FOUNDATION STATEMENT: The Kingdom of God system works on the seedtime harvest principle. – Mark 4:26-30
I. The world has been more wise in working their system than we have been in working our system (Luke 16:1-8)
A. The world has been more wise in doing wrong than the church has been in doing right
B. We need to put the effort in to become educated and wise in our system
C. When you’re talking about working the system you’re talking about, “How do I get from A to B?”
1. Matthew 6:33 – Tells us that when we are in need we are to seek the Kingdom of God.
a. What exactly are we to seek?
II. Our power lies in our understanding of the Kingdom of God system and in our willingness to work this system (Psalm 103:19)
A. The Kingdom of God system rules over all, but if we don’t understand the Kingdom of God system and how to work this system, then we do not have access to the power of this system
B. As a believer, a part from doing things God’s way and working God’s system you have no power
1. EX-The power to be delivered from debt lies in the Kingdom of God system and apart from the Kingdom of God system you have no power to be delivered from debt.
C. If we want to walk in power and get results in our lives then we must understand the Kingdom of God system and be willing to work the Kingdom of God system
III. Jesus compares the Kingdom of God system to the natural farming system. The Kingdom of God system is like the system of natural farming. (Mark 4:26-30)
A. In the system of natural farming you have:
1. A farmer
2. The seed
3. The field
4. The tree (vine, stalk)
5. The harvest
B. In the Kingdom of God system you have:
1. You the farmer
2. The word-seed
3. The ground of your heart
4. The tree of your belief
5. The harvest of results in your life
C. The word of God is the seed that travels down the pathways of the eyes and ears that lead to the heart. When that word seed is sown into the ground of your heart a belief is produced. When that belief is developed it yields the results you have in your life.
IV. The Kingdom of God system is like a man sowing seed into the ground (Mark 4:26-30)
A. In the Kingdom of God system the seed is the Word (Mark 4:14, Luke 8:11)
1. When you’re in need in the Kingdom of God system, the first thing you must do is go to the Word and get the seed
a. Without seed, you have no potential to see a harvest
1) The harvest is in the seed
b. The Bible is not a book of rules it’s a bag of seed
2. To the farmer the seed is absolutely necessary and essential
a. In the Kingdom of God system you can do nothing without the Word-Seed.
1) How far will a farmer get in the system of farming without getting the seed necessary to produce the harvest that he desires? How far will a believer get in life without the seed of God’s word that is necessary to meet the need he has?
3. When you’re talking about God’s way of doing things, when God wanted to create something physical (add something to Himself) he used words (Hebrews 11:3)
a. Words are what God used to create everything physical thing we see
b. Words became flesh and gave us the son of God
4. One of the greatest stunts that devil has ever pulled on the Body of Christ is that he’s gotten many Christians to believe that words are just words and they really don’t make much of a difference. He’s trying to work the deception that what you spend time saying and what you spend time listening to is not going to affect your life.
a. The words that you spend time saying and the words that you spend time listening to are the key issue in life
B. In the Kingdom of God system, the soil or the ground is your heart (Mark 4:15)
1. The ground brings forth the harvest (Mark 4:28)
a. Your heart is going to take the word-seed that is planted in it and bring forth the harvest in your life (Proverbs 4:20)
1) Whatever the Farmer puts in the ground in seed-form, manifests out of the ground in harvest-form.
2) Whatever you put in your heart in word-form will come out in manifested-form.
2. In the Kingdom of God system your heart or your recreated spirit is designed to be the production center of your life. That whatever you send to it in seed form, it’s going to produce it in manifested form in your life. (Matthew 12:33-35)
a. The word-seed in your heart, then your heart works with the seed to produce a belief, and then that belief yields fruit in your life – The Production Center Of Your Life.
b. Soil will only produce outside of it, whatever is inside of it and our hearts are the same way
1) Whatever you want outside in manifested-form must be sown first in seed form
c. Can I rightfully expect to see something in my life that I have no sown in my heart?
