comes, and it always does, they fall away.
This is very common today since much of our theology is man-centered.
It many times lacks depth.
And even when it is deep, many people do not want to make the effort to dig their roots into deep theology.
Example: Christ is preached with the emphasis on what he can do for us, and receiving him is viewed as doing him a favor.
This shallow theology airbrushes the doctrine of sin and minimizes the holiness of God, producing bogus converts.
This is why discipleship is so important.
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The presence of shallow theology should make us reflect on the reality of our conversion.
Has the Word of God truly take root?
Are we growing?
Or was there a brief spurt and then nothing?
Infested Heart
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Some of the Gospel seed falls on thorn-infested soil, which looks good and promising, but lurking inside is a deadly problem.
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The soil of the heart is infested with worries, riches, and pleasures.
In other words, self-centered.
A person can sit in a church for years and never hear the Word because all they do is worry about their riches and pleasures.
How can you tell if this is your soil?
Jesus says in his explanation of this parable that people with this soil have fruit that never matures.
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There is no fruit in their lives, no fruit of the spirit, no evangelism, no discipleship.
Their focus is on the material possessions of this world, and are probably not Christians at all.
We have fooled others and ourselves.
Good Soil
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This soil has a fertile heart.
True believers bear fruit.
The initial fruit is inward, which is the fruit of the spirit that we find in .
But we can’t stop there.
A fruit tree does not bear fruit for itself, but for others to enjoy.
This inner fruit needs to lead to outward fruit, which is what we have been talking about since we first started looking at the book of James.
Significance
The significance of these soils, or hearts, is that this is a picture of the church today.
We have people in the church today with unregenerate hearts - the hard heart, the shallow heart, and the infested heart.
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It doesn’t matter how big or small the church is or what denomination it is, they all have people with either hard, shallow, infested, or fertile heart.
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We can know the true believers in Jesus Christ are the ones who make Him Lord of their lives have fertile hearts that produce fruit.
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Now there is no doubt that there are degrees of fruitfulness, and all hearts wrestle at times with the hardness and shallowness and infestation, but God’s Word is deeply rooted, and there is ongoing fruit.
Since we started James back in September, we have seen that James is concerned with people having a real faith, a Living Faith that produces fruit.
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A Living Faith produces works that affects every part of our lives, in how we spend our money, how we relate to the poor and to the world, how we use our brain, how we use our whole body, especially the tongue.
Any departure from in any of these areas is a good indicator of a bogus faith and the danger of apostasy.
James calls us to keep each other on track and to lead others to the truth.
The Possibility of Apostasy
The Possibility of Apostasy
My brothers, fif anyone among you wanders from the truth
My brothers, if anyone among you wanders from the truth
James is concerned that some in the church are in danger of wandering away from the truth.
Who would wonder away?
True believers?
I don’t think so.
Those who accept the Gospel but do not live it.
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This is more than just a wandering of thoughts and theology, this is a wandering of lifestyle.
For James there there is no separation between what we think and believe and what we do.
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Truth is something people do.
When we stop doing the truth, we run the risk of what the Bible calls apostasy.
There are two types of apostasy…doctrinal and moral.
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