V. How the Kingdom of God system works–The seed, the tree, the fruit –The Word, The belief, The results (Matt 12:33-37)
A. The seed of the Word is sown into your heart and it produces faith/a belief in your heart (Romans 10:17)
1. The tree comes by hearing and hearing by the Word of God
2. Faith (the tree) has to be developed before it yields fruit. Trees that aren’t developed don’t yield fruit (Mark 4:28)
a. First the blade, then the ear, after that the full corn in the ear
1) The seed doesn’t just come out of the ground in manifested fruit form
b. The first thing the word seed does is it produces a belief (That’s the blade)
c. The second thing that happens is that belief begins to develop (That’s the growth and development of the tree)
d. After that the belief will manifest the result in your life (That’s the harvest or the fruit being brought forth)
3. Words that you spend time with, will produce a belief in your heart
a. Hearing the wrong words will produce a wrong belief
B. That belief in your heart begins to produce results in your life (Proverbs 23:7, Matthew 8:13)
1. The belief that the word-seed produces is like a tree in that it yields the fruit of your life (Luke 8:12)
a. The results that spring from your belief are like the fruit that springs forth from a tree
2. The kind of fruit that you have is determined by what kind of tree that you have
a. The results you have in life are determined by the kind of belief you have in your heart.
3. EX: If you spend time sowing the word on healing, it’s going to produce a belief in your heart that you are healed. That belief is going to produce the fruit of healing manifested. You had to have the tree of belief to get the fruit of healing.
4. Your life is a product of what you believe
a. You can’t go any further in life than what you believe in your heart
1) You can’t produce any fruit beyond that tree
2) You can’t bear any results beyond what you believe
b. You are limited or empowered by what you believe
C. Whatever words you’re seeing, hearing, and saying are being sown in your heart. When those words are sown in your heart, they begin to develop faith in your heart. Then that tree of faith bears the results you see in life (Matthew 12:37)
1. Your belief is a product of the word seeds that you’ve sown in your heart
a. The kind of tree you have is determined by what seed you planted in the ground.
1) The kind of belief you have in your heart is determined by the kind of words that you’ve sown in your heart.
b. Whatever word-seed that you put in your heart is going to determine what you believe and what you believe will determine the results that you get
1) There’s a tree inside of every believer that was produced by the word-seeds that they sowed in their hearts. That tree (belief) yields fruit and produces the results that a believer gets in their lives.
c. 37-By your words your justified (Rendering to each his due) or by your words your condemned. By your words you’re healed or sick, by your words you’re prosperous or poor, and by your words you’re victorious or defeated.
2. Your life is s sum total of the words that you’ve sown in your heart
a. Your life is a product of the words that you’ve sowed into your heart
1) You can’t become anything greater in life than the words that you spend time sowing in your heart
b. Battles are won and lost with the words that you spend time sowing
VI. In the Kingdom of God system there’s word-seeds, there’s the ground of your heart, there’s the tree of your belief, and then there’s the fruit-results in your life. (Numbers 13, Hebrews 3:19)
A. The Word seed
1. What did God say?
a. Exodus 33:1-3 – God said He would drive out the giants
b. Numbers 13:1 – God said He had given the land to the Children of Israel
2. What did the enemy say?
a. Numbers 13:31-33
B. The Ground of their heart – What had they sown in their heart?
1. The ten spies sowed the evil report into their heart (Numbers 13:27-29, 32-14:1-4)
a. They gave their thoughts and attention to the evil report (the giants, the walls, the people)
2. Joshua and Caleb sowed the word (Numbers 13:30-31, 14:7-9)
a. They gave their thoughts and attention to the Word
C. The tree of their belief – What did they believe? (We can find out what they believe, by looking at what they said in the time of pressure)
1. The ten spies believed they couldn’t go in (Numbers 13:31)
a. Where did that belief come from? They spent time with the wrong words
2. Joshua and Caleb believed they could go in (Numbers 13:30)
a. Where did that belief come from? They spent time with God’s words
D. The fruit results – What did they get?
1. The ten spies and all the people that believed like them never went in; they got the fruit of their belief (Num 14:28-34)
a. Hebrews 3:19 – Their unbelief shut them out; their tree kept them out
1) A result couldn’t be produced in their life, that was different than what was in their heart
2. Joshua and Caleb went into the promise land; they got the fruit of their belief (Joshua 14:7-11)
E. All of this began because they spend time with the wrong word-seeds
1. The words that they looked at, listened to, and spoke determined what they got in life